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

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

- We can say to ourselves to be positive.

- Lemurs are found on the island of Madagascar.

- For one, our numbers get bigger as we go across to the right.

- Reset.

- How can we- - That means taking a deep breath.

It may mean counting to 10.

- Today we're gonna start with a freestyle throw, so I'm gonna put my arms up and I'm going to- - All right, are you ready to learn?

Let's go!

(upbeat music) (bright happy music) Yes!

Yes, yes, yes!

Welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9," the region's largest classroom!

I am Dr. Sanders, and in our new classroom, you can play tic-tac-toe, but also, we can go anywhere and be anything while engaging and learning about the community around us.

But remember what I always say.

It doesn't matter if you're two or 102.

You'll have some fun!

F-U-N, fun!

You will have some fun while learning!

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

Let me take off my hat.

Beautiful hat, I might say.

And we're gonna get started (laughs) by giving some shout-outs to some of my friends!

My first friend today I ever shout out for is Mariyah.

Hey, Mariyah!

(bright ding) How are you doing today?

Let's spell Mariyah's name.

Capital M-A-R-I-Y-A-H. Hi, Mariah!

(bright ding) My next name is Kayla.

Hey, Miss Kayla!

(bright ding) How are you doing today?

Let's spell Kayla's name.

Capital K-A-Y-L-A.

Hi, Kayla!

(bright ding) My next name is Lennox.

Hi, Miss Lennox!

(bright ding) How are you doing today?

Are you taking care of your sister?

Well, I hope so.

Or is she taking care of you?

Oh, let's spell Lennox's name.

Capital L-E-N-N-O-X.

Hi, Lennox!

(bright ding) And my last name for today is Miss Kensington.

Hi, Miss Kensington!

(bright ding) Are you taking care of your sister Lennox, or is she taking care of you?

I don't know.

Let's spell Miss Kensington!

Capital K-E-N-S-I-N-G-T-O-N. Hi, Kensington!

(bright ding) All righty, are you all ready?

Let's get this day of learning started!

(children laughing) (bell ringing loudly) (test beep buzzing) - Just like at home, (children shouting) there will be times that you wanna share your ideas and ask questions, but remember, yelling and waving won't do the trick with your teacher!

(buzzer buzzing) Instead, raise your hand and sit quietly.

That's the best way to get your teacher to call on you, polite and patient.

Let's review today's lesson!

Remember, when you have an idea or a question, raise your hand and sit quietly.

Being polite gets you noticed in your class.

So let's learn together and have fun while being respectful in our classroom.

- One, two, three, four, (bright music) five, six, seven.

- Hey, everyone.

You know what time it is, "Teaching in Room 9."

I'm Ms. Williams.

I teach here Confluence Academy, Old North, second grade.

Little bit bigger kids.

Today we're gonna learn all about measurement.

Do you know what it means to measure something?

Measuring something, when you usually do it, you use things like this.

Anybody know what this is?

This is called a ruler.

We use rulers to measure things that are not that big, but we use things like this to measure things that are a little bit bigger.

This is called a meter stick.

But we're not gonna use those things today.

Those things are boring.

We're gonna use different types of measurement tools today.

You can use anything around to measure objects.

You can measure how small something is.

You can measure how big something is.

You can measure how fat something is, how tall something is.

Anything at all in your house you can use to measure.

Right now we're going to use our snap cubes to measure different things.

I know you know these snap cubes.

They come apart and together, apart and together.

Let's look around and think about what we wanna use to measure with these snap cubes.

I know.

I know you know what these are.

I bet you love drawing around the house with these!

Make sure you don't draw on that wall, though.

Let's measure this crayon with these snap cubes.

Are you ready?

But before we start measuring, can you guess how many snap cubes might be how long this crayon is?

What do we think?

How many snap cubes for this crayon?

Let's think, hmm.

Did you get a good guess in?

Let's find out if your guess is right.

We're gonna measure it.

We start at the bottom of the tool to the top of it.

Let's count together.

Are you ready?

One snap cube, two snap cubes, three snap cubes, four snap cubes.

I'd say this crayon is about four snap cubes long.

Wow, that was really good.

Let's measure something else with these snap cubes.

How about this glue stick?

Did you make a lot of arts and crafts at home with this glue?

Gluing it together, taping things together.

I bet you did.

Can you guys give me an estimate about how long this glue stick is?

How many snap cubes do you think?

Got your guesses in?

Okay, let's find out!

Ready?

We put it right next to each other, end to end, beginning to beginning.

Let's count.

