(bright upbeat music) - Good morning boys and girls and welcome back to "Room 9".

It's Dr. Sanders, coming to you straight from Adams Elementary in Saint Louis Public Schools.

♪ And I'm here to teach a little ELA and math, math ♪ For my pre-K and K students.

But like I always say it doesn't matter if you're, two or 102, you can have some fun.

Yes, yes, so let's sit back, relax, and enjoy being in the largest classroom in the region and let's learn something.

Let's take a look at our objectives.

Move our words out the way for a minute.

Students will, go ahead Red you take it.

Students will understand (chuckles), understand problems and solutions and identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.

Hey parents, adults don't forget to check out pbslearningmedia.org.

You can get some great information all right, I go there every day and I learn something every day and find some good information.

It has some good stuff.

Don't forget you too teachers.

All right, boys and girls say hi to Red and hi to Green, or is it eeny, meeny, moe and freckles?

We had one suggestion of name, but we don't know yet.

All right, there we go.

Keep sending those names in, here we go.

I forgot what we're gonna do.

Oh, I know what we're gonna do, we're gonna do some sounds, beginning, middle and ending sounds.

Tell me what word, what sound you hear at the end, you gotta tell me the letter.

Here we go.

The word is leg.

What do you hear, what sound do you hear at the end, and what sound, what letter makes that sound, leg, leg?

That's right, the letter G makes that sound, G, G. Middle sound, pig, pig, what sound do you hear in the middle?

Yes, the sound is I and I makes that sound, that's right.

What about, funny, funny?

What word do you, what sound do you hear at the beginning of funny?

F, that is write funny, funny face.

Everybody make a funny face.

(blows raspberry) Oh, let me take my hat off, sorry.

I can, you can see my funny face.

What sound do you hear at the end of the word, box?

B-O-X what sound do you hear at the end, B-O-X, box?

Yes, it makes sense, the letter X, you are correct.

And what sound do you hear at the beginning of, Zain?

Zain or zap, what sound do you hear at the beginning?

Z, and what letter makes that sound, Z.

You are (coughs), correct.

Z makes the Z (chuckles), Z sound.

All right, we have some new friends names, if see your name, say, "Hi, that's my name."

Whose name is this?

That is Queen.

Hi, Queen.

What letter does Queen's name start with?

A Q, let's spell Queen, Queen, Q-U-E-E-N, Queen.

Q-U-E-E-N. Hi, Queen.

And whose name is this?

Alexis.

Hi, Alexis.

What letter does her name start with?

An A, let's spell Alexis, Alexis, A-L-E-X-I-S. A-L-E-X-I-S. Hi, Alexis.

And who's name is this?

That is Jordyn's name.

Hi, Jordyn.

What letter is this?

A Y, what letter is this?

No, not a B, it's a D. Let's spell Jordyn, J-O-R-D-Y-N, J-O-R-D-Y-N. Hi, Jordyn, and whose name is this?

Sam.

Hi, Sam.

What letter does Sam's name start with?

A S, let's spell Sam, Sam, S-A-M, Sam.

And whose name is this?

Joey.

Hi, Joey.

What letter does Joey start with?

A capital J, let's spell Joey, Joey, J-O-E-Y, J-O-E-Y.

Joey.

Hi, Joey.

Remember if you wanna send your names in, #ninepbs, on any social media, and we'll try to get that name, you get that shout out and you can just tell us how well you enjoy teaching in "Room 9" as well.

That makes all the teachers feel so, ♪ Good, good, good, good All right, boys and girls, all month we're talking about some amazing women.

We're talking about so many amazing women and we've talked about Kamala Harris.

We've talked about so many people and how you can be an ambitious girl, but today we're gonna read a book.

The guest reader is back again.

Who's the guest reader?

Yes, the guest reader is Adera, but before we get to Adera and before we get to our reading our books, let's spell some of our words.

'Cause I know you know these sight words, and you're gonna learn 'em.

No bubbles today (weeps).

Yes bubbles today.

Whoa, I got a lot of bubbles today.

Let's spell some of my words.

Let's read 'em and smell some, here we go.

Away, let's spell away, away, A-W-A-Y, away.

Big, came, down, let's spell down, D-O-W-N, down.

Eat, funny, good, help.

Let's spell help, help, H-E-L-P, help.

