♪ 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) (upbeat music) - Good morning second grade.

Welcome back to our PBS classroom.

My name is Mrs. Vang, and I'm so excited to have you join me so that we can become amazing readers and writers.

And I know some of you guys are becoming amazing readers and are now ready to read chapter books.

So all week I have been featuring some of my favorite chapter book series.

Now, today I'm gonna show you or feature the "Horrible Harry" series.

Now "Horrible Harry" are books about a boy named Harry who's a third grader but it's all his adventure or misadventures are written from the point of view of his best friend, Doug.

So if you wanna read more of the "Horrible Harry's" series make sure you are checking them out on Sora or at your County library.

Not don't forget, I'm just showing you three, but there are lots of books within this series by Susie Kline.

So speaking of Sora let's see which school made our top to countdown.

Now today's Thursday so we're gonna focus on the school that came in at number two, are you ready?

Let's see, and oops, let me pick it up sorry I dropped it boys and girls, Hoover High.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Awesome job, Hoover High.

All those high school students checking out books to read I'm so proud of you, good job.

Now don't forget if you wanna see your school on our countdown make sure you're checking out books and reading.

Now, if you want to recommend books for other boys and girls to read or just to tell me what you've been learning I will love to hear from you.

Make sure you're writing to me here at the studio and use the address below boys and girls.

You can use the address below to write to me or email me using the address below.

And once I get your mail or your email I'll send you one of these fun activity books.

Isn't that awesome?

So boys and girls I will love to hear what you guys are learning right now in school or if you wanna recommend a book for me to share with all the other boys and girls.

All right, are you ready to get started?

Awesome job boys and girls.

Okay, remember, we always start off with training that ears, so rise up get your listening ears.

Turn them up 'cause we're gonna play another game called, which word doesn't belong?

This is where I'm gonna say three words.

You need to listen to the vowel sound.

Tell me which one doesn't have the same vowel sound, ready?

Okay, and I'm gonna use my little white squares here to help you with just to visualize our words, ready?

Here's my first set of sound.

Huge, meal, fun.

Which word doesn't belong?

Say them again.

Huge, meal, fun.

That was a cheeky one.

Fun doesn't belong 'cause it says that a.

Huge and meal said u, good listening.

Okay, next set is words, ready?

Float, coat, leaf.

Say them with me.

Float, coat, leaf.

Awesome job for those who said, "Hey Mrs. Vang, float and coat rhyme and they both say, o."

You're right.

So that means leaf does not belong, good listening.

Okay, last set of words, are you ready?

High, day, by.

Say them again.

High, day, by.

Which one doesn't belong?

Good job, day, day says a, high and by says i.

Awesome job boys and girls.

Now let's get ready to learn our phonics.

So let's go into our phonics extraction.

Don't forget all week, let me get my chart.

All week boys and girls we have been learning what we call the silent letters or what I like to call our ghost letters because you can see it, but you don't hear it.

They don't make any sounds.

So let's go over our silent letters our ghost letters this week, ready?

Say them with me.

Kn says n, gn says n and don't forget the n are dark so we say those sounds.

The k and the g are what we call ghost letters.

They do not say any sounds.

Wr says r. Good r is dark, it says the r. Sc says ss and remember, that's only for a few words.

Sc is a blend, but some words do have the sc with the c is silent.

And the last one mb says, m. That be at the end doesn't say any sound.

And the mb is usually found at the end of a word.

So let's practice blending and building some words with a silent letter, our letters, are you ready?

Okay, help me blend these letters together.

Kn says, n and remember the ow we learned it a couple of weeks ago.

Ow says, o, blend it together.

Know good job, know.

Now what if I wanted to spell the word knew?

Like he knew my name, knew.

So sound it out with me, it'll be n but guess what?

Instead of the, o, it would be the ew that says, kn ew.

Remember we learned that last week ew says, you knew, good job boys and girls.

Now let's practice with these set of words, ready?

Help me blend them together.

This says, c o, and remember om, comb.

Now, if you said the, o and it didn't make sense change it to the long vowel sound 'cause I did that with my head, but I wanna make sure that that's what your brain should be doing.

Comb, comb, like I need a comb to brush my hair.

Now what if I wanted to spell the word crumb?

Oh, notice I have the same ending crumb.

So I know it's gonna have mb at the end.

Crumb has the cr, which is our cr, cr u, not a o, but a u, good job, crumb.

