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Welcome back to Teaching in Room 9, our region's largest classrooms.

My name is Julia.

I'm a second grade teacher at this large school and here for Teaching in Room 9, our lessons will focus on letters and sounds.

Welcome back friends.

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to be here with me.

I'm so excited I get the chance to do some learning here together with you.

We always love to see our learners at home, following along.

We're gonna have so much fun here together, singing and doing different activities.

So if you ever wanna show us your learning at home, always feel free to post pictures or videos online, and you can hashtag #ninePBS, we'd love to see you following along.

All right, so in order for us to get ready to do our learning here together, we need to get our brains and our bodies ready to learn our best.

So we're gonna start with something called our mindful moment.

We're gonna be taking some deep breaths here together.

So go ahead friends, sit up nice and straight and tall.

You can see I have my shoulders back, that helps open up my airways, so when I'm taking those deep breaths in and out, I can really get those deep breaths in.

So sit up nice and straight.

You're gonna breathe in through your nose, counting to three and breathe out through your mouth, counting to three.

Are you ready?

Let's go ahead and try it here together.

Breathe in through your nose, and out through your mouth.

Breathe in through your nose, and out through your mouth.

Again, breathe in through your nose, and out through your mouth.

Great job learners.

We're gonna continue taking some deep breaths here together.

But I really wanna make sure that you're only focused on your breathing and taking those deep breaths, and really being mindful and present.

And a really good way for us to stay present, meaning in paying attention to what's happening right this moment on those deep breaths is that we can really check with our five senses.

So keep taking those deep breaths, in and out, feel free to close your eyes if you'd like, that helps me to focus when I'm taking deep breaths and think about what can I hear right now?

I'm at school, so I can hear the air conditioning running.

What can you hear right now?

Keep taking those deep breaths in and out.

What can you see right now?

Are your eyes closed?

I can see all the desks for my friends here at school.

I can touch my dress, is very soft.

What can you smell right now?

I can smell the coffee that was brewed earlier.

And what can you taste right now?

Keep taking those deep breaths, in and out.

And when you're ready, learners, feel free to open your eyes, if they were closed and sit up nice and straight and tall.

Very good friends, I'm so proud of you.

You did such a great job getting your brain and your body ready to learn.

Now, that we're ready to learn here together, I mentioned we're gonna be focusing on letters and sounds.

Learning and practicing our letters and sounds helps our brains be ready to be amazing readers and writers.

Now that we've gotten our brains and our bodies ready to go, let's take a minute to talk about getting ready to learn when we're at school.

We wanna give ourselves all the right tools to be able to learn our best.

When we're learning at home or at school, there might be some distractions around us or something that might take away or keep us from our learning.

That's what a distraction is.

It might take your mind away or your attention away from learning.

At home this might look like a noisy brother or sister around you, maybe a pet, a loud noise or a parent or guardian in the other room.

At school, a distraction might look like a friend that you wanna talk to.

Maybe being close to materials that you really wanna play with, or maybe not being able to hear your teacher.

It's important to be able to hear your teacher in order to listen and to learn.

So that's why it is so important to pick a smart spot.

Can you say that with me, friends?

Smart spot.

Very good learners.

This is, so a smart spot is, a space that is all away from any distractions, and it's a place that is comfortable for you so that you feel comfortable and ready to listen and learn.

At school, you're going to have to be a really big kid and make smart choices on your own to pick a smart spot when it's time to listen and to learn.

Take a second to check in with your body, are you in a smart spot now?

Do you need to get a pillow or a jacket to make yourself more comfortable?

Are you away from distractions as much as you can be?

Do you need to get a quick drink of water?

I'll give you a moment to get yourself in a smart spot, ready to learn.

All right, now that we've prepared our bodies and our brains to learn, and we've found a smart spot that helps us to learn our best we're ready to learn here together.

As I mentioned, we're here to talk about letters and sounds.

Today our learning goal is to be able to know some of our letters and sounds.

So, our objective or again, a learning goal is, I can, I want you to say this after me, really nice and loud, so I'm able to hear you.

Okay, are you ready?

Say it after me, I can.

That wasn't very loud, I know you can do better.

Let's try that again, I can.

Well, that was much better.

Know my letters and sounds.

Very good learners.

So, we're gonna focus with this learning goal or objective here for our next few lessons together as we work our way through the alphabet.

All right, so now I wanna kind of focus your attention on this chart here behind me.

In order for us to know our letters and sounds, we have to be able to tell what is a letter?

What does it look like?

What's a word?

How are words different from letters?

And what is a sentence?

Okay, so we're gonna work our way through each of these.

Okay, so let's at the top here, are you ready?

These are letters.

So right here, is where we're gonna put our letters.

Letters make sounds, and come together to make words.

Will you say that with me, learners?

Letters make sounds.

Good.

And come together to make words.

Very good friends.

Now, let's look at our green section here it says, these are words.

So letters up here, words right here.

Words are letters and sounds.

They make sentences and have meaning.

Okay, say that with me, friends.

Words are letters and sounds.

Very good.

