(upbeat music) - Hello everyone, and welcome to "Teaching in Room 9," the region's- - Shapes are everywhere we look.

- Good job.

Now, go to touch your throat right here, and see how they feel.

- We say to ourselves to be positive.

- Lemurs are found on the island of Madagascar.

- For one, I'm gonna rip it bigger, as we go across to the right.

- Reset, that means taking a deep breath.

It may mean counting to 10.

- Today we're gonna start with freestyle throws.

So, I'm gonna put my arm up, and I'm going to- - All right, are you ready to learn?

Let's go!

(upbeat music) (gentle music) Look at the world!

But, look at our amazing world.

And that's "Teaching in Room 9," the region's largest classroom.

I am Dr. Sanders, and in our new classroom, we can go anywhere, and be anything, while we are still learning about our amazing community.

Remember what I always say, it doesn't matter if you're two, or 102.

We can have some fun!

F-U-N, fun!

We will have some fun while learning.

I work at Adams Elementary, in the St. Louis Public Schools, and let's get our day started!

We're gonna get started by...

Right, I have to remove my cap before we can get started.

How do we get started?

That's right, some shout outs.

Let's do some shout outs.

My first shout out goes to Vaughn.

Hi Vaughn!

Let's spell Vaughn.

Capital V-A-U-G-H-N. V-A-U-G-H-N. (bell rings) Hi Vaughn!

My next shout out goes to Kyra.

Hi Kyra!

Let's spell Kyra.

Capital K-Y-R-A.

K-Y-R-A.

Hi Kyra!

My next shout goes out to Mookie.

Hi, Mookie, how are you?

Let's spell Mookie.

Capital M-O-O-K-I-E. M-O-O-K-I-E. Hey, Mookie!

And my next shout out goes to Amiya.

Hi, Amiya!

Let's spell Amiya.

Capital A-M-I-Y-A.

A-M-I-Y-A.

Those are all of my names.

So it's time to get started on this amazing learning adventure!

So, let's go!

(students giggling) (school bell ringing) (upbeat music) - [Student] When we enter into our school, it's much like being at home.

It's important that we put our things away.

Step one, hang up your backpack.

Step two, take off your coat.

Step three, hang up your coat.

(lively music) Step four, walk to your seat.

Follow these steps each and every day, and you'll be ready to learn and have a great day.

Let's review how to put our items away in our cubbie.

Step one, take out all the items that you need for the day.

Step two, hang up your book bag.

Step three, hang up your coat.

Step four, walk quickly and quietly to your seat.

Have a wonderful day, and great job following your routine.

(lively music fades) - [Learner] A-B-C-D, E-F-G. - Welcome back learners to "Teaching in Room 9," our region's largest classroom.

My name is Julia, I'm a first grade teacher at the Soulard School.

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

Today we're gonna be focusing our learning on onset rhyme.

The beginning sounds in words, and the rhyme, the part of the word that sounds the same at the end.

But, let's go ahead and start by reviewing what we already know about letters and sounds.

♪ Letters spell sounds and come together to make words ♪ ♪ Words are made above letters and sounds ♪ ♪ They blend together to make a word ♪ ♪ Words have meaning and they then come together ♪ ♪ To form sentences that we can read and write ♪ Nice job, friends.

Now, we are focusing on onset rhyming.

Again, that's those beginning sounds, and the rhyme is the part of the word that sounds the same at the end.

We learned a song that went along with it.

♪ 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 ♪ Nice job!

It's important when we're learning to read and write new words, that we're able to chunk the words into those beginning sounds and the rhymes.

So, we're gonna practice using our chart right here.

And the words that we have here, and then, we'll switch out those beginning sounds, in order to make new words.

♪ Onset rhyme are the parts found in a word ♪ ♪ Blend the first sound with the rhymes ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard Okay, my first one here, huh-at.

Blend it all together, hat!

Nicely done.

Now if I took the huh in hat, and I switched it to Ss, let's read my new word.

Ss-at, sat.

Great job.

Now take the Ss in sat, and change it to Mm.

What's my new word?

Shout it out for me nice and loud.

Mat!

Great job.

Okay, let's jump over here.

♪ Onset rhyme are the parts found in a word ♪ ♪ Blend the first one with the rhymes ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard Ww-at.

Blend it together.

Wet!

Great job.

Now take the Ww in wet, and change it to Ss.

What's our new word?

Let's read it.

Ss-at, sat.

Great job.

Now take the Ss in set, and change it to Jj.

What's my new word?

Shout it out!

Yeah, jet.

Great job!

All right, we're gonna come down to this one.

