(cheerful music) - Good morning boys and girls.

And welcome back to the Room Nine the region's largest classroom.

It is Dr. Sanders and I am here to teach you a little ELA and math to all of my pre-K students.

Hello, pre-K students.

But remember what do always say it doesn't matter if you're two or 102, you can have some fun, F U N, fun.

You'll have fun while learning.

I work at Adams Elementary in the St. Louis Public Schools and I am ready to get started.

Are you ready?

Yes, yes, yes I love to hear that you are ready.

Let me take off my hat and a mindful moment.

A mindful moment.

You know sometimes you just need a big stretch with a big sound.

So sometimes you just have to go, (growling) you know, you do that a couple of times.

(growling) All right, let me try one more time.

Just stretch as far as you can go.

Oh, stretch.

Oh, that makes you feel like it wakes you body upside.

How about you give it a try.

Give yourself a big stretch.

I'll make the noise soon.

(growling) All right.

One was big stretch.

(silence) (growl) All right.

And that's a mindful moment, boys and girls.

What we are going to do is we, this week we are celebrating a special holiday and that day is Veterans Day.

It's a day that we celebrate members of our military, which include the Army, the Navy, the Coast Guard, the Marines and the Air Force.

That's right, so hopefully this week I'll have some, some soldiers I know who I'm celebrating as veterans, but what I want you to do is how about you, if you know a soldier or you have a picture of a soldier, how about you share yourself like taking a selfie with that picture or with that soldier and share it on Nine PBS.

We would like to send a shout out to all of our veterans and we love you.

So take a, take a selfie, whatever you want to do and posted on Nine PBS, it'll be amazing to celebrate all of our veterans.

Let's take a look at our, what it is, our names for today.

All of our names are branches of the military branches of the military.

This is the Coast Guard, everybody say Coast Guard, C-O-A-S-T G-U-A-R-D Hey coast guardians or Coast Guard, members of the Coast Guard.

C-O-A-S-T G-U-A-R-D. And this one is the Air Force.

Hey air man, air women.

Let's spell Air Force, capital A-I-R capital F-O-R-C-E A-I-R F-O-R-C-E. Hey, members of the Air Force and the Marines.

Everybody say the Marines.

Or the Marine Corps.

But we, we always say to Marines, capital M- A, what letter is this?

A capital M, what letter is this R, let's spell Marines.

Capital M-A-R-I-N-E-S- M-A-R-I-N-E-S. And they should know the Marine Corps also has a birthday on November 10th.

That's the Marine Corps birthday.

And whose name is this?

I mean, what name is this?

This is the Army.

Hey all my veterans or soldiers in the Army.

What letter is this?

A capital A, what letter is this?

A M, let's spell Army, read it.

Let's spell Army capital A-R-M-Y capital A-R-M-Y.

And the Navy, this is the Navy.

Hey, Navy ship men.

What letter is this?

A capital N what letter is this?

A V Let's spell Navy.

Capital N-A-V-Y N-A-V-Y.

Hey, my soldiers and veterans of the Navy.

Boys and girls they're very important to help protect and take care of us.

I have a niece that's in the Air Force and I also have a niece that's in the Navy and they are helping take care of, make sure that we have freedom over here in the United States of America.

Everybody say U-S-A U-S-A oh, sorry U-S-A.

Let's take a look at our word for the week.

Let's take a look at our words for the week.

What word is this?

Bus, everybody say bus.

What letter is this?

A U.

What letter is this?

A B.

And what letter is this?

An S Let's spell bus.

Bus, B-U-S, bus.

I am going to ride the bus to go to the store, the bus to go to the store.

And am I, I bet my bus is gonna be this color.

What word is this?

Blue, everybody say blue.

What letter is this?

A U.

What letter is this?

E B L, let's spell blue.

Blue, B-L-U-E, blue.

I'm gonna write a blue bus to the store.

And what word is this?

This is a number word.

Some of you may be this age.

Two.

What letter is this?

T O W, let's spell two.

Two, T-O T-W-O T-W-O I almost made a mistake didn't I?

This is another number word.

What word is this?

Five.

Let's spell.

Five, we're gonna read it.

Five, spell it, F-I-V-E, five.

I am only five years old on Wednesday.

And what word is this?

Love.

Ah, show me a heart.

Ah.

Love.

What letter is this?