Words are letters and sounds.

They make sentences.

Good, you're keeping up with me, and have meaning.

Very good.

I cannot just take a bunch of random letters and string them together and make a word, okay?

They have to come together.

Now, there's lots of different letter patterns that help us as we're trying to read new words, okay?

So, letters have sounds, they come together to make a word.

Words are letters and sounds that come together and they have meaning.

And then you can put words together to make a sentence.

That's our last section down here in purple it says, these are sentences.

A sentence is a group of words that have meaning.

All right, go ahead and say that with me, friends.

A sentence, good, is a group of words that have meaning.

Very good learners.

So again, in the same way, you can't just take random letters and assume it's a word.

You also can't take random words and put it together and have it be a sentence.

So if I took the words, they, she, it, at, ball, see is that a sentence?

No, it doesn't make any sense, it has to have meaning, okay?

All right, now we're gonna look at some different examples and you're gonna help me put them on my chart here.

So I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen.

All righty.

So, let's look at some examples here.

Okay, I'm gonna put some examples out and then you'll tell me, is this a letter, a word or a sentence?

So what do you think your friend?

Is this a letter, a word or a sentence?

Shout it out for me, really nice and loud so I can hear you.

Very good, this is a letter.

It's the letter A. Amazing job, so we're gonna put it up here with our letters.

All right, what about this here friends?

Is this a letter, a word or a sentence?

Shout out for me for me nice and loud.

It is a word, you are right, it is letters that come together to make a word.

And it was the word B-E, be, very good.

All right, what about this one here?

Is this a letter, a word or a sentence?

Very good, this is a word.

It has letters that have come together to make the word, the.

The, very good.

So we're gonna put that in our words.

What about this?

Is this a letter, a word or a sentence?

Yeah, it's a letter.

Which letter is it?

Do you know?

Shout it out nice and loud.

Ooh, very good learners, I heard some friends say the letter b, b, b.

Very good.

What about this right here?

Oh, whoa, I see a lot of words here together.

This is, is this a letter, a sound?

I'm sorry, letter, a word or a sentence?

Yeah, this is a sentence.

I can tell it's much longer than the other ones.

This is the sentence, I see the ball.

Very good.

I'm gonna tape it up right on underneath my sentence part on our chart.

Okay, what about this?

Letter, word or sentence?

Yeah, it's a letter.

It's the letter, K, K K. If you notice with my letters, I have some letters that are capital and some letters that are lowercase.

So they're letters, even if they are big or small.

All right, what about this right here, friends?

What do you think?

Is this a letter, a word or a sentence?

Very good.

Yeah, it's super long again, so we know it's a sentence.

I can see all these letters that have come together to make words and the words have come together to make a sentence.

This is the sentence, I like the cat.

Very good.

All right, let's look at some more examples.

Let's put a few of them out here together.

All right, so we've got, what is this one here?

Shout it out for me, it is a letter.

Very good.

This one here.

I see several letters here.

So if letters have come together, they have made a word.

Very good.

Here, this is the letter g, very good.

Anybody know what does that letter g say?

Very g, g-good.

Letter g says g, it can also say g, g. And then here, I've got a few more examples of, what are these?

Sentences, letters, words?

Yeah, these are words.

These letters have come together to make C-AT, cat and S-EE, see.

Very good.

All right, friends.

Now, what about, I'm gonna try to trick your brains, are you ready?

What about this right here?

Is this a letter, a word or a sentence?

I can't get anything past you.

If you said it is none of those things, you're right.

This is a symbol, it's a dollar sign.

It's for when we are talking about money.

What about this right here, friends?

Is that a letter, a word or a sentence?

No, that's a shape, it's a triangle.

And our last one here, is this a letter, a word or a sentence?

No, it's a smiley face, it is also a symbol.

So I'm gonna stop sharing my screen really quick, so you can see our chart here.

Very good friends.

You helped me look at all these different examples of letters, some of them were capital or upper case letters, some were lowercase letters.

And then we have examples of words, where the letters came together to make a word, and these words have meaning.

And then we took it a step farther and took those words to make sentences down here as well.

Very good friends.

All right, now we're gonna practice some of our letters as we work our way through the alphabet.

So I'm actually gonna share my screen again.

All right, we're gonna work our way through the alphabet.

Anybody know what this letter is?

Shout it out for me.

A, letter A, very good.

You're gonna take your pointer finger, your index finger.

This is very special.

You know, you have a finger right here, but maybe you didn't know, this can be a tool for you when you are reading and when you are writing.

We're gonna use our reading and writing finger to help us make these letters.

Our reading and writing finger can also help you when you're learning to read words and pointing to each word, as you go.

It's a really good tool for you to use.

So take that reading and writing finger, and we're gonna trace, are you ready?

Up, down, and cross.

And then you're gonna make your little circle, half circle here and straight line through.

This is the letter A.

We're gonna do a song that goes with each letter.

♪ The letter on the bus says, A, A, A ♪ ♪ A, A, A, A, A, A ♪ The letter on the bus, says A, A A, ♪ ♪ All through the town.

