(upbeat music) - Good afternoon, friends.

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

My name is Julia.

I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard School.

And here for Teaching in Room 9, my lessons focus on letters and sounds.

Welcome back, friends.

Thank you so much for being here with me today.

I'm so excited I get the chance to be here with you.

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

Always feel free to have your grownup take a picture or a video of you following along at home, and you can send them into the Nine PBS station or post them online and hashtag Nine PBS.

All right, friends, we're gonna go ahead and get started by doing our mindful moment exercise.

We're gonna get our bodies and our brains ready to learn.

When we do this, it allows our body and our mind to recenter and gives us all the right tools to be able to focus, and then we can take in new information.

We're gonna do that by doing some hot cocoa breathing exercises together.

Now, I want you to imagine that you have a nice big, warm cup of hot cocoa in your hands.

What does your mug look like?

Do you have marshmallows in your hot cocoa?

I have four big fluffy marshmallows in my hot cocoa.

Now we're gonna take an slow deep breaths through our nose and smelling that delicious chocolatey smell.

Then we will breathe out slowly onto our hot cocoa to cool it off.

We're gonna do that by doing three deep breaths here together.

Do you have your hot cocoa ready?

All right.

Take a deep breath in through your nose.

And breathe out.

Smells so yummy.

Take another deep breath in.

And breathe out.

Nice and slow so you don't splash your hot cocoa.

Last one, take a deep breath in through your nose.

And breathe out through your mouth.

Nice and slow.

Nicely done, friends.

Go ahead and set your hot cocoa down.

All right, now that our bodies are ready to learn, let's take a minute to talk about getting ready to learn at school.

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

We're gonna start by reviewing a few strategies that we've talked about here together so far.

Now, we wanna make sure we've chosen a smart spot that's away from any distractions that might take away from our learning.

Are you in a smart spot right now?

If not, go ahead and get into a smart spot.

We also wanna try our best to show body basics, or it's also called whole body listening.

This might look a little different for everyone, but it might look like sitting up straight and tall, making sure our eyes are on the speaker, our ears are listening.

our mouth is quiet, and our heart is ready to learn.

Something else that might help us when we're learning at school is to remember to make smart choices.

Sometimes these are called green choices.

And choices that maybe aren't as strong might be called red choices.

Green choices might be something like using gentle hands or working together as a team.

A red choice might be having an out of control body or using mean or unkind words.

All right, I want you to repeat after me, learners.

Are you ready?

We are in control of our body and our choices.

Let me hear it.

We are in control of our body and our choices.

Nicely done, friends.

I'm so proud of you.

All right, now that we prepared our bodies and our brains to learn, we've reviewed some tools to help us be successful when we're learning in school.

Now we're ready to learn.

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

In our time together before we have practiced all our letter sounds, and we've practiced lots of skills to help us work with those letter sounds.

We're gonna be just like reading scientists, looking at all parts of a word to find patterns and sounds that will help us better understand how to read and write new words.

Today, our learning goal or objective is, repeat after me, learners.

I can make new words by changing the last sound.

Way to go, learners.

Thank you for following along with me so nicely.

All right, we're gonna go ahead and start by reviewing our letter sounds here together.

We done a little song that went along with it.

So if you want, just turn those listening ears up.

If you feel comfortable, try to jump in and sing along with me if you can.

All right, ready?

♪ A says ah, ah ♪ ♪ B says buh, buh ♪ ♪ C says cuh, cuh ♪ ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ ♪ D says duh, duh ♪ ♪ E says eh, eh ♪ ♪ F says fuh, fuh ♪ ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ ♪ G then says guh, guh ♪ ♪ H then says huh, huh ♪ ♪ I say eh ♪ ♪ J says juh ♪ ♪ K say kuh ♪ ♪ L says lul ♪ ♪ And M says mm ♪ ♪ N says nn, nn ♪ ♪ O says ah, ah ♪ ♪ P puh, puh ♪ ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ ♪ Q says quah, quah ♪ ♪ R says er, er ♪ ♪ S says ss, ss ♪ ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ ♪ T then tuh, tuh ♪ ♪ U then says uh, uh ♪ ♪ V say vuh ♪ ♪ W says wuh ♪ ♪ X says xss ♪ ♪ Y says yuh ♪ ♪ And Z says zz, zz, zz, zz ♪ ♪ Now we're all done with 26 letters ♪ ♪ Letters come together to make words ♪ Wow, give yourself a round of applause or pat on the back.

