♪ 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 ♪ (cheerful music) (playful music) - Good morning, second grade.

Happy Wednesday.

My name is Mrs. Vang.

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

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

I know.

Boys and girls, I wanted to share some of my favorite books that I love reading to my class and/or to other classrooms.

And so this week I'm gonna be sharing some of them.

And today I have a book that I always take with me when I went to visit classrooms, and read to them.

And this is a book called, "Smell My Foot!".

Isn't that funny?

This is such a silly book.

And this book is so good with expression.

Remember, in fluency we always talk about using your expression.

This is a great book to practice that.

So, if you wanna read about Chick and Brain in this book called, "Smell My Foot!

", make sure you are checking this book out at your county library, or if you have the Sora app, you can see if you can find this book on Sora.

And trust me, you will love this book if you love silly books.

All right.

Okay.

Now, let's see which school came in in our top five countdown on Sora.

Now remember, to get your school's name on our top countdown, you have to be checking out those books and you have to be reading.

So, today is Wednesday, so let's see which school came in in our number three spot.

Are you guys ready?

Okay, let's see.

Coming in third place is Wilson Elementary.

Good job, Wilson Elementary!

You guys have been in our top countdown for many, many weeks, so I know you guys are doing an awesome job reading over there at Wilson.

Keep it up, boys and girls.

Awesome job.

Now.

Just like I was sharing all my favorite books with you guys, I would love if you would write to me and tell me what your favorite book is, or just a book that makes you just laugh, like this book that I shared earlier, "Smell My Foot!".

This book just makes me laugh out loud.

So, boys and girls, I would love to hear from you.

Use the address that you see below.

Do you see that address?

Yep, you can write to me or you can email me.

Some of you guys are really good at emailing your teachers.

The same thing, you use that email address and you email me and just let me know your favorite book.

And once I receive your letter, I'll send you of these fun activity books.

I know, they're awesome, boys and girls.

So.

I'm gonna be waiting for your letter, hopefully I get it soon.

Okay, boys and girls, are you guys ready?

Awesome.

Let's start our lesson to make our brains super smart.

So, this week we're gonna be learning the, oh, you guys heard.

I hear some of you guys, you're right.

But I wasn't gonna say it, because remember, first thing we need to do is, we need to train that ear.

I'm glad that some of you guys were listening so far, and no sound while we are focusing out.

Today we're just gonna practice some phoning blending.

And that's just when I give you some sounds.

You can use your arm if you need to, blend them together, guess my word.

Are you ready?

Awesome, okay, let's get started.

Here's my first set of sounds.

What's my word?

If I said, pah, ouch.

What is it?

Pouch.

Awesome.

Next word.

Bah.

Bah, rah, own.

What is it?

Brown.

Good job.

Look how fast you guys are going.

Okay, last set of sound.

Nn, oun.

What is it?

Noun.

Good job.

Like, this week we have been learning irregular nouns.

Good job, boys and girls.

Okay.

Did you guys hear all that sound?

What's our vowels on this week?

Good job!

You guys have been saying it this whole time.

The ou sound, you're right.

So this week we have been practicing and learning the ou sound.

Good job.

Now, the ou sound, now remember, has two spelling patterns, meaning they are spelled two different ways but they make the same sound.

What sound is it?

Ou.

Good job.

Right, just like when you get hurt, and you say, ou.

Same sound.

Let's spell and say the sound, ready?

So, O-U, you can say, ou, like in the word house.

Right?

And O-W, you can say, ow, like in the word cow.

Good job, boys and girls.

Now.

I have some literature for us.

Help me blend these letters together to read a word.

Ready?

Help me.

Good, l, oud.

What's my word?

Loud.

Good reading.

Okay, let's do the next set of words.

Good, ready?

Oh, you guys are ready, good.

T, own.

What is it?

Town.

Good blending.

You guys are so good at that.

Okay.

Now, let's build a word, right?

Just like when we're writing, we need to build words so that we can write them.

So, if I said the word cloud, how would I spell that?

Cloud.

Segment it if you need to.

Let's segment it, ready?

C, l, oud.

What is it?

Cloud.

Good job.

Oh, and I hear some of you guys.

Yep, it's very close to loud, that we blended earlier.

So, this is already here.

What would I add to make it say the word cloud?

Just the C. You're right, let's put that in.

Let's read it now.

C, loud, cloud.

How do I spell it?

C-L-O-U-D, cloud.

That's right.

Good job.

Okay.

Let's practice building another word.

Let's practice building the word crown.

Crown.

Segment it if you need to.

Ready.

C, rah, own.

Crown.

Okay.

What was the first sound?

Good, it was a blend, it was that cr, cr, blend.

Beginning blend.

Right?

Ooh, all my words are all getting all jumbled together.

Cr, ow, and it's the O-W. Crown.

Good job.

And that nn is the n. Did you notice something?

Good job!

