(fun, upbeat music) - Good morning.

Super readers.

Thank you for joining us in our peak valley PBS classroom.

I'm Mrs. Nix.

- Hi, and I'm Mrs. Vang - and I'm Mrs. Hammock.

- And this is a place where we come together so that we can learn, practice, and grow our brains to become even stronger readers, writers, and thinkers.

So let's get started by warming up our brains with some - ear training called daily phonemic awareness!

- Alright, so ladies today, if I can have you help me, - we're gonna - Of course!

- all do it on our arms - Okay!

- and I'm going to give you some sounds and you're going to do it with me at home.

Are you ready?

Just put your arm out and I'm going to give you some sounds and we're going to blend them together and make words.

Okay.

Are you ready?

- Here we go.

- Ready.

- (sounding out letters) Hmm.

Let's put it together.

(sounding out letters) Now do it fast, leg.

Did you say leg?

Good job!

Let's try another one.

(sounding out letters) Put it together.

Met.

Did you get it?

- Great job.

- Mm hmm.

Met.

- You're going to have to come up with something harder than that.

- Oh, how about if I do four sounds.

- Ooh, that's pretty hard.

- Okay.

Let's try it.

Ready.

Here we go.

(sounding out letters) Put it together.

Sled!

Did you get it?

- Great.

- Great job.

Okay.

You know what time it is?

- Oh, you can - Think I do.

Do you?

- Are you going to show us a new dance, Mrs. Nix?

(laughter) - I am.

I worked all weekend for this, just for you guys at home.

So make sure you've got some space and - Okay.

- then join us and let's get some wiggles out.

This one's called scrambled egg, fried egg.

- Oh.

- And so we're just going to dance a little bit like this - That's an interesting name for a dance.

(laughter) - Scrambled eggs, fried eggs, egg on a plate.

Boiled egg, egg on toast, hurry don't be late.

Eggs are good for breakfast or in a salad too.

No matter how you cook them, they are good for you.

Scrambled egg, fried egg, egg on a plate.

Boiled egg, egg on toast, hurry don't be late.

But no matter where you go, and no matter what you do, never ever put an egg in your shoe.

(instrumental continues) Scrambled egg, fried egg, egg on a plate Boiled egg, egg on toast, hurry don't be late.

Eggs are good for breakfast or in a salad too.

No matter how you cook them, they are good for you.

Scrambled egg, fried egg, egg on a plate.

Boiled egg, egg on toast, hurry don't be late.

But no matter where you go and no matter what you do never ever put an egg in your shoe.

(instrumental continues) (laughter) - That was so fun!

- Wasn't that great?

- An egg in your shoe?

- An egg in your shoe.

- I know, sounds gross.

- So fun.

But I heard lots of good sounds.

- I did too.

- All right.

And you chose the perfect dance for us because this week our focus sound is the "eh" sound and the egg card.

- All right, well we (indistinct) Good job.

- Good job.

- Great dancing out there.

You did awesome.

Today, We are going to all week long we are going to be focusing on the egg card.

This is our vowel, the E, and the "eh" sound.

Eh, eh That's the short E sound.

And so when we see this card, we say E, egg, eh.

So it's spelled two ways, which can be really tricky.

Most of the time it will be spelled with just an E, but there are a few tricky, trickster words that use the E a to say the eh sound.

And we're going to talk about that all week long.

And I put a little note over here and we're going to make a little list of those tricksters so that we can just keep an eye on them and see if you know some of those words.

So are you ready to blend some words with me?

I think we need some help.

Don't you?

Oh, friends.

Can you come help me blend some words?

- Hi, Mrs. Hammock!

- Oh, hello Tina.

- Good morning, Mrs. Hammock.

- Oh, Ricky.

How are you doing?

- I'm, okay, (laughter) - Well, I'm glad you're okay.

Today, we're going to blend some short E words.

So when you see the vowel in the word, I want you to remember to say the "eh" sound.

Can you say that sound?

- Eh.

- Great.

- Eh!

- Woo.

That was fast, but good.

All right, here we go.

So here we have the letter S S says, (sounding out letters) and that the last one is the T it says, (sounding out letters) so let's kind of use our strip skills that we did with Mrs. Nix at the beginning where we blended them, we're going to say them slowly and then stick them together to see what word we've made.

Ready?

All right, here we go.

(sounding out letters) Now let's do it a little faster, set.

Do you know what word that is?

