♪ 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 guitar music) - [Singer] Did you guys hear that, what they are saying?

- [Mrs. Nixon] Yep, sometimes.

It was just a big yell, no or something.

- [Singer] I'm turning all of these down.

- [Mrs. Nixon] Well it just depends on what you're saying.

♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games you play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun.

♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone.

♪ (soft guitar music) (upbeat music) - Good morning third grade.

My name is Mrs. Nixon.

I am so excited to be here with you.

To help support you to become an amazing thinker, reader and writer.

This morning, I was reading "Grace For President".

Do you know what today is?

Today's Martin Luther King Jr's birthday and it's a day where we really celebrate his dream and what he wants for the United States.

And I recommend "Grace For President" because this young lady's dream is something that can come true now because of all of the hard work that Dr. Martin Luther King did for us in his civil rights.

So if you're looking for an outstanding story to talk about dreams, check out "Grease For President".

You can do that by visiting your local library or you can go online and check out a book through Sora.

I also have one other thing that I wanna talk about with you is a really fun activity book.

Now, some of you have started writing letters to us and that's all that you have to do.

If you'd like to receive a free activity book there's an address right here below on the screen.

You can email me, you can send me a piece of mail, a letter telling me something you've learned or something you've seen on the show or maybe even it's just a book that you've read and you've really enjoyed, but send it to me.

Don't forget to include your return address 'cause I wanna make sure that we get that out to you.

So awesome.

Good morning.

Are you ready to get started?

Let's do it.

I've got three things that we're gonna go through today.

We're gonna talk about dip thongs.

We're gonna talk about some prefixes and then we're gonna practice comprehension using some suffixes.

Are you ready?

Alright, well let's get started.

Let's warm up those super smart muscles, our brains.

And let's read our high-frequency words.

Let's let's go through and look at them.

Now remember a high-frequency word is a word you're gonna come across often in your reading and writing.

So you wanna make sure that not only, especially in third grade, not only can you read it but can you write it.

So if you notice one here today and you go, Oh I don't know if I could spell that one all by myself.

Jot it down.

Remember your responsible for your learning success.

You can do this.

Alright, let's read them together.

Ready, please, play, pretty, pull, pick, place part, people, over and own.

Nicely done.

Okay, today we're gonna work on these two words.

Just focus on them.

We've got play, p-l-a-y and please, p-l-e-a-s-e.

Okay, help me put these in a sentence.

I've got two of them.

Let's read them.

I wish we could go see a... And, can you turn down the music?

Okay, let me think about that for a second.

I wish we could go see a?

Well can you see a please?

No.

See, I was thinking this was play.

Like I was gonna play with toys, but it's not it's a play like going to a theater.

So I wish we could go see a play, nice.

And can you please turn down the music?

Oh, that's so nice when you use a kind word like that.

Excellent.

Okay third grade, let's get started today.

So the first thing we're gonna talk about are these dip tongues here, and a dip tongues is simply just two letters that are put together and they make their own sound.

Now I have two sound spelling cards here with me today to remind me what those sounds are.

You're gonna see I have my boy card that reminds me that we're gonna be practicing on that "oy" sound.

It's kind of one of my favorite sounds to practice.

I don't know why, but it just sounds so silly to me.

And then my second card that I have with us today is my cow card, to remind us of the "ow" sound.

So those are the ones that I'm gonna be listening for.

And then I'm gonna be practicing how to spell.

Let's practice a couple of them.

So the "oi" card actually has two different ways we can spell that sound and there are some rules to it.

So you're gonna see "oi" and "oy".

Now you're gonna see here at the end or on the "oy" you're gonna see at the beginning we've got a little line that's underneath it which simply reminds us that the "oy" is at the end.

Now oftentimes we hear, Oh, it's at the end until we think to ourselves, oh, it's at the end of a word.

Not all the time.

Sometimes it's just at the end of the syllable.

So remember when we're closing off our syllable we are gonna use, "oy" I've got some examples to show you.

Okay so, "oi" says "oy", like in coins.

See that "oi" and in this word here, noise.

Here's that "oi" so we've got enjoy and you've got the "oy" but look right here, joyful.

So remember, we've got our closed syllable, "joy" and then "ful", so we can spell it with a "oy".

Now we're gonna move over and talk about the cow card.

The "ow" sound, we've got two spellings, ow and ou.

So thinking about that "ow" sound, here's an example.

This would be allow has the "ow" at the end and tower has the "ow" in the middle and "ou" can be spelled here in the middle just like in sound and ground.

Nicely done.

