(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 ♪ (guitar music) (bright upbeat music) - Good morning third graders, happy Thursday.

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

Speaking of readers and writers, I always love to put a little plug in for these awesome activity books that we have down here at PBS and it's super easy to get them.

All you need to do is send me a letter, you can do it to the link at the address that's listed below, or you can even email me but don't forget to include your address so that I can put one of these in the mail.

It's totally free for you.

And you can practice all those thinking and reading and writing skills right in here, plus maybe get a little fun on the side as well.

Right?

Okay.

Because we're always trying to be better with our school, we're always trying to improve.

And one way that we can do that is with our reading.

And so when I think about reading, I think about, "Hmm, what are some good books that are out there?

What are you reading?"

You can tell me about that when you write a letter.

And some great places to find some awesome books check out the books through your local County library or go online, in Fresno Unified we're using the Sora app and if you wanna check out those books on Sora, that's a great resource.

And here in Fresno we love to count down those top five schools that are checking out books using Sora.

And in second place this last week is actually Wilson Elementary.

So our friends at Wilson, great job.

Keep up that good work.

If you wanna see your school up here again it's super easy to do, you just check out those books using Sora and then maybe have your classmates, the more people who check out books using Sora the more likely you're gonna be on our little shout out board.

So great job.

All right, third grade I have three things that we're gonna do today.

We're gonna start out by talking about inflectional endings, we're gonna talk about suffixes and then finish off with homographs.

Are you ready to start?

Okay, let's start out by just warming up those super smart muscles that we've got our brains and let's go through and read our high-frequency words.

Remember, these are words that we're seeing often in our reading and writing.

We've been practicing them this week and I can only imagine how fantastic you are.

Let's go through and warm us up.

Here we go.

Work, would, word, with, will, wish, who, why, white and which.

Okay, our two words today that we're gonna practice are who and why?

Okay, why is, W-H-Y and who is W-H-O.

Okay, how many use these in a couple of sentences?

Is that stopped by earlier?

Do you know the sky is blue?

Oh, I could almost hear you all the way down here.

Do you know why the sky is blue?

I'm not really sure but we're gonna have to look that one up.

I bet our friends in science can help us out.

Is that who stopped by earlier?

Is that who stopped by earlier?

All right, excellent job.

All right.

So third grade we've been working on inflectional endings this week.

And that's simply when we're adding an s, sometimes it has to be an es, do you remember when?

Okay, we'll talk about it.

And then adding ed and ing and some of the rules that go with that as well.

This is a review, so I don't necessarily have all of our cheater notes up here for us, because I want us to be using our brains.

You've got it.

Okay, I did leave up yesterday so that we can kinda talk through it and use it as a reference but let's start by adding s and es.

So, if I have the word provide, provide ends with that letter e, is there anything if I wanna say; she provides, the school provides school lunch, I don't have to change anything.

I simply can just add s just like we did up up above with offer we just add an s. There's nothing fancy about those words.

Now there is something with the word splotch.

What letters are at the end of the word splotch?

Do you see it?

Right there, it's got that ch, so anytime we have a word that ends with a ch, and sh, x, s, double s, we wanna make sure that we add es if we're making it plural.

So splotches, there are many splotches of paint on my shirt.

Okay, now when we get over here and we start talking about adding ed and ing there's a couple of things to think about.

Really, we have kinda two things.

If the word ends with an e then we drop that e before adding ed.

So just like we did up here with the word notice we dropped that e and added ed.

Now, this one regret has a short e sound.

And in order for that e to stay short we have to do something to it.

We need to double that final consonant and then we can add ed.

So regretted actually has two t's in it, just like that.

So we did the same thing up here with the word drop, we had to double that final p before adding ing.

And here, when we have the word encourage, now encourage, this is actually a long a sound, encourage I guess is probably how it's supposed to be if you were to read it phonetically, but we drop the e and then we add ing.

So anytime there's an e at the end, you just drop that final e before adding our inflectional ending.

Okay, let's take a little moment and talk about some suffixes.

We've got three suffixes that we've been practicing this week.

