♪ 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 ♪ (calm music) - Good morning fabulous first grade.

It is terrific Tuesday.

I'm so glad you're back with me.

Here we are in our PBS classroom and I'm Mrs. Hammock.

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

This week, we are focusing on the writing, so I'm very excited that you're here with me today.

Hey, are you reading good books at home?

I hope so.

You could check out books at your County public library or on Sora and we're going to find out right now who our number four school is for checkouts on Sora.

So let's take a look and see who got the fourth spot.

Ready?

All right.

Let's see here.

Number four, Wilson wild cats.

Way to go Wilson.

Great job.

Wow.

You are being excellent readers.

Remember boys and girls, the only way to become a better reader is to practice.

And you can do that right at your house.

Hey, I would love to send you an activity book.

Would you write to me and tell me what are you reading at your house?

Tell me something you'd like me to share with the other boys and girls.

And I would love to hear from you.

Send your letter right here, to the address on your screen.

And I'll send you an activity book.

Make sure you include your address.

So I know where to send it.

I can't wait to hear about what you're reading.

I might be reading the same thing.

I hope so.

All right, we're gonna start today with some grammar, right?

We were talking about verbs yesterday.

Do you remember what a verb is?

Right?

A verb is an action word.

Today we're going to talk about a particular type of verb that tells time.

Meaning tells us when is the action happening?

And today we're gonna concentrate on present tense verbs.

Now it sounds complicated, but really it's not.

It just means that the action is happening right now.

Present in the present, not like a present that you give someone, that's different.

Present means it's happening right now as we speak.

And here are some ways that present tense verbs might look.

We have the word plays, play and playing.

Oh, you're right.

You remember that Inflectional ending "ing."

When you see that at the end of a verb, you know that the action is happening right now.

It's also happening right now when it ends in an 'S' or sometimes when it doesn't have an 'S' at all.

And we're going to take a look at that in our pocket chart.

Are you ready?

All right.

Let's take a look.

Future or present tense verbs, tell about more than one noun.

When they tell about more than one noun then they do not have an 'S' at all.

And if their noun is about I or You, so in the sentence, if the sentence is about I or You, then we don't need to add an S. All right.

Are you ready?

Let's take a look at some of them.

I know it sounds complicated.

It's not too bad.

I wave at the kids.

Do you see the word I?

That's just one person.

That's me.

I wave, here is my future tense.

That means I'm doing that right now.

Wave.

Let's read this sentence.

We have, " Mel thumps the drum," Mel thumps the drum.

All right.

So now this one only talks about Mel but because it's not, I or You we have to add an "S" to the end, thumps.

Okay, let's try this one.

They swim in the Lake.

All right.

They is more than one, right?

So that means we don't need to add an "S" or an I-N-G. To make that a present tense.

I keep wanting to say another one.

All right.

We're going to practice that a little more on our workbook page in a minute.

But let's talk about what are commas in a series.

When we make a list of three words, we're gonna separate them by commas after the first two words.

Instead of continuing to write and, and, and.

So let's take a look.

Here's my example.

Set out cups comma, plates comma and napkins.

The 'and' can sometimes be a signal to you, that we're making a list, because we had two things, then we have the word 'and' an another thing.

So let's take a look at the sentence, 'We can read, write and talk about books.'

Did you hear three things that we could do?

Right.

We can read comma, write comma and talk about books Good job.

Ray will grip hit and dodge the ball.

He's gonna do three things, right?

He's gonna grip comma, hit comma and dodge the ball.

How'd you do.

All right.

Good job.

Let's take a look at what that might look like.

If we're doing some practice in a workbook page.

Here we have, let me move this back here, so it doesn't fall.

Here we have, present tense, tell about action that happens now.

Add "S" or I-N-G to most verbs to form the present tense.

Alright, so read each sentence and circle the present tense verb you find.

"Mom swims in the Lake."

All right.

