(upbeat music) - Hello, everyone, and welcome to "Teaching In Room 9."

- Shapes are everywhere we look.

- 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, 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 a freestyle growth, so I'm going to put my arms up, and I'm going to... - Alrighty, are you ready to learn?

Let's go!

(upbeat music ends) (calm music) (calm music continues) Hello, everybody, and welcome back to "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 engaging and learning all about our community.

But remember what I always say: it doesn't matter if you're 2 or 102; you can have some fun!

F-U-N. Fun!

You can have some fun while learning.

I work at Adams Elementary School in these St. Louis public schools and let's get our day started!

As I remove my cap, I'm gonna give some shout outs to some of my friends.

My first friend's name is Kristia.

Hi, Kristia!

Let's spell Kristia.

K-r-i-s-t-i-a.

K-r-i-s-t-i-a.

Hi, Kristia!

My next person is Jaxon.

Hello, Mr. Jaxon.

How are you doing today?

Let's spell Jaxon.

J-a-x-o-n. J-a-x-o-n. Hi, Jaxon!

My next person I'm gonna give a shout out to is Kyara.

Hey, Ms. Kyara!

How are you today?

Let's... Oh, oh.

Oh, you're amazingly happy?

Okay, that's great.

Let's spell Kyara.

K-y-a-r-a.

K-y-a-r-a.

And my last name today is Ms. London.

Hey, London!

I hope you're having a wonderful day.

Let's spell London.

L-o-n-d-o-n. L-o-n-d-o-n. Yeah, it's about that time for us to go on our next adventure!

Let's get our day going!

(school bell rings) (kids laughing) (lively music) - [Teacher] It's important to wash your hands at school and at home.

You get to follow the same steps.

Step one, apply soap and rub your hands together.

Step two, rinse thoroughly with water.

Step three, dry your hands completely.

Step four, throw your paper towel in the trash.

Let's review.

It's important to wash your hands.

Step one, always use soap and wash your hands together.

Step two, rinse off your hands with water.

Step three, make sure your hands are dried completely.

Step four, throw your paper towel away.

Fantastic job!

Keep up the good work and keep those hands clean.

(relaxing music) - Hi there, Room 9.

It's me, Mrs. Williams, the Woodland creature teacher.

I'm not here teaching and learning in Room 9 with you; 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.

So today, I'm coming to you with some questions about trash and recycling.

Lily and May said, "Mrs. Williams, how do I know the difference?

"What can be recycled, and what is supposed to go in the trash?"

Well, we'll sort some things out today.

Thumbs up and a wiggle if you can help me out.

Alright, we're gonna take a look at some things that you might have around your house, things that you have to make that trash or recycle decision about.

So our first item is a package from your snack.

What do you do when you're all finished with that granola bar?

Where should it go?

Well, it's plastic, and some plastics are recyclable, but some aren't, and items that have food waste on them always have to go in the trash.

So will I put it here or here?

This is my recycle can, and this one's for trash.

We're gonna put it right in here.

So we'll add wrapper to our trash column.

Alright, next up is a paper towel.

Let's say something gets a little messy in your kitchen.

What do you do with this when you're finished?

This one's gonna have to go in the trash too because it may have chemicals or other food waste in it.

Let's go ahead and see if I can make it.

Oh, I missed, let's put it on in.

We don't wanna litter.

It's really important that all of our trash goes into the correct bin, either trash or recycling, so that it doesn't end up in our lakes, streams, or polluting our community.

So let's put napkin here under trash.

Alright, so we have two trash items so far.

Let's take a look at another.

This one's a glass jar.

Now be careful with these because they could cut you if they break.

But let me tell you a little secret about glass: it can be melted down to make new glass.

That's called recycling.

So let's go ahead and put it into our recycle container.

We'll add glass to our recycle column.

Next up is a water bottle.

Now this is made of plastic, and so was that wrapper, but this is a different type of plastic.

When you see this symbol on items, you know that it's okay to recycle.

And this we'll usually have here on the bottom a recycle symbol to let you know that it's okay to put into your recycle bin so that it can be melted down and used to make new water bottles or other plastic items.

Let's go ahead and put it in.

Alright, here's another item that you might see a lot of.

You might use these to bring groceries or other items home after you purchase them at a store.

A lot of people don't realize that these were actually able to be recycled.

