(bright guitar music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ A time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone.

♪ (bright guitar music) (upbeat music) - Happy Friday second grade.

Welcome back to our PBS classroom.

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

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

This is a book called "Hidden Figures."

The true story for a black woman and the space race and this is a book written by Margot Lee Shetterly, illustrated by Laura Freeman.

Now, did you know these women are really good at math?

So let me see, we have Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, Mary Winston Jackson, Catherine Coleman Goble Johnson, and Doctor Christine Mann Darden, these women were so good at math that NASA hired them to do math that would send astronauts into space for the first time, isn't that amazing?

They were so good at math and making or actually doing all those computation to send an astronaut into space.

If you want to read more about these amazing women be sure to see if you can find this book on Sora or at your county library to read more about them.

I just love this book.

Now, boys and girls, did you know that... Today is Friday?

So we are going to be revealing our top school that have checked out the most book on Sora.

Let's see if it's your school, ready?

So, coming in at number one this week is Wilson.

Good job Wildcats.

I think this is like your third time coming in at number one.

You guys are doing an amazing job reading and writing and I know you guys are making your brains super strong and super smart.

Awesome job Wilson.

Okay boys and girls, don't forget, I would love to hear from you guys, I wanna hear what you guys are learning, what books you guys like to read or what you're doing.

Make sure to send your letters to me here at the studio, use the address below or you can email me and once I receive your letter, I'll send you one of these amazing... Activity books and boys and girls, don't forget to put your home address so I can send these to you.

I would love to hear from you guys.

Okay boys and girls, are you guys ready?

We're gonna wrap up our week of learning this week with our R-control vowel, but before we do that, let's practice our good job, our listening ears, so turn the listening ears up, we're gonna be practicing with some syllables today.

Ready?

So this is where I'm gonna say a word, your job is to tell me how many syllables and boys and girls, this is important to know, because as you write, when you wanna write a word, you can break up syllables and if you break up words into syllables, then it's easier for you to write the word.

So that's why it's important to know how many syllables there are in a word, are you ready?

Okay, don't forget, you can clap it or you can tap it.

I like to tap and count, so you do what you, what works best for you, okay?

Ready?

If I say the word baseball, say it with me, baseball.

How many syllables?

Let's say it so I can hear you, good.

Baseball has two syllables, thumbs up if you got it.

Awesome job.

Okay, let's go on to the next word, ready?

Possible, oh, say that again, possible.

Okay, tap it or clap it, ready?

Possible, how many syllables?

Three syllables, again, if that was a really long word you break them up into the three syllables and then sound them out by syllables, good job.

Okay, last word, ready?

Time.

Say that again, time.

Okay, clap or tap, ready?

Time, how many syllables?

One syllable, good job boys and girls.

Okay, now that we've got our listening ears turned up, let's go into our focus sound of the week.

Now, all week we have continue learning our R-control vowel pattern sound and this week we are practicing what we call the eer sound.

Can you say that with me?

What sound is it?

Eer, good job.

Just like our ear that we used to hear, did you hear that?

Hear has that eer sound and there're three ways to write the eer sound, help me say it, ready?

I'm gonna grab my reading finger here to help us, ready?

Three different spelling pattern, help me say it.

E-E-R says eer, good.

E-A-R says ear and E-R-E says, ere, good job boys and girls, three different ways to spell that eer sound.

Okay, now I have some words here for us, help me blend them together, ready?

I know that the E-E-R says eer, here's my beginning blend, ready?

St... Eered.

Good job, did you see our inflectional ending there?

The ed means it happened in the past and it makes the D sound.

Let's blend that together again.

St eered, what's my word?

Steered.

Good job.

Okay, let's look at the next set of sounds.

Do you see another inflectional endings?

Good, remember the, I-N-G says ing and it means it's happening right now, ready?

Help me blend it.

H says E-A-R says ear, I-N-G says ing, put it all together, H, ear ing, what's my word?

Hearing, good job.

Like, are you hearing the sound?

Awesome job blending together boys and girls.

Okay, now let's practice building on some words together.

Ready?

What if I wanna spell the word cheer.

Cheer, help me segment it if you need to first sound was ch and what's that?

Good, that's the C-H and that's a blend boys and girls.

C-H is our blend that says the ch sound.

Ch eer.

Now, how am I going to spell that eer sound?

Let's try the E-E-R, okay cheer.

Is that how we spell cheer?

Good job boys and girls, let's spell it.

C-H-E-E-R, cheer.