♪ Onset rhyme are the parts found in a word ♪ ♪ Blend the first one with the rhymes ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard Buh-it.

Blend it together.

Bit!

Great job!

Now take the Buh, and change it to Ff.

What's my new word?

Yeah, Ff-it.

Fit.

Now take the Ff in fit, and change it to Ss.

What's my new word?

Yes, it's sit.

Nice job.

Over here.

♪ Onset rhyme are the parts found in a word ♪ ♪ Blend the first one with the rhyme ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard Huh, ot.

Blend it.

Hot!

Nice job.

Now take that huh, and change it to Dd.

What's my new word?

Dd-ot.

Dot!

Now take your Dd, and change it to er.

What's my new word now?

Er-ot.

Rot!

Great job.

All right, down here.

♪ Onset rhyme are the parts found in a word ♪ ♪ Blend the first one with the rhyme ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard Huh-ot.

Blend it.

Hut!

Great job.

Now take our first sound, huh, and change it to Kk, what's my new word?

Kk-ut.

Cut!

Great job.

One more, let's change that Kk to Nn.

What's my new word?

Nn-ut.

Nut.

Great job, friends.

We made so many words just by switching out that onset, those beginning sounds.

And keeping our rhymes the same.

Those are all part of word families.

Okay, let's practice just a little bit more.

I'm gonna say some words, you'll repeat them back to me, and then tell me just the first sound you hear.

Not the letter name, just that first sound.

Okay, ready?

Say the word "Magic."

Great job.

What's the first sound you hear in the word Magic?

Yeah, Mm.

One of those nasal sounds, great job.

Let's practice another one.

Say the word "Napkin."

Nice.

And that first sound is?

Nn, great job.

Another nasal.

All right, say the word "Candle."

And the first sound that you hear in that word?

Kk.

Very good.

Say the word "Blister."

Yeah, and that first sound, that very first sound is?

Buh, buh, buh.

Great job, learners.

I'm so proud of you, you did such a great job.

Listening for those beginning sounds.

Switching out all of those sounds while we kept the rhyme the same, to make so many different words and word families.

Go ahead and kiss your brain, friends.

(kissy smacking) I'm so proud of you, and I'll see you next time.

Bye!

(upbeat music) - Hi everyone and welcome to "Room 9," our region's largest classroom.

My name is Miss 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 here to teach a movement lesson, so let's get ready to move with a little bit of a springtime twist.

To start, we're gonna begin by warming up our bodies.

So let's bring our feet together, stretch up nice and tall, and reach down to our toes, counting to five.

One, two, three, four, five.

And come on back up.

Now we're gonna twist, bringing our feet out a little bit further, twisting side-to-side.

One, two, three, four, and five.

Now, let's spring into it.

Today we are going to be doing a variety of springtime movements based on some of your favorite animals.

So let's start with our bunny rabbit.

We're gonna begin by putting our feet together, and we're gonna hop just like a bunny.

Little hops.

So, I'm gonna bend my knees and hop off just a little.

Let's do five.

Are you ready?

One, two, three, four, and five.

Now, we're gonna raise it up just a little bit, and we're gonna do our frog jumps.

For these we need to bring our feet out just a little bit bigger.

We're gonna bend into it a little bit more.

And blast off, just like a frog.

Bigger jumps, five of those.

Ready?

Let's do it.

One, two, three, four, five.

Now, we're going one more level up.

We are gonna do some grasshopper jumps.

So for these, it's the frog jump.

But instead of jumping up, we're gonna jump out.

So, I'm gonna turn to the side so you can see.

I'm gonna start like my frog, bringing my feet down.

And I'm gonna jump forward, just like a grasshopper.

Leap through the air.

Let's do five of those.

Ready?

One, and bring it back.

Two, get ready for another one.

And three.

We've got two more.

And four.

And last one, make it big!

Five.

Excellent job, you guys are great grasshoppers.

Now, let's slow it down.

Let's be an inchworm.

We're gonna start by standing to the side, stretching up tall, crawling to the floor.

Reaching our hands out, ending in that plank.

And crawl back up.

That was one.

We have four more to do.

Let's go.

Up, down.

Out.

In and up for two.

One more.

Out, in.

Up, that was three.

Out, in, up, that's four.

Last one, out, in, up, woo!

If you're anything like me, you're a little bit tired.

So let's end with some roly-poly rolls.

I'm gonna come down, holding onto my knees, rolling backwards, and up.

Backwards and up.

Let's do three more for a total of five.

One, two, and three.

Woo!

Let's sit up.

Those springtime movements really have me feeling like it's summer.

Well, let's end with some deep breaths.

Breathe in, and out.

