(bright music) - Hi friends!

Welcome back to "Teaching in Room Nine", our summer camp edition.

I am so excited I get the chance to spend some of my summer with you and it's really important that we continue practicing our learning and our reading over the summer so that way, when we go back to school in the fall, we'll be ready to rock and roll.

We're gonna have so much fun this summer here together.

We'll have different themes each week and if you couldn't tell, our theme this week is camping and critters.

Of course, we'll sing lots of different songs here together, we'll really practice reading and writing many words.

Welcome back, campers.

My name is Julia.

I'm a second grade teacher at The Soulard School, but here for "Teaching in Room Nine", I've taught reading, math and phonemic awareness.

So we're back here doing more phonemic awareness activities together this time.

So, what is phonemic awareness?

Those are some big words.

Phonemic awareness is activities that work with phonemes and phonemes are the smallest units of sounds that letters make.

We're going to be talking about how letters have sounds and how they come together to make words.

We're gonna be just like reading scientists that are really dissecting words.

We're gonna look at the letters, the sounds that they make, different letter patterns and how they're put together to make the words that we say, that we read and write.

So, this week, if you couldn't tell, we are going to be focusing on rhyming words.

So, what makes rhyming words rhyme?

Yeah, I'm hearing some great answers.

Rhyming words have to have the same ending sounds.

So our learning goal for today, campers, is going to be I can understand and make rhyming words.

Will you say that with me nice and loud?

I can understand and make rhyming words.

Nicely done.

So, of course, I've written a song and we're gonna sing it here together.

All you need to follow along with me today is that growing body and your big beautiful brain and if you always want to send in pictures or videos of you following along at home, we absolutely love to see our friends at home keeping along with us and doing what we're doing here.

So you can also post them online at #ninePBS.

So the song that we're gonna sing about rhyming words is to the tune of "If You're Happy And You Know It".

All right campers, are you ready?

I wanna hear you singing along nice and loud.

(woman clapping) ♪ Rhyming words are words that have the same sounds ♪ ♪ They have to end in the same way ♪ ♪ Rhyming words have the same vowel sound ♪ ♪ And the same sounds at the very end ♪ ♪ An example might be bug and slug ♪ ♪ Bug and slug have the same uh-uh vowels ♪ ♪ They also end with the same guh-guh sound ♪ ♪ That's what makes bug and slug rhyming words ♪ ♪ An example might be camp and lamp ♪ ♪ Camp and lamp have the same ah-ah vowels ♪ ♪ They also end with the same mm and puh ♪ ♪ That's why camp and lamp are rhyming words ♪ Very good, friends.

Let's sing it one more time.

(woman clapping) ♪ Rhyming words are words that have the same sounds ♪ ♪ They have to end in the same way ♪ ♪ Rhyming words have the same vowel sound ♪ ♪ And the same sounds at the very end ♪ ♪ An example might be bug and slug ♪ ♪ Bug and slug have the same uh-uh vowels ♪ ♪ They also end with the same guh-guh sounds ♪ ♪ That what makes bug and slug rhyming words ♪ ♪ An example might camp and lamp ♪ ♪ Camp and lamp have the same ah-ah vowels ♪ ♪ They also end with the same mm and puh ♪ ♪ That's what makes camp and lamp rhyming words ♪ Very good, friends.

So, as you can see, we had some examples of rhyming words here on our chart, so let's go ahead and look at our chart together and talk about the different words.

It says at the top, what is a rhyme?

So, bug rhymes with slug.

They have that same vowel sound, which is the short uh-uh, U.

They also end with the same guh-guh, G sound.

Let's go ahead and put the sounds of both of these words up on our fingers.

Watch me.

Buh.

Uh.

Guh.

Blend it, bug.

Can you do that with me?

Buh.

Uh.

Guh.

Blend it, bug.

Very good.

Let's do slug now.

Ss.

Ul.

Uh.

Guh.

Blend it, slug.

So even though they have different sounds in the beginning, they both have that same uh, short U vowel, and the same guh-guh final consonant.

Let's look at the next one.

Camp rhymes with lamp.

So they have that same short A, ah-ah, vowels in both camp and lamp.

Then they also end with the same blend mm-puh.

Let's put the sounds up on our fingers.

Are you ready?

Start with camp.

Cuh.

Ah.

Mm.

Puh.

Blend it, camp.

Very good.

And then lamp.

Ul.

Ah.

Mm.

Puh.

Blend it, lamp.

