♪ Good morning to ♪ ♪ A brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and the games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (bright music playing) - Good morning third grade.

My name is Mrs. Nixon.

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

Okay.

So yesterday I shared a story about a dog and it was the life of a dog.

And then I started thinking to myself maybe you're not a dog person, maybe, just maybe you are more of a cat person.

And some of my favorite cat stories are SkippyjonJones.

I imagine most of you at home right now are going, Oh my goodness I love SkippyjonJones.

Okay.

So, for those of you who maybe don't know about SkippyjonJones, SkippyjonJones is one funny little cat who is having all sorts of adventures.

And there are many different adventures that SkippyjonJones goes on, so you could choose any of the stories.

Where do we check out our stories from?

Yeah, you can do it in your local library, your local County library, or maybe you just go online, and you check out a book on Sora.

See what stories Sora has for you.

Speaking of Sora, we love to count down our schools that are have the highest checkouts.

So, if you check out a book you're helping your school to get onto our poster.

Let's see.

Yesterday we had Mayfair in the fourth position.

Who do we have are in the fifth position, and fourth we have Olmos Elementary.

So good job Olmos right here.

I'm gonna put you right there.

Awesome job.

You guys are doing a fantastic job, of checking out books.

All right.

So, how do you get your name up there?

Just like I said you're gonna help your school by checking out books from Sora, and maybe tell a classmate or two and you guys can get your names up there.

Okay.

The other thing that I love to talk about and share with you, if you're looking for something to do at home, and it doesn't cost anything at all here at PBS we love to send out an activity book.

All that you need to do to get this activity book is, send me a letter, or send me an email.

Here comes the address.

It's right here, below on the screen.

And you can tell me maybe a book that you've been reading that you think is fantastic.

Tell me about it.

And I'll make sure that I can share it with all the other third grade students.

Or maybe it's something you're learning in class, or something you've learned here on PBS.

I'd love to share it.

And I'd love to share one of these really fun activity books.

Don't forget to include your address.

All right are we ready to get started today?

Great.

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

We're gonna look at some variant vowels.

We're gonna look at related words, and then we're gonna work a little bit with our comprehension, and just kind of focus in on root words, and using our prefixes for that.

Are you ready to start?

Okay, let's go through.

Let's warm up those brains this morning.

Get them going, get them stretched and ready to work.

Let's look at our high-frequency words.

Remember these are those words we're gonna practice these 10 all week long, but if there's something here that you go, Oh I don't think I can spell that one without a little extra practice.

Remember to jot it down on a piece of paper, and practice it throughout the week.

By the end of the week, you'll have it.

All right, let's get started.

Let's read these together.

Read them at home.

Don't let me do all the work.

I want to hear you doing it.

Doing some work too.

Here we go, said, same, round, run, right, ride.

That's right.

This one can be read or read, good.

Red, put and ran.

Nicely done.

All right.

Help me out we're gonna put two of them into some sentences.

So we're gonna look at, we've got run, R-U-N, and round R-O-U-N-D.

So help me do this.

I've got two sentences here.

I love to watch my dog mmh around, and she adores her baby's cute mmh face.

All right.

I love to watch my dog.

This is an easy one.

Run around.

Oh my goodness, you should see her.

Her name is Bailey, and she is so silly.

Is your dog silly too?

Oh, and how about this one?

She adores her baby's cute, round face.

Babies are so cute with their little round faces, right?

Okay.

Let's get started.

We've got those three things.

I wanna start with those variant vowels.

So, when I'm thinking about these vowel sounds it's really helpful to have a picture in my mind so that I can hear what those vowel sounds sound like.

So when I look at my sound spelling card, here's my spoon card.

And when I think of that spoon, I can hear that sound u.

So that's what we gonna work on.

Look right here.

There are seven different ways that you can spell u.

So let's practice some of them together.

Remember, all of these words are gonna have the u sounds.

So say that, u.

All right, let's do it.

So we've got, O-O says u like in, spoon and school, good.

Then we've got E-W says, u like in chew and few, good.

U blank E says u like in tube and rule.

And we've got U-E like in due, remember this is like your library book is due, and rescue, good.

U by itself, like in the word future or July, good.

U-I says u, like in fruitful and something I want to go on, a cruise wouldn't that be fun.

And O-U says u like in soup, and through.

All right, the second sound that I want us to practice this week is the, from the book card, oo, oo.

