(warm 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 ♪ (playful music) - Good morning, third graders!

My name is Mrs. Nixon.

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

Happy Friday!

We've made it through a whole week, and this week, we've been focusing in on poetry.

So, to do that, I just wanna tell you I have a little love poem just for you.

You wanna hear it?

Okay, here it goes, it says, "I love you, I love you, I love you, I do.

But don't get excited, I love monkeys too."

All right, so a little bit silly, but I figured it was Friday.

Again, I know I talked about this particular book the other day.

This is "Miles of Smiles," it's a collection of all sorts of funny and hilarious poems put together by Bruce Lansky.

You can find books like this and many others, Shel Silverstein is another great poet that has a wonderful collection for students to read, and you can do that by visiting your local county libraries or going online and checking a book out through Sora.

Now, here in Fresno Unified, we love to share and celebrate our schools that are the top checkout schools, we count down the top five.

It's Friday, so we're ready to find out who is in that number one spot.

And it is Heaton Elementary!

Wow, congratulations, Heaton!

You guys are doing a fantastic job checking out those books on Sora, and I know that you're gonna be amazing readers with all that practice that you're doing, so keep up that hard work.

I'd love to see you back on the top five next week as we count down.

Now, boys and girls, I also wanna put just a little plug in for our activity books, and these are free.

You're gonna notice an address that's gonna pop up on the screen right there.

It's super easy to get a free activity book.

Just send me a letter or write me an email, but don't forget to include your return address, and I'm gonna put one of these free activity books in the mail for you.

There's all kinds of stuff, word searches and dot-to-dot puzzles.

So, something fun for everyone.

All right, are we ready to start?

It's Friday, let's get through here.

We've got our final, look at all of these words we've been practicing, we have our final 10.

These have been the last five weeks of words that you and I have been practicing every single day.

So we're gonna go through, we're gonna read those bottom 10 words together just to warm up that super smart muscle, our brain.

Let's go.

Here we go.

Said, same, run, round, ride, right.

Now, remember this could be read or read, red, put, and ran.

Wow, nicely done!

We just read 50 words just in this week.

You guys are so amazing, I'm so impressed!

Okay, today we're gonna go through and we're gonna review that poetry, the features of a poem.

We're gonna talk about how to publish and some of the steps that we need to publish our poems 'cause we've been practicing writing all week, and this is that finishing, that final step.

And then we're gonna look at some irregular verbs with our grammar.

All right, let's get started.

Let's review what is found in a poem.

These are our features in our poem, so we wanna make sure that we're expressing feelings and ideas in our poem.

We wanna make sure that it's organized in lines and stanzas.

We also wanna make sure that we've got some rhyme and some rhythm.

Now, we don't have to always have that, but it's always a little more fun, I think, that's my personal opinion.

Using figurative language such as similes and metaphors, that's something we've been practicing over the last few weeks.

And then trying to include those descriptive words that appeal to the reader's senses, so thinking about what you can see, hear, smell, taste, touch.

We wanna include those types of words in a poem.

Okay, so we have done.

And our writing process, let's look through here.

So, just like when you go to write a story, writing a poem's the same thing.

So we started with planning.

We had some ideas, got 'em down on paper.

Then we actually wrote it out and made that rough draft.

And it was a mess, remember we had to go back and figure out words that could rhyme.

And then we kind of, we revised it, then we went through and we edited yesterday.

We looked for spelling errors, punctuation, capitalization, things like that.

And now we're ready to publish.

So what are some steps that we're gonna take before or in order for us to publish?

Well, this is that time where we're gonna write it that last time.

This is where we're gonna make it, it's gonna be a clean, neat final copy.

So, maybe you do it in your very best handwriting.

Maybe you type it out.

It's up to you.

It's how you wanna present it to others.

Now, multimedia is something that you might consider including, so including some illustrations or photos, maps, videos.

Maybe it's gonna include some audio.

Maybe you're gonna have some music playing in the background or maybe it's a recording of yourself reading it.

Now, when you go to publish it in print, maybe you're gonna make a whole collage, a whole grouping of a whole bunch of poems together.

Maybe you're gonna put it in a journal entry or you're gonna do a group presentation of poetry.

Have any of you ever gone and read for maybe your school, and you get up together or as a class and you do a group presentation?

So that might be something that you consider doing.

Going down here, we'll have our digital.

Digitally, a way that you could publish.

So maybe you put a digital poetry collection together, so you're gonna put it online, you've got all of your poems together.

