♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and the games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music) - Good morning fabulous first grade, happy Monday.

Hey, I have been looking at all kinds of amazing African-American scientists and artists and singers because all this month and February, we've been celebrating and learning about black history month.

And I have another story that I hope you'll go and find and read.

You know, sometimes girls think, oh, I can't do math, or I'm not good at math.

Well, you know what, this lady, Dorothy Vaughan was a computer decoder, back when computers filled up an entire room and now we carry them in our hand, we call them phones but they're really computers.

You might wanna find out about this African-American computer scientist who studied and learned and helped NASA.

She is an amazing person.

And I want you to know all about her.

So I hope you'll look for this book, "Computer Decoder" and you could find it at the county public library, you might even be able to find it on Sora, but look for it because I think you're gonna enjoy it a lot.

And you are gonna be surprised at how amazing she is and all the things she did to help our country.

So I hope you'll look for it.

Hey, it's time for us to take a look at our Sora countdown.

Are you ready to see who's in the number five spot?

Okay, let's do it.

Here we go.

Wilson wild cats.

Way to go Wilson.

Good job.

Number five for this week.

Great.

All right, boys and girls, I have our activity books and I would love to send you one.

So if you would like one, please write to me here at our PBS classroom, you can send me a letter with your name and address and I will put one of these in the mail for you.

I hope I hear from you soon.

All right.

My friends it's time for us to wake up our brains.

Right.

And oh, I forgot them, let me grab them really quick because we need to, train our ears for sound.

Today we're gonna play, the categorization game.

I'm gonna give you a list of words, and one of them is not like the others.

One of these words is not like the others.

One of these words just isn't the same.

And your job is to figure out which word that is.

Are you ready?

Okay, here we go.

Tune up your listening ears.

All right.

We have key, lucky, and truth.

Do you hear anything that's the same?

Key, lucky, truth.

Did you hear the E sound in key and the E sound in luck-y?

Did you hear an E sound in truth?

No, I didn't either.

Truth is the word that didn't belong in those three words.

Are you ready to try again?

Okay.

Here we go.

Baby, fly, happy.

Which one does not belong?

You're right.

Fly, has the I sound but baby and happy have the E sound.

Great listening.

All right.

One last one.

Don't let me trick you.

I'm feeling very tricky today.

Let's see if I can trick you.

Here we go.

Page, bridge, log.

Which one do you think does not belong?

Right, log.

Because page, and bridge both have the G sound.

Good listening.

Wow!

You are awake on this marvelous Monday morning.

All right.

It's time for us to practice our fluency.

Those are all the letters and sounds that we have been learning and the spelling patterns that we've been practicing, and of course we are only gonna do just a few because you have learned so much this year.

I'm so proud of you.

I think your brains are growing.

Let's try some practice now.

All right.

We're gonna start with, the spelling pattern that we worked on last week.

This is the I-G-H says, I.

Let's see what comes next.

Oh, I-E says, I. O-A says, O. O-W says, O. O-E says, O. A-Y says A. A-I says A. E-A says E. E-E says E, and sometimes not always, I-E can also say E. How'd you do?

Good for you.

Remember, if there's a spelling pattern that you're having trouble getting locked into your brain, write it down and practice saying that spelling pattern just like we do with our fluency, so that you can get it locked in.

Are you ready to look at our sound spelling pattern for this week?

Okay.

We're visiting again with our tree card.

And we are gonna focus just on two of the sound spellings that make the long E sound.

Remember, there are all of these, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven ways to spell the long E sound.

It can be very tricky.

We are gonna focus on two today that we haven't really spent much time on.

We're gonna focus on, Y says E, and E-Y says E. Say that with me.

Y says E, E-Y says E. Great job.

Okay.

Today, we're just gonna start with practicing together, blending and sounding out a word.

So here we go.

We're gonna start with this word here, and when you see this Y at the end, remember you're gonna say the E sound.

Now, normally before we start, let me just point out.

Normally, when I use the Y, I use it black because it's a consonant.

But today our Y is acting as a vowel.

So that's why it's red, like all of the other vowels.

So sometimes Y can be a vowel.

And when it is, it says E. It also says I but we'll talk about that another time.

All right.

Let's sound this out, are you ready?

Okay.

Now I wanna give you a little hint.

Do you see how there are double consonants here?

That's a little bit of a clue to tell you that this first vowel, is going to be a short vowel sound.

So when you see double consonants that are the same, you can pretty much guarantee, not always, but most of the time that vowel is gonna be a short vowel.

So, and we know this one's gonna be a long vowel.

So let's sound it out.

Are you ready?

S-ill, s-ill-y, silly, silly.

Are you silly?

Sometimes you are I'm sure of it.

Silly.

All right, good job.

Now let's see how many syllables are in silly.

Are you ready?

Sil-ly.

Oh, see, there's two.

When we add that long E sound at the end with a Y, it adds another syllable.

So we have two syllable word.

Let's take a look at this one down here.

Now, we know that we have double consonants, that means this one's gonna be a short A, but when we get to the end, that E-Y says E we're gonna say E. Here we go.

V-all, v-all, v-all-ey.

Valley.

Good job.

We live in the San Joaquin Valley.

Right.

Great for you or I live in the San Joaquin Valley you might live somewhere else, but this is the word valley.

Great job.

You did that really well.

Let's take a look at what it looks like over here on our reading practice chart.

Let me get my reading finger, I forgot it this morning.

And let's take a look.

I'm gonna read them and you read along with me.

Here we go.

Stu-dy, study.

Rea-lly, really.

Ba-by, baby.

Ha-ppy, happy.

Kit-ty, kitty.

Pupp-y, puppy.

Key, here's city, fussy, Mickey, baggy.

How'd you do?

Great job.

All right, let's read one sentence today.

Here we go.

The tiny puppy is happy.

Great job.

You did that so well.

I'm really proud of you for learning all the sounds that we've been working on today.

We're ready now to take a look at some high frequency words.

Are you ready?

I know you are.

All right.

Remember, high frequency words are the words that show up the most in things that we read and write.

And so we need to know them as fast as we know our names because that will help us to save our brain power to sound out the other unknown words that are a little trickier.

Are you ready?

All right.

This week we have near, say it with me, near, spell it, N-E-A-R, near.

We also have the word would, W-O-U-L-D, would.

This is not wood like firewood, this is would like, would you like to go to lunch?

Okay.

Here is the word hard, H-A-R-D, hard.

Here is found, F-O-U-N-D, found.

Our next word is write, W-R-I-T-E, write.

And the last one this time is woman, W-O-M-A-N, woman.

All right.

Let's read our sentences really quickly.

Would you like to play with us?

Did you hear one of them?

Right.

Good job.

There's our uppercase W for would, super.

How about, that woman lives near the school.

Oh, good job, woman.

How about, it is not hard to write your name?

Which one?

Yeah, the word write.

Good job.

And we found our lost dog.

Which one?

Oh, found good.

Hey, we're missing one, did you see it?

Yes.

Oh, I thought I could trick you, but I couldn't.

Here's woman, that woman lives near the school.

Good job.

Look at you.

And it is not hard to write our name.

Wow!

You are amazing on a Monday morning.

I can't believe how awake you are.

Come back tomorrow so we can practice some more of those tricky, long E sound spelled with Y and E-Y, okay ♪ Good bye now good bye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow good bye everyone ♪ Have a great day and I'll see you tomorrow.

(slow guitar music) ♪ 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.

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