♪ 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 ♪ (bright music) - Hey, good morning, fabulous first grade.

It's thankful Thursday and I am thankful that you're here with me in our PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammack, and I'm so glad you're here today so we can practice all the skills you need to be the most excellent readers and writers.

I have another story to share with you in celebration of Black History Month.

And this story is called "Doctor Daniel Hale Williams in Twas the Night of a Miracle".

So Dr. Williams was an incredible man.

He was the first heart surgeon ever to perform a successful heart surgery.

Isn't that amazing?

I know.

And he founded Chicago's Provident Hospital.

It was the very first hospital that was non-segregated.

That means anybody could go there, they could all go together.

Isn't that incredible?

I have learned so much from reading this story.

And if you would like to learn more about him or just about other people in African-American history, in our history, about African-Americans that have contributed to our history, I hope that you will dig in and find some great, great stories.

All right.

What?

Oh, well, yeah, I think you can find it at the County Public Library.

You might even look for it on Sora or maybe when you're out shopping at a bookstore.

You can check it out.

Okay?

All right, good.

Thank you for reminding me.

All right, let's take a look at who our number two spot is on our Sora countdown.

Are you ready?

Okay, let's see.

♪ Drum roll ♪ Computech Middle School.

Wow.

Look, we had a middle school down here in the number four spot and we have a middle school up here in the number two spot.

That is awesome.

Way to go, Computech.

Great job reading, checking out books on Sora.

All right, my friends.

I do still have some of our fun activity books and I would love to send one to you.

So please write me a letter.

I would love to hear from you.

Send it right here to the address on the screen and make sure you give me your name and your address, so I know where to send your book.

Okay?

Terrific.

That sounds awesome.

I hope you write to me, I can't wait to hear from you.

It's time for us to wake up our brains and train our ears for sound.

You ready?

Good.

We're going to play the categorization game.

You remember that one?

Right.

I'm going to tell you some words.

And one of these words is not like the other.

One of these words just doesn't belong.

And your job is to figure out which word does not belong.

Here we go.

Windy.

Growing.

Hobby.

Ooh, you really got to turn up your ears for that one.

Windy.

Growing.

hobby.

Good, windy and hobby have the E sound at the end, right?

But growing does not.

All right, let's try this one.

Body.

Icy.

hand.

Oh, that was too easy.

You're right, hand.

Body and icy, but not hand.

How about key, sing and penny?

Key.

Sing.

Penny.

Oh, good.

Key and penny have the same E sound but sing does not.

Good listening.

All right, friends, it's time for fluency.

That's the letters and sounds we practiced already and now it's your turn to make sure you have them locked in.

Remember, if there's a spelling pattern that's giving you trouble and you're having trouble remembering it, please write it down so you can practice it all week long and get to be an expert.

Here we go.

I-G-H says?

I, good job.

I-E says?

I. O-A says?

O, good.

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 I-E says E. You're getting so good at that.

I think I might have to mix those up tomorrow and change them all around.

We'll have to see how you do then.

All right, let's take a look at our sounds for this week.

We're visiting with our tree card, that's the long E sound.

And we're focusing on Y says E and E-Y says E, okay?

So these are the ones we've been looking at all week long.

And we're going to sound out a word together.

I have a word on our chart and you are word detectives, so I know you're going to be able to tell me exactly what to do.

What do you notice first about our word?

Yes, it has a double consonant.

And that tells us that the vowel in front of those it's going to be a short vowel.

And then we already know the Y is going to say E, are you ready to try it?

Here we go.

(sounds out the word baggy) Baggy.

Great job.

Terrific.

All right, what if I wanted this word to say, buggy?

Buggy?

What do I need to fix?

(sounds out the word buggy) Right, I need to change my vowel.

What says U?

Yes, the short U.

Now, my word says buggy.

What if I wanted my word to say, buddy?

Buddy?

Mrs. Vang is my buddy.

Bud.

Oh, yep, I got to get rid of that.

