♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and to games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music) - Good morning 2nd grade, happy beautiful day.

Isn't it a beautiful day outside?

Oh, I just love spring, don't you?

I love it.

My name is Mrs. Vang and I'm so excited to have you join me so that we can become amazing readers and writers.

I have another book to share with you guys today, this is a book called "Ninja Bunny" and it's written by Jennifer Gray Olson.

So boys and girls, let me ask you, does this bunny has what it takes to become a super awesome bunny?

Or no, not a super awesome bunny, a super awesome ninja bunny?

I don't know boys and girls, you're gonna have to read and find out, so you can go into your Sora app and see if you can find this book or you can try to check it out at your county library or even at your own school library.

Tell me what you think of this book.

All right, good job boys and girls.

Okay, let's get going and see which school came in our top five countdown this week, so if you are checking out books on the Sora app, let's see if your school is on our top countdown.

Today is Wednesday, so let's see which school came in at number three, are you ready?

Okay, here we go, coming in number three is Wilson, awesome job Wilson Wildcats, you guys are doing an awesome job checking out those books on Sora and reading.

Now, don't forget if you want to see your school on our top countdown, you have to be checking out those books and you have to be reading them 'cause the more you read, that's right, the stronger we make our brain, the stronger our brain gets the smarter we get, that's right boys and girls.

Okay, now, don't forget boys and girls that you can write to me here in the studio and using our PBS classroom studio address and I would love to hear from you and so you can write to me.

Yep, there it is, there's the address.

Tell me what you're learning, tell me what you're reading, or just... that's all, you can just write a story, what we call a fictional story, I would love to hear a fictional story.

All right, so I can't wait to get your letters and when I do, I will send you one of these, that's right, fun activity books, so make sure to put your home address so we can send these out or this out to you.

I know, lots to choose from.

Okay boys and girls, are you guys ready?

Awesome, let's get started, we have lots of learning to do today to make that brain super strong.

So we're gonna start off with, that's right, training our ears.

Turn your ears up nice and high so that we can listen for sound, 'cause remember, we need to listen for sound so that we can read and write with sounds.

Today we're just gonna practice our phoneme blending, you guys are really good at this.

This is where I'm gonna give you some sounds.

Your job, blend them them together, guess my word.

Are you ready?

Okay, ready?

Good, just checking for a set of sounds, ch-alk.

What is it?

Chalk, good job.

Next set of sounds, ready?

D-r-aw, d-r-aw, draw, good job.

Okay, last set of sounds, b-all, b-all, what is it?

Ball, good job boys and girls.

Good job listening for those sounds and if you were listening, what vowel sound did you hear?

They were all in the middle, you're right, it was the ah sound.

That goes perfectly into our phonics instruction of the week, so this week we are learning the ah sound and that's why I have my straw card here to help me.

Can you help me see that sound again?

Ah, good job.

One more time, ah, good.

And you're right, it's very similar to the short O sound, that says, ah, aw, and au, very similar.

Now, look at all the different ways I can spell that aw sound on my straw card.

This is where it gets tricky, boys and girls, when you're spelling these words 'cause they all make the same sounds but they all have different spellings, ready?

So let's spell and say the sounds, ready?

A says ah, A W says aw, A U says au, A U G H says augh, A L says al, good job.

Remember, all of these letters all make one sound, and O U G H says ough, now this is not as common as these other ones but do know that the O U G H can also make that ough sound, okay?

So, now I have some letters for us.

Help me blend these together, ready?

Okay, so here's my first word, ready?

Help me blend it, m-all, what is it?

Mall, good job.

Mall, like I like to go to the mall, good job.

Okay, Let's look at my next set of letters, ready?

Help me blend these.

C-ause, what is it?

Cause, good job boys and girls, remember that A U and that a by itself all say ah.

Now, let's practice building a word.

Now, what if I wanted to spell the word, small?

Small, do you see something?

That's right, I already see the word mall here, so if I wanted to make it small, what do I need to do?

Good thinking, we're just gonna add an S to it which is our S letter.

Good, small, good job, did you see how we do that?

Awesome, now, what if I wanted to build the word because?

And this is a tricky one because a lot of 2nd graders always misspell the word because, but guess what?

If you know how to spell c-ause, cause, guess what?

How do I spell because?

You just put the B E in front of it, you're right, so I'm gonna move these down a little bit, so how do I spell because?

put for B and the E. Because, you see that?

So spell it with me.

B E C A U S E, because.

