(uplifting music) (uplifting music) (uplifting music) - Hi everybody and welcome back to a brand new year here in Room Nine.

My name is Mrs. St. Louis and I'm a teacher at Rogers Elementary School in the Melville school district and we are located in South St. Louis County.

Today, I'm going to teach a reading lesson that's geared towards students who are in the third grade, but all learners are more than welcome to join and learn along with us, so let's get started.

This week, we're going to be talking all about new vocabulary words, more specifically, how to figure out what those vocabulary words even mean.

So we're going to be talking about some tips and tricks that we can use this week to help us decode and define the meaning of some new vocabulary words and today, we're going to jump in by talking about prefixes.

Now, a prefix is added to the beginning of a base or root word.

It provides meaning to the word.

So we would have a root word, right?

And so that could be any word and we're going to add a prefix to it.

Now, a prefix is a little chunk.

It's a piece of a word.

It's not usually a word on its own, but when we add it to another word, it can change the meaning of that word.

For example, I could take a word like eat and I could, well, this is Winnie and this word is perfect for her, because if I take a word like eat, I could add a little chunk to the front like over.

Now this word has become overeat and that's one of Winnie's favorite things to do.

She really likes to overeat.

Now this chunk over, when we use it as a prefix, means too much, right?

So it's too, it, when we put it together, it means too much eating.

So if you're someone who overeats, right?

Or you tell someone, "You're going to overeat" that means that they're going to eat too much.

Now, this prefix, over, it can be used in quite a lot of words, right?

And so we could use it in words, like, excuse me, over eater, we make a word like overdue, now this might be a word that you've heard at school, right?

If you turn something in past its due date, someone might say that it's overdue.

Or if you go to the library book, library, you might have an overdue library book, right?

Overdue, right?

Meaning too much and then we have, due, right?

The date that it needs to be turned in by.

So we've gone too much past that due date, right?

Another way that we could use this prefix, over, is with work.

So you might feel overworked, right?

That means that there is too much work going on, right?

So there are definitely going to be some days when we feel overworked, like there's just too much for us to do, so that's one way to use this prefix, over.

Let's look at a different prefix.

Now, let's look at this word, in.

This is a word you've probably seen before, but when used as a prefix, it means something different.

In can mean not.

So when put in front of another word, it's going to say not, and that our root word.

Here are some examples.

We could have incorrect.

So if we say something's incorrect, that means it's not correct, right?

It's not right.

We could say in, complete.

So if something's incomplete, means, right?

It means not finished, right?

Complete means that something's done, but if it's incomplete, it's not finished and we could say inability, right?

Ability, it means that you can do something, right?

I have the ability to run a mile, but if you have an inability, that means that you cannot do that thing, right?

So that's in, a word that we're pretty familiar with, but when you used as a prefix, you know, a little chunk before a word, it changes the meaning of the word.

Let's take a look at another word that you might be familiar with.

Out.

You know this word, right?

If we were to go out, right?

Means that we're leaving our house, but when used as a prefix, out can mean more, right?

Or more than someone else.

For example, we have outnumber, right?

So if we outnumber people, that means there's more of us than them, right?

We have more of our number than they do.

Right now, you guys might outnumber Winnie.

We could also write outrun.

Now, I can't outrun Winnie because she's too fast, right?

So she's going to have, she's going to be greater than me.

Winnie can outrun me, meaning that she can do more running than I can.

Or, we could write outlive.

Right?

That means that you're going to live greater than something else.

So if I said, I'm going to outlive my goldfish, that means that I'm going to live longer than my goldfish, right?

Greater than my goldfish.

Let's look at some more prefixes.

Let's see, what else do we have here?

Oh, here's a common prefix you might see a lot.

We even see it in the word prefix.

It's the word pre, right?

A prefix comes before a root word, so what do you think pre means?

That's right, pre means before.

So when we see it has a prefix at the beginning of a word, it means before.

So some examples of this being used are a preview, right?

When we go to the movies and we see the previews, right?

