- Hi readers.

Welcome to Read, Write, Roar.

Today we're gonna be learning more about animal habitat.

We will be learning some new vocabulary words.

And at the end we're going to write a sentence and draw a picture.

using information from the story.

You're going to need something to write on like a notebook or a piece of paper and something to write with like a pencil or a marker.

Go gather your tools so we can start learning.

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(bright upbeat music) - Hi friends.

I'm Mrs. Pung.

Today we're gonna be learning more about animal habitats.

We've already learned about a few animal habitats.

Do you remember which ones?

We learned about the rainforest and the desert.

Today we're gonna be learning about four new habitats.

Remember a habitat is a place in nature where animals live?

Great.

Which habitats do you think we might learn about today?

I wonder what animals we might mean.

What do you think?

All right, let's get started.

Our book today is a non-fiction book.

Non-fiction means that the book is gonna tell us some real true facts.

The title of our book is "Where do animals live?"

That's our question today.

We're going to try to find the answer.

The author of our book is Bobbie Kalman.

Remember authors write the words.

Let's get started.

Here's our title page.

Where do animals live?

This page is called the table of contents.

It's a non-fiction text feature.

It tells us what information will be in the book.

It also tells us what page number those things can be found on.

What is the habitat?

Let's find out.

A habitat is a place in nature.

Animals live in habitats.

Some habitats are on land.

Some are in water.

Turtles live on land and in water.

Let's find out what our first habitat will be today.

Here is the heading, it's nice and bold.

It tells us what information will be on these pages.

Mountain habitats.

A mountain is a tall rocky land.

The top of the mountain is very cold and windy.

The bottom of the mountain is warmer.

Mountain goats live at the top of the mountains in the Summer.

They live at the bottom of the mountains in the Winter.

They can find more food there in the Winter.

Here's the caption.

It tells us what this picture is about.

Mountain goats have hoofs.

Hoofs our protection over the tops of some toes on animals.

The hoofs of these baby mountain goats help them climb up and down the mountain.

Let's see which habitat is next.

Grassland homes.

There's the heading.

A grassland is a flat habitat that is covered with grasses and other plants.

This grassland is called a meadow.

Many red foxes live in Meadows.

Foxes live in homes called dens.

The den of this red box kit or baby is inside a log in a meadow.

Do you see the baby kit sticking his head out of the den?

It is.

Let's see which habitat is next.

Very cold habitats.

There's our heading.

There are two very cold habitats on earth.

Earth is the planet we live on.

One is the Arctic, the other, and the Antarctica.

The Arctic is at the top of the earth.

Antarctica is that the bottom of the earth.

Penguins live in Antarctica.

Antarctica is the coldest place on earth.

Here's the caption.

Polar bears live in the Arctic.

Here's the polar bears, Arctic and Antarctica.

Let's see what our last habitat will be today.

Wetland habitats.

There's our heading.

Many birds live in wetlands habitats.

Wetland habitats are covered with water most of the time.

These birds are called spoonbills.

Can you say spoonbills?

Great.

Spoonbills are wading birds.

Wading birds walk in water to find food.

They have long legs and long bills.

The bill of the spoonbills are like spoons.

They help these birds scoop up food underwater.

Long legs their bodies above water.

That was fun learning about four new habitats.

Thanks for listening readers (upbeat music) Readers we learned three new vocabulary words today.

Let's learn some more about those words.

Our first word is the word hoof.

Can you say hoof?

Great.

A hoof is the hard covering over some animals toes.

Let's see what the book said about the word hoof.

In our book it said mountain goats have hoofs.

The hoofs help these baby mountain goats climb up and down the mountain.

Hoofs.

Let's clap the syllables in the word hoofs.

Ready?

Hoof!

How many syllables?

Just one, one syllable in the word hoof.

Let's use hoof in a sentence.

The horse has mud on its hoof.

What other animals might have hoofs?

Great.

Our next word is the word meadow.

Can you say meadow?

Great.

A meadow is a flat grassy area.

Meadow.

Let's see what the book said about the word meadow.

A grassland is called the meadow.

Many red boxes live in a meadow.

Now we're gonna clap the syllables.

Get your hands ready, Meadow.

How many syllables?

Two, two syllables in the word meadow.

Let's use meadow in a sentence.

The baby fox lives in a den in the meadow.

Meadow.

What other animals might we find in a meadow?

Great.

Our last word is the word wading.

Can you say wading?

Great.

Wading means to walk through water.

Let's see what the book said about the word wading.

Spoonbills are wading birds.

Wading birds walk in water to find food.

Wading.

Let's clap the syllables in the word wading.

Ready?

Wading.

