♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and the games you 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.

This morning I was reading this book, it's called "The Raft" and it's just such a fun reminder of using our imaginations and sometimes going and visiting grandparents, we can start to think, Oh, they don't even have a TV to watch.

It's gonna be so boring, but sometimes our imaginations can really allow for us to have our own adventures.

And if you're looking for a fantastic adventure this is a great book to check out.

Now, how do you check out our books?

You can do that a couple of different ways.

You can check out books by visiting your local County library, or here in Fresno Unified, we love to celebrate schools that are checking out books using the app Sora, in fact we like it so much.

We even count down the top five schools that have been checking out the most books.

So, let's look and see, in fourth place this week we had Turner Elementary.

So great job Turner.

Now, if you wanna have your school's name up on our countdown, it's super easy to do.

All you need to do is check out a book using the Sora app, and then possibly tell a friend or two in class to do the same so that your numbers can get a little higher and we can give you a shout out.

Another shout out I love to do, is our activity books with PBS, we've got these awesome activity books that are totally free.

How do you get it?

Super easy, do you see that address popping up on the screen below?

Send me a note, let me know, what is it that you're doing in class?

Something you've learned here, or anything that you are interested in sharing.

Maybe a book that you're reading and you'd love to share it with your other third grade friends, and will make sure that I share that on air and I will get an activity book sent to you as long as you remember to include your address.

Okay, let's get started today.

I have three things that we're gonna go through and look at, we're gonna look at our inflectional endings, we're gonna practice some suffixes, and then we're gonna finish up today with some comprehension around root words.

Are you ready to start?

Okay, let's do this.

So let's start by warming up our brains.

We're gonna start by looking at these high-frequency words.

Now high-frequency words are just that, they're words we come across often in our reading and writing, and third grade we know that it's important to be able to read them but it's also important that by third grade we're able to write them, so if you see a word up here and you think to yourself, I don't know if I can spell that one.

Super easy, jot it down, practice it through the week, and by the end of the week, you'll have it.

I know you will.

Okay, let's go through and let's read them together.

Big and loud.

Big, because, black, been, blue, before, both, best, bring, and better.

Okay, I've got two words right here, black and been.

Black is B L A C K, and been is B E E N. Okay, now this one's kind of a little bit of a trick because it looks like it should be pronounced been.

Okay, but it's really it's been so, help me put these in a couple of sentences.

All right, let's read them.

Have you, practicing your spelling?

And she wore a, blouse with jeans today.

Okay, so I knew a blouse is a fancy word for a shirt.

So, I know that I'm describing that shirt, so I'm gonna use an adjective and black is an adjective, so that describes the blouse, let's look.

She wore a black blouse with jeans today.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, okay, great.

And have you been practicing your spelling?

Do you see how we've got it?

It's not been, it's been, okay, great job.

Third grade, we're gonna switch gears just a little bit and we're gonna look at those inflectional endings.

That's just when we're adding S, or ed, or ing.

Okay, so there are some rules that we need to know so that we know how to be really good spellers when it comes to adding these things.

And I know sometimes we sit there and go, oh, there's so many things to remember.

So, let's look, we broke it down, so it's easy to see and we're gonna practice them today.

Okay, so when we think about adding s or ed, there are some times where we're gonna change the spelling.

Okay, and then there's times where we're not, when do we not?

Well, we're not gonna change that spelling whenever we have a vowel plus a y.

So let's look at a couple of examples, see the word enjoy, there's a vowel and then a y.

So, we're not gonna change the spelling when we add s or ed.

So enjoys is really easy to do.

We just simply add the letter s to the end, enjoys.

Obey has a vowel, remember our vowels are A E I O U.

So we've got a vowel, and then the letter y, so no change, if I wanna say she obeyed her dad, we would just add ed, obeyed.

Okay, when do we change the spelling?

Well, we're gonna change that spelling when it's a consonant, plus a y.

So, in the word, try, if we wanna make it be tries, we need to change that y to an I, and then we're gonna add es, she tries her very best.

Now, deny does the same thing, we've got a consonant and then a y, so if we wanna add ed, denied, we're going to change that y to an I, and then add ed.

