♪ 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 ♪ (soft music) (bright music) - Good morning, second grade.

Happy Thursday.

My name is Mrs. Vane.

I'm so excited to have you here with me in our PBS classroom so that we can become amazing readers and writers.

And I know you guys are amazing, are becoming amazing readers.

Remember this week, our focus is on writing.

So, join me all this week.

We're almost done so that we can focus on our writing skills.

Okay, I have another book to share with you, guys and boys and girls.

This is another favorite book of mine.

And I know I say that a lot, but because we're working with our grammar skills and our writing skills this week, remember, all my books are focused on our grammar and our grammar skills.

And this is a book on punctuation.

I mean, not punctuation.

It's a type of punctuation.

What type is it?

It's a exclamation mark.

So the title of this book is called "Exclamation Mark."

And guess what?

"Exclamation Mark" was trying to find his place of the periods and he just didn't belong until he had a friend to help him.

And then he found his purpose, 'cause remember, when you have an exclamation mark, what do you need to do?

Say it with feelings.

So he started off slow by saying, hi!

And then he goes to, wow!

And then he goes to, yippee!

This is fun!

Way to go!

Bravo!

Isn't that amazing?

So he found his purpose.

Don't forget to use exclamation mark when you are... That's right.

Have lots of feelings.

It's a great book to read, boys and girls.

So, you can try to see if you can find it at your county library or on the Sora reading app.

Now, speaking of Sora, let's quickly go through our countdown.

Let's see which school came in in our second place.

It's part of the most checked out books in Fresno Unified.

So, second place, let's see if it's your school.

Roosevelt High School.

Awesome job.

You guys are doing a great job reading.

Keep it up.

Now, boys and girls, don't forget.

If you want to see your school on our top countdown, that's right.

You have to be reading those books and checking them out on Sora if you have the Sora reading app.

Okay, now boys and girls, all week we have been learning all about our general writing, which is opinion letter.

And boys and girls, I will love to receive a letter from you guys.

Tell me what you're doing.

Tell me what you're learning.

Do you see the address below?

Send it below or email me and I'll send you one of these amazing activity books.

Isn't that awesome?

Yeah, it's gonna help make your brain super strong.

You're right.

Okay, are you guys ready to get started with our lesson?

Awesome.

So excited.

My words are just all jumbling out out of my mouth.

Okay, let's start off with our grammar.

And today I'm gonna focus on irregular verbs.

So all week we've been working with verbs, right?

We learned verbs, we learned linking verbs, yesterday we learned some helping verbs, today we're gonna learn some irregular verbs.

Let's find out what they are.

So, some verbs do not add ed to form the past tense, okay?

Now these verbs are called irregular verbs.

So we only use these verbs when we're talking about the past.

And we don't add an ed.

There's only some verbs that changes it's form completely.

For example, go, we don't add an ed for goed.

Nope.

We change it to gone.

Same thing with do.

If it happened in the past, it becomes did.

See became saw, say become said, tell becomes told, give, not gived, but gave, sing becomes sang, sit becomes sat, come, came, run, ran, hide and hid.

So these are what we call irregular verbs because they don't follow that rule of adding an ed to the end, okay?

So, let's practice with some sentences.

It says here, the instruction says, "Make an X if the verb is not correct."

So let's see if it is correct.

The first sentence is, help me read it.

The birds came to a meeting.

Now, was that the correct form of the past tense of come?

Yes, the birds came to a meeting.

So I'm gonna put a star next to it 'cause it's correct.

Let's go onto the next sentence.

It says, the king gived out the colors.

Oh, do we say gived?

You're right.

We do not.

What do we say this?

The king gave out the colors.

Good job.

Okay, let's continue.

You guys are doing awesome.

The birds runned to get the colors.

Oh, do we say runned?

Yeah, that does not make sense.

You're right.

Let's cross it out.

What should we say instead of runned?

The birds... Good job.

I hear you.

Ran to get the colors.

Okay, let's continue.

One bird hid.

Did that make sense?

Yes I did 'cause the irregular word for hide is hid.

Okay, let's keep going.

Number five, he sitted in the bushes.

Does that make sense?

Nope.

Let's cross it out.

He what?

Good job.

I hear you guys nice and loud.

He sat in the bushes.

Okay, last one.

The birds singed about their new colors.

Yes or no.

Oh, I see you guys giving me a thumbs down.

Good job.

We don't say singed.

He sang.

Good job, boys and girls.

Remember these are irregular verbs.

So when you're writing and you come across these irregular verbs, make sure to change them into the correct form.

Okay.

Now, let's work with some book titles for our mechanic focus today because (speaks faintly), when you write to me and you tell me what that book that you want me to share with everybody, make sure you're writing them correctly.

Do you know the rules for that?

I know rules for everything.

That's why English is so hard.

Let's see.

So, when you're writing a book title, we need to capitalize the first word, the last word and any important words in the book titles.