Now, what if I wanna spell peer?

Peer?

That's just the P, P and this is a tricky one.

It's just the P that says peer and that's like your classmates, right?

Your peer, or I can put an S and then now it becomes peers, more than one.

How did you do?

Awesome job boys and girls, okay.

Today is Friday, so that means I have another story for you guys with our eer sound, but before we read let's go over our fluency.

So as we're reading, we wanna focus on accuracy.

That's reading words correctly.

We're also gonna focus on rate and that's just not reading too fast or not going too slow.

We're also going to work on expression and that's just using feelings as you're reading and we're gonna focus on our punctuation.

So that's a period where we're gonna stop, if there's a question mark, remember your intonation at the end it goes up and if there's an exclamation, we read with a lot of feeling.

This is a story called "Cheer Up Dot" and as you're reading boys and girls, I do want you to tell me why does Dot need to cheer up?

Are you ready?

Let's read it together.

"Cheer Up Dot."

Dot went inside the house, "What happened dear?"

Asked Mrs.

Deer.

"The big kids named me Spots!"

Dot said with tears dropping from her big, sad eyes and more tears fell.

This made Mrs.

Deer sort of sad.

Mrs.

Deer said, "Cheer up Dot, each young deer has spots.

"Here's a tip, dear.

"Spots can be useful."

So Dot went outside to play again.

The deer were bored, so they started a game of Hide-and-Seek.

Fay was it.

Doe stood behind a tree near Fay, but her tail stuck out.

Fay found her.

Ray hid behind a bush, but his big horn soared up.

Fay found him too.

Dot lay in the grass, Fay could not spot her and neither could Doe.

At last, Fay gave up.

"Where is Dot?

"Come here, Dot.

"You win."

All the deer cheered.

"Here I am."

Said Dot, standing up right near them.

"I am not gone, I win because of my spots, I like spots."

Fay said, "Let's wait a year, you will be older and bigger "and you will not have spots.

"Then we play again and see who wins at Hide-and-Seek."

Dot said, "In a year I may not have spots, "but I will be much smarter.

"I bet I will still win."

(instrumental music) Did you guys enjoy that story?

Why did she needed to be cheered up?

You're right, she wanted to play with the older kids and then she did and then she won the game because of her spots.

Now, did you read any words with the eer sound?

I read a couple of them, let's read it together, ready?

There is a word year, tears, dear, near, here and here's apostrophe + S, means there is a contraction for here is, here's, deer and cheer and cheered.

Did you find them?

Awesome job.

Now, look at all the high-frequency words that was in the story.

Let's quickly read them together, ready?

Stood, inside, eyes, young, neither, house, gone, happened, again and behind and guess what?

Those are all the high-frequency words there we're learning this week, so boys and girls, why is it important to learn our high-frequency words?

Because they show up most frequently when we are learning or not learning, reading.

All of those words came up in our reading today, so that's why boys and girls, you need to know them automatically, which is as fast as you say your name.

Okay, we have our last two words that we're gonna focus on today, help me read and spell, ready?

First word, gone.

Help me read it.

Gone, good job.

Help me spell it.

G-O-N-E, gone.

Good job.

Next word, stood.

Help me read it.

Stood, helped me spell it.

S-T-O-O-D, stood.

Okay, now let's quickly read our sentences.

Help me try to figure out which one is going to make sense in the sentence, ready?

Are the cookies yet?

And mom at the bottom of the hill.

Now, here's a sentence I hear all the time.

Are the cookies gone yet?

Does that make sense?

Yes and that must mean mom stood at the bottom of the hill.

How did you do boys and girls?

Awesome job.

Okay, let's quickly go into our abbreviation.

All week, we've been learning abbreviation, which is just a short way to write a word.

I have a sentence for you, I want you to tell me, which is the correct way to abbreviate this word.

So here's my sentence.

Doctor Yang cares for pet.

Here's my word, doctor.

How do I abbreviate doctor?

Doctor first one, doctor the second one or the doctor third one?

Which one is it?

Oh, I hear you guys, you're saying number three, your right.

Doctor is abbreviated with the Dr.

Doctor, boys and girls, you guys are doing such a good job learning and I know you have made your brains, super smart and super strong.

Don't forget boys and girls to come back next week and learn along with me, cause I know you guys are doing amazing things in your classroom and you guys are becoming amazing readers and writers, have a good weekend, I'll see you next week.

Bye-bye.

(bright guitar music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ A time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (bright guitar music)