(playful music) - Hi friends.

Welcome back to Teaching in Room 9, our region's largest classroom.

My name is Julia.

I'm one of the second grade teachers at the Soulard School.

In here for teaching in Room 9, my lessons focus on phonemic awareness.

The smallest units of sounds that letters make.

Welcome back friends.

I'm so glad that you're able to join me here today.

I'm so happy that I get the chance to be here with you.

And I'm ready to go ahead and jump right in.

All right.

So, since it's been a little bit since we've been together, I wanna warm up your brain and review some of the things that we've learned here together already.

I say, you say print awareness.

Nice.

I say, you say parts of a book.

Yeah, you got it.

So in order for us to practice and review some of these things we've talked about, I thought we could try doing mirrors on, one of my very favorite things.

So when I say mirrors on, you are going to repeat everything I say and do until I say mirrors off.

Are you ready to try, friends?

Mirrors on.

We know that letters have sounds.

Letters come together to make a word.

Letters are consonants or vowels and vowels are short or long.

Mirrors off.

You did really well readers, I'm so proud of you.

So we've talked about all of those different ways that we can hear that long vowel sound.

We talked about how vowel teams are two or more letters that come together to make that long vowel sound.

Some of the vowel teams we talked about are ai, ay, a. Ea, ee, e. Igh, ie, i. Oa, ow, o. Ue, ew, u.

We also talked about the two sounds that oo makes.

One of them is, ooh.

The other is uh.

We talked about how magic e, it's our sign language for e, comes at the end of a word and it makes the vowel say its long, long sound.

We've talked about our friends the y twins.

And when y comes at the end of a one syllable word it says I, I, I, I, I.

When Y comes at the end of a two syllable word, it says E, E, E, E, E. And again, a syllable are those beats or sounds in a word and they are organized or formed around a talking vowel.

So magic E is a super silent vowel.

But if you hear the vowel sound that's how you figure out how many syllables.

And then last week we talked about diphthongs.

Again, they're letters that come together and it's the sound that they make and diphthongs glide like oi, oi, oi, oi, ow and aw yeah.

Nice memory friends.

So we've been focusing a lot on all of those vowel sounds and really focusing our brain on vowels.

Here's our learning goal, our objective for today.

I can know my blends.

These friends are consonant blends.

So today we are focusing on our other letters, the consonants and the way that they come together to make blends.

I can understand the blends come at the beginning or the end of a word.

I can hear both sounds in a blend.

That is one of those main differences between some of the vowel teams and the diphthongs that we've talked about.

They come together to make one sound whereas in our blends you can generally hear both sounds or all of the sounds if it's more than two.

All right, so we're going to do some ears on to practice, some of these blends but first I want to show you my chart over here.

It says recipes for blends, and here's our chef down here.

He's the blend chef.

And here is his recipe book here.

It says here ingredients, the ingredients you have are a pinch of one consonant, a dash of another.

And our directions for the recipe is step one add two consonants and blend well, blend 'em all up.

Step two, say the new sound, read and enjoy.

And then you can see so many different blends that are written on our chart here.

I've taken those blends and some other ones and I've added them to this over here.

So, and I've kind of sorted them into initial blends, ones that we'll find at the beginning of a word and final, ones that we'd find at the end of a word.

There's so many different blends out here.

So not every single one might be on here but I've tried to organize them as best as I can.

We're going to practice putting them together to make words.

All right.

Are you ready readers?

We're going to go ahead and try, mirrors on, to talk about our consonant blends.

Mirrors on.

A consonant blend is when two or more letters come together at the beginning or end of a word.

Consonant blends glide together.

But you still hear all sounds.

Mirrors off.

Nicely done readers.

So again, that's our difference between some of those vowel teams and diphthongs that we talked about so far, we can hear all the sounds that are in our consonant blends.

Okay.

So let's go ahead and take a closer look at some of these initial blends in the beginning and final blends at the end.

All right.

So we're going to do it in a little song.

We're going to look at some of these top ones here.

So we're starting with initial, our ones that are in the beginning.

So let's look at this one here, sk.

♪ One sound ss one sound kk ♪ Push them together and say sk ♪ ♪ With consonance placed side by side ♪ ♪ We blend them together in one bite ♪ Yes.

♪ One sound, ss, one sound, ll ♪ Push them together and say sl ♪ ♪ With consonants placed side by side.

♪ ♪ We blend them together in one bite ♪ Nicely done, so we did sk and sl.

This one is cr.

♪ One sound cc, one sound rr ♪ Push them together and then say cr ♪ ♪ With consonants placed side by side ♪ ♪ We blend them together in one bite ♪ Next we have gg, ll, gl.

♪ One sound gg, one sound ll ♪ Push them together ♪ And then say gl ♪ With consonants placed side by side ♪ ♪ We blend them together in one bite ♪ st, ss, tt, st. ♪ One sound ss, one sound tt ♪ Push them together and say st ♪ ♪ With consonants placed side by side ♪ ♪ We blend them together in one bite ♪ Nicely done, so you can see the way that we take our two sounds, ss, kk, and push them together to say sk.

