♪ 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 music) (lively playful music) - Good morning, fabulous first grade.

Welcome back to our PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammack and I'm here to help you practice and learn all the skills that you need to be an excellent reader and writer.

I was just looking at this book.

Do you like butterflies?

I was just looking at this book.

Oh my gosh, look at the incredible, spectacular butterflies.

This story is called A Butterfly is Patient and this written by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long.

It is full of facts about butterflies.

I love springtime because the butterflies are out flying around from flower to flower.

And I love how beautiful and how many different kinds of butterflies there are.

This book has all kinds of describing words.

Remember those are called?

Adjectives, right.

About butterflies.

Butterflies are patient.

They are creative.

They are helpful.

They are protective.

They are poisonous.

What?

Did you know butterflies are poisonous?

You might wanna check out this book and find out about that.

This book, A Butterfly is Patient.

You might enjoy it.

Look for it on Sora or at your County public library.

You might check your own school library too.

I think you'll enjoy it.

Now, my friend, Ms. Gypsum and her first graders at Akers School at Lemoore Naval Air Station wrote me an email and I loved it.

It made my whole day.

And so I wanna say hi to them again.

And I wanna thank them for writing to me.

And I want to encourage them to keep reading.

And you know what?

I will send activity books if you write me a letter.

So if you would like one of these, please send me a letter, an email to the address right on your screen.

And give me your address and I will send one of these to you, okay?

I have lots of them.

I'm waiting to give them away.

They need a home.

I hope you write to me.

Okay.

Last week we did a digital reading challenge in Fresno Unified.

And we are looking today at who is in the third spot?

That means they read the third most minutes in our district.

All right, let's see who it is.

Ready?

Go.

Oh, Manchester GATE.

Great job, Gaters.

Terrific.

Good for you.

I'm proud of you.

All right, so we had Aynesworth in fifth, Turner was fourth, Manchester GATE in third.

Wooh.

I cannot wait to see who's in two and one.

You ready to get started with our learning today?

Fabulous.

All right.

Turn up those good listening ears, because it's time to train our ears for sound.

That is right.

We're going to use these beautiful ears to help us become better readers.

What?

Yes, that's right.

We have to listen and learn the sounds when we hear them before we can read them and spell them.

That's what we do first.

That's step number one to becoming an excellent reader.

Today, we are going to play a little game where you need to listen to some words and tell me which two words rhyme.

And then I'm gonna ask you to tell me a word that also rhymes with those two.

Now remember, a rhyme has the same ending part, okay?

They have the same ending part.

So here we go.

I have three words for you.

Pool, stool, bill.

Right?

Pool.

Stool.

They both say, ool.

Good job.

Can you think of a word that rhymes with pool and stool?

Rule.

Great job, wow.

Good for you.

All right, here we go.

Soon, could, noon.

What do you think?

Soon, could, noon.

Soon.

Noon.

They both say oon.

Good job.

All right.

This is just too easy for you.

Can you think of a word that rhymes with soon and noon?

How about tune?

Soon, noon, tune.

Great job.

All right, here we go.

Last one.

Loose, tube, goose.

I'm trying to trick you, I hope I don't.

Did you get it?

Right, oh yeah.

On Monday, we did phony my dignity and all three of those words say oo, don't they?

But we're not listening for that this time, this time we're listening for rhyming.

So listen again.

Loose, tube, goose.

Right?

Loose.

Goose.

They both say oos.

Good.

And what might rhyme with loose and goose?

Moose.

Great job.

Very good job.

I'm gonna give you a round of applause and a pat on the back.

You did great.

All right.

It's time for us to look at our spoon sound spelling card.

This is our focus sound, the oo sound, right?

So O-O says oo.

U, consonant E says oo.

U says oo.

E-W says oo.

U-E says oo.

O-U says oo.

And U-I says oo.

This week or today, I thought, you know, let's focus on a ui.

Even though it is the least common way to spell the oo sound.

It means you're not gonna find a lot of words that say oo using that sound.

