♪ 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 whistling) - Good morning third graders.

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

So we've been talking about reading.

What have you been reading?

Where have you been checking out your books from?

Have you gone down to your school library or the local county library?

Have you been checking out your books using SORA?

The app that we have here in Fresno Unified for free?

Oh my goodness.

I would love to hear about what it is that you are reading and a great way to do that is to send me a note.

There's an address that's gonna pop up on the bottom of your screen.

Do you see it right there?

And if you write me a note and let me know something that you've been reading and enjoying, I will send you an activity book for free in the mail.

Just don't forget to include your address.

Now, speaking of things that are free, I said SORA is the app that we have where you can check out some books for free.

And we always love to celebrate and talk about our students who are checking out their books, using the SORA app here in Fresno Unified.

And we count down the top five schools who have the most books checked out.

So in fourth place this week.

we had Turner Elementary.

So great job, Turner Elementary.

We are so proud of you for checking out those books.

So keep up that hard work.

All right, third grade we have two things we're gonna practice today.

The first is going to be our vowel team syllables.

And then we're going to talk about Greek and Latin roots.

And I've got a whole bunch of them that we're gonna practice, a couple of different activities with each of those.

Are you ready to start?

Okay, let's warm up those super smart muscles, those brains by looking at our high-frequency words.

We're gonna go through and read them chorally together.

You're gonna read them big and loud at home.

Now remember, you are responsible for your learning success.

So if you see a word here that you need a little extra practice remembering how to spell, jot it down.

That's great.

That's you being responsible and I'd love to see that.

Let's go through and let's read these together.

Here we go.

Got green has had have grow hold hot hurt and how.

Excellent job third grade.

Now, today we're gonna focus on has H A S and had H A D. Okay, help me use these correctly in a couple of sentences.

She mm never been to the movies before.

And he mm fish sticks for lunch today.

So let's start with this one.

He has fish sticks for lunch today or he had fish sticks for lunch today.

Oh, pretty tricky.

They both kind of work, right?

And she had never been to the movies before or she has never been.

Hmm, well has never been doesn't sound quite right.

So she had never been to the movies before actually sounds more correct.

So we're gonna put, he has fish sticks for lunch today, because he has them in his lunch.

Excellent.

All right.

Couple of things, things we're gonna talk about are vowel team syllables.

Remember we're trying to chunk down those multi-syllabic words.

So we're training our brains to see those small chunks so that we can read our words correctly, make sense of them.

So, one of the ways we do that is by breaking our words into syllables.

Now, today, we want to talk about those syllables.

And just a reminder that every syllable has a, has one vowel sound.

And I really wanna emphasize that it has one vowel sound.

I don't want you to think that it that it only has one vowel, it has a vowel sound.

And the reason I say that is because remember vowel teams are two or more letters that are put together and they work together in a word to form one vowel sound.

So just a reminder, I put a few of them up here so you can see them.

So thinking about, say like the, O I, says oi.

You can think of O A, saying oh.

Those are just a single vowel sound.

All right.

What does that look like when we go through and we want to practice it.

Okay, I've got some words right here on this chart.

Let me flip it over, that I want to look at.

So I have this word here.

If I'm not sure of it, I'm gonna look for my vowels.

I'm training my brain.

Look for my vowels.

Okay.

I see.

I've got an I and look here, I've got a double E so I know that that's a vowel team, right?

So that's the same that we've always been doing.

We've got it marking our vowels.

We've got our consonants in between.

I know I'm gonna split between my two consonants there.

Now I can sound out my word and I've got in, deed, indeed.

Great.

Let's do it again.

So looking for vowels, I've got a vowel here.

Ooh, I've got two vowels here.

That means it's a vowel team.

So I'm gonna just mark it once.

Then I've got some consonants in between.

I'm gonna split between my two continents.

Now I can read it.

So ah, fraid.

Oops, and I split that in the wrong spot af, raid, there it goes.

All right.

Excellent job.

So let's go through and I want to talk about our Greek and Latin roots.

Let me spin this around for us.

Okay, here's that part where when we come to longer words.

This, by knowing our Greek and Latin roots and what those roots mean can help us decide what does that word mean?

Or what does it have to do with?

So here are some examples that we see pretty often.

And so it's good to just kind of think about it.

