- Hi there learners it's Mrs.

Spear.

Welcome back to Read and Write Word, today we will be learning some new blends.

We also are going to do a word ladder.

Finally, you're gonna get to do some writing with Ms. Rodgers using what you did when you did some observations about the night sky and taking that to make your own story.

Are you ready to get writing, grab something to write with and something to write on meet me back here and we'll 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.

(gentle music) (lion roars) (gentle music) - So what we're talking about today are blends at the end of words.

I'd like us to start by looking at the word end and at that the word blend.

I'm going to write them up here.

And I'd like you to see if you can notice something about the two of them.

Here's the word end and here's the word blend.

If you observe with your eyes and look at these two words, do you find something that's the same about both of these words?

What is it?

What's the same about the two of these words?

Yes.

If you've found that there is an N-D in both of these words, that is a blend at the end of the words, let's look at end and think about N-D in that.

N-D work together to say nd.

Can you do that with me?

Nd.

And now let's say end, can you say end?

End.

So today I want you to remember that N-D can say nd, and you often find that at the end of a word, especially when it's used as a blend.

Can you say nd, great.

We're gonna do two more.

The next blend that I want to talk to you about today, is N and K. This is what it sounds like, nk.

Can you say nk, good job?

You can still hear the n and the k, but we put them together and they say nk.

Like in this word, bunk, I can say B-U-NK, bunk.

It helps me to read bunk faster.

I have one more to talk about with you.

It's the st blend.

Hey, but wait a minute we've learned about that before, because st is a blend that can be at the beginning of a word or at the end of a word.

Today we're gonna think about the st, at the end of a word.

So we're going to do our... What's that word say?

B-E-ST, best.

We're going to do our best as we work on a word ladder together today, and we get to do some practicing with some of our ending blends.

Hey, there Word Builders we're doing a word ladder now.

And for those lessons I don't need a hammer and I don't need a level but I do need my trusty pointer.

And I'm going to need my marker.

You are gonna want something to write with and something to write on where you are.

The first word that we're gonna start with is the word wind.

The wind was whipping around outside, wind, say wind.

Great job, now let's say the sounds in wind.

W-I-N-D, wind.

Now we wanna write the letters that match those sounds.

We're going to remember to say the sounds as we write them.

One more time let's listen and do wind, ready?

W-I-N-D, wind.

And now let's write the letters that match those sounds here we go.

W-I-N-D, wind.

Now I need to really make sure that my sounds match.

So I'm gonna point and we're going to say the sounds as we point to the letters, here we go.

W-I-N-D, wind.

We just made the word wind listening to our sounds and putting down the letters that we know, and guess what we've been working on the nd blend and it's right there at the end of that word.

Okay.

So now we're gonna do a change.

Just one letter is going to change to make the word wind, turn into the word mind.

My mind was full of happy thoughts.

Mind.

Let's think about what we'll do to change this word from W-I-N-D to M-I-N-D, mind.

When we look at this word and we think about the sounds that we know, what's the one letter we'd have to change?

Hmm, the only one that doesn't have a letter that matches is the first sound.

The first sound that I hear in the word mind is the M, I'm gonna write that down and put down the sounds that I hear in mind as I walk you through writing it out, write with me and say the sounds, ready?

M-I-N-D, mind.

Check that out, we only had to change one letter, but the I hear sounds like an eye, instead of like I, like it does in wind.

Let's try another one.

The next thing we're going to do is we're going to change one letter, just one letter in mind to make it into the word mine.

This hat is mine.

Listen for the sound and do them together, ready?

Mine, M-I-NE, mine.

Let's think about what we're going to have to do.

We only need to change one letter.

Did you figure out which letter sound doesn't match to go from mind to mine?

Yes.

We don't need a D at the end of this word.

So here's a little trick, there's gonna be a letter that's going help us to help keep letter I saying I when we write mine.

Let's say the sounds as we write the letters in mine.

M-I-N... And have you ever heard that there's a letter that can be a final letter but help a vowel to say its name.

That final letter is letter E. Let's check our sounds that we hear when we say the word mine, M-I-N-E, that says mine.

You don't hear the E, but it helps the I to say I, oh, you're doing a great job builders.

