(soft music) - Good morning super readers.

Super readers!

Thank you for joining us in our Valley PBS classroom.

My name is Mrs. Vang.

- And I'm Mrs. Nix.

- And I'm Mrs. Hammack.

- Hey, I just noticed something.

We all remembered to wear our spirit wear shirts because we're a part of Valley PBS's classroom.

Yay for the spirit points.

- Isn't that amazing?

Because at Valley PBS, this is the place for us to learn, practice and.

- Grow our brains.

- To become stronger readers, writers and thinkers.

We are thrilled to be working with you guys this year to see all the amazing skills that you will learn as we spend our time together each day.

So, let's get started by warming up our brains with some.

- Ear training.

- Or as our friend, Mr. Dawson, always says.

- [All] Daily phonemic awareness.

- Oh my goodness.

Oh my goodness, you guys are so ready.

I hear and I see you guys.

Okay, you guys, I see you, turning up that ears.

Awesome job.

We are going to be practicing some phoning blending today.

This is where I'm going to give you some sounds and we're going to blend it together to make our word.

Are you ready, are you guys ready?

- Yeah.

- Mhm.

- You guys ready?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Okay, let's do a practice just so that we all know what we're doing.

Ready?

Listen to these group of sounds I'm going to give you.

Ready, if you need your arms out, get your arms out to help you blend all the sounds together.

Ready?

D, a, d. Blend it together.

Dad.

What's my word?

Dad.

Did you guys get that?

- Yes.

- Dad, awesome job.

Okay, you guys ready?

Okay, let's get started.

Listen for these sounds.

Ready?

What's my word?

M, a, t. Blend it.

Mat.

What is it?

- [All] Mat.

- Good job.

Okay.

Here's another set of sounds.

Ready?

Get your arms out if you need it.

S, a, d. Blend it.

Sad.

What is it?

- [All] Sad.

- Good job boys and girls.

Okay, you guys are doing such a good job.

Last set of sounds.

Ready?

You guys ready?

Okay, get your arms out if you need it.

Ready?

B, a, d. Bad.

What is it?

- [All] Bad.

- Good job boys and girls.

Good job training those ears.

- Speaking of ears, you know what we should do today because it's Friday?

- What should we do?

- I think we should do our song.

- Yeah.

- Yes.

- Okay, all right.

Are we ready?

- Oh, stand up if you're sitting at home, come join us.

Or if you just need to get the wiggles out, this is a great way to get those wiggles out.

You guys ready?

(soft music) ♪ Adam has an apple and an empty in his head ♪ ♪ Empty in his head ♪ ♪ Empty in his head ♪ ♪ Adam has an apple and an empty in his head ♪ ♪ So let's all clap our hands ♪ (claps) (soft music) ♪ Adam has an apple and an empty in his head ♪ ♪ Empty in his head ♪ ♪ Empty in his head ♪ ♪ Adam has an apple and an empty in his head ♪ ♪ So let's all clap our hands ♪ (claps) (soft music) - Wow, that was so fun.

I think we've gotten pretty good at that one.

- Mhm, thank you for sharing that.

- It's so much fun.

- Oh, wait before.

- Oh, we know.

- It's time for a.

- It's time for a joke.

Okay.

This is a new one.

- Okay.

- Knock knock.

- [Mrs. Vang and Mrs. Nix] Who's there?

- Before.

- [Mrs. Vang and Mrs. Nix] Before who?

- Before you leave for school, make sure you have your backpack.

- Oh, Mrs. Hammack.

You're so funny.

What?

Hee haw hilarious.

So funny, we love your jokes, Mrs. Hammack.

- Thank you, thank you.

All right my friends, it's time for us to do some word work.

So this week we have been working all on our apple card.

That is the apple, a, A.

And we make that with the, just the A by itself.

That's how you spell the a sound.

Remember, that's a short vowel, right?

So, a, is our short vowel sound.

