♪ 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 and support you as you become amazing thinkers, readers, and writers.

So this morning, what are you reading?

What fantastic book have you found?

Have you been visiting your county local libraries, your school libraries?

Have you been checking out some books on Sora?

You have, that's great.

Are you helping your school here in Fresno Unified to get up on our Sora shout out board?

Let's check out, 'cause we've been doing this all week long, who made it to that top three of the top schools to check out books?

Let's look and see, who was in that third place?

It's Wilson Elementary, great job, Wilson.

We just wanna say thank you so much for all the hard work that you're doing.

And if you wanna send me a note and let me know what it is that you've been reading, you're gonna see an address there at the bottom of your screen.

There's even an email address if you wanna do it that way 'cause it's totally free.

If you send me a note, let me know something you've been learning, maybe it's in school, something you've seen on PBS or even just a book that you've been enjoying.

I will put one of these activity books in the mail for free for you.

Just make sure that you include your return address.

Excellent job.

All right, third grade, I have two things we're gonna go through today.

We're gonna talk about some vowel team syllables, and we're gonna finish off with a whole bunch of work around our Greek and Latin roots.

Now, to help us get started this morning, I really want to warm up those brains.

We're gonna look at these high-frequency words, you're gonna read them at home big and loud.

I'll read them here in the studio, and I'm gonna count on you if you're coming across something and you see it and you think to yourself, I could practice spelling that, make sure you jot it down and practice it.

That's the greatest way to be responsible for your learning success.

All right, let's read those high frequency words together, are you ready?

Okay, got, green, had, has, have, grow, hold, hot, hurt, and how.

Great job, third grade, we are gonna focus on these two words, have, H A V E, and grow, G R O W. Let's put them into a couple of sentences, help me out.

Okay, let's learn how to, flowers, and we, one dog and one cat.

Okay, well, we grow one dog and one cat probably doesn't make as much sense as we have one dog and one cat.

And how about this?

Let's learn how to grow flowers.

Do you know how to grow flowers?

Oh, I'm telling you I have a flower right now that is not doing so well you maybe you can come and help me.

Okay, let's switch gears and talk about those vowel teams syllables.

Now Val team syllables, why do we need to learn about them?

Okay, as time progresses and you're starting, especially now we're at the end of third grade, you're getting ready for fourth grade, the words are getting longer.

And so we need to make sure that we're training our brains to see those familiar chunks that we've been practicing in smaller words.

We need to find them in those bigger words to help us to become better readers.

That's really gonna help us become better spellers too.

Okay, so here's just a reminder, every syllable in a word has one vowel sound.

And that's important to think about it's not that it has one vowel, it has one vowel sound.

So just a reminder too, vowel teams are two or more letters working together in a word to form one vowel sound.

Now, I really wanna point that out.

Things like E Y, even though that this is not necessarily two vowels together it's still is a combination that makes a vowel sound.

It can say ey like in grey, it can, you know, it has a combination all by itself at the same with like, O W 'cause you can say bow, you know, can have that O, it can have the ow like in cow.

So, think about and we really are training our brains today to find these vowel teams.

Okay, so, what am I talking about?

Let's look at it up here, we've got a couple of words we're gonna practice.

We're looking for those vowel teams and we're gonna divide our word into the syllables.

So looking, I'm looking to see, do I see any vowel teams?

Do I see any vowels?

Okay, I see AI right here together, and I know that that is going to be a vowel team.

I'm never gonna split that vowel team, it stays together.

So I've got one vowel, two vowels, so how many syllables am I gonna have in this word?

I'm gonna have two.

So, I'm looking right here, where am I going to split it?

Mail box, I'm gonna go right between the L and the B, I've got mail and box, just like that.

Let's try it again.

I'm looking for my vowels, I've got O A together, that's a vowel team, so I know that this is gonna be in one syllable.

Then I've got an A by itself, I know that that's going to be a second syllable.

So here we go, we've got coat and rack.

See, I was able to chunk that into two syllables, right there, coat and rack, coatrack, excellent job.

Okay, now, I wanna just talk briefly about Greek and Latin roots before we get into some practice today.

There are these four, we're just highlighting specifically this week.

I've been recommending maybe jot these down in a notebook so that you can practice them later.

