♪ 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 ♪ (uplifting guitar music) (playful music) - Happy Wednesday, second graders.

My name is Mrs. Vang.

I'm so excited that you are joining me so that we can become amazing readers and writers.

Speaking of becoming amazing readers, I have another book to share with you guys.

This is a book called "So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom" Now, this is a picture book biography.

Remember, a biography is a story about someone's life, and it's the life of Sojourner Truth.

And it tells about her work and her movements for the rights of women and African-American.

So if you wanna learn all about Sojourner Truth, make sure you are trying to find this book on Sora or on your county library.

Now, speaking of Sora, let's see which school came in in our top countdown.

So today, we're gonna reveal the school that came in at number three, are you guys ready?

Let's see.

Coming in at number three is Turner.

Awesome job, Turner.

You guys are doing an amazing job, checking out books on Sora and reading.

'Cause remember, the more you read the stronger your brain gets, the stronger your brain gets, the smarter you get.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Okay.

Now don't forget, boys and girls, I wanna hear from you guys, tell me everything that you are learning.

Make sure you're writing to me here at the studio, or PBS classroom, and once I get your letter, I will send you one of these fun activity books to make your brain smarter.

So you can write to me at the studio or email me and I will send you one of these books.

And boys and girls, I love getting letters from you guys, so keep sending them to me.

Okay.

Are you guys ready to get started with our learning today?

Awesome.

Let's start with our, you're right, training our ears.

'Kay, we need to train our ear so we can hear those sounds before we go and put letters to it.

So today, we're gonna to practice some blending.

This is where I say some sounds, your job, blend it together to guess my word.

Are you ready?

Okay.

Here are my first set of sounds.

Let's see if you guys can blend it and guess my word, ready?

H- ar- d. What's my word?

Hard.

Good job.

Hard.

'Kay, next set of sounds.

Are you ready?

What if I said these sounds?

P- or- ch.

What's my word?

Porch.

Good job.

'Kay, last set of sounds.

Let's see if you guys can guess my word, ready?

B- oar- d. What's my word?

Board.

Good job, boys and girls.

Board.

Did you hear all those sounds?

Yes, you're right, that's our focus sound of the week.

So this week, we continue learning all about our r-control vowel spelling pattern.

Last week we learned the er sound, this week, we are focused on the or sound and the ar sound, this week.

So let's go and learn our spelling pattern.

So let's look at my corn card, my corn card says or, and there are four different ways to spell the or sound.

Help me spell it, ready?

o r says or.

o a r says oar.

o r e says ore. Good job, boys and girls.

And we're also learning the ar sound.

That's why I have my star card up here.

a r says ar, and there's only one spelling.

So whenever you hear that ar sound, make sure you are spelling it with the a r, when you're reading, when you see the a r together, make sure you're saying that ar sound.

'Kay, let's go and practice blending some letters now.

Ready?

Okay.

So I have some letters up here for us.

Help me blend them.

Do you see some of our spelling patterns?

Good.

o r says or.

And boys and girls, that's a silent e. So that is actually not going to say anything, 'kay?

Help me blend these letters, ready?

H- orse.

What's my word?

Horse.

Good job, boys and girls.

Remember, that silent e doesn't say anything, but when you're spelling the word horse, make sure that you are there.

And did you know that its job, the silent e's job is to make you know that the word horse is not plural?

If a word ends with an s, remember how we always say it's a plural noun, meaning it means more than one.

So really, that silent e's job is to tell you that it's not a plural noun.

Did you know that?

Oh, I'm so glad, you've learned something today, and if you already did, awesome job.

That's why there's a silent e with the s. Okay, now let's continue reading.

Ready?

Let's blend these set of words, ready?

Good, a r says ar, so help me blend it.

H- arm.

What's my word?

Harm.

Good job.

Now, what if I wanna build some words?

Like if you're writing, we wanna write them and spell them.

Let's practice building words together, ready?

Now, what if I wanna write the word shark.

Shark.

Segmented it if you need to.

Sh- ar- k. Shark.

Ready?

What's the first sound?

sh is the s h, good job.

Sh- ar- what makes that ar sound?

The a r, good job.

And the last sound, sh- ar- k. Good job, is it a c or a k?

It's a k, good thinking boys and girls.

So here's the word shark.

Good job.

Okay, now let's go and practice sorting some words with the or and the ar spelling pattern, are you ready?

Okay.

So help me read these words and let's see if you can tell me which spelling pattern it belongs to.