How many syllables?

Two syllables in the word wading.

Great.

Now we're gonna use wading in a sentence.

I love to wear my rain boots and go wading in the puddles.

Wading.

Have you ever been wading through puddles?

It's so much fun.

Let's read our new words, one more time.

Hoof, meadow, wading.

Try to use your new words with someone in your home today.

(upbeat music) Hi friends.

Are you ready for a brain break?

Great.

We're gonna go on a habitat hunt.

Let's get started.

Put on your rain boots because we're gonna go wading through the wetlands.

Put your rain boots on.

Let's get ready to go wading.

Stomp, stomp, stomp your legs.

Remember we saw spoonbills in the water.

They were wading, scoop like a spoonbill.

Great.

Now we made it to the Arctic put on your ice skates because we're gonna go gliding across the ice.

Get ready to glide.

Swing your arms as you move your feet.

Great job.

Now we made it to the meadow.

We're gonna tip toe through the grasslands.

Tip toe, tip toe.

Shh, be very quiet.

There might be a baby fox sleeping in the den.

Great tiptoeing.

There's a mountain.

Do you think we should climb it?

All right, put on your hiking boots.

We're gonna climb.

Get ready, reach and stretch.

Climb the mountain.

Huh!

Great, we made it all the way to the top.

Thanks for brain breaking with me today (upbeat music) Friends, today we learned about four different habitats.

Do you remember what they were?

Did you say grasslands?

That was one of our habitats today.

We also learned about the mountain habitats.

Then we learned about the very cold habitats and the wetland habitats.

Today you're gonna help me sort and classify some animal words.

We're going to decide which animal belongs in each habitat.

Are you ready to help?

Great.

Our first animal starts with the sound /g/.

Hmm, what could it be?

The middle sound is the long /o/ sound and the ending sound is /t/.

/g/ /o/ /t/ What could it be?

Did you say goat?

You're right.

It was a goat.

Where would we place the goat?

Hmm?

Did we see the goat where it was very cold or in the mountain habitat?

You're right, in the mountain habitat.

that's where we'll place the goat.

Our next animal has three sounds.

The first sound is /f/ the second sound is /a/ and the ending sound is /x/.

Hm, what animal could it be?

Did you say fox?

You're right, fox was the next animal.

Where would we place the fox?

Which habitat?

In the wetlands or in the grassland?

The grassland.

Great.

Let's place the fox in the grassland.

Okay, the next word is actually two words.

The first word sounds like /p/ at the beginning and the second word starts with a /b/ sound.

Hmm.

It's also large and white.

What could it be?

Did you say polar bear?

Great.

Where's the, we place the polar bear?

In the wetland or in the very cold habitat?

You're right.

Polar bears belong where it's very cold.

We'll place the polar bear in the very cold habitat.

Here is our last one.

The last one is two syllables.

It starts with /s/ sound.

Then /p/ next is /o/ then /n/ Spoon.

Did you say spoonbills?

You are right.

Spoonbills were birds from our story today.

Spoonbills like the go wading in the water.

Where should we put the spoonbills?

In the wetland habitat.

Thanks for helping.

Let's read our words one last time.

Fox, goat, polar bear and spoonbills.

You did a great job sorting and classifying animal words today.

(upbeat music) Wow, that was fun learning about animal habitats today.

Now it's time to write our sentence.

Do you have something to write on and something to write with?

Great.

Our question today was where do animals live?

Hm!

What do you think?

Where do animals live?

I know animals live all around the world.

That'll be our sentence today.

Animals live all around the world.

How many words were in that sentence?

Six words in our sentence today.

Let's count to see if we have six spaces.

Animals live all around the world.

Okay, we're ready to write our complete sentence.

Our first word with animals.

Hmm!

What letter starts animals?

Let's stretch it out.

/a/ What letter makes that /a/ sound?

Did you say /a/?

Great.

I know we have to start our sentence with a capital letter.

We always start sentences with capital letters.

Watch how I make a capital a, start at the top.

big slant down, big slant down and cross in the middle.

There's our A.

Let's think about the next sound.

/a/, /n/.

/n/ is the next sound.

What letter makes the /n/ sound?

N, you're right.

Watch me make a lowercase N. Start in the middle, little line down, up and around.

/n/ the next sound is /i/, /i/ that's the letter I, lowercase I.

It looks like this little i down and a dot on top.

/n/ /i/ /m/, /m/ is the next letter.

That's the letter M Great.

Watch me make the lowercase M. Little line down, up and around, up and around.

/n/ /i/ /m/ /o/ Hmm, that's a little tricky.

That's /a/, A.

Let's make a lowercase A and then a lowercase app /a/.

