♪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.

♪ (bright ambient music) - Good morning second grade.

Welcome back.

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

I know you guys are becoming an amazing reader.

So, I have another book to share with you guys.

Now, remember yesterday we celebrated President's Day and last week we celebrated Lincoln's birthday.

So I have a book or actually a biography about Abraham Lincoln.

Did you know that he was our 16th president?

I know.

So, if you wanna read all about Abraham Lincoln make sure you are checking out this book on SORA or at your County library to read more about Abraham Lincoln.

Now, speaking of SORA, which school came in, in our top five?

Well, we're counting down to see.

Remember yesterday in our number five slot was Hoover High School.

Today coming in at number four is let's see, is It your school?

Let's see, Turner, Turner Elementary.

Awesome job Turner.

You guys are doing an awesome job reading.

I think that's like your third or fourth time being on our countdown.

Awesome job, keep reading.

Now, boys and girls I love getting letters from you guys.

So, I would love it if you were write to me and tell me what you guys are learning.

Or if you have a book that you wanna share with everybody, make sure you tell me so that I can share it with everyone.

Write to me here at the studio using our address that you see below, or you can email me.

And once I get your address then I'll send you one of these.

Are you ready for it?

Fun activity books.

Don't forget to put your return address or your home address so I can send these back to you.

I can't wait to get your letter.

Okay, boys and girls are you ready to get started on our learning today?

Awesome job, we have a lot of learning to do.

So we're gonna start with our?

Good job, our listening ears.

So turn your listening ears up so that we can play a game called, Guess My Word.

Okay, in this game, I'm gonna say some sounds, your job is to blend them together to guess my word.

Are you ready?

Okay.

My first set of sounds.

Ready?

H-ere.

Say that again with me.

H-ere.

What's my word?

Here.

Good job.

Here.

Like I am here in a PBS classroom.

Okay, next word.

Are you ready?

Or the next set of sounds?

Okay.

Next set of sounds, g-ears.

Oh, do that again with me.

G-ears.

Blended together, what's my word?

Gears.

Good job.

Gears Okay.

And our last set of sounds.

You guys are doing a really good job.

Okay, are you ready?

Okay.

Get your arms out if you need it ready?

N-ear, say it again with me.

N-ear.

blended together, what's my word?

Near, good job.

Near.

Like I live near the school.

Awesome job, boys and girls with those listening sound.

Okay, did you notice what sound we were blending?

Good.

The ear sound.

That's our focus sound of the week, boys and girls.

We are gonna continue learning our control vowel spelling pattern this week.

Now we've learned the -ar sound, we've learned the -or sound.

We've learned that the -are sound.

and today we're gonna learn the or this week we're learning the -eer sound.

It's what we are also called in our control bowel pattern.

Now we don't have a card for our -eer sound because there's not a lot of word with it.

But you need to still know that it makes this makes the -eer sound and how to spell it.

So I made a -eer sound for us because guess what, this sound sounds just like the way we say the our ear.

So can you say the sound with me?

Ear.

Good job.

Say it one more time.

Good job.

I heard you.

Ear.

Now let's look at the three different ways that we can spell that -eer sound.

That's where it gets tricky because when you're writing there are three ways that we can write it.

Are you ready?

I'm gonna grab my reading fingers to help us ready.

Okay.

So the first way to spell that -eer sound is with the e-e-r.

So help me say it e-e-r says -eer.

Good job.

One more time.

E-e-r says -eer.

Good job.

The next spelling is with the e-a-r. E-a-r says ear help me spell and say the sound.

Ready?

E-a-R says, ear.

Good job.

And the last spelling is with the e-r-e. And that makes a -ere sound.

Help me spell and say the sound again.

E-r-e says ere.

God job.

So all week, we're gonna be practicing these three different ways too spell the -eer sound.

Okay.

Now I have some letters for us.

Help me blend them together.

Are you ready?

Okay.

S-h says, shhhh.

Good.

E-e-r says, -eer.

Good job.

Blended together.

Sh-eer.

Sheer.

Good job.

Sheer.

Good reading.

Now, let's blend the next set of letters.

Ready?

Good.

We know that e-a-r says ear.

So let's blend together.

N-ear.

What's my word.

Near.

Good job, boys and girls.

Now let's practice building some words.

What if I want to spell the word deer?

Now listen to my sentence.

Deer.

I saw a deer in the woods.

Deer.

So it's an animal help me spell it.

Ready?

What's the first time we hear the -d?

Good.

