♪ 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 ♪ (upbeat music) - Good morning third grade, my name is Mrs. Nix and I am so excited to be here on this Thursday morning and support you as you become amazing thinkers, readers and writers.

You know what I was doing just now, I was trying to solve one of these secret code activities that's found in the activity book.

Now this one's Super Why has his activity book here and if you would love to do some of these puzzles just like I'm doing this morning, it's really easy.

There's an address that's gonna pop up here on the screen, just for you.

Jot that down or use the email address and send me a note but don't forget to include a return address so I can put one of these fun activity books in the mail for free for you.

Now, in that letter or in that email, you can choose to let me know all sorts of different things.

Maybe it's something you're learning in your classroom, something you've learned here on PBS or maybe you wanna tell me about an awesome book that you've been reading and we can share here on PBS.

We can share with our other third grade friends what that story is that you're reading at home.

All right.

Now, speaking of reading, how can you find some books?

Because I imagine right now you've probably read everything in your house and you're ready to read something different.

Okay.

There's a couple of things you can do.

You can check out some books from your County library or if you're here in Fresno Unified, you can check out books on Sora and that's free.

And we love to celebrate our students who have been checking out our books on Sora.

We're counting how many books are being checked out and then we're doing kind of a countdown as to which schools are checking out the most books.

Are you ready to find out who's in that second place this week?

Okay.

Let's look at our chart here.

So, in second place for our top checkout schools, we've got...

Drum roll, Turner, Elementary.

Oh my goodness.

Good job Turner Tigers.

Awesome job.

You guys are in second place.

It's super easy.

Like I said, if you wanna get your school up on our list, all you need to do is check out a book, you can ask maybe a couple of classmates to check out books too and then we'll start to see your school listed.

Okay.

Let's get started today.

I have three things we're gonna go through.

We're gonna talk about plural nouns, we're gonna talk about syllables with vowel digraphs and then we're gonna finish up with a little bit of comprehension around those root words.

Okay.

Let's get started.

It's Thursday.

We've been working on these high frequency words all week long.

How are you doing with them?

Have you been practicing them at home?

That's right.

'Cause you're responsible for your learning success.

I know you're doing a great job.

Keep it up.

Okay.

Here are our words.

Let's read them big and loud.

Sing, sleep, she, show, seven, shall, see, say, small and saw.

Okay.

Our two words today.

I love it.

Both of them are only three letters which is fantastic.

So we have say, S-A-Y which actually has a vowel team digraph and word see which is S-E-E. Oh, let me think about it for a second.

See is actually a homophone.

That means that there's another way that we can spell see and they both have two different meanings.

Can I show you a trick?

This is how I remember this see, has to do with being able to visualize or see something out and about.

How many Es do you see?

There's two of them.

How many eyes do you have?

You have two of them and the word eyes, I know it sounds funny 'cause it says I, but it starts with the letter E. So if you've got two eyes, just like see in here, you'll remember that that has to do with vision.

All right.

S-E-A has to do with the ocean.

Help me put these in a sentence today?

Here we go.

I wish I could mm my friends today.

My nephew always has a lot to mm.

Okay.

I wish I could see, S-E-E, see my friends today.

And my nephew always has a lot to say.

I love calling my nephew.

He tells me the greatest stories.

All right, let's look down here, we're gonna practice those plural nouns.

And so, right here it says, add an S to most singular nouns to make them plural.

Add E-S, if the singular noun ends with S, double S, S-H, C-H, or X.

Now, I have all of those examples, words that end with those letters, written down here below.

Now the first one, is just a regular singular noun, right?

So we've got the word toy.

It doesn't have any of the S, the double S, it doesn't have any of that.

So if I had one toy or many toys, it's real easy, I just add that S. And this is what we do with most of our nouns.

Right?

Okay.

So circus though, ends with the letter S. So, I need to add the E-S, circuses, okay.

I've been to several different circuses.

So, it has that Z sound.

Circuses, say it.

Good.

All right.

Here's another one, dress, ends with the double S, dress.

That's one dress.

If I own many dresses, I would add the E-S, dresses.

All right.

How about over here?

Sandwich, ends with the C-H.

So I'm going to, if I say, I'm gonna eat two sandwiches, maybe I'm really hungry, right?

Then I'm gonna add E-S to that C-H, sandwiches.

And then wish has the S-H, so we need to add, we're gonna have two wishes, we add E-S and lunchbox ends with the X, so we wanna make sure that we put E-S, lunch boxes, just like that.

