♪ 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, sorry, I was just taking a look through the Sora app to see what book I could share with you today.

Are you reading anything great?

I'd love to know about it.

Boys and girls, welcome back to our fabulous PBS classroom.

Fabulous first grade, in the fabulous PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammack, and I'm here to help you practice and learn all the things that you need to learn to be excellent readers and writers.

You know the best way to be an excellent reader is to read, right?

So the more you practice, the better you're going to get.

And I know, I know when you're just learning to read it's not actually that much fun.

It's kind of hard, but you know what?

You can do hard things.

And I believe in you.

And it's not gonna stay hard.

If you keep practicing, you're going to be able to read faster and better, and you're gonna be able to enjoy the stories that you're reading.

So please don't give up, keep practicing every day and you're gonna see that you get better and better, and it gets more and more fun, okay?

All right, so I want you to find a good book either on the Sora app, or at your county public library, or at your school library, find something that looks interesting to you and check it out, and look at it, and read the words.

I bet you'll find some of our high frequency words in those books, I know you can do it.

And then I want you to write to me here in our PBS classroom so that I can send you one of these activity books.

Tell me all about what you're reading, and what you think other boys and girls might like to read.

Maybe you have a book that made you laugh out loud and you think the other boys and girls need a good laugh too, tell me all about it.

Draw a picture of your favorite part and send it to me because I want to know that you are practicing.

And I'll send you one of these fun activity books.

It's getting close to summer break, and I know you'll enjoy this during your free time.

Make sure you give me your address so I know where to send it, okay?

Terrific.

All right, friends, it's time for us to see who is in the number four spot.

These boys and girls have been checking out books and reading, and you know what?

If you're on our top five list, I definitely want to hear from you.

What are you reading?

Right to me here so can know.

Let's see who's in the number four spot, okay?

Here we go.

Number four for this week, Ewing Eagles.

Yay, Ewing Eagles.

Oh, I'm so proud of my Ewing Eagles.

You know, Mrs. Hammock was a Ewing Eagle kindergarten all the way to sixth grade.

So when I see that school on our list, I feel super proud of them.

Way to go Ewing Eagles, I am proud of you.

All right, it's time for us to train our ears for sound.

You ready today?

We're gonna play the segmenting game.

I am going to give you a word and I want you to break it apart one phoneme at a time.

Do you remember what phoneme means?

Right, it's a sound, right?

Okay, so our word is strap, strap.

You're ready to break it apart?

Str, oh, don't forget that one.

Str ap, strap, how many sounds did you hear?

Five, did you hear that three-letter blend at the beginning?

We've got to train our ears to hear it that way, when we're getting ready to write those words with three-letter blends, we can hear all of the sounds.

All right, here's your next word?

Spray, spray, ready to try it.

Here we go, spr ay, spr ay, spray, good job.

All right, four sounds in that one.

The last one I have for you, are you ready?

Splash, splash, let's try it.

Spl ash, spl ash, splash, that sounds good now, right?

It's getting more hot outside, so we might like to splash in the pool.

That had five sounds, did you hear them all?

If you're having trouble hearing those blends, I want you to keep practicing, keep tuning in your ears so that you can hear them.

That's how you will be an excellent reader and writer.

All right, it's time for a fluency.

Remember boys and girls, if there's a sound pattern that you are not sure about when I show it to you, write it down so that you can practice it and get it locked into your brain.

Here we go, E W, says ew, A U, says au, O I, says oi, O W, says ow, O Y, says oy, U E, says ue, and A U G H, says augh, good job.

All right, this week we are learning three letter blends.

They're a little bit tricky to hear, and so I want you to really focus in on them and we'll read them slowly.

Let's look at all of the three-letter blends that we're gonna work on this week.

Are you ready to read with me?

S C R, says scr, scr.

S H R, says shr, shr.

S P L, says spl, spl.

S Q U, says squ, squ.

S T R, says str, str.

S P R says spr, spr.

And T H R, says thr, thr.

All right, we have some pictures here.

This little girl is going through the hoop.

Here is some ketchup and they are gonna put a squirt, squirt of ketchup.

She is yelling, we call that a shriek, and this guy is super strong.

Please don't scribble on your paper, and look at that, they are going to spread some peanut butter on the toast.

All right, I have two words for you that we're going to blend together.

Here we go, here we have, let's look at the whole word so we can start to see some patterns.

Okay, but that's a short U. Alright, here we go, scr ub, scrub, scrub, very good, did you hear the scr sound at the beginning?

What if I want to change this to say, scr eam, scream, okay, so I have to change the vowel, don't I?

And I have to change the ending.

So if I want that E sound, there's a couple of ways I can do that.

For this word, it's going to be the vowel team that says E A, scr ea m, at the end, okay?

Remember those two vowels, two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.

Scr eam, that makes the long E sound.

Do you remember that pattern?

All right, let's read this word, ready?

Spr int, spr int, sprint, good job.

All right, now, what if I wanna change, sprint, to spr ay, spray?

Do you remember how to make the long A sound?

There are a lot of different ways to do that, right?

So let's take a look at spray.

What do you think?

Spray, can I just put an A in there by itself?

That doesn't look right, this time A Y, because remember that A Y comes usually at the end of a syllable or a word.

We have spr ay, spray, good job.

All right, let's take a look at our high-frequency words for today, we have two that we're gonna focus on today.

Front, F R O N T, front and before, before, B E F O R E, before.

We're gonna figure out which sentences they belong in.

We heard a knock on the, door.

And my next sentence is, do you put on your boots, your socks?

Okay, so what do you think, did you hear the clue?

We heard a knock on the front door.

And do you put on your boots before your socks?

Well, that would be strange, wouldn't it?

I hope you said no, 'cause that would be crazy.

All right, one last thing that we're gonna talk about today and it's something that is not new.

We've been talking about inflectional endings, adding E D or I N G to a word.

Now, when we add E D, that means the action already happened.

It happened in the past.

And when we add I N G, it means just happening right now.

So I have some words here to just remind you, here I have the words scrape.

Now, if we wanna change that to happened in the past, we would say scraped.

Do you see how we added the E D?

And here we would take off the E to add the I N G, and it becomes scraping, scraping.

All right, now, that one was a little bit tricky because we had to change some things around.

This word stretch, we don't have to do to that word to add the E D. We have stretched and stretching.

So in some words, we have to get rid of the E, and add the E D or the I N G. So let's take a look.

Here we have thrill, thrill.

All right, if I want it to say thrilled, I was thrilled to see you, then I just add the E D. Or it was thrilling to ride the rollercoaster.

Then I just add the I N G. But, if I have, let's do this one, if I have scrub and I wanna say I scrubbed, I'm gonna have to add another B before I add the E D. So now I have scrubbed,.

Or if I'm scrubbing something, then I need to have it be scrubbing.

I have to add that second B.

Did you see how that worked?

I know we've been practicing that, I think you'll get it.

We'll keep practicing this week.

♪ Good bye now, good bye now ♪ ♪ The clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ Goodbye every one ♪ Come back and see me tomorrow so we can practice some more, bye-bye.

(upbeat music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games you play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music)