(guitar plays) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning you're good for everyone ♪ (happy upbeat music) - Good morning second grade.

My name is Mrs. Vang.

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

Awesome job boys and girls.

Happy Thursday.

Boys and girls yes, I have another amazing book to share with you guys.

This is a book called "Molly by Golly".

It's the Legend of Molly Williams, America's First Female Firefighter.

And this is written by Dianne Ochiltree illustrated by Kathleen Kemly.

And boys and girls, remember we are still celebrating black history month so that's why I'm sharing this book all about Molly Williams who was our first African-American a female firefighter.

So if you want to read about Molly Williams make sure you are checking out this book on Sora or at your accounting library to read all about her adventures of fighting fires, and guess what?

you can also learn about how they fight fires in the early 1800's.

That was a long time ago.

All right boys and girls, are you guys ready to see which schools came in and our top Sora countdown?

Let's see, today's Thursday.

So we are on the top, our top number two school.

Ready?

Coming in, in number two is Heaton.

Good job Heaton.

Awesome job, reading.

I can tell you guys are checking out those books and reading.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Cause remember boys and girls, the more you read, that's right, the stronger you make your brain, and the smarter you become.

Good job.

Now don't forget to send me a letter here in our PBS classroom, and tell me all that you're learning.

Use the address that you see below, cause I can't wait to hear what you're learning or doing or reading.

So when you send me your letter, I will send you one of these fun activity books.

Yes, and they also make your brain super smart.

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

Okay, are you guys get ready?

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

Awesome job.

And you know, we always start with?

You're right, our listening ears.

So turn that listening ears up because we are gonna play a game called, "Guess my word" That's where I'm gonna pull in some sounds, your job, guess my word.

Are you ready?

Awesome job, okay.

So here's all my sounds.

Bloom 'em together, and guess my word, ready?

C, L, ear say that again with me, C, L, ear What's my word?

Clear, good job.

Clear, awesome job.

Okay, next set of sounds, ready?

D ear Say that again, D ear What's my word?

Dear, good job, dear.

Okay, last set of sounds.

You guys are really good at blending these sounds together, ready?

T, ears Oh, I added something, ready?

Let's try that again.

T, ears what's my word?

Tears Good job, I added that S at the end so that it means more than one tears.

Good job boys and girls.

Okay, now let's go into our phones instruction, which is our sound spelling lesson of the week.

And remember all week we have been learning, the ear control vowel sound ear, just like your ear, you're right.

And remember, we don't have a sound spelling card for us so I made one so that you guys can... so it can help you guys visualize the sound because the sound is the same as our ear.

So say it with me, ear, good job.

Now, remember there're three ways to spell that ear sound.

Okay, help me spell the ear sound.

Let me get my reading fingers to help us spell it, ready?

Okay, the first way we can spell the ear sound, is with the E-R-E, ere.

Good job, say that again with me, E-R-E, ear, good job.

The second way to spell the ear sound, is with the E-A-R, ear.

Help me spell it again, E-A=R, ear, good job.

And the last way to spell that ear sound is with the E-R-E. Help me say that again, E-R-E says, ere.

Good job boys and girls.

Three ways to spell the ear sound.

And that can become tricky boys and girls.

So the more you read and practice reading, you'll learn how to recognize that sound, ear.

Now I have some letters here for us, help me blend it, ready?

Oh, I see, I hear some of you guys.

Did you notice that there's another vowel here?

And remember our control pattern is another, what we call a vowel.

It's our control vowel.

So, if you look, it's a consonant vowel, consonant and I know that's one syllable.

Did you know that?

Because if you have long words, you can divide them into syllables, to help you sound them out.

So if I divided my consonant vowel consonant, we call that a, good, we call that a closed syllable.

That means that I is gonna make the short vowel sound, and then we gonna keep that ere control sound together with a consonant, ready?

So if I was sounding this word out, and I broke it into syllables, now I know there's two syllables.

I know this is a closed syllable, it's gonna make the short vowel sound.

This is gonna say S in sin.

This one's gonna C, ere, cere.

Put it together, sincere, good job.

What's my word?

Sincere, good job.

That was a long word, and look how he broke it up into syllables to read it.

Awesome job, boys and girls, sincere, okay.

Now, but what if you wanna build a word or write words with that ear sound?

So let's practice.

What if I have word fear?

Like I have a fear of heights, fear.

Segment if you need to.

First sound was the F, good.

And that's spelled with the F, ear.

Now, which spelling am I going to use?

