[cheerful music] There you are friends!

I see you!

I was looking all over for you.

I'm so glad I found you because today we are going to be learning about sounds that come together.

And we call them glued sounds and they make sounds together.

Like when A that says ah, meets N, that says n, an is the glued sound they make or wait, wait, wait!

When A that says ah, meets M that says m, the glued sound they make is am.

We're gonna be learning about that today so let's get started!

Our first activity of the day is a phonemic awareness activity.

Phonemic awareness activities help us to hear all the sounds in words and today we're going to be blending sounds together to make a word.

So let's try one together.

P-a-d. Pad.

Pad!

Good job.

Let's try another one.

Ch-a-t. Chat.

Chat!

Chat-chat, chat-chat.

Let's try another one.

k-l-ah-p. Clap.

Clap!

[clapping] Clap.

Last one.

G-l-ah-d. Glad.

Glad!

I'm so glad you're here.

Let's get ready to read.

Let's build some words together.

Today we're talking about the two letters A and N that come together to say an and the two letters A and M that come together to say am.

We think of these as glued sounds because when we start to blend the sounds together, an, the ah slightly changes, and the same is true for the am, am glued sound.

So we glue them together to remind ourselves of that change that the short A is going to make.

So now that we've talked about that, it's time to build some words.

Here I have my glued sounds, am and an together on cards to remind myself to keep the sounds together.

Let's build a word.

R-am.

What's that word?

Ram.

A ram is an animal that looks like this.

Now, if I were to add the letter C in front of this word, what do you think my new word would be?

Let's see if you are right.

Cr-cr-cram.

What's the word?

Cram.

That's the word!

When you cram, for instance, if I were to cram things into my stomach, that means I'd have to eat something really big and a lot of it.

[imitates eating] If I wanted to study for a test, I could cram for it, which means I wanna take all the information that I've learned and put it up here so that I'll do well on the test.

Right up here in my noggin.

Cram.

What's the word?

Cram.

Let's build another word.

B-am.

Bam.

Bam is a sound.

That's a sound word.

Bam!

H-am.

Ham!

Ham is a type of meat.

Now I'm going to move on to my next glued sound.

An!

And I am build one of my favorite words.

Can.

Can!

What happens when I add a consonant at the end?

Does this word look familiar?

And.

And!

I like you and you and you.

You get the point.

Last one.

T-an.

Tan!

Great job!

Tan is a color.

You are now ready to read.

Come!

Read with me.

Let's read.

Think of the glued sounds that we learned about today.

Answer the following two questions.

What sounds do these letters make when you see them together?

Am.

What sounds do these letters make when you see them together?

An.

Great job!

It's time to show what you know.

When the word appears on the screen, read it as fast as you can.

If you need to sound out the words as you read, that's fine.

Let's go!

[no audio] How did you do?

Did you read all of the words correctly?

Cam, fan, slam, pan, man, ant.

Great job!

Now we're ready to write.

Are you ready to write with me?

[children cheering] Great!

First you're going to need to get a pencil or something to write with and a paper or something to write on.

So go ahead and go get that.

[bright music] Great.

We are going to write a word together.

The word we're going to write is slam.

Can you say that word?

Remember, we wanna hear all the sounds in the words so sometimes we'll tap out the sounds so we can hear them clearly.

S-l-am.

Our glued sound.

I learned that today.

Go ahead and write that word.

Good!

Is this what you wrote?

Listen as I sound it out as I write.

S-l-am.

When you slam something, you close it firmly.

You might slam a car door or slam a door in your house.

Slam.

You did such great work today, friends!

I am so happy you were able to spend time with me.

Can't wait to see you again.

See you again soon, friends.

Bye!