♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and the games you play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music) - Hey, happy Friday, third graders.

It's Mrs. Nix, I'm so excited to be here to help support you to become amazing thinkers, readers and writers.

And it's Friday, are you so excited?

I know I am.

All right, so, I've got a couple of things I wanna talk about.

First, there are these awesome activity books and we're giving them away for free.

All you need to do, see that address that's down below?

Just send me a note.

You can tell me something you've been learning here in our PBS classroom.

Something you've been learning in your classroom, or maybe, just maybe, it's something that you've got planned for this awesome summer vacation that is coming up.

All right, so, besides, it's super hard to see what these on, you guys are green anymore, yay.

The other thing that I wanna talk about are books, because summer vacation is a great time to start reading all of those fun and exciting books.

And so even if your school library is closed, you can still check out your books from your local county library.

And then finally, here in Fresno Unified, we use the app called Sora.

And it's totally free for our students.

And if you've been checking out books from Sora here in Fresno, we do a countdown of the top five schools that have checked out the most books.

And I wanna do a quick shout-out because today we get to announce who is in that most coveted position of first place.

So let's check it out.

What do we have on the board today for first place?

Heaton Elementary, great job.

Yay, Heaton, we are so proud of you and all of your books that you've been checking out, keep it up.

All right, so, as you're thinking to yourself, how do I get my school on the shout-out board?

Super easy, check out your books on Sora, and we'll have five new schools to do a little quick shout-out next week.

Okay, it's Friday, let's talk about those three things that we are going to practice today.

We are gonna talk about some r-controlled vowel team syllables.

We're gonna talk about suffixes, and finish up with context clues.

Okay, so to warm up those super smart muscles that we've got, our brains, let's look at those high frequency words and read them together.

Now, I know you've been practicing them all week long, and how many of you were thinking to yourself, Mrs. Nix, I can even spell them now?

Great jobs, keep it up.

That's showing responsibility on your learning success.

All right, let's read them together.

You want to race?

Okay, let's do it.

Its, jump, just, keep, kind, know, laugh, light, long, live and live.

Excellent job, sid you beat me?

Of course you did, you're amazing.

All right, we're gonna look at those last two words.

We've got long, L O N G, and then live, L I V E, is the same as live, right?

It's one of those where we need to use our context clues to figure out how to pronounce it 'cause it's spelled the same way.

Helped me out, today I've got all three sentences because I've got live and live written on cards.

All right, let's look, where do you, have you ever been to a, concert?

And your hair has gotten so, all right, so I'm gonna say your hair has gotten so live would be kind of creepy, right?

So, I'm gonna say that our hair has gotten so long and maybe during COVID your hair has gotten exceptionally long too because the barber has been closed, it happens.

Okay, how about these?

Is it gonna be pronounced live or live?

Because that's all that I have left, so let's look and see if we can figure it out.

Where do you, do we say live or live?

Where do you live?

Good, and have you ever been to a live concert?

Or a live concert?

Good job, live would be correct.

Wonderful job.

Okay, we're gonna switch gears, we're gonna talk about some syllables.

Now, just a reminder, every syllable in a word has one vowel sound, one vowel sound.

So, today we're talking about r-controlled vowel teams, so just to remind ourselves what an r-controlled vowel team, it's when an R is followed by a vowel such as A R, E R, I R, O R, and U R. So, let's look at what this might look like in a word.

We've got a couple of them up here to talk about.

So we've got author, so au is a vowel sound.

It's the A U, so we know that that's one sound.

And then we see the r-controlled vowel right here, the O R, so how many syllables are we gonna have?

Two, so we've got au thor, au thor, just like that, excellent job.

Here's another one, we've got the I, and we've got, do you see that r-controlled vowel?

Yep, that E R, so we've got er, so we've got sis ter, sis ter, awesome job.

Okay, so let's pull this back over, 'cause we're gonna practice a little bit with suffixes.

Now, suffixes, and I've got this little stack over here because all week long, we've been practicing going through some flashcards and we're just training our brains to see these small chunks of words that are found at the end of a word.

We're just training our brains so that when we come to a word where it looks like it's really, really long, we're gonna look at this and say, "I know how to read that, that says, ness."

