(upbeat instrumental music) - 'Morning, boys and girls, and welcome back to Room 9, the region's largest classroom!

It is Dr. Sanders and I am here to teach you a little ELA and math to all of my pre-K students!

What do I always say?

It doesn't matter if you're 2 or 102, you will have some fun!

F, U, N, fun!

You will have fun while learning.

I work at Adams Elementary in these St. Louis Public Schools and let's get our day started!

I am going to take off my hat and as we celebrate this month, we're still recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Remember, I celebrate my mother.

She's a survivor of breast cancer.

It's for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

I celebrate my mother.

Hi, mama!

Share your pictures of who you celebrate.

Take a picture and tag Nine PBS so we can see who you're celebrating or remembering.

Let's take a look at our objectives.

In ELA, students will recognize and produce rhyming words.

And in math, students will imitate and name basic patterns.

So we're gonna do some patterns and some rhyming words.

Mindful moment.

Yesterday, we said, "Hmm, sometimes you just have to think."

Today, you're going to think, but then, after you think for a while, I want you to say, "Yeah, I got it!"

So that'll help you calm down.

You know, you're thinking, and then you pump yourself up, and then you'll be ready to move on.

Okay, so first, let's think.

You can close your eyes if you want.

You don't have to.

You can put your finger on your head.

Just think.

You might nod a little bit as you're thinking all those good thoughts.

(indistinct) "Yeah, I got it!"

Okay, let's try one more time!

"Yes, I got it!"

All right, and that's a mindful moment that you can do anywhere, but sometimes it just takes you to slow down and just to think about it.

Let's get started with some counting!

Let's get started on with some counting!

You ready to count with me?

I'm ready to count with you.

I have some bubbles.

So what you gonna do?

I'm a poet (exhales) and I know it.

I like to rhyme all the time.

(exhales) That was only three bubbles.

That's not good.

Let's get counting and see if we should!

Here we go!

We are gonna count from...

I'm missing my zero!

Where is my zero?

(imitates sobs) We are gonna count from 0 to 80 by ones!

0 to 80 by ones!

Here we go!

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80!

We made it to 80!

A eight and a zero!

Oh, I almost fell out my chair!

Don't laugh at me!

(laughs) We are gonna count from 0 to 100 by fives!

0 to 100 by fives!

All my fives multiples are in five.

(laughs) I mean, are in blue!

Here we go!

0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100!

Now we're gonna count... Oh, you got to take a break?

Okay.

(Dr. Sanders deeply breathes) Take a deep breath.

(inhales) (Dr. Sanders exhales) Here we go!

From 0 to 100 by tens!

0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100!

Now we are gonna subtract from 10 to 0 by ones.

We're gonna subtract by ones!

Hands up in the air!

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!

Blast off!

Come back!

You're going too far!

I can't see you!

Come back!

Now, we're gonna count from 0 to 10 in Spanish.

(speaking foreign language) Ooh!

All right.

We are talking about patterns, so I have this sheet right here and you're gonna tell me what comes next in my pattern.

What comes next in my pattern.

(clips clicking) Ooh!

So what's this shape right here?

A triangle.

Let's name this pattern.

It says triangle, oval, triangle, oval, triangle.

What goes right there?

Oval, yes!

You are right!

An oval goes right there.

So our pattern would be...

It says triangle, oval, triangle, oval.

So our pattern would actually be the triangle, oval.

And then it does what?

It repeats!

You are right, young students!

Young people, young Panthers.

All right, let's do this one down here.

These are all what?

Rectangles.

These are all rectangles.

So rectangles, let's go!

Green rectangle, orange rectangle, green rectangle, what comes right here?

Orange rectangle!

Orange rectangle!

That is correct!

And let's look at our last pattern.

We have a what?

What's this?

A star.

And this is a rhombus.

So we have a blue star, purple rhombus, blue star, purple rhombus.

What goes right here?

A blue star.

And then what goes right here?

Yes, a purple rhombus!

A purple rhombus!

Remember, patterns are things that repeat themselves.

They just repeat.

So we have a star and a rhombus, and then it does what?

It repeats!

So we can put this anywhere and we still have a pattern.

Before we get done, I wanna do another pattern.