Very good, our next letter is what is it?

Shout it out for me.

The letter B, very good.

Get that reading and writing finger.

Straight line down, hop up.

Sometimes you'll hear it called a frog jump up to the top, one hump, two hump, okay?

Lowercase b, straight line down, frog jump, kind of like it lowercase c, it's like a half circle.

♪ The letter on the bus says B, B, B, ♪ ♪ B, B, B, B, B, B ♪ The letter on the bus says B, B, B ♪ ♪ All through the town.

Okay, shout it out, C. Reading and writing finger.

It's almost like you're making a circle, but you can tell it is not connected.

You see there is an open space and our uppercase and lowercase look the same, just one is bigger and one is smaller.

Ready?

Curve around and stop.

You wanna make sure you don't close your circle or else it's a totally different letter.

Same thing, down-low, around and stop.

Very good.

♪ The letter on the bus says C, C, C ♪ ♪ C, C, C, C, C, C ♪ The letter on the bus says C, C, C ♪ ♪ All through the town Very good.

All right, next one.

Reading and writing finger, straight line down, frog jump up and big hump and connect it, okay?

Here we have straight a line down, frog jump, half circle here.

This is the letter D, D, D. Very good.

♪ The letter on the bus says D, D, D, ♪ ♪ D, D, D, D, D, D ♪ The letter on the bus says D, D, D, ♪ ♪ All through the town.

Very good.

We've got two more letters, friends, are you ready?

After the letter D, comes the letter E. Very good.

Reading and writing finger, straight line down, frog jump up, straight line, shorter straight line, straight line.

Okay, now here, we're gonna start with our middle line here.

Straight line, keep your finger there, and then it's like, you're making us C, you're gonna curve it all the way around, but don't connect it.

Very good.

♪ That letter on the bus says E, E, E ♪ ♪ E, E, E, E, E, E ♪ The letter on the bus says E, E, E ♪ ♪ All through the town.

Last one.

Okay, letter F. Very good.

F says F, F. Reading and writing finger, straight line down, a frog jump up, straight line and frog jump, shorter straight line.

Okay, very good.

Now, we're gonna start here.

It's kind of like you're making a cane, ready?

You're gonna curve around, and all the way down, okay?

So that curve around and then frog jumped up, cross, straight cross right there.

♪ The letter on the bus says F, F, F ♪ ♪ F, F, F, F, F ♪ The letter on the bus says F, F, F ♪ ♪ All through the town.

Very good friends, that was amazing job, learners.

Now, we're gonna practice what we just learned here.

All right, let's start with this letter.

What letter is this friends?

Again, nice and loud.

This is the letter A.

Now who can tell me, is this a lowercase or an upper case A?

Very good.

You're right, it is a lowercase a, lowercase a.

All right, so I'm gonna give you two options here, friends.

Which animal puzzle has the same beginning sound as the letter a?

is it a, a, anteater or a C, C, cow?

Very good.

And you can see, a, a ant eater matches up with our letter a.

Very good.

All right, what about the letter c?

That's our letter c, very good.

Okay, does it match up with the c, c, cow or the F, F, flamingo?

Very good, it's c, c, cows.

C says, c, c, very good.

That was a tricky one because both shapes could have worked there, but C says, C, C. All right, now let's do this letter here.

What letter is this?

Good, this is the letter b, b, b, b.

Very good.

Does b, b, b, match with a b, b, bird or a d, d, dolphin?

What do you think?

Shout it out for me nice and loud.

Yeah, you're right.

A b, b, bird, they match up perfectly there.

Very good.

Few more friends.

Now, this one is a little bit tricky.

Okay, what do you think?

We've got the letter?

What letter is this?

E, very good.

Now, the reason why I say this is tricky is because when we were learning our song, the letter e said at the letter e, e, e. The letter e, along with a few other letters, it's a very special letter that has more than one sound.

So e says, e, e, and it says e, e. So, does e match with a d, d, dolphin or an e, e, eel?

Very good learners, you're right, it was that eel.

It's just a little bit tricky, cause we did not sing that long E sound we only sung the short E sound.

All right, here we have our last couple ones here together.

Let's mix it up a little bit.

What do you think?

We have this letter here, what's letter is this?

this is the letter?

Good, d, d, d. It looks very similar to the b, b, b.

But there the round part is facing different ways and they have different sounds as well, okay?

Does d, d, d, d, match with the d, d, dolphin or the f, f, flamingo?

Very good.

D, d, dolphin and f, f, flamingo go together.

So here are these two match and these two match here.

All right, I'm gonna go ahead and stop sharing my screen.

You did an incredible job today, learners.

We practice our mindful moment to get our brain and body ready to learn.

We talked about learning at school and the importance of finding a smart spot.

Then we practice all of our letters, A all the way to the letter F. We have the letter A, B.

A says A, B says B, C says C, D says D, D, E say E, E and E and F says F, F. Very good.

And we talked about the difference between letters, words, and sentences.

Thank you for your hard work.

I'll see you next time.

Bye.

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