(upbeat music) - Good morning, boys and girls, and welcome to Room 9.

The regions largest classroom.

It is Dr. Sanders and it is camp style for the summer.

And I'm going to still be teaching a little pre-K and K ELA and math, but I'm doing it camp style.

That's right.

But what do I always say?

It doesn't matter if you're two or 102, we can have some fun, F, U, N, fun!

but also we will learn something.

And during our first week what we're going to talk about is I have my objectives, have the objectives and objectives for this week is ELA.

You're going to learn main idea and recall details of non-fiction and fiction text.

And in math, you will skip count by twos and threes.

But our theme for this week is camping and critters.

So guess what, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, grownups, we are going camping today.

So we're just in the backyard.

We're just going to do a little camping in our backyard.

When you go camping, there are some things that you need.

I have some basic things that you need and that's what we're going to start with.

First, you need a tarp.

Why do you need a tarp?

Our tarp is going to be used to be put under our tent.

Then we have a tent.

We have a tent and anybody know what this is?

Yes, it's a sleeping bag.

We have our sleeping bag.

You need that to go sleeping in.

And for all of us lazy people, we may need a chair unless you can sit on the ground as well.

And then I'll show you some more things after I set up our tent.

So I'll be right back.

I'm gonna go set up the tent and then I'll be right back.

Hello campers.

As you can see, we have our tent up and we're ready to go camping.

Now we're in our backyard.

So we hear a lot of cars and stuff.

But when you're camping, you can hear different things.

If you listen carefully... (birds tweeting) Do you hear the birds?

You hear the birds.

Okay, when you go camping there are some things that you shouldn't eat.

So let's go inside the tent.

All right, I'm inside the tent.

I got my nice and lovely camp chair and I have a lantern, you know, so I'll be able to read at night while I was laying down in my camper, in my tent.

Then I have a flashlight because you never know when you want to get up in the middle of the night, do-do-do-do-do, and take a walk around or you can walk around just to see what's going on.

So it is always important to stay hydrated.

So in my cooler, and sometimes depending on where you go you'll have something to eat, right?

But always have some water.

You always gotta have some water.

Have a cooler with a little ice in it.

And I have an apple.

That's not an apple.

That's a banana.

That's a banana just in case I get hungry.

And what else you need is some bug spray.

It is important that you have bug spray and suntan lotion or sunblock, not suntan lotion, it's block, some sunblock to help your skin stay healthy.

And if you're in the middle of the summer and you're going camping, please don't wear long sleeves.

Dr. Sanders has long sleeves on but that's okay.

I can roll my sleeves up, but to protect you.

And then when it's all, when you, at the end of the night after you had so much fun throughout the day what do you think you can do?

You will lay down on your sleeping bag.

You will lay down in your sleeping bag.

So I'm going to pretend that I'm going to sleep in my sleeping bag.

Ooh.

Phew.

I'm going to get all zipped up.

Good night, boys and girls.

Oh, I'm sorry.

We still have some learning to do don't we?

All right.

Let me get out this sleeping bag and get back up.

I'll leave my hat off.

All right, let's think about what we're going to talk about.

This, what we're going to talk about.

We're talking about critters.

We're talking about camping and let's think of what is a critter?

What is a critter?

I looked it up and I was like "I don't know what a critter is" but what is a critter?

Little small animals that run around, yes, what else?

What I learned that critters are just any animal.

Even we can be critters.

Sometime I call my campers critters.

Sometimes you may be a critter but critters are anything and they're anything and everywhere.

You know what I forgot to do?

I forgot to do my friends names.

Now I have some names, but they're different names.

They're some camp names.

They're some very interesting camp names.

And I would love you to send your camp name in so then I can read it.

So let's go with our camp names.

It will say our camp names.

Here we go.

Does anybody know this word?

This is silk.

This is a camper named silk.

What letter is this?

A capital S, what letter is this?

A K, let's spell silk, silk.

S, I, L, K, silk.

I have another camper's name.

Lilac, hi Lilac.

What letter is this?

A capital L, what letter is this?

An I, let's spell Lilac.

L, I, L, A, C, L, I, L, A, C. And does anybody know this name?

This camp name is Webby.

Hi, Webby.

Let's spell Webby.

Capital W, E, B, B, Y.

Capital W, E, B, B, Y.

And this camp name is Kit Kat.

Hi Kit Kat.

Let's spell Kit Kat.

Capital K, I, T, K, A, T, K, I, T, K, A, T. Hi Kit Kat.

And we have one more camp name.

And that name is Magic.

Hi Magic.

Magic is a Doris camp name that she uses every year when she goes to camp, let's spell magic.

What letter is this?

A capital M, what letter is this?

A G, let's spell magic.

Capital, M, A, G, I, C, M, A, G, I, C. Hi, Magic.

So we were talking about critters.

Critters could be anything, any type of animal.

They could even be you.

Is that what we said, right?

They can even be you.

So this week we're going to look at some critters while we're camping or maybe we'll just look at critters inside the house.

Some of us have critters inside of our house.

Some of us have pets.

They are critters.

Some people have a sister or brother.

They could be a critter.

So what we're gonna do now, you name me a critter.

Dog, yes.

Mouse, yes.

You hear birds, yes.

Your little brother, yes.

That little critter.

Spiders, yes.

A lot of times I think about critters.

I think about a little creepy crawling things.

Correct, you are right.

There's so many different types of critters.

Draw me a picture of a critter and send it in.

Take a picture of your critter and let me see your critter.

All right.

That sounds like a plan.

So everybody, have you been sitting a long time?

Yes you have, that's right.

So everybody, I don't know if I can stand up inside the tent.

You think I can?

All right, everybody stand up.

You stand up there.

I'm going to stay inside the tent and relax.

Everybody stand up.

