- Hello there learners.

Today on Read, Write, ROAR we are going to be getting outside and discovering more about nature and animals.

You're going to be doing a mystery word with me and discovering what it is while we learn a new pattern.

And then you're going to read a poem about nature that will have that new pattern in it.

Lastly, you're going to be thinking about how animals are alike and different.

Are you ready to get started?

Let's get going at Read, Write, ROAR.

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(bright upbeat music) (clock alarm ticks) (lion roars) (slow music) - Hello there learners.

And we are going to get started with Read, Write, ROAR doing a mystery word today, as we do our word building.

You can see our letter is up here and you probably know that you're going to need something to write with and something to write on.

Before we start looking at our letters I got an envelope today and it had a special clue inside of it with the words that we're going to build.

Here's what the clue said.

It said that our mystery word today is connected to what we've been talking about with animals and plants.

And it says that in our book we've been reading this week.

The kids make a lot of them.

Make a lot of them.

Let's keep thinking about that.

What do the kids do in the book?

That's our mystery word.

While we think about that let's look at the letters that we're going to need to do our word joining today.

You're going to need A, E, I, two letter O's , B, N, R, S, T, V. Go get your supplies and get your letters written down and meet me back here.

So you can start word-building.

Let's start building.

I'm gonna move a little fast today with words that I think you know right away.

And the first word that I think you know quickly is at.

make at with your letters and I'm gonna make it with mine.

A-T two sounds, two letters, A-T, at.

Can you write at under your two letter column?

And I'm going to put at in my two letter column.

Guess what?

Now we're going to make at and turn it into the word rat.

What letter would I add to the beginning?

To go from at to rat?

Yes, I'm going to add a letter R. R-A-T spells rat.

Well done.

You're gonna write that under three letter words.

And while you're writing that I'm gonna tell you about our next word.

The next word is rate.

When I think of rate, I think about speed.

It's like how fast you're going.

Or sometimes you'll go to a restaurant or a movie and you rate it.

You say thumbs up or thumbs down or like it was okay.

So we're gonna change rat into the word rate and we only need to add one letter.

Let's think about the sounds in rate, R-A-T-E.

It's only three sounds.

Here's a little trick.

If I put this letter E at the end E helps the A say A R-A-T-E, spells rate.

Can you write rate?

Great job and it has four letters.

Now I want you to actually think about this with me for a moment.

This pattern that we're talking about going from at to rat to rate.

Let's think about rat.

This says CVC and it's a short way of saying consonant, vowel, consonant.

in the word rat R-A-T consonant, vowel, consonant.

I'm gonna write that up here for you.

R-A-T, spells rat.

Do you remember what we did to make rat turn into rate?

Yeah, all they did was added an E to the end.

So this pattern is called consonant, vowel, consonant E. That is the new pattern we're thinking about today.

And we're gonna build some more words that follow that pattern, you just add E and it makes the vowel... Or just A in this case, say it's name.

Let's try some more and see how we do with this, shall we?

Let's try the word it.

I'm gonna clear my board off while you get the letters that we need to make it.

Oh, guess what?

I can leave the T up there because it is spelled I-T. Can you make it at home?

Two letters, two sounds.

Okay, let's be quick and change it to bit.

I bit my lip, B-I-T.

Yes.

We're just going to add a letter B, B-I-T spells bit.

Can you write bit under three letter words?

B-I-T. Now we're gonna think about this pattern that we just learned, and we wanna change bit to bite.

B-I-T-E. Three sounds but there's four letters.

Yes, we need to add letter E at the end here to change it from bit to bite.

Can you write bite under your four letter column and look at that.

There's that E helping I to say I.

Okay, real quick can you change your words back to it?

Yes, you just need to take away your B and your E and now I want you to change it into sit.

I love to sit on the floor and read.

Yeah, great job.

S-I-T I just have to add letter S, S-I-T spells sit.

Can you write sit under three letter words?

