- Well, hey there learners.

It's Mrs.

Spear and welcome back to Read, Write, ROAR!

Today, you're going to have a chance to be thinking about what you know about the lens, because we are going to solve a mystery word.

Besides that, you're going to have a chance to think about observations you've been making about the daytime sky and start writing your own book with Ms. Rogers, are you ready to get roaring today?

Grab something to write with, and something to write on and let's get going.

- [Narrator] 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.

(upbeat music) (lion roaring) (upbeat music) (lion roaring) (upbeat music) - Where could it be?

Oh, there it is, my mystery words.

I need to solve a mystery word.

Oh, hey, you're already here.

Well, welcome.

We're going to be solving a mystery word today and I needed to find my envelope that has all the clues in it.

What I know is that my mystery word is going to have something to do with things we've been studying about in science to build some knowledge around the daytime and the nighttime sky.

Let's see, the letters are already up here.

Here's the letters that you're going to need to do our lesson today.

I'll hold up my magnifying glass so that you can make sure you write them down at home or have your letter tiles so that you can build the words with me as we go along.

Remember a mystery is something that you're trying to solve, so we together are going to try and figure out what big word all these letters can make when we unscramble them and put them together.

So here are the letters that you need, letter A, E, O, C, R, S, T, V. Grab those letters, write them down, If it's not something you already have ready and let's get going.

Just scrap paper will do.

(upbeat music) So the first word in my envelope has two letters and two sounds.

Here is the word we're going to build, "at" let's do the sounds in "at," A-T, at, what letters do we need to spell at?

Yes, "at" is letter A and /t/ with letter T. A-T spells "at", can you write that down?

And I'm going to put "at" right here under "2 letters."

(upbeat music) Now, I have another word, let's figure what this one is.

The next word has three letters and three sounds, we're gonna make "at" turn into "cat."

C-A-T, cat, what letter do we need to add to "at", to make it say "cat?"

You've got it, We need to add letter C, C-A-T, cat.

Can you write down "cat" where you are and let's see how many letters does it have?

one, two, three, so it's gonna go here right under the column that says, "3 letters" at the top.

(upbeat music) Okay.

The next word has four letters and this word is cast.

Oh, I broke my arm and I needed to put on a cast.

Can you say cast?

Well done.

What do we need to do?

We have to change the word cat into the word cast?

C-A-S-T, cast.

What letter sound do you hear that we need to add?

Yeah, we need to add a /s/, where would we add that?

You've got it.

We need to add an S right here.

The /s/ sound goes here before the /t/ and look at that, now we have a blend at the end, the "st" blend, C-A-S-T, cast, C-A-S-T. (upbeat music) well done, this time we're gonna make another four letter word, but we only need to change one letter.

So one sound and one letter will be different.

We're gonna go from cast to cost.

How much does it cost to buy that pretty balloon?

Cost.

Can you say cost?

(indistinct) saying cost.

C-O-S-T, cost.

What sound is different between cast and cost?

There is an O sound in cost.

What letter do I take out to change from cast to cost?

You've got it, the A sound needs to come out.

Which sound goes in there that makes the O sound?

Yes, we need letter O.

Now we've made C-O-S-T, cost.

(upbeat music) Now we're going to make the word vet.

Can you say vet?

My daughter wants to be a vet when she grows up.

Vet, let's do the sounds in vet, V-E-T, vet, there are three sounds, there are also three letters.

Can you find the three letters that we would use to make the word vet?

Yes, the /v/ is letter V, the /e/ is letter E and the /t/ is letter T. We just spelled vet, V-E-T, vet.

Let's sky write it together or write it where you are, V-E-T, vet.

Well done, V-E-T spells vet.

How many letters does vet have?

Three letters.

So we're gonna put it in the column that says three letters at the top, this time we're gonna change the three letter word vet into the four letter word vest.

Sometimes in the fall, I just wear a vest if it's not too chilly.

Vest, V-E-S-T, vest.

I hear a sound in vest that isn't in vet, what sound do you hear that we need to add to turn vet to vest?

There's a /s/ sound, isn't there?

What letter would that be?

Yes, letter S, where should we put that S to make this say vest?

You've got it, again, we need to add the letter S in front of the T, there's a "st" blend again.

Let's say the sounds in vest, V-E-S-T, vest.

V-E-S-T, let's sky write, well, right where you are, V-E-S-T, vest.

Great job.

How many letters?

Four.