Let's go through, let's read them and then we'll talk about what they mean.

So we've got less, ful and able.

So less means without.

So if I have my base word of spot and I wanted to say, well, there are no spots.

I could say, I could add the suffix less which means without spots, and the word becomes spotless.

It's spotless.

So here is ful, which means full-of and our base word is cheer, so if someone is full of cheer we would say they are a very cheerful person.

Good.

And then now we've got the base word of comfort.

Now able means that it can be done.

It's a good fit, or it's good for something.

So I could add able and have the word comfortable, comfortable, meaning my shoes are a good fit.

They're good for making my feet full of comfort.

Right?

Okay.

So what might this look like in a little bit of practice, let's go practicing a little bit.

Okay, so when I have the word dance and I wanna add sed or ing, what do I need to add to the word dance or do I need to add anything to it?

So if I have the word dance and I wanna say dances, do I do anything?

Nope, just add the s. Good.

How about, what if I said danced?

Danced.

Okay.

Danced, I would drop the e and then add ed.

Now, notice I really like that, it's not, we don't have the same sound for that ed, sometimes it sounds like a t, danced.

Sometimes it's ed and sometimes it's d, so there's really three sounds with that.

Okay, how about dancing?

What do I do?

So I would have D-A-N-C, drop that e and then add ing just like that.

Look at all of this stuff we're having to think as we're doing.

Okay, let's do one more.

Let's go, hope, she hopes.

So I'm gonna leave the e all I have to do is add the s. Now if it's hoped remember you drop the e and then add ed so, hoped.

And what about hoping?

Just drop that e again just like what we did before and then we're gonna have ing, hoping.

Okay.

All right, let's do one last one, wrap, 'cause I think it's really important when we've got that short a sound.

So wraps, maybe we're gonna have some taco wraps.

We simply just have wrap and add the s but if we wrapped our burritos, maybe where we want to make sure that we double that p and then add ed same with ing.

So wrapping, I am wrapping my gifts, remember double the final consonant and add ing.

And we did that because that a is a short a sound.

All right, down below we've got a little bit of sorting that we're gonna do.

And remember we're trying to train our brains to be able to see all of those suffixes, we're training our brains to find that ful, less, able.

So, looking right here at all of our words can we find those spelling patterns?

So let's look right here, tasteless.

Are you starting to see that pop out of you?

Yeah, the more you practice, the better you're gonna get.

How about this one?

What do you see?

Do you see the ful?

Yep, what do we have left?

Peace.

So the word is peaceful.

We're gonna put it right here.

How about here?

Usable, I see the able.

All right.

What do we have here?

Oh, I see able again.

Agreeable, okay, so let's put it over here with the able.

How about here?

Ooh, I see ful at the end.

Good job.

So successful.

Let's move it over here.

I see able, so we've got likable.

Excellent.

This one's sleepless.

And last one useless.

You guys are doing fantastic.

All right.

Let's finish off today's learning with some homographs.

Now homographs are simply words that have the same spelling but very different meanings.

We've talked about a lot of different things up here.

Ring is another one.

You can have a wedding ring, or maybe the ringtone that you have.

So that word ring means different things but it's spelled the same.

Well, here's another example.

The word row.

Row has different meanings but the same spelling.

So we have to look at and use our context clues to be able to figure out what does row mean.

All right, help me out, let's read it.

They lined up the jars in a row and put water in them.

Okay, well, I know that it's not a noise of a lion, that's just silly, that doesn't make any sense at all.

How about forming a line?

Can it make a line?

Did we put the jars and made a line of jars?

Or how about this one?

Propelling a boat with oars.

Were they rowing with oars?

They lined up the jars in a row.

You got it, they formed a line.

That is our correct answer.

Make sure that you're always using that brain.

You guys are so smart.

I appreciate all that you've done with me.

So thanks for hanging out with me this morning, I hope you have a fantastic afternoon.

Remember, you are responsible for your learning success.

So listen, ask questions and share your ideas because together we can do so much more.

Have a great afternoon I'll see you back here tomorrow.

Bye-bye (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 ♪ (guitar music)