(upbeat instrumental music) - Welcome back learners.

Thank you for joining us for teaching in room nine, our region's largest classroom.

My name is Julia.

I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard school, and here for teaching in room nine.

My lessons focus on letters and sounds.

Welcome back readers.

It is so good to be here with you today.

Thank you for taking time out of your day to be here with me.

And I'm excited for us to do some learning here together.

As always, we love to see our learners following along at home.

So if you ever want, feel free to have your grownup post a video, or take a picture of your hard work at home, and then they can post it online and hashtag ninePBS.

All right, learners, we're gonna go ahead and start with our mindful moment exercise today.

We're gonna get our bodies and our brains ready to learn here together.

This time we're going to make our best gorilla breaths today.

This will help us focus our brains on our deep breathing that we'll be doing here together and allow us to be really present in the moment.

We're gonna take a deep breath in through our nose like this.

And then as you exhale and let out that breath, you're gonna slowly beat your chest.

And you can make your best gorilla sounds.

Are you ready to try it with me?

Okay, let's go ahead and go.

Sit up nice and straight and tall.

Take a deep breath in through your nose, and breathe out.

Ooh, ooh, ooh.

Let me hear you gorillas.

Ah very good.

Let's do another one.

Deep breath in, and out.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

Wow, that was really good gorillas.

One last time.

Breathe in, and out.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

Very good learners.

I'm really proud of you.

Now that we are ready to learn, we're going to be talking about letters and sounds here together.

Learning and practicing our letters and sounds helps get our brains ready to be amazing readers and writers.

Since we got our bodies and brains ready to learn, let's take a minute to talk about getting ready to learn at school.

We want to give ourselves all the right tools to be able to learn our best.

So far here together, we've talked about being in a smart spot.

That's away from any distractions that might take away from your learning.

Are you in a smart spot right now?

Then we talked about body basics or whole body listening.

This is what our bodies should look like and what our bodies should be doing when it's time to listen and to learn.

And we practice this by doing a mirrors on activity.

So when I say mirror is on, you're going to follow along with everything I say and do until I say mirror is off.

Are you ready to try?

Mirrors on?

I think you can do a little better.

Let's try that again friends.

Mirrors on.

Oh, there we go.

I can listen with my whole body.

My eyes are on the speaker.

My ears are listening.

My mouth is quiet.

My heart is ready and my body is calm.

Mirrors off.

Very good friends.

So this is what our bodies should be doing when we are seated in a chair or on a pillow.

If we're at the carpet for circle time, if we're in a line getting ready to leave the classroom.

When we're learning at home here together, or when you're learning at school or really any time your teacher or an adult is asking for you to listen or maybe about to give a direction.

Whole body listening might look different for each person depending on what their body and their brains need.

But it is important to show the speaker, Whoever is talking to us, that we want to hear their words.

So that way it makes them feel respected and cared for.

Then last week we started talking about some problem solving solutions.

When we're at school and we're learning together with all our friends, we might have some really big feelings or maybe even get into a conflict or an argument with a peer.

This is normal, but we want to have the right tools to work through these issues in a way that is safe and respectful for everyone.

So last week we talked about a few problem solving strategies.

I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen so we can review those and then talk about our new ones this week.

All right.

So, here are our problem-solving solutions.

And then last week, the first one we did here was ask.

It's important for us to use our words and just ask to communicate what we want or need.

Take turns.

It's really important to take turns, when we're playing a game or using classroom toys or materials.

So that it's fair for everyone.

Then this was the last one we did here together.

This one's important.

Walk away.

So if you are trying to calm down or a friend is trying to calm down, it's important to give them the space or give yourself the space that you need.

It's also important maybe if a friend is not making a strong choice or being unsafe with their body, that you maybe walk away so that you aren't tempted to make a bad choice as well.

So the first one I want to talk about today friends is this one here.

It says, say please stop.

Can we try that together?

Please stop.

Very good.

This is also so important to use our words in a kind way by saying please.

We don't have to yell at our friends, but we can use our words to tell them that we do not like what they are doing.

The next one is, this kind of goes along with walking away, is maybe ignore.

Ignore means do you see how these friends are facing away from this person here that maybe looks a little bit upset, might be having a hard time calming their body down.

So we might just want to ignore the problem or the friend that is having a hard time and give them the space they need to work through those feelings.

And last, but not least, apologize again.

It's okay to make mistakes.

Everyone makes mistakes.

But it is important if we accidentally, or maybe even on purpose hurt a friend's feelings, it's really important to use our words to say, I'm sorry.

