- Hello, scholars.

Welcome to 2nd grade on Read, Write, ROAR.

Our focus today is going to be on two big questions.

How do people's actions affect the environment, and what choices can people make to reduce their impact on their environment?

Today, we are going to be reading, writing, the sorting words with O-U-G-H. We are also going to be learning about reducing, reusing, and recycling plastic in order to prevent pollution.

So scholars, go ahead and get your paper and something to write with, and let's get ready to read, write, roar.

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Kellogg Foundation.

Additional support by, and by viewers like you.

Thank you.

(upbeat music) (lion roars) - Hello scholars.

I'm Mrs. Z-K. And today we are going to be working with our spelling pattern, O-U-G-H. Today our goal is to practice reading words with O-U-G-H.

In order to do that, we're going to practice some of the sounds that O-U-G-H can make in different kinds of words.

Right here I have a sound chart that we're going to read through.

Then we'll see some sentences that will have some words that have O-U-G-H, but we won't necessarily know the sound until we try different sounds to see which one makes sense in the sentence.

All right?

You ready, scholars?

Let's look at our chart here.

On one side, we have words that we might know already, and we're going to try to match the sounds of the underlined letters.

The underlined letters are going to give a sound that the O-U-G-H is going to make in the words that are on this side of the column.

All right, so O-U-G-H can make different sounds, and the sounds are going to be ones that are going to match the sounds on this side.

So let's do an example.

It'll make more sense.

All right, so the word is no.

The sound we're trying to match is O.

Okay?

So whenever we see O-U-G-H, we're going to say O.

You ready?

All-th-O.

Although.

Although.

Although it's hot outside, I wore a sweater.

(Mrs. Z-K laughs) All right, here's another one.

So whenever we see O-U-G-H, it's gonna make what sound?

O. Th-O.

Though.

Yeah, like, though you wanna go outside, you still need to do your homework.

Right?

These are words you can use in sentences.

Well, now we're going to come down a row, and now the sound we're trying to match is the sound ooh, like in the word zoo.

So when we see O-U-G-H now, we're going to say ooh.

All right, so we got thr-ooh.

Through.

Nice work.

You can go through a tunnel.

Oh, here's some words.

All right?

We have awe like in the word awesome.

So, you're kind of getting onto the pattern.

When we see O-U-G-H now, we're going to use what sound?

Awe, like in the word awesome.

All right, ready?

We got s-awe-tuh.

S-awe-tuh.

Sought.

If you have sought out something, you are seeking for something, which means you're looking for something.

(light chimes) All right, next one.

O-U-G-H is making what sound?

Awe.

We got br-awe-tuh.

Br-awe-tuh.

Brought.

He brought my backpack to me.

Thank you.

(Mrs. Z-K laughs) All right, here we go again.

Remember it's awe.

Th-awe-tuh.

Thought.

He thought today was going to be chilly.

(Mrs. Z-K chuckles) And the last word in this row for awe is f-awe-tuh.

Fought.

He fought to get his shoelaces untied.

Must mean they were in a knot, huh?

He's fighting with his shoes.

(Mrs. Z-K laughs) Our next sound is off, like in the word often.

So when we see O-U-G-H, we're going to make what sound?

Off.

All right, we got cuh-off.

What word?

Cough.

(Mrs. Z-K coughs) You might wanna cover your mouth when you have to (Mrs. Z-K coughs) cough.

And then we have tr-off.

Trough.

And a trough is just something that you might use for animals.

You might put their food or their water in a trough outside.

Yeah, usually on the farm.

All right, and the last sound we're going to work with today is the sound uff, like in the word stuff.

So when we see O-U-G-H, what sound are we going to make?

Uff.

All right, let's do it.

T-uff.

T-uff.

Tough.

Nice work.

The nail was very tough to get into the wall.

Maybe I had to get a better screwdriver, huh?

All right, next one.

We got e-n-uff.

Enough.

Yeah, if you've had enough of something, you don't want any more.

No, I've had enough dinner.

Thanks.

And our last one, remember, O-U-G-H is making that uff sound.

We have r-uff.

Rough.

So rough is how something might feel.

Right, so if you felt, if you felt the wall, and it might feel rough, maybe you need to sand it down a little bit better.

Well, nice work scholars.

Those are five sounds that O-U-G-H can make.

O-U-G-H can make a couple more sounds, but those words are pretty uncommon, and the spellings are pretty uncommon.

So we didn't work with those today.

What we're going to do now is I'm going to have a sentence on the board, and we're going to look through and see, is the word that has O-U-G-H making one of the sounds, and which sound actually makes sense in the sentence?

(upbeat music) (lion roars) All right, scholars, here's our first sentence.

What we're going to do is we're going to try to read the sentence, but when we get to the O-U-G-H word, we're going to look at the sounds that we just went over to see which sound is the O-U-G-H making.

And we'll see if it makes a real word and if it makes the sentence makes sense.

All right, let's go back over our sounds.

So we have O as in no, ooh as in zoo, awe like in awesome, off like it often, uff like in stuff.

All right?

All right, let's go.

I finished my homework, even it took all night.