Let's review some of our consonants, and then we'll get to some word building.

Are you ready?

Map, m, M. Lemon, l, L. And LE.

Rose, r, R. And also WR at the beginning of words.

Volcano, v, V. Here's our sun card.

Sun, s, S. Also spelled with a CE and a CI.

Here we have our zipper card.

Zipper, z, Z.

Good.

Also an S at the end of the word.

All right.

Let's take a look at some words, and we're going to say the sounds and blend them to figure out what the word is.

Are you ready to read with me?

Let's do it.

All right, here we have our S for the sun card.

Let's say the sound.

S, a, t. Now, when we blend, we want to stretch those sounds to touch each other.

My friend, Mr. Dawson, who taught me so many great things, he called it slow motion slow.

Are you ready to try it?

Sat.

Sat.

Sat.

Great job, like I sat in my chair.

And let's try this one.

M, a, n. Man.

Man.

Very nicely done.

All right, now you know what we do next?

We're going to change our words and build a new word.

So if I have sat and I want to build the word rat, let's see how many sounds does it have?

R, a, t. Three sounds.

Okay, so what's the first sound I need?

Yes.

R, a, t. Rat.

Very nice, good job.

All right.

Now we have man.

And I want to build the word pan.

That's right.

Pan starts with the p, a, n. Pan.

Do you see how when we know how to write and read one word, we can change a sound to make more words?

They're connected, and that helps us to be excellent readers.

You know what else helps us to be excellent readers?

Is practicing and learning our high frequency words.

And Mrs. Nix is here to review our high-frequency words for this week.

- I cannot believe it's already Friday, and we are learning all of our words.

We're reviewing, I should say, all of our words.

So, help me go through all of our super readers and let's read our words.

And today we're going to add an element, I want us to spell them too.

So we're going to read them and spell them together.

So here we go, let's start with this first one.

What's this word?

School, and let's spell it.

S-C-H-O-O-L. Good job.

How about this one?

Does.

Nicely done, does.

Let's spell it.

D-O-E-S spells does.

Good job.

What's this one?

Not.

Good job, let's spell it.

N-O-T spells not.

Excellent.

Last one.

What.

W-H-A-T. What.

What a great job you just did.

Now remember, these are words we see often in our reading and our writing.

Just like our sentence we worked on together yesterday.

How many of our high-frequency words did we have in our sentence?

Can you count them with me?

What did we have?

What, does, not and school.

There's four words.

Let's read our whole sentence.

What does not go to school?

Excellent.

Now there were more than four words in our sentence, right?

Go and to are some additional words we had in our sentence.

Wonderful job.

So, we go through and we practice our sounds.

We blend our words.

We build our words.

We learn our high-frequency words.

And then we go and we read our stories, and our brains are so busy doing things.

One of our things that we do is to visualize.

I'm going to invite my friends back on, and I want to talk about visualizing because we've gone through and we have practiced visualizing a few different things.

So today, to show you how our minds are all different, but similar, is I want us to think inside our minds.

And you do this at home too.

Visualize how you go to school.

'Cause we're going to learn about school today.

Think about it.

How do you go to school?

Mrs. Vang, can you think about it?

- I'm visualizing.

And when I go to school, I walk to school because I live nearby the school.

- Hm.

Mrs. Hammack, was yours the same as Mrs. Vang?

- Mine was not the same.

When I visualize, I like to close my eyes so that I don't have anything distracting me and I can make a picture.

And I picture myself in the back seat of the car because somebody is driving me to school.

- Oh, and you know what?

Mine was completely different.

I visualized myself riding my bicycle because that's how I would go to school, and I could see there was a pond next door.

And I visualized being on the sidewalk where I was safe.

All right, so visualizing is super important as we go through and we're reading the words on the page.

It's also important when we're listening to a story, just like this one.

- [Narrator] School around the world.

Children go to school to learn.

That is true all around the world.

In many ways, schools everywhere are alike.

