♪ 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. Nix.

I am so excited to be with you it's Friday morning and I love being able to support you to become amazing thinkers, readers, and writers.

So I know that I have shared my favorite illustrator a bunch of times on here, but guess what?

I found another fantastic book that has my illust... You don't remember what the illustrator's job is?

Oh, Oh yes, you do.

Excellent job.

The illustrator is the one who draws the pictures.

So this particular book is called.

"I Wanna Go Home."

Now, the author the one who writes the story is Karen Kaufman Orloff.

But the illustrator, is what caught my eye because I love looking at David Catrow's artwork.

It's fantastic.

But the story is also equally as good.

This one is all about a young boy who doesn't get to go on vacation with his parents and instead is hanging out with grandma and grandpa.

I'm gonna tell you things actually don't turn out half as bad as this little guy predicts but you're gonna have to check out the story to figure out what happened.

Okay, how do you check out this story?

It's super easy.

You can go through, check it out at your local county library or go online and check it out with Sora.

Now, here in Fresno Unified we love counting down our top five schools for the most books checked out from Sora and in first place this last week was Ewing Elementary.

So fantastic job Ewing.

We are so proud of you.

I almost wanna say, I think that that's a couple of weeks in a row now, right?

So you really doing a fantastic job.

Now, I have one other thing that I wanna talk about and that are these super fun activity books.

If you're looking for something fun and free to do all you need to do is send me a card or an email to the address below, make sure that you include your return address.

And I'll put one of these, they're free in the mail for you.

There, it's full of stickers, dot to dots, word searches, secret messages, all sorts of fun activities.

So send that my way and I'll make sure that I send one to you.

Okay, I have three things that we're gonna go through today.

We're gonna talk about common roots, closed syllables and context clues.

We've been practicing them all week long.

And I know that you have been practicing too and are gonna be outstanding today.

What do we do first?

That's right.

We warm up our brains by looking at these high frequency words.

And I know you've been practicing them because you are in charge of your learning success.

All right, let's go through and let's read them today.

Okay, let's go.

Should, would, yellow, years, you're, your, right, write, laugh and does.

Okay, these two words, that's kind of funny then we saved them all the way for Friday but laugh is L-A-U-G-H. Ooh, that's a hard one to spell, right?

And does, D-O-E-S, I have the time third grade.

I've been teaching third grade for a lot of years and a lot of third graders misspell the word does.

So make sure that you're thinking about it when you're writing it.

Okay, help me use them in a couple of sentences.

They easily hmm, at the silliest things and he hmm, a lot of chores around the house.

Okay, well, silly things make us laugh, right?

They easily laugh at the silliest things.

We're using some context clues.

Good job.

He does a lot of chores around the house.

Excellent job.

Okay, third grade, let's switch gears just a little bit and let's start with some of the things we're gonna be practicing this week.

Now, we've been talking about common roots.

Roots are just that small piece of word that has some meaning to us.

And if we know what those roots are we can start to see some patterns amongst words and we can call them word families.

So let's look and see a couple of examples.

So I've got the route act, A-C-T, which means do or go.

And so when I look at words that have act in them I've got words like action and active and react.

And when I think about all of these words they are doing something or going somewhere, being active, wiggling around, right?

You're doing something.

Action, when there's action happening.

There's things that are happening all around.

Okay, this M-A-G-N, magn, means large and great.

So thinking about like a magnet or magnify, making things so that you can see them or attracted to you.

All right, let's switch gears just a little bit and talk about syllables.

So there are six different syllable types.

And this week we focused all on that closed syllable in order for it to be closed.

It simply means that, that vowels is followed by a consonant in that syllable.

I'm gonna show you what that looks like.

And because it's closed, our vowel is short.

So what does that look like?

Let's review.

So when we go through and we're talking about syllables, how many vowel sounds are in a syllable?

One, good.

Okay, so that means every syllable has one vowel sound.

So the first thing we need to do is find the vowels.

Okay, what are vowels?

A-E-I-O and U.

Good.