And again if you don't have paper and a pencil today remember we can sky write, just write in the air.

The letters that I have up here.

Here's a new word for you.

The new word is site.

Can you say site?

Now, the word site that I'm talking about is talking about like where construction happens.

Like a job site where buildings might be done also a short way to say a website like go to this site.

S-I-T-E. S-I-T-E.

But this is sit.

What do I need to do?

You got it.

Add letter E to the end and now this says site.

This is not the site, like with your eyes.

Okay, write S-I-T-E And put it here under four letter words.

Good job.

The last one I want you to think about is the word ration.

Can you say ration?

When you ration something you only give a little bit out at a time.

I ration my dog Penny spoons so she doesn't get too heavy.

I give her a little bit morning, noon and night.

R-A now this is where it gets a little tricky.

Let me start that over.

Ration, R-A-T-I-O-N Five sounds but there's six letters R, letter A.

A I said letter A, silly me.

Letter R so it's R A, letter A.

And I'm gonna teach you a new chunk today.

The -tion chunk.

Can you say - tion.

Oftentimes when you hear -tion, here's the four letter you need to make it.

Not all the time but a lot of times, this is what we say in my classroom.

T-I-O-N says -tion, T-I-O-N says -tion.

And this is ration .

Can you write the six letter word ration on your words at home?

And now I want you to keep the -tion chunk and think about that and lock that away in your head.

Because one of the words that were gonna... Our mystery word's gonna have the -tion chunk in it.

Okay.

Keep it -tion lock away.

This is last word we're making before mystery word.

Okay, this last word is something I use to describe my daughter.

Observant.

Can you say observant?

When you're observant you notice a lot of things.

Let's do the sounds in that.

O-B-S-R-E-R-V-A-N-T, observant.

That's an eight sounds.

Actually has nine letters.

And the A sound is actually made by letter O in this word.

O-B Yes, letter B, S-E-R-V This is where S says that like Z sound again.

We know,-ar can be ER or IR and this word its ER is a pretty big word for us to do.

So I'm helping out a little bit with this observe, O-B-S-E-R-V-A-N-T, observant.

So we have observant up here and I told you our clue is connected to the book we read and doing a lot of noticing and something kids made a lot of.

And I told you it was another -tion chunk.

Watch how we're gonna do to our letters, change observant into... Did you figure out what the mystery word is?

Observation.

Watch this.

O-B-S-E-E-R-V-A What are our letters that say -tion.

T-I-O-N says -tion, remember that?

O-B-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N You did it word builders.

O-B-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N spells observation.

And we are doing a lot of observation on plants and animals right now.

Just like the kids in our book.

Oh, you did a lot of word building today.

Thank you so much for your help to solve the mystery word and make lots of words and connect back to what we've learned.

That if we have a CVC word, we can add each E to the end to make it say the vowel in the middle of say its name like rat to rate, bit to bite, sit to site, tin to tine, van to vane.

Well done.

See you next time.

Keep building words and see how many more you can make with all the letters in observation.

(playful music) - Hello, amazing learners.

Welcome back to Read, Write, ROAR.

My name is Miss Rogers.

Our special mystery word today was observation.

And we know that observation means to look around and notice things.

The poem that I have for you today is entitled Look Outside.

The author wants us to observe nature and the things that are around us.

The person who wrote it is Shannon Fuller.

So we're gonna take a closer look at our poem and figure out what's happening.

And also what special things we can learn just from a poem.

Okay, so here we go.

Look Outside by Shannon Fuller.

"Nature, Nature, look outside, "Plants and creatures try to hide.

"I see a nest up in the pine, "A flower hanging from a vine.

"The turtle sitting by the lake "Used his shell to hide from a snake.

"Nature, Nature, come outside, "Follow me, I'll be your guide."

Now, did you notice that the words at the end of each stanza rhyme?

You may be wondering what's a stanza?