We're viewing little chunks of the movie before, right?

The previews are little chunks of advertisements before the actual movie, previews, right?

Or if you wanted to preview something before, right?

You're going to get to see it before anybody else.

You also have prepay, right?

You're paying before you get there, right?

And last, you might do these at school, you might take a pretest and that's a test before the learning, right?

So this is a word you might be very familiar with.

Let's see what else we have.

All right, here's another one that you might see quite often.

Dis.

Now dis means again, no or not.

So just like our word in, right?

Dis also means not.

So when you see it before the word, you're also going to see it to mean no, not.

So we could write dislike, right?

So if I dislike something, that means I don't like it, right?

I could have dishonest, right?

Which I'm not honest.

Or I can have dis agree, right?

So dis meaning no, right?

No agree, right?

I do not agree.

Sometimes when we take our prefixes apart and we try to figure out the meaning, it doesn't always translate the easiest, right?

We wouldn't say no agree.

We would say we don't agree.

So sometimes you have to kind of think about that.

It's kind of a bit of a puzzle to say hm, no agree, what does that really mean?

Well, it means I don't agree.

So we have to play with our words just a little bit when it comes to prefixes.

Let's see what else we have.

Oh, re.

Re is another prefix that we see a lot, right?

We might see words like refill, and I'm sure that this is a word that you say often, right?

Because you might need to refill your water bottle, right?

So re means to do it again.

So if I need to refill my water bottle, I have to fill it back up, do it all over again.

I could reheat something, maybe in the microwave.

Today for lunch, I reheated a piece of leftover pizza and I could do replay.

So we often see replays when it comes to sports, right?

They're showing us the play again.

So we're doing again, that play.

Doesn't mean that they're going to go back and they're gonna redo the play in a game of football, but they're going to show it to us again, so that is that prefix.

Let's do one more prefix.

Let's do the prefix mis, okay?

When we say mis, that means wrong.

So at the beginning of a word, it's telling us it's wrong.

So if we have a mistake, right?

That means that, right?

In this scenario, take means a try, right?

Think about with movies, right?

They do takes, right?

Take one, take two, but a mistake is a wrong try.

So if you make a mistake on a worksheet, that means that it was a wrong try and you might have to go back and you might have to fix it.

You could write, oh, I am so sorry, Winnie's playing with her brand new toy.

You could write misuse, right?

So when you use something, you're using it correctly, but if you misuse something, that means that you're using it wrong and last but not least, we have understood.

With that prefix, it says misunderstood, right?

Which means that you have the wrong understanding.

So if I misunderstand you, it means that I got the wrong understanding of what you said.

All right, it looks like Winnie just had a misunderstanding that we were in Room Nine and she needs to be quiet.

Let's go over some of the prefixes that we talked about today.

We've talked about over and over means too much.

We've talked about in, which means not and so does the word dis.

We've talked about the word out, which can be more or more than someone else.

We discussed the word pre, which means before and we discussed the word re, right?

Re means to do it again and we talked about mis, which means wrong.

Today, we were only able to get through a few prefixes, but there are so many more prefixes out there.

So as you're reading your books and as you're coming across new words, I challenge you to look at the word, right?

And break it apart into chunks and if you happen to see a prefix at the beginning, try and figure out what that prefix means.

Now, that might mean that you ask a friend to help you out, or a teacher, or another adult, right?

Or you think about some of these prefixes that we were able to talk about today because prefixes can be so important because they can change the meaning of the words.

So that's it for our reading lesson today, but we're not quite finished here yet.

Now, are you ready to go do a math lesson for today?

I'm going to hand my marker off and it's time for a little bit of math.

Bye everybody.

- Thank you Mrs. St. Louis.

Hi everybody and welcome back to Room Nine.

My name is Mrs.

Brewer and I will be taken over from here from Mrs. St. Louis and I am a third grade math teacher at Gordon Bush Elementary School in the East St. Louis school district and I teach all subjects there, not just math, but today I'm here to teach you a third grade math lesson and today we're here with a person who is an expert on what our topic is going to be for the next week, all right?