Can we try that together, let's say it.

I'm sorry.

Very good.

Sometimes you maybe made not a strong choice in that moment.

And sometimes you might hurt a friend's feelings on accident and not even realize that they took it that way.

So it's important either way to say that you're sorry and that helps you to be able to move forward.

All right, I'm gonna stop sharing my screen here.

Nice job friends.

Last week, we also started saying some positive affirmations.

These are just different things you can say to yourself.

Maybe if you're feeling down or having a tough or tricky day, or maybe you say it in the morning as you're getting ready for school to really put your heart and your mind in a good space to start your day.

So let's repeat the ones that we learned last week and learn some new ones this week.

So you're gonna say these after me.

Nice and loud.

Are you ready to try?

I can be anything I want to be.

Let me hear it.

Very good.

I am an important person in this world.

I can dream dreams and make them come true.

Every new day is a chance to improve.

I can learn from my mistakes.

I can take risks and do hard things.

Very good friends.

You are so very capable and you can do anything you set your mind to.

And we can work hard and learn from our mistakes and each day try to have an even better day than the day before.

All right, now that we prepared our bodies, our brains, and our hearts to learn, and we reviewed some tools that help that will help us to be successful when we're learning in school, now we're ready to learn here together today.

As I mentioned, we're talking about letters and sounds.

Today our learning goal is to be able to know some of our letters and sounds.

So our objective or the learning goal today is you're going to say it after me.

Really nice and loud.

I can.

Do you think you could say it even louder?

Let's try that again.

I can.

Ooh, that was really good.

know my letters and sounds.

Very good readers.

You're absolutely right.

So also in our time here together in practicing those letters in sounds, we talked about the difference between a letter, a word, and a sentence.

And then we learned a few songs to practice that here together.

Are you ready to try the first one?

I'm gonna sing it and then we'll sing it again.

And maybe you can try to sing it with me.

♪ Letters make sounds, and come together to make words.

♪ Do you think you can do that with me?

Okay let's do it.

♪ Letters make sounds and come together to make words.

♪ Very good.

All right and then here's our next one.

♪ words are made up of letters and sounds.

♪ ♪ They come together to make a word.

♪ ♪ Words have meaning, ♪ and they then come together ♪ to form sentences that we can read or write.

♪ Do you want to try that with me?

Okay.

If you feel comfortable, go ahead and jump right in.

Otherwise, just turn those listening ears up and listen to the words to help us review the skills we've learned.

♪ Words are made up of letters and sounds.

♪ ♪ They come together to make a word.

♪ ♪ Words have meaning ♪ and they then come together to form sentences ♪ ♪ that we can read or write.

Very good readers.

I'm so proud of you.

So you can see behind me, actually, I'll go to this side.

These are letters.

These are words.

They're letters that came together.

They have meaning, we can hear those sounds, and see those letter patterns.

And then these down here, friends, are sentences.

They're longer.

You take your words and put them together.

They have meaning.

And they usually start with a capital letter and they end with either a period or another type of punctuation.

We also talked together friends about parts of a book.

Can you say that?

Parts of a book.

Very good.

We reviewed how books have a front cover, a back cover.

They're held together with a spine.

Just like you have a spine that helps keep us standing up straight and tall.

And you have all those wonderful pages inside where you'll find those sentences that came from the author's mind.

And on the front cover, you'll have the title, the name of a book, the author who wrote the book, and the illustrator, who did all the wonderful pictures.

And we learned a song here together.

Let's go ahead and sing it.

The tune isto the ants go marching.

We've done it together before, like I said, if you feel comfortable, jump in, otherwise, turn those listening ears up and just listen to the words.

♪ When we first learn how to read, we look at books.

♪ ♪ When we first learned out or read, we look at books, ♪ ♪ we have the front to back covers, ♪ ♪ and then you have a spine like mine.

♪ ♪ The spine holds books together ♪ ♪ and keeps them straight and tall.

♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom.

♪ On the front cover, you'll find the author.

♪ ♪ The author is who works so hard to write the book.

♪ ♪ Then the illustrator is the one who drew all the pictures ♪ ♪ and you have a title ♪ that is the name of a book, boom, boom, boom.

♪ ♪ Between the cover of the book, ♪ ♪ you'll find the pages ♪ on the pages are the letters that make words, ♪ ♪ the words inform the sentences ♪ ♪ that came straight from the author's mind.

♪ ♪ They will tell us stories or teach us facts.

