♪ 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 ♪ (soft music) - Good morning third graders.

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

This morning, I was going through one of our activity books and I always love to share these wonderful resources because they're totally free.

All you need to do is send me a note.

See the address that's going to pop up on the screen right there to PBS.

Send me a letter, send me an email, and I'll make sure that one of these free activity books makes it in the mail to you as long as you remember to include your return address.

And you can be doing some of these wonderful games and puzzles, there's word searches and crossword puzzles, all sorts of fun things that are going to help you to become amazing readers and writers.

Okay third grade.

The other thing that I love to share with you, if you're going to be writing me a letter, is I love to hear about what fun stories you are reading.

Maybe you've got a great fantastic book that's one of your favorites, and you'd love to share it with other third graders.

I'd love to be able to share that on the air.

Where are you finding your books from?

Are you going to your county library, your school library, or are you reading online with using the app Sora?

I'd love to hear that too.

All right.

Third grade, are you ready to start today?

Excellent.

I have three things that we're going to go through today.

We're going to work on some suffixes.

We're going to work on some final syllables, and then we're going to finish out our day with figurative language.

You ready to start?

Okay.

Let's warm up our brains looking at those high frequency words.

Remember, you're responsible for your learning success.

So if there is a word up here that you maybe struggle a little bit with spelling, make sure you jot it down and practice, because that's how we get better, right?

We don't know everything right from the get go.

So give yourself some grace and give yourself some practice.

Okay, let's go through, let's read these together.

I'm going to read them big and loud here in the studio, and you're going to read them big and loud there at home.

Here we go.

Done.

Each.

Don't.

Eat.

Eight.

Down.

Even.

Draw.

Drink.

And every.

Excellent job third grade.

Let's look at these two right here.

So I've got a contraction, don't.

D-O-N, apostrophe T. And the word eat, E-A-T. All right.

Let's use them in a couple of sentences together.

You help me figure out which one goes where.

How about this one?

Let's read it.

What would you like to hmm?

And how about this one?

Please hmm pick the flowers.

Please eat pick the.

No, that doesn't make any sense.

Please don't pick the flowers.

Nicely done.

What would you like to eat?

Mm, what do you like to eat?

Can you think of something yummy?

Bet you can.

All right.

Let's switch gears just a little bit.

I want to talk about these final suffixes.

So, or the final parts of a word and it's called a suffix.

Now we've been practicing prefixes and suffixes.

And then remember this part that's here in the middle.

That's that base word.

Now base words stand alone.

And I know you remember that because we've practiced it a lot of times and you're fantastic.

I want to remind us that those suffixes though, they're not a whole word, they're just a group of letters.

But that group of letters has a meaning and it changes the meaning of the word.

So, here are three of them we're going to practice today.

And the added little piece that we're going to work on this week is a little bit with spelling.

And I want to show you how that affects some of the words that we're going to do today.

Okay so, here we go.

We've got the base word rely.

We're going to add to it the suffix able, which simply means that you're able to do something.

And so we want it to be reliable.

Okay.

So you're able to rely on someone.

But here's the tricky part.

Whenever we have a word that ends with a consonant and a Y, we need to change that Y to an I.

And then we can add our suffix.

So here it goes, reliable.

So you are able to rely on someone.

Good.

This one follows that same rule.

You see the consonant and the Y, so what's our word?

Fury.

All right, fury.

Now, we have ous, which means having the quality of.

So if someone has the quality of fury, which is kind of like being angry, we would say that they are furious.

Now, it's got that consonant Y, so what do we do to the Y?

Change it to an I.

And then we add O-U-S.

So someone is furious, they have a lot of fury.

All right.

Now, how about this one?

When we add Y to a word, it simply means that it is full of something.

So here we go.

We've got the base word is dust.

We're going to add Y, and now we've got the word dusty.

What does it mean?

It simply means that it's full of dust.

Excellent job.

Now remember, our suffixes can change the meaning of the base word, and it can also change the part of speech.

So something to think about as we move forward.

Okay, I'm gonna move this out of the way, because I'm going to come over here and I want to talk about, we've been practicing our six syllable types throughout the year.

And today we're going to come down here to the bottom and we're going to be focusing on this consonant L-E, or E-L or A-L.

There's a couple of different ways we can spell it.

But when it appears at the end, that L-E with the consonant becomes that final syllable.

So here's some examples.

We've got bubble, and you can see the L-E here.

We take that consonant and add it.

So that becomes our final syllable, like bubble, and circle and castle.

Do you see that final E, but it includes that last consonant there?

