(upbeat 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 ♪ (energetic music) (whistling) - Happy Friday, boys and girls, and welcome back.

My name is Mrs. Vang.

I'm so excited to have you join me this morning so that we can become amazing readers and writers.

Now, let's get started by showing, oh, recommending a book for you to read.

This is a book called "The Hat" by Jan Brett.

And I love this story because it's about a little hedgehog named Hedgie and he accidentally gets a sock stuck on him and he goes around and everybody thinks that it's just a hat.

Can you believe that?

So if you want to read more about the story, make sure to check it out on Sora or at your county library.

Now, if you want to recommend a book for me to share with all the other second graders, make sure that you are writing to me here at the studio and you can also write to me and tell me everything that you are learning.

And when you write me a letter I will send you one of these fun activity books, like my good friends, Penny and Tatum.

They wrote to me a couple of weeks ago so I'm gonna be sending them out some activity books.

And don't forget to use the address that you see below so that you can write to me.

Tell me what you're learning, tell me books that you want to recommend to other boys and girls to read, and I'll say new one of these fun activity books.

Now, let's get started with our learning for today.

'Cause remember, our job is to make our brain super strong 'cause the stronger our brain becomes, the smarter we become.

So we'll start off with our, good job, our listening ears.

We're gonna be training the ears, and that means you need to turn those listening ears up so that you can listen.

We're gonna start with our phonemic awareness and practice with a game called What's My Word.

This is where I'm gonna give you some sets of sounds.

Your job, blend them together, guess my word.

Ready?

Okay.

Let's get started.

Listen for these set of sounds.

What's My Word, ready?

Fa, use, fa, use, what is it?

Fuse, and actually it's fa use, fuse.

Good job, fuse.

How about these set of sounds?

What's My Word?

You, let me get that in.

You, nn, it.

You, eh, nn.

Let's try that again.

Sorry, let's go back, ready?

You, na, it, what's my word?

Unit, there you go.

Okay, and last set of sounds.

I hear you.

You guys are doing awesome, ready?

Nn, you, nn, you, what's my word?

New, good job, new.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Okay, now that our ears are warmed up and ready, let's practice our sound of the week.

Now this week and all week, we've been learning the long u sound.

Remember, the long u says u.

It says its own name.

But it has four different ways that we can spell the u sound.

We can spell the u with just a u by itself, like in the word unit.

The u, consonant, silent e, and remember that silent e's job is to make the u say u and we don't say that silent E sound.

E-W says u, and U-E says u.

So four different way that we can spell the u sound.

And remember, that u sound is very similar to another sound, uh, that has the same spelling patterns.

So once we learn it, we will look at the different ways we can spell and say those two different sounds.

So let's start off first by blending some of these letters so that we can read, ready?

Now, if I look at my first set of letters, again, I see that there are two vowels.

Remember how we learned about two vowels might mean they have two syllables, 'cause remember every syllable has its own syllable, a syllable sounds, so as you're reading I want you guys to be breaking them up into syllables so that you can read.

So the first one is a vowel, consonant and it's another vowel, consonant, vowel.

And then there's a, sorry, let's try that again.

And you're saying, "That's not a vowel."

You're right, m is a constant.

It's a consonant, vowel, consonant, and then a vowel.

So if I look, here's my consonant, vowel, consonant.

So this together is what we called a closed vowel.

Remember, 'cause the vowel is closed in.

So that's our clue that tells us that e makes the short vowel sound.

The u by itself is what we call an open syllable so it makes the u sound.

That's when it makes the u sound, your right.

So let's sound or blend these letters together, ready?

Mm, en, men, you, menu.

What's my word?

Menu.

Good job, boys and girls.

And that's how you would sound it out breaking them up into syllables.

Now, let's practice our next set of letters, ready?

S-T is a blend, good job.

S-T, st, and the E-W says you blended together.

St, you, what's my word?

Stew, stew, now how many of you guys love a good stew on a cold evening?

I do, I love it!

Stew, good job, boys and girls.

Okay, now let's practice building some words.

So as you're writing, you want to be able to hear those sounds and use your spelling patterns to help you.

So let's practice what the word truth.

Truth, segment it with me.

Ta, ta, er, or there's that ter.

You, th, truth.

So I heard that ter, ter, and that's a blend also.

What blend is that?

That's them, T-R, good.

A two letter blend, tr.

You is the u, good.

And then the last sound is truth, th.

