(happy music) - Good afternoon learners.

Welcome back to Teaching in Room Nine, 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 Nine my lessons focus on letters and sounds.

Welcome back friends, it is so great to be here with you today.

Thank you for taking time out of your day to be here with me.

And let's go ahead and jump right in.

All right, as always we are going to go ahead and get started with I'm mindful moment exercise.

This will help get our bodies and our brains ready to learn.

And when we do this, it allows our body and our mind to recenter.

And gives us all the right tools in order to be able to focus and take in new information.

We're gonna do that by doing a "Feel The Beat" exercise today.

Now the first thing I want you to do is you are are going to jump up and down, or do jumping jacks for 30 seconds.

Are you ready learners?

All right.

Ready?

Go.

One.

Two.

Three.

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Nine.

Ten.

All right, go ahead and stop your jumping.

And you're gonna sit up or stand nice and straight and tall.

Go ahead and take your right hand and place it on your chest over here, over your heart.

Can you feel your heart beating right now?

All right, now we're gonna go ahead and take some slow deep breaths here together.

In through our nose and out through our mouth.

As we do this, try to notice your heartbeat and notice any changes that you can feel.

Okay, go ahead and take a deep breath in through your nose, out through your mouth.

Try it again, in, and out.

In.

And out.

Can you feel your heartbeat begin to slow down as you take these deep breaths?

Take another deep breath in.

And out.

Great job, friends.

Hopefully you were able to notice some changes in your heartbeat.

You notice when we did some exercise, and we were doing jumping-jacks or running in place, your heartbeat got faster.

It increased.

And then, as we took those slow deep breaths, it helped our heartbeat to slow down and regulate.

To get back to that sort of steady heartbeat.

This is a tool you can use any time if you to kind of slow that heartbeat back down again, recenter your body, and get ready to learn.

All right friends, now that our bodies and our brains are ready to learn let's go ahead and 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 some strategies we've talked about here together so far.

Now, first we wanna make sure we've chosen a smart spot.

That's away from any distractions that might take away from our learning.

Go ahead and check in with your body and see.

Are you in a smart spot right now?

Okay, if you are in a smart spot or maybe you've just gotten into your smart spot.

Now you wanna take a moment to think about how your body is positioned and ready to learn.

Are you doing whole body listening?

Now this might look a little bit different for everyone.

But it might look like sitting up straight and tall.

Making sure your eyes are on the speaker.

Making sure our ears are listening, our mouth is quiet and our heart is ready and our bodies are calm.

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

Sometimes these smart choices are called, green choices.

And other choices that aren't quite so smart might be called red choices.

We mentioned a few green choices together last week.

And those were, using gentle hands and working together, in order to learn.

A few new green choices might look like, sharing materials or toys and working really hard and trying your best.

Some red choices we've talked about together so far were having an out of control body.

Or using mean or unkind words.

Some other red choices might look like, taking everything, all the materials or toys so no one else can use them.

Or, using our hands instead of our words when we're solving a problem with a friend.

We wanna never use our hands when we're solving an issue with a friend.

It's important to use our words.

Hands are for eating and helping us to learn and play.

Say this after me friends, we are in control.

Great job.

Of our body and our choices.

Great job, friends.

Always remember, you are in control of how you react to things.

You're in control of your own body, and the choices you are making.

Even though we can't always be in control of others.

All right now that we've 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 here together.

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

In our time together before we practiced all our letter sounds.

And we practiced lots of skills that help us work with those letter sounds.

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

Today, our learning goal or objective is, I want you to say this after me really nice and loud okay?

I can, even louder.

Understand.

Whoo, that was a good one.

And hear syllables in words.

Very good, learners.

Some of you might be thinking in your brain, oh I don't know what syllable is.

Other friends maybe remember learning about them in school or seeing some of our videos before.

But, don't worry we're gonna go ahead and practice them here together.

All right, let's go ahead and start by reviewing our letter sounds.

We did like a little song that went along with it.

All right, see if you can sing along with me or if you just feel comfortable doing the letter sounds you know.

And really try to sing along and jump in whenever you can.

Are you ready?

♪ A says ah-ah ♪ ♪ B says buh-buh ♪ ♪ C says cu-cu ♪ ♪ There are letter sounds ♪ ♪ D says duh-duh ♪ ♪ E says eh-eh ♪ ♪ F says f-f ♪ ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ ♪ G then says g-g ♪ ♪ H then says huh-huh ♪ ♪ I says i ♪ ♪ J says juh ♪ ♪ K says k ♪ ♪ L says l ♪ ♪ And M says mm-mm mm-mm ♪ ♪ N says n-n ♪ ♪ O says oh-oh ♪ ♪ P says p-p ♪ ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ ♪ Q says qua-qua ♪ ♪ R says rr-rr ♪ ♪ S says ss-ss ♪ ♪ These are letter sounds ♪ ♪ T then says t-t ♪ ♪ U then says uh-uh ♪ ♪ V says v ♪ ♪ W says wah ♪ ♪ X says x ♪ ♪ Y says yah ♪ ♪ And says Z says zz ♪ ♪ Now we're all done with 26 letters ♪ ♪ Letters come together to make words ♪ Wow, that was amazing friends.

