♪ 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.

I am so excited to see you here.

My name is Mrs. Nix, and I am excited to be a part of supporting you to become amazing thinkers, readers and writers.

So, speaking of reading, I was just curious, what is it that you're reading these days?

What's your favorite story?

Have you found a favorite author or a favorite book?

I would love to hear about it.

And I'm also really curious as to where you're checking your books out from.

Are you checking them out from your country library, your school library?

Are you going online and checking them out using Sora?

If you are using Sora, that's fantastic, especially here in Fresno Unified, because we're always counting down those top five schools every week for the highest number of checkouts.

And so let's check and see who falls in that second place column here.

It's Jackson Elementary.

So great job Jackson for checking out those books, I wanna continue to encourage you to do that.

And, if you wanna send me a letter and let me know what you've been reading, or what you've been learning, there's an address that popped up on the bottom of your screen right there.

There's even an email address if you'd rather just send me an email and let me know.

I will make sure that one of these activity books makes it in the mail for you, it's completely free.

And you'll have all sorts of activities to do and keep your minds busy and learning.

So, I'd love to hear from you.

All right.

Third grade, I have two things we're gonna practice today.

We're gonna talk about our vowel teams syllables, we've been working on them this week, as well as continuing to work with some of those Greek and Latin roots.

And we'll talk about those.

So to warm up this morning, I have some high-frequency words.

Let's go through and read those together.

Ready?

Okay.

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

Excellent job third grade!

Today we're gonna focus on hold, H-O-L-D, and hot, H-O-T.

Okay, help me use these in a couple of sentences.

Here we go.

It is starting to get mm outside.

Oh, I already know what word goes there.

Do you know which word goes there?

And can you please mm my hand?

All right.

How many of you shouted out, it is starting to get hot outside?

Are you starting to feel that it's getting a little warm outside?

Yeah, me too.

And can you please hold my hand?

Do you ever say that to your little brothers and sisters, that they need to hold your hand when they cross the street?

I'm curious if you can write some fantastic sentences using these high frequency words.

I know you've got some great ideas up there, I wanna see them on paper.

I'd love for you to share them with me.

Okay, so let's go through, let's talk about those vowel team syllables.

Now, why do we need to know vowel team syllables?

Well, it's gonna help us when we're reading those multisyllabic words, those words that have a lot of syllables in them.

We can be able to chunk them out into smaller parts to be able to read them, to be able to write them, to spell them.

So let's talk about it because with a vowel team, oftentimes students, my students will always remember, oh, every syllable in a word has a vowel.

And that's where they stop.

But I wanna encourage you, it's not that they have one vowel, it's every syllable has one vowel sound.

And here's the tricky part, because vowel teams are two or more letters that are working together in a word to form one vowel sound.

So these aren't all of the vowel teams, but I put them up here just to kind of remind our brains what we're looking for.

So when we see A-Y, or A-I, A-Y, E-A, E-Y, when we see these teams of letters together, our brains are knowing that they don't get separated in a syllable, they stick together, they make one sound.

Okay, what do I mean by that?

Let's look at a little bit of practice.

So, I have some words up here just to show you.

So when I look here in the word.

Now, this is a word I'm assuming we're all familiar with.

Today.

Today.

When I see some vowels, okay, I'm gonna say I've got an O and I've got an A, but don't stop there because I know that my vowel team is actually A-Y.

Now I don't want to split that A-Y, it's gonna stick together, but I know that to stays together.

To and day.

I've got two syllables in today.

Let's look over here.

Now, this is a great one.

I've got, here's my vowel I, here's my vowel O.

But am I done?

No, I've got an O-W. And that O-W is gonna say the O sound.

So pillow.

Pillow.

So I know I've got two syllables in that word.

Okay.

Before we get into some practice, I wanna talk about our Greek and Latin roots that we've been practicing this week.

We have these four that we've gone over with some additional ones here at the end.

So if you've got a notebook and you're jotting some notes down, this is a great place to do a little bit of word study.

We have astro and aster which mean star or outer space.

So anytime you see words that contain these roots in there, you know that it has to have something to do with outer space or stars.

Photo means light.

Graph means something written.

And tele means far.

Okay.

So today I'm gonna focus on this astro and aster, and I've got some definitions here.

But here are my words, and I just kind of want to look at them.

I've got this word here which is asterisk.