L what letter is this?

E what letter is this?

V and what letter is this?

O, let's spell love.

Love, L-O-V-E, love.

I love that you all are watching me on Room Nine.

I was thinking about the word love in the month of November.

And we talked about giving thanks, thanks to our soldiers, but we also should give thanks to everyone.

What do you thankful for?

I'm thankful for so much stuff and celebrate being thankful.

Celebrate being thankful.

And we'll talk about that all this month, but right now you have been sitting a little time, a long time, a short time and I didn't go over our objectives for the week did I?

Ooooh, don't tell nobody, but I'll go over them now.

And ELA, we will practice pre reading skills and sequencing which means talking about the beginning and middle and end of a book.

And in math, we will develop geometric reasoning by creating new patterns.

Develop geometric reasoning by creating new patterns.

So let's get started.

Everybody stand up jump up and down 10 times go.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

All right raise the roof for seven go.

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

Roll your shoulder.

Raise your shoulders up for five go.

One, two, three, four, five.

Hands out forward for seven go.

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

Arm circles backwards for five go.

One, two, three, four, five.

Hit the floss.

You gotta do the floss.

That's when you move your hands back and forth.

Oh, show me.

All right, we're gonna hit the floss for five, go.

One, two, three, four, five.

Man some of you dance better than me.

That's okay though.

I can sing better.

(singing) Maybe not, can't do that either.

All right raise the roof.

Sit down on three.

One, two, three.

Up, down, up, down, Sit right down on the floor, on the ground or in your seat, wherever you are, just move a little slow, but don't jump on the couch, please don't jump on the couch, You'll get Dr. Sanders in trouble.

Hmm.

Beginning, middle, and end.

That's sequence.

That's sequence, sequence means beginning, middle, end.

What happens at the beginning?

So what happens at the beginning of the show?

This show right here, what happens at the beginning?

Dr. Sanders always has on a what?

A hat and he says, hi.

He says (indistinct) you too.

Two or 102 we can have some F-U-N fun.

And then in the middle.

We do a little dancing or move into just to get, get ourselves jumping all around.

And then at the end, we spell our favorite word, right?

That's the beginning, middle and end.

And books, a lot of times they have beginning, middles and ends.

So we're gonna read this book today.

It's called "The Thingity-Jig."

'The Thingity-Jig."

Hmm "The Thingity-Jig" Interesting.

Do you have, have you ever had a thingity-jig?

You have, what is a thingity-jig?

I don't know either.

This is the what front cover.

This is the spine.

This is the back cover.

And the author of this book is Kathleen Doherty.

The author does what?

the author writes the words in the story.

Thank you for answering in a sentence.

The author writes the words and it's illustrated by Christina Linton, Linton.

What does the illustrator do?

The illustrator draws the pictures.

"The Thingity-Jig."

And I am reading this with permission from Peachstreet Publishing.

And this is the title page.

So as you listen I want you to think what happens at the beginning.

What happens in the middle and what happens at the end.

"The Thingity-Jig."

One night under the light of a silvery moon, all of Bear's friends were deep asleep, but Bear wasn't sleepy.

He wanted to play.

So he wondered off to find some fun in people town.

Tap, poke, sniff, Bear nosed around until he found.

A thingity-jig.

It looked friendly.

Bear plop down on his lap.

Bingity, bing, boing.

The thingity-jig was a springy thing.

A bouncy thing.

A sit on it, hop on it, jump on it thing.

Bear hurried home to tell all of his friends.

What did Bear find?

Yeah, a couch.

"Wake up, wake up I found something fun a bouncy springy thingity-jig."

Rabbit opened one eye.

"Really," "This thingity-jig will be sitting on, this thingity-jig will be sit on it, hop on it, jump on it fun," said Bear "And I need help bringing it home."

"Not now Bear," Fox yawned, (yawned) "We're sleeping."

"Wait till morning," said raccoon, but Bear wasn't sleepy.

He wanted to play.

So he took matters into his own paws.

He bring the thingity-jig home all by himself, but how, it was too heavy to carry, too hard to push, but not too big to roll.

Smack, wallop, whack.

Under the light of the silvery moon, Bear went to work.

He clinked and clank until he built, A rolly-rumpity.

A rolly-rumpity.

It was a draggy thing, a pulley thing, a pack it up heap it up, loaded up thing.