♪ ♪ Imagine that.

♪ Boom, boom, boom.

♪ When we read, ♪ we always go from left to right.

♪ ♪ When we read, ♪ we're always sure to touch each word.

♪ ♪ Each time we start at the capital letter, ♪ ♪ reading every word until we get to the end period.

♪ ♪ And then we did it.

♪ Boom, boom, boom.

♪ Once we read the book from front to back, it's done, ♪ ♪ but hold on just you wait there is much more fun.

♪ ♪ Let's talk about what we just read.

♪ ♪ Do we understand the words?

♪ What was the author trying to say to us this day?

♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom.

Wow, that was amazing friends.

I can tell some of you have heard that song before.

Thank you for listening really nicely or singing along with me.

Let's go ahead and talk about the last letters that we have to learn here together.

And the song that we did was called the letters on the bus.

And we're going to sing it for each of our letters here.

♪ The letter on the bus says sss sss sss sss sss sss ♪ ♪ the letter on the bus says sss sss sss ♪ ♪ all through the town.

♪ This is the letter S and it says ss.

♪ Let me hear it, sss.

Very good, next.

This is the letter T and it says tt.

♪ The letter on the bus says ttt ttt ttt ♪ ♪ The letter on the bus says ttt, ♪ ♪ all through the town.

Here's the letter U,.

U can make lots of different sounds.

In our song, we're gonna sing the short vowel sound, which says uh uh uh.

It can also say u or oo.

♪ The letter on the bus says uh uh uh, uh, uh, uh.

♪ ♪ The letter on the bus says uh uh uh ♪ ♪ all through the town.

Very good.

Here's our letter v and v says vvv.

Kind of tickles your tongue and your teeth doesn't it.

Vvv, very good.

Very good.

♪ The letter on the bus says vvv vvvv vvv, vvv, vvv, vvv.

♪ ♪ The letter on the bus says vvv ♪ ♪ all through the town, See how my mouth was like really closed on that one.

All right.

This is the letter w. W says wa, wa.

Kind of a fun sound to make.

You see how my cheeks kind of go, wa.

And you kind of release there.

♪ The letter on the bus says wa wa wa, wa wa wa, wa wa wa, ♪ ♪ The letter on the bus says wa wa wa, ♪ ♪ all through the town.

Ooh, this is the letter x. X is a really special letter because it kind of makes two sounds.

But then you smoosh it together in your mouth.

Listen to when I make the x sound.

ks, ks.

You hear how it kind of says ka and then ss, but then you got to smoosh it in your mouth.

Ka, ss, kss.

Can you try that?

Ka ss.

Very good.

All right, let's sing our song.

♪ The letter on the bus says ks ks ks, ks ks ks, ks ks ks.

♪ ♪ The letter on the bus says ks, ks, ks ♪ ♪ all through the town.

Two more letters, friends.

Ooh y is also a special letter.

It makes so many sounds.

Y, in our song we're gonna sing ya ya ya.

Ya like in yellow .

It can also say i and ee and I.

Lots of different sounds.

But our song we're gonna sing ya ya ya.

Like yellow and yarn.

Are you ready?

♪ The letter on the bus says ya ya ya, ya ya ya, ya ya ya.

♪ ♪ The letter on the bus says ya ya ya ♪ ♪ all Through the town.

Very good.

Last one, Z says zz.

See how my teeth are like closed and it's making that fun vibrating sound again.

Ready, let's sing it.

♪ The letter on the bus says zzz zzz zzz, zzz zzz ♪ ♪ zzz, zzz, zzz, zzz.

♪ The letter on the bus says zzz ♪ ♪ all through the town.

Wow, readers you're amazing.

I'm really proud of you.

Go ahead and kiss your brains.

I am so proud of you.

We've actually practiced all our letters here together.

I want to spend the rest of our time now friends practicing our letters and matching it with the first sound that we hear.

So I'm going to share my screen.

Alright.

So now you can see all these letters here.

I'm going to put a card down and you're gonna tell me which of the letter matches.

You can shout it out nice and loud.

Maybe you can point to it on your screen and we'll match it here.

Okay.

What's this one?

What is this picture here?

It's a tie.

Tie starts with a ta T, very good.

So proud of you.

All right, next one.

What do you see in this picture here?

Wow, you're right.

It's a jelly fish.

Jelly fish starts with ja ja.

There it is.

A letter J. Ja ja, jellyfish.

Very good.

What do you see in this picture here, learners?

Yeah, it's an i-i igloo.

Very good.

