(bright music with squealing children) - Good afternoon, learners!

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

My name is Julia.

I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard School.

And here for "Teaching in Room 9" my lessons focus on letters and sounds.

Welcome back, friends!

Thank you for taking time to be here with me today.

I'm so excited for us to do some learning here together.

As always, we love to see our learners at home following along with us.

So, if you'd like to have your grownup take a picture, or a video, if you're following along at home, they can always post them online at #ninePBS.

All right, friends.

We're gonna go ahead and get started, but before we do, if you would like to go ahead and grab some paper, and something to write with.

We're gonna do some writing of our letter sounds here in a little bit.

So go ahead, and grab that right now.

All right, friends.

I can tell some of you are making your way back.

We're gonna go ahead and start with our mindful moment exercise.

This will help get our bodies and our brains ready to learn.

And when we do this, it allows our body and our mind to re-center, and gives us all the right tools to be able to focus, and take in new information.

Today, we're gonna do an activity called 'Body Scan'.

So go ahead and start by laying on your back.

When I say "Go," you are going to tense all of your muscles, from head to toe.

And hold it for 10 seconds.

And then, when I say, we'll release all that tension, that we're feeling.

All right.

Are you laying on your back?

Ready to tense those muscles?

All right, ready, go.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10!

All right, friends, go ahead and release that tension that you're feeling in your body.

And go ahead, and start taking some slow, deep breaths.

In through your nose, (breathing deeply) counting to three, and out through your mouth.

(deep exhaling) Counting to three.

Keep taking those deep breaths, and I'm gonna ask you a few follow up questions.

How did that make you feel when you tensed all of your muscles?

What was your body doing when you tensed your muscles?

Where in your body did you feel that tension?

Now, after you've released the tension, and you're taking some deep, breaths, how does your body feel now?

And, how is this different from how you were feeling before?

All right, whenever you're ready, take one last, deep breath in through your nose.

(deep inhaling) And out through your mouth.

(deep exhaling) Go ahead, and sit up nice and straight and tall.

Doing this activity together, helps us really be able to see the difference from being in a really tense state, and, a calm and relaxed state.

And it also helps us to understand that we are in control of our own body.

All right friends, hopefully now you're feeling a little bit more re-centered, relaxed, and ready to learn.

We're gonna go ahead and take a minute to talk about getting ready to learn at school.

We wanna give ourselves all the right tools to be able to learn our best.

We're gonna go ahead and start reviewing some of the strategies we talked about together so far.

We wanna make sure that we're in a smart spot that's away from any distractions that might take away from our learning.

All right, you in a smart spot right now, friends?

We also wanna try our best to show body basics.

Our whole body listening.

This might look a little different for everyone, but it might look like sitting up straight and tall.

Making sure our eyes are on the speaker.

Our ears are listening.

Our mouth is quiet.

Our heart is ready, and our body is calm.

Something that might help us when we're learning at school, is remembering to make smart choices.

Sometimes these are called green choices.

And choices that aren't as smart, might be called red choices.

Some of the green choices we've talked about together so far were, using gentle hands, working together as a team.

sharing, working really hard and trying our best.

Keeping our hands to ourself, using our words.

playing with a friend, and waiting patiently.

Some new green choices today, friends, are making sure that we follow directions, and take turns when we're playing and learning together.

Some red choices that we've talked about so far, might be having an out-of-control body; using mean, or unkind words; taking everything, so no one else can play; using our hands instead of our words, taking turns, or taking other's turns when we're playing with them.

That's not very kind.

Talking over people, instead of listening to their words, while waiting for our turn to speak, running away from your adults, or your grownup; or breaking classroom materials.

Some new red choices this week are yelling.

You'll talk a lot when you're at school about the right volume for the right space.

Another red choice might be, not using whole body listening that we just reviewed together.

I say, you say, friends.

We are in control!

Of our body, and our choices.

Great job, learners.

You are absolutely in control of your own body, and how you react to things throughout the day.