Now we're only going to take one letter that we need to change, to change into the word pine.

Mine will change to pine.

This is an example of a branch from a pine tree, say pine for me.

Great job.

What letter do we need to change?

To change from mine to pine?

Yes, we need to change the first sound.

And what letter represents the sound that we hear at the beginning of pine?

The P. Yes, letter P makes the P sound.

So let's change mine to pine and write the sounds as we hear them, ready?

P-I-N-E. Let's check our sounds.

P-I-N-E, pine, well done.

This time builders we are going to add one letter to make the word spine.

If you feel in the middle of your back right here that is your spine, can you feel your spine?

Great, say spine.

Now, let's listen for the sounds we hear in spine.

S-P-I-N-E. S-P-I-N-E, spine.

Which sound do we need to add to go from pine to spine?

Yeah, I hear a S at the beginning.

What letter represents the S sound?

You've got it, that's letter S. So let's write down what we hear to change pine to spine.

S-P-I-N-E, spine.

Now let's point and check.

S-P-I-N-E, spine.

Great job and guess what?

Here's one of our beginning blends we worked on the sp.

So to say it fast, when you're reading a word like this, you could go sp-ine, spine.

Okay.

We've made spine and guess what?

Now we're going to remove or take away one letter from spine to make the word spin.

Let's all get up and spin around, ready?

Spin.

What letter do you think we'd take away so that we can make it into spin from spine?

Yes.

We need to take away the letter E. Here's the difference that I hear it's right in the middle.

I hear n it instead of an eye, like in spine, let's take away the E so that I can say n. Let's write the sounds that we hear in spin.

Here we go.

S-P-I-N, spin.

Let's check the sound in our words, S-P-I-N, spin.

Great work with the word spin.

We're doing so much word building.

Now we're going to change, spin into the word spun.

We all just spun around that happened in that past.

So we'd say spun, say spun.

Great job saying spun.

Now let's listen for the sounds in spun.

S-P-U-N, spun.

Where do you hear a difference from spin to spun?

I hear a difference in the middle too.

Instead of an I, I hear an U, what letter represents the U sound?

Yes that's letter U, U makes the U, U sound.

Let's write spun, here we go.

Let's make sure that we write and say the sounds as we write.

S-P-U-N, spun.

The next word we're going make is the word stun.

When something happens that you don't expect it might stun you.

Stun, can you say stun?

Okay, let's listen for the sounds stun.

S-T-U-N, stun.

Which sound do you hear that we need to change?

To change spun to stun.

I hear a t in stun too, what letter represents the t sound?

Yes, letter T let's write the word stun, here we go.

S-T-U-N, stun.

And look it has that beginning blend st. Let's check those sounds and let's blend the st together.

Ready?

S-T-U-N, stun.

This is it, the last word in our word ladder.

That's actually related to the daytime sky.

We've been talking about.

Think you can guess what it is.

The very last word in our word ladder today is the word sun.

The sun was shining bright, sun.

Can you say sun?

Okay, let's listen to the sounds in sun.

S-U-N, sun.

What letter do we need to take away to go from stun to sun?

We don't need a t in sun, we need to take that away.

So let's take out what letter that represents the t, letter T. Let's take that out to change stun into sun, here we go.

S-U-N, sun.

Let's check our sounds.

S-U-N, sun.

Wow, we went from wind to sun, all within our word ladder, using what we know about letters and about sounds.

And having a lot of time to practice what we've been learning about our blend of nd at the end, our blend of sp at the beginning and our blend of st.

Excellent job Word Builders.

(gentle music) Hello, amazing learners I'm Ms. Rodgers.

Today we will write a short book.

We will use some of the ideas that we learned in some of our previous lessons to help us as we write.

We have learned all about day and night sky, the seasons, and how to observe or to look closely at the sky by using our senses.

So we're going to put it all together and write a short book about the night sky in the seasons.

We're going to think about and write about each season and what we see, hear and feel during the nighttime.

Let's get started.

So I have 'Nighttime Sky in the Seasons, by Ms. Rodgers' On the board I have my four pages that I will put together at the end to make my book.

Now, the first season that I'd like to start with is spring.

So in spring, it's pretty warm outside, and a lot of things are happening, but in a nighttime sky what do I see?

