♪ 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 ♪ (bright upbeat music) - Good morning third grade.

My name is Mrs. Nix and I am so excited to be here and to support you as you become amazing thinkers, readers, and writers.

Today the book that I have to share with you is called A Trip to the Country for Marvin and James.

And it is all about some young boys and girls who get together and they have some little beetles that they set on a little adventure.

And they're very curious about how these little beetles are going to be on their little boat ride down the river.

I wonder how things are gonna turn out.

Have you ever done some creative imaginative play?

It's one of my most favorite things to be able to do.

And it's so fun to be able to get some ideas when you're reading a book.

So I strongly encourage you to find a book that brings you as much joy and then get outside and give it a try.

Now, where can you find these books?

Check 'em out through your local County library or go online and download one from Sora.

It's an app that's free here in Fresno Unified, okay.

Another thing I wanna just point out to us here that's super free.

Down at PBS, we have these activity books.

And if you send me a note to the address on your screen or an email but don't forget to include your return address, I'll put one of these free activity books in the mail for you.

Now in here there are puzzles and word searches and all sorts of fun games.

So if this is something you would like, send me a note.

And in that note, maybe you tell me about a book that you're reading or something you're learning in school or something you enjoyed here on PBS.

I'd love to hear from you, all right.

Third grade I have three things that we're gonna go through today.

We're gonna talk about prefixes and suffixes, open syllables and then we're gonna finish off with homophones.

Are you ready to start, okay.

Let's warm up those brains today.

We're gonna look at those high frequency words and review all of them that we've been practicing this week.

And I know that you have been practicing any of them up here that maybe at the beginning of the week you weren't able to read and write all by yourself.

And I am absolutely convinced that you are amazing and you are getting it now that we're getting closer to the end, okay.

So let's read 'em and use 'em in a sentence.

Here we go.

From, full, gave, funny, give, get, go, goes, good and going.

All right.

Today's two words are go G-O and goes G-O-E-S, all right.

So help me use 'em in a couple of sentences.

Sam to swim practice every day.

And let's together, said Katie.

All right.

So let's goes together.

No that doesn't sound right.

Let's go together.

We use goes when we're talking about one particular person.

So Sam goes to swim practice every day.

Yes, she does.

All right, awesome.

Okay third grade, let's switch gears.

We're gonna to talk about prefixes and suffixes.

We've been practicing them all week long.

In our weeks prior to we focused solely on prefixes and then we studied just suffixes.

This week we've been bringing them all together.

So prefixes are those clumps of letters that are put together at the beginning of a word to change the meaning.

Whereas suffixes are found at the end of a word and they change the meaning of a base word.

But they don't stand on their own.

The only thing that can stand all on its own are base words.

So here are today's examples.

I've got color, accept and thought, okay.

So these are our base words.

We're gonna build on these base words today using some prefixes and suffixes and talk about how the words can change just by adding prefixes and suffixes, okay.

So let's take the word color for example.

If I want to take some of these suffixes, if I take the suffix -ful, which means full of and I take that suffix and put it at the end of color, I now have a word that means that it is full of color and this word is colorful, all right.

Now, if I jump over here and I talk about my prefixes, I've got a prefix right here -un that means not, not.

Now if I put that prefix in front and I say uncolorful, now I've changed the meaning of my whole word.

Now I am not colorful.

I am not full of color anymore, okay.

So adding a prefix and a suffix can change the meaning of our word completely.

So it's really important that we know the meanings of our prefixes and suffixes.

Okay, let's try another one.

How about accept.

Let's look over here and look at our suffixes.

I have this suffix A-B-L-E which means capable of or able to.

So if we, if something is acceptable we are able to accept something then we would say, this is acceptable, right?

It's acceptable.

We can accept your behavior.

Your behavior is acceptable.

You're following directions.

But what happens when you forget to follow the rules?

Have you ever heard someone say that is unacceptable behavior?

What they're saying is that it's not acceptable behavior.

So we changed that whole meaning of that word, all right.

Here's the last one that I just wanted to show us today.

So this one is thought.

So we could say, someone could be full of thought.

So that would make that they are very thoughtful.

But we can also say that they thoughtfully included maybe a new friend and they thoughtfully included them, all right.

