- Hello, amazing readers.

Welcome to "Read, Write, Roar."

Today, we'll be learning about the long I vowel sound and using words with the long I sound to build sentences.

Now, we'll looking at a nonfiction book and using parts of the book to find information.

We will also research and write about animals and how they protect themselves and their babies.

And all of this is done in order to survive.

Are you ready to learn?

Let's get started.

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(cheerful music) (roaring sound) (slow-pace upbeat music) My name is Ms. Rogers, and as I said before, we're going to be using the long I sound and its patterns in order to make a sentence or two or three or four.

So I have the long I sound spelled with the I, Y, I G H, I E, and I consonant E. As an example, and a reminder, the word kind, k i nd has a long I sound spelled with I, my has a long I sound spelled with Y, light has a long I sound spelled with I G H. I also have the word pie which is a long vowel sound and it's spelled with an I E. Now, if we look at bike, it's spelled with I E pattern but there's a consonant in the middle.

So it's I consonant or the letter K and E. My first sentence here is I like to ride my bike.

How many long sounds do I hear in this sentence?

Long I sounds?

I like to ride my bike, like, ride, my, bike.

I have four words that have the long I sound.

Let's go to our next sentence.

My bike can really fly or go fast.

How many words do you see here that have a long I sound?

My bike can really fly, my, bike, fly.

So we have three words in that sentence that have belong I sound.

Now, let's look at our next sentence.

The fireflies come out at night.

I hear some long I sounds but also see something special with this word fireflies.

It has too long I sounds.

I have the fire and I have the flies.

Now, this is a compound word.

A compound word are two words put together to make one word.

So two words put together to make one word, fireflies.

This has a I consonant E, this is spelled with an I E. Have you ever seen fireflies at night?

They look like tiny little light bulbs, really pretty.

And I also have in a sentence the word night.

What spelling pattern do you see in night?

Is it I, Y, I G H, I E, or I consonant E?

You're really smart.

Yes, it's the I G H, very good.

Now, let's take one more look at our final sentence.

Fireflies, our compound word, light up the night sky.

We have I consonant E, I E, We have I G H, and we have I G H, finally, we have the word with the letter Y making the I sound.

But then you notice that if I sound out the word light, it'll sound, something like this, l i g h t. Let's try that again, l i, or even is I say I for long I, l i g h t. That's really interesting.

So let's take a closer look at the I G H spelling pattern.

Let's see what we can find.

Oh, magically, I have the word light here and it's broken down into it's letter sounds.

And I have l I G H, which is I, just like we said right here, t, l i ght.

So it's broken down into its sound segments.

And if we put it together because of the spelling pattern, it's l i ght, say that with me, l i ght.

Now, let's say a little faster, l i ght.

Now, let's put it together, light.

Good job!

So you did a great job helping me with using my long vowel sounds for my patterns for the letter I and also creating sentences.

Now it's your turn to create sentences at home.

You can write them down or either say them with the partner, but I want you to, to be the great learners that you are.

(slow-paced upbeat music) Hello, amazing learners, welcome back.

I have a very special book for you today.

It's a non-fiction texts, and it's entitled, "Animals Grow and Change."

This book is by Bobbie Kalman.

Now this is not fiction texts simply means that the information inside happens in real life, and it's something that the author wants us to know about.

What do you think the author wants us to know?

Yes, how animals grow and change.

So this is gonna be very interesting.

When I open up the book, there's something really special inside.

It's called the contents.

This table of contents is really special because it helps us to gather information and know where to find that information.

So let's begin our special story.

Born or hatch?

Animals are living things.

Living things grow and change.

Some animals began their lives growing inside the bodies of their mothers the animals are then born.

These lambs were just born.

The mother sheep is cleaning one of the lamps.

Oh, that's special, their own little bath.

Some maybe animals do not grow inside their mother's bodies.

Their mother's leg eggs.

The babies grow inside the eggs and then they hatch.

To hatch is to break out of an egg.

This one has laid some eggs.

Mammals are born.

Most mammals are born.

Mammals are animals with hair or fur on their bodies.

Some mammal babies are born without here or fur.

The baby rats above will grow fur.

They will soon look like the rat on the left.

Mammal mothers make milk in their bodies.

Their babies drink the milk.

Drinking mother's milk is called nursing.

These kittens and puppies are nursing.

Pocket babies.

What could that mean?

Pocket and a baby, pocket baby?

Let's see.

Some mammal babies are tiny when they are born.

So tiny is not just small, but like that, like really small.

Marsupials are mammals that have tiny babies.

Kangaroos and koalas are Marsupials.

Most marsupial mothers have pouches or pockets on their bodies.

After they are born, marsupial babies live in their mother's pouches.

The Joeys or babies nurse inside the pouches.

This kangaroo joey is sleeping inside its mother's pouch.

Oh, Joey spent a of time in their mother's pouches.

As they grow, the Joey start spending time out of the pouches.

They stay close to their mothers.

The Joey start to eat grasses and other foods.

They nurse, as well.

Mother's care.