All right, now that we've prepared our bodies and our brains to learn, we've reviewed some tools to help us be successful when we're learning in school.

Now, we're ready to learn.

As I mentioned, we're here to talk about letters and sounds.

In our time together before, we practiced all of our letter sounds.

And we've practiced lots of skills that help us work with those letter sounds.

We're gonna be just like reading scientists looking at all parts of word to find patterns, and sounds that will help us better understand how to read and write new words.

Today friends, our learning goal, or objective is, will you repeat this after me?

"I can."

I think you can be a little louder.

Let's try that again.

"I can!"

Oo, great job, learners.

"Understand "and hear "consonants "in words."

Great job, learners!

All right, so we're gonna go ahead.

Before we jump into consonants, we wanna warm up our reading brain.

So go ahead, and tickle that reading brain of yours.

All right, learners, we're gonna start by doing a word warmup here together.

All right.

And, we're gonna start with rhyming words.

Let's do our song real quick.

If you know it, try to sing along with me, okay?

♪ Rhyming words are words that have the same sounds ♪ ♪ They have to end in the same way ♪ ♪ Rhyming words have the same vowel sounds ♪ ♪ And the same sounds at the very end ♪ Oo, great job, learners.

All right, I'm gonna give you two words.

You're gonna repeat, or say them back to me.

And then, we are going to shout out the rhyme.

The vowel sounds and the sounds that come after it.

So the parts at the end of the word, that make the words sound the same, that make them rhyming words.

All right, let's go ahead and try, friends.

Say the words 'leave, weave'.

Great job.

And the rhyme in 'leave and weave,' is?

Yeah, if you said "Eve," you're absolutely right.

If not, no worries.

Let's try another one together.

Say the words 'much, such."

Yeah, and our rhyme in 'much and such?'

Is 'uch,' very good.

Let's try another one.

Let's say the words 'dry, fly.'

Yeah.

And our rhyme in 'dry and fly?'

Yeah, it's the 'I' sound at the end.

Very good.

Say the words 'floor, door'.

Yeah, and our rhyme in those two words?

Yeah, if you said "Or," you're absolutely right.

Last one of these.

Say the two words, 'bell, tell'.

Yeah, great job.

And our rhyme in 'bell and tell.'

is?

'El,' very good.

All right now, I'm gonna say two words.

You're gonna repeat both the words, and tell me the beginning sounds you hear.

Let's go ahead and practice.

Say the words 'big, boy'.

Yeah, great job.

What's the first sound you hear in those two words?

'Big, boy?'

Yeah, you're right it is 'bah, bah' sound.

Make sure you're giving me the sound, and not the letter.

Say the two words 'fun, fast.'

Yeah, what's the first sound you hear in those two words?

'Ff,' very good?

Say the two words 'jump, job'.

Yeah, and what's the first sound you hear in 'jump and job?'

Great job, learners.

If you said "Jah, jah," you're absolutely right.

Say the two words, 'me, man'.

Yeah, great job.

And the first sound you hear in 'me and man,' is?

'Mm,' very good.

Last one of these.

Say the two words 'kick, keep'.

Great job.

And the first sound you hear in 'kick and keep,' is?

'Kah, kah,' very good.

All right, we're gonna do the same thing, but this time friends, I'm gonna give you one word, you repeat it back to me, and then, tell me the very last sound you hear.

Let's go ahead and practice together.

Say the word 'club'.

And the very last sound you hear in 'club'?

Bah, bah.

Very good.

Remember, make sure you give me the sound.

Say the word 'glad.'

Great job.

And, what's the last sound you hear in 'glad'?

Yeah, if you said "Deh, deh," you're absolutely right.

Now, say the word 'tough'.

Great job.

And, what's the last sound you hear in 'tough'?

Yeah, 'Ff,' is the last sound we hear in 'tough'.

Great job.

Say the word 'fig'.

Yeah.

And the last sound in 'fig'?

