(upbeat music) - Good morning, boys and girls.

It's Dr. Sanders back in the region's largest classroom.

Here to teach a little ELA and Math for my pre-K kindergarten students.

But like I always say it doesn't matter if you're two or 102.

Hopefully you can learn something, but most most definitely you have some fun.

That's right.

I work at Adams Elementary and St. Louis Public Schools, and I'm ready to get started.

Are you?

Let's check out our objectives for the week.

I'm gonna take this number chart down just for a second.

Our objectives are students will listen for different purposes and recognize numbers up to 20, up to 20.

And we may go over 20, but here we go.

So today, let's get started with some counting.

Are you ready to count?

We are gonna count from zero to 100 by ones.

I need everyone's help.

I need everyone's help.

So here we go.

Are you ready?

I'm ready.

Let's go.

Zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 19, 20.

21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.

Let's do it like a robot.

31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.

Regular voice 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.

In a baby voice.

51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60.

Let's rap it.

61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 70.

You want to do that?

Let's do that one again.

Let's wrap again.

71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80.

All right, let's regular voice, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90.

We're gonna start low and get really loud.

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

One hundred, one hundred.

We made it through 100.

I got a drink of wine.

Here we go.

Now we gonna count from zero to 100 by five.

Zero to 100 by fives.

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

We made it to 100.

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

Just like adding by tens, right?

It's adding 10 each time.

Here we go.

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

One hundred, one hundred.

♪ We've made it to one hundred ♪ Oh, Oh All right, boys and girls.

Now we're gonna count backwards When you're counting backwards, it's like subtracting by ones.

We're gonna count backwards from 10 to zero.

And it was like subtracting by ones.

So hands in the air.

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

(screaming) All right, now we're gonna count from zero to 10 in Spanish.

All right.

(speaking in foreign language) Boys and girls we're gonna look at some, some numbers.

Thank you for helping me count.

It makes me feel so well that you're getting so much better at counting.

We're gonna look at some numbers.

I want you to tell me, what numbers did you see?

Okay, here we go.

What number is this?

Five, that's right.

That's the number five.

Can you show me five fingers?

Five, so five plus zero is five.

And what else?

Yes, four plus one is five or one plus four?

Yes, three plus two is five or two plus three is five.

Two plus three equals five.

All right, and what number is this?

18, what two digits make up 18?

A one and a eight.

You know, I'll tell you something.

Listen, nine plus nine equals 18.

Everybody say that.

Nine plus nine equals 18.

Remember that, just remember that.

All right, and what number is this?

12, what two digits make up 12?

A one and a two.

Yes, a one and a two.

12, can I tell you something?

Six plus six equals 12, six plus six equals 12.

All right, what number is this?

20, that is right.

That's the number 20.

What two digits make up 20?

A two and a zero.

Okay, you ready for another addition problem?

Equation, 10 plus 10 equals 20.

10 plus 10 equals 20.

And what number is this?

13, 13.

What two digits make up 13?

A one and a three.

We don't have two numbers.

Two numbers equals let's see.

10 plus three equals 13, 10 plus three equals 13.

And what number is this?

That's the number nine.

Can you show me nine fingers?

Five, six, seven, eight, nine.

So five plus four equals nine or four plus five equals nine.

We'll continue to learn a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot a lot more than numbers in addition equations.

But we wanna make sure we can recognize numbers and then we'll give them higher and higher and higher.

All right, everybody, please stand.

Please stand.

All right, jump up and down five times, go.

One, two, three, four, five.

Nod your head eight times go, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

All right, raise your shoulders 10 times.

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

All right, 10 jumping jacks.

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

All right, let's sit down on.

What do you wanna do?

Oh, you want to?

I forgot, what is the dab?

Oh the floss, that's right.

Let's do the floss.

Let's do the floss 10 times, go.

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

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

Up down, up down.

♪ Sit right down on the ground ♪ Or the chair or the couch But don't jump on the couch.

Just sit down.

Boys and girls, this week, we said, we're gonna talk about reading for a purpose, reading for purpose.

And sometimes when an author writes a story, sometimes they wanna give us information.

Sometimes they wanna entertain us or make us laugh.

And sometimes, sometimes they want us to they want to persuade us.

That's a big word.

Say persuade, try to get us to like their things.

But when we read, we read for almost the same purposes but usually really (mumbles) We read for entertainment or we read to get information.