Mammal mothers feed their babies and hide them from predators.

Predators, do you know what a predator is?

A predator, it says that predators are animals that hunt and eat other animals.

Oh, Oh no.

Mammal mothers move their babies when they think the babies are in danger.

This Cougar mother is carrying her cub to a new hiding place.

She is not hurting it.

All cats carry their babies by the scruff or the back of the neck.

Mammal mothers teach their babies how to find food and how to move from place to place.

The orangutan mother above is swinging from tree to tree.

Her baby hangs onto her chest.

As the baby grows, it will climb and swing on its own.

What is a life cycle?

Animals are born or they hatch.

As they grow, their bodies change on the outside and on the inside.

The changes an animal goes through are called it's life cycle.

The life cycle of a horse starts when a foal or a baby horse is born.

The foal was just born.

A horse is a mammal.

Mammal babies nurse as soon as they are born.

They look a lot like their parents.

Foals nurse and start eating grass too.

They grow quickly.

One foal is nursing and the other is eating grass.

Fully grown horses are adults.

Adults can make babies.

This horse is carrying a baby inside her body, up here.

A new lifecycle starts with every baby.

Hatching birds.

The life cycles of birds start with eggs.

A mother bird lays eggs.

Chicks, or baby birds hatch from the eggs.

Most mother birds care for their chicks.

Some father birds also help care for their chicks.

These pictures show a chick hatching from an egg.

The baby bird cracks the egg with its egg tooth.

It starts to push out of the shell.

Hatching is hard work.

The bird is now out of the shell.

It's feathers are wet.

When the feathers dry, they are soft and fuzzy.

Reptile changes.

Snakes, lizards, alligators, and turtles belong to a group of animals called reptiles.

Most reptiles hatch from eggs.

Reptile mothers lay soft eggs.

These baby snakes are breaking out of their soft eggs.

Baby snakes look just like their mothers, but they are smaller.

Lizards also look like their parents when they hatch.

This picture shows a family of bearded dragons.

When lizards become adults, they can make babies.

Reptile mothers do not care for their eggs or babies.

The mothers lay their eggs and leave.

Baby sea turtles hatch on their own and find their way to the ocean where they will live.

Big frog changes.

We know a little bit about frog, don't we?

Some animals go through big changes as they grow.

They start their lives in eggs.

Their bodies change many times before they become adults.

These big changes are called metamorphosis.

That's a big word.

Can you say that with me?

Metamorphosis.

Almost, let's try it one more time.

Metamorphosis.

Good job.

All frogs start their lives in water.

All frogs go through metamorphosis.

This water is full of frog eggs.

A frog's life cycle.

A new life starts with every egg that hatches.

A tadpole hatches from an egg.

It has a tail for swimming.

The tadpole soon grows back legs, right here.

The tadpole has become a young frog.

It has lost its tail and can breathe air.

The adult frog can live on land and in water.

It can make babies.

A female frog lays many eggs in water.

Frog eggs are called spawn.

So we see here that frogs, when they become adults, they can do two things.

They can be in the water and they can be on land.

But when they were babies, they could only stay or survive in the water.

Monarch caterpillar.

Butterflies also go through metamorphosis.

Butterflies start their lives inside eggs.

Caterpillars hatch from the eggs.

These caterpillars are hatching from eggs.

Caterpillars eat and eat.

They grow and grow.

As they grow, they get too big for their skin.

Caterpillars lose their old skin and grow new skin.

Losing old skin and growing new skin is called molting.

Caterpillar molt many times.

The caterpillar then hangs upside down and makes a hard case around its body.

It is now a pupa.

Its case is called a chrysalis.

The caterpillar's body changes inside the chrysalis.

What happens next?

Turn the page.

Wow, look at that, a new butterfly.

The Chrysalis becomes clear meaning that we can see right through it.

You can see the butterfly inside.

The new butterfly breaks out of the chrysalis.

The butterfly's wings are still wet.

It cannot fly yet.

When its wings are dry, the butterfly can fly away.

Soon, the butterfly can lay eggs.

The eggs will grow into new caterpillars and butterflies.

Now my last page here says words to know and index.

This is really special and really important because it shows you not only where to find keywords, but this book also has illustrations or photographs of some of the things that we saw within the book.

It's also listed in alphabetical order.

So let's say we wanted to find more about life cycle.

So the word life cycle is right here.

It says that I can find out about life cycles on page 12, 13, 14, and 19.

So I want you to continue reading and doing a great job and really understand the importance of the index and table of contents.

It helps you to understand what you read and also to gather more information.

Well, keep reading, continue to be yourself and I'll see you next time.

(slow-paced upbeat music) - Oh, hey there learners.

It's me again, Mrs.

Spear.

Was it hard to see me just now?

Do you notice what I'm wearing?

Another a word for this kind of clothes, camouflage.

I wore this special outfit today because I'm down by a lake where we would find frogs.

(a bird chirping) Right now, it's springtime and frogs are just starting to resurface in and around the lake down here.