Let's practice that same song with some of these final consonants down here, consonant blends down here.

So our first one is mm, pp, and in blends to say mp.

♪ One sound mm, one sound pp ♪ Push them together and then say mp ♪ ♪ With consonants placed side by side ♪ ♪ We blend them together in one bite ♪ Next is nn, dd, nd.

♪ One sound nn, one sound dd ♪ Push them together and then say nd ♪ ♪ With consonants placed side by side ♪ ♪ We blend them together in one bite ♪ Next is nn, kk, to say nk.

♪ One sound nn, one sound kk ♪ Push them together and then say nk ♪ ♪ With consonants placed side by side ♪ ♪ We blend them together in one bite ♪ Last one we're gonna do, ll, mm, lm.

It's kind of hard, right, lm.

♪ One sound ll, one sound mm ♪ Push them together and then say lm ♪ ♪ With consonants placed side by side ♪ ♪ We blend them together in one bite ♪ Nicely done.

You can see we can use that same pattern and practice all of these initial beginning blends or our final blends as well.

But I just kind of wanted to practice a few of those that we'll be using here together.

All right, now let's go ahead readers.

And we're going to practice putting some of these blends together.

Okay.

So the first ones that we're gonna do together is we're going to use o w and we learned that o w is one of those vowel teams where they come together to make that one long vowel sound.

Ow, Ow, that is our long O sound.

So here we have ow.

And the first word we're gonna make is with our gg, ll, gl blend.

Okay.

What word do I have now?

Gl, ow.

Glow, nicely done.

Let's put those sounds on our fingers.

Gg, ll, ow, glow.

How many sounds did I have in that word friends?

Hold it up on your fingers so I can see.

Yes.

Three sounds.

'Cause you hear all of the sounds in the blend gg, ll, ow, glow.

All right.

Now we're gonna take the gg, ll blend in the beginning and we're gonna change it to the ss, ll, sl blend in the beginning.

What new words do I have?

Yes.

Well done.

We now have the word slow, slow.

Let's put them on our fingers.

Ss, ll, ow, slow, nicely done.

You can hear our two blends or our blend are two letters that come together to make the blend, ss, ll and then ow, slow.

Now let's try a different blend.

And we're going to use fl, ff, ll to make a new word.

What new word do I have now, friends?

Yes.

Flow, flow.

Like the water will flow downstream.

Let's put them on our fingers.

Are you ready?

Ff, ll, ow, flow, nicely done.

Are you noticing that all of these words are rhyming words?

Yes, you're absolutely right.

Because we're using that vowel team here that w w and they have that same ending sound.

Rhyming words always use the same ending sound.

And we're just switching out our blends in the beginning.

All right.

Our next one is the b l. Here it is.

Bb, ll says the blend, bl.

Now, what word do I have?

You got it, blow.

Bb, ll, ow, blow, blow, I below bubbles.

Next let's use the c r here.

Because c is next to a consonant it makes the hard c sound, cc rr and making the blend cr, cr.

Now what word do I have?

You did it, crow, cc, rr, ow, crow.

You are so good at this friends.

We're all picking words that rhyme.

And they also have just those three phonemes or those three sounds in the word because o w makes one sound of the long o and then we hear both of those sounds in that blend, next one we're gonna do, s n. So ss nn, push them together to say sn.

What new words do I have now?

Yes, you did it.

We have the word, snow.

Snow, ss, nn, ow, snow.

All right, one more, let's do one more.

Let's use the g r, makes the gg, rr.

Push them together to say gr, what new word do I have now?

Yes, you did it.

Grow, gg, rr, ow, grow.

Well done.

We made so many words just using the ow combo there.

That vowel team that says the long ow.

And we just switched out our blends.

Now let's try a new one.

We're going to use the same ending sound again.

Do you know what this says?

Can you shout it out nice and loud for me?

Nice, I heard a few friends say ate.

Can you say that?

Ate.

Here's an example of our magic e is making the vowel say its long vowel sound aa.

So we're using ate.

Now let's add some of those initial blends together so we can make some words.

Let's use this first one.

♪ One sound ss, one sound kk ♪ Push them together and then say sk ♪ What word do I have right now friends?

Sk, ate, skate.

Yes, absolutely.

We hear both sounds in the blend, ss, kk.

And then you hear the long way a, aa tt, skate.

How many sounds was that?

Let's try it again.

Ss, kk, aa tt, skate.

Yeah.

It was four sounds.

Even though we have five letters, it's only those four sounds because our super silent e on the end.

And even though it's five letters it's still only one syllable 'cause we only have one talking vowel, skate.

All right.

Let's make a new word.

Let's try this blend.

♪ One sound ss, one sound ll ♪ Push them together and then say sl ♪ What new words do I have?

Sl ate.

You're doing a really nice job, readers.

Slate is our new word.

Like I want to start over with the nice clean slate.

Let's put the sounds on her fingers.

Ss, ll, ate, ss, ll, aa, tt.

There we go.

Slate, so again, four sounds, ss, ll for our initial blend.

Aa, tt, slate.

Nicely done.

Okay.

Let's try our c r blend.

Cc, rr, cr.

What new word do I have?

