- Hello readers.

Welcome to Read, Write, Roar Today we will begin our units on school days.

We will explore how we live and work together in families and in schools.

We will start by reading a book that compares what schools looked like in the past and what schools look like now.

We will sort some sounds and words as we learn the sh sound.

Are you ready?

Let's get started.

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(fun music) - Hello, amazing learners, I'm Ms. Rogers.

We're going to read an informational book about schools.

We're reading this book with permission from Crabtree Publishers.

Before we get started with our book, we're going to take a look at some words that will help us understand the story.

The first word is past.

Let me hear you say past.

Great job.

We use this word past when we're talking about time long ago.

When we talk about any time or anything that happened before today, it happened in the past.

When we're talking about something that's happening now, we say present.

Let me hear you say present.

Excellent.

Now the word present has more than one meaning.

Sometimes you may hear that a gift is referred to as a present, but for today we're talking about the word present as it relates to time.

If we talk about something that hasn't happened yet, we say that time is in the future.

Let me hear you say future.

Excellent.

Now tomorrow and every time after that would be referred to as the future.

Now, when we read our book, we can think about these words when we're talking about the past, present and future.

And even right now, as it relates to schools.

So let's get started.

Let's get started with our book.

As I said earlier, this is an informational book.

So it will tell us true information about the topic schools.

Do you go to a school or have you ever been to a school?

Let's start reading our book.

Our title is, "School Days Then and Now" by Bobby Kalman.

And remember we have permission to read this by Crabtree Publishers.

Old and new schools.

Long ago there were huge areas of the country where very few people lived.

Most people in these places were farmers.

One of the first buildings that people in a new community built was a school for their children.

Communities today need schools too.

The schools are different from schools long ago, but in some ways they are the same.

How is this classroom the same as yours?

What things do you see that are different?

Let's take a look at this photograph and let's notice the things that are the same first.

Well, I see that there are windows.

My class had windows.

I see that there are student desks.

And I also see that there are books on their desks.

So those are three things that I notice that are the same.

Now, what do you see that's different from the school or the classroom that you have?

I see on the desks that there are chalkboards or slates.

Usually we have paper or pencil.

So that's something that's different.

If I look behind the teacher in the corner I see that there's a stove.

Now I don't have a stove in my classroom.

So I wonder why is there a stove in that classroom?

If we look above the stove to the left we see that there are buckets or pails on the wall.

Now I don't have any buckets or pails in my classroom.

I wonder what those are there for.

What are those there for.

One room or many?

This school house from long ago had only one room and one teacher.

Children of all ages learned together.

Electricity had not yet been invented.

So a stove heated the school in winter.

That answered our question.

Open windows kept it cool on warm days.

Let's read the caption underneath the school.

A one-room school was small.

Students helped keep it clean.

Sometimes an entire school had only a few students.

Wow.

So there are about 10 children in this photograph.

So that's not just one class.

That's the entire school population.

Oh, wow.

So let's read about classrooms today.

School rooms today.

Not many schools have just one room.

Most have several classrooms.

Besides classrooms, schools also have libraries, gymnasiums, offices, washrooms, and lunchrooms.

There are also special rooms for teachers.

This large school has many rooms.

Classrooms today often have many students.

How many are in your class?

10, 20, maybe even 30, but I'm sure it's a lot more than in the one-room schoolhouse.

Here are some additional questions for you to consider.

How many rooms?

Make a list of the rooms in your school.

Where do you spend most of your time?

Which is your favorite room at school?

Getting to school.

Students today, walk, ride bicycles or get rides to school from their parents or other adults.

Many children take a school bus each day.

They enjoy talking to their friends on the way to school.

This girl rides her bike to school.

She wears a helmet to be safe.

I think that's an amazing choice.

Would you fly to school if you could?

I would.

(laughs) Okay, so let's think about long ago.

A very long walk.

Long ago, there were no cars, school buses or even bicycles for getting children to school.

Most children had to walk more than an hour to reach their school from their home.

In winter, snowstorms made it hard for them to see where they were going.

Children often arrived at school with very cold toes.

Brr.

These children had more than a two-hour walk to their school.

They are carrying their lunches in tin pails.

Remember we talked about those pails or tins that were on the wall in the first photograph that we looked at?

So it's actually their lunch boxes or lunch pails.

Let's look at the caption underneath the illustration.

How far?

How far is your school from your home?

How do you take your lunch to school?

Do you use a lunch box?

School helpers.

In the school today there are several teachers, as well as a librarian, school nurse, principal, and caretaker.

Sometimes they're called paraprofessionals as well.

Bus drivers and crossing guards also work for schools.

Who teaches physical education?

Who is the head of your school?

Who teaches children how to play sports?

Who teaches music at your school?

Who takes care of you when you are sick at school?

These are all amazing questions to get us to think and consider about the present and the past.

So let's take a look at the past.

Just one teacher.

