♪ 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, did you have a good weekend?

Oh, I hope so.

Welcome back to our PBS Classroom, my name is Mrs. Vang, I'm so excited to have you join me so that we can learn to become amazing readers and writers.

Now, I know you guys have become amazing readers, so I have another book to share with you.

This is a book called "Presidents' Day" by Anne Rockwell, pictures by Lizzy Rockwell and did you know boys and girls that today we are celebrating Presidents' Day?

That's right and that's why you guys don't have school today.

Well, if you wanna read about "Presidents' Day," this is a book that tell us about a class who performs a play all about the presidents, so if you read this book, you'll learn facts about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

You can try to see if you can find this book on Sora or at your County library.

Now, speaking of Sora, are you wondering which school is coming up in our top countdown?

Oh, I am too, it's a brand new week, so let's see which school came in in number five of our countdown, are you ready?

Let's see.

Coming in number five is Hoover High School, awesome job Hoover High School, you guys are doing a great job checking out those books and reading.

Awesome job.

Now, don't forget boys and girls, if you want to write to me and tell me what books I should be recommending to other boys and girls, make sure that you are using the address that you see below and write to me here at the studio, you can write to me or you can email me and once I get your letter, I will send you one of these awesome activity books.

So, I would love to hear what you guys are doing or if you have books that you want me to recommend for the boys and girls.

Okay, boys and girls, are you guys ready to get started?

Awesome, let's get started 'cause we, our brain has been resting all weekend long and remember, we make our brain stronger so that we can make it smarter.

So, we're gonna start off with our mystery game, remember, to find mystery game, I'm gonna show you some sound spelling cards, your job is to blend it together, to guess my word.

If you have a pencil or a whiteboard nearby, try to spell it and we'll check to see if you spelled it correctly.

Remember, these are all review sounds that we've learned already.

Okay, are you ready to wake up your brain?

Awesome, let's get started.

Okay, our first sound and our sound spelling card, let's see if you guys remember this, let's see, the shell card.

The shell card says sh, good job.

The next sound is the star card, the star card says ar, good, blend together sh ar and our last sound is the piano card, the piano card says p, blend it together, sh arp.

What's my word?

Sharp, good job, sharp.

Now let's check to see how you spelled it, sharp is spelled S-H-A-R-P, sharp, give me a thumbs up if you got it.

Awesome job boys and girls.

Okay, so now that our brains are warm up a little bit, let's get ready to practice our high-frequency words.

Now remember, high frequency words are words that show up most frequently when we are reading or writing, so it's important to know how to read and write them so that we don't have to stop and sound them up as are reading or writing.

All week we're gonna practice 10 words, every day we're gonna focus on two.

Okay, are you ready to help me read the two that we're gonna learn today?

Awesome, let's get started.

So today we're gonna learn the word, inside, help me read it, inside, good job.

Help me spell it, I-N-S-I-D-E, inside, good job.

My next word is behind, good, help me read it, behind, good job, help me spell it, B-E-H-I-N-D, behind, good job boys and girls.

Now, I have two sentences for us, help me try to figure out which one of these sentences we'll go into or which one of these words will go into my sentence so that all makes sense, ready?

Help me read the first sentence, it says, your lunch is hmm the bag, Oh, use those context clues to help you.

Help me read the second sentence, ready?

Max is hmm Kara in the line?

Oh, I can use these context clues here to help me, so if max is and Kara and max are in line, I think max is behind Kara, what do you think?

Let's read it, Max is behind Kara in the line, yes, that does make sense, so that must mean your lunch is inside the bag, does that make sense?

Yes, good job boys and girls.

So, our two words for today are inside and behind but let's practice reading all the words that we're gonna be reading or learning this week, ready?

Help me read, inside, behind, happened, house, young, again, neither, eyes, gone and stood.

Okay, good job boys and girls.

Okay, are you ready now?

Let's get ready for our, good job, to train our ears, so get your listening ears, turn them up, are you ready?

Okay, so this week we're gonna continue with our r-controlled vowel this week, okay?