Is it the o r that says or, the o r e that says ore, the o a r that says oar, or the a r that says ar?

Ready?

Help me read it.

This word said, or says, sort, good job.

That's what we're doing right now, we're sorting.

So sort just has the o r, good eye.

Okay, let's keep going.

This says oar.

Good, an oar.

And that's a word by itself, an oar.

Good job.

Next word, start.

Good job.

Start has the ar.

Good, keep going.

Store has the o r e, did you see that?

Good.

Help me read the next word, part has a a r. Good job.

Part.

'Kay, keep going.

This is North, just the o r, good.

North.

Board, did you see it?

Board has the o a r, like this is a board, right?

It could be a board.

Good, boys and girls, keep going.

More has the o r e. Pork, good, just the o r. And last word, soar, what did you see?

The o a r. Here we go.

Good job sorting, boys and girls.

Okay.

Now, let's go on and practice our high frequency words.

Remember, high frequency words are words that we see most frequently when we are reading.

And it's important to know how to read these word automatically, so we don't have to stop and sound them out, 'kay?

So all week, we have 10 words.

Everyday we're gonna focus on two.

Our two words today are the words outside and warm.

Help me spell it again and read them, ready?

Outside.

Good, help me spell it.

o u t s i d e, outside.

Good job.

Next word, warm.

Good, help me spell it.

w a r m, warm.

Good job.

'Kay, now I have two sentences for us, help me try to figure out which one of these words will go into the sentence so that all makes sense.

Help me read the first sentence, ready?

We like to play, hmm.

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

Help me read the second sentence.

The day is, hmm, and sunny.

Oh, did you guys see that context clue?

If it's sunny, then it's also sunny and what?

Good, warm.

That's a context clue that told me warm and sunny goes together.

The day is warm and sunny.

Now, that must mean we like to play outside, does that make sense?

Yes, awesome job, boys and girls.

Now let's practice reading all of our words that we are learning this week and we'll practice.

And we'll start with the two that we learned today.

Ready?

Outside, warm, problem, ago, certain, everyone, heavy, people, together, and carry.

Good job, boys and girls.

And remember, one way to practice your high-frequency words is putting them on index cards, just like how I have it and practice reading it every night.

And make two piles, so piles that you're really good at and the piles that you need help on.

And then when you have extra time, just work on the ones that you need help on, so that you are reading and writing them.

Okay, now let's go into our structural analysis.

Yesterday, we learned about irregular plurals, and we know that plural nouns just means more than one, right?

And irregular just means they don't really follow the rules, and we learned three kind of rules that they don't follow.

We learn about the f, remember when there's an f at the end of a noun, we change it to a v and add e s. And some nouns change completely, we don't add an s to it at all, and some nouns stay the same, did you know that?

So I have some sentences for us and I want you to help me try to figure out which picture is going to match my sentence, are you ready?

Okay, so here's my first sentence.

The child has a pet rabbit.

So if you're looking at that word, child, does not mean one or many?

Child means, let's see, which picture is going to match it?

Good, child means one, boys and girls.

So this picture matches that sentence, because there's only one child, and it has a pet rabbit, good.

So that must mean that children have a pet rabbit.

Now, children is the plural form of child, children means more than one, so here's my picture to match it.

You see, there are one, two, three, four children.

Good, let's go to the next one.

This is a little trickier.

I saw a fish in the pond.

Do you know how many fish was there?

There's a tricky one.

Let's do the next one.

I saw many fish in the pond.

You see how that didn't change?

But here's your clue, I saw a fish, that means there's only one.

So you see my picture, does it match?

Yes.

I saw many fish in the pond, what's your clue word?

The word many that tells you there are more than one fish in that pond.

So if you look at my picture, here's the picture with the many fish in the pond.

This is where it gets tricky with those words that stay the same.

So as you're reading and you come across these sentences, look for those clue words to help you make that picture in your head.

Boys and girls, you guys are doing such an awesome job learning about our r-control vowels and our irregulars and our high-frequency words.

I'm gonna leave you off with my quote of the day from Muhammad Ali.

And he says, "What you're thinking is what you are becoming" So boys and girls, if you think you're smart, guess what, you're smart.

If you think you're awesome, guess what, you're awesome.

And boys and girls, you are smart and you are awesome.

Have a great day, boys and girls, don't forget to come back here to join me here in our PBS classroom so we can continue our learning.

Bye-bye.

(uplifting 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 ♪ (uplifting guitar music)