- [Mrs.Spear] (playful music) Hi learners, it's Mrs.Spear.

Welcome back to Read, Write, ROAR!

Today we are going to do a final Mystery Word together.

We are also going to do a lot of wonderful learning with Ms. Rogers.

About how animals go out to search for food, so that they can survive.

She's also going to help you see some important features that texts have, to help us as readers to be able to learn from them.

Grab a pencil, grab some paper, and let's get ready to read, write, roar.

- [Narrator] (upbeat children's music) This program is made possible in part by Michigan Department of Education, the State of Michigan, and The Kresge Foundation.

Additional support for education programing provided by (pauses), and by viewers like you.

(upbeat children's music) (lion roars) (soft EDM plays) - [Mrs.Spear] Hey there learners, are you ready to get started with me and do a Mystery Word today?

Whoa, what is this?

There's some writing on this balloon that just came flying in here.

It says - Congratulations Mrs.

Spear and learners!

You are finishing up the year, today is your final Mystery Word!

(gasps) Oh and then there's a hint on the ballon.

It says - Hint, our mystery word is a connection to the word 'party'.

Woo maybe cause it's the last one we are doing, it's connected to the word 'party'.

(string plucking plays) Well, I'm really excited to get started with this.

Here's the letters that you need today, so that we can solve this Mystery Word.

We need letter a, i, two e's, o, b, c, l, n, r, t. You'll notice we have a lot of different kinds of words we are making today.

Three letters, four letters, fiver letters, six letters, eight letters, and nine letters.

The words we are making will have those amount of letters in them.

And I have an envelope to let us get started with our building.

So the very first word that we're gonna build today is ant.

Our words, I peeked in here, they're kinda related to animals because we've been doing a lot about that.

So 'ant', animals I should say or insects, organisms, living things, we've been talking all about those things.

So an 'ant', is a kind of insect, right?

Let's do the sounds, 'Ah', 'N', 'T', 'ant'.

Three sounds, three letters.

The 'Ah', yes letter A.

If you can spell the word 'an', then you can add one more letter to spell the word 'ant'.

Yes, we just need a letter T. A, N, T, spells ant.

Can you write 'ant' and put it over here, under three letters?

Well done!

And the next one is the word 'bee', now this isn't the like, will you be my friend?

That's a different way to spell bee, this bee has two sounds, 'b', 'ee', but three letters.

And we are talking about the insect, the 'bee' that flies around and pollinates flowers.

So two sounds, 'b', 'ee'.

Yes, letter B and letter E, but we need a third letter.

What letter could we put here to spell 'bee', with three letters and two sounds?

Yes we know that two E's together can say the 'ee' sound.

Great job!

'B','E','E', that spells 'bee'.

Can you write 'bee'?

Then put it right down in your column, under three letter words, 'B', 'E', 'E'.

Okay, the next word that we're going to build is the word 'coil'.

I'm thinking about like a snake, they coil up really really tight when they wrap themselves up.

(string plucking plays) So let's do the sounds in 'coil', 'K', 'Oi', 'L'.

Now this 'Oi' sound in the middle, it's kind of a tricky one for us.

Let's think about this first sound 'K', yeah, letter C. There's four letters in the word 'coil'.

'Oi', do you see a pattern up here that could make the 'oi' sound that we've been working on?

You got it!

'O', 'I', says 'oi'.

Can you say 'oi'?

Well your mouth moves around a lot with that, 'coil'.

Yes!

Letter L, that's the last letter in 'coil'.

Can you write 'coil'?

If we can make 'coil', we can make the word 'recoil', because you would come undone and then coil back up.

What letters would be added to the front to say 're'... 'R', 'E'.

What two letters can we do?

Yes, 'R' and 'E'.

When you see 'R','E' at the beginning of a word, it usually, if it's added onto a base word like coil, it's saying it's happening again.

This spells 'recoil' - 'R', 'E', 'C', 'O', 'I', 'L'... 'recoil', to coil up again.

Okay, the next word we're going to make, is another one of those words that can sound the same, but it looks different, it can mean different things.

This word we're going to make, is the word 'tail'.

And when I'm saying 'tail', I'm talking about the tail on an animal.

Do you know how to spell that one?

Let's do the sounds first - 'T', 'AY', 'L'.

Three sounds but there's four letters, 'T', 'AY', 'L'.

What letters do we have that could make those sounds?

'T', the letter 'T'.

'AY', what letters to make the 'AY' sound?

No letter A of course, but it needs a partner in this one.

Yeah its teammate in this word is an 'I'.

'T', 'AY', 'L', letter L. This is the way you spell 'tail', when you are talking about a 'tail' like on a dog.

Can we spell that together 'T', 'A', 'I', 'L'.

There's another 'tale', like a story.