What makes that sound?

The, good, that's a T-H. That's our diagraph, truth.

Let's spell it.

T-R-U-T-H, truth.

Good job, boys and girls.

Now, let's go and practice reading a story.

I have another story for you guys today.

So before we start reading, let's go over some of our fluency.

Remember, we are gonna work with our accuracy, reading words correctly, our rate, not going too fast, not going too slow, expression, reading with feelings in your voice.

And to do that we're gonna focus on our punctuation to help us with our feelings as we're reading so we don't sound like a robot.

So today I have a story call "Growing Stew" to read with you.

So read along with me as we read "Growing Stew".

"Growing Stew".

(upbeat music) On those days, when spring began, we tilled the garden and planted new seeds.

What plants will those new seeds be?

What will the garden give us?

The birds and bugs made music as we kept the garden clean.

The wind blew chilly, as spring was new, but a few buds came breaking through.

Which new plants are growing?

The truth is, it's not easy to help those new buds grow, but this garden was a duty.

So we kept feeding the new baby plants.

In the garden, the plants are veggies.

They grew in rain and wind and dew.

We pull the weeds and fed the plants.

We chased off the harmful birds and bugs, like ants.

The veggies grew in June and July.

Then, we picked them.

We've pulled up beautiful carrots, peas, and beans.

We put them in a big pot.

Yum!

It was a lot of time but we ate a tasty stew.

What a special menu.

Did you see any words with that long u sound?

Now there were some tricky ones in there with the same spelling pattern, but it didn't say u.

These are the words I found, let's see.

There was the word menu, duty, truth, music, grew, new, and stew.

Don't get tricked.

There were some words in there that have some of the E-W, but didn't have the same u sound.

Now, how about the high frequency words?

Did you find any?

There was just a few in this text.

So the word began, beautiful, and give.

Good job, boys and girls.

And that's a perfect segue because next we're gonna be learning our high frequency words.

Now remember, high frequency words are words that we see most frequently when we are reading, and it's important to know these words automatically because we want to save that brain power for those longer words.

So all week we've been working with 10 words and every day we've been focusing on two.

So, our first two words, or our two words that we're gonna focus on, I want you to help me read and write it, ready?

This one says live.

Help me read it, live.

And guess what?

It can also say live.

It does, it's spelled exactly the same.

So depending on your sentence, you will either say live or live.

Let's spell it.

It's spelled L-I-V-E, live.

And today we're gonna say live.

Our next word is turned.

Help me read it, turned.

Help me spell it.

T-U-R-N-E-D, turned.

And did you see there was the E-D at the end?

That means, good, it happened in the past.

Turned, good job!

So don't forget to say that da at the end, turned.

Now, I have two sentences for us.

Help me try to figure out which one of these sentence would go into the, oh, which one of these words would go into the sentence so that it will makes sense, ready?

Help me read the first sentence.

It says Ben, mm, seven last week.

Oh, there was a clue!

It happened in the past.

Something happened last week.

Let's read the second sentence, ready?

Where do you mm?

Okay, I think you guys already figured it out.

What's the first one?

The first sentence says Ben turned seven last week.

You're right, and that was my clue.

Something happened last week.

I had my E-D that helped me know turned.

And where do you live?

Good job.

Now remember, if you said live, it didn't make sense.

Where do you live?

Okay, awesome job, boys and girls.

Now let's quickly read all of the words that we learned this week.

Turned, live, America, beautiful, climbed, began, country, come, didn't, and give, awesome job!

Now, we're gonna quickly end the week with our comparative endings.

Remember, we were learning the E-R that says er, E-S-T that says s. And remember, we add E-R when we're comparing two nouns, E-S-T when we're comparing more than one.

So here's my word, old.

If I add the E-R, here's older, E-S-T becomes oldest.

Listen to my sentence.

My dad is blank than my mom.

I'm comparing two nouns.

Oh, I hear you guys!

My dad is older than my mom.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

You guys are doing such a good job learning this week with me.

We've learned our comparative endings, our high-frequency words, and the long u sound.

So, don't forget to come back next week so that we can continue our learning so that we can make our brain super smart and super strong.

And we'll end it with our positive message of the day.

Don't wish for it, work for it, right?

So if you want something, you gotta work hard for it.

So boys and girls, have a great weekend, and I hope you come back and I'll see you back next week here in our PBS classroom, bye-bye!

(upbeat 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 ♪