(bright cheerful music) - Hello, everyone!

Welcome back to Teaching in Room 9, the area's largest classroom.

I'm Mrs.

Forth from the Rockwood School District.

Today's lesson wraps up our week about water.

That's right, I've had so much fun learning more about different types of water.

How about you?

What's been your favorite thing you've learned this week?

Oh yeah, that is pretty cool, I agree!

Yeah, there's water all around, and all different kinds of water.

And because this is the end of the week, those of you that have been with me all summer know that I like to end our week with writing.

We've worked so hard learning reading strategies this week, especially how to figure out those trickier long words.

But today, I wanna focus on our writing skills, because we're readers and writers, and I've been encouraging you to write all summer long.

Some of you have sent me pictures of your journals or the stories you're making.

Keep it up, you're amazing authors!

I'm so proud of you.

So today, hmm, I was thinking about water.

Would we write a book about water?

Yeah, we have learned a lot, we could, but I thought maybe we could make something different, like a poster.

Yeah, a poster that maybe you could hang up near places that have water, like pools, or lakes, or rivers.

And our poster could be about water safety.

What do you think?

Yeah, it's a fabulous idea, 'cause accidents can happen in the water, so we wanna make sure that we're being super safe.

So let's teach others how to be safe in the water.

So the first thing we need to do as writers, come up with an idea, and we got that, right.

We have our idea.

And then kind of think, well, what do we wanna say about this idea?

What do we want to say about water safety?

Can you guys give me some ideas of how we can stay safe around water?

Oh yeah, you always have a grownup with you.

That's a very important thing to do to keep safe around water.

So make sure that you have a grownup.

Oh yeah, or a lifeguard.

Yeah, that's a great tip.

Oh, you take swimming lessons.

That's how you learned how to swim?

You could do the backstroke.

You learned that at your swimming lesson?

Great, you guys all have kind of the same idea.

Well, what if I haven't taken swimming lessons before?

Does that mean I can't jump into the water?

What can I do to stay safe if I haven't taken lessons before?

Hmm.

Wear a life jacket, or a puddle jumper, or wings, something to help keep me safe.

Yeah, and then I can take lessons and eventually take that off.

I think that's a really good idea.

So we've got maybe stay around grownups or a lifeguard, take swim lessons, or wear a flotation device, that's what it's called, or life jacket to keep me safe.

What else, hmm.

You know what, Sandy, that's a fabulous idea.

I was actually at the pool the other day with my kids and I kept hearing the lifeguard say that over and over again.

Okay Sandy just said, "Hey, you have to walk."

That's right, if you're running, you could trip and fall, right?

You could hurt yourself.

So it's always a safe idea to walk when you're near water.

That's a really good idea.

Okay, so we could add that.

Maybe one more tip, hmm.

Let me think.

I got an idea, do you wanna hear it?

Ask a grownup before you get into water?

Yeah, that's a rule at my house.

Whether we go to a nearby creek, go to my Grandpa's lake house, go to our pool in our neighborhood.

Even when we're at the beach, before my kids are allowed to get in the water they have to ask, I think that's a great tip.

So it sounds like we have four tips.

We've kind of planned it out.

So now we wanna think, well, well what do we want our poster to look like?

So just like usual, I have a piece of paper ready to go for us to come up with these ideas, okay?

So, hmm.

Maybe we could start with a big title.

What do you think we want it to say?

Water Safety.

That's a great title, Water Safety, okay.

Water Safety, safety.

I'm gonna clap that out.

You know what?

We can use what we learned this week to help us figure out tricky words, to help us spell those tricky words.

So let's clap out the word safety, ready?

Safety.

(hands clapping) How many syllables?

I hear two also.

So let's just think about how can we spell that first syllable, safe.

What are you hearing?

Yeah, I hear an S at the beginning, safe, a long A.

How am I to get that long A sound?

You think there'll be an E at the end?

Safe, safe.

You're right, safe.

Okay, let's clap out the second syllable, ready?

Safety.

(hands clapping) Safety How am I gonna get that T sound?

Safety.

T, T, what's the vowel sound you hear?

E, hmm, E at the end of a word, yeah it usually doesn't make that sound.

It's usually silent, so what, a Y, that's right.

Okay, safety.

You guys just spelled the word safety by thinking about the syllables and the vowel sounds that you hear inside the syllables.

Water Safety.

Hmm, I think I'm gonna draw some water right here.

What do you think?

Yeah, Water Safety.

Okay, so we had four, four ideas.

Let's go ahead.

And I think I want to make four boxes.