When we think about fairytales, I'm going to tell you the tale of Cinderella, right?

So that 'tale' has the same sounds but it's spelled differently.

Can you think of another way we could make the 'AY' sound in the middle but not with 'A', 'I'?

What other of these could we do?

'T', 'AY', 'L', we'd still have four letters.

Were you thinking we could take the letter 'I' out, and what would we put over here?

Yes, a final 'E' at the end.

This would be another way to spell the sounds but this is a different word, 'T', 'A', 'L', 'E', spells 'tale', like a story.

If it helps, you can do a quick little sketch next to the word that you write to help you remember that, these are spelled differently and mean different things.

'T', 'A', 'L', 'E', 'tale', meaning a story.

Well done, the next one we are going to do, is going to keep some of the letters up here, and this is going to talk about a part on an animal.

A part on an, I'm thinking actually about a hawk.

The word is 'talon', can you say 'talon'?

Let's do the sounds in 'talon'.

'T', 'AH', 'L', 'UH', 'N', 'talon'.

There's five letters and there's five sounds.

Let's think about the beginning sounds in 'talon'.

'T', 'AH', 'L', yeah we get to keep these letters, 'T', 'A', 'L', right?

We don't wanna keep the 'E' because that would make it say the 'AY' sound.

'T', 'AH', 'L', 'UHN', now here's a tricky thing.

In this word, is actually the letter 'O', that's making the 'UH' sound, 'talon'.

Instead of the 'aw' sound and the ending sound, is made with letter 'N'.

Can you spell talon?

'T', 'AY', 'L', 'O', 'N', 'talon'.

And that has, how many letters?

Five!

Nice job!

Let's put 'talon' under five letter words.

After you've done that, we are going to clear up our board.

We are going back to a word we made, the very first word.

So when you're done with 'talon', can you read out the word 'ant' for me?

Good job!

Okay.

'AH', 'N', 'T'.

And the word we're going to make, that has 'ant' in it, is the word 'antler'.

We've talked about that before, that animals have antlers.

(string plucking plays) Here's an antler that dropped off of a deer near our property.

So here is an antler, now let's think about the sounds with 'antler'.

'AH','N','T','L','ER', 'antler'.

Mhm, 'ant', 'L', yeah letter L. We need two more letters to make that 'ER' sound.

What letters would we put there?

Yes!

'E' and 'R', nice job!

We learnt that at the very beginning of our learning together this year are controlled vowels.

'A', 'N', 'T', 'L', 'E', 'R', spells 'antler', Six letters, but five sounds.

Can you put 'antler', on your page?

The next word we're going to make, is the word 'action'.

This word is going to have six letters, let's think about the sounds, we've talked about this 'tion' sound before.

'Ah', 'K', 'SH', 'UH', 'N', 'action'.

Let's think about the letters we need for that.

'Ah', yup that's letter 'A'.

'K', yes now, this 'tion' sound that we've talked about there are four letters that can make that, that we've talked about before.

Four letters making that sound together, because we don't have an 'S', 'H', up here right?

There's a chunk at the end, in 'action'.

Remember the four letters I told ya, before?

(sings) 'T', 'I', 'O', 'N', say 'tion'.

Those are the four letters we need.

'T', 'I', 'O', 'N', that spells 'action'!

Can you spell 'action' for me?

(sings) 'A', 'C', 'T', 'I', 'O', 'N', 'action'.

And you're going to add 'action', under six letter words.

We talked a little bit before about letters that we can put at the beginning to say something is happening again, or, to talk about just like how you respond to something, you might use the word 'reaction'.

Can you say 'reaction'?

Nice!

What letters would we add to the beginning to say 'RE'?

'RE'- 'R', 'E', very good!

'Re-action'!

So, when you see something that's really cute like a cute little baby animal, you might have a reaction and go - awww, right?

Okay, spell 'reaction' at home, this one has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight letters.

'R', 'E', 'A', 'C', 'T', 'I', 'O', 'N'.

Very good, I'm gonna add it to my eight letters.

The next word we're going to make is the word, 'celebrant'.

Can you say 'celebrant'?

Okay so when you say 'celebrant', sorry Mrs.

Spear is trying to think as I'm putting these letters back...

So let's say 'celebrant' together, (claps on each syllable) 'ce', 'le', 'brant', 'celebrant'.

A 'celebrant' can be a person that's celebrating something, it also can be like if you're going to a wedding or something and the person that's saying, getting the people like married at the wedding, they might be called the celebrant.

Let's do the sounds in that.

'S', 'EH', 'L', 'EH', 'B', 'R', 'AH', 'N', 'T', 'celebrant'.

That's nine sounds and nine letters.

We don't have a letter 'S', what can we use for the 'S' in celebrant.

Yes, letter C can make the 'S' sound.