We've been learning all about our topic of frogs and I'm really excited that we're going to do the last part today, which is all about how frogs protect themselves.

So that's why I came down here dressed like this because camouflage is one way that frogs protect themselves from other animals that might be trying to get them.

We're going to be doing some more thinking and some more learning about this today as we learned about how frogs protect themselves besides camouflage and then we'll do some writing about that, and learn about the importance of captions when you're writing informational text.

Well, hey there, learners, we're back inside now.

But I still have a chill from being down in that wind by the lake.

We're talking about protection.

Can you say the word protection?

We're learning about how animals survive, how they can protect themselves and keep safe.

And so today we're gonna think about what we know about frogs and we're gonna learn some more about frogs and how they protect themselves.

The first thing we just learned about down by the lake was about camouflage.

Can you say camouflage?

Nice job.

I need to read this part to you from this book, "Frogs and Toads" by Bobbie Kalman, and it's a crab tree book.

This page talks about safe colors.

And there's a bold print word here.

It says predators.

If you see bold print in a book, it usually tells you that word is important.

And oftentimes the author will then tell you what that word means.

I'm gonna read this part, "Safe colors."

It says frogs and toads have many predators.

A predator is an animal or bird that hunts and eats another animal.

Frogs and toads try to avoid predators such as snakes, otters, and birds, by not being seen.

And I can tell you there are snakes and otters down at that lake that we were just at.

And so frogs avoid or stay away from them because they don't want to be eaten.

The colors of some frogs and toads allow them to blend into their surroundings.

Here we go, we're gonna learn more about camouflage.

A frog's green skin is hidden or camouflaged in greenish pond water or among leaves and grass.

So from what we just saw down by the pond, we know that frogs are able to camouflage themselves.

I'm going to show you a picture of a frog that I took camouflaged down by the lake and how it used its own colors to help it to protect itself.

Let's check it out.

So here we are thinking about protection.

I started out this page for us and it says, "Protection, ways frogs protect themselves."

Ways frogs protect themselves.

This ... that's an ellipsis.

That means something's coming.

And what I did is I drew some illustrations.

These and and all the things that we were just talking about they would help us know about how frogs protect themselves.

What we're going to do on this page is we're going to make captions, which are an informational text feature that really help readers when they're reading a book.

Let me show you what I mean.

Do you remember this book that we've been looking at?

"From Tadpole to Frog."

Here's a great example of, it says take a closer look.

Here's a tadpole.

It has a nice label that says gills.

This is the part that's new that we're thinking about today.

This is called the caption.

It says closeup of a tadpole's gills.

The words here match what's happening in the photograph.

And that's what we're going to do now with the illustrations that I have here.

This says ways frogs protect themselves.

Here's a picture of water.

This is something that I wrote to be words that match the picture.

It says, frogs can hop into water.

Can you read that with me?

Frogs can hop into water.

We talked about that's one way they could protect themselves.

This illustration here says, croak, chirp, peep, ribbit.

What might that be talking about about how frogs protect themselves?

Yeah, that's through communication.

How might that help frogs to be able to survive?

Think about a sentence you might say and then I'll show you mine.

Did you think of one?

Here's what I wrote.

Tell me someone with you if it's close to what you wrote.

I put frogs you sounds to warn each other.

Did you write something like that?

Maybe you wrote about how frogs you sounds to communicate, to be able to attract, right?

The male attracts the female that protects them because it helps them to have more tadpoles, which will then be frogs, right?

So they keep living on.

So frogs use sounds to warn each other was the caption I put with this illustration.

Can you tell what this picture is supposed to be?

Yeah, that's supposed to be in eye, a frog's big eye.

Remember we talked about that in the last part that we were reading and learning about?

What have we learned about a frog eye?

How does it help them?

Yeah, what made you write on this page?

Maybe you're gonna write about the extra eyelid they have.

I just thinking about writing how they're bulging eyes really help them of where they can see.

Here's what I wrote.

And you can tell if you think this would be a good thing to write.

I said frogs', and it's S apostrophe because it's all frogs, frogs' big eyes help them see in front, the side, behind, and above.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, that's really important.

So the big eyes are very helpful to frogs to protect themselves.

Here's our last illustration.

What things are you noticing in this illustration?

Yeah, there's long reads and grass, there's water, there's a stick here.

Can you see anything else?

Did you find the frog in the picture?

Wow, it's hard to see it because it's what?

Camouflage, remember we learned about that word and I'm wearing camouflage today for the work that we're doing?

Well, here's what I wrote on this page.

Maybe you wrote something similar.

I wrote a frog skin helps it to be camouflaged.

Wow, you should give yourselves a pat on the back.

We just finished the last page about our topic of frogs for an informational text that we're writing together.

We did it.

The next time you back together, we'll be working on what's called revising and editing.

Thank you for all the great learning that you've done today.

The listening to stories, the thinking about ideas, learning about text features like captions, and thinking and doing great writing.

I'll be looking forward to seeing you next time that we get together on "Read, Write, Roar."

Thanks for joining me today.

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

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