(playful music) - Good morning, boys and girls.

Welcome back to Room 9.

I hope you're ready to have a good time in the region's largest classroom with Dr. Sanders.

I'm here to teach you a little pre-K and K ELA and math, but, and like I always say, it doesn't matter if you're two or 102, you can have some fun!

F-U-N, fun!

Remember, I work at Adams Elementary in St. Louis public school district.

Let's get this party started!

I mean, this work.

I mean, this fun started!

Let me first start by taking off my hat today.

Put it over there.

And let's take a look at our objectives that we are working on this week.

Students will recognize characters in books, and compare using greater than, less than, or equal to.

We are going to start off by looking at some letters and their sounds.

I will make the sound.

You tell me the letter.

I, I, I, I, I.

It's a vowel.

What letter makes that sound?

The I, you are correct!

The letter I!

What two sounds does it make it?

"Eh," and "Ai", you are right.

What letter makes the "S" sound?

Like, sizzling sausage.

Yes, the letter S!

You are correct!

The letter S makes the "S" sound.

Like, Sanders!

And what letter makes this sound?

What sound does this letter make?

(laughing) You're right.

It makes the "Duh" sound.

D, like in dog or door or daughter.

That's right, or donuts.

Who likes donuts?

Woohoo, and what sound does the U make?

"Uh", yes, or?

"Uh", or "you".

It makes two sounds because it's also a vowel, like an umbrella or a ukulele.

(scatting) That's like a ukulele.

All right, let's take a look at some of our names that we're gonna work on for today and tomorrow.

Whose name is this?

Yes.

That's Jeremiah's name.

Hi, Jeremiah.

Let's spell Jeremiah.

J-E-R-E-M-I-A-H. J-E-R-E-M-I-A-H. Hi, Jeremiah.

And whose name is this?

That's right.

That is Ace's name.

Hi, Ace!

Let's spell Ace.

A-C-E. A-C-E. Hi, Ace.

And... Whose name is this?

Yes.

That's Emersyn's name.

Hi, Emerysn.

Let's spell Emerysn.

Capital, E-M-E-R-S-Y-N. E-M-E-R-S-Y-N. Hi, Emersyn.

And who's name is this?

Mason.

Hi, Mason.

Let's spell Mason.

M-A-S-O-N. M-A-S-O-N. Hi, Mason.

And whose name is this?

Yes, that's Adarah's name.

I know Adarah.

Her daddy sent her name in.

Let's spell Adarah.

A-D-A-R-A-H. A-D-A-R-A-H. Hi, Adarah!

All right, boys and girls.

Let's look at our words that we've been working on.

Some of these sight words.

They may be a little hard, but if we practice them over and over and over, we'll learn how to read them.

Are you ready?

Me too.

Here we go.

Away.

Big.

Came.

Let's spell "came".

Came, C-A-M-E.

Came.

Down.

Eat.

Funny.

Good.

Help.

Into.

Just.

Let's spell "just".

J-U-S-T. Know.

Let.

Now.

Let's spell "now".

Now, N-O-W. Now.

Old.

Quit.

Soon.

Think.

Under.

Very.

Who.

Your.

Zip!

Zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, zip.

Zip!

That's right.

Those are some words that we have been working on and we're gonna learn.

Another thing this week, we were talking about black authors.

We were talking about black authors.

It's the Black History Month.

Yesterday, we read a book by Mikey Wren, which is a local black author, who's only, he was very young, and he wrote a book when he was like 11 years old, and we also read another book on Monday from a St. Louis author.

The bunny rat mom, the tale of the bunny rabbit book.

And yesterday, we were talking about characters, right?

And yesterday, our character was.

We'll talk about that in a second.

All right.

So what I want you to do, what I want you to do is, I know you've been sitting a long time, just a little while, but so what I want you to do is please stand.

Nope.

Yeah, please stand.

All right, jump up and down five times.

Go!

One, two, three, four, five.

Cabbage backs, three times, go!

One, two, three.

Do the arm circles, 10 times, go!

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

Backwards, go!

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

Raise the roof seven times!

Go!

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

Put your arm in front of you.

Put it across your front.

We're going to stretch.

Don't hurt yourself.

Count to 10, go!

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

Your other arm in front of you.

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

All right, raise your shoulder three times.

Go!

One, two, three.

All right, 10 jumping jacks, go!

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

All right.

Let's sit down on three!

One, two, three!

