♪ 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 ♪ (bouncy folk 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.

And I know you guys are becoming amazing readers and writers.

I'm so proud of you guys.

Now, that's right!

I have another book to share with you guys.

I love this part the most, because it's books that I am sharing with you guys.

And remember, this week, these are all books that I haven't read before, but they were recommended by a librarian.

And the librarian said, "The kids love these books!"

And so I read them and I thought, "I want to share it with you guys, too!"

This is a book called, "Where'd My Jo Go?"

by Jill Esbaum, pictures by Scott Brundage.

Now, have you ever accidentally left something behind?

Well, in this story, a trucker named Jo accidentally leaves,... That's right, this guy here is named Big Al.

She accidentally leaves him at a rest stop because she was in a hurry and she thought that he was in the truck with her and she left.

And he spends his time going around trying to find her.

Now, if you want to know if Jo will find Big Al, you're gonna have to check this book out and read it.

So, couple of ways that you can do that.

You can check on the Sora app, if you have the Sora app.

You can check at your county library or at your school library, because that's where I got this book.

It was at the school library.

So lots of different places to check to see if they'll have this book for you to read.

All right?

Awesome.

Now, don't forget that you can also write to me here at the studio, or what we our "PBS Classroom".

I will love to get your letters.

Tell me what you're learning.

Tell me what you're reading.

Tell me a story.

Or if you just want to draw a picture for me, that would be awesome also.

Use the address you see below.

Don't forget to put your home address or your return address and I'll send you one of these fun activity books.

All right?

Now, are you guys ready?

Let's get ready for our learning today so that we can make our brains super strong and super smart.

'Cause you guys are becoming so smart.

And I know you guys are working that brain, 'cause it's getting stronger every day.

So let's start off with, that's right, with our listening skills.

So turn your listening ears up nice and loud so that we can play a "Phoneme Reversal Game", okay?

Now this is where I'm gonna say some sounds.

We're going to blend them and then I'm gonna go backwards with the same sounds and we're gonna blend it going up, and guess what?

It's gonna be a new word!

Uh-huh.

Watch.

Ready?

Let's try the first one together.

Ready?

If I said these sounds, "puh", "i", "tah".

What's my word?

"Pit".

Good job.

Now go backwards.

"Tah", "i", "puh".

What is it?

"Tip".

Good job.

"Pit", "tip".

See how that works?

Good listening.

Okay, are you guys ready for the next set of sounds?

All right.

Ready?

"S", "tah", "o", "puh".

Oh, I heard you.

You guys said, "That was easy.

That was 'stop'."

Now, go backwards or reverse it.

Ready?

What was that last sound?

"Puh", "o", "tah", "s".

What's my new word?

"Pots".

Good!

"Stop", "pots".

Awesome job!

Okay, last set of sounds.

Ready?

"Buh, "uh", "s".

What is it?

"Bus".

Okay, but don't stop there.

Reverse it.

Ready?

Go backwards.

What's my new word?

What was that last sound?

"S", "uh", "buh".

What is it?

"Sub".

Good job.

"Bus", "sub".

Good job with a phoneme reversal!

That was a little bit tricky, wasn't it?

Oh, I love how my brain really has to work hard.

That just makes it stronger.

Now, let's continue with our "Phonics Instruction of the Week".

Now, we have been learning the short vowel digraphs sounds.

Okay?

But I like to call them "The Rule Breakers", 'cause they don't follow the rules.

All the spelling patterns that we're gonna be working on this week, they have different sounds to them that I've taught you already, but they can also make the short vowel sound.

So help me spell and say them.

Ready?

This week, we're gonna learn that E A can say "eh", like the "ea" card.

Good.

O U can say "uh", like the "umbrella" card.

And Y by itself can say "i", like the "insect" card.

The short I.

Now, I have some letters for you.

Let's blend them together and guess what my word is.

Are you ready?

Okay.

We know O U is gonna say, "uh", "uh", like umbrella.

That's right.

Ready?

"Cuh", "uh", "n", "tah", "ruh",... That's a tricky one.

That Y is that the end.

So remember!

When that Y is at the end, it's gonna make a vowel sound.

So in this word, that Y is not gonna say "i".

This Y is actually gonna say "ee"!

So "cuh", "uh", "n", "tah", "rah", "ee"!

What's my word?

"Country".

How did you do?

That was tricky, wasn't it?

"Country"!

Good job.

Now, let's try building a word with one of these spelling patterns.

Now here's a long word.

Here's a word that my kids like to use a lot in second grade.

The word, "mystery"!

Say it.

"Mystery"!

How many syllables?

"Miss", "ter", "ee".

Two syllables.

Now remember, when you're spelling words, it's easiest to divide them into syllables.

So this word has two syllables.

I'm gonna put my little syllable markers here so that we can divide them up and segment each syllable.

"Miss", "ter", "ee".

Okay, first syllable, "miss".

Oh, let's try that again.

How many syllables?

"Miss", "ter", "ee".

Three syllables, right?

Okay, first syllable, "miss".