Children learn from teachers.

They learn how to read and write.

They learn math.

But school is different in some ways for children in other parts of the world.

Kids may get to school in a different way.

Walking and riding a bus are common ways to get to school in the United States.

But in other places, children may take a boat to and from school, Lake Titicaca in Peru is one of those places.

The children in this picture live on islands in the lake.

Several of the islands have schools.

The children take a boat from one island to another to get to school.

At the end of the day, the children take the boat back home again.

Writing is one of the most important subjects kids learn in school.

The words we write are made up of letters.

The English alphabet has 26 letters.

In China, children learn a special kind of writing called calligraphy.

That means beautiful writing.

The children write using a brush and ink, but they don't make letters.

Instead, they make marks called characters.

A character stands for part of a word or a whole word.

The girl in the picture practices writing characters.

There are many characters in the Chinese language.

Some Chinese people can write about 4,000 characters.

How do children learn to write all those characters?

First, they learn to make the lines in each character.

Then they practice writing the characters.

Another important subject in school is math.

The study of numbers.

No one knows exactly when the first math ideas were invented.

Long ago, people started counting on their fingers or by making marks on the ground.

Some early people used small objects to help them count.

The objects were made from clay.

The shape of the object meant a number.

A stick shape might be one.

A round pebble shape might be 10.

Children today still use objects to help them count.

The children in the picture are using signs to help them count by tens.

Their school is in Uganda.

The children are holding signs with numbers written on them.

They will arrange themselves so that the numbers are in the proper order.

The numbers on the blackboard go up to 50.

This helps the children see how counting by tens helps you get to bigger numbers.

All around the world, recess is a favorite part of the school day.

Recess gives children a break from work.

They can move around and have fun.

Children who have a recess break study better and learn more.

In warm places, children can go outside for recess most of the time.

The children in the big picture go to school in Northern Vietnam.

They like to play on a swing at recess.

This swing is made of a long piece of wood.

Two children can sit on it while other children push the swing.

When is it too cold to go outside for recess?

The answer to that question depends on where kids live.

Teachers recognize how important recess is.

They think about what their students are used to and how comfortable they will be outdoors.

Children in Alaska are used to cold weather, and many schools in Alaska if the air is warmer than 20 degrees below zero, then recess is outside.

The kids in the smaller picture live in Alaska.

They are playing basketball in the snow.

- Wow, wasn't that great?

Did you learn some things about some of the other schools around the world?

I bet you did.

There are some things that are similar to how we do school here in the United States.

And, there are some things that are a little bit different.

Is it important for us to know these things?

Yes.

This is another strategy that we can use as we're retelling a story.

We can think about things that are alike and different.

So our story was schools around the world.

And as you were reading, I want you to think, or listening, think back to the story.

And let's talk about what were some things that were the same between schools in the United States and schools around the world.

What did we hear?

Oh, I hear you saying, we all go to school to learn.

That's right.

Who do we learn from?

You got another one.

That's right.

We all learn from teachers.

It doesn't matter where in the world you're from, you're going to learn from someone and we call them teachers.

Excellent job.

Another thing that is the same is that what we learned to do when we go to school is that we learn how to read, write and do math.

Those are all things that students around the world go to do.

We also all use objects to count.

Now the objects might be a little bit different depending on where you go, but you're going to use objects to learn how to count.

And the last thing that we have that was kind of the same that we saw was probably your favorite part.

I know it was always mine, I loved going to recess.

Right.

So that's something, recess is done all around the world.

Okay, some things that might be a little bit different.

Well, do you remember when they talked about that we go to school in different ways, just like Mrs. Vang and Mrs. Hammack and I talked about and visualized how we went to school.

We all got to school, but we got there a different way.

Another thing that was a little bit different was in China.

Remember, they don't learn how to write letters, they write characters.

And that's a little bit different.

So it's fun to learn about how things are done here in the United States, and how some things are done in other places in the world.