It was just what Bear needed to wheel home the thingity-jig.

But Beat found it impossible to lift the thingity-jig onto the rolly-rumpity.

He dashed home, "Wake up!

Wake up!

I need your help.

Then we'll climb and jump."

"Jump" Rabbit, wiggled her nose.

"I like to climb" Fox rub his eyes.

"But right now, I need to sleep" Raccoon groaned.

"Rest first, jump later."

But Bear wasn't sleepy he wanted to play.

So, smack, wallop, whack.

Under the light of the silvery moon Bear fiddled and whittled until he built a lifty-uppity.

it was a bootsy thing, a hoisty thing, a pick-it-up, raise-it-up, jack-it-up thing.

That's cool, did you see it?

Bear managed to haul the thingity- jig onto the rolly-rumpity.

Yippiddy-doo!

Yippee-doo!

Things were working out.

But on his way back, Bear took the zigzag way and the rolly-rumpity got stuck in the mud.

Bear ran home.

"Wake up!

Wake up!"

Bear, shout it.

"I need your help, then we'll bounce and hop."

"I liked the hop!"

Rabbit flicked her ears.

"Maybe when the sun comes up" Fox leaned back and stretched "Go away, Bear" griped Raccoon.

Bear had to play.

Nothing could get in his way.

He wanted the thingity-jig and he wanted it now, so smack, wallop, whack.

(making cutting noises) Under the light of the silvery moon, Bear thunked and whacked and thwacked to build, A pushy-poppity.

It was quite the contraption.

Bear use the pushy-poppity to free the lifty-uppity that raise, that raised the rolly-rumpity.

That wheeled the thingity-jig all the way home.

At daybreak, Bear flumped the thingity-jig down with a loud (clapped) thump.

His friends set up with a start.

They stared at the thingity-jig and it stared back.

"This is a thingity-jig" said bear.

"You can bounce and hop and leap and climb.

You can even do a flip-flap, springy springy.

You gave me doing flip-flap, springy-dingy flop."

His friends jumped to their feet.

"Whoopee!

Let's bounce and hop!"

said Rabbit.

"And leap and climb!"

said Fox.

"And springy-ding flop!"

said Raccoon.

Springity, sproing, Whee!

Bear clapped and cheer, "My turn, my turn."

"We need more time," begged Rabbit Bear waited and watched.

He shifted from one foot then the other, "Just a little longer," said Fox.

Bear let out a big (roar) Look at what they're doing to the thingity-jig.

What are they doing to the thingity-jig?

"It's my turn."

"Okay, okay," said Raccoon.

"We'll get off."

"Thank you," said Bear.

And he flopped down on the thingity-jig.

Bingity, bing, boing.

Under the light of a golden sun Bear curled up in the arm of the thingity-jig.

Snorty (snoring sound) Snore.

So what happened to Bear at the end, he went to what?

He went to sleep.

Throughout the book, in the beginning of the book, whoa, whoa, whoa what happened?

Bear couldn't sleep so he went and found a what?

Not the couch, what was it called?

The thingity-jig, Remember I told you don't jump on that couch.

And then in the middle he had the, what did he, what happened?

Yes, he had to build all of that stuff.

He had to build all of this stuff to get the thingity-jig home.

And at the end they played and went to sleep.

All right boys and girls, so that was "The Thingity-Jig."

Now, it's time.

Have you ever built a thingity-jig?

You should show me a thingity-jig or a whoppity-whop or a fidgidy-fig or a a rolly-rumpity that you build and share it with me.

Here we go we're gonna do some counting.

We are going to count from zero to 100 by ones from zero to 100 by ones, are you ready?

Here we go.

We only need three bubbles here we go.

Zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, Do it in a real low voice, a whisper.

(whispering) 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.

Loud voice 51!

52!

53!

54!

55!

56!

57!

58!

59!

60!

Really fast 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70.

Regular voice, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 Regular voice.

81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90 Low then loud.

91, 92, 93, 94, 95!

96!

97!

98!

99!

100!

We're gonna do blast off, here we go.

Subtraction 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

Blast off!

Now boys and girls, we have had so much fun today.

It's time to spell our favorite word.

And what's our favorite word?

(beeping noise) Nine!

Nine, let's spell nine, nine, N-I-N-E, nine, thank you for being in Room Nine, bye bye.

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