In one-room schools, there was just one teacher who taught all the children.

There was no principal or librarian.

Parents paid the teachers salary or pay.

And families took turns giving the teacher a place to live in their homes.

What would you miss if you went to a one-room school?

What things would you miss that you have at your school now?

A teacher taught up to eight grades in one class and also had to keep the school clean.

The students and some parents helped out.

It's fun to think about how things have changed from how they were in the past and how they are now.

Thinking about all of the differences makes me wonder how different they will be in the future.

What things do you think will be different in the future?

Next time, we will finish reading the book to do some more exploring about schools past and present.

I hope you will join me.

(fun music) So here's letter S and we know that letter S says sss.

And here's letter H and we know that letter H says huh.

But when we put S and H together, they say a whole new sound and that sound is sh.

Can you say that sound with me?

Sh So let's think about this.

This is the color red and it stands on its own all by itself.

It's red, just like letter S by itself says sss.

And here's the color blue and on its own is the color blue.

Just like the letter H when it's all by itself, it says huh.

We just learned that when we put S and H together, we can't separate them out.

We don't hear each sound in the sh.

We don't hear sss or huh.

It's a whole new sound.

So that would be kind of like if we took blue and we mixed it with red and we mixed it all together, at some point we get a whole new color.

Can you see what new color we're getting if we mix blue and red together?

Yeah.

It's like a deep purple.

We know that there's red and blue in there, but guess what?

Once you mix 'em together, they make the color purple and they don't have their own colors all by themselves.

Just like when we put S and H together they make their own sound of sh and we cannot separate them out.

Okay.

So we know that sh says what sound?

That's right, sh.

Say it with me again.

Ready?

Sh, sh, sh.

Great job.

I'm going to give you some words that are going to be called anchor words.

If you think about a boat, boats have an anchor.

The anchor holds them down in their place.

So I'm going to give you two words that are going to be words that we think about to hold us in place to do some words sorting, because we have a job to do.

We're going to be listening to words and deciding if the sh sound is at the beginning of the word or at the end of the word.

So the first word kind of related to an anchor that I wanted to talk to you about is the word ship.

Can you say ship?

Let's do those sounds.

Ready?

Sh ip.

Ship.

Sh ip ship.

Is the SH in ship at the beginning or the end?

Yes.

It's at the beginning, right there at the beginning in ship.

The other word that I want you to think about is the word fish.

Can you say fish?

Nice.

Let's do the sounds that we hear in fish.

Ready?

F i sh fish.

Hmm.

Where do you hear the sh in fish, at the beginning or the end?

Yes.

The sh is at the end,.

Here is a picture of some fish that I took when I was at an aquarium.

And just like you thought, SH age is at the end.

F I sh, fish.

So what I'm going to do is put these two pictures up and then we're gonna be doing thinking and sorting words by whether the sh sound is at the beginning like in ship or at the ending, like in fish.

The first word that we're going to do is the word dish.

Okay.

You will say the word with me.

Ready?

Dish.

Good job.

Now I will say each sound slowly.

Here I go.

D i sh, dish.

Do it with me, d i sh, dish.

Great job.

So now we're gonna check our anchor words.

Hmm.

Should dish go under ship or fish?

Where do you hear the sh sound in dish?

I hear it at the end.

D I sh.

Hmm.

Is the sh sound at the end of ship?

No.

So I'm gonna compare it and go dish, ship, dish, fish.

Oh.

Did you hear how we heard that sh at the end of both of them?

that's right.

We checked it and it sounded right.

So now I'm gonna put this over here and then I'm gonna check.

I hear the sh at the end d I sh, and then look at this.

The sh is at the end in fish and the sh at the end in dish.

Here's the next word?.

The word is shot.

I say the word.

Now you say it.

Ready?

Shot.

Good job.

Like, I like to take a shot when I'm playing basketball.

Let's say the sounds in shot.

I'll say it slow than you will.

sh ah t, shot.

Together.

Sh ah t, shot.

Hmm.

Where should it go?

Shot ship or shot fish.

Okay.

You think it should go here?

So let's check it.

Does it, we're going to check.

Does it look right?

Is the SH at the beginning?

And they both say sh at the beginning.

Sh ah t. Sh i p. Great job.

Okay.

Let's do another word.

The next word that we're going to do is the word shop.

What's the word?

That's right.

Shop.

I'll say it slowly.

Sh ah p shop.

Now we'll see it slowly.

You do it.

Sh ah, p shop.

Hmm.

Where should shop go?

Shop ship, or shop fish.

Okay.

Let's see if I put shop here.

Ship shop.

Do they both have the sh at the beginning?

'Cause I'm gonna check it for the sound.

Hmm.

Now let's look.

SH at the beginning, SH at the beginning to see if it looks right.

It does.

Great job.

Shop starts the same as ship with the SH in it.

Okay.

Let's do another word.

The next word is cash.