So it's going to go right here when you write it, in your four letter column.

Okay, we're gonna clear our whole board off.

Are you ready?

Take our letters away, we don't need anything up that matches the sounds that were up there, so we're clearing the board.

This time we're making a two letter word.

The word is "or", but you know what?

There's only one sound, /o/ this one is a little bit tricky, but it's a high-frequency word that you might've seen before.

Do you know what two letters make the "or" word and the O sound?

Yes, O-R spells or.

Let's sky write that, O-R, or.

How many letters?

Two letters.

Let's put that right here under two.

Okay, now that we know how to spell the /o/ sound and the word or, we're going to write the word score.

Can you say score?

Yeah, the score I'm thinking about with this is when you're watching a game, like at this time of year, maybe a basketball game, and it tells you how much each team has and it's on the scoreboard.

So score let's do the sounds in score, S-C-O-R-E, score.

There's three sounds, but there's actually five letters in score.

So what matters to hear at the beginning that could make "sc" sound, let's look at what we have, what letters could say "sc?"

Yeah, S and C, we've been working on this beginning blend "sc", scor there's not another sound that we hear, do you know what letter we can put at the end that's a final sound that's often silent when it's at the end of a word?

Yes.

A final E not a final sound, but a final letter that goes at the end of the word that doesn't make a sound, score.

Let's say the sounds in score, S-C-O-R-E, now let's sky write score, S-C-O-R-E, score, S-C-O-R-E, score and it has five letters.

So I'm going to put score right here under the five letter column.

Now I wanna tell you, we really need to change one letter to change the word score into the word store.

I ran to the store to get some milk, store.

Let's say the word store, let's do the sounds S-T-O-R-E, store.

What's the sound that's different between score and store?

You've got it, instead of a /c/ sound we need/t/ sound in store.

So what letter did we take out?

Yes, letter C is going to come on out and what letter goes in to make that /t/?

You've got it letter T, S-T-O-R-E, store.

Let's sky write that and say the letter names as we do it, ready?

S-T-O-R-E, store.

Can you write that down and put it under five letters?

the S-T-O-R-E, store.

Well then, I'm putting my word store right here under five letters.

We are building so many words, you're doing such a wonderful job using what you know about letters and sounds, and especially thinking about blends like the "st" blend.

We're gonna keep the "st" blend up there for this next word 'Cause we're gonna go from the word store to the word stove.

Can you say stove?

Great, let's do the sounds in stove, S-T-O-V-E, stove.

What sound is different?

Yeah, I hear a /v/ sound, do you hear that in stove?

Yeah, we need to take out what letter?

Yeah, there's O-R sound in stove.

So what letter goes up here that makes the /v/ sound?

Letter V, you've got it.

S-T-O-V-E, stove, that has five letters.

Can you write that down and let sky write and say the sounds, S-T-O-V-E, stove.

Notice again, we're not making a sound for E because the E here is a final E that is helping the O say /o/, but it doesn't say anything, it's silent.

Okay.

I'm gonna put stove here under the five letter word.

(upbeat music) The last word we're going to make today mystery word solvers, is the word over.

Can you say over?

I'm raising my hands over my head over, let's do the sounds in over, O-V-E-R, over.

Now, I hear three sounds in over, but there are four letters.

What's the first sound that you hear in over?

/o/, right?

What letter would we put?

Yes, letter O, what's the next sound you hear in over?

The /v/ sound which is letter V. Very good, and the last sound O-V-E-R, I told you there's going to be four letters, do you know what two letters from down here can be put together to make the /a/ sound?

You've got it, E-R says of /a/.

We just made the word over, let's do the sounds together, O-V-E-R, over, O-V-E-R spells over, let's sky write it, O-V-E-R, over.

Well done everybody.

Now, I'm going to put over, how many letters does it have?

Yep, four letters.

I'm gonna put over down here at the bottom.

(upbeat music) Can you figure out how the word over could be put with the letters we have left to be a word that describes the sky in the daytime or the nighttime and what it looks like?

It actually has to do with the clouds.

I'm gonna put some sounds up, see if you can help me.

So this says, what everybody?

Over.

Here's the next sound, what does that say?

/c/, overc, here's the next letter that goes in that says /a/ in this word, overca, just to figure it out.

Oh, I'll add these two letters that say "st", and guess what?

I discovered with your help the mystery word is overcast.

Can you say overcast?

Whoa, great job.

Let's spell overcast together.

Ready?