So looking here, I see A and E. So these are our vowels.

I'm gonna put V for vowel.

Then I've got two consonants in between.

There they are, S and K, whenever I have this pattern, vowel, consonant, consonant, vowel.

I know I can split my consonants, into two different syllables.

So I've got basket, and these are closed syllables because after the vowel, there is a consonant.

So let's do another one, looking for the vowels.

I see A and I, those are my vowels.

So I'm gonna put V for vowel and I've got two consonants and then I'm gonna be able to split right between my two consonants.

So again, closed syllables.

Napkin.

Vowels are short.

How about over here?

Do I have any vowels?

Okay, I've got I, I, Oh, and an E. Okay, third grade.

I wanna talk about this one.

This E is like a magic E it doesn't have a vowel sound.

And it's because it's silent.

I'm not gonna mark it.

I'm gonna leave it alone because I'm really looking at my sound, syllables have to do with sounds.

So I've got invite.

So I've got vowel.

Vowel.

In between I've got consonant, consonant, and I'm gonna split between my two consonants that are right here.

Now, this one might look a little bit different because I've got my vowel at the beginning.

Now, there's a consonant afterwards but I didn't have a consonant at the beginning.

So don't let that throw you off.

We're just paying attention to the consonant that's next door.

And there is one.

So it is considered a closed syllable.

So it's gonna have a short vowel sound.

So invite.

Okay, now this one has that long vowel sound because it's got that magic E. Okay, what does this look like in practice?

Well, (clears throat) lots of different things, lots of different ways.

And you're able to go through and practice them.

We're gonna apply it today.

So we're gonna look through here.

We have all sorts of things.

We have common root words that we're gonna come across.

We have words that have that closed syllable pattern but essentially it's all about farming and gardening.

And I love it because it's spring time.

And it's a great time to go through and practice, some of the things that we've been working on this week.

So let's go through and read it together.

Ready?

Okay, join me.

Farm and garden.

Gardening is a fun hobby.

It can also be an interesting job.

Gardeners care for plants and flowers.

Farmers are in the garden business, too.

They grow plants, vines, or flowers.

They take care of flowering trees that produce fruit.

Caring for planting.

Oh, there's a mistake.

Caring for plants.

I'm gonna even fix it right here.

Caring for plants, keeps gardeners and farmers busy even in the winter.

They plant seeds and care for seedlings.

They maintain the plants growth and protect them from extreme heat or cold.

When the plants have grown, the fruit is harvested.

Harvesting means picking the fruits and vegetables or cutting the flowers.

Farmers take the harvest to market to sell.

Gardeners, share their harvest with their household.

Nothing is nicer than a house filled with fresh cut home grown flowers, and nothing is tastier than produce you grew yourself.

All right.

Did you see all of those words that are, have those common roots?

We had gardening and gardeners and all sorts of things, flowers and flowering.

All right.

Excellent job.

So much fun.

Okay, it's Friday.

Let's finish off a little bit with our context clues.

So this particular sentence here we're gonna look for the meaning of encouraging.

Now, authors often will give us some clues as to what some vocabulary is within a sentence and you're gonna help me be a an amazing thinker and figure this out.

So let's read it.

Knowing that someone can help you in a time of need is a very encouraging thought.

Okay, so encouraging.

Knowing that someone can help you in a time of need is a very encouraging thought.

So the clue here that really can help us, decipher what encouraging is, is knowing that someone can help you.

And I'm gonna put this little kind of this little pipe cleaner right here.

So someone can help you is actually encouraging.

So what are they doing for us?

Are they giving us hope or is it doing something terrible for us?

When someone is helping, we're giving hope.

Great job.

So third grade, as you go through and you are practicing your reading, make sure that you are thinking about all of those words and how they make sense.

That's what those context clues are all about.

It's Friday.

I'm so excited.

We finished off a week.

We practiced our common roots, our closed syllables and our context clues.

And you rocked it, so great job.

(clears throat) Remember, you're 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 weekend.

Can't wait to see you back here on Monday, take care and be safe.

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 ♪