I am so proud of you.

Go ahead and kiss your brains.

That was amazing.

I can tell some of my friends knew a lot of letter sounds.

Other friends are getting more familiar.

And that is okay, friends.

Practice always makes progress.

All right, we're gonna go ahead and warm up your brain even further.

So go ahead and tickle those brains get it ready to go.

All right.

And we're gonna practice kind of working with some of the letter sounds we just did.

We'll start with rhyming words.

♪ 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 they same sounds at the very end ♪ Very good.

I could tell some of my friends remember that from before.

All right, so I'm gonna give you two words, friends.

You're gonna repeat or say those words back to me.

And then we're going to shout out the rhyme.

So again, that vowel sound and the sound that comes after it.

All right let's go ahead and practice.

Say the words, tell bell.

Very good.

And our rhyme is?

Ell.

Yes, the eh is our short E short vowel sound and the L is the sound that comes after it.

So our rhyme in both those words is -ell.

Let's try another one.

Say the two words, dug rug.

Great job.

And our rhyme in both those words is?

Ug.

Very good.

Say the words, ham jam.

Very good, learners.

And our rhyme in those words is?

Am, very good.

Two more.

Say the words, sight right.

Yeah, amazing.

And our rhyme in both those words is, ight.

Incredible job.

Last one, say the two words, tap zap.

Great job.

And our rhyme in those two words is, app, very good.

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

You're gonna repeat it or say it back to me again.

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

Okay, let's go ahead and practice.

Say the word, paint.

Very good.

And the first sound you hear in paint?

Let me hear the sound.

Puh-puh-puh.

Very good.

Yes the letter P makes that sound.

But make sure in these, give me the sound and not the letter.

All right, let's try another one here together.

Say the word, table.

Very good.

And the first sound you hear in table is?

T-t-t.

Very good, I'm so proud of you.

Say the word, winner.

Great job.

And the first sound you hear in, winner?

Yeah, it's that wha-wha sound.

Very good.

Two more, say the word, king.

Great job.

And the first sound you hear in king is?

Kuh-kuh.

Very good.

Last one.

Say the word, zebra.

Very good.

And the first sound you hear in zebra is?

Yeah, it's that zzzz, letter z sound.

Amazing job.

Now we're gonna do the same thing, but instead of using the first sound, this time we're gonna point out the very last sound you hear.

So not the rhyme, but just the very very last sound you hear.

Let's practice.

Say the word, ride.

Yeah, incredible job.

And the last sound you hear in, ride?

Yeah, it's the duh-duh sound.

Very good.

All right say the word, laugh.

Great job.

And the last sound you hear in laugh is?

(Julia makes a breathy sound) Very good.

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

Say the word, plug.

Great job, and the last sound you hear in plug?

Yeah, it's that guh-guh sound.

You can really feel that sound in your throat, right?

Guh-guh.

It's the letter G. And two more.

Say the word, hike.

Great job.

What's the last sound you hear in, hike?

Yeah, very good.

The k-k sound.

Last one, say the word, light.

Great job, learners.

The last sound you hear is, T-T, in light.

Very good.

All right, like I mentioned, today we're focusing all on syllables.

All right, repeat this after me, learners.

Syllables.

Are built around.

A talking vowel.

Great job.

Do it again with me.

You ready?

Syllables.

(Julia snaps) Are built around.

(Julia snaps) A talking vowel.

(Julia snaps) Very good.

So if you have a word like the word, cat.

Can you say that?

Cat.

Cat, has just one talking vowel.

That ah sound.

Cat.

So if you're clapping your syllables.

Cat.

(Julia claps) Can you do that with me?

Cat.

(Julia claps) Just one, syllable or beat in that word.

'Cause we only have one talking vowel.

Now say the word, apple.

Great job.

Now, if we're clapping out the beats in the word.

And we're building the syllables around the talking vowel.

Ready?

Ap-ple.

(Julia claps twice) Very good, do it again.

Ap-ple.

(Julia claps twice) How many syllables did you hear?

Two syllables that time.

Cat.

(Julia claps) Just one.

Ap-ple.

(Julia claps twice) Two syllables.

Now say the word, animal.

Yeah, great job.