Yes, good.

Crate, crate, like a milk crate.

Cc, rr, you hear both sounds in the blend, cc, rr, aa, tt, crate.

Well done again.

We've got all of these rhyming words because we're using the same ending sounds.

Last one.

Let's try this blend.

♪ First sound ss.

Next sound tt ♪ ♪ Push them together and then say st ♪ Good.

So if we have that blend st and then ate at the end, what word do I have?

Yes.

State.

Like we live in this state of Missouri or Illinois for some of my friends.

Ss, tt, ate, put it in our fingers.

Ss, tt, aa, tt, state, four sounds but only one syllable, again for our one talking vowel.

Nicely done.

All right, let's try this.

So instead of this one here, we're gonna do ain.

Can you say that with me?

Ain, here is our vowel team that says a i and it says ai and then we have that final sound n, a, n. Right, so we have one blend here, let's try this one with our tt, rr, tr.

If I put that here, what new word do I have?

Yes, nice, train, like, choo, choo.

Let's put the sounds on our fingers.

Tt, rr, ay, nn, train, train, nice.

Four sounds again, two for our blend.

One for our long, a and then one for that final n, nn, train.

All right.

Let's try a different blend.

And we're going to do this blend here bb, rr.

♪ One sound bb, one sound rr ♪ Push them together and then say br ♪ All right.

What new word do I have?

Amazing.

You're right.

The new word is brain, brain.

Your brain is so smart and always growing.

Bb, rr, aa, nn, brain, four sounds.

Now what if I took this word here friends and I got rid of that first sound.

Let's put the sounds on our arm this time.

We have bb, rr, aa, nn, four, bb, rr, aa, nn, brain.

What if I got rid of that first sound bb?

What new word would I have?

Amazing.

You are right.

Rain would be our new word that we would have.

All right.

Now let's also try some of our final blends as well.

Okay.

So let's do, we're going to do u is our vowel and it's a short u sound.

Short, u says uh, uh, and we're going to use the n k, nk.

Can you say that with me?

It's kind of a weird one, nk.

Put your hand on your throat.

Can you feel it when you make this sound?

Nk.

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

Hey, so now u, n, k, unk, unk.

Can you make that with me?

You can feel it on your throat again.

Unk.

Can definitely feel it, right?

All right.

Now I'm going to use an initial blend tr, t, r or tt, rr, blend it, tr.

What word did I just make?

Yes, trunk, trunk, like the trunk of my car or my trunk where all my toys go.

Absolutely.

All right.

Now let's leave that short u, uh.

When we had trunk, let's see how many sounds we had, tt, rr, uh, nn, kk, five that time, tt, rr, uh, nn, kk, five sounds, nice.

All right.

Now let's get rid of this blend and let's put in one consonant this time.

One consonant, the consonant bb, bb.

What new words do I have?

Bb, uh, nn, kk, blend it for me.

Yes, bunk, bunk, like a bunk bed.

Well done.

Let's put it on our fingers, bb, uh, nn, kk, bunk.

Very good.

Amazing, readers.

You were doing such a good job.

All right.

Let's take out the bb and put in the sound ss, ss.

What new word do I have?

Ss, uh, nn, kk.

Yes, sunk, absolutely, like that sunk in the water all the way to the bottom.

All right.

Let's try a different blend.

Let's try instead of the nk blend, let's try this one here, nd.

♪ One sound nn, one sound dd ♪ Push them together and then say nd ♪ Can you try that with me?

Nd.

Okay.

So this is a final blend so it comes on the end there, nd.

And this time I'm going to use the vowel a, short a, ah, ah.

All right, now let's add a consonant, h, h. What word do I have here?

Hh, ah, nn, dd.

Blend it for me.

Yeah.

You did it.

Hand, hh, ah, nn, dd.

Hand.

Like I'm putting the sounds on my hand, hh, ah, nn, dd, hand.

We have four sounds in that word.

All right.

Let's take away this sound and let's put in a consonant.

Let's put in the consonant bb, bb.

What new word do I have?

Bb, ah, nn, dd, blend it, band, very good.

All right.

Let's try one more before we go together, friends.

Let's try instead of the nd, we're gonna do the ll, dd final blend, ld, ld.

All right.

And we're going to use the vowel short.

Actually, I'm sorry, long oh, oh.

What word do I have your friends?

Oh, ld, oh, ld.

Yes, old, oh, ll, dd, old.

Like I am seven or eight years old.

It's not really how old I am.

Now what if I add on another sound in the beginning?

What if I add on the sound tt, tt?

What new word do I have?

Tt, oh, ll, dd, tt, old, very good.

Tt, oh, ll, dd, told, nicely done readers.

We looked at so many different examples of consonant blends, consonant blends where they come together and they glide.

But we still hear both sounds.

The only one where we really don't hear both sounds is ck.

It is a final blend and it just says the kk, kk, but all of our examples of blends, whether they become in the beginning or the end, we hear both sounds.

And we only focus with our consonants here to get today in order for us to make all of these new words together, you did incredible readers.

I'm so proud of you.

Enjoy the rest of your day, friends.

I'll see you next time, bye.

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