(chuckles) Well, a stanza is simply a group of lines put together.

So we have our first line, our second line.

That's two, two lines put together.

Here we have a line and another line that's two more.

And the same happens here.

I just noticed a pattern.

So our stanzas are lines of two.

That was bonus.

(chuckles) Okay, so if I'm looking at my stanza I have the word outside and hide.

Those two words rhyme.

Now I'm going to look at it a little closer "Nature, Nature look outside, "Plants and creatures, try to hide."

So the two words in this stanza we already said that rhyme are outside and hide, okay?

They both end with the I-D-E so that makes them rhyme.

So let's check out our next stanza.

"I see a nest up in the pine, "A flower hanging from a vine."

What two words rhyme here?

That's right.

Pine and vine.

And these two words end with the -ine sound or I-N-E. All right, our next stanza, "The turtle sitting by the lake, "Used his shell to hide from a snake."

What two words do you think rhyme here?

The lake and snake.

"The turtle sitting by the lake, "Used his shell to hide from a snake."

What two words do you think rhyme in this stanza.

That's right lake and snake.

Now these end with A-K-E and that makes the - ake sound.

So those two words also rhyme.

Our final stanza.

"Nature, Nature come outside, "Follow me, I'll be your guide."

Now, which two words rhyme here?

Yes, outside and guide these two words in with the I-D-E and it makes the -ide sound.

Now let's try reading this poem together.

Look Outside by Shannon Fuller.

I'm gonna take my marker and I'm gonna use my special pencil that I like to use, okay?

So let's read that again.

Look Outside by Shannon Fuller "Nature, Nature look outside, "Plants and creatures try to hide.

"I see a nest up in the pine, "A flower hanging from the vine.

"The turtle sitting by the lake, "Used his shell to hide from a snake.

"Nature, Nature, come outside, "Follow me, I'll be your guide."

Good job.

Did you notice that it's easier to read a poem when it rhymes?

Now what we're going to do amazing learners.

We're going to take a closer look at the words at the end of our stanza that rhyme, okay?

So I'm gonna look at the word outside and hide.

I'm going to try to sound out the word hide.

H-I-D-E, H-I-D-E. What sound does the I make in hide?

It makes a long I sound, it makes the I sound, but what about this E?

H-I-D-E. (gasps) Oh, the E is a silent E. So this E tells the I to say its name.

So that makes this word a long I and the word is hide.

Very good.

Now let's try another one.

"I see a nest up in the pine, "A flower hanging from a vine."

So let's sound out pine.

P-I-N-E, pine.

I noticed the same thing.

This has a what type of E ?

Yes a silent E at the end.

So this E telling this I to say?

To say its name.

Good, good.

So this word is pine.

And this one V-I-N-E, vine.

Wow, that's a powerful E, isn't it?

(laughing) Now let's go to our next stanza "The turtle sitting by the lake "Used his shell to hide from a snake."

Let's try it.

L-A-K-E, lake.

We have another silent E and the E tells the A to say its name.

Yes, so that means, L-A-K-E, lake.

So this is a long A because it's making that a sound.

because of that special silent E the same with our snake.

Now let's try our last stanza.

"Nature, Nature come outside, "Follow me, I'll be your guide."

We already know what's at the end.

Yes, our silent E. And it's telling the I to say its name.

So I'm going to sound out guide.

G-U-I-D-E, guide.

And in this word we also have a U and it's a special combination, which means that this U is actually silent too.

Here I go again rhyming and not meaning to do so.

(laughing) That's pretty cool.

It'll happen to you too.

All right, so boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, I'm really excited that we were able to make some observations in our poem.

And also looking at the words that are at the end of our stanzas.

Now, I want you to make sure that you do some observations as well.

We observed our long vowel sounds.

We also noticed that words rhyme.

So I'm gonna try one more thing since it's time for us to go.

"Nature, Nature, go outside, "See what's out there that cannot hide."

See you next time.