Now if we're gonna clap our beats that we hear in the word our syllables are built around a talking vowel.

A-ni-mal.

(Julia claps three times) Wow, very good.

Animal had how many syllables?

A- (Julia claps) Ni- (Julia claps) Mal.

(Julia claps) Yeah, three syllables that time.

Very good.

And our last one, say the word, caterpillar.

Great job.

Now, let's do our beats or our syllables.

Go ahead and clap it out with me learners.

Cat-ter-pil-ler.

(Julia claps four times) Very good.

One more time Cat-ter-pil-ler.

(Julia claps four times) How many syllables was that?

Yeah, four syllables that time.

We got bigger each time.

And remember, syllables, (Julia snaps) are built around, (Julia snaps) a talking vowel.

That really helps us to be able to read new words.

All right, and of course I've got a few songs for you as well.

All right, this helps us to remember about what we know about syllables.

Okay?

Try to sing along with me or jump in if you feel comfortable.

♪ Syllables are the beats in words ♪ ♪ Syllables are built around a vowel ♪ ♪ Vowels are A E I O U ♪ ♪ And then sometimes Y ♪ ♪ But you must ♪ ♪ Hear the vowel ♪ ♪ And each vowel ♪ ♪ Gets a clap ♪ ♪ Aah aah oh ♪ ♪ Syllables are the beats in words ♪ ♪ Syllables are built around a vowel ♪ Very good.

Let's do it one more time.

See if you can jump in this time.

♪ Syllables are the beats in words ♪ ♪ Syllables are built around a vowel ♪ ♪ Vowels are A E I O U ♪ ♪ And then, sometimes Y ♪ ♪ But you must ♪ ♪ Hear the vowel ♪ ♪ And each vowel ♪ ♪ Gets a clap ♪ ♪ Aah aah aah oh ♪ ♪ Syllables are the beats in words ♪ ♪ Syllables are built around vowel ♪ Very good learners.

I'm so proud of you, you're doing a really great job.

Let's go ahead and practice our syllables now.

So I am going to go ahead and share my screen.

All right learners.

You can see here, I've got this.

It's called a syllable sort.

And I can see here, I have one syllable.

Two syllables.

And three syllables.

So I'm gonna show you a picture of a winter word.

And we'll sing a song together to help us hear the different syllables.

And then we'll put the picture in the area with the correct number of syllables.

So it's either gonna be one syllable, two syllables or three syllables.

Now this song that helps us be able to figure out how many syllables is to the tune of "Row Row Row Your Boat."

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in, ♪ ♪ Mitten ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard ♪ Very good.

I can tell some of my friends have heard that one before.

Okay, let's clap it out.

Ready?

Mit-tan.

(Julia claps twice) Wow, good job.

How many syllables is that?

Show me on your fingers, or shout it out nice and loud.

(Julia laughs) Great job.

I can see some friends put up two or some friends are telling two syllables.

You are absolutely right.

So mit-tan, goes under my two syllable part.

All right, here's our next one.

Okay.

Let's do our song.

♪ Syllables - ♪ Oh, I'm doing the wrong song, sorry.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in snowflake ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard ♪ Snow-flake (Julia claps twice) How many?

Shout it out.

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

Snow-flake, (Julia claps twice) is two syllables.

It can go next to our mitten there.

All right.

Let's look at this picture here, learners.

What do you see this little friend doing?

It's a wintertime sport or activity.

Ah I heard a friend shout out, yeah snowboarding.

Give me too if you've ever done snowboarding.

Oh very cool.

I haven't really done it before either.

So if you haven't done it, that's okay.

But I bet it probably takes some practice, right?

All right, let's do our song again.

Are you ready?

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in, snowboarding ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard ♪ Snow.

(Julia claps) Boar.

(Julia claps) Ding.

(Julia claps) Whoa, how many that time learners?

Yeah, I see some friends with the three or shouting out three.

Great job.

So this one is going to go right down here.

Okay, here's our next one.

If I can pick it up, there we go.

All right, what do you see there learners?

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

Some of you were like, "Oh it looks like a rock."

(Julia chuckles) It's actually a snowball.

Very good.

Okay let's do our song.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Claps the words in snowball ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard ♪ Snow, (Julia claps) ball.

(Julia claps) Very good.

Yeah, that's a two syllable one.

Snow, (Julia claps) ball.

(Julia claps) Two syllables, very good.

Let me grab our couple more that we've got here.

Okay.

What about this picture right here on the end?

What's this picture here?

Shout it out for me.

Very good.

I hear some friends saying hat or cap.

Absolutely, this is a wintertime hat.

Okay let's do our song.

Ready?

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in, hat ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard ♪ Hat.