There might be a bin at your local grocery store or other store that you can take these back to after you've emptied out your items.

So let's go ahead and put this guy in recycle.

Now, one other thing that you can do with those is reuse them to carry other things around.

You don't always have to go immediately into the recycle.

You can use them to carry other items.

Let's say grocery bag.

Next up.

Oh, this is one of my favorites.

Thumbs up and a wiggle if you love when this comes in your packaging.

It's bubble wrap.

This is another plastic type item.

What do you think about this one?

Well, I'm taking a look and I don't see our recycle symbol.

So this one's gonna have to go where?

Yeah, into the trash.

Just put 'em on in there.

Alright, so those are a few of the items that you might be finding around your home.

We wanna make sure that we try and make this column as short as possible because things that can be reused are ideal.

They help to keep our communities clean and produce less trash because trash takes a really long time to break down in our landfills.

So the next time your family is clearing off the dinner table or getting rid of some unwanted items, I want you to try and make a trash pile and a recycle pile.

Gimme a thumbs up and a wiggle if that's something that you can do.

Awesome.

Give me lots of love, and a great big smile, and I'll see you soon.

Bye.

(casual music) (kids chattering) - [Teacher] Have you ever been to the dentist?

Let's visit together.

What will you see?

- Alright!

Good morning, friends.

How you doing?

- [Group] Good.

- Are you having fun so far?

- [Group] Yeah.

- Awesome.

We're gonna keep learning and we're gonna keep having fun for a little bit longer, okay?

Oh, tell 'em to your brains, okay?

Say 'em real loud in your head.

Just to yourself.

(kids chattering) Okay, and three, two, one, stop!

Okay, alright, very good.

So today, we are gonna become super scrubbers, okay?

So here's what we're gonna do: we're gonna do a little song and dance together to remind ourselves different parts of our bodies that we wash so that we don't get stinky, okay?

So I want everybody to stand up right where you are, okay?

And we're gonna do this little song and dance together.

It's gonna be familiar, but I am going to trick you, okay?

Are you ready?

- Yeah.

- Are you ready?

- Yeah.

- Okay, good.

We're gonna go head, shoulders, under your arms, knees and toes.

Did I trick you?

Head, shoulders, under your arms, knees and toes.

Eyes and ears, and teeth and nose, head, shoulders, under your arms, knees and toes.

Okay, you guys got it now, right?

You wanna do it a little faster?

Okay, let's do it a little bit faster, alright?

Are you ready?

- Yeah.

- Head, shoulders, under your arms, knees and toes.

Head, shoulders, under your arms, knees and toes.

Eyes and ears, and teeth and nose, head, shoulders, under your arms, knees and toes.

Alright, are you guys ready to do it super sonic speed?

- [Group] Yeah!

- Okay, so what we need to do is we need to get pumped.

Everybody get pumped!

And three, two, one!

(everyone yelling excitedly) Alright, everybody sit down!

(kids chattering) (kids silencing) Very good, okay.

Bring it in, in three, two, one, okay.

Alright, I need you to repeat after me.

I need you to go: whoop, whoop, I'm a super scrubber!

- [Group] Whoop, whoop, I'm a super scrubber.

- Do it again.

Go, whoop, whoop, I'm a super scrubber!

- [Group] Whoop, whoop, I'm a super scrubber.

- One more time.

Go, whoop, whoop, I'm a super scrubber!

- [Group] Whoop, whoop, I'm a super scrubber.

- Alright, fantastic job, guys.

I need your help with one more thing before we leave today.

While you guys were out playing, our giant teeth in the lobby had a little snack; and now the teeth are dirty, so we gotta go get 'em clean again.

So what I need us to do is I need us to line up and we're gonna go through this door right here, okay?

Then, we're gonna all go stand on the tongue under the big teeth.

Alright, my friends, take a look at these teeth.

What color are they?

- [Kids] Orange.

- They're orange!

Is that what color we want our teeth to be?

- [Kids] No!

- What color?

- White!

- We want our teeth to be sparkly white, right?

Okay, good.

So how do we get our teeth back to white?

- Brush!

- By brushing.

Okay, so everybody raise your magical toothbrush up high.

We're going to use this to brush, okay?

So I've got a magical song that we're going to use to make these teeth turn back clean, okay?

