(upbeat music) - Good morning, boys and girls and welcome back to Room Nine.

I hope you're ready to have a good time.

I am in the largest classroom in the region and I'm here to teach you little ELA and math.

For my Pre-K and K students.

But like I always say, it doesn't matter if you're two or 102, I know you'll learn something.

But also you will have some fun, F-U-N, fun.

I work at Adams Elementary and St. Louis Public Schools and I'm ready to get started.

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

Today or this week, I'm looking for my bubble wand, it went by, oh, there it is.

My bubbles.

Let's see if they still work.

Woo lots of bubbles today.

This week, students will, in ELA you'll use rhyming words and answer simple comprehension questions.

And in math, you will understand relationships between numbers and counting.

We will talk about subitizing and cardinality.

Subitizing we'll talk more about it, but subitizing is when I show you something, you automatically know what it is.

If I was to show you that, it's one.

Cardinality is, when you count, you remember the last number that you, the last number or how many is in a set.

We'll talk about that, but let's get started with some sounds.

I'm gonna tell you the sound you tell me the letter that makes this, makes that sound.

Oh, let me take off my hat first, Adams Elementary, Dr. Sanders.

Here we go, /Zz/ What letter makes that makes that sound.

/Zz/, that's right the letter Z, Z, Z Z, zip, zip, zoo, zip, all right.

What letter makes the /Ll/ sound?

/Ll/ what letter makes that sound?

Yes, the letter L, that is correct.

And what letter makes the /Nn/?

/Nn/ What letter makes that sound?

The letter N, you are right.

And /Xx/, /Xx/, /Xx/, what letter makes that sound?

X that's right?

The letter X.

And, one more sound.

This letter makes two sounds /Aa/, and A, apple and acorn.

What letter makes that sound?

A, yes, A makes two sounds, cause it's a vowel.

It is a vowel.

All right.

Let's look at a couple of our friends names.

Whose name is this?

That's right?

That is Sabrina's name.

Let's spell Sabrina.

What does her letter name start with?

A capital S yes.

Let's spell Sabrina.

S-A-B-R-I-N-A, S-A-B-R-I-N-A.

Hi Sabrina.

And whose name is this?

Kimberly, hi, Kimberly.

Her first letter is a K. Let's spell Kimberly.

K-I-M-B, K-I-M-B-E-R-L-Y, K-I-M-B-E-R-L-Y.

Hi, Kimberly.

I think Kimberly knows this person, whose name is this?

Wesley, hi, Wesley, how you doing Wesley.

Let's spell Wesley.

W-E-S-L-E-Y, W-E-S-L-E-Y.

Hi, Wesley.

And, whose name is this?

Kurly, that's right.

I think Kimberly knows Kurly and Wesley, let's spell Kurly.

K-U-R-L-Y, K-U-R-L-Y.

Hi, Kurly.

And whose name is this?

Yes, that is Brandon's name.

Let's spell Brandon, B-R, B-R-A-N-D-O-N, B-R-A-N-D-O-N. Hi, mr.Brandon.

All right, now let's look at our words, that we have been working on, for a long time, for a long time.

These are some of our sight words.

Sight words can be hard.

Let's look at some of our words and we're going to pick a couple to spell.

Well, let's just, let's read them and then we'll spell a couple of them.

Away, came, down, eat, funny, good.

Let's spell good.

Read it.

Good, G-O-O-D, good.

Help, into, just.

Let's spell just, just, J-U-S-T, just.

Know, let, now, old, very.

Let's spell very, very, V-E-R-Y, very.

Who, your, and zip, zip.

Then we have some new words, that we're going to add this week.

And our first word is, big.

What letter is this?

G, big.

That is a big lollipop that you're chewing on.

Let's spell big, big, B-I-G, big.

What word is this?

Under, under.

Mr, Dr.Sanders is under the word.

Dr. Sanders is under the word.

Let's spell under.

Under, U-N-D-E-R, U-N-D-E-R, under.

What word is this?

Quit, everybody say quit.

Will you quit looking at Dr. Sanders on the screen?

Please quit touching your friend.

Quit, Q-U-I-T, quit.

And, what word is this?

Ooh, oh, it's upside down, sorry.

What word is this?

Soon, soon it will be time to go and you will cry.

(Dr.Sanders cries) - Soon let's spell soon, soon, S-O-O-N, soon.

♪ Soon enough ♪ Soon enough.

♪ Soon enough, we will get rough.

♪ Enough and rough.

Those are rhyming words.