I know that's like almost all the words in the title.

I know.

And we need to undermine all the words in the title of a book.

That's how we know it's a book.

So here's an example.

I read "Holidays for Children" last night.

Notice holiday is capitalized, children is capitalized, for is what we call it's not important so we didn't capitalize it, but you notice it's underlined.

That tells me that it's a?

You're right.

A book title.

Here's another example.

Our teacher told us "Dance of the Lion" was a good book.

Now, how do you know "Dance of the Lion" is a good book?

You're right.

There's a capital D, capital L, and of and the are not important so we don't capitalize it, but the title of the book is capitalized.

So, let's go and practice some book titles.

The direction says, "Correct the book titles in the sentences."

Ready?

This one says, "Charlie is reading a book called "Children Near and Far."

Now, I did underline it, but what did I forget?

Capitalization.

You're right.

Remember, first word, near, do you think that's an important word?

I think so too.

Near.

How about and?

No.

And far?

Yes.

Good job.

How did you do?

Awesome.

Well, let's continue to number two.

"Holidays and Festival for Every Month" is a good book.

Oh, so what's the title of my book.

I think it's "Holidays and Festival for Every Month" is a good book.

So that's the name of the book.. Now, let's capitalize it.

Holidays is already capitalized.

And?

Good, I see no.

Festivals?

Yes, good.

For?

No, good.

Every?

Yes.

Month?

Good.

How did you do?

Awesome.

Okay, last one.

To learn different games, read "How Children Play in Other Places."

So, what's the title of the book?

Good, "How Children Play in Other Places."

Make sure you underline it.

Let's capitalize it.

And how is the beginning of my title, how children.

Good, children's an important word.

Play?

Good.

In?

No.

Other?

Yeah, let's capitalize it.

And places.

Okay, how did you do?

Awesome job, boys and girls.

So when you write that letter to me and you want to recommend a book, don't forget these rules.

Okay, now let's go into our genre writing.

And this week we're focused on?

Good job.

Opinion letter.

So let's just quickly go over what opinion letter is.

Because it is a letter, we still follow all the format of a letter, right?

You have your heading, your greeting, your body, your closing and your signature, but it's an opinion writing.

So you're going to write about an opinion.

Something that you think or feel about a topic and you're gonna give it reasons to support your opinion, you're gonna have a concluding sentence, okay?

So, now remember where we were in our writing process, okay?

So this week we started with the pre-write.

That's just getting all our ideas down.

We went to the draft yesterday.

You were supposed to write your letter now, right?

And then today we're going to focus on revising and editing.

Remember how I said, you can always do the edit without an adult.

You just have to reread and check your capitalization, your periods, your punctuation.

And then the final step is to publish.

You're going to rewrite it so that your writing doesn't have any error.

So, let's look at what we did yesterday.

We did a lot of work yesterday.

So yesterday, remember we took Carrie's graphic organizer.

I'm going to put this up, okay?

And then she wrote her writing, right?

And then she was ready to edit and revise with the teacher.

And remember, you can also edit by yourself while you wait for an adult or your teacher to help you, okay?

So, I have my red and my green 'cause I'm going to help her revise this letter.

Green is going to be for revise, red is going to be for edit, okay?

So if I'm looking, remember, what did I always say we need to start with?

'Cause what does she forget?

You're right.

She forgot her date.

So up here, I'm just going to write date so that she remembers, okay?

And then she wrote, Dear Mr. Walters.

Oh, guess what she forgot.

Just like our book from the other day, all those upper case laws were neglected.

Walter is a proper noun.

That's an edit.

So we're going to use my red for that.

Now, lastly she did indent.

So good job, Carrie.

Last week I went to City Park.

I think we need to have a park cleanup day.

Now, the park is messy and things are broken.

Now, what's wrong with that sentence?

Doesn't sound right, right?

So, I'm gonna tell her that I think we need to have a park cleanup day.

She can either put a period and start a new sentence or she can put the word, because, okay?

I think we need to have a park cleanup day because the park is messy and things are broken.

Did that sound better?

Yes.

Let's keep going.

A day of working together to clean the park will made it a better place.

Oh, does that make sense?

No, it will what?

It will make it a better place.

And I'm going to say, don't forget, place.

And this is a tricky.

I want to remind her, don't forget that.

What we learned about that soft C. Ce says C. So, this is how you edit and revise, boys and girls.

You see how there are some words I added to make it make sense while revising it and some what we call editing to make her punctuation, her spelling correct, okay?

Now, we would continue with her and edit and revise.

And I'll show you what that looks like tomorrow, okay?

So don't forget to come back tomorrow.

And so, boys and girls, tonight that's right.

Go and edit and revise your writing.

And I'll see you back tomorrow so that we can see what her final paper looks like.

Have a great day.

Bye-bye.

(soft 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 ♪ (soft music)