And here is, can everybody see?

Here is our expert.

Our expert is Frosty the Snowman.

Who knows Frosty?

And Frosty is here, he is doing the snowflake shake.

Can I have everybody do the snowflake shake?

Pretend like you're a snowman, shake, shake.

It's so cold, shake, shake.

Do the snowflake shake.

Let's shake like Frosty and boys and girls, there's a reason why we have Frosty here with us today.

We are going to be talking about snow, one of my favorite things ever.

So we get to combine math and snow, so this is an exciting couple of weeks here for Mrs.

Brewer, all right?

But look at Frosty, he doesn't look like he's feeling so well, does he?

Why do you think Frosty isn't feeling well?

Look around boys and girls.

What do we see around him?

We're seeing green, aren't we?

What should I see around a snowman?

What do you think he's missing?

That's exactly right boys and girls, he is missing snow, so right now we are going to become detectives.

We need to find the snow for Frosty.

Can you help me?

All right, so let's go ahead and see if we can find the snow for Frosty.

All right, boys and girls, so did you do any investigating yet?

What do you mean you didn't?

We just came in from outside.

Boys and girls, I have been super busy since I just got in here.

I know, like that, right?

Okay, so boys and girls, I started making some phone calls because I have some friends that are all across the United States, so I called them and said, "Hey, can you do me a favor?

Look outside.

Do you have any snow?

And if you do or don't, take a picture, send it to me so I can see where the snow is, right?"

I didn't just want to take their word, boys and girls.

We want to see it, don't we?

Absolutely, we do.

So boys and girls, I put together some pictures that my friends all sent me so I can show you boys and girls.

So do you want to see what I have boys and girls?

All right, so let's make this real simple here.

If we started out right here in St. Louis, Missouri, and this is my friend's backyard in St. Louis, Missouri.

So when I called and said, "Hey, Rebecca, do you have any snow?"

Rebecca said, "We absolutely do.

Let me go out on my deck, I'll take a picture.

You can see how much snow we got on the bird feeders, right?"

So right now looking at her back yard, she said that they had four inches of snow, okay?

So boys and girls, behind me, you can see this big yellow piece of paper I have, right?

So I'm going to keep track as we visit cities to just kind of see who has the most snow, okay?

So in St. Louis, Missouri, my friend said they had four inches, so right here on my paper, I'm gonna put four and remember we talked about inches, the abbreviation is IN.

So right now in St. Louis, Missouri, she said they had four inches of snow.

Maybe if you look out, boys and girls, you'll see the same four inches my friend has in her yard.

Okay?

So, we didn't stop just in St. Louis, all right?

We kept going.

Next, my, my kids are in Plover, Wisconsin right now.

They're there visiting my aunt.

So you can see here's a picture of Aiden and Ellie in front of a huge snow pile they have here and in fact, that snow pile, boys and girls, is bigger than them.

So I said, "Hey, do you guys have snow up there?"

And they said, "Uh, yeah, we do, more snow than we have ever seen in our lives."

So they happened to be at a grocery store and this was a pile of snow in the parking lot of a grocery store.

Can you believe that?

So this snow pile is over seven feet tall, all right?

My kids are about five and a half foot tall, so this is about seven or so feet tall, but that's not how much snow they have, this is just a big pile up.

I thought it was a pretty cool picture they sent me, but they said right now in Wisconsin, they have 21 inches of snow, 21 inches.

Can you believe that, boys and girls?

Here in St. Louis, we only had four, they had 17 more inches than us.

So for Plover, Wisconsin back here, I'm going to add 21 inches, all right?

They're having a lot of snow there, aren't they?

All right.

Well next, I called my friend, Jamie, and my friend Jamie is actually on vacation.

I forgot about that when I called her, but right now she is at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

So how much snow do you think they have before I show you this picture?

That's a good guess.

That is definitely a good guess.

Do you want to see the picture?

How much snow can you see?