Okay, good, let's go through them, less, ous, ful, ly, and then were back to ness.

So all of those are examples of suffixes, you simply keep them on a little key ring and you can practice them in the car, you can practice them while you're at the grocery store waiting for your adults to be able to to check out, just something to do, right?

Okay, so, looking at remembering prefixes are found at the beginning of words, we have our base word or our root word here in the middle, they stand alone.

And then our suffix is at the end.

And we've got two suffixes that we're talking about this week, able, which means able to or able, I guess this is how it looks like.

So, if I've got the base word, adjust, well able means that I'm able to adjust it.

So the word, when I stick it together, look at it, adjustable, adjustable, say that with me, adjustable.

Good, so then we've got the base word agree.

And I'm gonna add the suffix ment which is an act of doing something, so, we can agree and maybe we even have an agreement, an agreement that's the active agreeing, right?

Okay, awesome job.

So, when we go through and practice this, here's what it might be look like when you work on it with your teacher.

So up at the top, we're talking about those r-controlled vowel teams, and remembering that every syllable has one vowel sound that the r-controlled vowel team can create that one sound.

And it is called an r-controlled vowel syllable.

Okay, here we go.

Read each sentence, underline the word with an r-controlled vowel syllable, and then we're gonna circle the r-controlled vowel syllable.

Here we go, so we're looking for words with the r-controlled vowel here.

So, she put the canned fruit in the cool cellar.

Ooh, yes, how many of you saw that?

Right there, cellar has an r-controlled syllable.

So what is that r-controlled vowel syllable?

We know that we're gonna split it right between those Ls, so that L A R is our r-controlled vowel syllable.

Okay, here we go, let's look at this next one.

The author read from his new book.

Okay, right here, what do we see?

Author, author has an r-controlled vowel.

I think this was our practice word today, right?

Au thor, so thor, right there is our r-controlled vowel syllable.

Last one, I hope to go to the skating rink later.

I see it, later has an r-controlled vowel, and so what do we have?

T E R is our final syllable, great job.

Okay, let's look down practicing some of those suffixes.

We've got able or able, and ment.

So, able means that we are able to, ment mean the act of doing something.

It says, read the words with the Latin suffixes able and ment in the box, match a word from the box to each meaning below, and write the word on the line.

We're not gonna use all of the words.

Okay, that's great.

Let's look through, what do we have in the box?

Adorable, enjoyable, agreeable, encouragement.

But look at these, all of these suffixes at the end make it so that I can read the words a little bit better.

We're chunking it out.

Okay, able to be adored is adorable.

You got it.

Oops, adorable, good, so here it is.

An act of encouraging is, an act of encouraging is, encouragement, encouragement, and I'm gonna keep that E, there we go.

And able to be enjoyed is enjoyable, enjoyable, there we go, just like that, excellent job.

Third grade, it's time for us to finish out our last little bit.

We're gonna talk about our context clues.

We've been steadying about bees a little bit this week and all of the things that are happening to our bees.

And I have one more fact that we're gonna find out about them and find some context clues.

So, the word germs, if I don't know what the word germs is, my author is giving me some clues, help me find them.

Let's go through and let's read it.

New unknown germs, or tiny living things that can cause disease may also play a part in getting bees sick.

A lack of food and water is also a problem for bees.

Okay, so germs, what do we think germs mean?

Well, look what our author did for us.

Do you see that comma right there?

And it's followed by the word or that's a direct way for an author to tell us exactly what germs mean.

Therefore giving us a definition.

Or tiny living things that can cause disease.

So, I'm gonna underline it for us so we can kind of see it right there, 'cause that's our evidence.

When I looked down below, is it a lack of water and food?

Nope, is it unknown things?

Nope, it is tiny living things that can cause disease.

So, my author did an awesome job of giving me some clues so that I can make sure that I know what the word germs mean.

It's Friday, I'm so excited that you hung out with me all week long.

We had an awesome time, we talked about r-controlled vowel teams, suffixes and context clues.

I can't wait to see you back here next week and maybe we'll have some new things to learn.

Have a safe and wonderful weekend.

I'll see you back here on Monday, take care, 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 ♪ (upbeat music)