Maybe you're gonna do a little bit of a word study and you're going to try and find other words that have these Greek and Latin roots in them.

So, in your book, you might write down astro or aster.

And when you see that root, you know that it means star or outer space.

You might write down photo and that photo means light.

Graph means something written, and tele is for something that is far.

We're gonna look at tele today that's our one that we're gonna focus in on.

I've got two definitions that are written here, and then I have two words that we're going to actually identify, so I'm gonna just stick them here, I don't know if I've got them in the right spot or we need to move them, but let's look, do we see that tele?

Yeah, I see it right there.

And, okay, so we have telescope and telephone.

Okay, so, let's read our definitions.

A tool used to speak with someone far away.

Okay, well, it's not gonna be a telescope, but might it be a telephone?

So let's put that up here so that we know a telephone is something used to speak with someone far away, and tele is gonna tell us that.

So, a telescope is a tool for seeing things that are far away.

Again, it's got that tele in they're, far away, so we have to use a scope to be able to see, okay.

What can, oh, let's go through and let's practice.

All of a sudden, Mrs. Nix was not thinking about what we were doing next.

Okay, let's look over here.

We're gonna practice some of these things.

We're gonna practice our vowel teams, we're gonna practice some of those Greek and Latin roots.

Now remember on those vowel teams, we're looking for those letters that make a single vowel sound.

Now, it says circle the vowel team syllables below and then we're gonna divide those words into our syllables.

So here's the word complain, complain, do we see that vowel team?

I see it, it's right here.

So we're not gonna split that when we divide our word into two syllables.

Com plain, what do we hear?

Com and then we have plane as our second syllable, good.

Explained, explained, all right, so we've got A I right here, so we've got ex plained, and they've got explained, good, Detail, we're gonna split, we've got the AI right there, so then we've got de and tail, so each syllable all has a vowel sound, excellent job.

Let's go down and let's look at our Greek and Latin roots.

Now, remember we've been practicing astro, graph, photo and tele, so those are all there for us to reference back.

And it says right here, read each sentence and circle the word that has a Greek or Latin root.

Okay, so let's see, we gotta be detectives here and let's find them.

We use a telescope to see the stars.

Did you see that word?

What one was it?

Yes, telescope right here, telescope has it and then what is the Greek or the Latin root that's in there?

You got it, tele, the one that we practiced today, good.

We use a camera to take photographs.

Ooh, yes, photographs actually has two of our roots.

It has photo and graph, good.

All right, how about an astronaut travels into space?

Do you see our word?

Yes, astro is our root that we're practicing this week, good.

How about a biography tells the story of a person life.

Do you see it?

Yup, biography he has, and what's the root we were practicing?

Graph, good job.

We use it telephone to make calls to people.

You got it, telephone is the word.

What the root?

Tele, great, excellent job.

All right, let's finish off today, talking about a few other Greek and Latin roots.

Now these particular ones I've got them written up here in color.

They're just kind of parts of words.

So you can see like or means mouth, fin means end, orb means circle, cid means cut, mir means wonder or amazement.

Now, today we have this orator, orator, orator, orator, yes, I had to say it a million times it's a new word for me, I had to practice, do you practice your words?

I do all the time.

So, I can look right here and I can see it has, O R in there, and I'm gonna look on my list and O R means, it's something to do with your mouth.

Okay, so orator means something to do with your mouth.

Now I'm gonna use it in a sentence and see if that can give me some more clues.

The orator delivered his speech effectively.

Ooh, so it's a person.

Okay, because I saw the pronoun, his, so it's someone who does something, an orator has something to do with their mouth.

Let me look at my choices, what do I have?

I have a cave opening, well I know it can't be that because the pronoun, his, tells me it's a person, a very sweet fruit, again, not a person.

How about a speaker?

Is an orator a speaker?

Yes, because look, they delivered the speech effectively.

So, now I have a new word that I can add to by practice books, awesome job.

Okay, third grade, I just wanna say thank you so much for hanging out with me this morning as you're getting ready for school.

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 hope you have a fantastic day and I can't wait to see you back here tomorrow at PBS so that we can practice some more of these Greek and Latin roots.

Have a great one, I'll see you then, bye-bye.

(upbeat 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 ♪ (upbeat music)