Let's go over and practice looking at a few words here.

We've got middle.

So when I'm looking here I'm seeing, oh, my brain is seeing that L-E at the end of a word.

So I know that my final syllable is going to include this consonant before the L-E, so I know that this is my final syllable.

And then I can look here and I can say okay, middle, right?

And I can split my word into two syllables.

All right, let's try it again.

I'm training my brain to look and see, what do I see at the end?

I see an E-L, that's that kind of that final syllable.

Remember, I'm going to include the consonant there.

So tunnel.

So I've got nel, what's my first syllable going to be?

Tun.

So I've got tunnel.

So I know I would be splitting it right down the middle.

Okay, what does this look like when we go through and we want to practice it?

Okay.

So looking here it says, read each pair of words, underline the word that has that final consonant with the L-E, E-L, or A-L syllable.

And then circle that final syllable.

And we would write the word on the line.

That's something we'd be able to do at home, but just here what I want us to do is to underline that word that has it.

So what do we see?

Able or below?

Which one has the L-E at the end?

Good, so it's going to be able.

And then we want to circle that final syllable.

Now don't circle just the L-E. What's the final syllable?

Remember it's going to be that consonant plus the L-E, just like that.

All right.

How about glowing and eagle?

Which one has the L-E at the end?

Eagle.

You guys are getting so good about identifying it.

What's the final syllable?

Let's circle it.

Do you remember?

That's right.

You're going to circle the G-L-E because it's that consonant plus the L-E. How about purple or planning?

Which one?

Yes, purple.

What's my final syllable, do you see it?

Yes, P-L-E.

Awesome job.

Last one, valley and squirrel, which one?

Squirrel.

And what's the final syllable?

R-E-L. Don't forget, you want to circle it with the final consonant before you get to that L-E, or A-L or E-L.

Okay, here we go.

Now we're practicing adding some of those suffixes that we were doing before, the able, the Y, the ous.

So thinking about use, and we want to add able to it.

What do we need to do for our spelling?

Well, this is one that we didn't talk about earlier, but we're actually going to drop that E. So it's going to be U-S-A-B-L-E.

Whenever there's a consonant and an E, we usually get to drop that E. Furious.

Do you remember what we did with furious?

What do we do to that Y?

Changed it to an I, so let's write it.

F-U-R-I-O-U-S.

Excellent job.

Last one.

Ooh, this one ends with an E, just like we did with usable.

We're going to do the same thing.

Icy, mean it's full of ice.

We're going to drop that E and add the Y.

Excellent job.

Okay, here's that last piece for today.

We are going to talk about idioms.

Now, idioms are that really fun piece of figurative language, and I'm going to pull this down, in case we get to that.

But it's that really fun piece of language that authors will use to provide a visualization, so that you can see what's really happening.

It's non-literal language, which means it's not specifically meaning what each of the words that you're reading in the sentence, doesn't literally mean that, it's figurative.

Let me show you what that means.

So, after sleeping on it and giving it a lot of thought, my parents bought a farm in the Middle Colonies.

Okay, so did they sleep on the Middle Colonies?

Did they literally sleep there?

No, they didn't actually sleep there.

Okay.

I've got a couple of other choices to kind of think about right here too.

So, I've got options like becoming bored and falling asleep, or thinking carefully before making a choice.

So we can use context clues to help us decipher what an idiom really needs.

That means we want to look around in our sentence.

So after sleeping on it, and giving it a lot of thought.

So do think that my parents fought and thought before moving, before buying that farm, absolutely.

They didn't just pick up and move there.

They slept on it, which means they were really thinking about it and taking some time in making their decisions.

So you can see that right here.

So I'm going to move that up here so we remember that that's our final answer.

They were thinking carefully before making a decision.

Now, I put this poster up here and I think it's a fantastic just reminder.

I love that it even says idioms are a piece of cake, because it reminds us that we use idioms all the time in our language.

You can use them, hit the hay.

Do we physically literally hit the hay?

No it just means that we're going to bed.

So you can try some of these idioms out as you are reading, as you are speaking.

Tie the knots, another one that we see often.

And so you might even try using that when someone is getting married.

All right.

Super fun, I love figurative language.

I encourage you checking it out, looking for it as you are reading your own stories.

So thanks for hanging out with me today as you're getting ready for school.

And remember, you are responsible for your learning success.

So remember, ask questions, share your ideas, and make sure you're listening, because together we can do so much more.

I hope you have a fantastic afternoon.

I look forward to seeing you back here at PBS.

Take care and I'll see you then.

Bye bye.

♪ 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 ♪