Up, down, up, down.

Sit right down on the ground!

On a chair, on a seat, on the floor, wherever you gotta go.

You ready?

Are you sitting?

Here we go.

Yesterday, I read this book, and my puppets told me, my finger puppets, Yellow and Blue came and said, "Dr. Sanders, guess what you did?

You told those kids the wrong character in the story."

And I thought about it, and I read that book a couple other times, and I guess I didn't think about who the character was.

"Biz is a Wiz," by Mikey Wren.

"Biz is a Wiz," and let's talk about it.

This is the what?

Spine.

This is the what?

Back cover.

This is the... Front cover, and this is?

The title of the book, and I'm reading this with permission from St. Louis Black Authors of Children's Literature and Mikey Wren.

Remember, he's from St. Louis.

He went to Jennings in the Jennings School District.

Shout out to Jennings.

Anyway, on this first page, he said, "I want to start a business but I don't know how.

My name is Biz.

Hi, my name is Biz and I will show you how.

Biz is a wiz."

Now, sometimes people make mistakes, right?

Who do you think Biz is?

I think that's Mikey.

Yes, the computer bag or the bag is Biz the Wiz, right?

Yes, and yesterday, I told you that Mikey was Biz the Wiz.

No, Mikey just made the biz.

He made the business, right?

And Biz the Wiz taught them how to make a business.

So I'm gonna read.

Again, we make mistakes and I went back and said, okay, so I'm going to read this book again, and tell you who the right characters are.

So in this book, Biz the Wiz is a computer bag, the business bag, and Mikey is who he's talking to.

Okay?

See, even the best of us make mistakes.

"I want to start a business, but I don't know how.

My name is Biz.

I will show you how.

Biz is a wiz.

First, let's start with a business plan.

Get your paper and pen in hand.

Biz is a Wiz."

So, Biz is talking to who?

Mikey, right?

To show him how to start a business.

Next, what is your big idea?

Make sure it is grand.

I know a great idea.

We can build a lemonade stand!

Biz is a wiz.

Now that we know your idea, who will you market it to?

Who will buy your lemonade?

Families and friends is a great answer to my question.

Ask everyone and have courage.

Do not be afraid.

Let's go get paid.

Biz is a wiz.

Now, to the store to buy some lemons, sugar, and ice.

We must not forget to check the price.

Biz... Is a wiz.

Pour the water, add the lemon, stir in sugar, and grab a cup.

Now we can put the stand up.

People are coming from left to right.

Let's fill them all up.

Biz is a whiz.

Finally, it is time to add the money we made.

Then subtract what we spent at the store.

We sold out of our lemonade.

Now it's time to make some more.

Biz is a wiz, and he's a wiz at biz.

All right, and so if we look at our two characters again, who do we have?

We have Mikey.

What did he do?

He made the lemonade stand.

And then we have who?

Biz.

What did Biz do?

Yes.

He told Mikey how to make the lemonade stand.

You are exactly right.

And yesterday, I was all wrong, right?

Do you forgive me?

Well, I hope you do.

I hope you do, but Biz is a wiz.

All right, and remember, parents, go find that book.

It's all over the place.

Go find that book in St. Louis.

Mikey Wren is the author, and maybe this summer, you can make a lemonade stand.

If you make a lemonade stand, a business, a lemonade stand, call me.

Have your parents contact me.

You know, Nine PBS.

Let me know, and I'll come by and buy some lemonade from you.

All right?

Okay.

Here we go.

It's time to do a little what?

Counting.

It's time to do a little counting.

Yes, yes, yes.

Let me put my number chart up.

My number chart up.

I hope I don't mess up.

Here we go.

We're going to count from 51 to 100.

51 to 100.

Are you ready?

Let's go.

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

Let's rap it.

Let's rap it.

61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69!

70!

Hey, hey, hey, all right.

Let's just count regular.

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

Want to sing it?

No, robot!

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

All right.

Low then high.

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

99, 100!

All right.

We're going to count from zero to 50 by two!

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.

50.

Oh, we just hit 50.

I was getting into it.

52, 54, 56, 58, 60.

All right.

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

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

Hundred, hundred, hundred.

All right.

Now we're going to count from zero to 100 by 10s.

Here we go.

0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100!

Now we're going to count backwards from 10 to zero, and when you count backwards, it's just like what?

What's that big word?

Subtraction.

You are right, so let's go.