So they really just have that initial sound or letter that is different and the rest of the words are the same, making them rhyming words.

Then we have fire rhymes with wire.

Very good.

So these have that same long I sound, ai-ai.

Then they have that magic E at the end that makes the I long.

And then the final consonant that you hear is that err-err sound.

Are you ready?

Sounds up.

Ff.

Ai.

Err.

Blend it, fire.

Very good.

And wire is wuh.

Ai.

Err.

Blend it, wire.

So same thing on these two words here, that initial sound is different, ff and wuh, but the rest of the word is the same, making them rhyming words.

Then come down to this one here.

Night rhymes with light.

So this one has that same long I sound with that trigraph, those three letters that come together to make that long I sound.

So even though we see a lot of letters in these words, let's put the sounds on our fingers.

Nn.

Ai.

Tuh.

Good.

You see how there's only three sounds even though we have more letters.

I-G-H comes together to make the long I sound.

And then now let's do light.

Ul.

Ai.

Tuh.

Blend it, light.

Very good!

Again, these just have that same initial sound that is different, the nn and the ul.

They both have then the long I, ai-tuh and that final consonant tuh-tuh that makes them rhyming.

Our last examples on our chart here is tree rhymes with bee.

Very good.

So, tree, let's put those sounds on our fingers.

Tuh.

Err.

Ee.

Blend it, tree.

So this one ends with that vowel team, that E-E that comes together to make the long E sound and there's no other final consonants or anything else after the word.

And then the word bee also has the buh-ee, that long E with that vowel team, E-E, that comes together to say E. So tree and bee also rhyme.

Very good, friends.

Now, you might be wondering, why is it important for us to practice and know rhyming words?

You might be thinking I know rhyming words, I've known rhyming words for a long time.

Why are we spending our time talking about this?

So it's important to know rhyming words, especially when we are learning to speak and to read.

So practicing songs, nursery rhymes and finger plays that used rhyming words helps us become familiar with or used to the different patterns in words and the inflections that the letters and the words have in a creative and catchy way.

That's why you'll always hear me singing songs with you at home because they get stuck in my head, so I'm sure they get stuck in your head too and it helps us really learn that skill even better.

And did you know that your brains are wired to respond to music, to rhythms, (woman clapping) and rhymes?

So, it's really easy for us to kind of pick up on those rhyming words and especially for singing songs and doing different rhythms with it because our brain is made to kind of pick up on those a little bit more quickly.

And then using these tools like the finger plays and nursery rhymes helps us to build our vocabulary, build our creativity, our confidence when we are reading and writing and our fluency, how smooth we sound when we are speaking, reading and spelling when we're writing our words.

So, since we have a camping theme, I figured what better way to practice some rhyming words that singing some camp songs here together.

I'm sure you've heard these songs before, so I want you singing along with me nice and loud.

And I also want you to turn your listening ears all the way up.

Go ahead and turn them up because we're gonna be listening for the rhyming words and we'll talk about them after the song is finished.

Our first song is "Five Green and Speckled Frogs".

Can I get a me too at home if you've ever sung or heard the song "Five Green and Speckled Frogs".

I'm seeing a lot of me too's.

I figured this would be an easy one for us to go ahead and practice together since everybody's probably heard or sung the song before.

Are you ready?

Let's go ahead and sing it together.

♪ Five green and speckled frogs ♪ ♪ Sat on a speckled log ♪ Eating the most delicious bugs ♪ ♪ Yum, yum ♪ One jumped into the pool ♪ Where it was nice and cool ♪ Now there are four green speckled frogs ♪ ♪ Glub, glub ♪ Four green and speckled frogs ♪ ♪ Sat on a speckled log ♪ Eating the most delicious bugs ♪ ♪ Yum, yum ♪ One jumped into the pool ♪ Where it was nice and cool ♪ Now there are three green speckled frogs ♪ ♪ Glub, glub ♪ Three green and speckled frogs ♪ ♪ Sat on a speckled log ♪ Eating the most delicious bugs ♪ ♪ Yum, yum ♪ One jumped into the pool ♪ Where it was nice and cool ♪ Now there are two green speckled frogs ♪ ♪ Glub, glub ♪ Two green and speckled frogs ♪ Sat on a speckled log ♪ Eating the most delicious bugs ♪ ♪ Yum, yum ♪ One jumped into the pool ♪ Where it was nice and cool ♪ Now there is one green speckled frog ♪ ♪ Glub, glub ♪ One green and speckled frog ♪ Sat on a speckled log ♪ Eating the most delicious bugs ♪ ♪ Yum, yum ♪ He jumped into the pool ♪ Where it was nice and cool ♪ Now there are no green speckled frogs ♪ ♪ Glub, glub Nicely done, friends!