We see white, right?

But is that snow?

No, that's just the sand, isn't it?

So how much snow do they have there in Myrtle Beach?

I heard someone say zero.

That is correct.

There are zero inches of snow, or there is zero inches of snow, so to my chart here from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, sorry Frosty, no snow there.

There are zero inches of snow.

Okay?

Zero inches in Myrtle Beach.

That's sad, but I guess instead of a snowman, maybe they can build a sandman?

That might not be so bad, would it?

Hm, let's think about that, the sandman.

That would be kind of cool to build.

Next, I called my friend Shalita, she lives in Denver, Colorado, and my friend Shalita sent me this picture.

This is off of her deck looking at the mountains.

They have a lot of snow there?

Absolutely, they do.

They have a ton of snow in Denver, Colorado.

In fact, this was very, very snowy, even though it looks like there might not be a lot, those trees are really, really, really tall.

She said right now in Denver, Colorado, they have 26 inches of snow, 26 inches.

So back here on my chart where it says Denver, Colorado, I'm gonna add 26, 26 inches, okay?

So these are all the cities we've been to so far and have we found snow?

I think Frosty would be very happy here in Denver, don't you think?

Yeah, I think Frosty would have a whole family here, wouldn't he?

Absolutely.

All right, so let's keep going.

So next, I called my friend Lissandra and my friend Lissandra is in New York City.

She is in New York, New York.

Do you think it's snowy in New York?

Let's see if your prediction was right.

She was walking from store to store, she's out doing a little shopping and so she said, "Oh, I'm on the street.

Let me take a picture."

This is what she sent me, boys and girls.

Is there snow in New York?

Absolutely, in fact, you can see all that speery white on there is actually snowing right now in New York.

So she said she had to wear her good snow boots so she would be able to walk from store to store, all right?

She said in New York right now, are you ready?

They have 31 inches of snow, 31 inches.

You see all that snow?

That is a lot of snow.

Would Frosty be happy with 31 inches?

I think he would be very happy with that much snow.

So for here, my New York, New York on my list, I'm gonna add 31 inches.

All right, so next I called my friend Kylie and I said, "Kylie, what are you doing right now?"

And she said she was sitting out in the sun and I said, "The sun?

Wow, that is pretty crazy."

So what do you think it looks like in Arizona right now?

If she's sitting out in the sun, do you think it looks like it does here in New York?

No, not at all, does it?

Here is what it looked like in Sedona, Arizona.

What is she seeing?

She is in the desert.

Do we have any snow right now in the desert?

None, no snow.

She said it's nice, warm, and hot, actually it's hot, she said.

Would you describe our weather today as hot?

Frosty was out there doing the snowflake shake, I don't think I would say it was hot here.

So how much snow do we have in Sedona, Arizona?

Zero, no snow whatsoever.

I don't see any white whatsoever there, okay?

So over here on my chart, for Sedona, Arizona, I'm going to put zero inches.

There are zero inches of snow here at Sedona, Arizona.

Zero inches, okay?

So take a look at our chart here, boys and girls, that we have snow.

Is it real easiest to tell who had the most snow just by looking at this?

No, it's not super easy.

I mean, I can go through and look, but it's not super easy, is it?

There has got to be a better way.

Man, boys and girls, I'm really going to have to think about the better way to find a way to organize my data, but one thing I learned talking to all these people about their snow, they told me that it wasn't the amount of snow you have, but the amount of snow balls you can make from your snow.

Hm, that's kind of an interesting thought too, isn't it, boys and girls?

We've been from South Carolina to Arizona today, up North to Wisconsin.

We've seen a lot of different landscapes, didn't we?

Were we able to find Frosty find snow, were we able to help him?

We were, weren't we?

So help me keep thinking tonight of a better way to organize all this information that we found today, okay?

You think you can help me find a better way to organize this?

We'll come back tomorrow and we'll see if we can figure it out, all right?

All right, boys and girls, have a good night and I will see you back here tomorrow with some thinking caps on.

Bye.

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