O-V-E-R-C-A-S-T, that spells overcast.

(upbeat music) Holy cow, you did a great job helping me solve this mystery word and we used lots of things that we've been learning about with our "st" blend and we even got a good chance to practice with "sc" blend.

Well done everybody, thanks for coming and being mystery word solvers today.

I'll see you next time.

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

Today, we're going to write a short book.

We will also use some of the ideas that we had from our previous lessons to help us as we write, we have learned all about day and night sky, the seasons and how we observe the sky with our senses.

So we're going to put all of that together into a short book about the daytime sky and the seasons.

So we're going to write about what we see, hear and feel for each of those seasons.

(upbeat music) So I have five pages, I have my title page, I also have my page for in spring, in summer, in fall and in winter.

So I have all of my pages separated, just so you can see how I'm putting this together.

So once I have filled out my entire sheet, I will put them together as a book.

So I'll staple as pages together.

And you can do that too with loose leaf paper, with typing paper, with construction paper, any paper that you have.

So let's get started, in spring, in spring I see, well before I talk about what I see, how does it feel in spring?

In spring the weather's getting warmer and it's a little windy outside and people usually fly kites and I also have the word kite on my Venn diagram back there for the daytime sky.

So I think I'm going to write the word kite.

I see, how about kites more than one, I see kites.

Now, also in the spring, I can hear what types of things?

Well, the weather starts to change a little bit and it's raining.

I hear thunder, so let's write thunder, I hear thunder, sometimes it scares me.

(Ms. Rodgers laughing) It's so loud.

Okay.

So now I want to figure out what do I feel in the spring?

Well, in the spring, I can feel those raindrops falling.

It feels so good.

So I'm going to write the word rain, I feel rain, so I see kites, I hear thunder, I feel rain, really simple.

So now our next season is summer, in the summer it gets really warm in most places, almost extremely hot.

So let's see, in the summer, What helps it to not be so hot?

Something I used on my Venn diagram.

So in the daytime sky, clouds, so I can see the clouds and you know what?

Sometimes I like to look up in the sky and see the clouds take different shapes.

So I went to write the word clouds, I see clouds.

So in the summer I see clouds.

What are some things that we can hear?

Ooh, how about birds?

In the morning the birds just love to sing their little songs.

(Ms. Rodgers laughing) Let me hear you sound like a bird.

Ah, yes.

So I hear birds.

Okay.

So what do we feel in the summer?

Yes, the hot sun beaming down.

So I'm going to say right sun.

I feel the sun.

Okay, my next season that I want to work on is fall.

So in fall, the daytime sky, there's different things that take place and also the weather, again, changes.

It gets a little colder outside and leaves change colors, and they fall to the ground.

So I see leaves.

Now, in addition to seeing leaves, what are some things that we may hear in the fall?

Let me see.

Oh, you know what?

Geese usually fly south when the weather gets colder.

So I hear them going (indistinct).

So I'm going to write, I hear geese.

Okay.

And so what else in the fall?

So if I'm seeing the leaves falling, how about the wind that's blowing the leaves?

It gets really windy.

So I'm going to write, I feel the wind.

We're doing pretty good so far, we have three pages.

Now for our final page in winter, now we know it gets really cold, the opposite of the summertime, it gets really cold in the winter.

So I'm wondering instead of rain, what would I see falling from the clouds, snow.

So I'm going to write the word snow, I see snow.

Sometimes I see snowflakes that are huge, sometimes they're really teeny tiny, but they're all beautiful, so I see snow.

Now, what do we hear in the winter?

Now, sometimes when we have snow storms, snow storms can become really heavy blizzards words, a lot of snow falling, and a lot of wind, I can hear the wind blow, it almost sounds like a whistle.

Let's see if I can do it.

(Ms. Rodgers whistling) can you help me whistle?

(Ms. Rodgers whistling) That was a little better, (Ms. Rodgers chuckling) I have practice my whistling.

So I can hear the wind.

Okay, last one.

So if I can see the snow, I can hear the wind, I can also feel the snow that I see and I can feel it and make some snowballs, so I'm going to write the word snow right there.

We have done it, we have four pages for our seasons and also our title, our clever page for our book about daytime sky in the seasons and I want you to write your own book too.

So nice work writers, thanks so much for helping me write our book about the daytime seasons.

(upbeat music) (lion roaring) I can't wait to see you next time on Read, Write, my favorite part, ROAR!

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] 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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