Into, let's spell into, into, I-N-T-O, into.

Just, know, let, let's spell let, let, L-E-T, let.

Must, let's spell must, must, M-U-S-T, must.

You must listen every day so you can learn something.

Now, old, pretty, quit.

Quit looking at the, the other way.

You have to look at the TV.

I mean, look where you're looking, okay?

Quit looking the other way.

Ride, soon, think, let's spell think, think, T-H-I-N-K. Did you think about what you just said?

Was that a nice thing to say?

Under, let's spell under, U-N-D-E-R, under.

Very, who, let's spell who, W-H-O, who.

Who is that singing that song?

Who is that paying so much good attention.

X-ray, your, zip, zip.

All right, before we get to our reading everybody stand up.

Let's jump up and down 10 times.

Let's go.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Let three, let's do eight jumping jacks, go.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Let's smile four times, go.

Or for four seconds.

Let's raise the roof eight times, go.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Let's nod our heads three times.

Don't do it too hard.

One, two, three.

Raise your shoulders seven times, go.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Let's sit down on three, one, two, three, up, down, up, down.

♪ Sit right down on the ground All right, boys and girls, I'm gonna bring on my guest reader.

She's gonna read about an amazing woman.

All amazing woman, last week we talked all about poets, and this week we've been, you guys are gonna do it, women are amazing.

So without further ado, here's Adera.

She's an amazing ambitious girl as well.

- Hi, everybody.

Today, I will be reading about Anne Frank.

And there are actually, is a problem in this book about Anne Frank.

She was a very important, well, she is very important in women's history.

And what is this?

The spine, back cover, front cover, and her name is the title of the book.

That's kind of crazy, but it is.

And this book is by Mary Nhin, and pictures by Yuliia, Yuliia something.

Sorry, I can't, cannot pronounce that and, Yuliia Zolotova.

And I have permission from Grow Grit Press, to read this book.

And this is the title page.

"Anne Frank".

Hi, I'm Anne Frank.

(pages shuffling) When Adolf Hitler became the president of Germany prejudice against Jews was growing, and I was Jewish.

So when I was only four years old we fled Germany to live in the Netherlands.

Moving to a new country meant I had to learn new customs and a new language.

It was hard, but I adapted.

This helped me settle into my new school pretty well but then came the start of World War II.

The Nazis invaded the Netherlands where my family had thought we'd be safe.

(book thuds) (pages shuffling) Life as a Jew was hard.

We were not allowed to live in our, to live our lives normally.

We had to wear a yellow patch on our clothes.

We had to hand in our bicycles and we, and we were only allowed to do our shopping between the hours of three and five o'clock.

So they had two hours to shop.

When they had, when they, when then they said we couldn't go to school with some of our friends and neighbors, I was crushed.

We had to go to Jewish only schools.

(pages shuffling) I was really sad about the new laws.

So to cheer me up, mom and dad threw me a party and bought me some gifts for my 13th birthday.

My favorite gift was a journal.

It, it would soon become a close confidant, the kind of friend who was always patient.

I named her "Kitty".

I didn't know that it would be my last birthday celebrated in freedom.

(pages shuffling) The Nazis were gathering up all the Jews, and eventually they sent a notice ordering Margot, Margot to be sent to a labor camp.

It was too late for us to leave the country.

We knew we couldn't stay so we went into hiding.

And Margot is her sister I believe.

(book thuds) We lived for two years in my father's office, office building in a secret space behind a bookshelf, that I dubbed the Secret Annex.

Our hiding place was a, was small for eight people.

It was comprised of our family of four and another family of three, the Van Pels and their son, Peter.

A while later we welcomed another person, Fritz Pfeffer.

Daddy and I adapted relatively fast, but Margot and mom had a rougher time.

(book thuds) A few, the few people who helped us brought food and new books.

We were so thankful and I called them are our protectors.

They could have been punished for helping us but they did it anyways.

(book thuds) In the Secret Annex we had to be very quiet or the people downstairs in the factory could hear us and report us.

One day, Margot got, had a bad, bad cold.

We, we didn't dare to, we didn't dare let her cough for fear of them finding us so we gave her lots of cough medicine.

Another day, a man came, another day a man, a man came to do some handiwork in the factory downstairs.

