- Hello, everyone, and welcome to "Teaching in Room 9!"

The region's- - Shapes are everywhere we look, but- - Good job!

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

- Can say to ourselves to be positive.

- Lemurs are found on the island of Madagascar.

- For one, I'm gonna risk 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 stroke.

So I'm gonna put my arms up, and I'm going to- - [Dr. Sanders] Alrighty, are you ready to learn?

Let's go!

(upbeat music) (bright music) Hello, everyone, and welcome to "Teaching in Room 9," the region's largest classroom!

I am Dr. Sanders.

In our new classroom, we can go anywhere and be anything.

In this ever-changing space, we will engage and learn about the community around us.

But remember what I always say, it doesn't matter if you're 2 or 102, we will have some fun!

F-U-N, fun!

We will have some fun while learning.

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

I would like to get started by giving our friends some shout outs to my friends!

My first friend's name is Amir.

Hi, Amir!

Let's spell Amir.

Capital A-M-I-R. Amir!

Hi, Amir!

Hi, A'Navia!

Let's spell A'Navia.

Capital A, apostrophe, capital N-A-V-I-A.

Hi, A'Navia!

Lamont!

Hi, Lamont!

How are you doing?

Let's spell Lamont.

Capital L-A-M-O-N-T. Hi, Lamont!

And Karter!

Hey, Karter, how you doing?

Let's spell Karter.

Capital K-A-R-T-E-R. Alrighty, are you ready to learn?

Let's go!

(children laughing) (bell rings) - [Announcer] This is a test.

For the next 60 seconds, this station will conduct a test.

This is only a test.

(machine beeps) (static crackling) - [Narrator] 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.

(playful 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 cubby.

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

Step two, hang up your bookbag.

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.

- [Children] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

- Hey there, everyone.

Welcome to "Teaching in Room 9."

I'm Ms. Williams.

I teach second grade at Confluence Academy Old North.

I am here today to teach you all about shapes in our environment.

Everywhere we look, there are shapes all around us.

Look out the window.

I bet you see some shapes.

Look in your room, there are definitely shapes.

Shapes like squares, circles, and triangles.

Look at these shapes.

Let's start with the squares.

Can you look around and find some squares in your room?

What do you see?

Maybe a shape like a window?

Ooh, look at that window.

It's like a square, right?

Or maybe even like a rectangle, maybe a little longer.

Look at the TV.

I bet that looks like a square.

What else do you see?

Any more shapes?

Any more squares?

How about those circles?

Do you see any circles around your room?

Maybe outside, maybe in the sky, what kind of circle do you think is in the sky?

I'll give you a hint, it's big and yellow.

Yes, that's right, it's the sun.

The sun is in the sky, and it's always there for us.

What about at night?

What do you see in the sky?

Uh-huh, that's right, the sun's friend, the moon, big and white.

Sometimes it's a full, big circle.

Sometimes it doesn't look like a circle at all.

That's also a shape.

That's called a crescent shape.

That's totally different than a circle, but it's very similar.

What about those triangles?

Maybe we can get in the kitchen and look in there for some triangles.

Hmm, what would be in the kitchen?

Do you see anything?

Maybe some cookie cutters when you're making cookies with mom, and boop, boop, boop.

Cutting those cookies out.

And you have cookies the shapes of triangles.

Maybe like a Christmas tree cookie.

Oh, I bet those look just like triangles.

You can see shapes everywhere you go.

Let's try something.

Why don't you guys go and find a mirror right now?

I'll wait for you.

Let's find a mirror, and let's look right here at our faces.

Can you see your beautiful, handsome self?

Now let's see if we can see some shapes on our face.

What's here?

Hmm, what is this?

It's a nose.

Of course it's your nose.

It kinda looks like a... What do you think?

Hmm?

(gasps) Like a triangle.

It looks like a triangle!

What about these big, beautiful things?

What kinda shape is that?

Yes, you have two of those, and they look like circles that you see with.

Anything else you see on your face that looks like a shape?

Maybe a shape I haven't said yet, ooh!

I don't know, a smile?

If you smile nice and big, it might look like that moon we talked about earlier.

An upside-down moon.

Or if you frown, that could look like a moon too.

Shapes are everywhere we look, but we wanna also make sure that we know what these shapes are called and how we know that these are shapes.

Let's start with our squares.

Squares look different than triangles and circles.

We use something called sides to figure out which each shape is called.

Squares have one side, two sides, three sides, and four sides.

So anytime you see a square, it always has four sides.

Look around your room.

Was that window you saw earlier or the TV you said earlier have four sides?

I bet it does.

