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

Welcome back to Room 9, the region's largest classroom.

It's Dr. Sanders here.

I'm here from Adams Elementary in St. Louis public schools.

And I'm here to teach you a little ELA and math to 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!

And I bet you may learn something.

I bet you may learn something.

So let's get started.

We'll get started with our objectives for right now.

So let me turn on, let's get started.

Students will: in ELA you'll recognize characters in the story.

And in math, you're gonna compare using greater than or less than, greater than, less than or equal to.

All right, we're gonna get started with some counting of our letters in our friends' names.

We gonna count our letters in our friend's name.

Whose name is this?

That's Kenji.

Let's count Kenji's letters.

One, two, three, four, five.

And whose name is this?

Yes, that is Lennox.

Hi Lennox.

Hi Kenji.

Let's count the letters.

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

And whose name is this?

Kensington.

Let's count the letters.

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

And whose name is this?

Jaxon.

Hey Jaxon.

Let's count his letters.

One, two, three, four, five.

And who is this?

Hayden, I hope you're watching.

Hi, Hayden.

Let's count his letters.

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

All right.

Let's do some counting on a number chart.

I think we're riding on our bubbles, let's see if we have any bubbles in here before we get started.

Oh man, we only had like seven bubbles.

That's okay.

Let's get started with some counting.

We gonna count from zero to 100 by once.

Are you ready?

I am, hold on.

Now I'm ready.

Are you 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.

In a real deep voice, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.

In a real low voice.

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

Regular voice.

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

In a really deep voice again.

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

In a little baby voice.

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

In a cookie monster voice.

71, 72, 73 yam yam.

74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80.

Singing.

♪81 ♪ 82 ♪ 83 ♪ 84 ♪ 85 ♪ 86 ♪ 87 ♪ 88 ♪ 89 ♪ 90 Low to high.

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

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

We're gonna count from zero to 50 by twos.

You ready?

Here we go.

Zero, two, four, six, eight, 10.

12, 14, 16, 18, 20.

22, 24, 26, 28, 30.

32, 34, 36, 38, 40.

42, 44, 46, 48, 50.

Five and a zero make 50.

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

Let's go.

Zero, five, 10.

15, 20.

25, 30.

35, 40.

45, 50.

55, 60.

65, 70.

75, 80.

85, 90.

95, 100.

Now we gonna count from zero to 100 by tens.

Zero.

And when we're counting by tens, it's like adding 10 each time.

You're adding, addition, you're plusing.

We wanna say addition, using addition.

Here we go.

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

Now we're gonna do a little subtraction by counting back from 10 to zero, hands up.

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

Bless (indistinct).

Alright, come back down.

Now, we're gonna count from zero to 10 in Swahili.

From zero to 10 in Swahili.

Mimic me again today.

Sufuri, moja, mbili, tatu, nne, tano, sita, saba, nane, tisa, kumi.

And that's 10 in Swahili, from an East African language.

And boys and girls if you didn't know, I learned but I had to learn again that's why I have my little cheat sheet to help me.

That's why I keep looking down like, woo!.

See, everybody needs help sometimes.

But we're all gonna learn and we won't need any help, correct?

Hopefully so, right?

All right, today or this week it said, talk about greater than, less than, or equal to.

Greater than means something is bigger than right?

Greater than means something bigger.

When we talk about numbers or quantity of something.

So if I have three and two, we have three and two, three is greater than.

Three is greater than two.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you some things.

Show you some magnets on my magnetic board.

And I want you to tell me which side is greater than, okay.

So let's see.

Which one is more?

Okay, on this side we have how many?

Two.

And on this side we have one.

Which one is more?

Yes.

The number is two is more right?

So you would say two is greater than one.

Two is greater than one.

All right, you did good on, let's see if you can get this one.

All right, I've take it too long, I'm sorry.

Here we go.

How many we have on this side?

Five.

How many do we have on this side?

Four.

So which one is greater than?

And if you use subitizing, you know you can use that five, right?

That's right.

And four.

So five is greater than four.

If I say five is greater than four, five is greater than four.

All right.

Now, let's look at these two sides.