(gentle exhale) And in, and out.

(gentle exhale) Excellent job, boys and girls.

Remember the goal is 60 minutes of exercise every single day.

So, be those spring animals, and get those 60 minutes in.

Keep drinking your water, and we'll see you back here in "Room 9."

Bye, everyone!

(upbeat music) (rooster crowing) - Welcome back to our amazing classroom!

Man, they changed since the last time.

But, guess who we have with us?

Yes!

Wildlife expert, Mr. Bare Hand Beran.

And his hands are bare right now, what do you think he's gonna bring us?

- Well today, we have something that everyone will see eventually.

A Western Rat Snake.

- Oo!

- Now these guys are very prolific in this area.

You'll see a lot of these, and they eat birds, bats, and baby birds.

- [Dr. Sanders] Well, it's good thing they only eat birds, bats, and baby birds.

(both chuckling) - Well you know, they are excellent climbers.

And I mean, really, really good climbers.

They can climb a solid brick wall, flat solid wall, with no problem whatsoever.

So if there's a bird nest on the side of the house, she can climb right up the wall and get the baby birds out of there.

- Aw.

- They also eat a lot of rodents.

So they are a Western Rat Snake.

And so, rodents are 95% of their diet.

They eat tons of meadow voles.

Now, a vole is a little creature that you might find in the yard.

But they also eat mice out of attics.

And that's why we see them in homes all the time.

- Now, I heard of people say rat snakes.

What is a rat snake, what does rat mean?

- So rat snakes are, they fall in the classification of a colubrid, which is you know, your king snakes, your rat snakes, your corn snakes, your milk snakes.

All of those intermediate constructors, which means that they'll grab their prey with their mouth, and then they'll wrap their bodies around them, and construct to dispatch their prey.

And then, they swallow it whole.

- So they don't, it doesn't mean, it's not a rattle snake, it's just a rat snake.

Actually, a rat snake.

- Just a rat snake.

- And they eat rats?

- They do eat a lot of rodents.

- That's good, that's good.

- Yeah.

- How about babies, how are their babies born?

- So these guys do lay eggs.

They're like a leathery-shelled egg.

And this guy right here could probably, she could probably lay 30 eggs probably.

And she'll lay them around the end of June, first of July.

And then, they'll all hatch out the end of August, the first of September.

So, in the St. Louis area, and most urban areas, suburban areas, in September, the snake population jumps 10 times, 20 times, than what the population normally is.

Because all of them hatch at the same time.

- Okay, so it that why we need owls?

- Well you know, owls do, owls will catch and eat snakes.

But you know what eats more snakes than anything?

Other snakes.

- Oh, wow!

- Yeah, so king snakes and a lot of different other snakes that will eat other snakes, they make sure that their eggs hatch first.

So that they'll, the young king snakes will prey on the young rat snakes.

- So is it possible that I can hold?

- Oh yeah, this snake is very docile.

Just never squeeze a snake.

Now kids, if you see a snake in the wild, do not approach it, do not touch it.

Because you really don't know if it's venomous, or non-venomous.

- And do snakes make good pets?

- So some snakes do make very good pets.

Especially bald pythons.

Reticulated pythons, blood pythons.

Corn snakes are a type of colubrid.

But king snakes and milk snakes all make excellent pets.

Very easy to take care of.

They don't require a lot of special lighting, and you can buy frozen rodents on the internet, and they'll eat frozen rodents.

- All righty.

- You look like you're having fun with it.

- I know, I think I may need to get me a snake.

Well, maybe not.

(Mr. Bare Hand chuckling) But, thank you for bringing a rat snake in!

And, we'll see you in a bit.

(lively music) - [Students] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven- - Hi there, "Room 9," it's me, Mrs. Williams, the woodland creature teacher.

And when I'm not here teaching you learning, and having fun in "Room 9," with you guys, I'm teaching and learning at Windsor Elementary, where I teach first grade.

So hi, and lots of love to all my Windsor C-1 family.

Today, we're going to be talking about coins.

Matt asked "What's the deal with coins and their values?"

Well, let's talk a little bit about this.

We have one, two, three, four coins here.

And one bill.

These are called coins, and these are bills.

This is paper money, and these are made of metal.

So let's take a look at our first coin.

This is called a penny.

Everybody say "P-E-N-N-Y."

You do it.

Yeah, this is a penny, and it's worth one cent.

And when we write one cent, this is how we show it.

You write the number one, and kind of like a C, with a line through it, or stick.

So, a penny is worth one cent.

Now, if we're moving on over to our next coin, this guy's called a nickel.

Nickels are worth five cents.

Everybody say "One, two, three, four, five."

