(guitar music plays) ♪ 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.

♪ (guitar music fades) (upbeat music begins) - Which one today?

Oh, good morning third graders.

My name is Mrs. Nix.

And I am so excited to be here with you today as we become amazing thinkers, readers and writers.

Help me out though.

Today's a special day.

Today is Dr. Seuss's birthday.

Did you know that?

So I was looking at a couple of his stories and I love them both.

This one's "Oh, the places you'll go" and this one's "The Sneetches".

I love them both.

They're so much fun.

I'm gonna have to read them both, I think today.

Boys and girls, I enjoy celebrating Dr. Seuss and what a perfect time to do that is the week that we're studying poetry.

Dr. Seuss did a great job of creating that rhythm and rhyme as you're reading.

And he also had a fantastic way of making things so silly, right?

They're always so much fun.

Okay.

If you're looking to read one of these books or any of the Dr. Seuss books, super easy, you can go and check them out with your local county library or by visiting Sora.

Just search it up and you'll be able to check them out.

Now, speaking of Sora we love to celebrate our schools that are the top checkout schools in Fresno Unified.

Yesterday, we had Turner in fifth place and today in fourth place we've got Wilson Elementary.

So great job, Wilson, keep checking out those books and becoming amazing thinkers, readers, and writers.

I know you can do it.

Okay.

The other thing that I want to put a plug in for and I love to share this with my third graders is we hand out these free activity books.

So if you love doing word searches and puzzles, you're gonna see an address that's gonna pop up at the bottom of your screen.

All you need to do is send me a note.

You can tell me something that you're learning about something you've done in class, or maybe you could share your poem that we're working on this week.

And once you have it all finished up share it with me and all I'll be sure to read it.

Now you can send it to the address or you can email me, you'll see that email address but don't forget to include your return address so that I can put one of these in the mail for you.

All right, this week is all about poetry.

We're learning all about poetry.

And if you stick with me all week long, by the end of the week, you're gonna have your very own poem.

Today we're gonna go through that writing process.

We're gonna be focused in on writing a rough draft today.

So we're gonna talk about how to do that.

And then we'll close out with a little bit of grammar practice.

You ready to start?

Okay.

So you're gonna see all of our high frequency words that are written right here.

There are 50 of them because in the last five weeks we have practiced all 50 of these.

And I love to just celebrate the hard work that you've been putting in and reading all of these.

So yesterday we read the first 10, we're gonna go through and we're gonna read the second 10 together.

Are you ready?

All right.

It's a nice review.

Let's go.

Off, of, one, once, only, open, or, other, out, and our.

Nicely done.

Okay.

So, I'm gonna move this out just for a moment here, because I want us to talk about what are some features of a poem.

So what, what really makes a poem different than a story?

Well, a poem expresses feelings or ideas.

You could be sad, happy, funny, silly.

Okay.

It's often organized in lines and stanzas.

And we'll talk about that today.

It's going to use rhythm and rhyme.

That figurative language that we've been talking about using similes and metaphors.

Remember my love is like a flower, things like that.

So you're going to see things, see figurative language in poetry.

And then it also uses descriptive words.

So, thinking of those five senses those see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.

You're going to see a lot of that type of language in a poem.

Okay.

Today, we're gonna go through that writing process.

Now remember a writing process goes through these five steps.

So you've got plan, draft, revise, edit and publish.

Yesterday we talked about making a plan and I'm hoping that last night you started to think to yourself what would I want to write about in a poem.

And what kind of poem.

Do I want it to be silly, funny, sad?

So did you come up with some ideas?

Okay.

So today were gonna talk about writing that rough draft.

And I really want to tell you don't worry about it being perfect.

It's exactly that, it's just a rough draft.

You get your ideas down on paper.

So, sit down, grab that pencil or that pen that paper and start at the beginning.

And you're gonna want to introduce your central event.

So what is it that you're gonna be writing about?

And don't forget to include those sensory details.

That sight, sound, smell, touch, taste.

Okay.

Think of words that you could use.

Yesterday we talked a little bit about lines and stanzas.

So thinking about what word you're gonna end with at the end of the line to see what your pattern is going to be.

As you go through how are you gonna clump your stanzas together?

We're gonna talk about that.

That's okay.

Rhythm and rhyme.

Now rhythm is just that pattern that's formed by word arrangement.

And rhyme are when two words are similar in their ending sound.

So these are kind of some vocabulary for us.

Now, we're gonna write a couple of stanzas.

So, when you start your first stanza you need to think about and choose a rhyme scheme.