How many we have on this side?

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

Isn't it.

They're the same.

Yes.

They're the same.

Everybody say four is equal to four.

Four is equal to four.

You see that sign in the middle, that means equal to.

That means they're the same, they're the same.

Let's do one more.

All right.

Tell me about these magnets.

How many do we have on this side?

Yes, that's right.

Some of you just said two 'cause you'd recognize the pattern.

Two, how many on this side?

Three.

Three, yes.

Three is greater than two.

But you know what y'all so can say, two is less than three.

I'ma show you the sign, the symbol that we use.

You'll learn this one day.

Two is less than three.

Two is less than three.

And you know why?

Like, if you're an alligator, if you were like Adam's alligator, you would want to eat the bigger number, right?

You don't want the small number, you wanna eat the bigger number.

So that's why the mouth open towards the bigger number.

So two is less than three.

Alright.

We will work on this a lot more, but right now you've been sitting it all down, please stand.

Stand up!

All right.

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

All right, I'll listen to you now, I forgot to take my hat off, didn't I.

Sorry.

All right.

Jump on me now five times go.

One, two, three, four, five.

Nod your head six times, go.

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

Smile for five seconds.

Arms out, roll your...

Arm circles forward, small arm circles go eight.

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

Arm circles backwards eight, go.

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

And sit down on three, one, two, three, up, down, up, down.

Sit right now on the ground or on the floor or in your chair, or in your seat, wherever you may be.

Just be careful.

All right.

Today, characters are animals or people or things in the story, they do something right.

Today we're gonna read a book, it's called Biz Is A Wiz, Biz Is A Wiz.

And it is written by Mikey Wren.

Mikey Wren is a young, very young author.

I think he wrote this book when he was nine years old, but guess what?

He's from St. Louis, Missouri.

And he actually went to school in the Jenning School District.

But, he wrote this book called Biz Is A Wiz.

Boys and girls, it doesn't matter how old you are.

Maybe you can write a book.

Maybe you can write a book.

All right.

And as you're listening to this book, I want you to think about who is the character, who is this book about?

The main character who the book is about.

Or who is in the story?

Biz Is A Wiz.

And this is the what?

Front cover.

This is the what?

Back cover.

This is the spine.

Hold yourself together.

Otherwise you would be a little blurb.

And these words up here are the what?

The title of the book.

Does anybody know this word right here?

It's a side word that... I-S, is, right.

And yes, next to it is a.

And the illustrator of this book is Donald L. Hill.

And the illust... What does the illustrator do?

The illustrator draws the pictures.

And we are reading this with permission from St. Louis Black Authors of Children's Literature.

Oh, I forgot to show you the title page.

This is the what?

Title page.

I want to start a business but don't know how.

Hi, my name is Biz.

I will show you how Biz is a Wiz.

First, let's start with the business plan.

Get your paper and pen in hand.

Biz is a Wiz.

Next, what is your big idea?

Make sure it is grand.

I know a great idea, we can build a lemonade stand!

Biz is a Wiz.

Now that we know your idea, who are you marketed to?

Who will buy your lemonade?

Family and friends is a great answer to my question.

Ask everyone and have courage, don't be afraid.

Let's get paid!

Biz is a Wiz.

Now to the store to buy lemon sugar and ice.

We must not forget to check the price.

Biz is a Wiz.

Pour the water, add some lemons, stir in the sugar and grab a cup.

Now we can put the stand up.

People are coming left and right, let's fill them all up.

Biz is a Wiz.

Finally, it's time to add the money we made.

Then subtract what we spent at the store.

We sold out of our lemonade.

Now it's time to make more.

Biz is a Wiz and he's a Wiz at Biz!

Did Biz make some money?

Who the characters in the story?

Who was the character in the story?

Biz.

He also had a book bag with him, right?

You know who Biz was?

That was Mikey, that was Mikey Wren.

But did he make a little money?

How did he make his money?

He sold lemonade.

Yes, he did.

He sold lemonade.

Did he just say, woo, I'm must sell some lemonade or did he have to come up with a plan first?

He had to come up with a plan.

Yeah.