What's his name again?

You're right.

It's nickel.

So a nickel is worth five cents.

This coin is called a dime.

Do you have a guess on how many cents it's worth?

It's 10.

Good for you, if you guessed it right.

Now this next coin is a big one.

It's called a quarter.

Because four of these makes a dollar.

So, it's one-quarter of a dollar.

It's worth 25 cents!

How do we make 25?

You're right, it's a two first, and then what?

That's gonna be our five.

So 25 cents, so we have penny worth one.

Nickel worth five.

Dime worth 10, and quarter worth 25.

Do you know how many pennies it takes to make a dollar?

100!

That's a really big number.

Now if we were gonna show that something is worth one dollar, this is how we'll write it.

We show our one, and here's a decimal and two zeros.

Now there's a special symbol to show that we're talking now about dollars, instead of cents.

And it looks like the letter S. Put your finger up high in the sky, and make a letter S. I'll make one with my marker.

And we'll put a little line through it, just like we did through our cents sign.

Now, I've got a couple of quick poems to help you remember the coins that we talked about today.

This one's called "Penny."

And we say: Penny, penny, easily spent.

Copper brown and worth one cent.

Good at remembering.

This guy's called "Nickel."

Did you remember?

Nickel, nickel, thick and fat, you're worth, how many?

Five cents, I know that.

Now, let's take a look at our last two coins.

We say, do you remember his name?

Dime, dime, little and thin, I remember you're worth 10.

And our last coin for today, quarter, quarter, big and bold.

You're worth 25, I am told.

Awesome job, guys.

Your homework for today is to take a look at some coins.

Ask your parents, your adults nicely to borrow some, and talk to them about how much each coin is worth.

Thanks for visiting today, and I'll see you soon.

Lots of love and a big smile.

Bye!

(gentle music) (rooster crowing) (upbeat music) - Now, we're gonna have some quick facts about the rat snake.

- Yeah, so this guy Western Rat Snake, and they do eat rodents.

95% of their diet is rats.

Like their name implies.

They are egg layers.

And so, usually at the end of June, first of July, they'll lay a bunch of eggs.

And then, they'll hatch those eggs out in September, or so.

And interesting thing about most snakes and reptiles, is when they get too big for their skin, they'll actually shed all of their skin off in one piece.

If you do find a shed, a snake shed, you can always believe that it's 25% longer than the snake actually was.

Yeah.

Now, they do have a Jacob's organ inside their mouth.

And when they flicker their tongue out like that, they're actually gathering scent from around their environment, so that they can tell where they're going.

- Okay, so is he gathering my scent?

- Yeah, he is.

He's like, "Hey, your cologne smells great."

(both chuckling) - Well, thank you very much for those fun facts, Mr. Bare Hand!

- [Mr. Bare Hand] Thank you.

- See you in a bit.

(popping whoosh) - Great day, it's Candice Mackayas, and I want to introduce you to my friend, Tia.

This is Tia right here.

Tia is an amazing little girl.

So Tia loves to dance, and she loves to roller skate.

And she loves to do people's hair.

But also, Tia worries a lot.

She worries about almost everything.

She drives across the bridge with her family, and she worries, "What's gonna happen if we drive across this bridge?"

Or when she's in school, she's like, "What's gonna happen while I'm in school?"

And so, Tia has to really work on being patient with herself.

And she works on other people being patient with her, as well.

Because sometimes she worries about making friends, and keeping friends.

Because she thinks about what other people are gonna think about her.

And sometimes, Tia gets into arguments with people, because she gets a little irritated when she can't control what's happening around her.

And so, when we talk about being patient, we're making sure that she learns how to pause and think, inhale, exhale, now talk, or now tap out.

Can you say "Patient?"

So, I want you, just like Tia, to think about being patient whenever there's a time in your life, where you have a whole lot going on, I want you to pause and think, inhale, (gentle inhale) exhale, (gentle inhale) now talk if you can.

But tap out if you can't talk without being rude, or being mean to somebody.

Or being rude with yourself.

Because nobody wants to be rude to themselves, or anybody else.

That's just not fair.

So I want you to try that out.

Let a trusted adult know how it works out.

And, have an amazing day.

I'll see you soon.

Give hugs and cyber kisses.

(gentle bells) - Welcome back in from your learning adventure.

Did you enjoy it?

I did, I enjoyed it while I was just chilling in this amazing classroom!

But guess what?

It is time for us to get out of "Room 9."

Before we get out, what's our favorite word?

Nine!

Let's spell "Nine."

Nine, N-I-N-E, nine!

Thank you for being in "Room 9."

Bye-bye!

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