(guitar 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.

♪ (guitar music) (bright upbeat music) - Good morning fabulous first grade, welcome back to our PBS classroom.

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

I'm so glad to see you here today.

Have you been reading?

I hope so.

Did you know that if you read just six books this summer that you will be ready for second grade?

That's all it takes, just six.

I can't imagine only reading six, I hope you'll read a whole bunch more than that.

I wanna know what you're reading.

Will you write to me here and tell me all about what your favorite stories are and what your favorite books are?

If you do, I will mention you and tell other boys and girls what you have recommended, and I'll send you one of these fun activity books free in the mail.

Just make sure I have your address so I know where to send it.

I can't wait to read your letters.

I hope you'll write to me.

Draw me a picture if you're worried about writing.

I just wanna know that you are practicing all the skills you need to be an excellent reader and writer.

Now these boys and girls are practicing their skills because we're about to find out who number three on our checkout for Sora.

Now in Fresno unified, we use an app called Sora so that boys and girls can check out books digitally.

They can read them right on their computer.

Isn't that totally cool?

I know.

You can check out books on Sora if you have that app or at your County public library and you can also look at your school library.

It's super easy.

So let's see who's number three on our Fresno unified countdown.

Are you ready?

Ready?

Go.

Oh, wow, Jackson Gators.

I think this is the first time you've been on our list.

Congratulations, I'm giving you a round of applause.

That is fantastic way to go, Jackson.

Keep up the great work.

I am excited to see if you're gonna be on our list again next week.

Good work, Bravo.

My friends, time to train our ears for sound.

Are you ready?

Did you bring your good listening ears?

Take them out of your pocket, put them on, turn them up because we are gonna play a blending game.

I'm going to tell you some sounds, you're gonna put them together and tell me what my word is.

Are you ready?

I'm gonna tap them out on my arm just to help you with a visual so that you can see the sound, hear the sounds but you can see a representation of each one.

You ready?

Here's our first word.

Splash, splash, let's do a little faster, splash, splash.

Did you get it?

Great job.

Let's try this one.

Are you ready?

Shrug, shrug, shrug, shrug.

That's what you do when the teacher asks you what did the storybook say about the character?

And I know because my boys and girls do the same thing.

They go like this.

That's a shrug.

Here we go.

Last one, you ready?

Scr, listen again, screen, screen.

What did you hear?

Screen, good job.

Very nicely done.

Let's look at our fluency.

These are the sounds and spelling patterns that we have already learned.

Make sure you're writing down the ones that are still tricky for you.

Ready?

U, e says ue.

O, y says oy.

O, w says ow.

O, i says oi.

A, u says au.

E, w says ew, good.

And a, u, g, h says augh.

Very nice.

This week we're practicing three-letter blends.

Now, a three-letter blend comes at the beginning of a word.

Let's say the patterns and the sound together.

Here we go.

S, c, r says scr.

S, h, r says shr.

S, p, l says spl.

S, q, u says squ.

S, t, r says str.

S, p, r says spr.

And t, h, r says thr, thr.

Good, I have some pictures here.

This is a scroll, a shrub, struck like lightning struck the tree, spree, a shopping spree, squeal and throw.

Let's take a look at two of our words for today.

We have thr ead, thread, thread.

Good job.

Now, if I wanna change thread to three, what do you hear at the end of three?

The long e sound.

So we're gonna change that out, to another e, and now we have the word three, three.

Good, let's read this one.

Shr imp, shrimp, shrimp.

What if I want it to shred, shr e. What do I need next?

I have my beginning blend the three-letter blend.

I need to take these letters away and I'm gonna put in e, e, that's our short e, shred.

Good job, the d at the end.

Fabulous, now we have shred.

Good work.

Wow, you're getting really good at that.

I knew it would be pretty easy for you.

Let's take a look at our high-frequency words.

And if we have time, we'll come back and look at our reading chart, but we have been running out of time.

So let's get to our high-frequency words.

We have two words today, push and heard.

I want you to say it with me and then spell it with me.

Push, p, u, s, h, push.

And then we have heard, say it with me, heard, and spell it, h, e, a, r, d, heard.

Here are my sentences.

Have you, a funny joke?

Have you, a funny joke?

Think about it, push or heard.

Now here's my next sentence.

He can, open the door.

Are you using the context clue?

What could you do to the door?

Are you gonna, no, you're gonna push.

He can push open the door, and have heard a funny joke?

Hey, that reminds me.

If you have heard a funny joke, I would love to know about it.

You could write to me and tell me your funny joke.

That'd be awesome.

Everybody needs a good laugh.

Let's take a look at our inflectional endings, and we're gonna talk about that ed and ing ending.

Now, when we add ed to a verb, do you remember what a verb is?

A verb is an action word.

When we add ed, it means the action already happened in the past.

When we add ing to our verb, it means it's happening right now.

So I changed it up a little bit for you today, and we have two sentences, you're going to need to use the clues in the sentence to help me choose the word with the right inflectional ending.

All right, here we go.

Today, I am in the tub.

Should I use the word splashed or splashing?

Let's try them and see which sounds correct.

You ready?

Today I am splashed in the tub or should it be today I am splashing in the tub?

It should be splashing, oh, oh, better let it fall.

It should be splashing because it says today.

So this clue tells me it's happening right now.

Today I am splashing in the tub.

Let's take a look at our next sentence.

Yesterday, I in the tub.

Yesterday, I splashing in the tub.

Yesterday I splashed in the tub.

Which one makes the most sense?

Yesterday already happened.

So I need to choose splashed because the action already happened.

It happened in the past.

It happened yesterday.

Do you see how that works?

Pretty cool.

Now, let me move this out of the way because I wanna take a look at another word and see how would we write these words if we were writing with an inflectional ending?

So remember some words have to be changed in order to add the ed or ing.

This word is spruce, spruce.

Now, do you see that it ends in an e?

So to add an ed, I need to take off that e, and add my ed spruced.

I spruced up the back yard.

Now the same is true.

if I wanna say it's happening right now.

I am sprucing up the backyard.

That means I'm cleaning it up, making it nice but I still have to get rid of that e. Let's take a look at the word knit, knit.

If I want to say it happened in the past, I knitted, I have to add after I have to double the consonant and add ed, I knitted a sweater.

That means that already happened.

Or if I'm doing it right now, I could say I am knitting but I still have to double that consonant.

Do you see how that works?

It's a little tricky, but you're getting the hang of it I can tell.

I can't wait to work with you tomorrow because I have a story that we're gonna start part one of a story, and I want you to come help me read and find some of those three letter blends.

Will you do that?

Great.

♪ Good bye now, good bye now ♪ ♪ the clock says we're done ♪ ♪ I'll see you tomorrow ♪ ♪ goodbye every one.

♪ Bye-bye, see you tomorrow.

(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)