♪ 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 grade.

My name is Mrs. Nix.

Happy Friday.

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

I am always so excited when it is Friday.

Do you have a fantastic book that you have been reading?

Or maybe something you've picked out for the weekend?

It's my favorite time to read.

I'd love to hear if you are reading something.

Would you share with me?

Maybe send me a note.

You can send it to the address that's popping up at the bottom of your screen.

You're also gonna to see an email address and you can send me an email and let me know what fantastic books you've been reading.

Are you checking them out through your County library, your school library.

Maybe you're using the online app with Sora.

If you let me know about what you're reading, I'll make sure that I put one of these really fun activity books in the mail for you.

Now, these books are completely free from us down here at PBS and I'd love to share one with you.

So don't forget to include your address.

All right.

Third grade, it is Friday.

Did I already say that?

I think I did.

I'm so excited that it's Friday.

It's always a fun day, right?

Okay, I've got three things we're gonna do today to finish off our week.

We're gonna practice suffixes, the final syllable with that l sound.

And then we're gonna finish off our day with a little comprehension around figurative language.

Specifically, we're working on idioms this week.

Are you ready to start?

Okay, let's warm up our brains.

Let's look at those high frequency words.

Those words we see often in reading and writing.

Have you been practicing them all week?

Did you make up some sentences with them?

You're so good.

I'm so proud of you for doing that.

Great job.

All right, let's go through.

Let's read them together.

Here we go.

Done, each, don't, eat, eight, down, even, draw, drink and every.

Awesome job third grade.

Okay, we've got two words we're gonna focus today.

So we've got drink, D-R-I-N-K. And we've got every, E-V-E-R-Y.

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

What would you like to eat and...

He goes to the store Tuesday.

All right.

Well, he goes to the store drink Tuesday.

That doesn't make any sense.

He goes to the store every Tuesday.

That makes sense.

How about this one?

What would you like to eat and drink?

Nicely done, third grade.

I'm curious of what kind of sentences you came up using those high-frequency words.

Great job.

Okay, let's go through.

Let's talk about suffixes.

Now, remember, suffixes are just those little clusters of letters that when you put them together have their own meaning.

Now they can't stand on their own.

They're actually gonna change the meaning of our base word.

So base words, stand alone.

They can be all by themselves.

But we can change and kind of manipulate our words.

Why is that important to know?

Well, especially as we start to read more, we're gonna read words that are multi-syllabic, bigger, longer.

We need to make sure that we're good thinkers.

We're thinking about the words that we're reading.

Okay.

So let's go through, we're gonna practice some.

So here's my base word, love.

Love can stand on its own and here's a suffix able, right?

And it just means that you're able to do something, right?

So lovable means that we're able to love someone or something.

Now, this particular word ends with an E and oftentimes we drop that E when we're adding our suffix to the end.

So you're gonna see lovable, okay.

Now O-U-S, ous, means having the quality of.

So marvel, okay?

Means you're going to really enjoy something.

It's... You're gonna marvel at it.

You're gonna, like I said, enjoy it.

Or you could say that they're marvelous.

They are full of enjoyment or they're just a marvelous person.

They're really great.

And then the last one we have is adding a Y as a suffix and that Y means that it is full of.

So you can see here, the word is shine.

And if it's full of shine, we would say that it is shiny.

And this is another one of those word ends with an E. So we're gonna drop that E and we've got shiny just like that.

Now here's something that's interesting to that.

Just to remember that a suffix can change the meaning of that base word and it can also change its part of speech.

And that's important to know as we use it in our reading and writing.

Okay, let's switch up just a little bit.

We're gonna talk about those final syllables.

We've got our six syllable types that we've been focusing on throughout the year.

Today, we're focusing on, and this week we've been focusing on the consonant plus the l sound at the end.

And we've talked a few times about looking at and identifying that l sound at the end, but we're gonna remember to attach that final consonant there.

So, for example, in the word bubble and circle and castle, so if we just kind of covered that up and practiced, we would be able to be training our brains to just kind of see it, "ble", "cle", "tle".

Right?

All right.

Let's go through and what does that look like over here?

So I've got some opportunities for us to kind of practice.

Are we seeing that l sound at the end right here?

Yes.

So I see the le that has the l. Don't forget that consonant.

So I know that this is my final syllable sound.

It all goes together.

What's my initial?

"Can", so I put it together and I've got candle.

How many syllables do we have?

Two of them.