If it's a square, it's got four sides.

What about triangles?

Look at the difference between squares and triangles.

Can you count the sides of triangles and tell me how many sides there are?

Remember.

Hmm?

Let's count together.

One side, two sides, three sides for a triangle.

So triangles always have three sides.

I'll give you a little hint.

You hear the word tri in triangles?

I bet you ride something that sounds like tri.

It's a tricycle!

And it has three wheels like triangles have three sides.

But circles, on the other hand, look way different.

I don't really see any sides in these circles.

Can you tell me if you see sides on a circle?

No, that's right.

There are no sides on a circle.

Circles are round.

They go like this.

They have zero sides.

Now think back when we talked about the sun and the full moon.

Did the sun and the full moon have any sides or are they just round?

Yes, that's right, they're just round.

Now, those aren't the only shapes that we see in our environment.

Shapes are everywhere.

When you're driving with mom and dad in the car, just popping along, looking around out the window, and mom and dad stops the car.

Why are they stopping the car, you think?

Well, I see something outside the window.

It's red, and it looks like this.

It's got eight sides.

I wonder what shape that is.

Do you guys know?

Yes, that shape is an octagon, and it's just stop sign.

They stop the car 'cause they're at a stop sign.

And that is a shape, a big, beautiful eight-sided shape right there.

As we look around, shapes are everywhere in our environment.

Squares, triangles, and circles are easy to find, so let's play a quick little shape hunt in your room.

Can you find a square, a triangle, and a circle in your room right now?

I bet you can.

What'd you find?

I bet you saw maybe a square toy box.

A triangle, ding, ding, ding, musical instrument.

What about a circle book?

Anything!

I bet you found some shapes that I haven't even talked about yet that we haven't even learned yet, because shapes are everywhere.

And don't forget to look on your face, 'cause we have all those wonderful shapes on our face too.

So as you're going through life, walking around the streets, looking on the ground, looking out the windows, you will see shapes everywhere.

See what you can find at home.

And don't forget that our shapes have different sides.

Squares have four sides, triangles have three sides, our circles have no sides, but we know they're called that because of their sides.

As you're home, don't forget to look for those shapes and think about those sides, and we'll do more next time.

You guys are amazing!

I am so proud.

I'll see you guys next time, bye!

(playful music) - Welcome back, boys and girls, to our classroom!

Guess what time it is?

It is movement time!

Are you ready to move?

Please stand up!

Everybody jump up and down 10 times, go!

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

All right, arm circle.

Put your arms out like this.

Now, arm circles forward for five, go!

One, two, three, four, five.

Arm circles backwards for five, go!

One, two, three, four, five.

All right, can you stand on one foot?

Let's stand on one foot.

Keep your balance!

Don't fall down!

Let's go for six, go!

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

All right, let's do the other leg.

Ooh, oh, don't hold on to anything, try not to!

For five, go!

One, two, three, four, five.

All right, we're gonna run in place for three.

Just three, make sure you're counting with me, let's go.

One, two, three.

Whoo!

You look so good.

Do you know why you exercise?

You exercise because it helps your mind work.

It helps your mind work.

But let's sit down on four.

One, two, three, four!

Up, down, up, down.

Sit right down on the ground!

Or on the floor!

And now we are ready for some more learning!

(rooster crows) (snake hisses) Welcome back to our amazing classroom!

You already see him!

Yes, Mr. Bare Hands Beran, our favorite wildlife expert!

And Mr. Beran, I like, hold on, I like Bare Hands first.

Yeah.

- Every calls me Bare Hands.

- Bare Hands, that's all right, call him Bare Hands.

Say, "Hi, Mr. Bare Hands!"

- Hey, kids.

How are ya?

- What do you have for us today?

- Well, today I brought in Sunshine.

- [Dr. Sanders] Ooh!

- [Mr. Bare Hands] And Sunshine is a leopard gecko.

- A leopard gecko.

Why is it a leopard gecko?

- [Mr. Bare Hands] Well, two reasons.

One, they have these really interesting spots like a leopard does.

- [Dr. Sanders] Okay.

- And two, they hunt very cat-like - Oh!

- Yeah, like they crouch and they pounce, and the little tail twitches.

And then when they find their prey, (imitates gecko chomping) they jump on it like a cat.

- Oh.

Oh!

- Just like a leopard would.

- Okay, and what is their prey?

- [Mr. Bare Hands] So they eat a lot of insects.

However, they're not opposed to eating small lizards or anything they can get their mouth on.

- Okay, so, we talked about omnivore and hardcore carnivore and earlier- - So they are considered a carnivore.

- Okay.