So I'm gonna sing a line of the song, and then I want you to sing it right back to me, okay?

Let's practice.

La, la.

- [Kids] La, la.

- Good, okay.

Here goes the song.

We grab our brush.

- [Kids] We grab our brush.

- Squeeze toothpaste on.

- [Kids] Squeeze toothpaste on.

- We brush in circles.

- [Kids] We brush in circles.

- When we get our brush on.

- [Kids] When we get our brush on.

- We brush, brush, brush.

- We brush, brush, brush.

- We brush, brush, brush.

- We brush, brush, brush.

- We brush our teeth.

- We brush our teeth.

- At least two times a day.

- At least two times a day.

- To keep our mouth healthy.

- To keep our mouth healthy.

- And the Plaque Man away.

- And the Plaque Man away.

- We brush, brush, brush.

- We brush, brush, brush.

- We brush, brush, brush.

- We brush, brush, brush.

- After the teeth.

- After the teeth.

- We're not done.

- We're not done.

- We use our brush.

- We use our brush.

- To clean our tongue.

- To clean our tongue.

- We brush, brush, brush.

- We brush, brush, brush.

- We brush, brush, brush.

- We brush, brush, brush.

- [Teacher] All together.

- [All] We brush, brush, brush!

- [Teacher] Guys, look, you did it!

Give yourselves a round of applause for turning our teeth white again!

Yay!

Thank you so much for coming to visit us at HealthWorks.

I hope you had a good time!

Yeah bubbles!

- [Teacher] We learned a lot about taking care of our teeth at HealthWorks.

What did you notice on our visit?

(calm music) - Hi, everybody, and welcome to Room 9.

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 here to share another story with you, so let's dive on into our book.

Today, our book is called "I Dream to Be."

That is the title of our story.

Now, we know that every book has an author and an illustrator.

Do you know what an author is?

That's right, an author is the person who writes the words in the story.

So in this book, our author is Rebecca T. Clark; she wrote all the words.

Now, every book also has an illustrator.

Sometimes authors and illustrators can be the same people and sometimes they can be different.

This book, we have a different illustrator.

What does an illustrator do?

That's right, an illustrator will illustrate or draw the pictures in a story.

So in this book, our illustrator's name is Chris House; he drew all of the pictures in this story.

So are you ready to see what happens in "I Dream To Be"?

Me too.

So "I Dream To Be" is a story about Jersey.

Let's learn a little bit about her.

"Hi, my name is Jersey.

"I'm a witty kid.

"I'm clever, I'm creative, "and I like to write, draw, play sports, "and I'm a straight A student in school.

"I like to make people laugh and smile.

"I like to learn and come up with ideas.

One more thing about me is that I love to dream."

Now here, you can see this is Jersey and she loves to dream.

Right now, what do you think she's dreaming about?

Yeah, that's right, she could be dreaming about writing a story, playing basketball, or getting good grades.

Now Jersey has a lot of dreams, but let's see what some of those are.

We're gonna dive in.

Here's her first dream.

"I dream to be an astronaut.

"If this dream came true, "I would imagine I could fly into space inside a spaceship "and put on a really cool space suit.

"I would imagine I learn all about planets, "space, and gravity.

"I wonder if I could design my own space suit, "and use lots of neon colors, patches, and buttons.

"I would imagine I could get "to explore views of the universe "to help researchers build better technology.

As an astronaut, I would be reaching for the stars."

If you were an astronaut, what would you reach for?

Ooh, that sounds like a really good choice to reach.

So her first dream is to be an astronaut, but she has lots more; let's see what else.

"I dream to be an engineer.

"If this dream came true, "I would imagine I could build ideas and new products.

"I would imagine that math would be my favorite subject.

"I would question how things work and how they are created.

"I would learn about different systems "using a computer and cool tools.

"I would use my imagination to come up "with inventions that have never been created before.

As an engineer, I would be full of ideas."

So we can see that Jersey has lots of dreams and lots of things that she would like to accomplish in her life.

And as we keep flipping through the pages of the book, we can see many of Jersey's dreams.

So as we look, I want you to see do you have some of the same dreams as Jersey?

Here, Jersey wants to dream of being a chef and to dream of being an artist.

She has a dream of being a fashion designer, and a dream to be a director.

A dream to be a veterinarian.

