♪ 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.

♪ (dramatic orchestral music) (upbeat music) - Good morning third graders.

My name is Mrs. Nixon.

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

You know what boys and girls?

If you are looking for a really fun activity to do while you're at home we've got storms that are coming in and out and sometimes we're stuck with those rainy days and we're stuck inside.

An activity book is a great way to pass that time.

And here at PBS, we have a whole bunch of activity books that would love to send to you all you need to do see this address that's popping up on our screen.

All you need to do is send me a note.

You can send me a letter or an email but don't forget to include your return address, and I'll put an activity book in the mail just for you.

Now what has to be in that email or that note?

That's up to you.

Maybe you read a fantastic story over the weekend, a book and you'd love to share that title with me so that I can tell other third graders about it.

Or maybe it's something you're learning in class or here on our PBS store or PBS classroom.

I'd love to be able to share that.

All right, speaking of reading, here's another idea.

You can always get onto that Sora app and check out a book or check out your local county library to check out a book.

With Sora though, here in Fresno Unified we love to celebrate our students who are checking out books from Sora.

We have actually a countdown that we have for the whole week of last week's schools that are those top checkout books school sites.

You guys wanna know who was in fifth place last week?

Let's find out, here we go.

Hey, it's my friends over at Birney, those Birney bears.

So congratulations, Birney you guys are doing a fantastic job of checking out our books on Sora.

Keep that up.

How do you do it?

Just go onto that Sora app pick out a book and then maybe encourage a friend or two to do the same that's in your class, and your school can be on our list.

Love to see you guys there.

All right, let's get started today.

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

The first one is, we're gonna review that spelling pattern with plural nouns.

We're gonna look at syllables using those vowel digraphs that we've used before.

And then we're gonna finish off today with a little bit of comprehension and specifically around root words.

All right, you ready to get started?

Okay, we're gonna do that right here we're gonna start with our high frequency words.

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

In third grade, it's really important that we're practicing not only how to read them but to write them.

And you're responsible for your own learning success, so what do I mean when I say that?

Well, if you see a word that's here and you think to yourself, you know I don't know if I can spell that one or two or three five.

Make sure you're writing it down and practicing it all week long with me.

All right, are you ready to get started?

Let's go through, you're gonna read them at home big and loud.

I'm gonna read them with you.

Let's do this.

Sleep, sing, she, show, seven, shall, see, say, small, and saw.

Nicely done.

Let's look at two of them real quick.

We're gonna look at sleep and sing.

So sleep is S-L-E-E-P and sing is S-I-N-G. Now I wanna talk about sing for just a second because we've been practicing in third grade, prefixes and suffixes.

And we often talk about ing being a suffix.

But if we took away the ing, we would have no word it would just be the letter S so this does not have a suffix.

It's just a good thing to remember practice being a really good thinker.

Okay, let's put these into some sentences.

Sleep and sing, help me out.

Let's do it.

What is your favorite song to?

And how did you last night?

Okay, well, this one has the word song in there.

So I'm gonna think that it goes with sing, let's try it out.

What is your favorite song to sing?

Does that make sense?

Yeah, that's great.

And how did you sleep last night?

We usually sleep at night, right?

So those are some great clue words for us to be looking at.

Fantastic job third grade.

Let's move down here just a little bit and start talking about those plural noun.

So here's kind of our review.

Remember that when we add an S to most singular nouns that's how we make them plural.

And that we add ES if the singular noun ends with an S, SS and SH, a CH, or an X.

So down here, I've done a whole bunch of them for us to kind of show us.

So we have the word desk, which ends with a K. So we just have an S. You can see the word bus, we add the ES so that it becomes buses there's more than one bus.

Again, right here like with the word boss, if I have one boss, now I have two bosses.

Now here's another thing to think about.

Think about what it sounds like when you add this ES?

Because it doesn't have S sound it actually has Z like a Z.

So let's try it, we've got one dish or many dishes.

Do you hear it?

Then we've got stretch or we're gonna do many, let's add that ES, stretches.

It ends with that CH.

And our last one is X.

And we added that ES so that it's axes.

Perfect.

Okay, so we did a little bit of review with some plural nouns.

Now I want us to kinda talk about syllables.

