♪ 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) (cheerful music) - Good morning, third graders.

My name is Mrs. Nixon.

I am so excited to be here with you and to help you and support you to become amazing thinkers, readers, and writers.

So this morning I was just looking at this book.

This one's called "Show Way".

Do you have a tradition or something that you pass down in your family?

Does it have a special meaning for you and your family?

This particular story talks about a family who had a quilt and this quilt had actually some secret messages to help them escape from slavery.

It's a fantastic story of freedom, and traditions, and a little bit of history.

So I encourage you to check it out and learn about some of the things that have happened in the past and maybe start a tradition with your own family.

You can check out this book looking at your local library, or check and see, it might be on Sora.

All right.

Now, I have one other thing I want us to talk about this morning before I get started.

But I do want to put in a quick little reminder that if you are looking for a free, fun activity book, it's super easy to get one.

I will send it to you.

All you need to do is, do you see that address that's popping up at the bottom of your screen?

Send me a note.

Mail it down here to the studio, or you can send a note using the email address.

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

I love to be able to do that for you.

It's full of puzzles, games, all sorts of fun things.

All right.

So happy Friday.

It's Friday.

It's for reals Friday.

And I am so excited to get through three things that we've been practicing all week long and see how you're doing with all of them.

Are you ready to start?

Okay.

Let's get going.

So we're gonna look at three things.

We're gonna practice some diphthongs.

We're gonna look at prefixes.

And then we're gonna finish out with some suffixes, mixed in with a little bit of comprehension.

Are you ready to start?

Okay.

Let's start with those high frequency words and to warm up our brains and get things going this morning.

So I want you to read them.

Now, remember high-frequency words are those words that you come across often.

So it's important that you not only be able to read them but you need to be able to write them.

Have you been practicing them all week long?

I bet you have.

I'm so excited.

Okay.

Let's go through.

Let's read them together.

Okay.

Big and loud, "Play," "Please," "Pretty," "Pull," "Pick," "Place," "People," "Part," "Over," and "Own."

Okay.

Let's take these right here.

So we've got own which is O-W-N and over which is O-V-E-R.

Okay.

Help me put these into a couple of sentences.

We have, "What is your favorite thing you?"

Hmm.

And, "I was sad when the movie was..." Hmm.

All right.

Help me out.

"I was sad when the movie was..." This is an easy one for me, right?

I was sad when it was over.

I love watching movies.

Okay.

What is your favorite thing you own?

Maybe you have a favorite blanket or a favorite toy.

What is something that you own that's your favorite?

I'd love to hear about it.

Send it to me in a note.

All right.

Let's get started with those diphthongs.

Now, remember that's when you take two vowels, put them together, and they make their own sound.

So I've got a couple of, a couple of sounds today we're gonna practice.

I've got my boy card to remind us that we're practicing that oy sound.

Such a funny sound, right?

Oy.

Okay.

Now, there's two different ways that you can spell oy.

You can spell it O-I or you can spell it O-Y.

Now, typically, you're gonna notice here that they've got a little line that comes before that O-Y on my sound spelling card.

And that just reminds me that it's, we use that spelling at the end of a syllable.

Not necessarily the end of the word but the end of the syllable.

Okay.

So let's go through and look at a couple of examples.

We've got O-I in the middle of the word like "Coins" and look at this one, "Moisten," "Moisten."

Good.

And O-Y like at the end of "Enjoy."

How about this word?

"Annoy."

Good.

All right.

Then we've got our cow card and the cow card reminds us that these two spellings say ow.

All right.

So we have O-W says ow like at the end of "Allow" and then look at this word, "Powerful."

Do you see that ow?

"Powerful," good.

And then O-U says ou like in this word "Sound" and in this word "Bounce."

Excellent job.

Okay.

Let's switch gears a little bit here and then talk about some prefixes.

In order to do that, I always like to start with my base word.

Now, a base word is simply that it's just a word.

It doesn't have to have any pieces or other parts added to it.

It has its own meaning.

Okay.

Here's some examples, "Usual," "Agree," "Since."

All of these words, you could use them in a sentence all by themselves.

It's no big deal.

Now, because we're in third grade we're starting to be able to make those multi-syllabic words.

And we're starting to put word parts together and make longer words, right?

But it's really important that we understand them as well.

So that's why we like to talk about our prefixes and suffixes.

So that it makes sense to you.

Okay.

So let's talk about some prefixes today.

Now, remember prefixes and suffixes, they're just letters.