Can you say cash?

Cash, right?

Like cash is money, right?

So you get cash.

You go to the store and buy things.

One more time.

Cash.

Let's say the sounds.

I'll do them slowly.

Then you will.

C ah, sh, cash.

Great job.

Where should cash go?

Cash ship, cash fish.

Hmm.

Where's the sh sound?

Oh, here under fish?

Okay.

Let's see.

If I put cash here and I move it down so you can read a little bit better.

If I put cash here, does it look right?

Do they both have an SH at the end?

They do.

Let's see if it sounds right.

F i sh, fish, c ah sh, cash.

Yes.

The sh sound is at the end.

We checked to make sure it looked right and it sounded right.

Okay.

Learners, you helped me so much with saying the words with me.

We stretched the sound slowly.

And then we decided the column to put the words in and we went through and checked if they looked right and sounded right.

And now we're at this bottom part.

It says we will check each column.

So this is the first column.

And this is the second column.

Everything in the first column, we wanna make sure it looks right.

That it has an SH the beginning, like in ship.

And that it sounds right that it has the sh at the beginning, like in the word ship.

So let's read our words together.

Ready?

Shot, shop, shin, rash, shut.

Shot, shop, shin, rash, shut.

How did I do?

Did I sort them right?

Thumbs up, thumbs down.

Oh, I think I see a thumbs down.

Is there a word that's in the wrong spot over here?

It doesn't look right and sound right?

Oh, which word?

Oh, wait a minute.

Rash.

Ship, rash.

Huh?

Sh i p, r ah sh.

Wait a minute.

The sh is at the end.

Rash shouldn't go here.

It doesn't look right or sound right.

It should be over here, shouldn't it by fish because it has sh at the end.

It sounds right and it looks right if it's over here.

Okay.

Hold on.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna put that over here down the bottom.

All right.

Well, let's check the second column.

Thank you for helping me.

Let's look down under fish and make sure that everything's in the right place.

We're gonna read down and then you're gonna tell me , does it look right?

Thumbs up or thumbs down.

And does it sound right?

Thumbs up or thumbs down.

Okay.

Let's check this out.

Ready?

So fish, dish, cash, hush, posh, shed, rash.

How did I do?

they look right and sound right?

Wait a minute.

When I started to read shed the SH is that the beginning.

Is that the one that you found that was wrong?

Thank you for helping me.

So wait minute, shed, fish.

That's not right.

The SH is in the wrong place for sound and sight.

Shed, ship.

Is that right?

Thank you.

This should be over here.

Yes, we did it.

They look right because the SH is at the end and they sound right with the sh at the end.

Wow.

Thank you word builders for helping me sort today and really think about where the sh sound is in words.

Okay, so we're gonna look at our nursery rhyme here which is called, "Here We Go Round the mulberry Bush' and a mulberry bush is actually more like a tree and it has berries on it that look kind of like a raspberry or blackberry, but it's not thorny.

So I'm going to read this through and you're going to be my echo.

Okay, we'll do that part first.

Then we'll get to do it together.

And while we're reading, I want you to be thinking about this special sound that says sh.

Okay so I'm going to read, and you're my echo.

That means you repeat what I just said.

Here we go.

I'm going to point and track as I go along.

So you'll know where you should be looking.

Here we go round the mulberry, bush.

Your turn.

Here we go round the mulberry bush.

Here we go round the mulberry bush the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush.

Your turn.

Here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush.

Nice.

Here we go round the mulberry bush on a cold and frosty morning.

(indistinct), let m know.

Here we go round the mulberry bush on a cold and frosty morning.

Do you remember?

I was saying that you're gonna wanna listen for the sh sound and look for the SH letters together like in sh i p ship, and f i sh fish.

What we're gonna do now is take a look at the first part here.

This first stanza in our song and see if we can find any words that have the sh sound and are spelled with S and H. Here we go round the mulberry bush.

Did you hear the sh there and see S and H together?

Nice.

Where did you find that?

Did you say right here at the end?

That's right.

This is the word bush b uh sh, bush I'm gonna write that down.

And I have it right here to copy.

So you can do this at home on your scrap paper, B-U-S-H. And I'm gonna just underline the SH in this.

So I remember that I'm trying to hang on to that fact that SH together says sh.

Okay, I'm gonna say you can go through and see if you can find any more words with SH in this nursery rhyme.

Thank you so much for being with Ms. Rogers and me today on Read, Write, Roar.

We are gonna continue to learn about families and schools and communities and how they were in the past, how they are in the present or right now, and what they might feel like and look like in the future ahead of us.

We also did some great learning together about the letters S and H that say sh.

That's right.

And we got to look at what S and H looked like in a nursery rhyme.

Keep reading and writing, be on the lookout for the SH pattern together and listen for that sound.

And I can't wait to see you next time when you come back to do some more learning with me right here on Read, Write, Roar.

- [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.

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