What is the action?

What is mom doing?

Right?

She swims.

And when is she doing that?

Well, the sentence tells us right now.

Ann liked the game.

Is she liking the game right now?

No.

Remember that E-D means it already happened.

So we have to be careful when we're looking.

Remember we're just looking for verbs that are happening right now.

Let's read this one.

Dad is napping in the sun.

Oh, look.

There's that inflectional ending I-N-G that we learned about it means it's happening right now.

How about this one?

Ike saved his snack.

No, you're right.

That's not it.

It would have to say 'Ike saves his snack.'

Right?

How about this one?

The cat plays with the ball.

Right.

The cat's playing with the ball right now.

All right.

Let's try some commas in a series.

When you write three words in a list, put a comma after the first two words.

We like to run, swim and skate for fun.

You ready?

We like to run comma, swim comma and skate for fun.

Good.

Let's do the next one.

The cat, dog, and bunny belonged to me.

The cat comma, dog comma, and bunny belonged to me.

Great job.

All right, we'll leave this here.

In case we have time.

But we're going to move on to the writing part.

And we're going to use some pages from our story that we listened to yesterday.

Let me get this up here a little bit better.

Yesterday we listened to a story about Penguins.

Do you remember?

And we wrote a sentence together.

We wrote, "Penguins help each other in many ways."

Today, we're gonna look back at the text and see if we can find evidence, of the fact that they help each other.

Do you think that we can find that?

We're gonna to do a close read.

So we're gonna read it closely thinking about that clue.

What do they do to help each other?

So let's take a look here and let's read.

To stay safe from danger, Penguins live in groups.

Also the black feathers ,help them hide in the dark sea from animals, above them.

The white feathers, hide them from animals below them.

Now, do you see the red words here?

Those are captions.

Captions often have really important information so we never want to skip them.

They go with the picture and they tell you some more information.

So let's read what those captions also say.

"Seals hunt penguins for food" and "Swimming Penguins are hard to see from above."

Okay.

Did you hear anything about penguins helping each other?

Is there something that they did?

How about their black feathers?

Does that have anything to do with them helping?

No, not really.

That just tells about what they look like.

How about right here?

"To stay safe from danger penguins live in groups."

That's helping each other, right?

They're living in groups to stay safe.

So we're gonna write our next sentence in our story.

That helps us with, our idea that penguins help each other in many ways.

So let's think, how can we say we can't copy it right from the book?

Because those are someone else's words.

We're gonna use the information and put it in our own words.

All right.

So let me think.

Help me think, to stay safe from danger penguins live in groups.

What could we say?

They live in large groups, to stay safe from danger.

Great.

Let's write that together.

All right.

Our first word is "they."

We're gonna start up here?

They, you ready?

That's one of our sight words.

You're right.

They live in large groups.

Let's see if we can do that on... And then we have an 'O' and 'U'.

They live in large groups.

What's the rest of it?

To, stay, stay remember that 'a' sound at the end is often an A-Y often.

They live in large groups to stay safe.

There's one of our magic key words.

'Safe from' there's one of our sight words.

All right.

Now let's sound this one out.

Are you ready?

Danger, Oh, you're right.

It's right here in our text.

We don't even have to sound it out.

We can use it straight from the text.

Good.

I danger.

And then what do we need at the end?

Yep.

You got it.

Penguins help each other in many ways, they live in large groups to stay safe from danger.

You did a great job.

Now, we're going to continue working on this story all week long.

Adding more details that we find from our text.

These are text evidence.

It means it shows us what the facts that we need.

We don't have to make anything up.

It's right in the book.

Come back tomorrow and help me write some more.

Will you?

I love it.

♪Goodbye now ♪ ♪Goodbye now♪ ♪The clock says we're done ♪ ♪I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪Goodbye Everyone ♪ Have a great day, I can't wait to see you tomorrow.

Bye bye.

(soft 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 ♪