- Or an insectivore.

'Kay, because they do eat protein.

- Okay, and where do you find leopard geckos?

- These guys are from the Middle East.

You'll find them in Iran and in Pakistan and some of those Middle Eastern countries around that region.

- And why are they in those countries and not on an island?

- Well, leopard geckos prefer a very arid type of environment to live in.

- Arid, arid, that's a big word.

Everybody say arid.

- Arid.

- All right, and what does arid mean?

- So that means that it would be a very dry environment, you know?

It may be a desert.

Very rocky, sandy, very little vegetation, mostly rocky, arid.

- All right, and I've been to a couple places and I've seen these, not in Iran or Egypt, I've been to a pet store.

- Mm-hmm.

- Are these, do these make good pets?

- So amazingly, they do make very good pets.

They're very easy to take care of.

The husbandry is very simple, it's pretty straightforward.

They don't need a lot of water, and they eat insects very readily, you can get mealworms, you can get dubia roaches, or you can get crickets.

- I wonder, is it okay if I pet?

- Yeah, you can pet Sunshine and you can hold her too.

So just hold your hands out like this.

There you go.

There you go.

And we'll just put her right there.

- Oh!

It's not as rough as I thought it would be.

- Yeah.

- Kinda soft.

- [Mr. Bare Hands] Now, a lot of people love leopard geckos because when you look at them right in the face, they look like they're smiling.

- [Dr. Sanders] Oh!

And she likes to crawl, I see.

- [Mr. Bare Hands] Oh, yeah.

As a matter of fact, when you have one for a pet, if supervised, you can let them out to crawl around and explore the area.

- [Dr. Sanders] As long as you don't have any cats around.

- Yes, do not have cats.

(Dr. Sanders laughs) - I think most cats would love to grab that.

- [Dr. Sanders] All right, and I see one more thing.

I see on the side of Sunshine's head, I see some openings.

What are those?

- [Mr. Bare Hands] Yes, so they have open ears, and so they actually absorb sound through those ears, and they can hear their surroundings, but they can also feel the vibrations through their toes.

- Oh!

Okay.

Well, thank you very much for bringing Sunshine in.

And boys and girls, I'll see you in a bit!

- [Children] 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 talking about all the letter sounds and how they feel in our mouth and our throat when we say them.

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 up of letters and sounds ♪ ♪ They blend together to make a word ♪ ♪ Words have meaning ♪ Then they then come together ♪ To form sentences that we can read or write ♪ Nice job, friends!

So we're gonna start by focusing on the letters that aren't vowels, they are consonants, and how they really feel in our mouth when we say them.

These first ones that we're focusing on are going to stop short when we say 'em, we push them out with one quick breath.

Go ahead and repeat these sounds after me.

B. T. K. K. P. D. G. Great job!

Now, go on and touch your throat right here and see how they feel when we say them.

If it is a buzzy sound, we'll feel our voice box vibrating.

If it's a whisper sound, it will not.

Let's try 'em again.

B.

Was that buzzy?

Yeah, it sure was.

T. No, that one is a whisper sound.

K. K. Yeah, you're right, those are whisper.

P. Also a whisper sound.

D. Yeah, that one was buzzy.

And G, yes, buzzy as well.

These next sounds, we are going to feel them in our nose when we make the sound.

We need the air in our nose to make the sounds.

Ready?

Say the sound after me.

You can even touch your nose and feel it vibrate.

N. Did you feel it?

Yeah, these sounds also go on and on.

Now try this one.

M. Great job.

Touch your throat, let's see if they're buzzy.

N. M. Yeah, these are both buzzy sounds.

These next sounds here, our tongue is floating or raised in our mouth when we say them.

These sounds also go on and on.

Ready?

Repeat the sound after me.

R. Great job!

And this one.

L. Nice!

Touch your throat, let's feel 'em.

R. L. Yeah, these are both buzzy sounds going on and on.

This sound here is going to push it out with one quick breath again just like these ones up here.

But our mouth and our teeth are really stopping the sound.

Go on and say the sound with me.

J. J. Yeah, that one, our mouth is really stopping the sound, but it is buzzy on our throat.

J.

These next ones here are going to go on and on, but our teeth are stopping the sound just like in that last sound we did.

Ready?

Repeat these sounds after me.

F. Yeah, if you were touching your throat, you could feel that one is such a whisper sound.

Now try this one.

V. Yeah, that one tickles my lips.

That's a buzzy sound.

S. Great job, whisper sound.

H. H. Yeah, that one's a whisper sound too.

And then last one here.