Which letter makes the i-i sound.

Let's try it.

Tell me when to stop.

Yeah, there it is.

i-i-i- is an I, I, I. I is one of those special vowel letters that makes more than one sound.

Short I says i like an igloo and long I says I, I, I.

Very good.

What do you see here?

It looks like something you wear on your wrist that might help you to tell the time.

This is a watch, really good.

Wa- wa.

Watch is made with a W. Very good.

Wa-wa watch.

Amazing.

I can't get anything past you learners.

You're doing a great job.

What do you see in this picture here friends?

Gotta smoosh some of our letters together so you can see them better.

Yeah, you're right.

It's not a horse.

It's not a donkey.

It's a zebra.

And zebra starts with a Z, very good.

Okay, what do you see here?

It looks pretty cute.

This is a, yeah really good, a mouse.

And mouse starts with mmm M, very good.

It sounds a lot like n, but they're a little different.

Hear the difference?

Mm and nn.

Very good.

What do you see here friends?

Really beautiful.

Yeah, you're right.

It's a ha-ha heart.

Make a heart with your hands.

Very good.

And heart starts with, ha-ha, yeah, the letter H. H says ha-ha-ha.

Kinda like, you're trying to warm your hands on a cold winter day.

Now what do you see here, friends?

Yeah, this is a duck.

A da-da- duck.

Make your best duck sound.

Quack, quack quack.

That's pretty good.

Duck starts with what letter?

Yeah.

Da da D. See how it's pretty close to this letter right here.

This is a lowercase ba-B.

It's facing this way and the da-da D like in da-da duck is facing that way.

So you gotta be careful with some of our lowercase letters.

They look similar.

Next.

This is a, ladder.

Very good.

Ladder.

Ladders starts with la-la L. Very good.

Lowercase L is that straight up and down line Kind of like in a ladder.

Very good.

Next.

Ooh, can I get a me too if you enjoy this fruit?

Yeah, I'm seeing some friends say me too, You can also say no, if it's not your favorite or you don't prefer it.

I like this fruit.

It's ga-ga grapes.

Grapes starts with a ga-ga G. G can make two sounds.

Here you hear the hard G ga.

It can also say just ja-ja-ja, like in giraffe.

Ooh this is really beautiful.

What do you think this is?

Yeah, it's like a type of blanket.

It has lots of different patches on it.

You're right, it's a cwa-cwa quilt.

Maybe you have a quilt at home.

Quilt starts with a Q.

Also looks pretty similar to our lowercase P there, doesn't it?

Again we gotta look which way it's facing.

Q faces this way.

And lowercase P faces the other way.

Q says cwa, cwa, cwa like in quilt.

And what yummy snack do you see here friends?

Shout it out really loud.

It's, yeah.

Popcorn, like you might have at the movies.

Popcorn starts with a, yeah, you got it.

Pa-pa P very good.

All right, next one.

Ooh, what ocean animal do you see here?

Yeah, this is an ah-ah octopus.

An octopus has eight of these little tentacles here.

Ah-ah octopus starts with, shout it out.

Yeah, O. O says ah, ah, ah for the short vowel sound and oh, oh, oh for the long vowel sound.

And what do you see here friends.

This is something you hold up when it starts to rain it's an, umbrella.

Very good.

Uh-uh umbrella starts with U, U, U, very good.

Okay.

I see another yummy, yummy fruit.

Anybody know what fruit this is?

Yeah, really good.

I hear some friends saying it's a ka-ka kiwi.

It's really yummy.

Can I get a yes or me too if you've ever had a kiwi?

Yeah, me too.

It's really yummy.

Kiwi starts with a ka-ka-K.

Very good.

Okay, next I see Ooh beautiful ball of yuh-yuh yarn.

What letter says yuh-yuh-yuh?.

In addition to a lot of other sounds.

Yeah.

The Y says, yuh-yuh-yuh.

Very good.

Okay, let's do one more together today friends.

Won't be able to get through all of them, but I like this one here.

What is this a picture of?

Yeah, this is a robot.

Robot starts with err.

Robot, R, very good.

Let me hear your best robot noise.

Err err err, I'm a robot.

Very good learners.

I'm so proud of you.

Thank you for your hard work today.

We reviewed all the letters and sounds in the alphabet that we have learned here together.

We talked about parts of a book, the difference between letters, words, and sentences.

And we did our gorilla breath breathing mindful moment.

And we talked about problem solving solutions at school.

I can't wait to see you next time.

Thank you.

Bye.

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