(upbeat bright music) - [All] Good morning super readers.

- Thank you for joining us in our Valley PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Hammack.

- I'm Mrs. Nix.

- And hi, I'm Mrs Vang.

And this is a place for us to learn, and practice, - [All] and grow our brains, - to become even stronger readers, writers, and thinkers.

So let's get started by warming up our brain with some-- - Ear training.

- Called: - [All] daily phonemic awareness!

- All right.

Daily phonemic awareness is when we train our ears for sound and we kind of play with words a little bit.

Today, we're going to play the segmentation game.

That means I'm going to tell you a word and you're going to take it apart one segment at a time or one sound at a time.

You guys ready to try it?

- [Mrs. Vang And Mrs. Nix] Mhm.

- Okay.

Here we go.

Your first word is slide.

Slide.

You ready to take it apart?

- Let's do it.

- [All] S-L-IDE.

- S-L-IDE.

Slide.

Did you see four sounds?

Or hear four sounds?

Good for you.

Let's try another one.

Ready?

- Mhm.

- Time.

Time.

Here we go.

T-I-ME.

T-I-ME, time.

What sound did you hear in the middle of that?

- I heard "I".

- Oh, hmm.

It's like something we' re working on with Mrs Vang.

All right, let's try one more word.

You ready?

Prize.

Here we go.

P-R-I-ZE.

P-R-I-ZE.

Prize.

Did you get four sounds?

Good job!

That is fantastic.

Well, slide, and time, and prize all have the "I" sound just like our song and our dance this week, "High Five".

Are you ready to do it with us?

- Let's do it.

- All right stand up.

Give yourself some room.

(upbeat music) ♪ High five, high five ♪ ♪ My friends and I do a high five ♪ ♪ We re so fine!

See us shine!

♪ ♪ My friends and I do a high five!

♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five!

♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five!

♪ ♪ High five!

High five!

My friends and I do a high five.

♪ ♪ That's no lie.

Come on, let's try!

♪ ♪ My friends and I do a high five!

♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five!

♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five!

♪ ♪ High five!

High five!

Yeah!

♪ - Let's move around.

♪ High five!

High five!

My friends and I do a high five!

♪ ♪ We re so fine!

See us shine!

♪ ♪ My friends and I do a high five!

♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five!

♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five!

♪ ♪ High five!

High five!

My friends and I do a high five.

♪ ♪ That's no lie.

Come on, let's try!

♪ ♪ My friends and I do a high five!

♪ ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five!

♪ ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five!

♪ ♪ ♪ High five!

High five!

Yeah!

♪ - Oh, wow.

I think I'm getting it.

- I think they are too.

- (laughs) This is so much fun!

- Very fun.

- Lots of I words in that song.

- That's right.

- Are you guys ready?

- I think I'm ready.

- Okay.

Let's go and learn our s-- That's right, our sound of the week.

This week we are focused on the long I sound, which says "I" so I have my five card here to help us, 'cause the five card has the "I" sound.

And look at all the different ways that we can spell the "I" sound.

Lots of different ways, but this week we have been focusing on the "I" consonant, silent "E".

Now remember, your teacher might have called that "E" a silent "E".

A bossy "E".

A quiet "E".

Or, you know I like to call it the magic "E", right?

Because the "E" doesn't make any sounds.

Its job is to make the vowel a long vowel sound, or to say its name.

So the "I" is going to say "I" just like last week we learned about the "A" of the train card and it made the "A" say "A".

So, let's get started by training our ears just like how Mrs. Hammack started.

I have two pictures here.

I want you guys to see which word has that "I" sound.

And I'm going to have my friends come and help us so that they can help us read and write some words with the "I".

Good morning friends.

- [All] Good morning!

- Okay.

Do you guys have your listening ears turned up nice and high?

- Yep!

- Yep.

All ready to go!

- Okay.

Let's start with my two pictures.

I want you guys to tell me which word has the "I" sound or where did you hear that "I" sound, are you guys ready?

Okay.

Let's say it.

This is a picture of a kite and this is a picture of a fish.

Hm.

Which would have that "I" sound, did you guys hear it?

- Oh!

Yeah!

I got it!

Oh, okay.

What was it?

- It was the kite!

Good job.

And I like how you said that Rita, the K-I-TE.

Did you guys hear that "I" sound?

Oh, good job.

Because fish says "i".