I could tell some of my friends at home have heard this before and you sang along so beautifully.

Thank you for your hard work.

Now, campers, what examples of rhyming words did you hear in "Five Green and Speckled Frogs"?

Shout them out for me nice and loud.

Let me hear those rhyming words.

Awesome.

I heard a friend say frog and log.

Yes.

Those both have that same ah, short O, and the same guh final consonant.

So ah-guh make frog and log rhyming words.

Wonderful.

Did anybody hear any other rhyming words?

You nailed it.

I heard a friend say nice and loud pool and cool, right?

He jumped into the pool where it was nice and cool and then there was less frogs after that.

Very nicely done.

Now it's time to do another camp song that I'm also sure that you've probably heard before.

This one is called "Down By the Bay".

Can I get a me too if you've heard this one before?

Nicely done.

So, we're gonna go ahead and sing along together.

I wanna hear you really nice and loud.

And be thinking about those rhyming words.

♪ Down by the bay ♪ Where the watermelons grow ♪ Back to my home ♪ I dare not go ♪ For if I do ♪ My mother will say ♪ Did you ever see a goose hugging a moose ♪ ♪ Down by the way ♪ Down by the bay ♪ Where the watermelons grow ♪ Back to my home ♪ I dare not go ♪ For if I do ♪ My mother will say ♪ Did you ever see 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 ♪ Did you ever see a fly wearing a tie ♪ ♪ Down by the bay ♪ Did you ever see a bear combing his hair ♪ ♪ Down by the bay ♪ Did you ever see llamas eating their pajamas ♪ ♪ Down by the bay Yay!

That was amazing, friends.

You did such a great job of keeping up and singing along with me at home.

Now, go ahead and shout out for me nice and loud, what are some of the rhyming words you heard in our song "Down By the Bay"?

I'm definitely hearing some wonderful examples.

So, right off the bat, we say, ♪ Where the watermelons grow ♪ Back to my home ♪ I dare not go grow and go.

They both end with that same long O sound.

Very good.

What's some other ones?

♪ Did you ever see a goose hugging a moose ♪ Good and moose have that same ooh, those O-O that comes together to make the two sounds that either says ooh like in goose and moose or uh like in book and look.

Very good.

And then they end with that same ss final consonant.

What's another one that you heard, friends?

♪ Did you ever see a whale with a polka dot tail ♪ That's one of my favorites.

Whale and tail both have that same long A and then they end with the ul consonant.

Very good.

What's some other ones?

Fly wearing a tie has that same long I sound at the end.

Then we had a bear combing his hair.

That has the same aye-err, aye-err sounds.

And then the last one was llamas and pajamas, which that one's kind of a funny one when we say the word llama or llama, it normally sounds like llama, but in our song, we kind of made it work.

Llamas, pajamas have that same ah-mm, ah-ss sounds in them.

Very good, campers.

You are doing such a wonderful job.

It is time for us to practice this skill.

So I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen and we are going to practice our skill by doing some s'mores rhyming words because s'mores are like the best part of camping, right?

We get to sit by the campfire and eat s'mores.

So, you can see we've got our graham crackers, our ooey gooey delicious chocolate and the marshmallow there in the center.

So we're trying to find words along here that rhyme.

Do you see any rhyming words here?

Shout them out, friends.

Let me hear ya.

Very good.

I hear a friend that said tall and ball.

We can see that this person is taller than that person and it's pointing to the fact that one is taller and then we have ball there.

They have that same all, aye-ul sounds in them.

You can see even here, A-L-L, A-L-L.

Very good!

Do you see some other rhyming words in here?

I heard a friend shout out peach, a delicious summertime fruit, I love peaches, and beach.

Peach and beach have that same E-A, that vowel team right there, vowel sound, and the same ch-ch, that digraph, C-H, that comes together to make that ch-ch sound.

So both peach and beach have the same vowel sounds and the same ending sounds.

They really only have that first initial letter and sound that are different.

Peach and beach.

Great rhyming, friends.

What else do you see?

Very good.

I heard a friend say hot, we can see this little kiddo here is hot from summer heat, and then spot, she's pointing to a little spot on her face.

Hot and spot are rhyming words.