Asterisk.

And you can see here is my, here's my root aster.

Asterisk.

Now what does aster have to do, what does it mean?

So if I went back up here and I can see it either means a star or outer space.

So that's gonna help me.

And then here's my other word, I've got astronaut.

Now you can see here is my root, astro.

Astronaut.

Okay, let's make sure I've got the right definitions with my words.

Someone who explores outer space is an astronaut.

Okay, that's probably a word we're familiar with, yes.

How about this one?

A mark shaped like a star.

Asterisk.

Okay, well it's got the aster right there which means a star.

So I have a little picture of one just in case you're unfamiliar with an asterisk.

So sometimes it's just a little mark, and it's kind of shaped like a star.

So we can have that.

Excellent job today third grade.

What does all of this look like when we go to practice it?

So, when we are looking at our vowel teams again, thinking about those vowel team syllables, up here it's gonna say, read each word in the box, place an X on the word that does not have a vowel team syllable.

But we wanna circle the vowel team syllable in the words that remain.

So help me do it, let's look.

We're looking for those vowel teams.

Do you see any vowel teams in explained?

Yes, right here.

So we're training our brains to start to recognize 'em.

So, we're gonna leave that, or I think it said we had to circle it.

There we go.

Explained.

How about refuse?

Does that have a vowel team?

Nope, it doesn't, I'm gonna cross it off.

How about detail?

Do you see a vowel team?

Yep, right there.

So it's got one, let me circle it, the A-I.

How about stormy?

No, no vowel teams.

Update?

Nope.

How about repeatedly?

Do you see any vowel teams?

Oh yeah, right here the E and the A together make that E sound.

Repeatedly, good.

United?

Nope, it doesn't have any vowel teams, and how about briefly?

Yes, the I-E in briefly has the E sound.

Okay, let's jump down below, we're gonna practice some of those Greek and Latin roots.

We've got a list here.

Photograph, biography, telescope, telephone, graphic and astronaut.

We're gonna use them in some sentences.

So, here we go.

I want to read the mm on the life of the artist.

Oh, I wanna read.

Okay so something that's written is gonna have the word graph in it.

I know it's not a photograph.

Oh, how about biography?

Because that is a story about someone's life.

So I'm gonna write biography on the line.

Oops.

Biography.

I wanna read the biography about the life of the artist.

Number two, this mm shows the winner crossing the finish line.

Oh, someone's crossing the finish line.

Do you think that maybe they had to take a photograph of them crossing that finish line?

Maybe it was what we call a photo finish?

So we're gonna say a photograph shows the winner crossing the finish line.

How about our last one?

We saw a mm that is used to see deep into space.

Oh, what would we use to see deep into space?

Now I'm thinking astronaut because I know that that had something to do with space, but no that's not right because an astronaut is a, that's a person.

So it can't be astronaut, I'm gonna cross it off.

Telephone.

Tele has to do with things that are far away, but a phone, yeah no that's not gonna be it.

How about telescope, because I'm gonna see something that's deep in space, way far out in space?

That would be it, so it would be a telescope is gonna help me see things that are far out in to space.

All right.

Let's finish off with a little more practice with some of those Greek and Latin roots.

We have some bits and pieces that are here that we can practice.

So today, we are actually going to do this side which is called, which means to cut.

But again, if you're writing some pieces down in your word study workbook, you can write orb which is circle, fin which means end, or which is mouth, mir which is wonder and amazement.

But we're gonna work on this cid which means cut.

So, or side, we need to decide on a team name.

So when I think about cutting, okay, to decide, hmm.

Well, we can't all have the same name, we're gonna have to pick something, right?

We gotta decide on it.

So I might have to cut some choices away, right?

So let's look at some of my options down here.

Is it to play a sport?

No.

Is it to name something?

No.

Is it to narrow or limit my options?

To decide, absolutely.

I am having to cut.

I am having to cut my options out.

I wanna get rid of those other options that I've pre kind of selected for my team name, right?

'Cause we can't have four names.

Think about it when you're playing soccer, right?

We have to have just one team name.

All right.

So, third grade, you did a fantastic job.

So thanks 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.

And I encourage you, look at these Greek and Latin roots, see if you can find other words that share those word patterns because it's gonna make you a fantastic reader and writer.

I look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow, have a fantastic afternoon.

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 ♪