So really the only time that we're ever having to change our spelling is here when it is a consonant plus y.

Because look down here with me, when we add ing, there's no spelling to words that end with y.

So, if we've got words that end with y, all of these words we did up here, let's take a couple of them it doesn't matter.

How about try?

Let's take try, and let's move it down here with trying, there's no spelling change, so we just add ing and we have trying.

How about enjoying?

Can we take enjoying and move it down here?

Yes we can.

No spelling change, it stays the same.

All we do is add ing.

Okay, what does that look like?

We'll practice it in a little bit.

Let's switch over and talk for a moment about suffixes.

We've been practicing these the last few weeks, we've got a couple of them that we're reviewing but just so that we can remember prefixes are at the beginning base words are those words that can stand on their own, and they have their own meaning like doubt, and play, bright.

Those words, there are no prefixes or suffixes, they're just base words.

A suffix is found at the end of the word, and it changes its meaning.

Okay, so what do I mean?

When I add less, the suffix less means without, so if I have doubt, meaning I'm not thinking it's gonna happen.

Well, doubtless, that means that I'm without doubt.

So doubtless, my mom is going to be upset if I come home late.

That means that I'm pretty sure she's going to be upset, all right?

How about play?

Well, when you're outside and you're playing you can be very silly.

Now full of play, you would simply say you are playful.

I think of puppies and kitties can be very playful when they get kind of crazy in the evenings right before bed, right?

They all kind of seem to do that in my house anyways.

And then we've got bright.

Now, ness, ness is the state or condition of, so brightness would be the condition of maybe the room.

Maybe your room is full of brightness.

Okay, excellent.

What do these look like when we go through and we wanna practice them?

So, thinking back to our inflectional endings when we're talking about adding that s, or ed, or ing, let's practice some of those spellings right here.

So it says, write a word from the box on the line to show the correct spelling of adding s, es, ed or ing to the word.

Okay, so here's our word, play, and we wanna make it plural, plays.

What do we do when we have a vowel, and then y?

Do you remember?

That's right, we don't do anything, we just leave the spelling the same.

So we just say, she plays all day.

Okay, how about dry, and we wanna add ed?

Do remember we have a consonant and then the y, that's the only time that we have to change our spelling, right?

What do we change that y to?

That's right, we change it to an I and add ed, so D R I changed that y, and ed, good.

How about flying?

Do we change any of our spelling when we're adding ing?

Nope, it stays the same, so flying we just add the ing.

How about stays?

Same rule applies like we did with plays.

So stays, we just add the s, and I always like to circle them when I get them done, so I remember what I've used.

Okay, let's look down here and we're gonna talk about some of those suffixes that we were adding earlier.

We've got a little definition here, and then we've got to choose a word from our box that fits down here.

So, something is full of joy, what would our word be?

Would it be fearless, joyful, wonderful, or sadness?

You got it, it would be joyful.

So let's write that here on the line.

Let's do one more.

How about without fear?

Without fear would be fearless, wonderful or sadness.

You got, it would be fearless.

They are very fearless cats, right?

When they're hunting their mice.

Okay, let's finish off today by talking a little bit about those root words.

And I always like it when we talk about root words after we've talked about prefixes and suffixes.

Because then we start training our brains to pull those little pieces off.

When we can find that root word, it can help us understand what it is that we're looking for.

So let's look at this sentence right here.

The rules of the game seemed unfair.

Okay, so let's think about this for a second.

The word unfair, so we have a prefix?

We do, we have the prefixes un, well fair, we know means things are gonna be kind of the same.

What happens when we add that prefix on, what does it mean?

That's right on means not, so would we say that unfair is somewhat fair or not fair?

You got it because we looked at that prefix that helped us understand.

We found the root, looked at our prefix, great job.

All right, so third grade, I just want to say, thanks for hanging out with me today.

We went through, we talked about our inflectional endings, our suffixes, our root words, and we are getting so smart.

So great job.

Remember, your 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 finding all of those things and practicing.

And I can't wait to see you back here at PBS tomorrow morning, have a good one, stay safe, 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)