So I'm gonna fold my paper and then I'm gonna fold it again.

And this time I'm gonna be really careful not to fold all the way up.

I'm gonna stop right underneath where we wrote our title.

And when I open it up, I'm gonna have four boxes.

First we right our four safety tips that we came up with together.

Do you guys remember the first one?

It can be any one, shout one out, oh yeah, ask a grownup first, that was my safety tip.

Okay, ask, number one, ask a grownup before going into, whoopsies, hmm.

What do I do when I make a mistake like that?

I could scratch it out, yeah.

I could turn that letter into something else, mm-hm.

Yeah, I think I'm just gonna write, into the water.

Hm, what can I do with this?

Yeah, I'm just gonna scratch it out.

I think that's okay, what do you think?

Okay, ask a grownup before going into the water.

And then I can make a picture that matches there.

Yeah, sure can, okay.

Number two, number two.

Oh yeah, take lessons, okay.

Take swim lessons.

Take swim lessons.

Or wear a life jacket.

Can you help me spell jacket?

Jacket, let's clap it out.

Jacket.

(hands clapping) Jacket.

(hands clapping) Hmm, what was that first syllable?

Jack, jack.

J, a, that's a short a, jack.

Some of you are saying K, C, K. When you hear the short vowel and then the ck sound it's usually going to be ck.

So I'm gonna write a ck here, Jacket, et.

E-T.

Jacket, great.

So maybe I could have a picture here of like learning to swim by a swim coach or maybe a life jacket.

Yeah, definitely.

Okay, number three.

Hmm, number three.

You've got ask a grownup before going into the water, take swim lessons or wear a life jacket.

How about Sandy's idea to walk?

Yeah, always walk when you're near water.

Always walk near the edge, oh that's a great way to describe what we're trying to say.

Always walk when you are near the edge, okay.

What could my picture look like?

I could have like a pool and somebody walking right next to it, great idea.

Okay, and then number four, number four.

We've got ask a grownup, take swim lessons, or wear a life jacket, always walk near the edge, and the last one, hmm.

Yes, make sure there's an adult or a lifeguard, right?

Always be near an adult or lifeguard.

Always be near an adult or a lifeguard.

So again, what could my picture be to match?

I could have like a lifeguard standing up in the tower or an adult standing near the edge, watching a kid swim.

Those are all really good ideas.

So all that's left of this poster for me to do is add some pictures and some color, and then I can, I can hang it up.

We actually have a neighborhood pool and I think this would be a great poster to put near the pool.

So after I made my poster, I thought about, hmm, how can I share my writing?

Think about your audience, who would need to hear this?

Where might you make a water safety poster and hang up?

By your pool?

Oh, there's a Creek near you.

Yeah, you can put it on the tree.

That's a really good idea.

You're going to the beach, lucky.

You can hang it up near the beach.

That's a really good idea.

Yeah, oh, your friend's going to the beach?

Well, you can make a poster to give to your friend or make a video and read the poster.

You could possibly call your friend and tell them about how to keep safe.

What great ideas and water safety is very important.

And look at all the people we can help in the summertime by thinking about water safety and teaching them more about water safety.

Remember, you guys are writers too.

So if you've set off to make a poster, especially about water safety, I'd like to see it.

So make sure you take a picture and send it to us at Nine Network.

I can't wait to see all your hard work as writers.

Happy writing, and I'll see you next time.

Bye, everybody.

- Hello, thanks Mrs.

Forth for an awesome reading lesson.

How are you guys doing today?

I am so excited to be here.

(sighs) We have a lot of under the sea action going, so let's go ahead and get warmed up.

And today we're gonna get warmed up by, you know it, counting by twos, fives, and tens.

We're getting so great at this.

So here's what I want you to do.

Everybody stand up.

Okay, pick your favorite pose, okay, that reminds you of any kind of sea creature.

So I'm gonna pick this because I feel like this is how fish, like, if these were my fins, I would be moving like this, okay.

Or maybe you wanna move like a jellyfish and you're wiggling your arms, right?

Or maybe you, I don't know, maybe there's mermaids in the sea, I don't know.

I don't know, maybe you want to swim like a mermaid.

Okay, whatever kind of under the sea motion you would like you're gonna do right now, okay, as we count by twos, fives and tens.

Let's start at 30 and count up by tens.

Ready?

30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130!

(hands clapping) Very good job, okay.

Now let's start at, I'm gonna be a jellyfish this time.

Let's start at 50 and count back by twos, here we go.

50, 48, 46, 44, 42, 30, 38, 36, 34, 32, 20.

Not 20.

(laughs) 30.