One snap cube, two snap cubes, three snap cubes, four snap cubes.

It's about five snap cubes long.

You see, it's not exactly five snap cubes, but it's super close, so we're gonna say about five snap cubes long for this glue stick!

Did you guess that?

If you did, good job.

Ooh, let's try something a little bigger this time.

I bet you know what this is.

What do you do with this?

Yes, you write out all your thoughts with this.

You can write a letter to your mom, dad.

You can write a letter to your dog if you wanted to.

Let's measure this pencil.

Can you guys guess how long this pencil is in snap cubes?

Okay, I like those guesses.

Let's find out.

Here we go.

End to end, beginning to beginning.

Ooh, let's count 'em.

Here we go.

One snap cube, two snap cubes, three snap cubes, four snap cubes, five snap cubes.

Whew, this is long.

Six snap cubes, seven snap cubes, eight snap cubes, nine snap cubes, and always at the end of the pencil, 10 snap cubes long!

The pencil is 10 snap cubes long.

Wow, that was a lot of snap cubes.

Ooh, but what if we wanna measure something a little bit bigger?

I think we can measure the width of this desk.

I said width.

Whew, that's a big word.

The width would be how wide this desk is.

Take a look at how wide this desk is.

Can you take a guess at how wide this desk is?

How many snap cubes would that be?

What do you think?

Remember, make a good guess, 'cause remember, the pencil was 10 snap cubes, and that's pretty small compared to the desk.

What's your guess?

Hmm, I'm gonna guess 20 snap cubes.

What do you think?

Let's find out.

Let's scooch these over and measure the width of this desk.

So we're gonna go from this side to the very end all the way as much as we can, and let's count how many we have.

You guys ready?

We're gonna count a little faster this time.

Ready?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, whew!

21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, and last but not least, 32!

Whoa, that was a mouthful!

The width of this desk is 32 snap cubes long.

Oh, that took a long time, but you guys did it.

Was your guest kinda close?

My guess was a little close, but not all the way, and that's okay.

What if I wanted to measure something a little bit bigger?

I don't wanna count all those snap cubes every single time.

What I can use is something a little bigger each time.

Oopsie, I got it.

Instead of the snap cubes are just super tiny and you gotta keep counting, let's try using these popsicle sticks instead.

What do you think?

Can we measure something with popsicle sticks?

Hmm.

Ooh, I see something we can measure.

How 'bout shapes?

Let's start with some squares.

Now we're gonna measure in popsicle sticks.

Are you guys ready?

Let's start with this teeny, tiny little green square right here.

How many popsicle sticks long do you think this green square could be?

Hmm.

Okay, got your guesses in?

Let's find out.

Whoop!

End to end, beginning to beginning.

Oh man, the popsicle stick is so big!

So we'd say this square is about one popsicle stick long!

Let's try a bigger shape.

How 'bout this square?

How big do you think this square is in popsicle sticks?

Okay, let's find out.

One popsicle stick.

Oh man, we can't fit another popsicle stick on there, can we?

So we'd say it's still about one popsicle stick long, but just a little bit more than one.

How 'bout the big square?

Let's find out.

One popsicle stick, two popsicle sticks, about three popsicle sticks.

But you know what, guys?

Those are too small.

Let's go bigger.

What if we wanted to measure this crate?

Whoa, that's gigantic!

Let's measure it.

Here we go.

One popsicle stick, two popsicle sticks.

Oh, that's about it!

About two popsicle sticks.

But I think we can go bigger than that, guys.

I wanna use this crate, 'cause it's huge, to measure me!

Can you guys guess how tall I am with these crates?

Hmm.

I'm gonna start at the bottom.

Get those guesses in!

Okay, you ready?

I got one.

One crate-bit tall.

Let's keep counting until it gets all the way to the end of me.

Two crates tall, three crates tall!

Whoa, four crates tall, five crates tall.

Oh my goodness, it's almost there!

And about six crates.

Ms. Williams is about six crates tall.

Whoa!

How tall are you guys in crates?

We'll find out next time.

You guys did amazing.

We can use anything we want to measure different objects.

Keep trying those at home and I'll see you guys next time.

Bye!

(bright music) (rooster crowing) (snake rattling) - Welcome back to our classroom!

Yes, that's right.

Our wildlife expert.

Mr. Bare Hands Beran has joined us again!

And I wonder what he has for us today.

- Well, today we have an Asian forest scorpion.

- [Dr. Sanders] Asian forest scorpion?

- [Bare Hands Beran] Yes, it's a very large scorpion.

- [Dr. Sanders] It doesn't look very large in your hand!