I'm going to do it with my hands and my eyes!

You have to watch really carefully, okay?

And then I want you to do the pattern.

Are you ready?

Look carefully.

Clap, clap, blink, blink.

Clap, clap, blink, blink.

Clap, clap, blink, blink.

Can you do that for me?

Yeah, clap!

(Dr. Sanders claps) It helps if you say it, right?

Clap, clap, blink, blink.

Clap, clap, blink, blink.

Some of you are just blink, blink, blink, blink, blinking.

And some of you are just clap, clap, clap, blinking, clap, clap, blinking.

Like a clap, clap, clap, clap!

But it's okay!

We just practice, right?

Here comes another one.

Are you ready for this pattern?

Okay, here we go!

Wait, no, I'm not doing anything yet!

Um.

Chin, chin, ear, ear.

Chin, chin, ear, ear.

Chin, chin, ear... Get your fingers out of your ears!

All right, let me see you!

Cheer... (laughs) Cheer, cheer, chin, chin.

(laughs) Chin, chin, ear, ear.

Chin, chin, ear, ear.

Chin, chin, ear, ear.

All right, one more!

One more!

I want to see if you can do it!

Ready?

Here we go.

Nod, nod.

(laughs) Nod, nod, snap, snap.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I don't like that.

Nod, snap, nod, snap, nod, snap.

You ready?

Here we go.

Try nod, snap, nod, snap, nod, snap, nod, snap.

So you can make your own patterns up as well.

We'll continue to talk about patterns this week and we also are gonna talk about a holiday that's coming up next week.

I think it's Halloween or something like that, but people celebrate it, some people don't, but we'll talk about that in a minute.

But you've been sitting a long time, please stand up!

Jump up and down 10 times.

Go!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

Raise your shoulders for five!

Go!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Raise your arm up, put it in front of you, put the other one up for six.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Woo, that stretches.

Put the other one out in front of you, stretch it.

Now we gotta count to six.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

All right!

Oh, let's roll those shoulders out.

Just roll 'em out.

We don't have to count these.

Roll 'em out.

All right, ten jumping jacks, go!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

Whew!

Sit down on three!

1, 2, 3!

Up, down, up, down.

Sit right down on the floor, on the seat, on your pillow, or on the chair.

But do not jump on the couch!

You all right!

Please, don't jump on your parents' couch, your grownup's couch.

They might get me.

We have a book today.

It is called, "Spooky Soup"!

"Spooky Soup"!

A creeping counting backwards book.

(Dr. Sanders creepily laughs) This is the what?

Spine.

This is the... front cover.

This is the... back cover.

And the author of this book is Taylor Farley.

And I am reading this with permission from Crabtree Publishing.

And this is the... title page.

As we are reading, listen for rhyming words, words that sound the same.

Listen for some rhyming words, but here we go!

"Spooky Soup"!

"It is almost Halloween, Witchella is collecting ingredients for a spooky soup."

(Dr. Sanders creepily laughs) "12 spinning spiders."

"11 slippery eyeballs."

(Dr. Sanders imitates squishing noise) "10 worms, all wiggling."

"9 rats, all jumping."

Ew!

"8 toads, all warty."

Toads look like frogs, but they're different than frogs.

Think toad's skin is more dry than frogs.

I have to look that up.

I'm not for sure, but I think that's what it is.

"7 teeth, all rotten."

"6 putrid pumpkins."

(Dr. Sanders groans) Putrid means very stinky.

(Dr. Sanders gags) "5 stinky bats!"

"4 frightful (groans) fingers!"

"3 smelly socks."

"2 shiny skulls."

"1 cauldron of slimy pond water."

Does that spooky soup sound good?

Ooh!

What did they add to the spooky soup?

Four frightful fingers!

Some smelly socks, yes!

It was three smelly socks.

Spiders?

They were all spinning spiders.

Some toads?

Not frogs, they were toads, yes.

Do you think you want to taste that spooky soup?

It tastes good to me.

It's smells like... (sniffs) I mean... (mimics munching) (Dr. Sanders gags) All right, I'm gonna sing a song.

If you're familiar with it, you'll know what I'm talking about.

But I'm gonna sing it as we make our spooky soup and you can make your spooky soup as I sing the words to the song.

