♪ 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 ♪ (guitar music) (happy music) - Good morning second grade, welcome back.

Some of you guys just got back from spring break.

Did you guys have a great Easter?

Oh, I bet you did.

I was just reading one of my favorite book called "The Easter Egg" by Jan Brett.

Boys and girls, this book has these beautiful illustrations.

Were you able to find lots of Easter eggs?

Oh, I bet you did.

Now this is a book about a little bunny called or named Hoppy.

And guess what?

He's finally old enough to start decorating for the big egg contest.

So he goes around trying to get ideas until he hears something in the forest.

And guess what?

It turns out that he spent his whole time helping a mother Robin because her eggs dropped into the ground.

And guess who won for the best eggs?

I don't know, you're gonna have to read to find out.

So, you can see if you can find this book on the Sora app or at your County library, or don't forget, you can also check out books at your school library.

Okay boys and girls are you guys all ready to get started with our learning?

Good job, I know we have a lot to do today.

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

So, are you ready?

I know a lot of you guys have been doing a good job checking out those books on the Sora app and reading.

Let's see which school came in number five, are you ready?

Fingers crossed is that your school?

Bakman, awesome job Bakman.

You guys are doing an awesome job checking out those books and reading.

And I think this is the first time that you guys have been in our top countdown.

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Now don't forget boys and girls that I'm so waiting for your letters, that's right.

You can write to me here in our PBS classroom.

You say I just think you see below, or you can email me.

Tell me what you're learning.

Tell me what books you've read, or tell me what you did on your break.

I will love to hear from you.

And once I receive your letters, I'll send you one of these fun activity books for free.

All you have to do is send me your home address so I can send it back to you, all right?

So I can't wait to get your letters.

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

I know your brain has been on vacation all week so we're gonna start off with, that's right.

We're gonna be playing on mystery word game.

And this is where I'm gonna give you some sound spelling cards, your job, we're gonna blend them together, that's right.

And you need to guess my mystery word.

Now, try to write it and see if you can spell it.

Are you ready?

Good, remember these are all review sounds.

So these are all sounds that we've learned already.

Okay, let's get ready to play our mystery word game.

Okay, first out, ready?

Oh, the sun card.

What does the sun card say?

/S/ good job.

Next sound, the turtle card, what does that say?

/t/ good job, and if you put it together, /st/, good job.

I hear some of you, that's our beginning blend, /st/ good job.

Next sound, oh, there's that book card.

You guys remember what sound that makes?

/oo/, good job, like you got hit in the gut right?

/oo/, good job, /s/ t/ /oo/ Let's see, and our last sound is our dolphin card.

The dolphin card says, /d/ good job.

Okay, blend together, st-oo-d, what's my word?

Stood, good job.

Like I stood in line.

Now let's check to see if you spelled stood correctly.

Spell it with me.

S-T-O-O-D, stood, thumbs up you got it.

Awesome job, boys and girls, good job.

We're using all of your brain power to remember all the sounds that we've learned.

Okay, now, let's go into a high-frequency words and remember high-frequency words are words that show up most, you're right frequently.

So that means we need to know them and read them, and write them automatically so that we can save all of our brain power for those long words.

So, all week we're gonna have 10 words that we're gonna be learning, every day we're gonna focus on two.

So today here are two words.

Help me read and write.

Ready, first word is city.

Helped me read it again, city, good job.

Help me spell it, C-I-T-Y, city, good job.

Next word, father.

Good, read it again, father, good job.

Help me spell it.

F-A-T-H-E-R, father, good job.

Okay, now, I have two sentences for us.

Help me try to figure out which one of these words would go into my sentence so that will make sense.

Ready, first sentence, read it with me.

A lot of people live and work in the hmm, good.

Read the next sentence with me, ready?

The baby's hmm rocked it to sleep.

Okay, did you use some of those context clues to help you?

Good job, so here's the first sentence.

A lot of people live and work.

Where do they live in work?

Good job, they live and work in the city.

Does that make sense, yes.

And the baby's what?

The baby's father rocked it to sleep.

Does that make sense?

Yes, it does, good job, boys and girls.

So, we remember all week we're gonna be practicing our 10 high-frequency words.

So let's read them quickly, and let's start with our two that we learned today.

Ready, get my reading finger to help us, ready?

City, father, mother, o'clock, own, questions, read, searching, sure and though.

Good job boys and girls.

Okay, now, let's go into our focused phonics lesson for today.

Now, remember we're gonna start off with, that's right, training our ears.

So let get those ears, turn them up, so that we can practice hearing sounds.