That was the short vowel sound.

Good job.

Okay.

So I have a word up here.

I want you guys to help me blend it.

Now, remember some of those tips that we have been learning cause Rita gave us a really good tip.

Rita, do you want to tell us that tip again?

- Sure!

When you're going to read a word that you don't know, you should look at the whole word because there might be some clues in it that will tell you what sounds to make.

Like on this word.

It has an "E" at the end.

And so I, I know that it's going to be a long "I" sound, cause it says "I", and then the consonant "D" and then the magic "E"!

- Good clue.

Good tip, wow.

That was a great tip, Rita.

Okay.

So Tina, were you listening?

- I was!

Okay.

Are you ready to blend this word for us?

'Cause Rita gave us a great tip on how to blend this word.

- Yup.

I'm all ready.

- Oh, good.

- R-I-DE.

"Ride"!

- Yay!

- Good job!

- Ride!

Like I can ride my bike.

Great job.

Okay.

Now, but what if I wanted to change the word ride to hide?

What would I do?

How can I change "ride" to "hide"?

- Okay.

Okay.

I think I figured this one out.

So when we listened to it, the beginning sound, you don't need the "ruh" sound anymore.

You could just put the "huh", So "H" needs to go at the beginning, but the rest sounds the same 'cause ride, and "I", hide, - [Rita And Tina] They both say "ide".

- Good thinking.

- Those are rhyming words!

- Oh, you guys are so smart.

So when you have the word ride and you want to write hide, we can remember that they are rhyming words.

And so when we are writing, we just change the beginning sounds, good job.

Now what if I want to make it "P-RIDE"?

Pride?

- Hmm.

- But it still is a rhyming word!

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right!

- So we just gotta take away that "H" again, and-- - Oh, I know!

It's the "pruh"!

"Pruh"!

- You're right!

- The "p-r-" is a blend!

- It is a blend, "pride".

Good job!

- Teamwork!

Okay.

What if I wanted to change it to a bride?

- Oh, that's really easy.

- (hums bridal march) - Yeah, yeah!

- Mm-hmm, a "bride".

- So it's you still could leave the "r" there, you just need to change your "P" to a "B".

- Good thinking.

- But I think we still have a blend, right, that has a-- - We do, still have-- - Yeah!

Two consonants together is a blend!

- Good job.

So you see how we can spell so many words just from starting with one?

- That's amazing!

- That's all we have to do.

So when we are writing or building words, we just have to remember if we can spell one word, we can spell many words.

Isn't that amazing?

- It's like magic!

- It is like magic.

Oh, thank you so much for helping us today, you guys!

- Oh you're so welcome!

- Thank you!

- Okay, I have a sentence I'm going to read with my readers at home.

I'll see you guys tomorrow for our next lesson.

Bye!

Okay, super readers!

Let's put all of those reading skills, and let's see if you guys can help me read this sentence.

It's a super long sentence.

Okay.

Are you ready?

Okay.

Ready?

If you need to, get your reading fingers ready.

Let's help me read.

"Clive will ride his bike to hide the eggs."

Wow.

Lots of words with that "I" sound.

You're right, "Clive" and "ride", and "bike" and "hide".

Good reading, super readers.

Okay.

Let's see what words we're going to be practicing with Mrs. Hammack today.

- Hey, super readers.

Here we are again with our high frequency words, and I have a new word for you, but first, let's take a look at all six of them for this week.

You ready?

We have "pretty", "together", "grow", "green", "should", and "water".

All right.

So here is my sentence.

Be thinking of those words and which word would make sense.

"My new bike is hmm and white."

All right.

So let's think about that.

The bike, it's a new bike and it talked about it being something and white.

What do you think?

Did you say green and white?

Good for you.

Now, you might already know this word.

G-R-E-E-N. Kind of reminds me of a song that we'll sing maybe later.

So "my new bike is green and white."

How'd you do?

Excellent.

Now, today we're going to do whack-a-word Wednesday.

So we're going to whack the letters for each of the, or each of the letters in this word to spell "green".

Are you ready to do it with me?

Now, this is something you could do with anything you have at home.

You just need a little alphabet chart, and you can even just do it with a pencil and poke the letters.

Here we go.

G-R-E-E-N. Green.

And you could practice that with all of your high-frequency words.

Now we're going to listen to a story, and we're going to use the skill of prediction.