Okay, and last word, ready?

Help me sound it up.

D e, de s ign, design.

That was a hard one, good job boys and girls, design.

Now, what if I wanna spell the word, resign?

Good, I just have to change the d to a r, Good job, resign.

How did you do?

Awesome job boys and girls.

Okay, now we're gonna go and read a story today and don't forget when we read we need to focus on our fluency.

So let's go over our fluency checkoff list.

Remember to read accurately, read the words correctly.

We're gonna practice on a rate that means not going too fast like this and not going too slow, right?

And that goes with our expression because we do not wanna sound like a robot.

And so we're gonna read with feelings and to do that, we're gonna use a punctuation marks to help us.

So I have a story today called "Acadia Scenes".

As you're reading, I want to see if you could find our words with silent letters, are you ready?

Let's read together.

"Acadia Scenes", Mane's Acadia has the sea and the high rocky mountains.

But that's not all.

Acadia has scenes packed with wildlife.

In this scene, an osprey flows in sea breezes.

An osprey makes a nest high in a tree or on top of a pole.

Ospreys like being up high.

An osprey has a knack for fishing.

When it spot's a fish, it dives and grabs a meal.

To make a lodge, beavers cut down trees.

How do they cut trees?

They don't use knives.

Their long teeth gnash tree branches and twigs.

Mud is added to the limbs and the branches.

The lodge is so packed that it can't be wrecked.

Beavers get dry, eat, and sleep in the lodge.

It keeps them safe as well.

Whales swim in the sea close to Acadia.

To see them take a boat from a dock.

At sea, you can watch them play, feed and swim.

It is a thrill to see a whale.

(soft music) So what words did you read with the silent letters?

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

Scene, knack, knives, gnash, limbs, and scenes.

Good job boys and girls.

Now, there were some high frequency words in there.

Did you find them?

Good, here are the high frequency words I found.

Let's read it together, ready?

Don't, down, eat and sleep.

Good job, boys and girls.

And speaking of high frequency words, let's go and practice our high frequency words for this week.

Don't forget all week, we have 10 words.

Every day, we're gonna focus on two.

So help me read and spell the two words that we're gonna focus on today.

Today we have the word colors and down.

Help me read it, colors.

Help me spell it, C-O-L-O-R-S, colors.

And don't forget when there's that S there, that means there's more than one color.

Next word, down.

Good job, help me read it again, down.

Help me spell it, D-O-W-N, down.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Now help me read the two sentences and help me figure out which one of those words, colors or down will go into my sentence so that it makes sense, ready?

Let's do the first sentence.

Kate goes the slide.

Oh, use your context clues.

Can you visualize that?

Which word will go into that one?

Oh, I hear you guys.

Let's read the second sentence and then we'll put the word in, ready?

The second sentence says, the on the flag are red, white and blue.

Are you using context clues?

Awesome, because I know if you're on the slide you're going down the slide.

Good job, boys and girls.

Let's read that sentence.

Kate goes down the slide, and the next one colors.

'Cause we're talking about the red, white and blue three colors.

Let's read it.

The colors on the flag are red, white, and blue.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Let's quickly practice reading all have our high frequency words or start with the two that we learned today.

Down, colors, many, morning, very, through, eat, sleep, below and don't, good job.

Okay, we're gonna quickly go into our structural analysis and this week we're focusing on prefixes and suffixes.

Don't forget prefixes come in the beginning of a word to change its meaning.

Suffixes come at the end of a word to change its meaning.

So there's a couple of prefixes that we've learned and suffixes.

So here's my sentence.

The puppy was playful in the morning.

Which word has the prefix or suffix?

Did you find it?

Awesome, it was the word playful.

And I see ful and I know the ful means full of.

So if the puppy was playful, tell me the meaning.

Oh, I hear some, maybe you guys good job.

So the puppy was playful.

It was full of play.

You got it, boys and girls.

So playful means full of play.

Awesome job today, boys and girls, you guys are doing such a good job making that brain strong.

I'll leave you with my personal, my message of the day which is from Thomas Edison.

He says, "I haven't failed.

I've just found what a 10,000 ways that won't work."

So if you find something that doesn't work, don't stop, keep trying 'cause boys and girls, you guys can do hard things.

Don't forget to come back tomorrow so that we can continue our learning have a great day learning, bye bye.

(upbeat 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 ♪ (upbeat music)