♪ 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 ♪ (upbeat music) - Oh, hi?

Hey, welcome back to our classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammock, your PBS teacher, and we're here in our PBS classroom to practice all the skills you need to be excellent readers and writers.

I was reading a story about somebody you may have heard about.

Her name is Ruby Bridges.

And the story is called "Ruby Bridges Goes to School, My True Story" written by Ruby Bridges.

Isn't that cool?

Look how little she was.

She was such a tiny little first grader.

And you know, when she went to school it was a scary time for her because she started school at a school that was all white.

Back when she was a tiny girl, schools were separated by colors of skin.

I know isn't that crazy, 'cause people are people, right?

And we need to love each other.

But that's not how it was when she went to school.

And she was the first African-American child to go to that school.

And she was so brave.

She has an amazing story.

And it wasn't all that long ago, boys and girls.

She is still alive today.

So even though the pictures are in black and white, she is still alive today.

And you will love knowing her story because she is a true hero.

So you might think about finding a book about Ruby Bridges, or maybe this one, "Ruby Bridges Goes to School, My True Story."

I think you'll enjoy it.

All right.

Let's take a look at our list for Sora.

Remember to visit your county public library.

And if you're in Fresno unified you can visit Sora and check out books.

They have so many books to choose from.

I know you'll find something you enjoy.

Let's take a look at our list because number one, these boys and girls, they have been checking out books on Sora enough so that they've checked out more than any other school in our district.

So let's see who they are.

Are you ready?

Fort Miller Middle School.

Wow, three middle schools are on our top five this week.

That is outstanding.

Way to go Fort Miller.

We are proud of you, great jobs.

Boys and girls, I would love to send you an activity book.

And you know what, I would love to get a letter from you.

I would love to know all about the things that you are doing or the things that you're thinking or the things that you're learning.

Would you send me a letter and send it right here to the address on our screen?

And I'll put in the mail for you an activity book.

And I'll also write you a letter back.

Cause I love to write letters.

It's one of my favorite things.

So I hope to hear from you so I can send you a book.

Make sure you give me your address so I know where to send it.

Okay?

Great.

All right.

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

Are you ready?

Good, we are going to play a deletion game.

We played it on Monday.

That's where I tell you a word and you're going to delete or take away the last sound that you hear.

Okay?

And I kinda showed you a little hand trick to do that.

Are you ready?

So I'm gonna say, baggy is our word, baggy.

So let's do it together, bag.

Instead of saying e we just put the sound up but we don't make a sound.

So baggy becomes bag.

And we don't say the sound.

How about dolly?

Doll, e. Good.

How about hilly?

Hill, y.

Good job.

That's how you take off a sound.

Alright.

Now, are you ready?

Remember I told you yesterday for fluency that I was gonna mix up the spelling patterns to see how well you really know them?

Guess what?

That is exactly what I did.

So here we go.

Let's take a look at them.

You're ready?

OA says o. AY says a. IE says, oh, I heard you, some people said it says i and some people said it says, e guess what?

You're both right.

Great job.

IE, says, i, and IE also says e. I, G, H says, i.

Good.

EE says e. OE, says o, good job.

Ow says, o. EA says e. And AI says a. Wow, I thought I would trick you by mixing them all up.

But you're pretty tricky yourself.

Let's take a look at our focus sound for this week.

We're talking about the long e sound.

That's why I have the tree card here.

And we've been focusing on the two ways to spell it with a Y, says e and EY says e. So I have a word for us today.

And then we're gonna build some words using this one as our starting word.

Are you ready to try it?

Good.

Here we go.

H, am I gonna say the i or the short i sound?

Right, short i because of the continence, hilly, hilly, good.

What if I want this word to say chilly, chilly.

Right the beginning sound is what?

CH so I can just add a C right to my H like this ch-illy, chilly.

Good job.

That's the kind of chilly where it's, Ooh, cold.

How about the word, holly.

Holly, what do I need there?

Okay, do I need this?

No.

Do I need this?

Yes, what do I need here?

Oh, the i, sound.

What is that sound right?

That's the, o.

Let's try it h, holly, holly.

Great job.

What about dolly?

D,d yep, I'm just gonna change out the beginning sound.

The vowel stays the same dolly, very good, great job.

All right.

We started a story yesterday called the Race Pony and we're gonna finish that story up today and take a look at some of those things that we looked at yesterday.

So we found some Y says the e sound and EY says the e sound.

We also found compound word, racetrack.

So, today we're gonna finish up our story.

Remember Holly wanted her pony to race.

The problem, what was the problem that she found?

Right?

She got a pony, but he wouldn't race.

Let's see what happens.

All right, here we go.

The pony would not race.

Holly could not find out why.

What was the key?

Was the track too muddy or the day too windy.

Holly tried oats.

The pony still would not race.

He was a fussy pony.

Holly met with Mickey, the jockey.

He had a plan.

He gave the pony grapes as a tasty treat.

The pony, ate them.

Now the pony races, when it sees grapes.

Is that what you do?

Do you need a treat to make you do things?

(laughs) That was a fussy pony, right?

And I'm not entirely sure pony should be eating grapes but nevermind.

Let's take a look and see if we can find some Y says e, and EY says e. Did you see some?

Right we talked about the pony and Holly yesterday.

Can you see some other things that maybe we didn't find yesterday?

Oh, good I, the word key says the e sound and we had a muddy and a windy day good.

And a fussy pony.

What about the jockey?

What was the jockey's name?

Mickey, right and jockey.

Do you know what a jockey is?

Right, it's the man or woman who rides on the race horse.

They get the horse to go right?

Okay what else do you see any?

Oh, tasty good y, I missed that one, terrific.

Very nicely done.

I didn't see any compound words in this one, did you?

No, but that's okay.

What else do you see?

Oh, did you see this?

Right, it's one of our high frequency words would, terrific.

Do you see any others?

Oop, there's would again.

All right, we'll just have to keep looking right.

You did a great job.

So what was the horse, what was the Pony's problem?

What was right he didn't want to race.

What did they do to change his mind?

That's right, they gave him grapes.

Good listening.

Let's try some high-frequency words now.

Are you ready?

Okay.

We have gone through all six of our words this week.

And so we're gonna review them today just by reading them and spelling them out loud.

If one of these words is hard for you.

I want you to write it down.

That way you can practice.

Here we go.

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

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

Found, F-O-U-N-D, found.

Hard, H-A-R-D, hard.

Wood, W-O-U-L-D, would.

And near, N-E-A-R, near.

Great job.

I'm going to tell you a sentence.

That means you have to listen and I want you to try to listen and see which high frequency words are in my sentence.

Are you ready?

A woman found a dollar near the car.

What do you hear?

A woman found a dollar near the car.

A woman found a dollar near the car.

Did you get it?

Terrific.

All right.

We've also been talking about compound words.

That's when we take two small words and put them together to build a new word.

I have some words here.

Snow, cake, cup, bed, time, man.

Let's see if we can build a compound word.

What if I start with snow?

What would go with snow here?

Snow cake, snow cup, oh, you're right.

Snow plus man.

And what would that work word make?

Snowman.

Great job.

Hey, you know what?

That's all we have time for today.

I hope you play this game.

You can play this at home.

All right.

It's time for you to sing with me.

♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you on Monday ♪ ♪ Goodbye everyone ♪ Bye-bye.

(guitar strumming) ♪ Good morning to, a brand new day, ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for every one.

♪ (guitar strumming)