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

Welcome back to our PBS classroom.

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

Now, I know you guys are amazing readers, so I have another book to share with you guys.

This is a pretty funny book that was recommended from Mrs. Martinez at Thomas.

And this is a book called "Par-tay!"

See that?

It says, "Dance of the veggies and their friends."

Guess what?

Do you know what happens when a family leaves the house?

That's right, the vegetables come out and have a par-tay!

Isn't that funny?

So if you want to read, or if you want to know what the vegetables did, make sure you check this book out on Sora, if you have the Sora app, at your county library, or at your school library, especially if you're at Thomas.

This is where I got it from, from the Thomas Library.

Now, so to read it, and tell me what you think about it.

I thought it was a pretty fun book.

All right, and don't forget, to tell me, all you have to do is write to me here at our PBS classroom.

Use the address you see below.

Tell me if you read the book, or tell me what other books you are reading, or you can email it to me, and I'll be sure to send you one of these fun activity books!

So don't forget to put your home address or your return address so we can send this to you.

All right?

Awesome.

Now let's get ready to, that's right, make our brain super strong and super smart.

So we're going to start off by?

That's right, let's focus on our listening skills.

So get those listening ears, turn them up nice and high, because we're going to be playing a game called Full Name Segmentation.

Now in this game, I'm going to say a word, your job is to segment each sound, and tell me how many sounds you hear in a word.

Are you ready?

Okay, ready?

Turn those listening ears up.

Good job!

First word, meadow, meadow.

Hmm, how many sounds in meadow?

Good, mm-eh-duh-ow.

Did you get four?

Good job, meadow!

Now, next word, ready?

Touch, touch.

Good job, I see you guys segmenting.

Te-uh-ch.

How many sounds?

Three sounds in touch.

Good job!

Last word, ready?

It's a long one.

Crystal, crystal.

That's a hard one, ready?

C-ruh-ih-s-t-ul.

How many sounds in crystal?

Six, I know, six sounds!

Awesome job, boys and girls!

Good job segmenting.

Now, if you were listening, what sounds were we focusing on?

Good, we were listening to those short vowel sounds.

I heard the short U that says uh, I heard the short I that says ih, and I heard the short E that says, eh, and that's our focus for this week!

Now, remember, the difference is, it's not spelled the way I taught you long ago in the beginning of the school year.

This week, our focus is short vowel digraphs.

Now that means we're going to be focusing on the E-A that says eh, say it with me.

E-A can say eh, it can say lots of other sounds also, but this week it can make the eh sound.

Remember this week, I'm calling them my rule-breakers, cause each of these spelling patterns, they do not follow our rules, but yet there are some words that are spelled with these spelling patterns.

So if you're reading, and you're using the other spelling patterns that I've taught you, switch it to the short vowel, okay?

So E-A says eh, good.

O-U says uh, say that again with me.

O-U can say uh, and the Y can say ih!

One more time.

Y can say ih.

Good job!

So let's blend some words together.

Ready?

This says sw-eh-t. What's my word?

Sweat!

Good job, there's that beginning blend S-W, good.

Okay, let's blend the set of letters.

Ready, remember, O-U says uh, y-uh-ng?

What is it?

Young, good job!

Young.

And then the last one, the G-Y, and that's a tricky one.

The G-Y together makes a juh sound.

And that's what we call the short, I mean the soft G, so juh, the Y still makes its own vowel sound, so it's jih-um, gym.

How did you do?

Awesome.

Now let's practice building a word with these or with we're short file digraphs.

Okay, now, today, I want you to spell the word jealous.

Jealous, that's a word that I see a lot of my boys and girls use, and I want you guys to know how to spell jealous.

And guess what?

Easiest way, divide into syllables, you're right.

How many syllables in jealous?

Jeal-ous, two syllables, so I'm going to take my syllable divider stick and let's divide and let's spell the first syllable first.

Ready?

First syllable was jeal, ready?

Juh is the J, and don't forget, when you're spelling these multi-syllable words, divide into syllables so that you can blend, or not blend, so you can segment each syllable part by itself.

Juh-eh, what's that eh sound?

And guess what?

It's not just the E, it's the E-A.

Jeal, good, here's my first syllable.

Let's move this over, jeal, there, my second syllable?

Us, us, uh, uh, remember, how do you spell that uh sound?

The O-U says the uh sound.

S, what's that last sound?

