♪ 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 graders.

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

This morning, I was reading over because tomorrow is Lincoln's birthday and we usually celebrate it today, but I was reading about how a young girl was able to influence someone who is to be the president of the United States.

How did she influence him?

Well, you'll have to read this book to check it out.

So this particular book is called Lincoln and Grace, and like I said, she wrote a letter to a man who was going to be president, and she gave him a little bit of a heads up on how to do that.

So the power of writing a letter.

All right, boys and girls it's super easy to be able to check out books.

You can do that a couple of different ways.

You can go through your County library or really easy, check it out on Sora.

Now, Sora here in Fresno unified, we love to do a countdown of our schools that are checking out the most books on Sora, so we have a kind of a countdown of the top schools and in fifth place this last week was Hoover high school.

So great job, Hoover high.

Now it is super easy to get on our countdown list, all you need to do is check out books using Sora.

It's a free app, it's online and you can check out whatever books.

Tell a friend or two and you could possibly get your class up on our countdown.

All right.

the other thing that I love to share with my third graders is we here at PBS have some fantastic activity books.

They're free.

All you need to do is send me a note.

You see that address that just popped up, that's all that you need to do.

So send me a note, let me know something you're learning in class or something that you've learned here at our PBS class and, or send me an email but don't forget to include your return address, and I'll put one of these really fun activity books in the mail for you.

All right.

Are we ready to start our day today?

All right.

Happy Monday.

So, I have three things that we're going to go through and practice today.

We're going to start out with homophones, R-controlled syllables and then we're going to finish up with a little bit of comprehension specifically working on multiple meaning words.

Okay.

You guys know our routine, let's warm up those brains and get our thoughts going, I've got our high frequency words here.

There's 10 of them.

Now remember if you see something in here and you think to yourself, hmmm, you know, I can read that but I'm not sure I can write that one on my own, then I want to make sure that you know it's okay.

Write it down on a Post-it Note, practice it all week, and by the end of the week I know that you're going to have it.

All right.

Let's practice.

You practice at home big and loud, I want to hear you down here at the studio.

Here we go, let's read them.

Their, there, them, then, these, they, things, think, this and those.

All right now today I want to focus on two of them.

And you know what, when I say them you're going to say, Ooh, Mrs.Nix those are the same.

Okay.I've got there and their.

Ah, but you know what?

They're two different ones.

We've got their T-H-E-R-E and T-H-E-I-R, these are homophones.

That means that they're words that sound the same.

I always like to do this, I put up a little phone and I think to myself, Ooh it's what am I hearing there in their So, homophones are words that sound the same but they have a different meaning.

Okay, Let me show you what I mean.

Let's look at a couple of sentences.

So we know that the word there is going to go.

So, do you think this is their lost dog?

or I was hiding over there behind the tree.

I have something a kind of a little trick that I always remember with there spelled T-H-E-R-E.

If I cover up that T, I see the word here, so that tells me it's a location here or there.

That's how I remember that one.

And T-H-E-I-R means that it belongs to them.

So, do you think it's their lost dog?

Excellent job.

Okay, So here's our next thing that we're going to go through.

We're going to talk about this poster that's right here.

Now, at the beginning of the school year we talked briefly about all of the different types of syllable, syllabification.

There's six different syllable types, and we briefly have talked about and referenced this poster as the semester has gone on, and today the one that we're going to focus on or I should say this week we're going to focus on this R-controlled.

And so your teacher might reference you might hear the bossy R, that's another one another way of saying it but essentially it's those letter combinations the ar, er, ir, or and ur.

And those bossy R's or those R-controlled vowels stick together, they stick together in a syllable.

Okay, So let's come back up here and let's talk about and look at what that can look like.

So, kind of put myself a little cheater note here so that I can remember those R-controlled vowels, and when I look at this word turtle, I'm looking to see do I have any of those R-controlled vowels, and I do, I've highlighted those in reds that I can see them, and then I know when I split my syllables that vowel team sticks together.

And so I actually have two syllables tur-tle.

Okay.

Let's look again.

So here in garlic, you can see that I've got that "ar" highlighted because that's my vowel team.

So they're going to stick together.