That was amazing.

You really are doing a great job with all your letter sounds.

Let's go ahead now and take those letter sounds we just practiced and really warm up our brains.

Go ahead and tickle those brains, friends.

And we're gonna practice our letter sounds and working with them.

We're gonna start with rhyming words.

And we have a song that goes along with that.

♪ Rhyming words are words that have the same sounds ♪ ♪ They have to end in the same way ♪ ♪ Rhyming words have the same vowel sounds ♪ ♪ And the same sounds at the very end ♪ Very good.

So we're listening to the end of the word to find our rhyme.

I'm gonna give you two words.

You're gonna say back to me.

And then we're gonna shout out the rhyme.

Again, that's our vowel sound and the sounds that come after the ending part of the word.

All right, are you ready?

Let's go ahead and practice.

Say these words, dig, big.

Very good.

And our rhyme in dig and big is ig.

Ig is the part of the word that's the same in both of those words.

That's what makes them rhyming words.

Let's practice another one.

Say these words, sum, gum.

Very good.

And our rhyme in both these words is um, very good.

Let's practice another one.

Say the words pack, back.

Very good.

And our rhyme in both those words is ack.

Very good.

Try another one.

Will, hill.

Let me hear it.

Very good.

And our rhyme in will and hill is ill.

Very good.

Last one.

Ready?

Say these words, best, nest.

Very good.

And our rhyme in these words is est.

Amazing job, learners.

I'm so proud of you.

All right, now, I'm gonna say a word.

You're gonna say it back to me again.

And this time you're gonna tell me just the beginning sound you hear, that very first sound.

All right, let's practice.

Say the word bike.

Good.

What's the first sound you hear in bike?

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

It is the buh, buh sound.

Remember to give me the sound and not the letter.

All right, let's practice another one.

Say the word quilt.

Very good.

Now what's the first sound you hear in quilt?

Yeah, this one is a little tricky.

It's quah, quah.

Very good.

Say the word game.

Amazing job.

And the first sound you hear in game?

Yeah, it's the guh, guh sound.

Amazing.

All right, a few more.

Say the word vine.

Yeah, really good.

And the first sound you hear in vine is vv, Very good.

Yeah, it kind of tickles the front of your mouth, right?

Last one, say the word lamp.

Yeah, really good.

The first sound you hear is ll.

You see how my tongue is between my teeth?

Ll, lamp.

Amazing job.

Now I will say a word.

Same thing.

You're gonna say it back to me.

And then this time, tell me the very last sound you hear?

Not the rhyme, just the very last sound.

Let's practice.

Say the word huge.

Yeah, really good.

What's the last sound you hear a huge?

Yeah, very good.

The juh, juh is the last sound we hear in huge.

Say this word.

Ready?

Mom.

Yeah, and the last sound we here in mom?

Very good.

Let me hear it.

Mm.

See how my lips are pressed together.

Let's practice another one.

Say the word own.

Great job.

Last sound in own?

Nn.

Very close to the mm sound, but do you see how my mouth changes from mm to nn.

My tongue is on the roof of my mouth.

All right.

Another one.

Ready?

Say the word slip.

And the very last sound in slip is puh, puh.

Very good.

Last one, friends.

Say the word gas.

Great job.

And the last sound you hearing gas is ss.

Very good.

You sound like a bunch of snakes.

I am so proud of you.

Go ahead and kiss your brains.

You are amazing.

You're doing a really great job.

All right, then last time we were together, friends, we focused on something called onset rhyme.

When we were just working with those rhyming words, we were isolating or separating the first sound from the rhyme.

That's called onset rhyme.

Can you say that?

Onset rhyme.

Very good.

And the song we learned with it was to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat.

You wanna try to sing it with me?

All right.

Let's do it.

♪ Onset rhyme are the parts found in a word ♪ ♪ Blend the first sound with the rhyme ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard ♪ So the word is pup.

Can you say that?

Pup.

Our first sound is puh.

Our rhyme is up.

Blend it together, pup.

Very good.

Now change your puh in pup to cuh.

So the first sound would be cuh.

Our rhyme is up.

Blend it together, cup.

Very good, friends.

Now, we made so many different words last time when we were practicing onset rhyme.

Today, we're gonna be making new words by changing out the last sound we hear this time.

But it's a little bit different.

This time, I want us to focus on something called segmenting sounds.