Yep, 28.

26, 24, 22, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, eight, six, four, two (hands clap), woo!

See those counting backwards, they even get me.

You gotta practice that skill, right?

Okay, now let's do plain old counting by fives.

Here we go.

(hands clapping) Five, 10, 15, 20, I don't know what animal this is, maybe a shark.

25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70.

Good job friends, okay.

I am ready to show you something really cool, okay.

When I came under the sea today, I was doing a little fishing and I'll just show you the two numbers that I pulled and then we can talk.

I was doing a little fishing, you know, just minding my own business and I pulled the number 10.

Do, do, do, 10.

Can you see 10?

Okay, and then I kept on fishing, fishing, fishing, and I just was going along.

Come on, trying to get the number back.

Oh, here we go, 10, and uh, that one is not the number that I pulled.

Here, this is what I pulled.

Do you think I can get 'em with my net?

Let's try it with my net.

My little scooper net, here I go.

I pulled 10.

Oh, wow.

They're really moving, oh my gosh!

Did you see that?

They're flying everywhere!

What is happening?

Geez.

I pulled 10 and three.

Goodness gracious, fishies.

I pulled 10 and three and I was adding and subtracting.

So what's 10 take away three?

10 take away three.

You're right.

10 take away three is seven.

If I have 10 in my 10 frame, (buzzer buzzes) that must be like the horn of a ship or something.

I'm not sure what it is.

And then I take away three, I have seven left, right?

Or I could do 10, add three more.

Makes 13.

So 10 take away three is seven and 10 plus three equals 13.

Then I notice these fish doing the craziest thing.

Do you wanna see?

Look it's so crazy.

Look at these guys.

They're laying, do you see that, in two rows perfectly.

Yeah, and there's one, two, three, ow!

One, two, there's three in each row.

How many fish or sea creatures do you think there are right here?

I have two rows and three in each row.

Hmm.

Wait, you're right.

I have that, but I can also look at it as I have three rows, one, two, three, with two in each row.

How many fish do I have altogether?

Yeah, no matter what I have six.

Look, let's draw this out on the board, okay?

Look, this is crazy.

I think it's so cool that these fishes did this.

Okay, so they lined up in their row and they had two rows, one row, two, and they had three fish in each one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, two rows of three in each.

Well, you know what this is?

This is a problem that's three plus three.

This is also two groups of, three.

How many is that?

Three plus three is six, right?

So two groups of three is six.

You know how you write two groups of three?

You write it two groups of times three.

And just like that, (lips pop) you guys did a little multiplication.

How cool is that?

The other formation we follow our little fishes in, do do, do, do, was not two groups of three, but it looked very, very similar.

And it looked like this, three groups of two.

How can I easily count those?

With our skip counting skills, right?

Two, four, six.

Awesome job.

Two, four, six.

So this is three groups of two is six.

Wow, so two groups of three and three groups of two is six.

I could also say that this is two, plus two, plus two.

Whoa, that's cool.

My mind is kind of blown right now by how cool this is.

All right, let's see if our fishies are doing anything else.

Okay, let's see guys.

Ooh.

Okay, so we have some fishies.

Let me point you down a little, and we have, this is our two (buzzer buzzes) groups of three.

That siren, do you hear that?

I hope that boat stays far away from us, goodness gracious.

Okay, so now look at this.

Now I have, whoa, do you see that?

Two, four, six, eight.

Four groups of two.

So four groups of two.

How would I add?

I could say two, plus two, plus two, plus two.

Oh my gosh.

It would look exactly like this: two, plus two, plus two, plus two.

Two, four, six, eight.

Wow, so four groups of two makes eight.

That is cool.

(sighs) Wow, friends.

I have had a really great time this week practicing.

(gasps) Oh my gosh.

I almost forgot to show you the most important thing.

Look at this.

It's about to happen again.

Can you believe it?

Two more fish.

Two, wait, but look, they're not stopping.

Oh my gosh.

Look at them, they're lining up.

Wow, how did they line up?

Yeah, two groups, one group, two groups.

How many are in each group?

One, two, three, four, five.

Two groups of five.

Wow, so what's five plus five?

10, awesome job, oh my gosh.

Or look, if we keep moving, we also have one, two, three, four, five groups of two.

Math is so cool, guys.

That would be two, plus two, plus two, plus two, plus two, which would be, look.

Two, four, six, eight, ten, five groups of two, repeated addition.

Oh my gosh.

(sighs) Wow, I had so much fun under the sea with you this week.

I hope you'll be back next week for me to show you around our favorite place.

Bye.

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