I'm not going to split it, but when I say the word, garlic, garlic actually splits right here between the R-controlled and the L So I've got gar-lic.

And then over here, we can start to see them starting to pull away some of our scaffolds here, so I've got sunburn, but I'm going to remember that that, "ur" stays together and I've got sun-burn.

and so I'm going to split it up right here.

This is how I would separate that word so that I've got two syllables.

Okay.

So that's a brief little review of our syllable types.

I'm going to move this out of the way so that we can talk about our next piece.

So we're going to move down and I want to talk about those homophones.

Did you put this up like this and remember homophones.

Okay, good.

Because that's going to help you remember, we're looking at words that sound the same, but have a different meaning.

So here's kind of our rules.

Homophones are words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

Okay.

So let's look right here, I've got two words, your and you're.

Okay.

This, your Y-O-U-R means this belongs to you.

It's your backpack, your bicycle, your house.

This you're Y-O-U apostrophe R-E is a contraction for the words, "you are", a great thing to remember is anytime you see that contraction just automatically read it as a contraction, and it's going to help make sense.

Now, both of these words are going to be used in this little sentence down here.

So, you're going to be surprised when you see your gift.

Now we have to decide which your goes where okay.

Now remember if I take you're and I put it as," you are", the contraction, if I split it doesn't make sense.

You're going to be surprised when you see your gift.

See how easy that was.

Excellent.

Okay.

Let's do a little bit of practice.

Excellent.

So, when I, I didn't grab my pen let me grab my pen.

So when I'm looking up here, I'm looking at all of these different homophones.

So here in our parentheses, we're going to see, see and sea, but they're spelled differently, they sound the same, so we need to practice and the best way to do this boys and girls is simply to do a lot of reading and a lot of writing.

Okay.

So, I want to see that movie.

So when we're talking about, we're wanting to see something, it's going to be S-E-E. All right.

Her two friends will come with us.

Which two is spelled correctly for this?

That's right.

We want the number two so it's T-W-O.

Excellent.

Number three.

So, did you find your baseball glove?

Now remember, when we have that contraction, let's practice it with the two words.

Did you find you are baseball glove?

So would that make sense?

No it's just going to be your.

Excellent.

I'm going to skip down here and do a little bit of practice with some of our vowel fill location.

Okay, So right here it says, read each pair of words, circle the word that has an R-controlled vowel syllable.

So we're looking for those R-controlled vowels.

Okay.

So we have two words, garlic and floating.

Do you see the R-controlled vowel?

Yeah, right here.

Here's the R-controlled vowel, and just like we'd practiced earlier, garlic we know that we would split it gar-lic.

Good.

Oh, here's another one we just practiced.

Turtle and frog.

Do you see the R-control?

So remember we're not going to split it between those between the vowel and the R. So we've got tur-tle.

Good.

How about green and purple?

Do you see the R-control?

Yeah, right here ur, pur-ple.

So we've got pur-ple.

So we would split it right there.

Let's do one last one.

How about stormy and windy?

Do you see the R-control?

Yap, right there.

And the word storm actually is one syllable storm-y so we're going to split it right there.

Nicely done.

That's going to help you as go through and you are reading some of your stories.

All right.

The last little bit that I want to finish up with are multiple meaning words.

So these are simply words that, they're spelled the same, they sound the same, but they have different meanings, it's important that we know this.

And this particular word that we're going to practice right now is the word step.

Now step has two meanings.

It could be in a series of actions like step one, step two or it could be that you're going to step with your feet.

Right?

And, and take steps.

Let's look at our sentence.

The first big step for human flight was the kite, some kites were used for fun others were used to test the weather.

So what kind of step are we doing here?

The first big step?

That's a clue, right?

So we know that there's going to be multiple steps to help.

So we know in this particular sentence, we're right here, it's one in a series.

We know that there's more information, there are additional steps for humans to be able to start to fly.

Excellent job.

Boys and girls, I want to say, thank you so much for hanging out with me this morning as you're getting ready for school, and remember you're responsible for your learning success.

So listen, ask questions and share your ideas because together we can do so much more have a fantastic afternoon, and I can't wait to see you back here at PBS tomorrow.

Have a great one.

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.

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