All right, so we always talk about what we.

Can't get that to go in there.

I always like to talk about what we've read, but we also like to do a little bit about what we read.

So we're gonna write about what we've read.

So let's do a little writing.

I have a prompt for us right here.

It says, write one thing you do at your school.

Hm.

And I think I have some little friends that are going to come and help me, right?

There are my little friends.

Good morning.

All right, who has an idea?

What is one thing you do at school?

One thing I do at school is.

- I know, I know.

- Oh Miss Tina Turtle.

What do you have?

- I read books.

- Do you like to read books?

That's a great idea.

I'm going to put this up as an option for us today.

Great job.

How about Retell Ricky?

What do you have?

- I like to play with my friends.

- Playing with your friends is so much fun.

- I like that too.

- Oh, you like that too?

Scooter, do you like that too?

Awe, you guys are so fun.

How about one more?

Scooter, do you have something?

You look very excited.

Do I have to listen in?

Oh, I hear you.

You like to write some stories.

I would love to read some of your stories, I bet they are so wonderful.

Great job.

So, we can take any of these ideas that you helped plan our writing and we could use it in our sentence, right?

That is a great job.

Which one should we put?

What do you guys think?

Should we do play with my friends?

- Play with my friends.

- Play with my friends.

So let's put it right here.

One thing I do at school is play with my friends.

Now, you know what friends?

What could we do?

Could we add to our sentence?

How might we add to our sentence?

Hmm, let's think.

One thing I do is play with my friends.

Could we think about what we do to play with our friends?

Maybe give an example.

What's something you do when you play with your friend?

- We play kickball.

- You love to play kickball.

That's so fun.

- I love kick.

- You love to.

Yes, I can only imagine that you love to kick.

All right.

And then Tina, do you have one thing that you like to do with your friends?

- I forgot.

- You forgot.

That's okay.

We can just be thinking about all of our fun things that we do.

Maybe we play on monkey bars and go down the slide.

Oh.

Oh Scooter, you have some great ideas.

Talking about the merry go round, and going spinning around.

Oh, I don't like to do those, those make me sick.

But thank you guys so much for helping me, I really appreciate it.

You know what else we like to do boys and girls?

We love to talk about our books.

And a friend that I have that is going to be able to talk about one of her favorite books is Miss Edith Navarro.

She's from our CIPL department.

And you know what?

I'm going to kick it over to her and let her talk about her favorite book.

- Hi, I'm Edith Navarro with CIPL, and you caught me reading one of my favorite books.

This one is "Marisol MacDonald and the Clash Bash."

You see, she's about to have a birthday party, and she can't make her mind up what type of party to have.

Her and mom go to the store, and they see rockstar parties and pirate parties and princess parties.

And Marisol just can't decide what kind of a party to have.

On the day of her birthday, her family wake her up and they still don't know what kind of party she's decided to have.

But she told all of her friends, and they all show up as soccer players, as princesses, as pirates, as unicorns.

And at the end of the day, they have an amazing birthday party.

But I'm not going to spoil that for you.

I want you to get the book.

Get it and read it because like me, I know you'll fall in love with "Marisol MacDonald and the Clash Bash."

- That was a fantastic story.

And you know what?

I can't wait to go and check that story out.

- Yeah, me too.

- It's going to be pretty fantastic.

And what a great time to be able to check out a book, because guess what?

It's the weekend.

- It's Friday!

- It's Friday!

So we can go and do that.

Are we ready?

- I have a joke.

- Oh.

- One last joke.

- Okay.

- All right.

Knock knock.

- [Mrs. Vang and Mrs. Nix] Who's there?

- Colin.

- [Mrs. Vang and Mrs. Nix] Colin who?

- I'm calling it a week.

Let's get out of here.

- Oh, that's awesome.

- All right boys and girls.

- You know what?

We'll see you guys.

So I think this weekend I'm going to go and I'm gonna look for another.

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