Crown is very similar to town.

Could I have just substituted the cr with the t, to get the same word?

Yes, I could have.

Good eyes, boys and girls.

Okay.

Now, let's practice reading some more words with the ou sound, and let's see if you can help me sort them with the spelling pattern.

Are they spelled the O-U or the O-W?

Ready?

Okay.

First word, sound.

O-U, good.

Next word, crown.

We just did that.

Good job, that was the O-W, crown.

Next word, cloud.

We just spelled that word also.

And we said it was the O-U.

Next word, Clown.

Guess.

Very similar.

Ye, just substitute those two, that beginning blend, and it's a new word.

Good job.

Next word, brown.

O-W, good.

I hear you.

You keep going.

Shout.

Good reading, O-U.

And shout.

Owl.

O-W, good job.

Next word is, good reading, you guys see this?

Ouch.

Ouch.

Good job.

O-U, with that ou sound.

Good.

How.

And mouse with the O-U.

Good reading and sorting, boys and girls.

Okay.

Good job.

Reading those words with the ou sound.

Okay.

Let's go now and practice our high-frequency words.

Now remember, high-frequency words are words that we see most frequently.

So, it's important for us to learn how to read and write them automatically so that we can save our brain power for those really nice long words that we have to decode.

Now.

Yesterday, you're right, we ran out of time and we didn't get to our high-frequency words, so today we have four words, and I know you guys can do it.

So help me read and spell the high-frequency words.

So, we have four today, are you ready?

Okay.

First word, body.

Help me read it.

Body.

Good, help me spell it.

B-O-D-Y, body.

Good job.

Next word.

Pretty.

Help me read it.

Pretty.

Help me spell it.

P-R-E-T-T-Y.

Pretty.

I know a lot of my girls love writing that word, pretty.

Okay, next word, minutes.

Read it.

Minutes.

Let's spell it.

M-I-N-U-T-E-S, minutes.

Good.

And the last one for today, answer.

Help me read it.

Answer.

Help me spell it.

A-N-S-W-E-R, answer.

Good job.

Now, it's a little bit harder.

There's now four sentences for you.

Help me read these four sentence, and then we're gonna try to figure out which one of these four words are gonna go into my sentences.

Now remember, if you need to, use the context clues to help you figure out which word would we go into which sentence.

Ready?

Help me read the first sentence.

The first one says, the flowers in the park are, mmm.

Oh, some of you guys are seeing the context clues, good.

Next one.

Fred's, mmm, made a splash when he jumped in the water.

Good.

Let's keep going.

Will you, mmm, the phone?

And the last one.

Dina played the drums for 30, mmm.

Did you see all the context clues?

Good job.

So, let's go to the first one.

I see one here at the part of the flowers.

And the flowers in the park are usually, you are right, pretty.

I think that makes sense too.

The flowers in the park are pretty.

Now, let's keep going.

Fred's, mmm.

And there was a splash when he jumped.

What do you think that word is?

Body, you're right.

Fred's body made a splash when he jumped in the water.

Okay, how about the next one?

Will you, and here's my clue, what do you do to a phone?

You answer the phone.

Good job.

Will you answer the phone?

And then the last one.

Dina played the drums for, and here's my clue.

There was a number, 30 what?

30 minutes.

Oh my goodness, boys and girls.

Lots of work.

Good job.

Now, let's practice reading these four words, plus the other six, because those are our 10 words that we are practicing this week, ready?

Starting with the ones that we learned today.

Pretty, body, answer, minutes, heard, myself, pushed, build, been and head.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Okay.

Now, let's go into our structural analysis.

And remember, this week we're learning with irregular plural nouns.

And you're right, this is a review.

And lots of boys and girls really know how to do this really easily, right?

Irregular plural nouns just means I'm gonna make a word meaning, that it is more than one.

I'm gonna make it plural.

But the rules are, one, they change completely, or they stay the same.

So, I have a sentence for us, ready?

It says, the man saw a fish.

So, I want you to think of my two nouns, man and fish.

I want you to think, how can I change those two nouns to make it plural?

Or how can I change the sentence to make it into a plural noun?

So, here's my picture.

Oh, it says, a man saw, and I'm gonna put my pictures over here and we'll see which picture will match it.

The man saw a fish.

Oh, that's right, he's right here, that's one.

What can I change it?

Change man to men, good.

And what do I change fish to?

Good, you are right, you don't.

But guess what I change.

I change the adjective.

Remember how I said the adjective describes how many?

So, the men saw many fish.

Did you see that?

Awesome job.

So, fish stay the same, but I just changed my adjective.

Good job, boys and girls.

You guys are doing such a good job.

And don't forget, boys and girls, when things get too hard, what do I say?

Today I say, I will not give up, say that to yourself.

I hear you, I will not give up.

Have a great day, boys and girls.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Bye-bye.

(cheerful 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 ♪ (cheerful music)