Yesterday, we talked about an, A, B, A, B, or a C, D, C, D. So you need to think to yourself do I want the first two lines to rhyme?

Do I want the last two lines to rhyme?

What is your pattern?

Maybe you're gonna use a reoccurring or you should use a reoccurring rhythm throughout your poem.

So you want it to sound like it's almost like a song.

And then think about your feelings to express.

When you go to write your second stanza, you basically are going to repeat what you're doing here in your first stanza.

You want it to have the same number of lines.

You want it to continue to use those sensory details.

You want it to follow that same rhythm and rhyme pattern.

And then finally just start writing.

Okay.

I have a draft today that I want us to look at and remember, it's not perfect because we haven't gone through and looked at the revise and edit stages.

We're gonna do that throughout the week.

So you're gonna see stuff in here and you're going to go that doesn't sound right.

And that's okay, that's what I'm showing you today.

So here is a rough draft.

Just sat down, wrote it out.

I've got some ideas.

It's about the carnival.

Okay.

Let's go through and read it with me.

The carnival.

The carnival came when I was 10, I went two times, then went some more.

A ride were spinning, called wheel and top, really long arms climb and drop.

I scrambled on to take a ride, the music played it's tunes inside.

The carnival came when I was 10, I went two times, then went some more.

Hot dogs, pretzels, apples, too.

So much fun, too much to do.

I wandered home because I was tired as the lights behind me shined and shined.

Okay.

So did all of my lines rhyme?

Okay.

Maybe not.

That's okay.

Did I get my ideas down on paper?

Cause that's the goal.

That's what we want to be able to do.

Tonight as you're sitting down and you're thinking, hmm, what am I going to write about?

Maybe it's a family vacation or a day hanging out in your room.

And you're looking at all of the things that are in your room.

It could be anything that you have details to share.

Think about how you want to share it.

Funny, sad, but start to write it.

Now, remember all of the lines are here.

You can see that.

Now these didn't rhyme but let's look right here.

I scrambled on to take a ride.

The music played its tunes inside.

That rhythm and rhyme were right there.

Then this is the second stanza.

So it's the same number of lines.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Here we go again.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

So we want to be able to repeat that pattern.

We're gonna talk about it a little bit more tomorrow but today get that draft written.

Doesn't have to be perfect.

Just like this one.

It's not perfect.

And that's okay.

All right.

Now I wanna take a little bit of time and I want to practice a little bit of grammar.

We're just reviewing some of those grammar skills that we've been doing the last four or five weeks.

And one of them was contractions.

Now, remember contractions are a shortened form of two words.

So there's an apostrophe that gets placed in the middle of the two words.

So for example "is not" becomes the word isn't.

And "has not" becomes hasn't that "o" goes away.

They all squish together to make a single word.

Now, some contractions are formed with forms of verbs, be, do, have, and not.

And these verbs usually do not change their spellings with the contraction with not.

So let's go through and let's practice some of them.

So this one is gonna have us circle the contraction in each sentence, and then write those words that form the contraction.

So let's look through and see if we can find it.

We've got, read it with me.

Tim's book isn't on the bookshelf.

Okay.

Is Tim's a contraction?

Oh, it's got an apostrophe, but you're right, It's not, it doesn't stand for "Tim is" that apostrophe actually shows possession.

Whose book does it belong to?

It belongs to Tim.

So that "s" is not a contraction.

Good job.

The word is isn't.

That's our contraction.

What two words make up the word isn't?

Yes.

Is not, nicely done.

Okay.

Can we find our contraction here?

He hasn't finished reading it yet.

Do you see it?

Yes.

Hasn't.

And what is our contract?

What two words make up the word, hasn't?

Yes.

Has, and not nicely done.

Good.

Let's go down and practice some of them that are down here at the bottom just to see.

Now this one, we just want to add the not.

So it's gonna have our verb right here but we're gonna make it into a contraction with not.

We're gonna take the place of this.

So, here we go.

Let's do this first one together.

So, I did see the parade last Saturday.

What if I put not with it?

What would be my contraction?

Yes, I didn't.

And I would just put an "n" apostrophe "t".

The marching band does practice every day.

If it does not, let's put it together.

Now we have, it doesn't practice every day.

Awesome job.

So these are some things that you can practice at home.

Because it's good review.

We wanna be good readers and writers.

So thanks for hanging out with me today as you're getting ready for school.

Remember you're responsible for your learning success.

So listen, ask the questions, and share your ideas.

Because together we can do so much more.

Tonight, practice getting that draft of that poem.

I'd love to hear it.

Have a great afternoon.

I look forward to seeing you back here at PBS tomorrow.

Take care.

Bye bye.