So, all week or in the last couple of weeks, we have been learning all of our r-control vowels and I'm gonna move this a little bit so that you guys can see, look at all the different ways or all the spelling patterns for our r-control vowel, do you guys see them here?

So, do you guys remember, we learned that ar says r, You've also learned that the r sound is spelled with the er, ir, ur and or, it's a or, I mean ar, I'm sorry sound, our or sound is spelled with the O-A-R, O-R, O-R-E and then next week we're gonna finish it up with a air sound but today we're gonna focus on a sound that it's not here but still a sound that we need to learn.

So today we're gonna focus on our ar sound that says ear, just like your ear, so I'm gonna say a sound or I'm gonna say the ear sound, your job is to tell me where you hear, did you hear in the beginning, the middle or the end?

Are you ready?

Okay, let's see where you guys can hear that ear sound, okay so if I say the word, near, say that again, near, where did you hear the ear sound?

Good, at the end.

N ear, near, good job, okay.

Let's try this word, ready?

What if I say the word year, year, the year is 2021, year, good job, at the end, y ear, year, year, good job.

Okay, last word.

Tell me where you hear the ear sound, ready?

Beard, beard, where do you hear it?

In the middle, okay b eard, beard, that ear sound was in the middle, good job boys and girls, listening.

So now that you have the listening down, let's focus on the spelling or the reading of the ear sound, are you ready?

Okay, I'm gonna turn my chat around so that can blend and build words with the ear sound.

So, like I said earlier, this is a, what we call a r-control vowel sound, It doesn't have one of the r sounds spelling card so guess what, I made one and I made it with the ear picture because it says the ear sound, so can you say that sound with me?

Say ear, good job, ear, just like your ear but there are three ways that I can spell ear, I can spell it the E-E-R, eer, like in the word, deer, I can spell what the E-A-R like in the word, year and I can spell it with the E-R-E that says here, so all three of those spelling patterns all say the same sound, they make the ear sound.

All week we're gonna be practicing how to blend and build words with the ear sound.

Okay, you guys ready to read some words of the ear sound, awesome let's see if you guys can practice reading some of the words on my chart, ready?

Let me get my reading finger to help us read, okay.

Now I did put our spelling pattern in, remember all of those letters, they all say the, good job the ear sound.

Okay, help me read the words on my chart, ready?

This is tear, good.

Beard, jeer, eer is jeer, steer, mere, near and spear, good job boys and girls, okay.

Now these next row are review words, let's see if you guys can remember some of these sounds that we've already learned, ready?

This says know, shore, gnu and boar, good reading boys and girls, okay.

Now I put some of our words with the ear sound into a sentence, help me read the sentence, are you ready?

Okay, I hear a bird near the fern, good job, did you see those words with the ear sound?

here it was, h ear, hear and near with the E-A-R that says ear, good job boys and girls.

Okay, now are you ready to spell some words in my sentence with me?

Awesome, let's get ready for sentence dictation, I'm gonna say a sentence, I want you to write it and we'll check to see if you have written it correctly, ready?

Here's my sentence, last year a deer lived here, six words, I'm gonna say it again, repeat it with me, ready?

Last year a deer lived here, six words, okay, ready?

Let's write it together and check our sentence, ready?

First word, last, good, last year and that's my ear, good job with the E-A-R, last year and we need that comma 'cause last year could be a transition word, last year a deer, and that's the animal.

So it's spell with the D-E-E-R, deer, last year a deer lived, Oh, did you hear that lived?

ED means it happened in the past, lived here and here is a high-frequency words but now we know why it's spelled that way, here is spelled with the E-R-E, let's read it again, last year a deer lived here, how did you do?

Awesome job boys and girls, you guys are doing such a great job, don't forget to come back tomorrow so that we can continue learning the ear sound, we have a lot of learning to make that brain super strong and super smart, so I'm gonna leave you off with my quote of the day and it's from Theodore Roosevelt today and he says, "It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have, try to succeed," supporting girls try your best, I'll see you tomorrow, 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)