See if you can predict what's going to happen next in this story.

- [Narrator] The Great, Big, Gigantic Turnip, a Russian folk tale.

What is the biggest vegetable you have seen?

How would you pick a giant vegetable?

There was once an old man who planted a turnip.

He dug a hole deep into the ground and gently placed the tiny seed inside.

"May the small seeds sprout and grow a turnip big enough for my whole family to feast upon," he said, as he covered the seed with dirt.

Then he gave the plant some water and went home.

The next day he returned to the garden.

He noticed that the seed had grown.

The turnip plant came up to his knees.

The old man smiled.

He gave it water and sang it its favorite songs.

Each day, the turnip grew bigger and bigger.

Soon, the plant was higher than the man's waist.

Then it came up to his nose!

The old man and his family couldn't believe they had grown such a marvelous plant.

To them, it was more wonderful than the prettiest roses in full bloom.

Soon, the turnip was bigger than the man himself.

He decided it was time to pull it up.

"What a splendid stew this beauty will make," he thought.

He pulled at the turnip, but it did not come up.

So he yanked and tugged and pulled some more.

But the turnip did not budge.

The man called his wife, "Dear wife, please come and assist me in pulling up this turnip so that we can make a fine stew."

"With pleasure," said his wife, smacking her lips.

She held onto her husband as he grabbed the top of the turnip.

Together, they pulled and tugged and yanked and pulled some more.

But no matter how hard they both tried, they could not pull up the gigantic turnip.

The son came out of the house.

"My sturdy son," called the woman.

"Please come and help us pull up this turnip!"

"I certainly will," said the boy.

He held onto his mother who held onto her husband and together they pulled and tugged and yanked and pulled some more.

But no matter how hard they all tried, they could not pull up the gigantic turnip.

Then the boy saw his sister walking by.

"Strong sister, please come and help us pull this turnip!

", he cried.

So the girl ran over and grasped her brother who held onto his mother, who held onto her husband.

Together, they pulled and tugged and yanked and pulled some more.

But no matter how hard they all tried, they could not pull up the gigantic turnip.

Then the girl saw her dog near the fence.

"Powerful pooch," she cried, "come and help us pull up this turnip!"

The dog ran over and took hold of the girl's dress in its mouth.

And together, everyone pulled and tugged and yanked and pulled some more.

But no matter how hard they all tried, they could not pull up the gigantic turnip.

Then the dog saw a cat in a tree.

"Fierce feline," he barked, "come and help us pull up this turnip!"

The cat meowed and ran over and took hold of the dog.

Together, everyone pulled and yanked and tugged and pulled some more.

But no matter how hard they all tried, they still could not pull up the gigantic turnip.

Then the cat spied a little mouse under a cabbage plant, "Mighty mouse, come and help us pull up this turnip," the cat meowed.

"That mouse is not mighty!

", they all cried, "and she certainly will not be able to help us pull up this turnip."

But the mouse ran over and held onto the cat, and together everyone pulled and tugged and yanked and pulled some more.

Then, to everyone's amazement, the turnip flew out of the ground so fast that the man, the woman, the boy, the girl, the dog, the cat, and the mouse all fell backwards right on top of each other.

The man looked at the huge turnip and turned to the others.

"Please help me eat this gigantic turnip," he cried.

So they each held onto a part of the turnip and walked it home.

The stew was as delicious as the man had said it would be.

And they all had three helpings, even the tiny mouse.

- So what did you think of that story?

I bet you didn't predict that one.

Or...maybe you did.

I found it hilariously funny.

Now today, what we're going to do is we're going to spend some time going through and kind of retelling some of the story, and asking, answering a few questions.

Want to help me?

All right.

You know what?

I think I'm going to ask our friend Scooter to come and help us too, so Scooter!

Hey Scooter!

How are you?

Oh, I'm so excited.

Well, would you like to help all of our super readers go through and answer some questions about "The Great Big, Gigantic Turnip"?

Yeah?

Okay.

All right.

So let's start with just an easy question.

This one says right here, it says, what did the old man plant?

What did he plant?

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

He planted some seeds, some, some special seeds, some turnip seeds.

And so what happened to those plants, or what happened to those seeds that he planted?

Do you remember?

That's right.

Absolutely.

They grew into a gigantic plant.

Now for this next question, we've been talking about sequencing all week long because it's important that we know what order all of the events happen in a story.