Yesterday, we read a book about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And it gave us a lot of information.

And as we talked about, we're gonna read another book.

That's gonna give us some information.

It's a little, it could be entertaining to you but it also gives us information about what's going on.

And so that's, so our book is called, we read it before, but we're still dealing with this.

It's called "Rona, Rona, Go Away."

Rona, Rona, go away.

We still had, the coronavirus is still going on.

That a vaccine came, which means they can help.

So we don't catch the coronavirus but you still have to stay safe.

Are you still wearing your mask?

Are you still wearing your mask?

And make sure you wear it over your nose, right?

Not like this, right?

But make sure you wear your mask.

But let's read this book written by the Adrienne Draper.

And so she's the author.

So what does that have to do?

Writes the words in the story.

And it's illustrated by Yenushka Dunuwila, and the illustrator does what?

Draws the pictures.

And this is a St. Louis Arthur.

And she gave me permission.

And I read this book before but I gonna read it again because we still gotta remember we don't want that coronavirus around here.

This is the what?

Front cover.

This is the what?

Spine.

This is the what?

Back cover.

And Ms. Draper actually gives me permission to read the story, and guess what?

I even got her autograph.

And if you look at the front you can see the what?

The arch, right?

You can see the arch.

So this is the St. Louis.

Arthur.

It's amazing that she lets me read her story.

Another part of the book we say, we're gonna talk about we say a front, cover back cover.

This is the what?

The title page.

Everybody say title page, title page.

All right.

It was the week before spring break.

And we were all excited.

My parents always chose different cities to visit so that no magnet on our refrigerator was ever the same.

That Wednesday backpacks fill as if it was the last day of school.

Teachers explain our break was beginning as early as tomorrow.

And we were all thrilled about this longer vacation.

That evening, dad said we were staycationing.

Since some cities close fun places, mom always made us wash our hands, but that time seemed different.

There was a virus that was making a lot of people sick.

So families were ordered to stay home to avoid spreading it.

Dad and I wore masks, as we rode to get things for the house.

It seemed like every car we pass did the same.

We drove further than we drove further than normal because stores were running out of things.

Every cart had toilet tissue and paper towels.

By the time we got to the aisle, there was barely any left.

When we went to the toy house, my job was to find, find games we could play together.

I chose puzzles, board games, cards, and sidewalk chalk.

It was a good thing.

It was just dad and I, because our was loaded.

We stopped by my grandparents before going home.

Dad and I placed the items on their porch, got back in the car, then call to let them know they were there.

We waved and talk from the car, then left.

More and more stores began to close.

So dinner at home became normal.

Before we were always heading to practice after school and rarely had time to sit down for dinner.

One day I looked up at the sky.

There was so many thick, beautiful clouds.

The blue sky barely peeked through.

Dad says since more people work from home, there was less pollution.

We played every game a million times.

Watched every movie a trillion times.

And I missed my family and friends.

Dad thought it would be a great idea to go bike riding throughout the neighborhood.

We rode past the park but the playground was taped off like a crime scene.

Suddenly, the bike ride didn't seem like fun.

Mom had to go back to work.

She was a postal worker, so she was considered essential.

Dad, no longer left for work.

Instead he kept his bedroom door closed when he was in meetings.

He usually schedule them when we were in our virtual classrooms It had been weeks since we were in school.

And I was so anxious the first time we had our virtual class.

We were all excited to see each other.

Mrs. Robinson had to mute us so we could hear her speak.

She asked what were our three pluses and a wish.

When it was my turn.

I said, I liked my parents.

I liked when my parents cook, enjoy spending time with my family, glad pollution was down.

But my wish was for Corona to go away.

My friends began to chant, ♪ Rona, Rona, go away ♪ Rona, Rona, go away This was the beginning of our new normal.

Let me hear you chant.

♪ Rona, Rona, go away ♪ Rona, Rona, go away ♪ Rona Yes, do we all want coronavirus to go away?

Yes, we do.

Question for you.

Do you think, how do you think the boy felt when he had to drop the groceries off to his grandparents, without seeing them?

Yes, he probably felt sad because he couldn't touch them.

He couldn't give them a hug.

Yeah, do you love hugging your grandparents or your grand grownups?

Yes, when Corona is around sometimes it's kinda hard because we wanna make sure that everyone stays safe.

Some of us are back in school but some of us are still virtual because we have parents and grownups that had to stay safe.

That are vulnerable.