Okay, so you can even take suffixes and build on other suffixes.

This is a great activity that you're able to actually do at your own home and practice kind of manipulating and creating new words.

That's gonna help you with your vocabulary, all right.

We're gonna switch gears and talk a little bit about open syllables.

Now remember syllables in every word.

Every word is made of syllables and each syllable has one vowel sound.

So when we're going through and we're dividing up our words into syllables we're listening for vowel sounds.

Today we're gonna practice open syllables and I wanna show you what that looks like.

So to start with, I'm looking for my vowels, A, E, I, O, U.

And what do I see in this word right here?

I see an O and an O.

So I'm gonna put V for vowel and then I've got a B in the middle.

So that's gonna be my consonant.

And I only have one consonant.

And when I have only one consonant, I'm gonna split my word right in front of that consonant, and I've got two syllables.

And with an open syllable it just simply means that my syllable ends with a vowel.

There's no consonant to close this off.

So my vowel actually is gonna say its name.

So it's gonna be a long O.

So ro, ro.

And this one is a closed syllable because you can see it's got a consonant at the end.

So ro-bot, robot, okay.

Let's do it again.

So look for our vowels.

How many vowels do we have?

We have two of 'em.

So I know that I'm gonna have two syllables.

Where do I split my word up while I've got only one consonant which means I'm gonna split right in front of that consonant.

Which means I've got an open syllable.

That vowel is going to say its name.

So we've got si-lent.

And then last one, just so we can practice it one more time.

Look for your vowels.

You've got two vowels.

You know you've got a consonant that's right before it.

So I'm not even gonna mark it because I know we're starting to train our brains to be able to see it.

We've got an open syllable here fro-zen.

Just like that.

Excellent job.

Looking here, we're gonna just practice finding some of those open syllables.

So as you're thinking to yourself, you're thinking, okay I'm listening for long vowels.

I'm listening for where that, into that syllable is gonna be that long vowel sound.

So like in this word pitcher, pitcher, pitch-er.

No that's got a short vowel.

So I know I'm not gonna have it.

How about this one though?

Mo-ment, mo-ment.

Yes that actually has, and I'm just gonna stick it down here.

That has our two vowels and we would split it right here, mo-ment.

How about prevent, prevent?

Do you see our vowel right here?

We've got two vowels, one consonant.

So it splits right there, pre-vent.

Do you see how to do that?

And how quickly you're able to go through and divide your words into their different syllables?

So this would be an activity that you absolutely could practice by having a list of words and just practicing, finding the syllables.

Are they open syllables?

Are they closed syllables?

And even sorting them, okay.

Prefixes and suffixes that we were just doing a little rehearsal with.

Let's look at, we're gonna find, we're gonna underline words that use a prefix, suffix or both, because that's what we're practicing.

And then we're gonna, we're gonna circle those prefixes or suffixes that we find.

So here we go.

They unwisely chose not to buy the reusable item.

All right.

So unwisely, what do we see in unwisely?

I see -an as a prefix and -ly as a suffix.

Any other words?

Yes, reusable has a prefix of -re and a suffix of -able.

All right.

So one last one.

I think the remake of the movie was dull and unsuccessful.

Remake has a prefix of -re.

Keep going do we see any others, unsuccessful.

What do we see?

Do you see the prefix -un?

Do you see the suffix -ful, awesome.

So training our brains to be able to see those as we go along.

And our last little bit of our time together.

I just wanna talk about homophones.

So take your hand like this because every time we say the word homophone it makes us think about the sounds.

So I have two words that sound the same, they're spelled differently and mean different things.

So I've got petal and pedal.

Okay now watch.

Let's use it in a sentence.

It has foot pedals like other cars.

So pedal with a T and pedal with a D. One is a part of a flower and the other is a device used to run or control something.

Foot pedals.

Well foot pedals with a D is a device that is used to control something.

And a part of the flower is actually spelled with a T. So it's super important boys and girls that we practice identifying those different homophones in our reading because we wanna know and think about what is it that we're reading, right?

Awesome job today.

So third grade, thank you so much for hanging out with me today 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 afternoon and an evening.

And I look forward to seeing you back here at PBS tomorrow.

Take care, 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 ♪ (bright upbeat music)