♪ 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) - Good morning third grade.

My name is Mrs. Nix and I am so excited to be here with you to help you to become amazing thinkers, readers, and writers.

You know what I was just reading?

I got a letter.

This is from Annabelle.

I'm gonna read it to you.

It's so sweet.

"Dear teacher, I have been wanting a book for a long time.

"I am so excited.

"I have been reading books for so long "and I get excited about new books."

Annabelle, I do too.

I love getting a new book and I am so excited to be able to send you a fun activity book in the mail because you gave me your address and I can be able to send you this in the mail.

Boys and girls, what do you need to do if you wanna be like Annabelle?

Do you see that address that's showing up at the bottom of your screen?

Write that address down.

You can send it to me in the mail or you can even just email me.

But don't forget to include your return address so that I can put a new book in the mail for free for you.

All you need to do is write a little note.

Maybe it's something you've learned, maybe it's something that you want to learn in class or maybe it's just a note to say hi.

But I'm happy to send you a free activity book.

Boys and girls, I love getting new books.

I love reading new books.

I love checking out new books and a great place to do that, another great place I should say, to do that is through our county libraries, or you can go on Sora and check it out for free on there too 'cause there's always access to books.

It's a great resource for us.

All right, boys and girls, I have three things that we're gonna go through today.

We're gonna practice some diphthongs, we're gonna look at some prefixes and then we're gonna practice some comprehension, using suffixes.

Are you ready to start today?

Okay, let's warm up our brains, looking at those high frequency words.

And these are our same 10 high-frequency words for the whole week.

So remember, if you come across one of these and you think to yourself, "Oh, I can read it."

We're in third grade now, it's really important that you're able to spell it correctly on your own.

So maybe there's a word or two here that you wanna jot down and practice it this week.

That's okay, right?

That's what learning is all about.

I have to do the same thing all the time, and it's kind of a cool thing to do when you feel that success at the end of the week and go, "Yeah, I learned how to do something new."

All right, let's go through, let's read them together.

Okay, we've got play, please, pretty, pull, pick, place, part, people, over and own.

Nice job.

Today, we're gonna focus in on these two high-frequency words.

We have pull, which is P-U-L-L and pretty, which is P-R-E-T-T-Y.

Okay, help me put these into sentences.

Remember, I want us to be good thinkers.

So, let's see if we can figure it out together.

The dog has very mm eyes.

Hmm.

Please mm the door closed.

Let's look at this.

Hmm.

The dog has very pull eyes?

That doesn't make any sense.

That's right, it's pretty eyes.

The dog has very pretty eyes.

So please pull the door closed.

Here in the studio, someone left the door open.

We were just teasing him about it.

All right, let's go through, let's start our day.

I've got some diphthongs here.

What's a diphthong?

That's a funny word, right?

Okay, a diphthong is simply where you take two vowels, you put them together and they make a new sound or two letters and they make a new sound.

So whenever you see O-I and O-Y, you know that you're going to make the sound oi.

I love having the sound spelling cards here 'cause it's a visual.

And I know this is my boy card and I can think to myself, "What sound does it make?"

Oy.

Then I've got my cow card.

And that reminds me that O-W and O-U, say ow.

Okay, let's look at some words that have these different spellings and these different sounds.

So for the oi sound, I've got O-I like in the middle coins, but look at this one, boil.

Are you saying that with me at home?

Good.

Okay now, O-Y says oy, like at the end of enjoy and at the end of annoy.

Do you see the O-Y right there?

Good.

All right, let's look at the ow sound like the cow.

O-W at the end of allow.

Allow, good.

And how about this one?

Sound it out.

Growl, good.

Then we've got O-U says ou, like in the middle of sound.

And how about this one?

Let's sound it out.

Bounce.

Excellent job.

Okay, let's shift gears just a little bit.

And I wanna talk about our prefixes.

Now remember, prefix, base word, suffix, that's how we're building those multisyllabic words, especially in third grade.

We've gotta be able to put all the parts together and then they've gotta make sense to us.

So this is why we're always talking about it.

Because I know you're looking at these words going, "I can read the word happy.

"I can read the word obey.

"I can read fiction.

"These are all words I see all the time."

But how do we make them so that they're bigger, more complex words?

We're gonna add prefixes and suffixes.

A prefix goes at the beginning.

It's just a group of letters that change the meaning of the word.

So, this week we've got three of them we're practicing.

We have un, dis and non.

Those three prefixes all mean the same thing.

They all mean not or opposite of.