Remember, we need to hear sounds in order to read and write.

So, today we're just gonna practice some syllable.

So we're gonna practice identifying syllables.

I'm going to say a word, your job is to tell me how many syllables are in my word.

Are you ready?

Okay, first word is, because, how many syllables?

Because, now remember, depending on what your teachers taught you you can use different strategies to identify the syllables.

You can clap it up, or I like to teach my boys and girls in second grade to tap it up.

So if we said because, how many syllables was that?

Be-cause two syllables, good job.

Thumbs up, you got it.

Good, okay, let's keep going.

Next word, elephant.

How many syllables?

Elephant, let's check, e-le-phant.

Did you get three?

Thumbs up, good job.

Okay, last word, ready?

Tomato, tomato, awesome job.

To-ma-to, how many syllables?

Three syllables, good job boys and girls, identifying those syllables in words.

Okay, now let me move my chart around because we're gonna go into our focus phonics sound of the week.

So, this week we're gonna be working with the straw card.

And this is another what we call variant vowels or vowel team.

The straw card says, /aw/ can you say that with me?

Aw, good, and I like to remember that these letters they all love each other.

So when they see each other, they all say, awww well, they might help you remember what the sound says.

So the straw card says, /aw/, good job.

And it's very similar to the short /o/ sound, isn't it?

Cause the short /o/, we already learned the octopus card.

It says, /o/, and this one says, /aw/ I know very similar, but boys, and girls, look at all the different ways that I can spell the augh sound, lots of different ways.

Okay, so, help me say it a can say, /a/, aw can say, /aw/ au can say, /au/, a-u-g-h says, /augh/ and al can say /al/.

And sometimes there's an O-U-G-H, guess what?

That also says, ough.

I know all of those letters make only one sound.

So be careful when you guys are reading.

So now let's practice reading some of the words with that spelling pattern.

Remember, a, can also make the /a/ sound like in the word b-all, ball, okay?

Aw can make the /aw/ sound like in straw.

Good, au, you can also make the aw sound, oops.

In the words, s-au-ce, what is it sauce, good?

And then the al yep, the al, can make the /al/ sound like in the word t-al-k, talk.

Now don't forget, don't make that /l/ sound because the al together makes the /al/ sound.

And then here are my long spelling pattern for augh.

The A-U-G-H, and the O-U-G-H.

They both make the same sound.

They both say good job, /ough/ I heard you.

So, A-U-G-H, remember all those letters makes one sound.

C-augh-t, caught, and O-U-G-H, ough, that says, thought.

Okay, so, all week this week boys and girls we're gonna be practicing the /ough/ sounds so don't forget to come back so that can continue practicing.

But right now let's practice with some words with the /aw/ sound, you ready?

Okay, and I wrote them in red to help you so that we can blend them together.

Ready, this says y-aw-n, yawn, good.

H-aw-k, hawk, good.

Here's that long one remember makes only one sound good.

F-ough-t, fought, good job.

B-a-ll, t-al-k, c-au-se, and c-augh-t, caught.

Good job boys and girls.

Okay, now these words in the blue, these are our practice on words.

'Cause these are sounds that we've already learned already.

So let's see if you guys can remember.

This says spoil, oil, that says the /oi/ good.

Tooth, chew, and put.

That has the /u/ like the book card, good job.

Now, let's read our sentence.

Paul taught me to draw a hawk.

Good, did you see all that, /aw/ words in there?

Good, what did you see?

There's that /au/ in taught, in draw, and hawk, good.

Okay, now let's quickly practice writing a sentence.

Here's my sentence.

Ready, they fought over the ball.

how many words, five words.

Okay, first word, the, check yours with mine.

Let's see if you guys are spelling it correctly.

They fought there's f-ough, and guess what?

That's the O-U-G-H, that's gonna say ough.

They fought over, that was a high-frequency word.

The, what was that last word?

Ball, how do I spell it?

B-a-l-l, and that al by itself says the /al/ sound.

Let's see how did you do?

Awesome job boys and girls, they fought over the ball.

Now, don't forget, all week we're gonna be focusing on that /al/ sound.

Remember, very similar to the short /o/ but lots of different spelling for that /al/ sound.

Do you see all that different spellings?

I know, so boys and girls, don't forget to come back so that we can continue learning here in our PBS classroom.

I hope you guys have a great day learning with your teacher and your friends.

And I will see you guys back here tomorrow with me.

Have a great day, I'll see you next time, bye-bye.

♪ 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.

♪ (guitar music)