All right.

Nicely done.

Remember a syllable has a vowel sound in it.

All right.

Just one.

Okay.

So here we go.

Do we see that l sound at the end?

Do you see it?

Yeah, the -al but don't forget to include for that final syllable, that consonant.

So I know that "mal" is going to be my final syllable and I've got "mam", mammal, right there.

I've got two syllables.

Alright, excellent.

Let's go through.

What would this look like in practice?

So I've got a whole bunch of words that are right here.

And what I want us to do is we're just practicing sorting them based on that final l spelling pattern that goes with that syllable sound.

Okay.

So we just did this word, mammal, right?

So where would we put mammal?

What does it end with?

What do you see?

It ends with that -al.

So I'm gonna take it, and I'm gonna sort it right here under the -al.

Excellent.

How about towel?

Where would it go?

Yes.

With the -el.

How about castle?

- el this is really good, cause it's practicing some of those spelling patterns that we're seeing because they all make the same sound.

It's always nice to be training our brains.

So we've got eagle with an -le, squirrel with an -el, good.

We've got nickel, which has the -el.

Metal, what do we see?

- al, good.

We've got visible, that's gonna be the -le, and the last one is global within an -al.

So great practice.

This is something you could do at home by writing a bunch of different words, and just practice sorting them, so that you can see that spelling pattern.

All right.

Last little piece that we have down here.

It says "Read the meanings of the Latin suffixes.

"Use the suffixes to form new words "and write the words on the line.

"Pay attention to the spelling changes".

Okay.

So, remember, we've got -able, the Y and then the O-U-S, okay?

So having the quality of cheer.

So what am I gonna add?

Having the quality of...

Okay, so here it is.

So I'm gonna be cheery, right?

So if I just write cheer and I add a Y, now, I'm having the quality of cheery.

I'm a very cheery person.

Full of glory.

Okay, full of.

Which one means full of?

O-U-S.

So this is gonna be glorious, right?

Now, it ends with a Y, what do I do with that Y?

Yes, I'm gonna change it to an I, so let's practice it.

G-L-O-R, change the Y to an I.

And what am I adding?

O-U-S, great.

And the last one, able to be reused.

Okay, reused.

It's able to, so I'm gonna be using -able at the end.

Okay, it's reusable.

So reuse, now it shouldn't have an E right?

But what do we do with that E?

Remember to drop it and then write your suffix, reusable.

Excellent job.

Okay.

Here we go, we're to our final piece.

We're gonna go through and we're gonna practice idioms.

This is kind of that really fun thing that I think makes writing so interesting and fun.

I think it makes sometimes our speech patterns really fun.

It's just a silly way of speaking and writing.

I wanna show you an example so that you can kinda start to see what I mean, but really an idiom's a special kind of nonliteral language that means something different from the meaning of each word in it.

Okay, so what do I mean by that?

Let's look at this example.

She is so hungry she could eat a horse.

Okay.

Let's think about that one for just a second.

Remember, in third grade we're good thinkers.

Do you think she's literally going to eat a horse?

She's gonna eat an entire horse?

No, she's not gonna eat an entire horse.

What do you think it means?

Yeah, it probably means that she's really hungry.

So here's my question.

Have you ever heard that idiom?

Have you heard someone say, "I am so hungry right now "I could eat a horse"?

Yes, and so that just simply means that you're just starving, hungry.

It makes so that it is a fun and silly way to visualize and understand how someone, a character may be feeling in a story.

Here are some other ones that I'd love to just encourage you to try using in your stories or in your conversations.

How about this one?

It says "Bent out of shape".

Have you ever been bent out of shape over something?

It's kind of funny, right?

Are you literally bent out of shape?

Probably not, but you're probably upset over something.

And someone might say, "Man, don't get so bent out of shape", right?

And I love another one.

This is something that I used to hear all the time from my dad.

He would tell me all the time "That costs an arm and a leg".

Do you think that you really had to cut off your arm and leg to be able to go and do it?

No, that'd be awful.

We'd have no arms and legs.

It just means it's really expensive.

It's an exaggeration.

And it's super fun to use in our storytelling and our writing.

All right.

Third grade, it's Friday.

I am so excited that I was able to hang out with you today, as you're getting ready for school.

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 can't wait to see you back here on Monday.

I hope you have a fantastic weekend, reading all of those books.

I can't wait to hear about them.

Take care.

I'll see you on Monday.

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 every one ♪