- Hello, amazing learners.

Welcome to "Read, Write, ROAR!"

Today, we will read a fun story about a girl who is called Mean Jean, the Recess Queen.

Mrs.

Spear will be here to do a word letter with long and short A and I words.

It's going to be a great time and I don't want you to miss a thing.

Are you ready?

Let's get started.

- [Announcer] his program is made possible in part by the Michigan Department of Education, the State of Michigan, and the W.K.

Kellogg Foundation.

Additional support by and by viewers like you.

Thank you.

(cheerful music) (slow-paced music) - Hello, amazing learners, it's Ms. Rogers and I have a fun story to read to you today.

It's about a girl called Mean Jean and she's known as the Recess Queen.

She's kind of a bully who tells kids what to do.

No one dares to question her power until a new girl named Katie Sue comes to the school.

Have you ever played with someone who is bossy, who tries to tell you what to do all of the time?

How does that make you feel?

Well, let's read this book together and see what happens.

We're reading this book with permission from Scholastic and the title is "The Recess Queen" written by Alexis O'Neil and Laura Huliska-Beith.

Let's get started.

"Mean Jean was Recess Queen and nobody said any different.

Nobody swung until Mean Jean swung.

Nobody kicked until Mean Jean kicked.

Nobody bounced until Mean Jean bounced."

Look at her facial expression.

Now look at all the children.

They look a little scared to me.

"If kids ever crossed her, she'd push 'em and smoosh 'em, lallapaloosh 'em, hammer 'em, slammer 'em, kitz and kajammer 'em.

"Say what?"

Mean Jean growled.

"Say who?"

Mean Jean howled.

"Say you!

Just, who do you think you are talking to?"

Mean Jean always got her way until one day a new kid came to school.

Katie Sue, a teeny kid, a tiny kid, a kid you might scare with a jump and "Boo!""

Did I scare you?

But when the recess bell went to ringity-ring, this kid ran zingity-zing for the playground gate.

Katie Sue swung before Mean Jean swung.

Katie Sue kicked before Mean Jean kicked.

Katie Sue bounced before Mean Jean bounced.

The kid you might scare with a jump and a "Boo" was too new to know about Mean Jean, the Recess Queen.

Well, Mean Jean bullied through the playground crowd like always.

She pushed kids and smooshed kids, lallapalooshed kids, hammered 'em, slammed 'em, kitz and kajammered them as she charged after that Katie Sue.

"Say what?"

She growled.

"Say who?"

She howled.

"Say you," she snarled and grabbed Katie Sue by the collar.

"Nobody swing until Queen Jean swings.

Nobody kicks until Queen Jean kicks.

Nobody bounces until Queen Jean bounces," and she figured that would set the record straight.

She figured wrong.

Katie Sue talked back just as sassy as could be, she said, "How did you get so bossy?"

Then that puny thing, that loony thing grabbed the ball and bounced away.

Oh, Katie Sue was one quick kid.

She bolted quick as lightning.

Bouncity, bouncity, bounce.

Kickity, kickity, kick.

Swingity, swingity, swing."

Hmm, well, that's a different reaction.

Oh, look at Mean Jean.

She has steam coming out of her ears, her face is turned all types of ways.

Well, let's see what's going to happen next.

"Mean Jean thundered close behind.

Bouncity, kickity, swingity.

The Recess Queen was not amused" or she didn't find it funny.

"She erased and chased and in-your-faced that Katie Sue.

No one spoke, no one moved, no one breathed.

Then from her pack pulled Katie Sue a jump rope, clean and bright.

"Hey, Jeanie Beanie" sang Katie Sue.

"Let's try this jump rope out!"

Here's one thing true - until that day no one dared asked Mean Jean to play.

But that Katie Sue just hopped and jumped and skipped away."

Hmm, so no one ever asked the Recess Queen to play.

How would that make you feel if you were never asked to play?

Hmm, that might explain why she's so mean.

Let's read on.

"I like ice cream, I like tea, I want Jean to jump with mean."

Jean just gaped."

Ah, that's a word, gaped.

Gaped means to stare in surprise.

"Jean just gaped and scared as if too scared to move at all."

In the previous pages, all of the students were scared.

Now it's her turn but she's not scared because someone's being mean to her, she's scared because this has never happened before.

"So Katie Sue sang once more.

"I like popcorn, I like tea, I want Jean to jump with me."

The rope whizzed and slapped faster, faster, the rope spun and flap faster, faster till it caught in a tangled disaster.

But they just giggled and jumped again.

Well, now when recess rolls around that playground's one greats place at the school bell's ringity-ring those two girls raced zingity-zing out the classroom door.