Do you know what a veterinarian does?

That's right, a veterinarian is a doctor for animals.

Jersey has a dream to be an author.

Oh, we just talked about that.

Do you remember what an author does?

That's right, an author is a person who writes a book, and that's what Jersey would like to be.

"So now my thoughts are ending "and your dreams are just beginning.

"I am absolutely convinced that "by opening my journal of dreams, "you will gain the hope and confidence "you need to dream big too.

"My advice to you is to use your imagination "and write your own ideas every day.

"Start with an idea and then think about what it will take "to make that dream come true.

I want all my friends to join me on this journey."

So do you think you would like to join Jersey on her journey to dream dig?

I think I would too.

So think about your dreams and we would love to hear all about them.

But keep reading, and we'll see you next time here in Room 9.

Bye, everyone.

- Hello, boys and girls.

Did you enjoy the book "I Dream To Be"?

Yes.

What was your favorite part?

Oh, okay.

Now let's put on our thinking caps.

Let's think about what is making a prediction.

Yes, it's when you think about something that you want to do it later, right?

So let's make a prediction on what you want to be.

You wanna be a director?

Oh.

You wanna be a teacher?

Yes.

Alright, share with your grownup what you would like to be, but I'll see you later.

- [Kids] A, B, C, D, E, F, G. - Hi, friends, welcome back 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," this is our song time.

Songs are a fun way for us to practice connecting letters and sounds in words.

Today, our song is going to focus on all the letter sounds in our alphabet.

We'll focus on all the consonants, and we'll focus on our vowel sounds.

While I'm singing it, try to see if you can say some of the letter sounds along with me.

And I'm also going to be doing the sign language alphabet as I sing.

Ready?

♪ A spells ah, ah, ♪ B spells buh, buh ♪ C spells ch, ch ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ D spells di, di ♪ E spells eh, eh ♪ F spells fe, fe ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ G then spells guh, guh ♪ H then spells ha, ha ♪ I spells eh ♪ J spells juh ♪ K spells k ♪ L spells ell ♪ And M spells mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm ♪ ♪ N spells nn, nn ♪ O spells ah, ah ♪ P spells puh, puh ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ Q spells qu, qu ♪ R spells er, er ♪ S spells ss, ss ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ T then spells te, te ♪ U then spells uh, uh ♪ V spells ve ♪ W spells wh ♪ X spells ss ♪ Y spells ye ♪ And Z spells zzz, zzz, zzz, zzz ♪ ♪ Now we're all done with 26 letters ♪ ♪ Letters come together to make words ♪ Nice job, friends.

I could tell you were saying some of those letters sounds along with me as we sang.

Knowing all of our letter sounds is so important when we are reading and writing new words.

Great job today, friends.

Kiss your brains.

I'll see you next time.

Bye.

- Great day.

This is Candace with Chaos Kids, and I wanna introduce you guys to my friend Xavier.

Here's Xavier right here.

And so Xavier is such a cool kid.

He likes to play basketball, he likes to swim, and he likes chocolate chip cookies.

I like chocolate chip cookies too.

Do you?

So Xavier also is a kid that fidgets a lot and he moves around a lot.

And when he gets directions to go do things, he sometimes does different things because he gets distracted.

And so Xavier is always corrected, and he doesn't really like that and he wants people to learn how to be patient with him.

Can you say patient?

Patient is a skill.

It stands for pause and think, inhale, exhale, now talk or now tap out.

And so we tap out when we can't talk because we don't want to hurt our feelings or hurt anyone else's feelings and we don't wanna be rude.

And so Xavier wants people to know that his feelings are very important and he wants people to know that he doesn't mean to make choices where sometimes he forgets things.

He just really needs people to be patient with him.

I'm sure sometimes you need people to be patient with you too.

So I want you to try the patient skill.

I want you to pause and think, inhale, exhale, now talk or now tap out.

And I want you to let an adult know when you try it to see how it works.

You guys have a great day.

I'll see you soon.

Bye.

- Wow, it's nice to see you all back.

I hope you had a wonderful adventure today.

But now, it's about that time for us to get outta Room 9.

But before we do it, we have to spell our favorite word, and what's that?

Nine!

Let's spell nine.

N-I-N-E!

Nine!

Thank you for being in Room 9!

Bye-bye!

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