They have the same short ah-ah, short O, and the same tt-tt sounds at the end.

Very good.

Next ones.

The last ones that we have here are van and tan.

So it's pointing to her skin 'cause you know how you get a tan in the summer when you are outside a lot.

So, we have vv-ah-nn, tt-ah-nn, so the same ah, short A, and the same nn, nn sounds.

Very good, friends.

Let's practice some more.

We've got another little delicious looking s'more here.

We've got more marshmallows to go ahead and rhyme.

What do you think, friends?

What do we see here?

You can see them a little better.

What do you see, friends?

What are some examples of rhyming words?

Good!

I heard a friend say sand and hand.

I even said and and that rhymes too.

(woman giggling) So, hand and sand have the same ah, short A, nn-duh at the end, those consonants at the end.

So our only difference in these two words are those initial sounds, that huh-huh in hand and the ss in sand.

So these are hand and sand, rhyming words.

Very good.

What's another one that you see, friends?

Very good.

I heard a friend say stool and pool.

Doesn't that pool look nice?

So, stool and pool have that same ooh, o-o, long vowel sound and the same ul consonant at the end.

Stool and pool are rhyming words.

Very good.

What's next?

Very good!

I heard a friend say heat and meat.

Heat and meat, they have that same E-A, that makes the long E, sound and then they both end with that same final consonant tt-tt.

So ea-tt, ea-tt in both words.

Heat and meat are rhyming words.

Very good.

What's our next group of rhyming words or pair of rhyming words?

I heard a friend say sea and knee.

Now, you can see that sea and knee have different letter combinations at the end, but they both make that same long E sound.

E-A, E-E, they both make the E, long E sound.

So sea and knee have the same ending sounds, making them rhyming words.

And the last two that we had here, friends, this is a palm tree, palm tree, and then this is like lip balm.

So, palm and balm are rhyming words.

They just have that initial sound that is different, the puh and the buh.

They both have that alm sounds at the end, right?

That A-L-M come together to say alm.

Very good, friends.

Now that we've done some s'mores rhyming words, we're gonna practice some campfire rhyming words.

So two of these are going to match here together.

What do we see here, friends?

Anybody see some examples of rhyming words here together?

What do you see?

Very good!

This one right here in front of us, this is a what?

A pin.

Very good.

Puh-eh-nn, pin.

And this one is a shark, right?

It is a shark, but shark and pin don't rhyme.

What do you think it might be?

What is it pointing to, friends?

The fin.

So ff-eh-nn.

Both words have that same eh, short I vowel, and the same nn sound at the end.

Very good.

What are some other ones that you see?

What else do we see here, friends?

Very good!

Hot, pot, like a pot of gold.

Hot and pot have that same ah-tt, short O, tt-tt, T final consonant at the end.

Hot and pot.

And what is this last little group here, friends?

What do we think?

What is this friend here doing?

You're right!

Cut.

Cut.

He's using the scissors to cut.

And then this is an example of a... Hut.

Very good.

Cuh-uh-tt, huh-uh-tt.

They have that same uh, short U, and the same tt-tt at the end.

Let's try a few more.

What do we see here?

What do you see examples of which are these are campfire rhyming words?

Very good!

I heard a friend at home say they see this friend here is duh-duh-ig and puh-puh-pig.

Puh-eh-guh, duh-eh-guh.

They have that same short I, eh-eh, and the same guh-guh sound at the end.

Good.

And what are these last rhyming words here?

Tub maybe and sandwich?

No, that doesn't sound right.

What do you think, friends?

Tt-uh-buh.

Right, a sub is a type of sandwich, so they have that same uh, short U, and the same final buh-buh sound in there as well.

Let's do just a few more.

Does anybody see some rhyming words here?

Shout them out for me friends, nice and loud.

I heard a friend say buh-buh-bed and ruh-red.

Buh-eh-duh, err-eh-duh.

They have that same short E, eh, and the same duh final consonant.

What else do you see, friends?

I also see log and dog.

And then these last two are nest and vest.

Very good, campers.

You are really good at rhyming words.

I'll stop sharing.

All right friends, so what we learned here together today is that rhyming words have to have the same ending sounds.

So that includes the vowel sound like the uh, uh in bug and slug and the sounds that come after it too, the same guh, guh, so that they are rhyming words.

I am so proud of you, friends.

You worked so hard today.

Thank you for your hard work.

Enjoy the rest of your day and I'll see you next time.

Bye.

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