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And the games you play, learning things is so much fun.

Learning is good for everyone.

(happy music) - Hey, good morning.

Fabulous.

First grade, it's Thankful Thursday and I am always thankful that you're here with me in our PBS classroom.

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

I was reading a story, you know Monday was a holiday, right for President's Day.

And I was reading a story called the boy who looked like Lincoln.

Can you imagine being eight years old and looking like Abraham Lincoln, he might have some trouble, right?

This story is by Mike Reese.

And you might like looking at the story and finding out about the boy who looked like Lincoln.

You can check for it at the County public library or on Sora.

So let's take a look.

Speaking of Sora at who is number two on our checkout, are you ready?

Okay.

Let's see.

Number two, This week is the Heston Bulldogs.

Great job Heston.

Way to go.

I hope you keep reading.

I hope you're on our list next week.

Boys and girls, I have some activity books that I would love to send you.

If you don't have one yet will you please send me a letter right here to the address on your screen?

Or you can send me an email.

I would love to hear from you.

Tell me what your favorite color is.

Tell me what you've been doing.

I would love to know more about you and I'll send this to you.

Make sure your address is in the letter or in the email so that I know where to send the activity book.

I can't wait to hear from you.

Those letters always make my heart feels so happy.

So I hope you'll take time to write to me.

All right my friends, it's time for us to wake up our brains and you got it.

Train our ears for sound.

All right.

So in this game, I want you to listen for the sound That is the same in the three words that I tell you.

Are you ready?

Okay.

Here we go.

Night, cried, fly.

What sound do you hear that's the same?

Yes.

That's our focus sound right?

It's the, I sound, how about this one?

Here's three more, right, shy, ride.

Did you hear the, I sound again?

Good listening.

Great job.

All right.

How about this one made, save, pay.

What sound did you hear?

The A sound?

Terrific.

You're getting really good at using those good listening ears.

You're like a listening detective.

Terrific.

All right.

It's time for us to do our fluency.

Remember, these are the sounds that we practice so that we can get them locked in tight.

If you don't know some of them please write them down and practice them all week.

So they get locked into your brain.

Here we go.

OA, says, Oh.

OW says, Oh.

OE, says, oh.

AY says a, AI says a EA says E and EE says E. all right.

Let's take a look at our silent E spelling patterns.

A consonant E says A. I consonant E says, that's right, I.

How about this one?

O, consonant E says, yep O, good job!

U consonant E says, U.

And E consonant E says, E. Great job!

All right.

This week we've been working on the long I sound and the spelling patterns that we are wanting to get really good at.

So I, as in, I says, I, as in final say them with me, Y says, I, good.

Like in my, IGH says, I, like in the word night.

IE, says, I as in tie.

Great job.

All right, today, we are going to use the IGH spelling pattern to say the long I so anytime you see this group of letters IGH I want you to think I like in five.

All right.

It's that long I sound so.

Let's see if we can read this word together.

Help me out.

What's the first sound.

Yes.

N. I, night, night.

Good job.

What if I changed the N, to a L?

Now what is my word?

L, light.

Light.

Good.

And if you know, night and you know, light if you change the beginning, sound to, a M it makes the word.

Mm.

Might.

Might.

How about if I change it to a R sound?

Right.

All right.

I have one more for you.

That's kind of a tricky one.

Are you ready?

I'm going to use a consonant blend in the front.

What is this sound, BR, bright, bright, great job.

Look at all the words that you can read and spell when you know the IGH pattern.

And there are many more too, let's take a look at our reading chart.

We're going to read this story.

It says be kind to bugs, and we're going to look for some of those long I, spelling patterns.

Let me get my little marker and let's read together.

You ready?

Here we go.

The sight of bugs might give you a fright.

If you were caught in a spot with bugs, you might yell but be kind to bugs because they can help us.

All right.

How about you?

Would you yell if you were caught in a spot with bugs?

Ooh, I would.

Cause I'm not a, I'm not crazy about them.

All right.

Let's take a look, here, we have our long, I spelled just with an I.

Did you see it, be kind to bugs the sight?

Look at that.

There's our IGH.

The sight of bugs might.

How about this one?

It has an I with a E at the end.

No, you're right.

I didn't trick you.

That's one of our sight words give, remember we had to we have to really know that one.

So we don't say something that doesn't make sense.

Let's how about this word?

Fright.

That means you're afraid.

Sight might fright.

If you were caught in a spot with bugs, you might yell but be kind to bugs because they can help us.

How did you do, did you find all of those IGH and I's all by themselves, you did a great job.

We're going to keep working on that tomorrow.

I have a longer story that we'll read to find.

All right.

Let's take a look at our high-frequency words for today.

We have two of them that we're going to concentrate on.

I want you to read them with me and then spell them.

And if it's a word you're struggling to remember I want you to also write it down.

Here we go.

K N O W know that.

That's what you know, in your mind, right?

When you know something and this word, listen, listen, let's spell it.

L I S T E N. Listen.

Good job.

All right.

Here are our sentences.

Let's see what they say.

We must Hmm.

In class we must listen or we must know.

Hmm.

Let's think about that.

Let's read the second one.

See if that helps us, do you?

Hmm.

Where bees live.

Oh, okay.

That helped us, right?

Because do you know where bees live?

And we must listen in class.

Is that what you were going to say?

Great job.

All right.

We've been working on the ES and the ED inflectional endings and how to read and how to spell when the word ends in a Y.

So let's remind ourselves what we've been learning.

When a word ends in Y we have to change the Y to I before we add ES or ED.

Now we've been practicing that all week.

And I'm going to add to that today because we're also going to talk about ING today.

Okay.

Those are the inflectional endings.

We've been working on all year long.

So here we go.

We have sky and we can change it to skies.

The skies are blue.

So if we change sky to skies we're going to get rid of the Y.

We're going to change the Y to an I and add ES change the Y to an I and add ES okay.

I'm going to do it over here.

That way we can still see sky, sky skies.

All right.

Let's try this one.

Dry.

What do you think?

Okay.

We're going to change the Y to an I and add ES and now it says dries, dries.

What if I want to say it happened already?

It dried, it already happened.

I'm going to use the ED ending but I'm going to change the Y to an I and add ED, dried.

Okay.

But what if it's happening right now?

What if the sun is drying the towel?

Drying.

Well, when we have a word that ends with a Y and we want to add, ING, we don't have to do anything special except add the ING.

So it says drying.

So the only time we're going to change the Y to an I is it for doing the ES or the ED, but not the ING.

Let's try fry.

Are you ready?

Fry?

If it, if we say fries, we're gonna change the Y to an I and add ES if it happened in the past, we fried the potato.

Then we're going to change the Y to an I and add ED.

But if it's happening right now and we are frying something, we're going to just add ING to the end of the word fry and it will say fry, ING, frying.

How did you do?

It's a little tricky, right?

But you can do it.

Just remember that.

ES and the ED is when we're going to change the Y to an I before we add that ending.

But when we add, ING to the word we don't have to change anything.

We're going to practice a little more tomorrow.

How'd you do with that?

I know you're doing great.

I hope you'll keep practicing reading and practicing those sight words and the long eyes, spelling patterns.

Look for those in the things that you're reading in your books, and you are going to get excellent at it.

Good bye now.

Good bye.

Now the clock says we're done.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Good bye.

Every one, have a great day.

I'll see you tomorrow.

(guitar playing) Good morning to a brand new day, time to learn and games to play.

Learning things is so much fun learning is good for everyone.