♪ 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 ♪ (cheerful music) - Happy Friday, boys and girls, welcome back.

My name is Mrs. Vang.

And I'm so excited to have you joining me, so that we can become amazing readers and writers.

I have another book to share with you, guys.

Do you guys remember my theme for this week?

All of my books was about kindness, you're right.

So, I have a book called, "Try A Little Kindness".

And I love this book because it's fun to be kind and it gives you lots of examples of ways you can be kind.

For example, you can wake up with a smile.

You can be the last in line.

You can invite someone over to play.

Isn't that being kind?

Lots of different examples in this book.

So, if you wanna read so that you can get some examples of being kind, you can see if you can find this on Sora or at your county library.

Now, speaking of Sora, let's see which school came in at number one on our Sora checkout.

Ready?

Oh, you guys have been ready.

I mean, we've been waiting.

Okay, top school is Wilson.

Awesome job, Wilson.

You guys are number one.

Good job checking out those books and reading.

And I think this is the first time that you guys have been on our countdown and you guys made it to number one.

Awesome job, Wilson Wildcats.

Now, don't forget if you wanna see your school on our top countdown, you have to be checking out those books and reading.

Now, if you want to recommend books for me to share so that everybody else can read books that you enjoy, make sure you're writing to me here at the studio.

Use the address you see below, or email me a letter so that I can recommend books to other boys and girls.

Or if you just wanna write me a letter, tell me what you're learning, I'll love to hear from you.

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

So, I can't wait to get your letters, boys and girls.

Are you ready to get started?

Awesome, okay.

Let's make that brain strong so that it can become super smart.

We're gonna start off with our, good job, our listening ears.

So, get your listening ears, turn them up high.

We're gonna practice some phoning blending today.

And this is where I'm gonna give you some sounds.

Your job, blend it together to guess my word.

So we're gonna play a game called, Guess My Word.

Are you ready?

You guys are really good at this game.

Okay.

Ready?

Here are my first set of sounds.

Ready?

Th ,uh, mmb.

Th ,uh, mmb.

What's my word?

Thumb.

Good job!

Thumb.

Okay, how about this set of sounds?

Kn, oob.

Kn, oob.

Good job!

Knob.

Okay, how about this set of sounds?

Rah, eh, nn, ch.

Rah, eh, nn, ch.

Ranch.

Good job, boys and girls, using your listening ears.

Now, let's go into our phonics instructions.

Remember, all week we have been practicing the R-controlled vowel sound, er.

So, I have my shirt card here to help us.

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

Help me say it, ready?

E-R says, er, like in fern.

Good.

I-R says, ir, as in shirt.

U-R says, ur, as in turn.

And O-R says, or, as in work.

Remember?

O-R is not that common, there's only a few words that has that O-R, that makes that or sound.

Okay.

Now, let's practice blending some of these letters together to make a word.

Help me blend them.

Ready?

S-W, good, that's my blend, and that says, swah, swah.

I-R says, ir.

L says, L. Blend it together.

Swah, irl, what's my word?

Swirl.

Good job.

Now, what if I wanna just spell the word twirl?

Twirl.

What would I have to change?

Good.

Just a T, right?

So, it's the T-W, and actually is another blend so I'm gonna use my blend T-R, I'm sorry, T-W. T-W says, twah.

I-R says, ir.

L, I mean, L. Twirl.

How did you do?

Twirl.

Awesome job.

Now, let's look at the next set of letters.

This is, T, urn.

What's my word?

Turn.

Good job, boys and girls, turn.

Now, what if I wanted to build the word burn?

Burn.

Good, change the buh.

I'm sorry, change the T to a buh, and you get the word burn.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

So, this is what we call spelling patterns.

Do you see how these spelling patterns are?

Because most of the times when you can spell one word, you can spell different or more words that have the same spelling pattern.

Good job, boys and girls.

Now, I have a story for us to read, and this story has lots of er words, spelled with the E-R, I-R, U-R and O-R.

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

Remember, fluency is a way of reading and we need to practice this so that we can read what we call fluently.

To do that, we work on our accuracy, reading all the words correctly.

We work on our rate, which means we're not going too fast or we're not going too slow.

We work on our expression, so that we don't sound like a robot.

And to do that, we're gonna use our punctuation to help us.

So, this is a story called "Shirl And Her Tern".

And as you're reading, I want you to look for those er words because there are lots of them in there.

Are you ready?

Let's read it together.

"Shirl And Her Tern".

"My dad knows a lot about birds.

"Each Saturday we find a spot on Burns Beach to watch them.