(Julia claps) How many syllables?

Hat.

(Julia claps) Yes, great job.

Hat is only one syllable.

Very good.

It has one talking vowel.

Just like in cat, that ah ah ah is vowel in that one.

All right, what about this picture here?

Look at this cute little animal.

What do you think it is?

Oh, very good.

I'm hearing some great answers.

Some friends are saying bear or like a little bear cub.

You're absolutely right.

But if we think of a bear in the wintertime.

What's kind of an arctic or wintry type bear?

Oh I heard a friend say it.

You're right, polar bear.

Okay, let's do our song.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in polar bear ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard ♪ So this is actually two words, but we're gonna kind of do it as one and clap it out.

Ready?

Po- (Julia claps) lar.

(Julia claps) Bear.

(Julia claps) How many syllables?

Po- (Julia claps) lar.

(Julia claps) Bear.

(Julia claps) Very good.

If you said three syllables you are absolutely right.

Okay we got two more.

They are also animals here.

Do you know what that animal is?

Yeah, I hear some friends saying that, you're right.

It's not a reindeer.

I can tell this animal is a little different because of it's big horns.

This is a moose.

Okay, let's do our song.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in, moose ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard ♪ All right, ready?

Moose.

(Julia claps) How many?

Now let's do it one more time.

Moose.

(Julia claps) Yeah, just one.

You're absolutely right.

All right, last one.

Again we've got this cute little friend here.

A very arctic animal.

What is it?

Yeah, very good.

It is a penguin.

Penguins are so cute and they kind of walk like this.

All right, let's do our song.

♪ Syllables are sounds we hear in each and every word ♪ ♪ Clap the sounds in penguin ♪ ♪ And tell me what you heard ♪ Pen- (Julia claps) guin.

(Julia claps) How many?

Yeah, two syllables.

Pen-guin.

(Julia claps twice) So he can actually stay right here next to all the other ones.

All right let's look at how many we have in each section.

How many do we have in one syllable?

Very good, yeah.

Two pictures.

Hat.

(Julia claps) Moose.

(Julia claps) How many do we have in two syllables?

Yeah, one two three and four.

Four pictures here that all have two syllables.

And then our last one, three syllables.

Yeah, we've got two in there as well.

I'm so proud of you.

All right let's practice a little bit more.

Using some of these animal clip cards.

Okay.

These aren't all wintertime animals.

But I bet you know what some of these are.

Can you should this out for me?

What is this one friends?

Whoo very good.

Yes, stands on one leg, beautiful pink bird.

It is a flamingo.

Okay clap it out with me.

Fla- (Julia claps) min- (Julia claps) go.

(Julia claps) How many syllables?

One, two or three?

What do you think?

Fla-min-go.

Three syllables, you're absolutely right.

Okay let's do another one.

What about this one?

Okay, yeah he hops.

The mamas carry the young in their pouch.

It is a?

Kangaroo.

Very good, clap it out with me.

Kang- (Julia claps) ga- (Julia claps) roo.

(Julia claps) Is it one, two or three?

Kang- (Julia claps) ga- (Julia claps) roo.

(Julia claps) This one is also three syllables.

Very good.

Okay let's do a few more before we review.

All right, what do you see here?

Very good, you're right, that's a tiger.

All right, clap it out with me.

Ti- (Julia claps) ger.

(Julia claps) Ti- (Julia claps) ger.

(Julia claps) How many?

Yeah.

If you said two syllables, you're absolutely right.

Okay.

Let's do this one here.

Oops, okay.

This is a zee-bra.

(Julia claps twice) Very good.

I already heard some friends doing it.

Zee- (Julia claps) bra.

(Julia claps) How many?

Yeah, very good.

Two syllables.

Zee-bra, kind of like ti-ger.

All right, last one here friends.

What animal is this?

Very good.

Yes it's a - pig.

Clap it with me.

Pig.

(Julia claps) How many syllables?

Yeah, just one talking vowel.

Pig.

(Julia claps) Let me hear your best pig snort.

(Julia laughs) Very good learners.

I'm gonna stop sharing my screen.

All right, you did an incredible job as always.

We started our mindful moment, feel the beat exercise.

Where we could hear our heartbeat or feel our heartbeat.

And slowed it down by doing some deep breathing.

We talked about red and green choices.

Helping us to learn at school.

We did a review of rhyming words and beginning and ending sounds.

And then we focused all of our learning today on syllables.

And syllables, (Julia snapping) are the beats, (Julia snapping) in words.

(Julia snapping) Syllables.

(Julia snapping) Are built around, (Julia snapping) a talking vowel.

Very good, learners.

I'm so proud of you.

Thank you so much for all your hard work.

We'll see you next time.

Bye.

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