S, good job!

Here, my word: jealous.

Now I'm gonna take my syllable divider, now let's see how we can spell jealous.

Jealous is spelled J-E-A-L-O-U-S, jealous.

Can you believe that, boys and girls?

I know!

And that's how you spell a two syllable word, by breaking them apart.

Good job!

Now let's practice reading some words with our short vowel digraphs.

Ready?

Now, yesterday, I put them together.

Today, I mixed them up.

Let's see if you guys can read them with me.

Ready?

Steady, this says cuh-un-try, country.

Country, that's a tricky one.

Bread, weather, oh, here's another tricky one.

That says Eeg-uh-ipt, that's Egypt which is a country, Egypt, and that's why it has a capital E, because it's a proper noun.

Egypt, young, mystery, sweat, and trouble.

Good job reading!

Let's read the sentence, ready?

"What is the weather in the country of Egypt?"

Good!

Did you see all the short vowel diagraph in that sentence?

Yep, here's the eh in weather, the uh in country, and the ih in Egypt.

Now let's see if you can write this sentence.

Ready?

I like to spread butter on bread.

How many words?

Seven, okay, you write, and when you get done, come back and check to see if you are spelling it like how I've wrote it.

Ready?

First word, I like.

What's the next word?

Good, to spread.

Spr-uh, oh, there's that three letter blend, spr-ead, E-A today, good!

Spread, I like to spread butter, another two syllable word, sounding them out, butter on bread.

Br, there's my blend again, eh, the E-A, bread.

End it with your period.

How did you do?

Thumbs up!

Good job, boys and girls!

Okay, now don't forget all week, we're going to be practicing our short vowel digraphs.

Now let's go and practice our high-frequency words, So let me move my chart around.

Remember all week, we have 10 words.

Every day, we're just going to focus on two.

So today I want you guys helped me read and write them.

Ready?

First word today, everybody.

Ready?

Read it again, everybody.

Good, spell it with me.

E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y, everybody.

Good job!

Next word, instead.

Read it again, instead.

Spell it with me, I-N-S-T-E-A-D, instead.

Good job!

Now let's read my two sentences and let's try to figure out which one of these words will go into my sentence so that it all makes sense.

Ready?

Mm loves a beautiful spring day.

Oh, let me read that again, because I just noticed that punctuation.

Ready?

Mm loves a beautiful spring day!

Mm, I hear you, good!

Let's read the second one before we put our word in.

Ready?

Let's play outside, mm of watching TV.

Good job!

I hear you guys!

Okay, let's go back.

Tell me, mm?

Everybody loves a beautiful spring day!

Don't forget beginning of a sentence, let's capitalize that E, good.

Let's play outside, I hear you.

Instead of watching TV.

Awesome job, boys and girls!

Now we're going to go into our structural analysis, and this week we're going to be focusing on alphabetical order, or ABC order, and this week we're going to focus on to the second letter.

So two letters.

Now, why is it important to know how to alphabetize, boys and girls?

Do you know why?

It's important because when you're looking up words in a dictionary or an index, which is at the end of a book or in thesauruses, which you can find synonyms and antonyms, or if you're making a list of names, and you want to put them in ABC order, you need to know how to put words in alphabetical order, or look up words in alphabetical order.

And this is why it's important to know the skill.

So I wrote the alphabet for us in case you need it, and if you need it, you can write it too.

So let's look at my word: blue, pink, and purple.

And let's look.

Which letter comes first?

B, P, or P?

B, the B, right!

Blue, now, pin and purple.

Because pin and purple starts with P, we go to the second letter, right?

Here's an I, here's a U, which one goes first?

So if you look at our alphabet, I comes before U, so pin would go next, and then purple would go third.

You see how we did that?

Good job, boys and girls!

So this week we're going to also practice alphabetizing words so that we can get really good at that skill.

So if I'm looking up words in the dictionary, I'll know where to go to look for words.

So if I was looking for the purple, I know I would go behind pin.

All right, you guys are doing such a good job, boys and girls, of learning along with me, and I know how hard you guys are working.

Don't forget, say this to yourself because I'm proud of you, and you should say, I'm proud of myself, because you guys are doing a great job.

Boys and girls, make sure you come back tomorrow so that we can practice all the skills that we've learned yesterday and today, and so that we can continue learning.

All right?

See you tomorrow, bye-bye!

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