- [Bare Hands Beran] Well, comparatively.

(laughs) In St. Louis and the Missouri area, our scorpions are only about this big.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

So this guy though, he is a forest floor hunter.

- So not in the trees, not at the top, not in the canopy level.

- Nope.

- On the floor.

- On the floor, and he loves to search around and find insects.

Especially loves roaches.

- Ooh.

Amazing, amazing.

So you find them.

Where do you find 'em again?

- So you'll find them in any the Asian countries that have thick forests and rainforests.

They love to get up underneath the leaf litter, you know, all the leaves that fall down out of the rainforest trees, and they'll hunt underneath there, specifically looking for different types of insects.

- Now, I see the scorpion and I see he's moving around.

What is that little swirly thing at the back of him, at the back of his tail?

- Well, this part right here is where his stinger is located.

You see that really sharp point right there?

Oh, okay.

- And then that bulge right there is where the venom for the stinger is.

Now, this particular species, they're very docile.

As a matter of fact, any of the scorpions that have very, very large pincers- - Okay.

- They typically have very weak venom.

As a matter of fact, if he were to sting me, which I must say, he never has, it would feel like a honeybee perhaps.

- So docile means he's just real cool, right?

- Yeah, he's just chill.

He's just really cool.

He's not too upset about anything.

- All right, and how many legs does he have?

- Well, these guys have eight legs total, two pinchers, and one stinger.

- Oh.

Oh, you think I can hold him perhaps, man?

- Absolutely, yeah.

So this guy is very, very easy to hold.

As a matter of fact, we'll just get him to crawl over to your hand.

There you go.

Now, you're not allergic to bee stings, are you?

- [Dr. Sanders] No, not at all.

- [Bare Hands Beran] Oh, good.

Some people are allergic to bee stings, and so if you're allergic to bee stings, you might be allergic to scorpions.

- [Dr. Sanders] Well, I'm glad I'm not allergic 'cause I wouldn't be holding him right now.

- Yeah, now, in the St. Louis area, Missouri area, we have a scorpion that's called the striped bark scorpion.

It hurts.

It stings a lot.

So kids, if you see a scorpion, don't handle it like this, because it's not friendly.

- That's why we have our wildlife expert handling them and showing me how to handle 'em.

- Yeah, you're doing a great job too.

- Well, thank you, thank you.

- Yeah, so they have little hooks on the end of each one of their legs and so he can actually hang upside down and not fall off your arm.

- [Dr. Sanders] Okay, and I can feel 'em a little bit.

They don't hurt, but I can actually feel 'em!

- Yeah, he's just kinda hooking in a little bit there.

Now, because they have the very large pinchers and the very weak venom, they capture their prey by grabbing them.

- Okay.

- But they don't sting very often.

- All right, all right.

Well, hmm.

We only see scorpions in movies.

I'm glad I got the handle one today!

- Yeah, absolutely.

And this is the type of scorpion that you would see in movies, because they're very easy to work with.

- All right.

- And actually, if you wanted to keep one as a pet, they make pretty good pets.

- I like 'em because you can actually hold 'em.

- Yeah.

I wouldn't be kissing' on him.

(laughs) - Oh no, I don't think I would either.

- [Bare Hands Beran] But he does like to be rubbed right here like this.

- Just like that?

- Mm-hmm, go ahead.

- Now, boys and girls, do you wanna kiss the scorpion?

- No.

- No!

But let's thank Mr. Bare Hands for being in our classroom today!

I'll see you in a bit!

- [Child] 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 all on rhyming words and listening for the rhymes and picking those out, and then seeing if two rhyming pairs, if we can decide if they have the same rhyme.

But we're gonna go ahead and start with 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 and they then come together ♪ ♪ To form sentences that we can read or write ♪ Nice job, friends.

Now, focusing on rhyming words.

Rhyming words have the same vowel sound and the same sounds that come after it.

Let's go ahead and sing a song together to help practice that.

♪ 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, friends!

We're gonna practice picking out rhyming words by singing a familiar song that you maybe have heard already before.

Show me a me too if you've ever heard the song "Down by the Bay."

I'm seeing some friends showing me too, or no, that's okay.

Try to see if you can sing along with me.

We're really listening for those rhyming word pairs and that rhyme in those rhyming pairs.

Okay, see if you can sing along with me.