Rhyming words are words that sound the same, right?

Imma give you a word.

And I want you to think about a word that it rhymes around, a word that rhymes with it.

Let's go.

Truck, buck, tuck, park.

You like hockey?

Yes, puck.

Oh, oh, duck.

Yes, if you hit the lottery, you have good luck.

Yes, all right.

You ready for a new word?

Let's give a new word.

Light, light.

Sometimes it can be bright.

When you do this with somebody you fight.

You have good eye, sight.

When you're hungry, you take a big old bite.

I should've said a very big bite, but we got big old, bite.

And if something that's real cool.

You say that was tight.

That's, old, all right.

Let's give you another word.

Hmm, hmm, clock, clock.

On your feet you wear, a sock.

Will you, when you close the door?

You got to put the key to turn the lock.

And the clock goes tic, toc.

In your area, over there, you can have a, over there and look at your classroom.

You may have, you can stack some.

You can stack a block.

A whole bunch of birds is a flock, flock, lock, block, mock, sock, talk, rock.

Ooh, don't throw that rock.

One more, book.

When you open a book, you take a look.

When you do like this, somebody said you shook.

Up chess in a, a piece in a chess game is a rook.

If you already, if you didn't take it, you if you heard the past tense of take is, took, book, took, shook, look, duke, that's a nonsense word.

Muke, look.

All right boys and girls, everyone, please, please stand.

Please stand, you been sitting a long time.

All right, jump up and down 10 times go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

Raise the roof three times, go.

One, two, three.

Nod your head seven times really slow.

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

Do the wave five times go, One, two, three, four, five.

Did I say seven?

Six, seven.

All right.

10 jumping jacks, go, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

All right, let's sit down on three, one, two, three, up, down, up, down sit right down on the ground or on the chair or on the floor or in your seat, wherever you are.

Just make sure you sitting down.

This week and this month, we're talking about black history month.

And we're celebrating black history month.

Last week, we talked all about, ooh, I get excited.

We talked all about different musicians who made music this week.

We're going to read a we're going to read a book that is based on somebody who was from St. Louis.

Her name was Annie Malone.

So the author wrote the book about Annie Malone but she made it into some great children's books that is Annie Malone's ABCs Annie Malone's, shapes.

Annie Malone's colors.

Annie Malone's numbers.

And Annie Malone was a famous entrepreneur, from St. Louis.

She built a hair care line, haircare line and have beauty schools all across the nation.

But as she was based out of St. Louis.

And so the author gave me permission to read her books.

And, so I'm going to read her books and talk about Annie Malone.

But in an entrepreneur, you know what that is?

Somebody who goes into business, by them for themselves, okay.

And we'll talk more about that.

There's a lot of entrepreneurs that do different things.

But this book is called Annie Malone's ABCs.

Annie Malone was also the first woman millionaire in the nation.

She made a million dollars.

I wish he gave me $5, but she made a million dollars.

And this is the what, front cover.

This is the what, spine, can you see the spine?

This is the back cover.

These words are the, the title of the book.

And the authors are, Dr.Chajuana Trawick, and Chauncey Trawick.

Dr. Chajuana Trawick, and Chauncey Trawick.

What do authors do?

Write the words in the story.

And it's illustrated by Thames Ellis.

And what does the illustrator do?

The illustrator draws the pictures.

Before we read the book, I really want to introduce you to her characters in her stories.

And it has all has to do with Annie Malone.

And again, I read it, reading this with permission from the authors.

Let me show you Annie Malone's characters, or the characters in his book.

We have Sydney, the skin, scalp's soap.

Then we have Patty, pressing comb.

Then we have Harry, the hair grower.

And we have Maxine the mirror.

Then we have Daniel, the deodorant.

And then we have Correta the cold cream.

They call Correta, cocoa and Maxine, and Harold was Harry, Syd is, but we're going to read about what Annie believed.

Did, the (indistinct) Annie Malone's ABC's.

Annie believed in.

A ambition.

She was ambitious, ambitious, and determined.

Annie believed in, beauty.

Her products improve beauty standards.

Annie believed in cleanliness.

She was clean and spotless.

Annie believed in dignity.

She was dignified and proud Annie believed in, entrepreneurship.

She was a successful entrepreneur.

Annie believed in, faithfulness.

She had faith and trust.

Annie believed in, godliness.

She worshiped God in truth.

Annie believed in, haircare.

She prepared hairdressing treatments.

Annie believes in, industry.

She was an industrious inventor.

Annie believed in joy.

