(lighthearted music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day, ♪ ♪ time to learn and games you play.

♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun.

♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone.

♪ (playful music) - Good morning fabulous first grade?

Hey, I am so glad you're here today in our PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammock, and I'm here to help you practice all the skills you need to be excellent readers and writers.

The most amazing thing happened while you were sleeping last night and you didn't even know it.

Did you know, while you were sleeping and you got up this morning, boom, just like that, it's a new month.

It's February.

Can you see the hearts on our tree?

That's right.

Because this is the month that we celebrate love.

I love, love.

It's awesome.

Hey, I wanna tell you about some books that you might be interested in reading because not only is it the month of love, but it is also African-American history month.

And so we're going to take some time to highlight some books about famous African Americans that have contributed to our amazing history.

So I hope you watched the inauguration.

I have the cover of a book called "Change sings."

And it's written by Amanda Gorman.

And she's the girl who did the poem at the inauguration.

Isn't that awesome?

I hope that you will look for this book either at your County public library or on Sora, because I think you're gonna enjoy reading what a beautiful poetry book this is.

She did a great job and she was thinking about kids just like you when she wrote it.

Hey, let's take a look at who our number five school is on Sora this week.

We're gonna count down, starting with number five.

Are you ready?

Okay, here we go.

Birney elementary school, go bears.

Great job, Birney for checking out those books and getting all the way to the number five spot on our Sora list.

Hey boys and girls, I have a whole bunch of activity books that I am dying to give away.

Do you know how to get one?

All you need to do is write to me here right at our studio.

Send me a letter.

Tell me something that you want me to know, anything at all.

And I will put this in the mail to you.

Make sure you include your address or you could even send an email.

I can't wait to hear all about what you are doing and learning.

So send me a letter.

All right my friends, it's time for us to listen and train our ears for sound.

That's one of the first things we work on when we're practicing the skills for reading and writing.

Today, I have a little game for you.

It's called phoneme identification.

Ooh, that sounds scary, but it's really fun.

Really, all I'm going to ask you is to listen to these three words and tell me what sound they all have that's the same.

Are you ready?

I know you are.

Here we go.

Keep, please, field.

Did you get it?

What sound do they all have the same?

Yes.

I heard it too.

E, k-e-e-p, ple-a-se and fi-e-ld They all have the e-sound right in the middle.

All right, let's try another one.

Catch, hitch, watch.

Did you hear it?

Did you hear a sound that they all had?

Yes.

That ch-sound, great listening.

All right.

Last one.

Claim, take, strain.

Yes.

The a sound cl-a-im.

T-a-ke and str-a-y, they all have the a-sound.

You are really getting good listening ears.

Great job.

All right.

We're gonna practice our fluency.

Those are the sounds that we've already practiced and learned, but we just want to review them really quickly to make sure that we know them.

If there's a sound you see that you're not sure of.

I want you to get something to write with and write it down and practice it over and over.

All right, here we go.

All right.

I have some diagraphs.

Let's do it this way.

All right.

I have ph says fff.

Ch says ch.

Ss says, shh.

Wh says whoa.

Do you remember what this one says tch?

That's right, it says ch and th says th, like in thumb.

And then we also learned last week, what ay says do you remember ay says, a, good job.

And ai, says a.

We've also learned that a consonant e says a and i consonant e says I. O consonant e says, Oh, e consonant e says e and u consonant e says you, great job.

I wanna take a look at this one for a minute.

The e consonant e. That sound, remember the e at the end of silent.

This is the long e sound e. We're going to look at this all week long.

Let's take a look at our board behind me.

Here I have my tree sound spelling card today because we're gonna focus on some of the other ways to spell the e-sound.

Now we've already done the first e consonant e. Today and all this week we're going to learn four more ways to spell the e-sound.

It can be spelled with ea as in seat.

It can be spelled ee as in see.

It can be spelled with just an e by itself, he.

And it can be spelled with an ie in shield.