Can you say that?

Segmenting sounds.

Wow, that's a really big word.

All it means is we're gonna take a word and stretch it out so that we can hear all the sounds.

So we're gonna take our same onset rhymes song and make it for segmenting sounds.

Would you like to try it with me?

Okay, let's do it together.

♪ Segmenting sounds is when you take a word ♪ ♪ Stretch it out so you can see all the sounds you heard ♪ Let's do it again.

♪ Segmenting sounds is when you take a word ♪ ♪ Stretch it out so you can see all the sounds you heard ♪ Very good.

Would you like to practice that with me, friends?

Amazing.

I'm so proud of you.

Let's practice with the word cat.

Can you say that word?

Cat.

Good.

I'm gonna write the word right up here.

Now take the word cat and stretch it out.

Ready?

Let's do our sounds in the word cat.

Cuh-ah-tuh.

Very good.

Give me a me too if you heard those sounds in cat.

Nicely done.

Now I'm gonna write 'em out.

Our first sound we hear is cuh, cuh.

And it is the C that is making that sound.

So this is our first sound.

My dot is for my sound, cuh.

Our next sound we hear is ah, ah.

And the letter A is making that sound.

Then the very last sound we hear in cat is tuh, tuh.

And the letter T is making that sound.

All right, I'm gonna get my finger ready.

Let's do our sounds again.

Are you ready?

Nice and loud, learners.

Cuh-ah-tuh.

Blend it together, cat.

Amazing job.

Do you hear how cuh is our first sound, ah is our middle sound, and tuh is our last sound?

Awesome job.

Now let's take the cuh, cuh in cat and change it so we can practice another one, and let's change it to the buh, buh sound.

Do you know what my new word would be?

Shout it out if you know.

Amazing job, learners.

You're right.

Our new word would be the word bat.

All right, let's do our sounds.

Buh-ah-tuh.

Blend it, bat.

Amazing job.

You're really good at this, segmenting those sounds, stretching it out, and that way we're able to really see the sounds we hear in words.

Today, learners, we're gonna practice switching out our last sound to make a new word.

So let's try one.

If we were to change the tuh, tuh in bat to guh, guh, what our new word be?

Wow, I'm really impressed.

You're right.

Buh-ah- guh is the word.

Blend it.

Bag.

Amazing job.

Let's practice some more of those together.

I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen.

All right, learners.

So you see this here.

We're gonna start at the top one here.

Our very first word here is, say the sounds with me.

Cuh-uh-tuh.

Blend it.

Cut.

Very good.

I'm gonna go ahead and write our first two sounds in our boxes.

Cuh-uh.

'Cause those are gonna stay the same.

Now we're changing our last sound.

What do you think, looking at our picture here, our new word might be?

Shout it out if you think you have an idea.

Ooh, I heard some really good guesses, and I heard some friends saying cub, cub.

So here, you're absolutely right.

We took our tuh in cut and changed it to buh, and we went from cut to cub.

Let's try another one.

If this is feeling kinda tricky still, that's okay.

But let's practice together.

The more practice we do, the more progress we'll make.

All right, here, our word is?

Try to do the sounds with me if you can.

Segment them out.

Huh-eh-mm.

Blend it.

Hem.

The hem is like the bottom part that's sewed on your shorts or your pants.

So I'll put my first two letters in here.

Huh-eh.

All right.

Now, looking at my picture, what do you think I might change this mm from to make a new word?

Whoa, you are amazing.

You're right.

If I change the mm to nn, my word goes from hem to hen.

Wow.

Let's try another one.

Here's our sounds.

Puh-eh-tuh.

Blend it.

Pit.

And we see our picture here is showing the pit of a cheery, that seed in the center.

Putting my first two sounds, puh-eh.

Okay, now, looking at my picture, seeing where my arrow is pointing, what do you think I might change the tuh to in order to make a new word?

Wow, you're right.

That is a picture of a pin, nuh.

So I'm gonna change my tuh to nn.

Very good.

Wow.

Okay, let's do another one.

Here, I have a, segment it out with me.

Ready?

Cuh-ah-tuh.

Good, cot.

I'm gonna put my first two sounds.

Cuh-ah.

Now I'm gonna change my tuh and make it a different letter.

Looking at my picture, what do you think I'm gonna change it to?

Ooh, very good.

You're right.

This is a picture of a cop, puh, puh.

So I'm gonna put that sound there.