She was happy and delightful.

Annie believed in, kindness.

She was kind and caring.

Annie believed in, loyalty.

She was loyal and honest.

Do you see the mirror?

And the pressing comb.

Yes, let me see who the other person was.

That was the cold cream.

That was Coco, Coco, the cold cream.

Annie believed in, magnificence.

Her beauty business was magnificent, magnificant, magnificent.

Annie believed in, neatness.

She was neat and orderly.

Annie believed in, opportunity.

She gave opportunities to others.

Annie believed in, proficiency.

She was a, she was effective and efficient.

Annie believed in, valuable beauty.

Annie believed in, quality.

She developed valuable beauty products.

Annie believed in, respect.

She was admired and respected.

Annie believed in, spirituality.

Her beliefs were spiritually grounded.

Annie believed in, thriftiness.

She was conservative and thrifty.

Annie believed in, uplifting.

She uplifted people and communities Annie believed in, value.

She had values and morals.

Annie believed in, wellbeing.

She promoted health and safety.

Annie believed in excellence.

She invented excellent products.

Annie believed in, youth.

She cherished children and orphans.

Annie believed in, zeal.

She was zealous about life.

That's the end of the story.

Did you like that story?

Every, every page had a different letter.

You see, you saw the letters, right?

But it talks all about Annie Malone, who was an amazing entrepreneur.

She was amazing entrepreneur, who made a lot of haircare products, beauty products to make people feel good about themselves but she gave back.

She was also, like I said, the first millionaire.

All right.

And that's Annie Malone's ABCs.

If you see Dr. Chajuana Trawick and Chauncey Trawick, you say hi.

I read your, I heard your book.

All right.

And we'll read all about Annie Malone and we'll talk about some other entrepreneurs as we go throughout the week.

All right, let's do a little counting.

You ready to do a little counting?

Let's do some counting.

Annie Malone probably had to count her money, didn't she.

She had to count that money.

Here we go.

Let's count from zero to, now let's count from 90, 91 to 100.

Are you ready?

Let's go.

91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100.

Now let's count from zero to 100 by fives.

Zero, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 100.

Let's count from zero to 100 by tens.

Zero, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 100.

Now let's count from, let's count from.

Let's count by twos.

Let's count by twos, from zero to 30 by twos.

If you look at the number chart, the twos are in yellow.

So you just got to say the numbers in yellow Here.

Two, remember we're counting by twos to 30.

All the twos are in yellow.

So you just got to say the yellow numbers and zero.

Zero, two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 30.

We stop at 30, right?

And we're missing, who took the numbers.

We miss the 16 and 26.

We got to put out a yellow on 16 and 26.

We'll do that tomorrow, all right.

Let's count from zero to 10, in Spanish.

Let's go.

Cero, uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez.

I pause there a little cause we did it backwards.

That's okay, now we're going to count backwards.

We're going to count backwards, was just like it's just like what?

Subtraction, let's go.

10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, blast off!

All right subitizing boys and girls.

Subitizing is when you just know the number.

If I put this up, you know how you know how many that is?

How many is that?

Five, you know that automatically, right?

So imma show you some cards, and can you just tell me what's that?

You should know that number.

All right, let's start with this one.

What number is, this?

You want to see it again?

You should know it without counting.

You don't have to count it.

You see, that's right.

That's the number, five.

That's the number, five.

Let's try this one.

I know, you know this one.

What number is this?

Without counting.

Just tell me.

What, yes, that's the number, one.

Now, if you have to, you can count it, and if you count it, oh, look, there's one on that side, and one on this side.

It's just one.

If you have to count it, let's look at this side.

If you have to count it, you can just say one, right?

But you don't have to count that.

What number is that, one.

How about this one?

Three, that's right.

You don't have to count it.

You just should know it.

You look at this, say, three.

That is correct.

And what about this one?

Yes, that's the number two.

Subitizing when I show you something, you say, oh I know that number.

Also one other thing, and we'll talk more about it tomorrow, is you can count.

Let's say you count them.

One, two, three.

How many do we have?

Three, that's right.

That's showing, that's cardinality in numbers, and we'll talk about that tomorrow.

But you know what time it is now?

Yes, that's right.

It's time for me to go.

But one more word we're gonna spell, nine.

Lets spell nine, N-I-N-E, nine.

Thank you for being in room nine, bye bye.

(upbeat music) - Teaching in room nine is made possible with support of Bank of America Dana Brown Charitable Trust, Emerson, and viewers like you.

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