So astro and aster mean star or outer space.

So think about like astronaut and asteroid, okay.

When we've got the word photo, we're thinking about light, okay.

Photo means light.

Graph means something written.

So think about the word autograph.

It's your signature.

Tele means far, okay.

So something is far away.

Okay.

I have some words.

And I have a great word that we're going to practice today because I had never heard it.

Asterozoa, asterozoa.

Do you know this word?

No.

This is a crazy word.

But I looked it up and I figured it out because I've got aster which I know has to do with a star.

So let's look, members of the starfish family of animals.

Asterozoa, asterozoa.

There it is.

Say it, practice it, so fun.

All right, then I have this word, astronomer, astronomer.

And again, I'm looking up here.

I've got the astro, so star and outer space.

Astronomer.

Well an astronomer happens to be a person who studies the stars.

Excellent job.

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

Let's look.

So reminding us about our vowel teams and that a vowel team is two or more letters that work together to make a single vowel sound.

We've got some examples.

And remember, we're looking for those vowel team syllables.

Okay, here we go.

Read each word in the box, place an X on any word that does not have a vowel team syllable than circle the vowel team syllables in the words that remain.

So we're looking for those vowel team syllables.

Do we see any vowel teams in monkey?

Nope, so we're going to just cross it off.

How about awake?

Nope, I don't see any vowel teams.

How about complain?

Oh yes.

Where's our vowel team?

Right there.

Good job, A I.

How about motel?

Nope, cross it off.

Remain.

Do you see the vowel team?

Yep, right there, A I.

How about sharing?

No, I don't see any vowel teams.

Decide, nope.

And how about approached?

Ooh I see it right there.

Do you see how quick your eyes are at getting at spotting these?

Great job.

Okay, we're gonna practice a little bit with our Greek and Latin roots, remembering astro, graph, photo and tele.

We've got some sentences here.

You're gonna help me.

Here are our words to choose from photograph, biography, telescope, graphic, telephone, and astronaut.

Okay, so let's see if we can figure out which one belongs here.

I gave my mm number to my friend.

I gave my hmm number.

Well, I'm thinking about my telephone.

I would want them to call me.

Now, what does tele mean?

It means it's far away.

So this is an opportunity for somebody to who's far away to get a hold of you and be able to talk to you.

How about, there is a mm novel about a crime fighting kitten.

Ooh, have you ever heard of a graphic novel?

A graphic novel is super fun.

It's kind of like a, like a comic book.

Last one.

The video shows the mm taking a first step on the moon.

Who walks on the moon?

The astronaut.

Remember that has something to do with star or outer space.

Excellent.

Let's finish up.

I've got just a couple of, or actually I have one.

We're gonna go through each of these all week long.

But we're gonna look at some more Greek and Latin roots.

Today's is mir or myer, depending on how it's pronounced in the word but it simply means, wonder or amazement.

And when we know that let's look at our word.

Our word is admire.

I admire your spirit and passion, admire.

So if I know that mir means, wonder or amazement, can that help me figure out what admire would mean?

So let's look here.

I've got a couple of choices.

Admire can be to throw away or to like very much.

Hmm.

So let's think.

Wonder or amazement.

Hmm.

Probably doesn't mean to throw it away, right?

I admire your spirit and passion.

Probably it means, I like it very much.

Because think about it, amazement and wonder that's where we're sharing kind of that joy, that passion.

So if we really admire it means we really, truly honestly enjoy it.

All right.

So third grade we did a lot today.

We went through, we practiced a whole bunch of different Greek and Latin roots.

It's a great opportunity for you to jot them down in a notebook.

If you didn't catch them all yesterday, you can make sure that you're writing them down today so that you can practice.

Another thing that you can do is start thinking about words that contain these Greek and Latin roots and think to yourself, how are they connected?

How do they belong together?

Can you think of a whole bunch of them?

Photograph, photosynthesis.

Ooh, how many photo words can you think of?

I would love to hear about it.

All right.

So third grade, thanks for hanging out with me this morning.

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 had a great time hanging out with you this morning.

I hope you have a fantastic day and I can't wait to see you back here tomorrow.

Take care and I'll see you then.

Bye bye.

(guitar strumming) ♪ 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 ♪ (guitar strumming)