♪ Down by the bay where the watermelons grow ♪ ♪ Back to my home I dare not go ♪ ♪ For if I do, my mother will say ♪ ♪ Have you ever seen a goose hugging a moose down by the bay ♪ ♪ Down by the bay where the watermelons grow ♪ ♪ Back to my home I dare not go ♪ ♪ For if I do, my mother will say ♪ ♪ Have you ever seen a whale with a polka-dot tail ♪ ♪ Down by the bay ♪ Down by the bay where the watermelons grow ♪ ♪ Back to my home I dare not go ♪ ♪ For if I do, my mother will say ♪ ♪ Have you ever seen a fly wearing a tie down by the bay ♪ ♪ Have you ever seen a whale with a polka-dot tail ♪ ♪ Down by the bay ♪ Have you ever seen llamas eating their pajamas ♪ ♪ Down by the bay Nice job, friends!

Show me a me too if you like that song too.

Yeah, there's a lot of good examples of rhyming words.

Go ahead and shout out for me nice and loud some of the rhyming words you heard in that song.

Yeah, I'm hearing some really good ones!

I'm hearing even in the beginning part of the song, grow and go.

Those are rhyming pairs.

The end of the words sounds the same.

So in grow and go, the rhyme would be oh.

Great job, what are some other pairs you heard?

Yeah, I'm hearing goose hugging a moose.

Yeah, those are good ones!

Oose would be the rhyme in those words.

They sound the same at the end.

What other ones did you hear?

Yeah, whale with a polka dot tail?

Whale and tail would be rhyming words, and the part of the word that sounds the same?

Ail, great job!

What are some other ones you heard?

Yeah, I remember that one too.

Fly and tie, and the rhyme would be I.

It's the part of the word that sounds the same at the end.

What other ones did you hear?

Any other ones I'm forgetting.

Yeah, I heard llamas and pajamas, (laughs) and the rhyme in those would be amas.

Great job!

It's the part of the word that sounds the same, vowel sounds and the sounds that come after it.

Let's go ahead and practice.

Go ahead and say these words after me.

Give me a thumbs up if they rhyme.

If they do we'll, shout out the rhyme.

If they don't, (honks) gimme a thumbs down.

Okay, ready?

Say the words "Go, no."

Nice, do those words rhyme?

(bright ding) Ding, ding, ding, they sure do!

Oh would be the rhyme.

Give me the words or go and say them for me, "Run, fun."

Do those words rhyme?

(bright ding) Yeah, ding, ding, ding!

Un would be the rhyme.

Say the words, "Out, pig."

Yeah, do those words rhyme?

(buzzer buzzing) (honks) They don't sound the same at the end of the word at all.

Say the word, "Lip, bag."

Do those words rhyme?

(buzzer buzzing) (honks) They sure don't.

One more, friends.

Say the words, "Sad, mad."

Do those words rhyme?

(bright ding) Ding, ding, ding, they sure do.

Ad would be the rhyme.

Nice job, friends!

You did such a great job listening for those rhyming words in our song that we sang together and picking out those vowel sounds and the sounds that come after them to find rhyming word pairs.

Wonderful job, friends!

Kiss your brains.

You did such a great job today.

I'll see you next time.

Bye!

(bright music) (rooster crowing) (snake rattling) (bright happy music) - Now we have some fun facts about our scorpion!

- Yeah, scorpions are amazing creatures.

A fun fact about scorpions is the larger the pinchers, typically the weaker the venom, and that's because they use their pinchers to capture their prey and crush them and eat them.

They also have eight legs, two pinchers, and one stinger, and on the end of each of these legs, they have little hooks for climbing and repelling.

As a matter of fact, they can usually hang upside down with those little hooks.

- [Dr. Sanders] Oh.

- Yeah.

They are insectivores, meaning they search out and hunt down insects.

They specifically love cockroaches, and that's because they live in the floor of rainforests underneath the leaf litter, and there's a lot of species of cockroaches in that particular environment.

They do have two sets of eyes.

They've got a primary set of eyes and a secondary set of eyes.

However, they don't use vision very much to see as much as to hunt by movement.

So they see their prey moving, so they snap at it.

And like all scorpions, they will glow underneath a blacklight.

- Ooh, glow-in-the-dark scorpions!

- Absolutely.

- Well, thank you very much for those fun facts!

(upbeat music) (bright ding) - 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 an 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 ding) - Did you have fun?

I'll wait, I'll wait a second.

Okay, all right.

Did you have fun today?

Yes, I did too!

I had a fun day of learning, but guess what?

It's about that time for us to get outta room nine!

But before we do, let's spell our favorite word, and what is that?

Nine!

Let's spell nine!

N-I-N-E, nine!

Thank you for being in room nine!

Bye-bye!

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There is hope.

Call or text 988.

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