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

My name is Mrs. Nixon.

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

I was reading a fantastic book that my grandma actually had in her house.

I'm not really gonna talk about this one in particular because you know what, I'm not real sure if we could even find it anymore in print.

Do you ever have any books like this around your house?

Maybe some of the adults in your family have some favorite stories from their childhood and they like to share with you?

So much fun.

Okay.

Now, you could, you could though, check it out and see if you could find some of these titles on with your local county library, or by visiting Sora.

Here in Fresno Unified, we love to cheer on our schools who are checking out books through Sora and we do a countdown of the top five schools who checked out books from Sora.

Let's find out who was in fifth place this last week.

So looking here we have, Wilson Elementary.

so great job, Wilson.

You guys are up here on our top checkouts.

Great job.

The other thing that I wanna make sure that I point out for us for here at PBS we love to give away free things, down below you're gonna notice an address pop up and all you need to do to get this free activity book is to send me a letter in the mail.

You can, or you can send me an email, but just don't forget to include your address.

Let me know something that you've been learning at school or at home, maybe there's a fantastic book that your family loves to read.

And I'll put one of these in the mail for you.

All right, boys and girls are we ready to get started today?

Excellent.

I have three things that we're gonna go through today, we're gonna practice some words with the soft C and the soft G sounds.

And then we're gonna look at words with the ER and EST, and then we'll finished off with a little comprehension with some metaphors, some figurative language.

Are you ready to start?

Okay.

So let's start with our high frequency words.

Now remember, those are words that we see often and in third grade we're really working on, not only just being able to read them, we need to be able to write them.

So if you come across something or see something today and you think to yourself, hmm, Mrs. Nixon I don't know if I could write that word all by myself.

Remember you're responsible for your learning success.

So jot it down, you can practice it.

I know you can do it.

All right, let's go through and let's read our 10 words for the week.

Are you ready?

You're gonna read them big and loud at home.

Okay.

Let me get my handy dandy little pointer and let's do it.

Here we go.

Through, three, today, time, together, two, under, upon, very, and use.

Excellent.

Okay, today let's talk about these two.

I've got the word three, T-H-R-E-E and through T-H-R-O-U-G-H-T.

Okay.

So help me use these in a sentence.

All right.

I've got two sentences here.

I love my mm children very much.

Hmm.

And we've been mm a lot this year.

Okay.

I love my through children very much.

Does that make sense?

No.

But I do love my three children.

Did I tell you why I have three children?

'Cause I do.

And we've been through a lot this year, third grade we sure have been through a lot this year, haven't we?

It's been quite an adventure this whole school year and I am so proud of all of the work that you are doing.

You are successful because of your hard work.

All right.

Keep it up.

Let's get started with looking at and reviewing the soft C and soft G. Do you remember what some of those spelling patterns are?

Okay.

In case you don't, I brought with me my sun card and my jump card, because I want to remember the different spellings.

When I hear the S sound, I know that C and G, and I've got my little thing right here, it says when the letters C and G come before the letters, I, E, or Y, they usually make the soft sound, S or G. Okay.

Here are some examples today.

And I just have a few of them.

So you can see the CE makes the sound ss sound.

So this word is, price.

And we have, place.

For our soft G, you can see we've got the GI, it's gonna "ja".

So giant, and age.

Nicely done.

Okay.

We'll have a little bit of practice with those in just a moment, but I wanna come down here and I wanna talk about when we're comparing words, and we're adding -ER and -EST to those words.

Now, when do we use ER at the end of a word?

Well, we're gonna use it when we're comparing two different, two either people, places or things.

So if I was to say that something was cold, if I had two items, I would say, this cup is colder than that cup, 'cause I only have two items.

Now, if I had three cups or more, so anytime I have more than two, then I would add EST.

So I would say this was the coldest cup.

Right?

'Cause I'd have more than two.

Okay.

There's a couple of things that also go with this.

So anytime we add that ER or that EST to a word, there's, sometimes there's some things that we have to practice with our spelling.

Okay.

This is a word that ends with that magic E. So when it has that silent E at the end, wide, and we wanna say it's wider, we simply drop that E before adding ER just like that.