Jean doesn't push kids and smoosh kids, lallapaloosh kid, hammer 'em, slammer 'em, kitz and kajammer 'em 'cause she's having too much fun rampity-ramping with her friends.

Bouncity, kickity, swingity, hoppity, skippity, jumpity, ringity, zingity."

Yes.

Oh, that was an amazing story.

We saw how two people worked together to make a wonderful time playing together.

(slow-pace enchanted music) - Hi, learners, it's Mrs.

Spear.

Welcome back to "Read, Write, ROAR!"

We right now are going to be word builders.

Let's take a little time to review what you've been learning about.

We've been talking about how vowels make at least 2 sounds.

The other day you talked about a consonant, vowel, consonant pattern, consonant, vowel, consonant pattern, where a vowel say a short sound like in cat, we hear the a sound in the middle.

Let's think about that.

C a t, cat.

The sound in the middle says a.

We also have been thinking about consonant, vowel, consonant, E patterns like in the word cake.

Let's say the sounds in cake.

C a ke, cake.

Great job.

So now we're going to think about a different vowel sound.

(bright music) Okay, I want you to say the word pig.

Ready?

Pig.

Nice job.

Let's do the sounds that we hear in pig and let's tap them out on our arm.

Here we go.

P i g, pig.

One more time, p i g, pig.

Do you hear that i sound in the middle?

Yes, that is letter I.

Here's how we spell the word pig, P-I-G.

It's a consonant, vowel, consonant pattern.

And here's our little picture of a pig.

Yeah, here's another word that I want you to say, kite.

Can you say kite?

Excellent.

Here's a picture of a kite.

Now let's think about the sounds that we hear in the word kite.

Let's tap them out.

K i te, kite.

Let's do it again.

K i te, kite.

Did you hear the sound in the middle sounds like an I?

Yes, it's letter I again, and instead of saying the i sound like in pig, we hear the long sound of I or I is saying it name, I. I, this is how we spell kite, K-I-T-E, and it follows this pattern.

K is a consonant, I is a vowel, T is a consonant, and letter E at the end as a special pattern, but E is also a vowel.

So now we know that if there's no final E at the end, it'll probably sound like an a or an i when these are the vowels in the middle.

If there's a final E at the end and there's a letter A, it'll probably sound like a, like in cake or I like in kite.

Not always, but often.

Let's do a word ladder to practice learning and applying some more about vowels a and I.

(bright music) Okay there, the first word for our word ladder is the word pan.

Say pan.

Nice work.

You might cook an egg in a pan to have it for breakfast.

Pan.

Let's say the sounds that we hear in pan.

Listen carefully.

Here we go.

P a n, pan.

Now let's think about what are the letters that match those sounds and let's do some skywriting.

The first sound of here is a p, p, then I hear an a, a, then I hear a n, pan.

Here's what that word looks like.

Pan, P-A-N. Let's check, and as we point say each sound.

P a n, pan.

Well done.

We're going to put the word pan at the very bottom.

(bright music) Now we are going to add one letter to change pan into pane.

Not the pain like aww that hurt, but the pane, as in a pane of glass, a window pane.

In schools, one of our community helpers is a custodian.

You might see a custodian cleaning the window pane.

Can you say the word pane?

Nice job.

Let's listen for the sounds that we hear in pane.

P a ne, pane.

Hmm, I only heard three sounds, but I know that there are four letters in the word pane.

How do you think we can change pan into pane?

Yes, we've been learning about that final E. If we had a final E to the word pan, we've made the word pane.

(bright music) Let's check the sounds in the word that we've just put up here.

P a ne, pane.

Nice.

(bright music) The word we're doing next and we're only going to change one sound and one letter to change pane to pine.

A pine is a type of tree.

Say pine.

Nice.

Now let's say the sounds that we can hear in pine.

Listen carefully, pine.

Here we go.

P i ne, pine.

Hmm, I told you we have to change one letter and one sound to go from pane to pine.

Can you tell me what we're gonna change?

You've got it.

Instead of an a sound there's an i sound there.

So we're gonna change this to have an i in the middle.

Just like this.

Let's check the letters and the sounds that we have.

P i ne, pine.

Does that match up?

Yes, let's say the names of the letters.

P-I-N-E, pine.

Well done.

(bright music) I'd like us to change pine into the word fine.

We're going to change one letter.

Can you say the word fine?

Great.

You might think of the word fine as in, I feel fine, but you might think of the word fine when we think about our community helpers that we have.

You might get a ticket from a police officer if you find out that you've done something wrong or if you're in a city and there's a parking meter and you don't pay for your parking, you might get a fine.

Hmm, Let's say the word again, fine.

Great.