And I need to have them, right, because the U still says U.

So now I have buddy.

Good.

What if I wanted this to say bunny?

Bunny?

Right, I'm going to change the Ds and I'm going to put two Ns up there.

Remember we have to have those double consonants when that vowel is short.

(sounds out the word bunny) And there's our E sound at the end.

Remember the Y is acting as a vowel in this word.

(sounds out the word bunny) Okay, tricky, isn't it?

Right.

Let's try one last one.

If I want to change a bunny to sunny.

Right, I'm just going to put an S in the place of the B.

Good job.

Wow, you're getting so good at building words.

Terrific.

Today I have a story for us.

We're going to only read part one of this story.

Get my chart out of the way.

We're just going to read one part of the story today and look for our Y says E and E-Y says E spelling pattern.

And then we'll finish up the story tomorrow 'cause it's a little bit of a longer story.

This story is called Race Pony.

All right, you ready to try it?

Here we go.

It even has our high frequency words, see if you can find them.

A woman named Holly came from the city.

She went to the valley.

She wished to get a pony that would race fast.

The man told Holly, "This is a fine race pony.

Take him."

Holly got the pony to the racetrack.

She rang a bell.

It was time to race.

Holly found out the hard way that it was not a fine racing pony.

Uh-oh.

So she went to get a pony to race and when it was time to race, he wouldn't race.

I wonder what's going to happen tomorrow.

I can't wait to find out, but before we do anything else let's take a look at our story and see what we notice.

Are you ready?

All right, so you saw this Y right away for race pony.

And then we have Holly is the lady's name.

And she came from where?

Right, the city.

And where did she go?

Right, she went to the Valley.

And she wished to get a pony that would race fast.

There's her name again?

Her name is in here all over the place, isn't it?

And pony and Holly and pony.

Okay, I have a question for you.

Did you notice any compound words in our story?

You did?

What was the compound word?

Oh, I saw, I saw your eyes go, ah, that's a huge word!

Look at this word racetrack.

It's a compound word.

We have race and track to make racetrack.

Isn't it huge?

I know!

That's why it's important for us to start finding those smaller chunks when we look at those long words.

Great job.

And we also had some of our high-frequency words.

Did you see those too?

All right, we'll look at some more tomorrow.

Let's take a look, speaking of high-frequency words, let's take a look at the two that we're going to work on today, okay?

Great.

All right.

Here we have woman and write.

Woman and write.

Spell them with me.

W-O-M-A-N. Woman.

And write, W-R-I-T-E. Write.

All right, let's see which word belongs in which sentence.

We, hmm, in class.

Are you thinking?

Woman or write?

Mrs. Smith is a, hmm.

Okay, well, Mrs is for a lady, right?

So that must be, she must be a woman.

Mrs. Smith is a woman and we write in class.

Great job.

Let's take a look at some of our compound words.

Remember, just like in our story?

So let's see what we have here.

We have pig plus pen.

What would that make if we put those two words together?

Oh, you're right, pigpen.

Sometimes your room might look like a... No, I'm just kidding.

Pigpen.

Okay, here we have sun plus shine.

What do you think that's going to be?

Right, sunshine, very good.

Oh, here's something that I love, ready?

Meat plus loaf.

What do you think that's going to be?

Oh, it's one of my favorite things.

Meatloaf.

Yummy.

How about foot, if we add print to it, what does that become?

Right, footprint.

Look how long that word is.

Remember, when you see a great big, long word I want you to start to look and notice if there's a smaller word hiding inside of it that will help you sound it out.

Footprint.

Let's do one more.

Are you ready?

Home.

Made.

And here we go, homemade.

That means something that's made at home.

Great job.

It's time for us to sing already, I can't believe it.

♪ Good bye, now ♪ ♪ Good bye, now ♪ ♪ The collect says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ Goodbye, everyone ♪ Come back tomorrow so we can finish our story, okay?

All right, bye-bye.

♪ 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 ♪ (bright music continues)