All right, so if I'm looking at this word, maybe it can make the uff sound, O-U-G-H. F-uff.

Fuff?

Is that a real word?

No, that can't be it.

Hmm, let's try ooh.

The, th, ooh.

Thooh?

I couldn't even say, I couldn't even get my sounds out right.

Thooh, that's not a real word either.

Well, think about what makes sense in a sentence.

So he finished his homework even, oh.

Even th-oh.

Though is a real word, and that makes sense.

I finished my homework, even though it took all night.

Nice work, scholars.

Let's get a new sentence on the board.

(upbeat music) (lion roars) All right, here's our next sentence.

I see that O-U-G-H word is right at the beginning of the sentence.

So it's gonna be kinda hard to figure out what the word's supposed to be.

I, I'm not sure.

So let's try to use some of these sounds.

Let's try O.

Boat.

Boat is a real word.

Let's see if that makes sense.

I boat a new game.

I boat a new game with my allowance?

Let's try a different one.

What about, ooh.

I boot.

Boot is a real word.

I boot a new game.

I boot a new game with my allowance?

That doesn't make sense either.

Let's try the awe.

Buh-awe-tuh.

Bought.

I bought a new game with my allowance.

Yeah, that one made more sense, right?

And just because something might sound like a real word, think about when we were writing, when we were saying boot or boat, do you know how those words are spelled?

And think about, if you know how they're spelled, are they spelled with the O-U-G-H?

'Cause if they're not, then you know that can't be the word, right?

But it also has to make sense in the sentence.

So I bought a new game with my allowance.

That makes sense.

(upbeat music) (lion roars) Here's our next sentence, scholars.

I had, oh, here's our O-U-G-H word.

Okay.

You wanna try O?

Let's try it.

E-no?

Eno?

That doesn't sound like a real word.

What about, ooh.

Enooh?

Enooh?

Let's try awe.

Enaw?

Enaw?

No.

Do you know what it is?

You wanna try uff?

Enough.

Enough.

Let's see if that makes sense in our sentence.

I had enough snacks for everyone at the party.

Does that makes sense?

Yeah, nice job trying different sounds to get a real word and then seeing if that word made sense in your sentence.

Having enough snacks for everyone means you bought plenty so that everyone could get some.

All right, scholars.

Here's our next sentence.

I see my O-U-G-H word here.

All right, let's see.

We had to drive.

Oh, what do you think?

Should we start right here again.

Thr-oh?

Throw's a real word, right?

Do you know how throw is spelled?

Not sure?

Okay, let's check.

We had to drive throw, but no, that didn't make sense, did it?

We don't drive throw.

We drive through.

What sound are we using?

Ooh, like in zoo.

Nice.

We had to drive through the tunnel to get past the mountain.

(Mrs. Z-K laughs) All right, guys, here's our last sentence.

I see that our O-U-G-H word's all the way down here at the bottom.

So maybe we can figure it out, and maybe we might use the sounds.

Let's see.

The farm animals are always at the drinking water.

Ooh, at the trow?

At the trow drinking water?

Ooh, at the true drinking water?

True's a real word, but I now true is not spelled with a O-U-G-H, and it doesn't even make sense in our sentence.

So it's not ooh.

They're always at the traw drinking water, or are they always at the trough drinking water, right?

Remember how I told you the trough is where they'll put water, or they'll put food in there for the farm animals.

That's where the animals wanna be.

(Mrs. J-K laughs) Nice work today, scholars.

We've worked with lots of different sounds, even though it was the same spelling pattern.

We've tried to plug in different sounds to unknown words to see if we can get a real word to make it make sense in the sentence.

That's a reading strategy you can use when you get stuck on a word.

If you know that a spelling pattern makes more than one sound, try the different sounds until it's a real word and it makes sense in your sentence.

(upbeat music) Oh, hi, scholars.

Let's get moving.

Get up.

Yeah, you, get up.

Let me see you run in place.

And stop.

Let me see you get on your tippy toes.

Can you touch your toes?

Can you make arm circles?

Can you make bigger arm circles?

Backwards.

And back tiny.

And let's stretch out those arms.

One, two, three.

Other side.

One, two, three.

Let's do three jumping jacks.

Are you ready?

One, two, three.

Nice job, scholars.

Thanks for moving with me.

(upbeat music) We're going to wiggle our fingers, and then we're gonna ball 'em up tight, and then we're gonna spread out our fingers as far apart as we can.

And let's repeat it.

Wiggle, and shut, and open as wide as you can, and wiggle, and shut, and open as wide as you can.

Hey, do you think you can do that with your face?

Can you ball up your face, squish it in real tight, and then let it go.

Open.

And ball it up tight.

And open.

One more time.

Ball it up tight.

And open.

Nice work.

(upbeat music) - Hi, scholars.

I'm Mrs. Fuller.

Today we're gonna be reading a story called "Plastic Eco Activities," written by Louise Nelson, and read with permission from the Crabtree Publishing Company.

As we read today, I would like us to listen for information that'll help us answer two big questions.

First, how do people's actions affect the environment?

And our second big question, what choices can people make to reduce their impact on the environment?