How about I use my Venn diagram to help me to remember.

Oh, I see stars, stars that are twinkling and shining brightly in the sky.

So I'm going to write stars.

I see st, my st blend, stars.

I see stars.

Now I'm wondering, what am I hearing in the spring?

Well, we already said that in the spring, the weather gets warmer, but something extra special happens too, frogs start coming out of hibernation and they start looking for a mate and we hear that peeping sound.

So I'm going to write I hear frogs.

Frogs I hear frogs.

So I have what I see and hear but I'm wondering what do I feel?

♪ Rain drops keep falling on my head ♪ (Ms. Rodgers laughs) So we can feel rain, it rains a lot in the spring.

So I'm going to write the word rain.

Okay, so we're done with spring.

Now we're going to move into our next season which is summer.

Now we know that in the summer, the weather gets really warm.

It's the hottest season that we have.

So in summer I like to look at the sky and I see flickering lights that move.

What do you think those are?

No, not cars.

(Ms. Rodgers laughs) Not car lights, they are fireflies.

And I also have that on my Venn diagram.

So I'm going to write I see fireflies and fireflies again is a special word, because it's a compound word, two words put together to make one word.

So I have fire and then the word flies.

I see fireflies.

Now I'm wondering what I can hear in the nighttime.

Crickets, now they're really loud during the nighttime.

So I'm going to write I hear crickets.

Now I have what I see, what I hear now I feel in the summer it's usually pretty hot, like we said before, but it gets cooler at the night in the nighttime.

So sometimes we might feel a nice breeze.

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

So we're gonna write breeze.

Okay, so we have spring, summer, now we're going to move into our next season which is fall.

Now the weather is starting to get a little cooler and also in fall it's a little different because we sometimes get to see the harvest moon.

Well, what's the harvest moon?

The harvest moon is when the moon may seem bigger and brighter than any other time.

And that's because the moon is closer to the horizon and the location of the moon gives the illusion or makes it appear larger, despite not being any bigger than the other full moons.

Now the harvest moon may also look like it's orange instead of that beige or yellow color and that's okay.

It's really interesting to see.

And again, that's also because it's closer to the horizon and our eyes see its reflection as orange.

So there you have it.

So we have the moon and we also have that on our Venn diagram when we were planning.

So I'm going to write in fall I see the moon.

Also in the fall the wind is blowing and I think sometimes we may hear the rustling of leaves falling, usually because they're drying out a little bit.

So they sound kind of crunchy when they fall and when you step on them or when you jump on them.

I'm getting so excited about leaves.

So how about we just say I hear leaves.

(Ms. Rodgers laughs) So I'm gonna write for leaves.

Your story can be as much fun as you would like it to be.

So I hear leaves.

All right so the next thing I want to say is what do I feel?

Well, when I think about those leaves rustling and falling down what's causing it to happen?

The wind, the wind.

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

I feel the wind.

Now our final season is winter.

So in the winter, we know that it's the coldest season that we have, right?

So it's gonna be a little different from some of the things that we may see.

So I'm going to say in winter I see, I don't see any rain anymore like here in the spring.

I don't really see the fireflies or feel the rain or see the fireflies but I do see snow.

So I'm gonna write snow.

Snow.

Now I hear what?

What can we hear in the wintertime?

I'll give you a hint.

This animal makes the woohoo, woohoo, woohoo sound.

Yes, an owl.

I hear an owl.

That means it's just one.

but sometimes we may hear more than one.

So I hear an owl.

Now, the last thing we want to write is feel, so what do we feel in a winter time, during the night time sky?

What do you think?

I'll give you a hint the weather's changing and it's, it's cold.

So how about we write I feel the air or cold air.

How about I'll just write I feel the air and then we're gonna do something really special with that next time.

I feel the air.

So there we have it.

We have in spring, in summer, in fall, in winter.

We have pages that we can put in our book for our 'Nighttime Sky in the Seasons' Nice work writers.

Thanks for helping me to write a book about, 'Nighttime Sky in the Seasons' You did a great job with your observations of the nighttime sky, using your sense of sight, your sense of hearing and your sense of feeling.

Excellent, excellent, excellent.

- [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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