'Ga, ga,' very good.

(Julia chuckling) Say the word 'stage'.

And, the last sound you hear in 'stage'?

'Ja, ja,' very good.

Two more, learners.

Say the word 'bike'.

Yeah.

And the last sound you hear in 'bike'?

'Kah, kah'.

Very good.

Last one, say the word 'heat'.

Yeah.

And the last sound in heat is?

'Ta, ta, ta.'

Very good, (chuckling).

Wow!

What a great job you did on our warm up.

Go ahead, and kiss your brain, friends.

(kiss smacking) You should be so proud of yourself.

Even some of those are feeling kind of tricky.

No worries.

We're gonna practice together.

And the more you practice, the more progress you'll make, and the easier it'll feel.

All right friends, we've also learned about syllables together.

And if you remember, ♪ Syllables ♪ Are the beats ♪ In words ♪ Syllables ♪ Are build around ♪ A talking vowel Very good!

Some of you might have remembered that from before.

But we learned a little song that went along with it.

♪ Syllables are the beats in words ♪ ♪ Syllables are built around a vowel ♪ ♪ Vowels are A-E-I-O-U ♪ And then, sometimes Y ♪ But you must hear the vowel ♪ And each vowel gets a clap ♪ Oh oh oh oh ♪ Syllables ♪ Are the beats in words ♪ Syllables ♪ Are built around a vowel Very good!

So, when you hear a vowel in a word, that gets its own syllable.

Okay, like in the words, apple, (clapping twice) dog, (clapping once) or caterpillar.

(clapping four times) Very good.

Then, we focus all in our short vowel sounds.

Do it with me, friends.

♪ Go shorties, it's your big day ♪ ♪ And we just wanna hear what short vowels say ♪ Very good.

And, we started with A says 'ah, ah'.

E says 'eh'.

I says 'eeh, eeh.'

O says 'ah, ah'.

U says 'uh, uh'.

Very good.

So, we already know that vowels are super-special letters.

They're really important.

They make more than one sound, and they help us figure out our syllables in words.

So today friends, we are actually going to focus on all the other letters of the alphabet that are not vowels.

And those are called consonants.

I say, you say, "Consonants".

Very good.

All right, I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen.

And I'm gonna introduce to you, our Consonant Sound Wall.

All right, friends.

You can see our Consonant Sound Wall here.

It is so important to help our reading brain grow to understand the sounds that letters make, and how they feel in our mouth when we say them.

Knowing how they feel in our mouth, when we say the sounds, helps us understand the difference between letters.

And will help us when reading and writing words.

Okay, so you can see my Consonant Sound Wall here.

The first one we're gonna focus on at the top is called STOPS.

And STOPS are called that, because they stop short when we say the letter sound.

And when we do this, we push the sound out with one, quick breath.

Okay, our first STOP consonant is this one right here.

Does anybody know what this letter is?

If you do, shout it out really loud.

Yeah!

If you said the letter 'B,' ba, ba, B, you're absolutely right.

Let's do, if you remember, we've done the letters on the bus before.

Let's do that for our letter sounds here.

♪ The letter on the bus says ba, ba, ba ♪ ♪ ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba ♪ The letter on the bus says ba, ba, ba ♪ ♪ All through the town Very good, do you hear how when you make the ba, ba?

How it kind of, one quick breath, and it stops after you make the sound.

All right, and we're gonna go ahead and write the letter B underneath it.

When you write the letter B, you're gonna make a long line down.

Then come up, and make a little curve there.

Ba, ba.

All right.

And, the next letter we see here, is?

What is it?

Shout it out for me.

Very good!

You're right, it is a T. T says, "Ta, ta."

This one's right in the front of our mouth, right on our ta, ta, teeth.

Very good.

♪ The letter on the bus says ta, ta, ta ♪ ♪ Ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta ♪ The letter on the bus says ta, ta, ta ♪ ♪ All through the town.

Very good.