- Oo, oo, I know - Tina.

- I know, I know - What do you think?

- It's set!

- Nicely done!

Is that what you were going to say too?

- Set!

- You guys are such great blenders.

You blended those sounds together and make words.

I'm so proud of you.

You ready to try another one?

Yes.

Great.

All right.

So here we have the letter B.

That's the "buh" sound.

Be careful not to stretch it too long, we don't want it to say bah.

We don't want that "uh" sound at the end.

It's very short.

It's a clip.

So pretend you have a scissor and just do, buh, buh, clip it off before it gets too long.

(sounding out letters) There's that G sound "guh".

(sounding out letters) All right.

Do one of you think you can blend that together and tell us our word?

- Can I try?

- I would love for you to try!

(sounding out letters) Beg - Beg, very nice!

That is right.

Beg.

Terrific.

All right.

Now, at the beginning, I told you that we're going to use some of the E a spelling pattern that also says the "eh" sound, because I want you to see it and be familiar with it so that it doesn't trick you, when you find a word like that.

Not a lot of words have that short, E spelling, but you still need to know it anyway.

So we have a blend like we practice last week.

So the SW says, (sounding out letters) All right, now let's blend it a little faster.

See if we can figure it out.

Ready?

Sweat.

Did you get it?

- Oh, I think I got it.

I think I got it.

- Okay.

Tell me - Okay.

Sweat.

- Yes!

- Sweat.

- Sweat.

- I don't like to sweat.

- Oh, no.

It's not comfortable.

Is it?

- No.

- Ricky.

I bet with all of your beautiful fur you have been, you've had a problem with sweat before.

Am I right?

- Don't like to sweat.

- No.

Well, I am so proud of you.

Thank you so much for your help today.

I'm gonna let you scoot off.

And my friends and I are going to read a sentence with some short E words.

All right, friends here is our sentence.

I'm going to stick it right up here and we're going to read it together.

You ready?

The red fox fled, fled to its den.

The red fox fled to its den.

Now in this sentence, the word fled means he left really fast.

He fled to his, to its den, great reading.

So we practice our skills all by themselves.

That's called isolated.

Then we also want to practice in context.

That means how does it look in a story or a sentence?

Because we need to practice both.

Thanks for practicing with me today.

And we're going to keep working on it all week long.

But right now it's time for us to practice our high-frequency words with Mrs. Nix.

- Awesome.

Thank you so much, Mrs. Hammock, and yes, that's exactly what we're going to do today.

I have five new words for us to practice this week.

And remember, these are those words that we come across often in our reading and our writing.

And so we want to make sure that we're giving them some time to kind of settle into our brains.

And so I've got some different games and strategies to practice them, to make it a little bit more fun.

All right.

You ready to print, to practice with me?

Excellent.

Let's go through.

I just want to read all of them today, but we're going to focus on one.

So here we go.

The words are again, help, new, there, and use Today, we're going to focus on this word right here.

This one is again, say again with me, again.

Good job.

Now let's spell it.

A G A I N. Great, again.

All right, now let's practice it in a sentence.

Here we go.

Read this with me.

Rex fell down again.

Poor Rex keeps falling down.

All right.

Rex fell down again.

So just like Mrs. Hammock said, it's important that we know our high-frequency words, but it's really good for us to be practicing them in context, in a sentence.

Okay.

Now, remember I said that I was going to show you a fun way to practice.

Well here's a really fun way to do it.

We've talked about it a couple of times, but it's one of my favorites, so I keep bringing it back.

If you talk with your adults that you live with, or maybe even your teacher in your classroom might do something like this, get a Ziploc bag and you can just put some really cheap hair gel, go to the dollar store or something and get some cheap, cheap hair, gel, squeeze it all in here.

And then you have a really fun, squishy surface that you can take your finger and you can practice writing your words.

So it doesn't work all that great because I'm on a wall, but I can practice A G A I N, and now if it was flat, then I would just be able to squish it all up there.

But because I'm on a wall, it does look kind of funny, oops.

And now I'm going to lose it because it came unclipped, but that's okay.

All right, now here's my next thing that I want us to talk about today.

When we are reading our stories, I love for us to think about a strategy and this week's strategy is making and confirming predictions.

And so we're going to go through, and we're going to read a story today, and I have a question for you.

It's why do you think Millie waits for the mail carrier?

Huh?

I can't wait to find out what you predicted, as you listen to today's story.