You just add those into your big pot, a cauldron.

This is a cauldron right here.

It is a big pot.

All right, so here we go.

♪ We're cooking for Halloween ♪ What's used in spooky soup ♪ 12 spinning spiders ♪ 11 slippery eyeballs ♪ 10 worms all wiggling ♪ 9 rats all jumping ♪ 8 toes all warty ♪ 7 teeth all rotten ♪ 6 putrid pumpkins ♪ 5 stinky bats ♪ 4 frightful fingers ♪ 3 smelly socks ♪ 2 shiny skulls ♪ And a cauldron of slimy pond water ♪ One more time and that's it, then we'll move on.

♪ We're cooking for Halloween ♪ What's used in spooky soup ♪ 12 spinning spiders ♪ 11 slippery eyeballs ♪ 10 worms all wiggling ♪ 9 rats all jumping ♪ 8 toes all warty ♪ 7 teeth all rotten ♪ 6 putrid pumpkins ♪ 5 stinky bats ♪ 4 frightful fingers ♪ 3 smelly socks ♪ 2 shiny skulls ♪ And a cauldron of slimy pond water ♪ All right!

Boys and girls, we're talking all about poems!

And like a song, sometimes poetry doesn't have to rhyme.

But we're talking about rhyming words, so before we rhyme, let's go over some of our friends' names before we do the rhyming words.

This is Billy.

Let's count Billy's letters.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Frankie.

Let's count Frankie's letters.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Diana, let's count Diana's letters.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Peter, let's count Peter's letters.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Alex, let's count Alex's letters.

1, 2, 3, 4.

Let's look at our letters further.

Wee!

What letter is this?

It's a B!

Everybody say B!

B!

(imitates buzzing) B!

What letter is this?

It is a K!

Kick the Can!

You ever played the game, Kick the Can?

It's fun.

Ask your grownups about it.

What letter is this?

G!

G makes the guh sound like in... goldfish!

Who has a goldfish?

Make sure you take care of your goldfish.

What letter is this?

It's a Y!

What letter sound, what sound... (laughs) Oops.

What, uh,... (stammers) What starts with Y?

Yo-yo, everybody do a yo-yo!

Whoop, whoop, whoop!

(Dr. Sanders mimics zipping noise) Y makes the yuh sound.

And I, which is a vowel, has two sounds; ee and ai.

Then we have some words we've been talking about.

We're gonna read 'em.

Let's read it.

Red!

R, E, D, red.

What word is this?

Will!

Let's read it!

Will!

W, I, L, L, will.

Will you please help me?

Are!

Let's spell are!

Read it, are!

Spell it!

A, R, E, are!

May!

Let's read it, may!

M, A, Y, may!

May I please have some of your spooky soup?

We have this poem/nursery rhyme I am gonna show to you and we're gonna read it.

And if you heard it before, you can join in.

If not, it's okay.

You can learn it today.

Then we'll be on our way.

Today and way!

I'm gonna use my little bubble pointer.

See how many bubbles I got in here.

(Dr. Sanders exhales) (Dr. Sanders laughs) Here we go.

It is called "Miss Mary Mack".

"Miss Mary Mack, all dressed in black, with silver buttons all down her back.

She went upstairs to make her bed, but by mistake, she bumped her head.

She went downstairs to wash the dishes, but by mistake, she washed her wishes."

Try it again?

And you can sing it like this.

Just add, ♪ Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack ♪ All dressed in black black black ♪ ♪ With silver buttons buttons buttons ♪ ♪ All down her back back back ♪ She went upstairs stairs stairs ♪ ♪ To make her bed bed bed ♪ But by mistake stake stake ♪ She bumped her head head head ♪ ♪ She went downstairs stairs stairs ♪ ♪ To wash the dishes dishes dishes ♪ ♪ But by mistake stake stake ♪ She washed her wishes wishes wishes ♪ Dishes and wishes!

Head and bed!

Black and back!

And Miss Mary Mack!

Yes, yes, yes!

Boys and girls, it is time to spell our favorite word!

And what is that?

Nine!

Let's spell nine!

Nine, N, I, N, E, nine!

Thank you for being in Room 9.

Bye bye!

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