After we had, after he had worked for almost 15 minutes we heard him lay his hammer and tools down.

That's when we heard a knock at the secret door to the Annex.

I was so scared.

I imagined a giant growing bigger and bigger in size with each knock he made.

"Open the door, it's only me."

I was so relieved to hear Jan Gies voice, thank goodness.

If we were caught we would have been sent away to labor concentration camps.

There people were treated very badly and often starved to death or died.

(book thuds) I couldn't go to school anymore, but I, I wouldn't give up on my education no matter how hard the Nazis try to deny it to me.

I continued to study and learn, I remained hopeful that we would one day come out of hiding and go back to our normal lives.

I wanted to grow up to become a writer, I love to write.

I learned as much as I could from the books that we, that we had and I practiced in my journal.

I wrote all about our lives in hiding, my feelings, my fears, my hopes, and my dreams.

For two years in hiding, I was deprived of my freedom.

I did not feel the wind, go outside, or breathe the fresh air, even though times were hard I never gave up hope on my, myself nor humanity.

Where there's hope there's life.

It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

Excuse me.

I didn't get to grow up, our hiding place was discovered and we were sent away to concentration camps.

I died there with my sister when I was just 15 years old.

After the war, the only person who survived was my father.

He went back to Amsterdam to look for us and learned that we had all died.

Miep gave him the journal she had found and hid after our capture.

When my father decided, when my father decided to publish my journal I became a published author.

With my words, I spoke for 6 million people who had been terrorized or oppressed, like we had.

I refuse to be silenced and my story was heard around the world.

(book thuds) Those who have faith, those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery, in misery.

And that was the end of the story.

Let's get back to Dr. Sanders.

- All right, boys and girls.

And that was like a non-fiction story because it was the truth, right?

It was telling the truth, did Adera do a good job reading that story?

Yes, non fiction is somehow harder 'cause it's not as exciting, but Anne Frank was amazing woman in history.

She wrote about when she was a Jew in a war and she wrote about how she survived the war for those two years, how she survived, why she was hiding and what the war meant to her.

'Cause the problem, the problem was the Nazis were coming to get her, right?

What was the solution?

Yes, they hid in the attic in the Secret Annex.

But Anne Frank, when you get older you'll read so much more about her.

So make sure you read about her.

Thank you and thank you to Grow Grit Publishing for allowing us to read, Grow Grit Press, for allowing us to read the story.

All right, boys and girls, let's do some counting.

You ready to count?

I'm ready to count.

Who's ready to count?

I'm ready to count.

♪ I'm ready to count ♪ I'm so ready to do some counting, some counting.

♪ Here we go.

Let's count from 91 to 100.

Here we go, 91 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100.

Now we're gonna count from zero to 30 by twos.

Here we go, zero, two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30.

Now we're gonna count from zero to 100 by fives.

Zero, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70 (chuckles), 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100.

Now we're gonna count from zero to 100 by tens.

Zero, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 100.

That's, we're counting by tens, right?

So now we're gonna count backwards.

Let's go, hands up, hands up (hums).

Here we go.

10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

Blast off!

Now we're gonna count in Swahili.

Make sure you're helping me.

Here we go.

(speaks Swahili) All right, boys and girls.

You're getting better at counting, I can hear you, keep practicing.

And if you want your parents, just have your parents record you and maybe post it somewhere in (indistinct) Nine PBS in it.

And, we're talking about them coins.

I'mma show you a coin, you tell me what it is.

Here we go.

What is this?

This is a quarter, everybody say quarter.

That is a quarter.

Can I have a quarter?

You can have a quarter, here you go, right here.

All right, and this is a?

Dime, everybody say dime, you want a dime?

Here you can have a dime too, there you go.

And what is this?

That's a penny.

Everybody say, "Hi penny."

Hey penny.

All right, and what is this?

That's a nickel.

Everybody say, "Hi nickel," nickel.

Here we go, are you ready?

I'mma show you one, you gotta help me out.

Here we go.

What's that?

Nickel, quarter, dime, penny.

You're all right, here we go one more time.

Dime, penny, nickel, quarter.

That's a quarter.

And guess what boys and girls, it is about that time to be done with "Room 9".

Let's spell nine, our favorite word, nine, N-I-N-E, nine.

Thank you for being in "Room 9", bye-bye.

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