10, 9, eight, seven, six, five, four, my hands are low, three, two, one, blast off!

Let's go to the top of the arch!

Okay, look down and wave at everybody!

Say, "Hey, everybody!"

Be careful, standing on top of the arch.

All right, come back down.

Now we're going to count from zero to 10 in Swahili.

From zero to 10 in Swahili.

Here we go.

(speaks in Swahili) You can mimic me, and what does mimic mean?

Repeat, so what I say, you say.

(speaks in Swahili) Yes, that's right, and it is amazing that Swahili is an East African language, and keep practicing, right?

Maybe I can see some videos of you doing it and maybe you can send it to Nine PBS, #NinePBS, so I can see all your beautiful videos of you counting, of you spelling words, of you listening to the book.

I don't know how it'd be a video of you listening to the book.

I guess I can see you watching the screen as you listen to the book, but having some fun.

Remember, #NinePBS, and if you want your name read, and my friend Yellow and Blue are still looking for some names.

They are very sad.

Red and Green as well.

They said my name is Red.

If you all don't give him a name, I'm going to give him a name.

Maybe I'll call him Fred Red.

If you think that's good, let me know.

I don't really like Fred Red.

Maybe...

Uh, Larson.

Does Larson sound like a good name for Red?

Maybe, we'll see.

Yellow, fellow yellow.

Nah, it rhymes, but no, maybe?

Well, let me know.

Mean green, mean.

Mean Green.

No, Blue Flew?

No, that doesn't sound good.

What about New Blue?

New, we'll call him New.

Send possible names.

That way, I can name my finger puppets, but right now, what we are going to do is greater than, less than, and equal to.

Greater than, less than, and equal to.

I'm going to put some magnets on here and I want you to tell me how you would read this.

We have the number, what?

Three, and we have the number, how many on this side?

One.

Let's see.

One, two, three.

And then we have what?

One, so which one is bigger?

Three or one?

Three.

One, two, three.

So, three is what?

Greater than.

Everybody say, "Three is greater than one."

And you see my open alligator mouth.

Gotta put some teeth.

Remember, the alligator always wants to eat the bigger number, because he's hungry.

He wants all the food.

So he always wants to eat the bigger number.

So, three is greater than one.

All right, let's try another one.

Let's try another one.

And we're going to read it from left to right like we read a book, right?

So... Let's look at this.

How many are on this side?

Let's count them.

One, two, three, four.

We have four, and you know this number by your subitizing, right?

Yeah.

That's five.

So what will we say?

Four is what?

Four is less than.

Four is less than what?

Five, because five is bigger, right?

So, when we make our little sign...

It says four is less than five.

Well, you can just say it, and remember what?

The alligator wants to do what?

Eat the bigger number.

Don't forget the teeth.

You don't have to know the middle part.

It just makes it easier to read.

All right.

Let's do another number.

You ready for another one?

Yes.

Me too.

Me too.

Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, uh oh.

Here we go.

We should know this number, right?

How many on this side?

Five.

How many over here?

Five.

Five, correct.

You are right.

So, five and five.

Is one of them bigger than the other?

No, they're both, what?

They are the same.

You are right.

So, five is what?

If it's the same, it's what?

Say, "Equal to."

Equal to.

Yep, five is equal to five.

Five is equal to five, so we don't have it.

Do we have an alligator mouth?

No, 'cause there's not one bigger.

He doesn't get to eat today.

Five and five, but he doesn't get to eat today.

All right, let's try another one.

Hm.

Let's try another one.

Let me see.

Somebody tell me some numbers.

Tell me some numbers.

Shoot me out some numbers.

Tell me a couple of numbers.

Oh, okay, okay.

All right, tell me another number.

Oh, oh, oh.

Yes, yes.

I see you.

I heard that number.

I really did hear that number, and let's look it up.

Let's see.

Let's see.

Here we go.

We might have to count them, and we have to remember, the last one we count, last part of the set, right?

So let's count these.

One, two.

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

That's six, right?

How many did we count?

Six.

That's short cardinality.

The last number set.

And let's count this one.

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

How many is it in that set?

Nine!

Which one is bigger?

Which one is greater?

That's right, nine!

So, the alligator wants to eat number nine, because nine is the greatest, right?

So we would say six is less than nine.

And guess what?

It's time to spell the word nine.

Let's spell nine.

Nine, N-I-N-E. Nine.

Thank you for being in Room 9.

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