Let's listen for the sounds in fine, fine.

F i ne, fine.

What are we gonna change to go from pine to fine?

Yeah, we need to take out the P and put in a letter F. Oh, I have F that right here on my Trustee belt.

Let's check it together, ready?

F i ne, fine.

Does it work?

Do our letter sounds match?

Yes, okay.

Let's put fine here and let's sky write the word fine together.

Here we go.

F-I-N-E, fine.

(bright music) I'm gonna get a little tricky because now we're going to take away a letter.

And the word that I want you to make is fin.

How can we change fine to fin?

(bright music) Okay, say the word fin for me.

Great.

Let's listen for the sounds in the word fin.

Listen closely, fin.

F i n, fin.

How can I change fine to fin?

That's right, this is going to be the i sound.

So I can take away the final E and now I have the word fin.

Well done, everybody.

Can you picture an animal that might have a fin?

Yeah, a fish would have a fin, a shark would have a fin, dolphin would have a fin.

Great job.

(bright music) The next word is shin.

Medical helpers check our reflexes.

You might have a bumped your elbow and sometimes they check your knee, sometimes they might check down to see everything's working down at your shin, down here.

(bright music) Can you say shin?

Great.

Let's listen for the sounds we hear in shin.

Sh i n, shin.

What letters do we need to swap out to change this from fin to sh i n?

Yes, there's letters that make the sh sound.

It's one sound, there's two letters.

What letters of those?

S and H, you've got it.

So we're gonna take away the F and instead we're going to put an sh.

Let's check this as we say it.

Ready it?

Sh i n, shin.

Well done.

Let's sky write it.

S-H-I-N, shin.

(bright music) We're gonna go from shin to shine.

When you do your best, I bet you feel like you can shine inside and outside, shine.

Let's say shine.

Shine.

Now let's listen for the sounds in the word shine.

Here we go.

Sh i ne, shine.

Huh, there's only three sounds.

Sh i n. How can we change shin to shine?

You knew it.

We have to add a final E at the end.

It will change the I from saying i into an I.

So here we go, shine.

Let's check our sounds.

Here we go.

Sh i ne, shine.

(bright music) This next one is tricky, but I think you can do it.

We're gonna take some sounds away and then add some sounds in.

We're gonna go from shine to shape.

Can you say shape?

Nice.

A triangle, trying to make a triangle with my hands, is a shape, shape.

Can you make a triangle, three sides on a triangle, right?

So we've got shape.

Let's listen for the sounds in shape.

Put those listening ears on and let's say the sounds.

Sh a pe, shape.

Hmm, are you thinking about what we need to change to go from sh i ne to sh a pe?

Do I need to change the beginning sound, sh.

No, I don't.

How about in the middle, what do you hear in the middle?

Sh a pe, what's here?

Oh, we're gonna have to swap out that I and put an a, you're right.

How about the ending sound, sh a pe?

That's right, the last sound in shape is the p sound.

And here's what it's going to look like.

We are gonna make shape with these letters, sh a pe, shape.

We had to swap out the I and make it an a for the a sound.

And the N and make it a P for the p sound.

And we just made the word shape.

(bright music) The final word today is the word ship.

Can you say ship?

Nice.

A captain of a ship can be a community helper who's transporting goods from one place to another.

Ship.

Let's listen, let's say ship.

Ready?

Ship.

Now let's think about the sounds.

Sh i p, ship.

What do I have to change to go from shape to sh i p?

Yeah, you're right, sh can stay the same again.

How about the middle sound?

Sh a pe.

It's an i.

What letter makes the i sound?

That's right, letter I.

And how about the p?

Yeah, this word, because it's a short i, we're not gonna need that final E. Let's check it.

It looks like this.

Sh i p, ship.

Do we do it right?

We did, we don't need a final E. I also would say a nonsense word.

Let's sky write ship.

S-H-I-P, ship.

Wow, we've done a lot of thinking about sounds, breaking sounds apart, putting them back together, swapping out letters.

So we have different sounds to make new words, and we've gone from pan all the way to ship.

Thanks for being my helpers today in doing this word ladder.

I look forward to seeing you to do some more.

(bright music) - Thank you for joining us today as we read our story about Mean Jean, the Recess Queen and we thought about what it means to be a good citizen by being kind to others.

You also did a wonderful job working with Mrs.

Spear on the final E word ladder.

I hope you will join us again and don't forget to reading, writing, and roaring (cheerful music) - [Announcer] This program is made possible in part by the Michigan Department of Education, the State of Michigan, and the W.K.

Kellogg Foundation.

Additional support by and by viewers like you.

Thank you.

(enchanted music) (bright piano music)