Did you hear it?

All right.

So I'm going to point to them with my pointer.

And I want you to say with me out loud, the spelling pattern and the sound.

We wanna get it locked in tight.

Are you ready?

Great.

Ea says e. Ee says e. E says E and ie says E. You did that very, very well.

Great job.

Let's take a look at a word I have for you here.

We're going to practice a blending and sounding out this word.

I'm gonna model for you and I want you to join me.

We're gonna say the sounds and then blend them together.

Here we go.

Do you remember what F and R say when they're together?

Right, fr, that's one of our continent blends.

Fr then we have the ee pattern.

So that's going to say e fr-eeze.

And then remember that's a silent e when we see it at the end.

Fr-eeze, freeze.

Hey, it was freeze-ing today, right?

So cold.

I think we finally got some winter weather.

All right.

Let's see if we can build another word with the ee pattern.

Are you ready?

Let's build the word.

Keep.

Keep.

All right let's see.

What do you hear at the beginning?

Kk right.

Is it a K or a C?

It's going to be a k you're correct.

K-eep p, what should I use?

That's right.

P says p p, k-eep, keep, great job.

You're getting so good at segmenting and blending.

Let's try another one.

What if I wanna change Keep to d deep?

What will I change?

That is right.

Okay.

We're going to use the d and say d-eep, deep.

Great job.

Wow.

You did amazing.

Let's take a look at what it looks like in some words on our practice chart.

We get my reading finger and let's take a look at our practice chart.

It says let's read long e. All right, here we go.

Do you see, I underlined the spelling patterns.

That's just a helper to help you remember that it's gonna say e when you see that spelling pattern.

Here we go.

M-e, me, b, be, e-at, eat, e-ach, each N-e-at, neat.

S-e-e. see.

K-e-e-p. Keep.

How are you doing?

Keep going.

D-e-e-p, deep, sp-eak, speak.

And ch-ief, chief.

Wow, you are really good at this.

All right.

Now, we're gonna take a look at our high-frequency words.

Those are the words that we need to know as fast as we know our name, because we want to use our brain power for the harder words that we need to sound out.

So let's take a look at what we have for this week.

All right.

We have other O T H E R, other.

We have small say it with me.

Small.

Spell it with me.

S M A L L, small.

Great job.

All right.

Say it with me, or, good.

Now let's spell it.

O R. This one says, into, you say it.

Good.

I heard you.

I N T O, into.

How about this one?

Yeah, that's a color word.

Good.

That word says blue.

B L U E, Blue.

And this is a word that you're going to use all the time.

So I want you to know how to spell it because B E C A U S E, because.

Great.

All right.

Now I have some sentences and I wanna see if you... We might not get to all of them but I want to see if you know where the sight word is or the high-frequency word.

Ready?

We walk into school.

Did you see one?

Yeah, I did too.

Good job.

That's the word, into.

The animal is very small.

What do you think?

Yes.

Good.

I super.

I will eat the other Apple.

Oh, good.

Wow.

You guys are really watching.

You're like detectives.

I put on a hat because it is cold.

Hm.

Oh, I couldn't trick you.

It's that great big word because.

The flag is red, white and blue.

Yep.

That's our color word, blue.

Good job.

And do you want this one or that one?

There's our word, or.

All right.

If you don't know these words, I want you to make sure that you write them down and practice them all this week so that you can get them locked into your brain so that you can be a fluent reader.

Nice and smooth reading.

Not like a robot.

I'm so happy to see you.

And I'm so glad you were here with me today.

I hope you'll come back all week long so we can practice that long e spelling pattern.

Sing with me, will you?

♪ Good bye now, ♪ ♪ Good bye now, ♪ ♪ the clock says we're done, ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow, ♪ ♪ Goodbye every one.

♪ Bye-bye have a great day.

(lighthearted music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day, ♪ ♪ time learn and games to play, ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun, ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone.

♪ (lighthearted music)