And this particular question gives us an opportunity to talk about sequence.

It says, what was the sequence of people who tried to help pull out the turnip?

Because remember the man, he tried so hard to pull it out, and that plant was too big.

Do you remember who he asked next?

And then who was asked after that, and who was asked after?

There were a whole bunch.

Do you remember, Scooter?

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think so.

Okay.

Yeah.

Let's look through.

Let's see.

Did he get it right?

So when the man couldn't pull out the turnip, he asked his wife, son, daughter, dog, cat, and finally a mouse.

Now, did you predict that the mouse was going to make any difference at all?

Absolutely not.

So what we have right here, how did this story end?

Well, we know that they were able to be successful and pull everything out.

And why?

Because that little tiny mouse came and helped.

I know.

Exactly.

So even though you're small doesn't mean that you can't be helpful, right?

That's a great lesson to learn.

So thank you so much Scooter for coming and helping out.

I loved that you were able to visit today, (Scooter squeaks) Yeah, have a wonderful afternoon.

We'll see you next time.

All right.

All right.

So super readers.

I want to switch us over and I want to talk a little bit about some writing today.

Now it's going to be a little bit different because we've been talking a lot about plants, and talking about the sequencing of plants and, and how they grow.

So we start with a seed and then we grow-- then it grows from the roots and you get a stem and some leaves and the flowers come.

And so today, something that I thought might be a little bit, might be a little more fun to do with our writing is if we drew a picture of what it was that we wrote or read about, and then maybe you can come and help me label all of the parts.

Just like when we're reading a story, it's important that we know all of the parts of a picture.

So to help us do that, let me call our friends.

So, oh, friends!

- Hi Rita.

- Hi, Mrs. Nix.

- That's a pretty flower you got on your poster!

- Thank you so much, Rita.

I love it.

It's so much fun.

Sunflowers are such a fun flower to see and to draw.

So would you like to help me maybe label some of our parts on our, on our plant that are here?

What are some things that you see?

- That'd be great.

- What do you see?

- Uh, well...

I see down under the ground there's some roots.

- Ah, some roots.

And what do the roots help with, Rita?

- They help to, uh, take in water, and some of those-- I forget the word.

It's like vitamins, but I don't remember what it's called.

- Like minerals?

- Yeah, yeah!.

- Yeah!

What else can roots do?

Do you know?

There's another important job-- - Oh, they have a really big job!

They keep the plant from falling over.

- Absolutely.

They keep the plant from falling over.

So that's a great, important job, right?

Yeah.

Okay, I see that Ricky's got something really good right here.

What do you see?

What is this word?

- That-- that's a stem.

- That's a stem.

And where is the stem?

Is it right here?

- No, that's not, no!

- Silly!

- All right, I was just checking and making sure.

So here's our stem right here.

- That's because, because the minerals in the water can travel up the stem.

- It's like a big straw!

- That's right.

So what else do we have?

What else could we label on our picture here?

Do you have another one Rita?

- Yeah I do, that's the leaf!

I just said "leaf", but it has two.

- That's right!

- A leaf!

- A leaf.

And what else do we have, Ricky?

- [All] Flower!

- And the flower has petals!

- Oh I love that you gave some great details.

Great job today.

All right.

I've got a friend who's got a story they want to share with you.

We'll see you in a minute.

- Hello friends.

My name is Mrs. Hayes and I teach first grade at Holland Elementary School.

I wanted to tell you all about one of my favorite stories called "Me First".

Me First is a story about this little piggy who always wants to be the first to do everything.

He wants to be the first on the slide, he wants to be the first friend in the pool, he wants to be the first friend all the time.

That is until he meets a sneaky little witch who teaches him an important lesson.

To find out how this funny story ends, be sure to check out "Me First", and thanks for watching Valley PBS.

- Thank you, Ms. Hayes.

That is one of my all-time favorite books.

I read it every year at the beginning of the school year to talk about how we have to take turns.

So you might want to check that one out.

It is really good.

Have you read that one?

- I've not read that one, it sounds really good.

- And it's about Scouts!

So I thought for sure you'd know that one.

- Somehow I missed it.

- Knock, knock.

- Who's there?

- Juno!

- Juno who?

- "Juno" I love you, right?

- Aww, Ricky, we love you too!

- All right, super readers, we'll see you here tomorrow.

- [All] Bye-bye!

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