(bright upbeat music) Hello amazing learners.

Welcome back to Read, Write, ROAR.

My name is Miss Rogers, and we've been talking a lot about the word observation, which of course means to look around the nature.

So we've been discovering plants and animals and the different things that we can find in our neighborhood and in other places.

Well, the book that we read called 'Do Trees Get Hungry?'

by Martha Rustad.

Their class goes on a nature hike and they have a class pet called Jojo.

And they're looking for similarities and differences with other animals.

We're gonna take a look at the title page.

This is Jojo, he is a gecko.

On page eight it says, "We walk to a nearby park.

"Attly sees a robin.

"I wish Jojo could have come along," she says, "I bet she has never seen a bird."

"Mr. Andre asks, "Can you think of ways that Jojo and robin are alike?"

"Keisha points out," Jojo eats worms, Robins do too."

"That's a pattern," our teacher says.

"Animals need food.

"How else is Jojo like other animals?"

Well, a Venn diagram is just a way to compare and contrast different things.

So we wanna see how something is alike or how something is different.

I just have two big circles.

One is for gecko.

The other one is for robin.

For example, if I had ice cream on this side and I had apple pie on this side, how are those two things the same?

They're both sweet.

So I would put sweet in the middle.

Ice cream would be cold and the apple pie will probably be hot.

So those are two ways that they're different.

And then the middle is how they are alike.

So we're gonna do the same thing with our gecko and our robin.

Okay, so we now know that both of them eat worms and they need food.

So in the middle is where I want to write that because it's the same about both of them.

So I'm going to write eat worms.

And now I'm also going to write need food.

Okay, now let's take a closer look at page number nine "Hans says "She drinks water so does my dog!".

"Asif says, "She needs a safe place to live "like birds need nests."

"We found more patterns!

"Animals need water and homes."

So now we know that those two things are alike for both of them.

So I'm going to add to my Venn diagram in the middle water.

And what was the other thing we said?

Correct.

A home.

So I'm going to write home.

"Now, let's take a look at our fact box on page five.

"Geckos are reptiles.

"Reptiles breathe air, "have a backbone and scaly skin and are cold blooded.

"That means their bodies are the same temperature "as their surroundings.

"Most reptiles hatch from eggs."

Now I'm going to write those characteristics about the gecko on his side, okay?

So gecko is a lizard and we know that the robin is a bird.

So let's go ahead and just write that down.

So now the characteristics that we just found in our text box is reptile, R-E-P-T-I-L-E.

There's that long I sound that is telling the I to say its name.

Reptile, scales, S-C-A-L-E-S What else did they say?

Yes, the fact box says that they're cold blooded.

Cold blooded.

All right, I think that works.

Lizard, reptiles, scales and cold blooded.

Now it also mentioned that air.

They both need air.

So I'm gonna go ahead and write air right here.

Everything needs air .

All right, now we're gonna take a look at page number 23 and this is our glossary.

Remember I said a glossary gives you the definitions of words that you may encounter in the text.

So let's see what it says for bird.

"An animal that has feathers on all or most of its body.

"Birds, breathe air, have a backbone, "are born from eggs and are warm blooded.

"They make their own body heat."

Now those characteristics of the bird sound a lot different from the lizard.

So we're going to write those things on this side.

All right, so the first thing it says it has feathers.

Feathers.

Remember the reptile has scales.

That's a lot different.

Also warm blooded which is the opposite of the gecko, which is cold-blooded.

Now we're gonna write wings.

Bird has wings.

All right so we found facts about our gecko and also our robin.

We found how they are different and in the middle how they are similar.

So I want you to take a look in nature and find out how animals and different things that you see are alike in different.

And if you have a pet at home try and see how your pet is alike or different from the pet that we saw in our story.

I enjoyed being with you today and I want you to try to make your own Venn diagram and share it with me.

So I look forward to seeing you soon, see you later, amazing readers.

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