But also there's not a lot of other sounds that those two letters make together.

So I thought it might be a good one for us to practice.

So I have this word here that we're gonna blend together.

Ready?

Ss, ui, tch.

Suit.

Good job.

Suit.

All right, and let's blend this one.

Here we started it with a, yep, consonant blend.

Then we have ui and then we have a silent E. So let's see what we have.

Ready?

Cr, ui, se.

Now it sometimes sounds a little like a Z when we have a silent E at the end.

Ready?

Cruise.

Cruise.

We have suit and cruise.

Good job.

Now what if I wanted to change suit to fruit?

What would I do then?

What's the beginning sound?

Right, it's a consonant blend.

Now I don't have that, but you know what?

No worries.

That's okay.

We don't have to have them stuck together.

We can build it, right?

So we can take the letters to make that consonant blend.

Fr, uit.

Fruit.

And then we have cruise.

What if I want to change cruise to bruise?

I got a bruise on my arm.

Bruise.

Up, that's right.

We just changed the beginning sound.

Now I want you to take a look at these words.

There are not a lot of words that use the ui, oo sound.

So bruise and cruise.

Fruit and suit.

All right.

So you're gonna be on the lookout for some other words because there are not very many.

Let's take a look at a few of our words.

Let's see if we can find some u-i, oo words.

All right.

Let's see.

Let's take a look.

Do you see one?

Oh, look here.

Juh, uice.

Juice.

Very nice.

Now, remember when we have a E right after a C, it makes the soft sound, juice.

Do you see another one?

Yes, good.

Suit.

Now, do you, oh, yes, I heard you.

Fruit.

Good job.

Do you see on this whole chart?

There are only three words.

Juice, suit and fruit.

Not very many, right?

Okay, that's because it is not a common way to say the oo sound.

Let's take a look at our high frequency words and see if you remember how to read them and spell them with me.

Okay.

Here we go.

All right.

You ready?

Say it with me.

Busy, busy.

Now I want you to spell it and if you have something to write with, write it down.

B-U-S-Y.

Busy.

All right, our next one is brought.

This is a long one so write it down for sure.

Spell it with me.

B-R-O-U-G-H-T. Brought.

Good.

All right, we have two sentences.

Let's see if we can figure out where the words go.

Gram hmm me a gift today.

Busy or brought?

Mom is to hmm to go to the park.

Busy or brought, what do you think?

Right.

Gram brought me a gift today.

Mom is too busy to go to the park.

All right, good reading.

All right, let's take a look at our suffixes.

Remember a suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of words to change their meaning.

We are focusing on two of them today.

This suffix is -ful and it means full or full of.

And this suffix is -less and it means without.

So when we add those suffixes to words it changes what they mean.

So let's practice.

Here we have use.

Use.

So use as something you do, right?

I use a fork.

Or a for, I can use a fork.

But if I add ful, now it says useful.

A fork is very useful.

All right.

How about hope?

Hope.

What if I add ful to the word hope.

Hopeful.

Hopeful.

Hopeful means it's full of hope.

What if I have spoon and I add ful, now I have spoonful.

Is it full of a spoon?

(Mrs. Hammack laughs) No, but it's full on a spoon, right?

It's an amount on a spoon.

Let's take a look at less and see if we can add some things to less.

If I have, if there's pain, if something is, oops, painless, that means it's without pain.

Harm and when I add less, it means harmless.

It's without harm.

And if we have a nice, beautiful sunny day, it is, and we don't see any clouds, then we say it is a cloudless sky.

That means without clouds, do you see how that works?

Oh, you did a great job.

We're gonna keep working on that.

And we're gonna build some more words tomorrow.

So I hope you'll come back and practice with me.

Practice using some of these suffixes in your writing.

And I can't wait to see you tomorrow.

♪ Goodbye now ♪ ♪ Goodbye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ Goodbye everyone ♪ Come back and see me tomorrow.

Buh-bye.

(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 ♪ (guitar music)