All right, jump up and down three times or 10 times go.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

All right.

Wave like the grass, like the tall grass for seven.

Go, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

All right, nod your head four times.

Go one, two, three, four.

Do the mosquito clap for eight times.

Go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

10 jumping jacks.

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

All right.

Smile for seven.

All right.

Look like a mouse for three.

Go one.

Or for five.

Go one, two, three.

I have some beautiful mice out there.

All right, everybody sit down four.

Go one, two, three, four, up, down, up, down sit right down on the ground or in your camping chair, or on the floor, in the seat, wherever you are.

We have a book we are going to read It is called 'About Rodents', 'About Rodents', rodents.

You know what a rodent is?

Yeah, a mouse.

Yes, a rat, yes.

Yes, because you see the cover, right?

Hmm, what are some other rodents?

I bet we'll learn about some rodents in this book.

What is this?

The front cover.

What is this?

The back cover.

What is this?

The spine.

And these words are the, what?

The title of the book.

The title of our book is 'About Rodents A Guide for Children' and the author is Catherine Sill.

And it's illustrated by John Sill.

And this book is published by Peach Tree publishing, and they actually gave me permission to read this story.

And this is the title page.

So as you're listening to the book, I want you to hear the details about what about different types of rodents.

So when we get finished, you'll be able to name or tell me the names of some rodents.

All right.

'About Rodents'.

Rodents are mammals with special front teeth that never stop gnawing.

Rodents, keep their front teeth short and sharp by gnawing on hard things.

I'm gonna go back a page.

Do anybody know what that rodent is?

What is that?

A porcupine.

A deer mouse.

Rodents live almost everywhere.

Look at these rodents.

You know the names of those rodents?

Their homes maybe under the ground.

That's a prairie dog.

On the ground in trees in water.

That's a Beaver.

Or sometimes in places where we live.

Most rodents, eat plants.

Some eat plants, insects and other small animals.

Some rodents have stretchy cheek pouches which they use to carry food to their dens.

Others hide food in different places.

Then come back for it later.

Some rodents that live in cold areas eat a lot in summer and fall.

They get fat so they can hibernate in winter.

Most rodents are small.

A few are big.

What is that?

I think a capybara.

Many rodents have short lives.

They have large families that grow up quickly to take their places.

I bet some of you have one of those in your house.

What's that?

Yes, that's a hamster.

Rodents provide food for many predators.

Rodents, and the places where they live are important and should be protected.

That's a chinchilla.

So did you learn anything about any rodents?

What's something you learned about rodents?

Yes, some are small.

What about their teeth?

They keep their teeth sharp by eating old, hard things.

Where do rodents live?

All over the place, in your house sometimes.

Yes.

Do we like them in our house?

Not unless they're our pets otherwise they get in all of our food, right?

Not my food.

I hope not.

Rodents have big cheeks.

Do they eat a lot?

Yes, in winter, they hibernate.

Hibernate means to sleep for a long time.

So they eat in the summer and fall.

They get all big and fat and then they hibernate.

I wish I could hibernate.

And then I wouldn't have to do anything in the winter.

I can just sleep all winter.

All right.

Let's do some counting.

So rodents, are rodents critters?

Yes, they are critters.

They are critters.

So let's do some counting.

I have my number chart.

And then it is right here.

And we are going to count from zero, right?

We're going to count from zero to 100 by ones.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

Let's count.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

In a deep voice.

21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.

All right, chirp like a bird.

31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.

Bark, like a dog.

41-- (laughs) (barking) 41, 42, 43, I can't do it.

44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.

Regular voice.

51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60.

Ooh, sing it.

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

Like a robot, here we go.

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

Whisper.

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

Low and then high.

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

Now we're going to count from zero to 100 by two.

Zero to 100 by two.

Here we go.

Zero, two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100.

Now we're gonna 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.

Let's count by tens now from zero to 100 by tens.

Here we go.

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

Now we're going to come from zero to 100 by 25s.

Zero, 25, 50, 55.

Oops, let's start over.

Zero, 25, 50, 75, 100.

Let's do that one again.

Zero, 25, 50, 75, 100.

Now we're going to, let's count backwards.

I'm sorry, let's count backwards.

Let's start at 10 hands up, here we go.

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

Lift off!

Where are we going?

Say hi to the campers out there and say, hi, campers.

Hi campers.

Let me put my top on my marker before it runs out of ink.

Boys and girls, we're going to do something real quick.

I want to share some...

I want to share in my tent, I had some things, some things, some critters that start crawling around and I caught them.

But not really let me get a drink of water first.

I had some critters that were walking around and I caught them.

Look, ooh.

You see my critter?

What critter is this?

It looks like a ladybug doesn't it?

Look, boys and girls.

How many legs does this critter have?

Let's count them, one.

Oh, that's not a leg.

That's an antenna.

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

This critter has six legs.

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

That makes it an insect.

Another one I found, it was flying and I caught it.

I caught it, it landed on my hand like this, just like that.

It landed on my hand.

And what critter is this?

Yes, it's a butterfly.

Let's see how many legs a butterfly has.

Let's count them.

One, two, three, four, five, six, a butterfly has six legs.

All right.

And one more.

This one was hopping and it hopped on top of my head and landed there.

And now I made it my pet critter.

This is a what?

Grass hopper.

How many legs does a grasshopper have?

Let's count them.

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

It has six legs.

All right, boys and girls, I have a lady bug, a butterfly, a butterfly, a lady bug, and a grasshopper.

Each one of them have three body parts.

So if we counted by threes as three body parts on a butterfly, he has a head a thorax and the abdomen, head, thorax, abdomen.

So that's three.

Same way with the grasshopper.

It has three body parts, head, thorax, abdomen.

That's six, nine.

Thank you for being in Room 9.

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