Excellent.

Let's switch gears a little bit and talk about syllables specifically right here, I've got just a reminder for us, every syllable in a word has one vowel sound.

That's right.

Not just, don't stop at vowel, vowel sound.

Every syllable has one vowel sound.

That's gonna help you, especially on the test as we get into the springtime and they're asking you, "How many vowel or how many syllables are in a word?"

You can look for those vowel sounds.

And we've been practicing vowel digraphs so that we know that vowel digraphs like E-A, and E-E, and E-Y and O-E. All of those digraphs, those vowel teams make one sound.

That's what we've been practicing.

Okay.

Let's get through and look at a couple of examples.

So, if I have the word birthday, birthday has...

I can see a couple of different vowels.

Now, remember I made the vowel digraph, the whole pair.

we're not gonna split that up, that stays together.

It's one vowel sound.

And then I've got my vowel over here.

And if I'm going to divide this into syllables, I've got two vowel sounds.

So I know I've got two syllables, birth, day and I'm gonna just split it so we can kinda see it.

This is how we would divide it.

All right.

Let's look over here.

We've got briefcase.

How many vowels sounds do we hear?

Brie, fca, so we've got an A sound and an E sound, right?

So this one's a vowel team.

We're not going to split that one up.

And then we've got, here's our second vowel sound.

So we know we're gonna have two syllables, brief, case.

Do you see how that we did that?

Okay.

Let's go through and let's do a little practice with some of this here.

So, here what I wanna do, we're gonna read each sentence and circle the plural noun and then we're gonna write the singular form of that noun on the line.

Okay.

So let's find it.

I read a story about the foxes that live on Smith Island.

Okay.

So we've got foxes.

How do we write the singular form?

We learned how to write the plural.

How do we make it be singular?

Well, we've gotta take that E-S off, right?

So now we're just gonna have fox.

Perfect.

So, make sure the ashes are cold before leaving the campsite.

So we've got the word ashes.

Now, what is ash end with?

It's got that S-H which means we don't need the E-S.

So what is our word in singular form?

It's just ash.

Right?

Last one.

I plan to write my report on heroes in my life.

Now we didn't really talk about words that end with O, but they kind of follow the same rule.

And so, heroes is our plural noun and it adds an E-S.

So singular would simply be hero.

All right.

Nice.

Okay.

So now we're gonna do a little bit of sorting down here.

We wanna read the words in the box and we're gonna underline that vowel team.

We're training our brains to find those vowel teams.

So in greener, we've got the double E did you see that?

So then in freedom, again that double E, teammate, do you see it?

E-A.

Mailbox, A-I, prepaid, A-I, roadside, yeah.

Are you starting to see him?

Okay.

Now, remember, we're just looking for those vowel digraphs.

Daytime, hmm.

Ah, did you remember this one?

A-Y?

Oh, look A-Y and here's another A-Y that made it a little easier.

How about in snowfall?

What's the vowel digraph there?

So sometimes just practicing finding vowel digraphs, can really help train our brains.

Weakest has an E-A, unknown has that O-W and coaches, O-A.

Now, this is something you can do at home.

You could find them and then you can sort them.

So I've got like, here are all my E-A words and my E-E words, so I can just move them and put them together based on what that vowel digraph team has.

Do you see how easy that is?

So, I would love to see you do some of these at home, just for fun.

Right?

All right.

So, that's kinda what that looks like, I'd like to finish up today with one final activity.

Oops.

I'ma stay this way.

One final activity, we're gonna talk about root words.

Now, remember root words are that simplest form of a word.

That means all the prefixes are taken away, all the suffixes are taken away and we just have that root word.

And the reason that we wanna find that root word, maybe we don't know what that multi-syllabic word is, and if we can get it down to its simplest form, maybe we'll recognize that.

So help me out.

I have a lot of admiration for your home but I must return to my home before morning.

So here's our word, admiration.

So, let's put it into a root word.

There we go.

Admire, what does admire mean?

Does it mean that we're jealous, disgusted or is it a feeling of respect?

Yeah, it's a feeling of respect.

So I'm gonna know what admiration is, I'm feeling respectful towards someone's home.

Great.

Thank you so much for hanging out with me this morning.

It was awesome getting to help you with these different areas and remember, your responsible for your learning success.

So practice.

I look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow on PBS.

Take care.

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 ♪