So happy, the opposite of happy would be, unhappy.

See how I can change the word right there, and it changes the meaning.

It totally flips it so then it means the opposite.

I'm not happy anymore, I'm unhappy.

How about obey means we're following the rules.

We're obeying the rules.

Well, if I don't obey the rules, then I would say that I disobeyed, maybe I disobeyed my parents or I disobeyed the rules.

Probably got in trouble.

Eek.

All right, then we've got fiction.

Now remember, fiction is like a fake story, right?

Now the opposite of a fake story or a fictional story would be a nonfiction.

So nonfiction means that it's not fictional.

Means it's a true story, right?

Okay, now, I do wanna talk just briefly.

I didn't do this with you yesterday but I have this word none right here and I'm just gonna put it right here because I think that none examples are really important.

And just because this word starts with N-O-N does not mean that it's a prefix.

It just simply means that some word start with those letters.

So we always, especially as third graders, always have to be detectives and that we're always having to be thinking about what words we're reading.

So don't let some words that you come across that have those spellings at the beginning trick you.

Okay, let's do a little bit of practice.

(page flipping) Let's look at those diphthongs.

Okay, we've got a row of words and there's one word that does not belong.

Means it's gonna have a different vowel sound than the others.

See if you can find it before I do.

All right, let's go through and let's read it together.

You read at home too.

All right, we've got joy, pool, noise, coins.

Which one doesn't belong?

Uh, you're so smart.

I'ma put an X on pool 'cause it has the oo sound.

How about found, loud, crowd, should?

Ooh, that one was kind of tricky, right?

Because look, we've got, O-U, O-U and this one's got an O-U too so I couldn't just look at spelling 'cause this says should, ou.

This is loud, found, crowd.

So even though it has a different spelling, those three go together.

Don't let it trick you.

Okay, we've got boil, oh sorry, build, boil, enjoy and point.

What word doesn't belong?

You got it.

Build does not belong.

It has the ih.

All right, house, powder, careful, mountain.

House, ow, powder, mountain.

Okay, so careful doesn't go.

Great job.

All right, now down below here we have, just a couple of sentences that we're gonna practice.

So this one is, we're gonna look for what word has that prefix that we were practicing.

So the last two minutes of the game were unbelievable.

So do you see a word with that prefix?

Yes, we were doing unbelievable.

Now, what does unbelievable mean?

Do you remember what the prefix meant?

That's right, it's not believable.

So I'm gonna just kind of put that there.

We don't believe it.

How about this one?

We'll do one more.

I need to find a nonfiction book about elephants.

Oh, that's an easy one.

We just did this, right?

We just talked about nonfiction.

What did we say that nonfiction means?

We meant that it's not fiction or it's not fake.

Excellent.

Okay.

Let's finish up today, by talking about suffixes.

Now suffixes are the opposite of a prefix.

A prefix is at the beginning of a word, a suffix changes the meaning of the word by these groups of letters being added to the end of a word.

Okay.

We have three of them we're practicing this week.

Able, less than full.

Able means that you're able to do it or it can be done, less means without and full means full of.

Let's look at some examples.

So successful, we talked about yesterday.

Successful means that you are full of success.

Do you see that full?

Okay.

Acceptable, fixable, moonless and careful.

So all of these have suffixes at the end.

I have a sentence right here for us to talk about.

So, the Mississippi River was not deep.

This problem was mm though.

Okay.

So the Mississippi River was not deep.

This problem was mm.

So, it was a problem.

What would they have to do if they have a problem?

Do they have to just accept it?

No, I think the problem might be fixable.

Now, okay.

That makes sense to me.

And I know that that makes sense to me but what really does fixable mean?

Well, when I look up here, it means that I'm able to.

What am I able to do?

I'm able to fix.

So, here's the last part that we're gonna practice.

When you go through and you're gonna take an assessment and you have to show your teacher, she might or he might ask you, "Does it mean without acceptance?

"Does it mean that it's accepted?"

Oops.

And I have the wrong ones up here.

Nope.

Sorry.

Or, okay.

So I'm just gonna to put these to the side.

But what would fixable mean?

It means that you are able to fix.

I had the wrong cards.

Don't worry about it.

All right.

So, boys and girls, I just wanna say, thank you.

Thank you for hanging out with me this morning, practicing those diphthongs, those prefixes, those suffixes.

We had a great time learning together.

Remember, your responsible for your learning success.

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

Can't wait to see you back here tomorrow on PBS.

Have a great one.

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 ♪