Z. Yeah, your teeth should really be buzzy on that one, and you can feel it in your throat as well.

These next two, it feels like the sound is going down a slide on the tongue in our mouth.

Ready?

Say it.

Y.

Great job, that one is a buzzy sound.

Do it with me.

Y.

Great job!

And then this one here.

W. Yeah, both of these are buzzy, and they really slide into the sounds that come after them inwards.

These last ones down here are extras because they don't follow those same patterns.

The first one is Q, always pairs with U and spells the sound kw.

Kw.

And that's a whisper sound.

And then this one here is the only consonant that makes two sounds by itself.

Ks.

Also a whisper sound.

Great job!

Vowel sounds go on and on.

Vowel sounds, our mouth is open, and vowel sounds are always going to be buzzy.

A, e, i, o, uh.

Great job.

There's lots of different vowel sounds that we could practice.

Okay, friends, let's try putting all the sounds together to do a letter sound song.

Okay, are you ready?

Try to sing along with me as best you can.

♪ A spells a, a ♪ B spells b, b ♪ C spells k, k ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ D spells d, d ♪ E spells e, e ♪ F spells f, f ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ G then spells g, g ♪ H then spells h, h ♪ I spells i ♪ J spells j ♪ K spells k ♪ L spells l ♪ And M spells m ♪ N spells n, n ♪ O spells o, o ♪ P spells p, p ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ Q spells kw, kw ♪ R spells r, r ♪ S spells s, s ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ T then spells t, t ♪ U then spells uh, uh ♪ V spells v ♪ W spells w ♪ X spells ks ♪ Y spells y ♪ And Z spells z ♪ Now we're all done with 26 letters ♪ ♪ Letters come together to make words ♪ Great job, learners!

You did such a great job really focusing on our letter sounds, how they feel in our mouth when we say them, and whether the sounds go on and on or if they stop short or if they're buzzy or whisper.

That'll really help our reading and writing brains when we're reading and writing new words.

Great job, friends.

Kiss your brains.

(smooches) I'll see you next time, bye!

(rooster crows) (snake hisses) (bright music) - Now we have some quick facts about our leopard gecko.

- Yes, leopard geckos are fascinating creatures.

One interesting thing about leopard geckos is, you see how fat his tail is?

That's because he stores all the extra nutrients and fat in that tail.

So if his tail is thicker than his hips, that means he's in extremely good health.

Another fun fact about leopard geckos is they have over 100 teeth in that mouth, and every three to four months, they regenerate those teeth.

So he's always got a nice new set of chompers.

Whenever they shed.

they're just like most reptiles, when they start growing, they get too big for their skin, they shed their skin.

Well, leopard geckos shed it in one piece, and then they eat the whole shed.

They also have eyelids that blink this way, and then they have a nictitating membrane that goes this way.

Their tongues are long enough that they can lick the sand out of their own eyeball.

(Dr. Sanders chuckles) What a great thing, huh?

- That would be nice.

(Mr. Bare Hands laughs) - They do have ear openings, and so they can hear, but they have very sensitive toes, and they can feel sound through the ground.

- All righty.

Thank you, Mr. Bare hands for those amazing facts!

And boys and girls, I'll see you in a bit!

Bye-bye!

(bright music) - Great day, it's Candice with KHAOS, and I wanna introduce you to my friend Christina.

Here's Christina right here.

Christina is absolutely cool.

Christina loves to swim and hang out with her friends, and she's really good with doing math.

She can do math problems in her head.

Can you do math problems in your head?

Christina also is a kid that she lives with her grandparents, and so sometimes she really misses her parents and her sisters because they stay out of town.

And she doesn't really know how to express her emotions and talk about how she feels, so sometimes she turns things into anger.

And I know we all do that sometimes when we don't really have words for our feelings, and so Christina is learning how to RESET.

Can you say reset?

RESET stands for remember every situation encourages thought.

And so Christina often has to reset because in many situations, she feels like people are against her and really people aren't really against her, and so she has to RESET before she responds or RESET before she reacts so that she doesn't make a decision and respond in a negative way when she doesn't need to.

And so the next time you're in a situation and you think it's something bad, I need you to take a minute and RESET before you respond.

And sometimes when you RESET, that means taking a deep breath, it may mean counting to 10.

And so I want you to try the RESET skill and tell a trusted adult how it works out, and then we'll talk about it.

I look forward to seeing you soon.

Air hugs and cyber kisses.

(bright music) - Hi, everyone.

I hope you had a fun day of learning, but now it is time for us to be done.

But before we get done, let's spell our favorite word, nine!

N-I-N-E. Nine!

Thank you for being in Room 9, bye-bye!

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