Ear?

Let's see.

F-E-R-E, does that look right, fear?

No, that doesn't look right.

It's not whit the E-R-E. Let's put it back over here.

Is it with the E-A-R, fear?

Yes, this is how we spell the word fear.

F-E-A-R, fear, good job.

Now, what if I have the word near?

Near, I live near the school.

You're right, I've used that sentence before.

I like that sentence.

Cause I do live near those school.

We just changed the F to a N. And now we have the word near.

Remember if you know one spelling pattern, a lot of the times you will know different ways to write it.

How did you do boys and girls?

Thumbs up, good job.

Now today's Thursday, so I have a story for us to read with our ear sound.

And before we read, remember we gonna focus on fluency.

So to focus on fluency, we gonna focus on reading accurately, meaning reading all the words correctly.

We gonna focus on our rate.

Not going too fast, not going too slow.

We gonna focus on our expression, using feelings and our voice.

And to help us with that, we gonna pay attention to our punctuations.

Our periods, our question mark and exclamation mark.

So today I have a story for you guys called "Hearing" I mean, let me say that again, "Watching And hearing animals" Boys and girls, do you know what a spring peeper sound like?

Listen as you read, and you'll hear the sound they make.

Are you ready?

Let's read it together.

- [Narrator] Watching and hearing animals.

You can hear or see a lot of animals, big and small.

Spring peepers are the size of a paperclip, but they are so tiny that your eyes might not see them.

You might hear them if you are near a wet place.

You might hear peepers from your own backyard.

Each year when spring comes, the males sing songs at dusk or nighttime.

Peepers sound like tiny bells ringing, when they sing together.

(peepers singing) If you spot a fin sticking up on the top of a seawater, it might be a shark.

To see sharks up close, these divers stood inside the cage and watched sharks swim near them.

The divers had no fear.

The cage kept them safe.

Most sharks can't make sounds.

But there's one shark that barks.

If a net catches this shark, it feels fear.

Then it takes in air.

When the air blows out of the shark, it makes barking sound.

Huge elephants can make a high scream that can hurt your ears.

They can make low roaring sounds too.

Elephants like getting wet and dirty.

They smear dirt and mud over their skin.

Hearing and watching elephants is fun.

(soft music) - Did you hear that sound?

I know.

Did you know that those are from spring peepers which are tiny little frogs?

Isn't that amazing?

That's awesome.

Now that you find any words with that ear sound?

And did you find out high frequency words?

I did, let's read them together, ready?

There was the word year, smear, ears near, hear and fear.

How did you do?

Good job.

Now, there were three of the high frequency words that we were learning this week.

Let's practice reading them, ready?

Stood, inside and eyes.

Good eyes boys and girls, for finding those high frequency words.

Now, speaking of high frequency words, let's practice our high-frequency words this week.

As you can see, they show up most frequently when we are reading.

Remember all week we have 10 words, every day we're gonna focus on two.

So help me with the two for today, ready?

Our first word is neither.

Help me read it, neither.

Good, help me spell it, N-E-I-T-H-E-R, neither.

Good job.

Our next word is eyes.

Good, help me read it again, eyes.

Help me spell it, E-Y-E-S, eyes.

Good job boys and girls.

Okay, I have two sentences for you, Let's see if you can help me figure out, which one would go into the sentence so that it'll make sense, ready?

What color are your mmh?

And mmh one of those books is long.

Good, I hear you.

What color are your eyes?

Good, that makes sense.

And neither one of those books is long.

Good job.

And don't forget, you're right.

Beginning of a sentence, we always put a capital letter.

Neither one of those books is long.

Okay, so we will quickly boys and girls, let's go into our abbreviations, as shown way.

I have a sentence, you just have to pick which one is the right way to abbreviate the word.

Ready?

Mr. Flint is a math teacher.

How do I abbreviate Mr.?

The first one, Mr.

The second one, Mist.

Or the third one, mr. Good job, the first one.

Capital Mr. Mr. Flint, good job, boys and girls.

Don't forget boys and girls to join me back tomorrow so that we can continue our learning of abbreviations.

Because we have been doing such a good job learning and don't forget we're also gonna continue with our control vowel sound, ear.

And I'm gonna leave you where I tell yourselves boys and girls, never say I can't, always say I'll try.

I know we've been doing really hard things, all we can say is we will try.

Cause boys and girls I know you can do hard things.

See you tomorrow.

Bye-bye.

(instrumental music plays) ♪ The morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning thing is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (instrumental music)