When we have the word wide and we wanna it to be the wide-est, if this is the widest river you've ever seen, then we're going to drop that E before adding EST, so now it is the widest.

Okay.

The last spelling that I want to just talk about today has to do with the ER and the EST.

When we have this word like this one big, and we have a short vowel with a consonant at the end, what we wanna do is we wanna double that consonant before we add the ER.

So this is the word big, when I say double the consonant that means I'm gonna add another G, and then I can say bigger.

So, I am bigger than my daughter.

If I wanna say biggest, I do the same thing, I'm going to double that final consonant, and I can say my husband is the biggest one in our whole family.

He's the tallest, he is the biggest.

And so I would double that consonant.

All right.

We are gonna do a little bit of practice with that.

Are you ready?

Let me move this over just a little bit.

Okay.

So looking here, we're gonna read each word, and circle the letters that make the soft C or the soft G sound in each of the words.

Okay.

So let's look at this first one.

This first one right here is, nice, what letters make the soft C sound?

Do you remember?

Yeah.

It's the CE.

All right.

Good.

How about this one?

Is this ge-m, no, it's gem.

Gem, like a gemstone.

And what letters make the G sound?

That's right, it has to be both the G and the E. How about this word?

Circle, what makes the S sound that soft C?

Is it just the C by itself?

Nope.

It's the C and the I.

Good.

How about over here?

Page, page, are you starting to see a pattern there?

GE.

You got it, nicely done.

How about place?

Place.

Oh, third grade, you are rockstars today.

Nicely done.

Last one, gentle, gentle.

What letters make the G sound?

Is it just the G?

Nope.

You gotta have the G and the E both of them together are what make that soft sound.

Okay.

Now let's jump down below, we're gonna talk a little bit about some of those comparing words, and we're really looking for it says right here, read each sentence and circle the word that compares to people, places or things.

So we're gonna circle when we're comparing two, and underline the word if it compares three or more people, places or things.

Okay.

So an apple is bigger than a grape.

How many things are being compared?

You got it.

Just two.

So we're going to circle the word bigger.

I have the smallest bed of three beds in our house.

So there's a lot of beds, right?

So they said smallest, that means more than two things.

Our dog is five years older than our kitten.

Now I see the word five, but what are we really comparing?

That's right.

Just the dog and the kitten.

So I'm going to circle older, cause I'm only comparing two.

And a giraffe has the longest neck of all of the animals in the zoo.

There's a lot of animals so I know that I'm gonna say it's the longest because there are more than two.

Excellent job.

All right.

My last little bit, I wanna talk about metaphors.

And I have a little bit of a poem here.

We're only gonna read a small piece of it, and that's when, as "Why I run".

So, I'm gonna show you something as soon as we get through here.

So the first marathon I ever saw, was years ago with my grandma.

We stood out on the Boston streets and marveled at the number of feet.

And it's gonna repeat right here.

And marveled at the number of feet.

The runners were a rumbling herd, except for a few like the swiftest of birds.

I'm gonna stop right there because I put that sentence, that is a metaphor, it's a little bit of figurative language.

And the author has given us, and I put it right here on our sentence strip, the runners were a rumbling herd, except for a few.

What is the author comparing in this sentence?

What two things are they kind of comparing that are different?

All right.

Is the author comparing the runners with a few other people?

Or is the author comparing runners and a herd, and a herd?

Yeah, the runners were a rumbling herd.

So I wanna stop for just a second and really think, what do we usually use to describe the word herd, herd?

It's usually a group of animals, right?

Like gazelles or any of those, large animals and they're running and they're thundering can you picture that inside your mind?

Yeah, so whenever we're thinking about herds would we necessarily say that with people?

Not always.

This is where an author has that opportunity to then talk to you the reader and give you a picture in your mind about all the people running.

All right.

Thank you so much, boys and girls for hanging out with me today, I've had a blast going over all of these different things.

Remember you're responsible for your learning success, so have a great day, ask those questions, and I'll see you back here tomorrow.

Bye-bye (slow guitar 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 ♪