Enjoy.

- Millie, waits for the mail by Alexander Stephen Meyer.

Today, you're going to read a story about Millie, who waits for the mail.

Make a prediction.

Why do you think she waits for the mail carrier every day?

Every morning, while being milked, Millie stared out at the farm yard.

This was her favorite time of the day, because there was something Millie loved more than anything else, scaring the mail carrier and chasing him off the farm Every day, Millie searched for a new hiding place.

On the days the farmer didn't get any mail, Millie felt so let down.

The farmer didn't share Millie's idea of fun.

All her packages arrived broken.

Millie had to be stopped.

And the mail carrier had terrible nightmares every night.

For one morning, he finally had an idea.

Maybe if I bring the cow a package, he said to himself, she will like me.

The next day, Millie lay in wait, just as she did every morning.

And Millie's scared the mail carrier, just as she did every morning.

That's enough shouted the farmer, chasing after Millie, who was chasing after the mail carrier, again.

Stop right there!

Enough already!, shouted at the mail carrier too.

This package is for you.

You silly cow Millie slid to a sudden stop.

A package?

She had never received a package before.

What on earth could it be?

The box bounced right past her and landed under the wheels of the farmers tractor.

Oh no!, yelled the farmer, but it was too late The package was completely flattened.

Millie's heart dropped, and her feet went out from under her.

And when she pulled herself up on wobbly knees, the mail carrier's bicycle looked a little different.

I'm ruined, sniffed the mail carrier.

How will I deliver the mail without my bicycle?

Now every morning, Millie, can't wait to finish her milking because there's something she loves more than anything else.

Delivering the mail.

- Did you guys enjoy that story?

Oh, I love Millie the cow.

Did you love Millie?

- I love Millie, she's my kind of cow.

- Isn't it, she funny.

Now, did you make a prediction?

Why did you think she waited for the mail carrier?

- I thought it was because he brought her things, but it wasn't.

- You're right.

So boys and girls when we make a prediction and it's incorrect.

Is that okay?

Yes, because one, because one of the strategies to make and confirm our prediction.

So we make a prediction, which is like a guess, right?

Cause we haven't read the story, and then we confirm it to see if it's correct or not.

And if it's not correct, it's okay.

Isn't it?

- It's okay.

- That's right.

Now, guess what we get to do today, Ricky.

- What?

What?

- We get to retell the story.

Oh, I see how excited you are.

Oh, Retell is super excited.

Cause his name is Retell Ricky, but you can't do it for them, Ricky.

They're going to have to help you.

- Ah, I want to do it.

- I know, but you know, (indistinct) how do we tell?

So I'm going to have them help you.

Is that okay?

- Okay.

- So to retell the story, let's think about our characters.

Do you guys remember who the characters are in our story?

Don't tell them Ricky.

Oh, I heard them.

Remember the title of the story was Millie Waits for the Mail.

So one of my characters, - Millie!

- That's right.

- And the mail carrier - You're right.

And there was a?

- Farmer.

- You're right.

Did you say that the characters were a farmer, Millie and the Mail carrier.

Awesome job.

You guys are getting really good at this.

Okay.

Now where was the setting?

Where were they?

- On a farm.

- Yes.

Good job.

Next time, Ricky, let them answer before you give them the answer.

Remember, they're helping you.

- Okay.

- Now here's the Ricky's favorite part.

We're going to be thinking about what happened in the beginning of the story, What happened in the middle of the story, and what happened at the end of the story?

And I have some pictures here to help you if you need help.

So let's look at our picture.

Let's see.

Oh, does the package get destroyed first?

Oh, does, oh, look at this.

Millie's carrying the mail or does Millie scare like Millie scaring The mailman or the mail carrier happened in the beginning?

- Millie loves to scare the mail carrier.

(laughter) It's so funny.

- It is pretty funny.

Do you guys all agree?

That's right.

So Millie likes to scare the mail carrier.

She loves it.

Doesn't she?

Cause what does she do?

She's hides and waits.

And she waits for him and then.

AH!

Oh my goodness.

That was pretty scary.

And then she scares him.

Wasn't that funny?

Oh, Millie.

Okay.

Now let's keep going.

What happened in the middle of my story?

Let's see what makes sense.

- Oh, Millie scares the mail carrier and everything gets broken.

- You're right.

The mail carrier, Did he enjoy being scared by Millie?

Oh, he did not, did he?