'EH', 'E', and you'll notice that 'C', when it is in front of an 'E' or 'I', that's when it, often times it's going to make that 'S' sound.

'SEL', 'EH', 'SELEH', 'BRANT', 'BR'.

Yes, 'B', 'R' - 'BR' and then, do you remember how to spell 'ant'?

Yeah, we've done that a couple times.

'A', 'N', 'T', 'celebrant', and let's write that down and I put it under nine letter words.

And then I want you to be thinking, we're thinking about a word, remember we got our balloon, that tells a word, that's gonna talk about, like a party, we're at the end of the year, but we need the letters we have here.

Is there a word we could make that would have part of this?

Are you thinking about what that could be?

'Cele'... Oh wait, I'm seeing one!

I'm thinking about 'A', if we can make the 'A' sound.

'Celebr... 'AY'... 'tion'.

'celebration', did you get it?

Yes, we're having a celebration!

So guess what?

We need to make the 'tion' chunk at the end.

Do you remember how to make that?

(sings) 'T', 'I', 'O', 'N', says 'tion'.

Good job!

So we're just going to switch around a few letters, because 'celebra'... 'tion'.

'T', 'I', 'O', 'N'.

Now we've spelled the word 'celebration'.

And you should be really proud.

'C', 'E', 'L', 'E', 'B', 'R', 'A', 'T', 'I', 'O', 'N', spells 'celebration' and there is a lot for us to celebrate.

Thank you for all the hard work you've done, thank you for all the listening to sounds, to writing all these letters.

To really trying to use what you know about spelling, and letters and sounds, to make all these new words and learn new words.

It was so fun doing this with you, I hope you have a fantastic day, keep looking for patterns, keep moving around sounds and words, keep making new words and having fun and doing a lot more learning.

I'll see you next time!

(soft EDM plays) - [Ms.Rodgers] Hello amazing learners, welcome back!

I'm Ms.Rodgers, I have a special book to share with you today, and it's called How do living things find food?

By Bobbie Kalman.

This is a non-fiction book, that means it is a book full of information for us to learn.

It has a table of contents, which makes it easy for us to find information when we are looking for something.

For example, if we turn on page six, we can find information about plant eaters.

So how to living things find food?

Let's read and find out.

Food energy, what is a living thing?

Plants are living things.

Animals are living things.

People are living things.

Living things grow and change.

To stay alive, living things need air, water and food.

Food gives living things the energy they need.

Living things need energy to move and grow.

They cannot do anything without energy.

We could not stay alive for very long without food.

We need different kinds of food.

Energy comes from the sun.

Plants catch the sun's energy and use it to make food.

They make food from sunlight, air and water.

Making food using sunlight is called photosynthesis.

Let's look at this diagram; leaves, air, sunlight, roots, soil, water.

The roots of plants take in water from the soil.

The leaves of plants take in air and sunlight.

Food is made in the leaves of plants.

Plant eaters.

The energy of sunlight is stored in plants.

When animals or people eat plants, they get the energy of the sun, too.

The sun's energy is passed along to the plant eaters.

Animals that eat mainly plants are called herbivores.

This groundhog has found some spring flowers to eat.

Different herbivores eat different parts of plants.

Some eat grasses and leaves.

Some eat fruit, nuts, seeds, flowers, and even wood.

Some drink nectar.

Nectar is a sweet liquid found in flowers.

This mouse found grass seeds to eat.

Squirrels like nuts, seeds and fruit.

This bee is drinking nectar from a flower.

Looking for food.

Many herbivores are grazers.

Grazers eat grass and other plants that grow close to the ground.

Horses are grazers.

They have special stomachs that can break down the grasses they eat.

Some herbivores are browsers.

Browsers eat the leaves of bushes and trees.

This pony is a grazer.

It has the right kind of teeth and stomach for eating grasses.

There are grasses in oceans, too.

Manatees are big ocean grazers.

Their mouths are like vacuum cleaners.

They can quickly "clean" an area of sea grasses.

Giraffes are browsers with long necks.

They can reach the leaves of tall trees.

Caterpillars eat a lot of leaves before they become butterflies.

Butterflies drink flower nectar.

A butterfly has a proboscis that can reach inside flowers to suck up the nectar.

The proboscis is like a straw.

Many herbivores, such as these lemurs, like to eat fruit.

Carnivores eat meat.

Animals that eat other animals are called carnivores.

"Carnivore" means "meat eater".

Most carnivores are predators.

Predators hunt the animals they eat.

The animals that predators hunt are called prey.

Wolves are predators that hunt in groups called packs.

This wolf pack has hunted a deer.

Cats, such as lions, tigers, and leopards, are big carnivores.

They have sharp teeth called canines for grabbing their prey.

The ridges on the roof of a cat's mouth help hold its prey.