They're groups of letters that are put together and they change the meaning of a word.

So this week we've been practicing on these three: un, dis, and non.

Now, none of those make sense by themselves.

They have to be attached to a base word.

And when we do, we're changing it to not or the opposite of.

So "Usual," if I wanted to say that something was not usual, I could use a prefix at the beginning of it and I could say, well, it's "Unusual."

It's unusual to see a coyote running around in the daytime, right?

Especially in town.

Okay.

How about "Agree?"

If I want to not agree with someone, if we don't agree, then I could put the prefix dis and we "Disagree."

All right.

And the last one "Sense".

So sense means like something makes sense.

It's understandable.

It's clear.

Okay.

So if something doesn't make sense, it's the opposite of making sense.

It's unclear.

We would use this prefix here non and we would say it's nonsense.

It's silly.

It doesn't make sense.

It's nonsense.

Okay.

Now, I've talked about these three prefixes but I also want to just remind you of some kinda non-examples.

Because sometimes you're gonna see words that actually have those letters in them, but they're not prefixes.

We've talked about them this week.

So I just wanna review them real quick.

We have words like "Dish" has the D-I-S but that's not the prefix because H is not a word.

And "Uncle" even though it has the U-N at the beginning, C-L-E is not a base word.

So don't let it trick you.

You guys can, you're so smart.

You're gonna be able to find this all the time.

And then "None" even though it has the non at the beginning we know that that's not a, that E is not a word.

So we would say that it's nonsense, right?

Good job.

Okay.

Here's what I want us to do.

We are going to change it up a little bit because it's Friday, right?

And we're gonna go through and we're gonna read a little bit of a passage and this one happens to be about a duck.

And we're practicing those diphthongs, that oy and ow sound words.

And as we're going through it, we're gonna be listening for those sounds, looking at those sounds, practicing them in context, and we'll go back and we'll kinda circle some of those words as we go along.

I'm gonna grab a little pointer stick though.

Okay.

Let's go through and read it.

This one's called "A Good Duck".

We're gonna find out about Scout the duck, who lives on the farm.

And why is she a little bit different?

What does she do?

Let's find out.

All right.

Read with me.

"A good duck.

The ducks at Farmer Roy's are good ducks.

They do not make noise.

They do not stray far from the farm.

They stay away from the plow.

They walk with care.

Scout is one of these good ducks.

But Scout wants to fly.

"I vow I will fly someday," she says.

The other ducks frown.

"You will do no such thing," one says.

"Good ducks do not fly.

You are a good duck."

"Good ducks do not bounce around.

They walk slowly on the ground.

They do not clown around," says another.

"Don't even think of it."

They add.

But one day Scout goes to the far end of the field.

She opens up her wings and runs.

Up into the clouds she soars.

It is a lovely trip.

"I liked that," she smiles.

Then she joins the other ducks.

She is a good duck.

All right.

So I know that that was a little bit silly of a story but I loved it, right?

So did we find some of our words that have that oy sound?

Like noise.

And I saw a couple of them that, as I was going through.

Oh, the ow like in Scout and vow.

And I felt like we had plow right over here.

So as you're reading your stories you're always able to practice some of those sounds and find them.

All right.

Let's finish off Friday.

We've been practicing these three suffixes.

Suffixes are those chunks of letters that are added to an end of a word to change the meaning of the word.

We can add "Able" which means able to or can be.

"Less" means without and "Ful" means that it's full of.

So we've got several here.

Let's go through and read it.

"The steamboat captain had a hard time seeing on hmm nights" Which word could we put there?

Would we have successful nights it was hard to see?

No.

Acceptable, fixable, moonless, careful?

When would it be hard to see at night?

You got it.

On moonless nights.

If there's not a moon there, we can't see.

Okay.

What does it mean to be moonless?

Does it mean that we are with a moon?

No.

Does it mean that we can be a moon?

No.

That doesn't make any sense.

How about without a moon?

If it is moonless, we are without a moon.

Fantastic job.

All right.

Third grade, thanks for hanging with me today as you're getting ready for school.

I've had a blast.

It's Friday.

I hope you have a fantastic weekend.

Remember, today when you're with your teachers, you're responsible for your learning success.

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

Make sure that you are nice and safe this weekend.

Read a book, check out Sora, visit the online library.

And I look forward to seeing you back here on Monday at PBS.

Have a great weekend.

Bye bye.

(cheerful 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 ♪ (cheerful music)