Okay, let's move over here and start talking a little bit about some prefixes.

Now I know we work on this poster often.

It's so nice to have something that we're familiar with right?

Now just a reminder, base words are those words that stand out on their own.

They have their own meaning, like rap and approve and stick.

okay?

So those words, we don't have to add anything to them or take anything away.

They have their own meaning.

Now, prefix or suffix.

We're gonna talk about prefixes first.

They're just groups of letters that change the meaning of a word.

They're not words by themselves.

Let me show you some examples.

So we have on, dis and not, now these three prefixes actually all mean the same thing which is kind of nice this week.

They all mean not, or the opposite of, so here's an example.

If I have the word wrap, let's pretend that I finished eating my food and my dinner and I'm gonna wrap it up or I'm gonna cover it up and put it in the refrigerator and then eat it as a leftover tomorrow.

Well, I could change the word wrap to unwrap which is the opposite of wrapping, covering it, if I unwrap it.

I'm uncovering it so that I can eat my food.

Here's another example.

How about approve.

So approve means that you're giving permission.

If I add the prefix "dis" to the beginning, now my new word says disapprove.

Here's an example.

So maybe your parents approve of you playing outside when the sun is still up but perhaps they disapprove once the sun goes down that means that they're no longer approving.

They don't approve.

It's the opposite of approval.

And the last one would be stick.

So something that's sticky.

Gum is sticky.

Glue is sticky.

It might stick to something.

If I were to put "non" in front of it, that saying it's not gonna stick.

So a nonstick pan is something that I love to use in my kitchen.

So my food doesn't stick.

Okay let's go through and practice a couple of these spellings with our dip thongs and then look at those prefixes.

So up here, we're gonna practice.

It says circle the word that has the same sound and vowel spelling as the word that's in bold.

So here's our word in bold and it's joy.

What sound did we hear?

Joy, good we have "oy".

So what are we gonna circle?

Toys or yawn?

You got it, good job.

We're gonna circle toys.

'Cause it has that "oy" sound.

How about house?

Are we gonna circle spoon or sound?

Which one has the same sound as the house?

That's right sound does, good.

How about boil, wild or coin?

Which has the same sound as boil?

You got it, coin does.

And the last one, how, are we looking at cow or hoop?

You guys are so smart.

Excellent job.

Okay, looking down below we're gonna practice some of those prefixes.

So we've got some words here in the box.

Let's read them.

We have distrust, unknown, nonpayment, disagree okay.

We wanna match, which of these words matches the definition the meanings below?

So opposite of payment.

What would be the opposite of a payment?

That's right, nonpayment.

Non-payment that means that they didn't pay.

Okay, to not trust.

So to not trust someone, we would use the word distrust.

If we have distrust, we're not trusting them.

If something is not known, what word do we use?

Yeah, unknown.

We don't know them, they are unknown, good.

And the last one, the opposite of agree.

is disagree.

You got it, great job.

Okay, last little bit for today is simply this.

This goes along with that comprehension piece.

So we just practiced a little bit with some prefixes.

I wanna also practice with suffixes, okay.

So when we look here, we're gonna see, I've got three suffixes for us to practice this week and we're gonna use them all week long and then put them in sentences.

So the first suffix is a bowl.

Now it goes at the end of a word.

And every time that we see this able it means that you're able to or you can be, less again at the end of the word means without changes that word and full means full of alright.

I have some words that have these suffixes in them, help me read them.

Let's go through successful, acceptable, fixable moonless and careful.

Okay, I have a sentence here.

Help me read this and let's find a word that fits in there.

John Fitch made the first steamboat.

But it could only float in deep water.

What could fit in there?

He made the first steamboat.

Hmm, well, it's not really broken.

So it wouldn't be fixable, maybe successful.

Does it sound like he was successful with it?

Yeah, great.

Now here's my question and as you come through, especially third grade we're getting to that.

We're starting to talk about testing time.

We wanna talk about what might you have to do to show someone that you understand what successful means.

So would it mean without success?

Does the word successful mean without?

Hm, no.

Full means full of.

Okay let's look.

How about full of failure?

Would that be it?

No, it's not full of failure.

How about this last one?

Full of success?

Yes, it's full of success.

Just like you.

Excellent job.

So boys and girls, I just wanna say thank you so much for hanging out with me this morning.

As we're getting ready for school.

Remember you are responsible for your learning success.

So listen, ask those questions and share your ideas because together, we can do so much more.

I hope you have a great afternoon and I will see you back here at PBS tomorrow.

Have a good one.

Bye-bye (soft 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 ♪ (soft guitar music)