This leopard is dragging its prey up into a tree so other carnivores will not steal it.

Air, land, and water.

Predators hunt in the air, on land, and in water.

Some birds use their beaks for catching prey.

Other birds have sharp talons, or claws, for grabbing their prey.

This hawk has grabbed a fish out of water with its talons.

Many fish are carnivores.

This great white shark is hunting a seal in water.

It has sharp teeth for catching fish, seals, dolphins, and other ocean animals.

This heron has found a rat to eat.

It holds the rat in its long beak.

Alligators catch fish in water.

On land, they can hunt animals as big as deer.

They can run fast.

Some snakes use venom, or poison, to stop their prey from moving.

Insect eaters.

Some carnivores look for insects to eat.

Insects are small animals with six legs.

Birds, frogs, fish and many other animals eat insects.

Animals that eat mainly insects are called insectivores.

Some plants such as sundews, also eat insects!

This sundew plant has trapped an insect with its sticky leaves.

Spiders eat flies, moths, and other insects.

This jumping spider has jumped on a fly to eat it.

Many spiders weave webs for catching their prey.

This chameleon shot out its long, sticky tongue to catch a fly.

Frogs also catch insects this way.

Anteaters use their sharp claws to dig up ant nests.

They eat other insects, too.

Their long, sticky tongues grab the insects.

Praying mantises pretend to be leaves, branches, and flowers so their prey will not see them.

What does this mantis look like?

Wow, this praying mantis is using camouflage.

What are omnivores?

Omnivores are animals that eat both plants and other animals.

Their bodies can live on one or both kinds of foods.

Skunks, raccoons, chipmunks, foxes, and many bears are omnivores.

Most birds are omnivores.

This blue jay eats nuts, seeds and other plant foods, but it also eats insects and worms.

Chipmunks eat any food they find.

They stuff their cheeks with food.

Black bears eat mainly plants, but they also eat insects, fish, and even animals as big as deer or moose.

This baby bear may find nuts or insects to eat in this tree.

Skunks eat plants, but they also eat insects, frogs, birds, and eggs.

They love grubs!

Opossums eat any foods they find - even garbage.

Foxes are carnivores that will eat plants if they cannot find animals to hunt.

Food chains.

Energy comes from the sun and is used by plants to make food.

The sun's energy is passed along in food chains.

The food chain on the next page is made up of a sunflower, a squirrel, and a fox.

They all have the sun's energy inside them.

The sunflower makes food.

The sun's energy is passed along.

The squirrel eats sunflower seeds.

The sun's energy is passed along to the squirrel.

And then finally, a fox eats the squirrel.

The sun's energy is passed along to the fox.

Nature's cleaners.

When living things die, they still have energy and nutrients in their bodies.

Nutrients are the parts of food that keep our bodies healthy.

Predators hunt animals, eat some of the meat, and then leave the rest behind.

Other animals get the nutrient from the leftovers.

Animals that eat the leftovers of dead animals are called scavengers.

Eagles are both predators and scavengers.

This eagle has found a dead fox to eat.

It is a scavenger when it eats an animal it did not hunt.

Scavengers help clean Earth.

Earthworms eat dead plants and also dig tunnels.

Air comes into the soil through the tunnels.

Air makes the soil better.

This ant has found a dead fly to eat.

It is cleaning the forest when it eats dead animals.

Mushrooms are not plants.

They are living things called fungi.

Fungi are the only cleaners that can break down dead trees.

Mushrooms also clean the soil.

Food for people.

How do people find food?

Most people buy food in the supermarkets.

Farmers grow vegetables and fruits and raise animals, such as chickens.

The foods are then taken to supermarkets in trucks.

This boy below is going to eat a pizza.

Pizza is made with flour and tomatoes, which come from plants.

It also has cheese and meat, which come from animals.

Some people do not eat meat, but most people eat every kind of food.

They eat fruits, vegetables, eggs, meat, cheese, fish, and mushrooms.

I will name about four or five different types of food, and you give me a thumbs up if you like that kind of food or a thumbs down if you don't like that food.

Okay so here we go, milk?

Potatoes?

Eggs?

Avocados?

How about grapes?

Oh okay!

I saw some thumbs up, pretend, saw some thumbs up and some thumbs down.

Okay so, it's really great that we were able to read our book today and we learned about, plants, animals and people and all living things, in that they need air, water, and food to survive.

And also one other thing, how about care?

Yeah, everyone needs a little bit of care in order to live, and survive and to grow.

(string plucking plays) So again, we did a great job today, reading and learning together.

Keep up the good work and I'll see you soon!

- [Narrator] This program is made possible in part by, Michigan Department of Education, the State of Michigan, and The Kresge Foundation.

Additional support for education programming, provided by... (pauses) and by viewers like you!

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