And again, maybe you record your poetry performance and you put those online for others to enjoy.

Thinking about and preparing yourself for presenting your poem.

There's some steps that you're gonna wanna do.

You're gonna wanna make sure that you prepare and that you rehearse because you're not gonna wanna go out there having not practiced what you're gonna say.

And then this is a great tidbit.

Tell why you chose your topic.

That always brings that personal touch to your presentation when you're gonna share with others.

So you're gonna go out, rehearse it, tell them why, and perform.

And when you finish that, then it's time for you to kind of evaluate.

So now you might pull out that rubric, and you're gonna look, did I meet all of the requirements for this assignment?

And this is the piece that's the most important, reflect and set goals.

So think to yourself, where have you shown improvement?

So where are you as a writer?

And what areas need further improvement?

How might you make it better next time, because we're always striving to become better readers and writers.

Okay, let's look and see what this looks like with our poem that we have been working on.

So, remember we talked about the carnival.

This is what our rough draft has looked like throughout the week.

And I just wanted to show it to you so you can remember.

You know, we went through and we revised, we edited all the things in red.

Now it's time for us to have a published copy.

And so it's gonna look, it'll look like this and change to look like that.

What do you think?

Much better, nice and clean, no spelling errors.

Okay, let's go through, let's read it, make sure that we really like it, and let's do it together.

Okay, you've heard it a few times, so read with me.

"The Carnival."

"The carnival came when I was ten, I went two times, then went again.

A ride was spinning, called Wheel and Top, Arms like an octopus climb and drop.

I scrambled on to take a ride, The music played its tunes inside.

The carnival came when I was ten, I went two times, then went again.

Hot dogs, pretzels, apples, too, So much fun, too much to do.

I wandered home tired and dazed, As the lights behind me sparkled and blazed."

Wow, that was so awesome to see it all together!

How many stanzas do we have?

Here's one stanza, see, there's some space here.

Here's our second stanza.

Did we have words that rhymed?

Yeah, ten and again, top and drop, ride and inside.

So, these two rhyme, these two rhyme, these two rhyme.

Did we follow that same pattern when we came down here?

Ten and again.

Yep, they rhymed.

Too and do, yep.

Dazed and blazed, yes!

So we follow that same pattern.

Same number of lines, yes!

Okay, so a great way to check is to always look at a rubric.

So we have a rubric here that's gonna tell us all of the pieces, and we can kind of go through and check them off.

So I just wanna quickly look at what a four, 'cause a four would be our most that we could get on this.

So, clearly and cleverly expresses ideas or feelings, did we do that?

Yeah.

Poem is organized into lines and stanzas, yes.

Uses strong, descriptive words that appeals to senses.

Oh yeah, we did that one.

Figurative language, rhyming lines with clear rhythm.

Free or almost free of errors.

Yeah, it's easy to read.

Neat and consistently formatted, yes.

So, this one definitely would earn itself a four.

Great job on this one.

Okay, I am so excited to see what yours look like that you've been working on.

So make sure that you share 'em with me 'cause it's so much fun to see.

All right, let's finish up this week with a little bit of practice with irregular verbs.

So, irregular verbs are simply reminding us that not all verbs end with -ed, that an irregular verb has a special spelling for the past tense.

So here's some examples.

Come becomes came.

Do becomes did.

Say becomes said.

These are all those words that we've practiced and seen over time.

So let's go through and let's look at how to correct the past tense form of the verb to finish this sentence.

So we're looking at the word come.

What's the past tense?

Hmm.

Let's practice it.

An author, mm, to our school yesterday.

So would we say comed?

No, we would say an author came to our school.

What's the past tense of eat?

We eated our lunch outside today?

No, you guys are so smart!

We ate our lunch.

How about go, do we say goed?

No.

My friend, mm, camping last week.

So, my friend, we would actually change that completely and say, my friend went camping last week.

All right, I know that as you are practicing all of these verbs, all of the different grammar pieces that we've talked about this week, you're gonna do a fantastic job finding those in all of your books that you're reading.

I just wanna say thank you so much for hanging out with me as you're getting ready for school.

I hope that you enjoyed our week looking at all of our poetry, and I am so excited to hear some of the poems that you have written at home.

So make sure you share 'em, and I'll make sure that I share with you one of those awesome free activity books.

All right.

It's Friday, 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 Friday, enjoy your weekend, stay safe.

I look forward to seeing you back here on Monday.

Bye bye.

(warm 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 ♪