It's almost like you're squishing on your belly right there, oo, oo, okay.

So, oo and there are a couple of spellings for it.

So we have O-O like in hook and stood, and then, O-U like in the word could and would, excellent.

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

And I want us to talk right here about related words.

Related words are words that share common root, or base words.

So here are a couple of them right here.

We've got, weakening and weakened.

So, what we see right here, you're gonna see there's my little, my little root words right here.

You're gonna see this word right here, weak.

They both have the word, weak.

So weakening, and weekend.

Okay.

So when you're making something weak, you're making it so that it's not quite as strong anymore.

Right?

And so we can start to talk about, what do those words kind of have in common.

Okay but the first step is just finding them.

So how do we do that?

Let's do a little bit of practice.

I've got, a little worksheet right here.

This might be how your teacher is gonna have you practice.

So let's do some together.

Let's go back to those variant vowels.

So, we're gonna read the words in each row, and it's says underline but, we're on TV we're gonna circle it.

So we're gonna circle the word that has the same vowel sound as the word in bold.

So, what does this word say?

Say it to yourself.

Would, good.

So would and we've got, glue and should.

And we're just listening to those sounds, oo, oo that's right.

Should, has the oo sound.

Grew, good and flew.

Which has the same sound as grew?

Yes, flew.

Oh, no look at these, these all spelled the same.

So I'm really going to have to pay attention.

Help me out, I know you can do this.

We've got, look, oo, shook, and loop.

That's right.

Shook and look, have the oo sound.

How about tube, and cook, and group.

You got it group right there.

All right, now here's a little bit of change of pace.

So, we're gonna be looking for those related words.

So here are some roots.

I've got star, road, write, and photo.

So as we read each of these words we're looking for, what is that common root word?

So let's look.

Rewrite, and sportswriter.

Do you see a little word in there?

Do you see the word, write?

Do you see it?

Yeah.

Right there.

So, I'm gonna take it, and I'm gonna move it right there.

Okay?

Somebody who's writing.

How about this, photograph and photocopy.

What do you see?

That's the same.

Do you see the same root?

Yeah, photo, right here.

Good job.

All right.

So, railroad, roadside, what do we see?

Oh, you guys are getting so good.

You see the word road on both of them?

And starry, and star light have?

Star, you got it.

Excellent job.

Okay.

Here's our last little bit that we're gonna finish up with today.

And it kind of brings everything together.

We've been working on prefixes, and suffixes, and root words, and base words, and, all right.

So, up here when I've done, I put our prefixes.

So, I've got pre, which means before, and I've got these three prefixes un, im and non which mean not.

So here's just a little bit of stuff that's gonna help us.

These are our root words, that we're gonna build on.

And here's our sentence, that we've need to figure out.

What's gonna go in this blank to make it make sense, but I'm gonna give you a clue.

We're gonna have to put a prefix with it.

All right, get those thinking caps on.

Here we go.

Let's start with just finding our base word.

So, he was mmh, of how to answer the question, because he did not study.

Okay.

Let's think about this for a second.

What do you think would go in the blank?

He was mmh, of how to answer the question because he did not study.

If you don't study, are you gonna be very confident in your answer?

Probably not.

So let's look at some of our choices.

Perfect, possible, heat, sense, bearable, sure.

Woo, I think I heard it.

Do you think he's gonna be sure, of how to answer the question?

This is gonna be kind of tricky, right?

Okay.

So, he was sure of how to answer the question because he did not study.

Ah, that's right.

He's not sure.

So, what would we put?

What would be our prefix to change it so that it meant that he's not sure.

Let's look up here.

Yes, he's going to be unsure.

Unsure of how to answer that question.

So did you see how we were able to build it all together?

Let's read it.

He was unsure of how to answer the question, because he did not study.

Fantastic job.

Okay.

So, today we did so much.

And I just wanna say thanks for hanging out with me today.

It was awesome getting the chance to go through.

We looked at our variant vowels, we practice related words, and then we worked on some comprehension together.

Guys are doing a great job.

All right, so, thank you so much for hanging out with me this morning.

As you're getting ready for school, try some of this as you're looking through, and you're doing your reading.

I know that you're gonna come across words like this often.

All right.

And so remember, you are responsible for your learning and success.

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

All right.

I can't wait to hang out with you again here tomorrow, on PBS.

Have a great afternoon.

I'll see you then.

Bye, bye.

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