"I like wrens and terns the best.

"When terns swirl in the sky, it's quite a scene.

"I would sign up to watch them all day!

"Waves churn and gnats cluster on the beach "where the terns feed.

"In fall, we feel sad when the terns fly away.

"By last week, we thought the last tern had flown away.

"Then, from the reeds, there was a weak chirp.

"We turned toward the sound.

"We moved the reeds and found a tern in the dirt.

"Something was wrong.

"The tern was hurt.

"It didn't stir a bit.

"Dad called Fern.

"She works as an animal doctor.

"Fern said to bring the bird "to the vet building on First Street.

"We found a box and used a piece of an old shirt "to make a bed.

"We put the bird in the bed "and fed it some crumbs.

"Then we climbed in the car and drove to see Fern.

"As we drove, I urged the tern to get well.

"Fern checked my tern.

"She saw a cut under its wing.

"Fern got medicine.

"She rubbed it on the cut to kill germs.

"Today I got good news.

"My tern is fine!

"In the spring, it will be with the rest of the terns "when they return.

(soft music) Did you find any words with that er spelling pattern?

Look how many words I found!

Help me read, help me read them.

Ready?

Swirl.

Chirp.

Birds.

Stir.

Dirt.

First.

Shirl.

Shirt.

And that's just for that I-R that says, ir.

Let's look at the E-R that says, er.

Let's read these words together.

Ready?

Her.

Tern.

Cluster.

Fern.

Under.

Germs.

Good.

Now you know, did you see that picture of that tern?

A tern is a type of bird, good.

Okay.

O-R, that says, or.

Works.

And doctor, do you see that or at the end?

We spell it with the O-R, doctor.

Good.

And then, the U-R that says, ur.

Help me read these words.

Burns.

Churn.

Urged.

Hurt.

Return.

And turned.

Look how many words there were in that story.

And, boys and girls, guess what else I found?

Lots of high frequency words.

If you read these high frequency words, read it quickly with me, ready?

Today.

Away.

Watch.

Toward.

Thought.

Saturday.

Building.

Animal.

From.

And found.

And guess what?

I think they were all of our high frequency words that we've learned this week.

So let's go and practice our high frequency words.

Let me pull my chart over.

Okay.

So, remember, high frequency words are words that show up most frequently when we are reading.

And it's important to know how to read this word automatically so that we can save our brain power for those really long words.

Now, all week we've been practicing with 10.

All week we had 10 words.

Everyday we've been focusing on two.

Let's work on the two words that we have left to work on.

Ready?

My first word is toward.

Help me read it, toward.

Help me spell it, T-O-W-A-R-D, toward.

Good job.

The next word, watch.

Help me read it, watch.

Good job.

Help me spell it, W-A-T-C-H, watch.

And again, this is what we call multiple meaning words, because they can have more than one meaning.

So, as you're reading or writing depending on what it means in your sentence, make sure that you know, watch can have more than one meaning, because it can mean the watch, like the watch on my hand, or watch, like you're watching TV.

Okay?

Watch, good job.

Now, let's read my two sentences.

Help me try to figure out which one of these sentences or which one of these words will go into my sentence so they all make sense.

Ready?

Help me with the first sentence.

It says, I will, mmm, the show.

Oh, I hear some of you guys shouting it already, good job.

Let's do the second sentence.

The puppy ran, mmm, me.

Oh, I hear you guys, good job.

Tell me again.

The first one says I will watch the show.

Good job.

And that means the puppy ran toward me.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Good job learning these high frequency words and make sure you know how to read and spell them correctly.

Okay, let's end it with our inflectional endings that we've been learning all week.

Don't forget there are different ways that we can add inflectional endings to the end of a word to change its meanings.

Right, we can add an S to a verb when the subject is singular.

Adding E-S when the words end with a T-H, C-H, S-H, S, SS, X or O.

When we add E-D it means it's in the past, it's happened already.

When I add I-N-G, it's happening right now.

So, let's read my sentence.

I'm, mmm, we get ice cream.

So, here's my word, hope.

I'm hope we get ice cream.

I'm hopes we get ice cream.

I'm hoping we get ice cream or I'm hoped we get ice cream.

Awesome job.

I'm hoping we get ice cream.

I really do because I love eating ice cream in the cold weather.

Boys and girls, you guys have done an amazing job.

Don't forget, I'm gonna leave you off with my message of the day.

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.

So, boys and girls, I want you to see how many things you can do this weekend, ways to be kind.

I'll see you guys next week.

Bye, bye.

(cheerful 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 ♪ (cheerful music)