Did the farmer enjoy that Millie was scaring the mail carrier?

Nope, because you got, do you remember all of them?

All of mail, all of the farmers packages got broken.

- Oh that wasn't nice, was it?

So what happened in the middle of my story?

The packages and the mail carriers bike were broken.

Now, do you remember how the bike got broken?

It was so funny.

- Millie sat on it!

- She did.

She fell and sat on the bike and the bike, broke.

But then that became a problem because guess what, what happened at the end?

- At the end of the story Millie became the mail carrier or she actually carried the mail.

- You're right.

Good thinking, Ricky.

So at the end of the story, Millie helps carry the, or she helps the mail carrier by delivering the mail.

Do you think she liked that job?

Oh, I bet she did.

Did you enjoy that story?

- I loved it.

That Millie she sure is funny.

- She sure is.

Okay.

Are you guys ready to write now?

Let's go into our writing.

And let's get all our friends to come and help us write.

You want to call them?

- Tina!

Scooter!

- Oh, oh, I see them.

There they are.

Hello, friends!

- Hello, Mrs. Vang!

- Did you guys enjoy that story about Millie?

- Oh, it was so cute.

- It was, so here's my writing prompt today.

So my writing prompts says, what other jobs do you think Millie would like to do?

So we know Millie loves being a mail carrier.

I want you guys to think.

Hmm.

She likes, - Oh, oh think about all the stuff she likes to do and then think about a job that she can do because she likes to do something.

Are you thinking?

- I think I got one, - Okay, Tina.

- I think I do.

Okay.

Now, now just hear me out on this one.

Cause I was thinking about what she likes and she really is good at hiding and waiting.

And so what about being a private investigator?

- Ooh, that's a good one.

And I liked how you were thinking about what she likes to do.

She likes hiding and she likes waiting.

And so you thought of a job that you are waiting and hiding and a private investigator is a great one.

So let's look at my sentence.

So Tina says, I think Millie can be a private investigator because she's good at hiding and waiting.

- Oh, I like that Tina.

That's a good answer.

- That is a good answer, Oo, oo Scooter is super excited.

Scooter has one for me too.

Okay.

Scooter, what do you think?

Let's see.

Oh, did you guys hear Scooter?

He's getting louder and louder isn't he?

Oh, I'm so glad he is becoming a little bit louder so we can hear him.

Let's see Scooter says that she, Millie, she'll become, I love this Scooter, a football player because she likes to run.

Is that a good answer?

- That's a great one!

- That's great answer, because she loves to run.

I bet she would make a super football player.

Now, - What about - Do you have an answer for me?

- What about, do you know what she likes to do?

She likes to scare people.

And I love scaring people with Millie.

I think I'm going to go scare.

- Okay.

No, no, no, no.

Tell me what, tell me what you think, a job that she will be good at.

I think she'll be a great security guard because she loves to scare people.

- Oh, that's a great answer.

Tina can you help with Retell's answer?

Oh, Retail, that is a great answer.

I think Millie can be a security guard because she likes to scare people Oh, these are great answer.

What do you guys think that Millie can do because of what she likes to do and boys and girls, if you're not sure, draw your picture of Millie doing that job.

And if you want to send it to us I'm here in our Valley PBS classroom, we will love getting mail from you guys.

Now get ready, we're going to go into one of my favorite time of the day, listening to a great book to check it out to read.

So let's hear from a good friend of mine to see what book you can check out.

Ready?

Here it comes.

- Hello friends.

My name is Gina Perez and I am a TSA with Fresno unified and I am very excited to be here today to share one of my very favorite books called Pinkalicious by Victoria and Elizabeth Kann.

This story is about Pinkalicious, who absolutely loves pink.

She loves pink so much that she gets into a little bit of trouble when she eats too many pink cupcakes.

If you would like to find out more about what happens to Pinkalicious, please check out Pinkalicious at your local library or on the SOAR app.

Happy reading friends!

- Wow.

Mrs. Perez.

Thank you so much for sharing that.

Pinkalicious is one of my favorite books too.

- Mine too.

- I hope that you check that out at your local library or at SOAR.

That would be fantastic.

- Knock, knock.

- Who's there.

- Harry.

- Harry, who?

- Harry up and open that door!

- Oh my golly, - Oh, Retell.

- you're so silly.

We'll see you guys back here tomorrow.

Take care.

Bye-bye (fun, upbeat music)