Our book focuses on three things, reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Reduce means to try not to buy plastic.

Reuse, use your plastic for something new.

And recycle, make sure you recycle plastic things instead of putting them in the garbage.

Let's get started.

Plastic power.

Plastic that isn't reused or recycled can up in the oceans.

Plastic bags can look like food to hungry turtles, and other trash can float around in the water for a long time, polluting the water.

Did you notice that the word polluting is in bold print?

That means that it's an important word.

We can look that word up in the glossary in the back of the book to see what it means.

Here it is, polluting.

When something harmful or poisonous is added to the natural world.

So plastic and other garbage are polluting the water.

When we throw away plastic, it is important to make sure that we do it in the right way.

There are some simple steps to take that can help.

When you are done with a plastic item, wash it carefully, check the label to see which parts of the item can be recycled, put each part in the right bin.

You can see in the picture that the children have put their recycling into three separate bins.

In the first bin, they put paper and cardboard.

In the second bin, metal and glass.

And the third bin, they've put the plastic recycling.

With plastic recycling, you wanna make sure that the item can be recycled.

So you wanna check the label to see if it has a plastic recycling symbol.

Plastic recycling symbols look something like this.

It's the recycling triangle with the numbers one through seven.

If your plastic item has this symbol and the numbers one through seven, it can be recycled.

Let's look at a few plastic items.

The plastic water bottle.

I'm gonna look for the recycling symbol on the bottom.

And I see the triangle right there with the number one.

So yes, this item can be recycled.

Next, I have a plastic container.

It has the recycling symbol right here on the bottom with the number five.

So yes, this item can be recycled.

And my plastic packaging has the triangle and the number seven.

So all three of my plastic items can be recycled.

Plastics in the ocean can break down into tiny pieces called microplastics.

Microplastics are small enough to get into the bodies of birds and fish.

So how could we reuse some of our plastic items?

Let's think of a way that we could reuse this plastic bottle.

Hmm.

Go ahead and say your answers out loud.

Wow, I heard a lot of great answers.

The book has a fun project we can make using a plastic bottle.

Let's see.

Plastic planters.

These adorable kitty planters will brighten up any windowsill.

Plastic is a good material for plant pots because it is waterproof.

To make these planters, these are the supplies we'll need.

Plastic bottles, acrylic paint, beads, stickers, and gems, permanent markers, stones, a plant in a pot, and water.

Remember, if you don't have those exact items, it's okay to use what you do have.

Don't forget, permanent markers will stain anything they touch.

Put the lids back on as soon as you are done with them.

Here are the steps we would use to make our planter.

Step one, use the permanent marker to draw around the bottle, remembering to mark two triangles for cat ears.

Step two, ask an adult to cut along the lines.

Step three, paint the bottle white.

Step four, use the markers to draw a kitty face.

Step five, decorate your planner with beads, gems, or stickers.

Step six, put a handful of stones in the bottom of the pot to add weight.

Step seven, put your plant and its pot into the planter.

And don't forget to give your plant a little drink of water.

The book also shows us a couple of ideas for making a game out of recycled materials.

Plastic play.

These games are simple to make with paper, crayons, and bottle caps.

Bottle-cap bingo.

Draw circles on a piece of paper, color them in different colors, put different colored bottle caps into a bag.

Now, take turns picking out a bottle cap.

If it matches a colored circle on your paper, place it on that circle.

The first one to fill their paper wins.

Tic-tac-toe.

Write X's and O's on bottle caps and make a travel tic-tac-toe game.

I made a game using plastic bottle caps.

I put a letter on each cap, and I'm gonna use it to practice spelling words.

So first, I'm gonna spell the word read.

R. E. A. I used my battle caps to spell the word read, as in, I love to read.

The word read has four letters and three sounds.

R-e-duh.

Read.

The E and the A in this word work together to make the long E sound.

I'm gonna add an ING to the word.

What word did I spell?

That's right, reading.

The ING made it an action word.

So now I am reading my favorite book.

Read plus ING spells reading.

If take off the ING, I'm back to the word read.

Did you know read as a type of a word called a homonym.

That means two words are spelled the same, but they sound differently.

So the word read is also the word read, as in, I read the book out loud.

If I add a B to the beginning of the word read, what word have I spelled?

That's right, bread.

This is a lot of fun.

All you need are bottle caps, put a letter on each one, and you've got a fun way to practice spelling words.

And check this out.

I'm gonna reuse this plastic container to keep my letters in.

Then I have them handy whenever I want to practice spelling my words.

(upbeat music) (lion roars) Today we learned a lot about how to reduce, reuse, and recycle to help protect our environment or to reduce our impact on the environment.

Remember to reduce means to try not to buy plastic.

Reuse, use your plastic for something new.

We learned a lot about that today.

We came up with different uses for a plastic bottle, and we learned that you can make a lot of fun games with plastic bottle caps.

Recycle, make sure you recycle plastic things.

Thank you so much for learning with us today, and see if you can think of a game that you can make and find some recyclable items that'll help play your game.

I'll see you next time on Read, Write, Roar.

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Kellogg Foundation.

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Thank you.

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