All right, if you're writing along with me at home, we're gonna write the letter T. You make another straight, long line down.

And then, we are going to cross, right there.

Very good!

I can see the B has a ba, ball.

T has a ta, tiger.

All right, what's the next letter we see here?

Yeah, if you said the letter C, you're absolutely right.

And C says "Ka, ka."

Sound kind of comes more from the back of your throat.

♪ The letter on the bus says ka ka, ka ♪ ♪ Ka, ka, ka ka, ka, ka ♪ The letter on the bus says ka, ka, ka ♪ ♪ All through the town Good, and we're gonna write our C. Just like that.

Kind of like an O, that doesn't go all the way around.

And, I made this letter is a shorter letter.

So, I made it below my T, there.

And, what's this one right here, friends?

Yeah!

Very good!

The letter K, also makes the 'ka, ka' sound.

Okay, so let's go ahead and skip singing our song on that one.

And when you make a letter K, you make another straight line down just like that.

And then, around the middle here, you make a slanted line in, slanted line down.

Very good.

So we have a ka, cat for the C. And a ka, kite for the K. And, what's our next letter here, friends?

Shout it out for me nice and loud.

Yeah!

If you said P, P says "Pah."

You're absolutely right.

♪ The letter on the bus says pah, pah, pah ♪ ♪ Pah, pah, pah pah, pah, pah ♪ The letter on the bus says pah, pah, pah ♪ ♪ All through the town.

Very good, and we got a pah, pah, pig here.

When we make the letter P, as you can see here, it dips down low.

So, I'm gonna start with my line, go down low.

And then, I jump back up, and I make a letter C to connect it there, or a backwards C. (Julia chuckles) Very good.

All right, I wish I could see all of my friends writing at home.

I bet your letters look amazing.

What is our next letter here, friends?

It looks a lot like our B, but it's not.

It is a D. Very good.

D says "Deh, deh."

Very good.

♪ The letter on the bus says deh, deh, deh ♪ ♪ Deh, deh, deh deh, deh deh ♪ The letter on the bus says deh, deh, deh ♪ ♪ All through the town Very good!

And when we make our D, you're gonna make a straight line down.

Another big long line, just like our B, our T, and our K. And this time, instead of giving it a belly, you're gonna go on the other side.

Sometimes I'll tell my friends, we got a belly and a diaper.

(Julia chuckling) All right, and then our last one here, friends, can you see it?

Shout it out for me, if you know what letter this is.

Yeah, if you said the letter G, and G says "Ga, ga," you're absolutely right.

The G really comes from the back of our throat.

You can even put your hand on your throat, and feel it when you make the sound.

Ga, ga. And when I make a G, this is another one that dips down low.

I start with that backwards C, close it, and then, come all the way down and hook around.

♪ The letter on the bus says ga, ga, ga ♪ ♪ Ga, ga, ga ga, ga, ga ♪ The letter on the bus says ga, ga, ga ♪ ♪ All through the town All right, friends.

We're gonna go ahead and stop at our STOPS for today.

Let's review the letters that we have looked at here.

All of our consonants, right?

We focused on vowels last week, and our short vowel sounds.

These are our STOP consonants.

And again, they're called "STOPS," because we push them out with one quick breath, and then the sound stops.

Ready?

B says "Ba, ba".

T says "Ta, at".

C says "Ka, ka."

K says "Ka, ka."

P says "Pah, pah."

D says "Deh, deh."

And, G says "Ga, ga." Very ga, ga, good!

(Julia chuckling) I'll stop sharing my screen here.

You did a wonderful job with me today, friends.

We did our body scan, mindful moment exercise.

We talked about all of those red and green choices.

And then, we focused our learning on consonants today.

We focused on how the sounds feel in our mouth, as we make them.

We focused on our STOP consonants.

We did a word warmup, and we reviewed syllables, and some of our vowel sounds, too.

I'm so proud of you friends.

Thank you for your hard work, and I'll see you next time.

Bye!

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