"Mm" is the M. And who is that, "i", "i", "i"?

You're right, good job!

It's that Y that's going to say the "i" sound.

"Mm", "i", "ss".

Good, that sound is the S. "Mys".

Now, here's my first syllable.

Okay, second syllable!

"Miss", "ter".

"Ter"!

What is it?

"Tah", "er"!

Good, so it's "s", "tah".

And then, what's gonna make that "er" sound?

Good, I heard some of you guys say it's the E R that's gonna say "er".

Good job.

Okay, "miss", "ter".

Third syllable, almost done!

"Miss", "ter", "ee"!

Wait, just like in "country"?

Remember?

If it's at the end and it says the "ee", how do I spell it?

With a Y.

That Y can make lots of sound, can it?

Just like in "country"!

So, let's say it again.

"Mystery".

Three syllable words, but you see how we broke them up into different syllable parts and then we segmented each part?

Now we have the whole word!

So I'm gonna take off my divider, my syllable dividers, put them together.

Spell "mystery" for me!

M Y S T E R Y, "mystery".

How did you do?

Awesome job, boys and girls.

And that's how we spell words that have more than one syllable.

Now, let's go and practice reading more words with our short vowel digraph and let's sort them today.

So, if you look at my chart, I have two columns for us.

We're gonna read words, and if they had the short vowel sounds, like the "eh" and the "uh" and the "i" that we're learning this week, we're gonna put them on this side.

Listen for the sound.

Now the other vowel sounds, that means they have a long vowel or what we call a "diphthong vowel", remember?

Or "variant vowel" sounds?

Remember all those different vowel sounds that we've learned?

We're gonna put them on this side, okay?

So, help me read it.

And I underlined my spelling pattern and then we'll see how tricky they'll get and see if you can get tricked by them.

Ready?

The first word is "ha", "eh", "duh".

"Head".

What sound do you hear?

The "ea", good job.

That's the short E. How about this one?

"Spuh", "ee", "kuh".

Oh, that E A spells what?

"Ea".

That's not a short vowel, that's what we call a "Long Vowel".

Let's keep going.

"Truh", "ea", "tah".

"Treat".

Long vowel, good.

Next word, "touch".

"Tah", "uh", "ch".

Short U.

"Touch", good job.

Next word.

"Wealth".

"Wha", "eh"... "Wealth", good job.

That's the short vowel.

Keep going.

"Mouth".

"Mm", "ow".

Not a short vowel.

That's my "ou" sound, my diphthong.

"Ou", good job.

Keep going!

"House"?

"Ou"!

Good!

Keep going!

"Myth" has the "i".

That's my short vowel.

"Sun", "ee".

There's that Y that says "ee" again!

That's a long vowel!

And last word, "young" says "uh", "uh", which is my long U.

How did you do?

Thumbs up?

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Now, let's go and practice our high frequency words.

Tomorrow, we're gonna continue working with those short vowel digraphs.

But remember, high frequency words are words that we see most frequently, so it's important to know how to read and write them.

All week, we have 10 words to learn.

Everyday, we're focusing on two.

So let's read and write the two for today.

Ready?

My first word is "paper".

Help me read it, "paper".

Let's spell it.

P A P E R, "paper".

Good job.

Next word, "person".

Read it again, "person".

Spell it.

P E R S O N, "person".

Good job.

Now, two sentences for us.

Help me try to figure out which one of those words would go into the sentence so it'll make sense.

Ready?

"Write your name on the..." Hm?

Good, let's do the next sentence.

"Do you know that 'mm' who left the gift?"

Okay, using your context clues and I heard you guys saying it!

"Write your name on the 'paper'!"

Good job, so that must mean "person" goes in the second sentence.

"Do you know the 'person' who left the gift?"

How did you do?

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Okay, now let's go into our structural analysis.

Remember, this week, we are focusing on alphabetical order and I put two letters.

Okay, so to the second letter.

Now, why is it important to know how to alphabetize?

You're right.

We need to know when we're looking up words in dictionaries, 'cause dictionaries are written in alphabetical order.

If you're looking up words in the index, alphabetical order or in a thesaurus, or if you want to put people's names in ABC order, we need to know how to do that.

Right, it's an important skill.

So I have three words here for us, okay?

Let's read it.

"Law", "let" and "liberty".

And I noticed they all have the L, so that's not gonna help me.

So let's go to the second letter, okay?

So L A, L E and L I.

And if you need to write your alphabet on top of your paper just like how I did, do it so that you can see which letter comes first.

The A, so "law" is first.

Which one is next?

The E or the I?

Well, here's E, here's I.

"Let" comes next and "liberty" comes in third.

Did you see that?

Awesome job, boys and girls.

Oh, I hear you guys.

You guys are telling me, "That's easy!"

I'm so glad that you guys think that is easy.

Awesome job.

I just know how smart you guys are becoming.

I'm so proud of you.

Don't forget to come back again tomorrow so that we can continue learning our short vowel digraphs, our alphabetical order and I have a story for us to read.

So, have a great day learning today.

I'll see you tomorrow.

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 every one ♪