To make the lowercase A, I make a C close it up with a little line down /n/, /m/, /a/ then /l/ watch me make it now.

Start up at the top all the way down.

Animal, hm, that said animal but I wanted it to say animals.

I need to add something to the end.

What letters should I add to the end to make it say /s/?

S, you're right, I need to add an S. Watch how I make an S. Around like a snake.

Great.

Animals.

Animals was the first word.

What's our next word?

Live, you're right.

We need to write the word live.

Let's stretch out the sounds.

/l/ /i/ /v/, three sounds in the word live.

The first sound is /l/, that's the letter L, you're right.

We'll start at the top and all the way down to the bottom big line.

The next sound is, /i/.

What letter makes the /i/ sound?

It is I, great.

To make it high I start in the middle, little line down with the dot on top.

/l/, /i/, /v/.

That's the next sound.

Well what makes the /v/ sound?

V, you're right.

Watch me make a V. Little slant down to the middle and slant up.

Hm, /l/, /i/, /v/ it sounds right, but it doesn't look right.

I need to add something to the end.

What should I add?

A lowercase case E, that's right.

It doesn't make a sound and this word animals live.

All, all was the next word.

We need to write the word all.

Let's say the sounds, /a/, /l/, two sounds.

The first sound is /a/ in this word, it's a lowercase A.

Watch how I make the lowercase a, around like a C close it up and little line down.

A, next, we need two ls in this word.

So we'll start up at the top, little line down, big line down, big line down.

Animals live all around, around is our next word.

Hm, what does it start with?

A round?

Sounds like an /a/, but it's actually a let's make a lowercase a.

Around like a c, close it up and a line down.

A, next we need to do the next sound.

/r/, what would that be?

What letter says /r/?

It's R, you're right.

Little line down up and around.

The next sound in this word is /o/ /u/.

Can you make that sound?

/o/ /u/ Two letters make the /o/ /u/ sound.

it's O and U. we need to do those next.

Let's make our O around like a circle.

Next we need to do a U.

Down, up and around.

Lying down, around, /n/, /n/ is next.

We've used that before.

What letter makes that /n/ sound?

It's N. Down, up and around.

What is the last sound you hear in the word around, /d/?

What letter makes that sound?

It's D, you're right.

Watch how I make the lowercase D. Animals live all around the, the next word is the, you might already know how to spell the.

It's a high-frequency word, but if you don't, I'll help.

The first sound in the is /th/ do you know which two letters make the /th/ sound?

Great, it is T H. We'll start with our T. Start up at the top all the way down and cross in the middle.

The next is H. Start up at the top all the way down, up and around.

And the last letter is E. Watch how I make an E, out, up and around.

Animals live all around the world.

That's right.

We need to write the word world.

Hmm, what does world start with?

Let's think about the sound.

/w/, do you know what letter makes that sound?

/w/, it is W. Watch how I make a W. Slant down, slant up, slant down and up.

There's a lowercase W. The next sound is /or/.

And this word /or/ is made by O R. So O R are the next two letters.

Let's make it O, all the way around and close it up then R, down, up and hook.

/w/ /or/ /l/.

/l/ is the next sound What letter makes the /l/ sound?

It is L, let's make another L. Start up at the top and all the way down.

/w/ /or/ /l/ /d/ /d/ the last sound.

We've used that before right here.

What letter was it?

It is, it's D let's make our lowercase D. Around and a big line down.

Great job with our sentence.

Let's read it and see if it makes sense.

Animals live all around the world.

What goes at the end of a sentence?

Do you know?

Punctuation, that's right.

Should it be a question mark or a period?

We put a question mark at the end of the question and a period at the end of the statement.

This is a statement, we need to use a period right at the end.

Great job.

Now we're going to draw the picture.

You can draw a picture too.

I'm gonna draw the world to match my sentence.

I'll use my blue marker.

Let's draw a big circle on mine.

There's my world.

Now I think I'll use my green to draw some land.

Remember in the book, it said the animals live on earth.

That's our planet.

I'll use my green to draw some land and a little more over here.

Great.

You can finish drawing your picture at home.

That was fun learning about animal habitats.

Thanks for helping you to write a complete sentence today.

(upbeat music) We've learned about so many different habitats and the animals that live in those habitats.

A habitat is a place in nature where animals can live.

So keep your eyes open and have fun exploring.

Animal habitat can be anywhere, a forest or a pond have fun searching and I'll see you next time on Read, Write, Roar.

- [Announcer] This program is made possible in part by Michigan Department of Education, the State of Michigan and the Kresge Foundation.

Additional support for educational programming provided by and by viewers like you.

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