If you need to segment, i'll segmented for us.

D-eer.

Now, how do I spell dear?

It's with the eer.

So how about you say it?

Good job.

Let's spell it.

D-e-e-r, deer.

Awesome job boys and girls.

Now let's spell another word.

What if I wanted to spell the word dear?

You're right.

It sounds just like the first one.

But listen to my sentence.

I'm gonna say, can you be a dear and bring me some coffee?

Dear.

Or if I'm writing a letter I'm gonna say dear grandma, or when you write to me, you can say dear, Mrs. Vang That dear spelled, segment it with me if you need to.

- D and then -ear, and guess what?

That dear is with the e-a-r oops.

There they go.

Here we go.

D-e-a-r, dear.

Deer and dear Do you know what we call up those words?

We call that a homophone.

Because they are two words sound the same, but are spelled differently.

Deer and dear again, that's what's tricky.

And that's why we need to know how we spell them.

Okay.

Let's practice reading some words with the -eer sound.

Are you guys ready?

Oops, okay.

Practice reading long with me.

I didn't put our -eer sounds in read today.

So you're gonna have to know how to read these without my help.

Ready?

This is year, good.

Clear, here, get reading.

Keep going.

Cheer, ear, dear, good.

Veer, shear and tear.

Good job boys and girls.

Let's read the sentence.

She cheered on with tears.

Good job.

Now let's get ready for a sentence citation.

I have a really short sentence for us.

Let's see if you can write it and I will check it to see how you did.

Ready.

Here's my sentence.

We steered toward shore.

Four Words.

Ready?

Help me write it.

First word, we, don't forget to start with your capital letter.

Good.

we steered, st-eered and it's with the e-e-r.

But steered, cause it happened in the past.

We needed an -e-d. We steered toward, toward, yeah I'm sorry.

T-o-w-a-r-d, toward shore.

And here's my review sound from last week.

Shore.

How did you do?

Awesome job boys and girls.

Okay.

Now let's go into our high-frequency words.

So I'm gonna pull this around because boys and girls remember it's important to learn high-frequency words because these are words that show up most often.

And it's important to know them automatically.

All week we have 10 words.

Every day we're gonna focus on two.

Help me read the two words we're gonna learn today.

Ready?

Happened, good.

Help me read it again.

Happened.

Help me spell it.

H-a-p-p-e-n-e-d, happened.

Good.

Next word, house.

Help me read it, house.

Good job.

Help me spell it.

H-o-u-s-e, house.

Good job.

Now help me read the two sentences that you see here.

Let's try to figure out which one of these word will go into the sentence.

So that it'll make sense.

Help me read the first sentence.

What 'm' to your crayon?

Oh, it's a question.

Use your context clues if you need to.

Let's do the second sentence and see if you guys can figure out which words go into these sentences.

Ready?

His 'm' is at the end of the street.

Oh, there's another clue.

If it's something it's at the end of a street, I think it's his house.

Is that what you were thinking?

Good, let's read it.

His house is at the end of a street.

Good.

That must mean happened, goes with the first sentence.

What happened to your crayon?

Does that make sense?

Awesome job.

Let's quickly read all the words that we're gonna be learning this week.

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

Ready?

Happened, house, young, again, neither, eyes, gone, stood, inside and behind.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Okay.

Now this week we're also gonna be learning abbreviations.

Can you say that?

Abbreviation.

It's a really long word, but guess what?

It really means a short way to write a word.

Did you know that?

That's all it is.

Cause sometimes we can make it shorter and we call it an abbreviation and don't forget it starts with a capital, and it does have a period.

So I'm gonna quickly go through these.

Cause here's the word Mister, but the abbreviation is?

Good.

Mr., mister.

Missus, this is really long.

We write their abbreviation and we put Mrs. With the period.

Doctor becomes Dr., doctor.

Street, when you're writing address.

Like when you're writing your address to me, St. Avenue, and again another shortened way to write avenue.

Ave. And then all months of the year and days of the week also have abbreviations.

Did you know that?

Like this month is the month of February and we can spell it with Feb. And today is Tuesday.

We can abbreviate with Tue.

Boys and girls, that was a lot of learning.

We're gonna continue learning about abbreviations all week.

So don't forget to come back.

I'm gonna leave you with my message today.

And it says, dream, believe, achieve.

Because boys and girls I know you guys are doing hard things, and I know you guys are doing such a good job, have fun learning today.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Bye-bye.

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♪ ♪Learning thing is so much fun.

♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone.

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