And specifically, when we talk about these syllables, we're gonna bring some things back, but just a reminder every syllable in a word has one vowel sound.

Okay, don't get that confused.

We don't wanna think that every syllable has one vowel, it has one vowel sound.

In the last few weeks we've been working on vowel digraphs.

Do you remember what those are?

That's right.

Vowel digraphs are when we get those two vowels that are together like EA, EE, AI, IE, AY, OW, EY, OE and OA.

There's a whole bunch of them, right?

Okay, when we see those vowel teams together, we know that they count as one vowel sound.

Okay, here are some examples, let's look.

So I've got the word peaches right here, and you can see highlighted that vowel team or that vowel digraph.

You can call it either way.

And that would be one vowel sound.

Then I also underlined the E there because that would be our other vowel sound.

And we know that there is one vowel sound in each syllable.

So how many vowel sounds are in the word peaches?

Well, that's right.

There's two of them so we know we have to two syllables.

I'm gonna just kinda show you.

Here are two syllable peach es, all right.

Let's try one more just to show you.

So here's a vowel team or a vowel digraph, and here's another one.

So oatmeal actually has two vowel digraphs.

Which means how many syllables are we gonna have in the word?

Yes, two of them, because each syllable has one vowel sound.

So I'm gonna split it right here, just so you can see the two different syllables, oat meal, great job.

Let's go through and let's do a little bit of practice with those.

I'm gonna move that out of the way just so we can see it.

So if you're gonna practice this in your classroom, this might be a way that you could do it.

Let's go back and talk about those plural that are the plural nouns.

So here's a singular noun fox.

Do you remember?

How do we make it be plural?

What do we need to add?

Do we add an S or do we add the ES.

Yes, we wanna have the ES you guys are doing a great job.

How about year?

What letter is here at the end of year?

It's just an R. Do we need to add an ES?

No, we don't have to add an ES, it's just S by itself, nicely done.

How about ash?

It has an SH at the end.

What do we do with words with an SH?

Yes, right there ES good.

How about twin?

It ends with an N. That's right we're not gonna do anything, we just add the S. And a word that ends with CH?

Oh, third grade you are on fire today.

Good job, so smart, I love it.

Okay, now let's go down here we're just gonna briefly look through a few of these, we're looking at the vowel teams.

So as we go through and we look at each pair of these words we're looking for words that have a vowel team syllable and then circle that vowel team.

So here we go.

Do we see any vowel teams?

Yeah, right here I'm gonna circle that vowel team right there 'cause EA and I'm gonna underline my word.

Do we have any vowel teams here in letter?

Nope, so reaching has it.

How about in spender or seedling?

Do you see a vowel team?

Yes, seedling has a vowel team.

So that would be our vowel team word.

How about raindrop or backpack?

Do you see that?

Do you see that vowel team?

Are you getting those little spy, those little eyes?

Good job.

Last one member or briefcase.

Yes, right here you got the IE in briefcase.

Nicely done.

All right, we're gonna finish up our day with a little bit of comprehension.

And this piece goes with those root words.

And so just a reminder that a root word is the simplest form of a word.

So when we come across sentences with words that we may not know, a strategy that we can use is to pull off those prefixes and suffixes that we've been practicing.

So let's practice today.

Here's a sentence.

I am a very powerful turtle in my land.

Now this is a silly sentence, right?

Because we don't have powerful turtles, but what does the word powerful mean in this sentence?

Well, let's look, we gotta think it to ourselves.

What would the root word in powerful be?

Do we see any prefixes or suffixes that are here?

Yes, ful is a suffix so I'm gonna pull that one off.

Do you see the word power?

What does power mean?

Power can be, is it smart?

Is it important or is it funny?

If you're very powerful, that's right you would be very important, right?

So I'm a very important turtle in my land that would make more sense.

All right, so third grade, fantastic job hanging out with me this morning.

I really appreciate getting to be with you, support you as we talk about a plural nouns.

We talked about syllables, using those vowel digraphs and then we finished it off with a little bit of comprehension this morning.

You're doing a great job, thank you so much for hanging with me.

Remember, you are responsible for your learning success.

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

I look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.

Bye bye.

(dramatic orchestral 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.

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