And you're right, it is two syllables, be cause, so when you're sounding them out, you can break them into syllables to spell them.

Good job up boys and girls.

Okay, now let's see if you can help me sort words, so now I have 10 words for us.

I'm gonna move my reading fingers.

We have 10 words, let's see if you guys can tell me how they are spelled, so look at the spelling pattern now, ready?

First word, small, we just, you're right, we just built that word, small has the al, good job.

Sm-all, oh, I tried to trick you, you're right, it has just the a, good eye.

Oh, I was checking to see if you were paying attention, good, okay, next word.

Paw has the aw, A W, good job.

Next word, sauce has the au, A U, good.

I, next word, taught, what spelling patten do you see, Is it the A U?

No, it's the A U G H, augh, good job.

Next word, chalk has the, awesome, how do I spell it?

A L or A?

Chalk, do you hear that al?

No we don't, so it's spelled with A L, where in small, we do hear that al sound.

Okay, keep going, fought, O U G H, good job.

Fought, tall.

Oh, I heard that al sound, so that means it's the a by itself.

Aw-ful, did you see it?

The A W, aw, great.

Keep going, vault, what spelling pattern?

A U, good eye, A U says au, and last word, always.

Always, what is it?

It's a tricky one, did you get it?

It's the A L that says al.

Good, thank you boys and girls.

Okay, now let's go into our high frequency words, so I'm gonna get my chart, I'm gonna turn it around so that we can practice our high frequency words.

Now remember all week, we have 10 words.

Every day we're gonna focus on two, so here are my two words for today.

I want you to help me read and spell them so that they can get right into your brain because remember high frequency words show up most often when we are reading and or writing, ready?

Here's my first word, own, ready?

Read it again, own, good.

Let's spell it, O W N, own, good job.

Next word, questions, read it again, questions, good job.

Spell it, Q U E S T I O N S, questions, and remember when there's that S, good job.

That means it's plural, more than one question, okay.

Now, let's read my sentences.

Let's try to figure out which one of these words will go into my sentence so that it'll make sense, ready?

You should ask your teacher hmm if you do not understand.

Oh, are you using those context clues?

I hear you guys shouting it out at home, good job.

Let's go into the next one and then we'll try to figure out which one of those words would go into my sentence, ready?

I would like to hmm a dog.

Does that help you?

Good job.

So, let's go back to the first one, you should ask your teacher what if you don't understand?

You should ask your teacher questions, good job.

And I would like to own a dog and that's my own personal sentence 'cause I would like to own a dog.

I don't have a dog, did you know that?

I do have a cat but not a dog, good job boys and girls.

Now, let's practice reading all of our high frequency words that we are learning this week, ready?

Okay, start with the two that we learned today, own, questions, read, searching, sure, though, city, father, o'clock and mother.

Okay, now let's go into our structural analysis and this week, remember we started learning it yesterday, we were working with our vowel team syllables and remember I said, we're just gonna learn it because in the coming weeks we're really gonna be learning because this is important to know 'cause this is gonna help you read and write.

So, you just need to know that we need to keep our vowel team in a long word together in the same syllable, so like this week, we're learning that also, that's what we called a vowel team.

We've already learned that oy and the ou, those are all vowel teams, right?

All of the uh and the oo, all of those are what we call vowel teams, so we need to keep those spelling patterns together.

So when you're reading and you come to a word like this one, I see that there's my A R and my double O, so it's on my vowel teams and to keep them together when I'm sounding them out, so this is c-ar and this is t-oon, cartoon, so when I'm spelling, I know this one has two syllables, I can break them up and spell and or read.

Again, here's my next one, here's O W, that's a vowel team, keep it together, divide it and then I can say p-il, pil, l-ow, O W says ow, pillow.

Did you guys see how that was?

Good job.

Okay and then we did because yesterday, let's try another one.

How about this one, did you see all the vowel teams?

There's the O A, keep it together, there's the E A, keep it together, read it, oat-meal.

How did you do?

Good job boys and girls.

Okay, how about this word, what is it?

Remember that's our focus.

Au-gust, August, good job, and the next one, let's see, did you get it?

Rac-coon, awesome job boys and girls, good job today.

Now don't forget to come back tomorrow so that we can continue Learning our aw sounds, our vowel syllables and our high frequency words 'cause remember we need to make our brain super strong, that's right 'cause the stronger our brain is, the smarter we become, so boys and girls, I hope you have a great day learning with your teacher and as you're reading make sure you're looking for those high frequency words.

All right, see you next time.

Bye bye.

(upbeat music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