He come up with a plan first to see how he was... Who he was gonna sell it to, right.

Who would you sell your lemonade to?

To your brother?

Your mother?

Yes.

Your daddy?

yes.

Your grownup?

Yes.

Your grandparents?

Your friends?

Yes.

I hope they have some money right?

All right.

Again, this is a book, Biz Is A Wiz, and it was written by Mikey Wren from St. Louis, maybe you'll see him.

And you say, hi, hey Mikey, how you doing I just heard your book.

And then again, thank you for St. Louis Black Authors of Children's Literature for allowing me to read it.

But let's get busy with some sounds.

We're ready for some sounds.

Here we go.

The sound is d. The word is dog, dance?

What's letter makes that sound?

D, d, d. Yes.

That's right, D. You are right, D makes that sound.

All right.

What about (indistinct).

This letter makes two sounds remember.

U and a.

Yes, that's right, it makes the...

It's the letter U, it's the letter U.

And what letter makes the (indistinct) sound.

Yes.

S makes the (indistinct) sound.

Like silly, slow, super.

And my last letter makes the i sound.

What that makes the i sound.

It's a vowel, it makes two different sounds.

(indistinct) It makes the i sound, yes the letter I, the capital letter I.

Excellent.

So we had the letter...

I'ma show you the letter, you make the sound.

Are you ready?

What sound does this make?

Ooh, I heard some good.

Yes, yes.

You gotta work... Oh somebody said dog, yes dog starts with D. What two sounds does this letter make?

A, e, u, yes.

(indistinct) and u.

What sound is this make?

(indistinct) Yes it makes the (indistinct) sound.

And what sound does this make?

That's right, that's i, that's another vowel.

So what it makes two different sounds, that's right.

(indistinct) and I, that is correct.

Let's take a look at our word that we're gonna work on.

That we've been working on.

I have to take our numbers down, bye numbers, don't be mad.

We'll bring you back later, don't get mad.

All right.

So let's put my words up.

The words go up.

And they stay there.

Hopefully they stay there right?

All right, we're gonna read out words.

I'm having problem.

I'm having problems.

I'm having so many problems.

Here we go.

Let's read our words, we'll spell a couple of them.

We'll spell a couple of them, here we go.

Away, let's spell away.

Away, A-W-A-Y, away.

Put that toy away.

Big.

Came.

Down.

Let's spell down.

Down, D-O-W-N, down.

Eat.

Funny.

Let's spell funny.

F-U-N-N-Y, funny.

Good.

Help.

Into.

Let's spell into, I-N-T-O, into.

Just.

Know.

Let.

Let's spell let.

L-E-T, let.

Now.

Let's spell now, N-O-W, now.

Old.

Quit.

Soon.

Let's spell soon.

S-O-O-N, soon.

Soon we'll be all finished with Room 9 for today.

Fake.

Think Under.

Very.

Who.

Your.

Zip, zip.

Let's spell zip.

Zip, Z-I-P, zip.

And we have four words that we're working on this week, enough words that'll complete our chart.

And what word is this?

Ride!

Who wants to take a ride on the school bus?

Who wants to take a ride on the wheel?

Let's spell ride.

Ride, R-I-D-E, ride.

And what word is this, must, must.

Who must... You must be the most... You must be the most talented child ever.

Yes, you.

No, no, no, no, no, you.

Let's spell must.

Must, M-U-S-T, must.

And whose word is this?

Whose name is... What word is this?

Pretty!

Let's spell pretty.

Pretty, P-R-E-T-T-Y, P-R-E-T-T-Y.

You are so pretty and you are so handsome.

And what word is this?

X-ray.

Let's spell X-ray, X, hyphen or dash, R-A-Y.

X, R-A-Y.

X-ray, I had an x-ray on broken finger and it said it was broken.

It was very broken.

All right, one more word we're gonna spell our favorite word, what's the word?

What is it?

Nine!

Can you show me nine fingers?

Can you sh... Nine!

Oh nine fingers.

Five plus four is nine, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

Nine!

Let's spell nine!

Nine!

N-I-N-E, nine.

Thank you for being in Room 9, bye bye.

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