If you're at school, how do you keep yourself safe at school?

Yes, you wear a mask.

You wash your hands.

Yes, wash your hands.

Do you just do this?

Get some soap and say, and then you're finished.

No, yes you wash them.

You know, you get them all cleaned, clean in between your hands, about 20 seconds, right?

You can count to 20, one, two, three, four, five really slow to make sure they are clean.

Then you rinse.

And then you turn the water off with a paper towel.

How else are you staying safe at school?

Six feet apart?

Yes, stay six feet apart.

Stay in your safety bubble.

Some of you have dividers.

Some of you have dividers on your tables.

Okay, all right.

And we just gotta make sure we stay safe.

All right, again, this is the St. Louis author.

If you don't have this book, grownups, maybe students maybe you can go by and remember to St. Louis Black author.

And she gives some great teachers, educators.

She gives some great questions at the back that you can ask your students.

And I actually use them to ask you some of my questions.

♪ All right, let's do a little work ♪ ♪ Let's do a little work Oh, I'm sorry.

Let's count the names and the letters in my friend's names.

Whose name is this?

Keisha, let's count Keisha's letters.

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

She has six letters in her name.

Whose name is this?

Harold, let's count his letters.

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

He also has six, six and six are the same, right?

And whose name is this?

All the way from Florida.

Jamir, let's count Jamir's letters.

One, two, three, four, five.

And whose name is this?

Hi, Ellie.

Let's count her letters.

One, two, three, four five.

Hi, Ellie.

And whose name is this?

Henry, hey Henry, how are you doing?

Let's count his letters.

One, two, three, four, five.

Henry has five letters in his name.

He has five letters in his name.

Boys and girls, remember to keep sending, keep sending those names in, keep sending.

If you wanna send your teacher's name in or your grownup's name in, I'll read that as well.

All right, let's look at our.

Before we look at our sight words, our new sight words.

Let's take my number chart down.

Gotta put this over here.

Let's think about my words.

We already have that we've looked at so far and let's just read these words.

All right, let's just read these words.

And these are the letters of the alphabet.

Interesting, what's this word?

Down, d-o-w-n, down.

Funny, f-u-n-n-y, funny.

Good, g-o-o-d, good.

Just j-u-s-t, just.

Zip z-i-p, zip.

All right, let's look at words for this week.

Hmm, this word really makes me think.

Think, the word is think.

Think, let's spell think.

Think, t-h-i-n-k, think.

Make sure you're always thinking before you just answer.

And what word is this?

Help, if you need something and you can't do by yourself, ask for help.

Don't say I can't do it.

Say I need help.

Let's spell help.

Help, h-e-l-p, help.

And what word is this?

Who, who is listening right now?

Are you listening?

Yes, thank you for listening.

Who, let's spell who.

W-h-o, who.

And what word is this?

Eat, eat.

What did you eat for lunch?

I like to eat.

I like to eat potato chips with hot sauce.

I like, let's spell eat.

Eat, e-a-t, eat.

Boys and girls you can use, like when we use these words when you say these words, we can use them in a sentence too.

You know what I would love to see?

I would love to see some of your sentences written down.

Like if you say, I like to eat broccoli maybe you can draw your own.

Maybe you can draw a book that says eat.

You can draw it.

You can have a book or draw a picture of the broccoli and write at the bottom of your paper, I like to eat broccoli.

And then maybe take a picture of it and share it on social media and tag nine network or tag nine in there.

And maybe I can, I'll be able to see it.

Or you can send it to me, you grownups know how to do that stuff.

All right, let's look at our letters and a couple of sounds.

In our sounds, what letter is this?

E, what sound does it make?

It makes two sounds, e and eh.

What letter is this?

K, what sound does it make, k. And what letter is this?

W, what sound does it make?

Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.

What letter is this?

R and what sound does it make?

(roaring) And what letter is this?

N and what sound does it make?

(groaning) Neck, I have my neck, point to your neck.

All right, boys and girls.

Hm, remember to always do a great job.

And I love how you listen to me all the time.

And I love that you're doing a great job in school.

And guess what time it is.

That's right.

It's time for me to go.

But before we go, let's spell.

What word is this?

Nine, let's spell nine, n-i-n-e, nine.

Thank you for being in Room 9.

Bye-bye.

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] Teaching in Room 9 is made possible with support of Bank of America, Dana Brown Charitable Trust, Emerson and viewers like you.