- [Singer] ♪ 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 ♪ (guitar strumming) (bright music) - Hey, good morning fabulous first grade.

Welcome back to PBS.

I'm Mrs. Hammack, your first grade teacher, and I'm here to help you learn and practice all the skills you need to be excellent readers and writers.

And this week we're concentrating on the writing part of that.

Hey, but I can't resist reading a great book.

This one is called "Dragons Love Tacos" by Adam Rubin illustrated by Daniel Salmieri.

Hey kid, did you know that dragons love tacos.

They love beef tacos and chicken tacos.

They really love big gigantic tacos.

They even like tiny little baby tacos.

Do you know why?

You're gonna have to read and find out.

Check for it on Sora or at your County Public Library or at your school library.

Like Pyle school where Ms. Parker is the librarian and she loaned us this great book.

I hope you'll find it.

Hey boys and girls, I would love to get a letter from you so that I can send you one of our fun activity books.

The address is right here on our screen.

Send me a letter or an email.

Make sure you give me your address, and I will put one of these in the mail for you.

Now, remember we talked yesterday that our Sora chart is empty because I'm not sure who the top five are.

Should be nice to see Mayfair up there or Aynesworth or Adams or Tenaya.

If you're for one of those schools or you have siblings from one of those schools start checking up those books and reading, so you can be an excellent reader and writer.

All right, it is week six of our unit five and we're changing it up a little, we're talking about writing.

So today we are gonna talk about grammar, and our grammar that we're gonna talk about is adjectives.

We're gonna talk about mechanics, that's the capitalization, and then we're gonna do some writing about yurts.

Remember the story yesterday?

Great.

Let's start with adjectives.

Lemme get my pointer finger.

Do you know what an adjective is?

Right.

An adjective is a word that tells us about nouns.

Like what size is it?

Was it a tall girl, a short girl?

It can be what color something is or how it feels, hot or cold.

Or how many there were.

It can tell us about how something looks, bright, pretty, scary.

It can tell us how something smells, stinky or fresh or fruity.

How something behaves, slow, nice.

It can tell us the shape of something, how something tastes, and how something sounds.

There's all different ways that we can use adjectives which are words that tell us about nouns.

So let's take a look at a practice paper and kind of decide what an adjective is and maybe learn how to identify them.

Adjectives are words that tell about nouns and adjective tells number, color, size, shape and how things look, feel, smell, or taste.

Circle the adjective in each sentence and underline the noun it tells about.

Here's the first one, it's done for you.

Ruff is a fast dog.

So dog is our noun and describing him, telling about him is fast.

He's a fast dog.

So now we're gonna do a few together.

Are you ready?

Let me get my pen.

Michael is wearing blue shorts.

Okay.

So do you see a noun?

Shorts.

And do you see a word that tells us about the shorts.

Right, they're blue.

Good job.

Let's look at the next one.

I ate a sweet apple for a snack.

All right, did you see... Oh yes, how something tastes, very good.

That would be our adjective, it's sweet and it's describing the Apple.

Kim likes her warm coat.

How does it feel?

It's warm, that's our adjective.

And what's warm?

Right, the coat.

And we flew our kite on a windy day.

What kind of day?

It was a windy day.

So windy describes day.

Good job.

When we add adjectives to our writing it gives us more information about the noun and it makes our writing more interesting.

Let's look here at this part of our practice.

Choose the adjective that best completes the sentence.

Now not every adjective works in the right way for noun.

So let's see this one.

I am cleaning my soft or messy room.

If I put soft here, I'm cleaning my soft room.

Does that make sense?

No.

So even though soft is an adjective it's not the right adjective.

So I would write messy.

I'm cleaning my messy room, because messy is the word that makes the sentence make sense.

He is a happy, square baby.

What, a square baby, that's crazy.

It can't be square, it must be happy because that makes sense.

Good job.

One more.

My mom gave me a sharp or sweet strawberry.

I hope it's not a sharp strawberry that would not taste very good.

How about sweet.

Sweet strawberry.

All right.

So adjectives tell about the nouns but they have to be the right adjectives to make sense.

Now let's talk about sentences.

All sentences end with an ending mark.

We have our period, our question mark, and our exclamation.

Do you remember our rhyme for that?

Are you telling, are you yelling, or are you asking?

That's how you decide which one to use.

So let's take a look.

A period is for telling, an exclamation mark is for yelling, a question mark for asking.

Let's choose the correct one for this sentence.

Do Bert and Carly live on Skylark Farm.

So are we telling, yelling or asking?

Right, we're asking, right?

Here's our asking word do.

And so we're gonna put a question mark.

Did you see it?

I saw it.

Look, this should be an uppercase letter.

Let's put a little line under it.

Let's see if there are any others that don't have uppercase that should.

Do Bert, that's a name isn't it.

And Carly live on Skylark Farm.

Skylark Farm is a specific place.

So all of those words need to have a capital letter.

Wow, great eye.

Let's do number two.

Help, I dropped my purse in the mud.

What do you think?

Am I telling, yelling or asking?

I think I'm yelling, right.

Help!

I dropped my purse in the mud.

Does it start with a capital letter?

No, they forgot.

And the word I always has a capital letter.

How about purse?

No, it doesn't.

All right, good job.

You ready to try number three?

Alright good, here we go.

Four birds are in the little birdbath.

Okay.

Four birds are in the little birdbath.

Am I telling, am I yelling, or am I asking?

Right, I'm just telling.

So I just need a period at the end.

Now let's take a look at the capitalization and see if that is correct.

Did my sentence start with an uppercase?

No, it did not.

So I need an uppercase letter.

Four birds are in the little birdbath.

Is little birdbath a specific place.

Not really.

It's not like a store name or anything.

So these uppercase letters should only be lowercase letters.

So we're gonna put a line through them because that helps me remember, "Hey uppercase letters don't belong there."

All right, we're gonna stop here because it's time for us to talk about our opinion writing.

Yesterday, we watched or listened to a story about a yurt and we asked a question to help us write an opinion.

We said about, do you think yurts make a good home?

We wrote our opinion.

I said, yes.

And now our second job is to find a reason that supports our opinion.

So we're gonna go back to the story and find something in the story that will help me say, "Oh that's a good reason that I think a yurt makes a good home."

So let's take a look at our story.

It says a yurt is like a tent but a yurt is stronger.

Long ago some people lived in yurts.

These people were called nomads.

Okay, so I'm thinking, I'm thinking,.

Okay maybe because it's a tent, but let's keep going.

Nomads knew how to build yurts and take them apart quickly.

Nomads moved a lot.

They carried their yurts with them.

I got it.

Yurts make a good home because you can take them and move them quickly.

They take them apart quickly and they can be moved.

That's kind of cool for a home, right?

So that might be the reason that I want to add to my opinion.

In my opinion, a yurt makes a good home.

It can be taken apart and moved.

So I might think that that is something that is great about a home.

Can you take your home apart and move it wherever you want?

What if you wanted to go to the beach?

Can you take your home apart and take it with you?

No, but if you lived in a yurt, you could.

So in my opinion, that a great reason that a yurt makes a good home.

All right, so we're not quite finished with our paper.

We have one reason.

And then we're going to talk some more about those reasons tomorrow.

Will you come back and join me?

I hope so.

Sing with me will you.

♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ Good bye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ Good bye everyone ♪ Come back so that we can work some more on adjectives and write our opinion about our yurt and whether or not it makes a good home.

We'll find some more reasons.

Have a great day of learning and I'll see you tomorrow.

Bye bye (guitar strumming) - [Singer] ♪ 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 ♪ (guitar strumming)