Yeah, a cop is another word for a police person.

Amazing job.

All right, let's look at these bottom ones here.

Okay.

I see this little friend here.

Let's segment our sounds.

Er-ah-mm.

Say it with me.

You're doing such a good job.

I'm gonna put my first two sounds.

Er-ah.

Okay, now, I have to change my last sound here, my mm.

And I see here, this looks like some spray that might be used for cleaning.

And you use spray, but you have to have something that goes with it too, to wipe it down when you're cleaning.

What do you think that word might be?

Yes!

Way to go, learners.

You're right.

A rag.

You need your spray bottle and a rag to clean up a mess.

So my mm changes to guh, guh.

Very good.

Okay.

Here we have this little friend, and she is looking very, segment it with me.

Ss-ah-duh.

Blend it.

Sad.

Aw, she's very sad.

So first two sounds, ss-ah.

Those stay the same.

Now what might I change my duh sound here that goes along with this picture?

What is that friend up top doing?

Whoa, yeah.

It's looking like he sat, tuh, tuh down.

So we changed sad to sat by changing our last sounds.

Okay, here we go.

This friend here has a trophy and a metal.

Help me read it.

Segment the sounds.

Wuh-eh-nn.

Win.

Very good.

First two sound stay the same.

Wuh-eh.

Now, what do we see up here that we think we might change this last sound here to?

Wow, some of you got that really quickly.

You're right.

This is a picture of a wig, wig.

So we changed our nn sound to guh, and we made the word wig.

Last one here.

We see this little pirate friend.

He has a, read it with me.

Puh-eh-guh.

Blend it.

Peg leg.

A peg leg.

Those are rhyming words.

And then we see this friend up here, in a cage has a?

Let's put our two sounds that stay the same.

Puh-eh.

What do you think that word might be?

Wow, you're right, yeah.

Pet, tuh.

So we change peg to pet by changing the guh to tuh.

Wow.

Amazing job.

I'm really proud of you, friends.

All right.

Let's practice some more here together.

All right, we're gonna start in the top corner here.

Look at these cute little friends.

This is a P. Read it with me.

Puh-ah-duh.

Blend it.

Pod.

Yeah, if you didn't know, peas, the vegetable, come in a little pod together.

So we know we're keeping our first two sounds the same.

Puh-ah.

Now I'm gonna change my duh to what?

What do you think, looking at this picture?

Yeah, if you shouted out pot, tuh, tuh, you are absolutely right.

Our duh turned into a tuh to make from pod to pot.

All right, now I see this.

Try to read it with me.

Er-ah-duh.

Blend it.

Rod.

And showing us a picture of a curtain rod.

I'll write out my sounds.

Er-ah.

Those stay the same.

Now, I'm gonna change my duh to?

What do you see here?

It kinda looks like maybe a tomato or a potato, and they have kinda stinkies, little squiggles coming off of it.

What do you think?

Oh, wow.

I heard someone shout out rot.

You're right.

These vegetables or fruits are rotting.

So our duh changes into tuh, tuh.

Very good.

And this one we just did on the other page.

So I'm gonna go quickly on this one.

Cuh-ah-puh.

Blend it.

Cop.

Cuh-ah.

This time we went backwards from our puh to tuh, tuh.

Cot, like a cot you might lay on for nap time All right, now we see this picture here.

Try to segment it out with me.

Ff-ah-guh.

Blend it.

Fog.

Very good.

I can see there's lots of clouds.

And when the weather is really foggy, there's a lot of clouds out in the sky.

It makes it hard to see, right?

I'm gonna put my first two sounds.

Ff-ah.

And then I'm gonna change my guh to make a new word.

What do you think my new word might be?

Yeah, you're right.

That's a picture of a fox, xs.

And it is the letter X that makes the xs sound.

Wow.

Amazing job, learners.

I'm so proud of you.

I'm gonna stop sharing my screen.

All right, so together today, friends, we did our hot cocoa breathing, mindful moment exercise.

We talked about getting ready to learn at school, making sure that we're in a smart spot, using whole body listening and making green choices.

We reviewed all our letters sounds.

We did a warmup practicing rhyming words, beginning sounds and ending sounds.

And then today we focused on segmenting sounds, taking a word, stretching it out to see all the sounds we hear.

And then we're able to take our last sound and change it out in order to make new words.

I am so proud of you, friends.

Thank you so much for joining me today, and I can't wait to see you next time.

Bye.

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