- Hello everyone and welcome to "Teaching in Room 9" the region.

- Shapes are everywhere we looks.

Buttons.

- Great job.

Now, go ahead and touch your throat right here and see how they feel.

- We say to ourselves to remain positive.

- Lemurs are found on the island of Madagascar.

- For one, and then our wrist's getting bigger as we go across to the right.

- Reset, that means taking a deep breath.

It may mean counting to 10.

- Today we're gonna start with a freestyle growth.

Start with pulling our arms up.

- All righty.

Are you ready to learn?

Let's go!

(upbeat music) (soft bright music) (soft bright music continues) Hmm.

How's the weather outside today?

I don't know, but it's fun in our classroom.

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

I am Dr. Sanders, and in our new classroom, we can go anywhere and be anything while engaging and learning about our community.

But remember, what's that thing that I always say?

It doesn't matter if you're two or 102, you will have some fun!

F U N, fun!

You will have some fun while learning.

I work at Adams Elementary in the St. Louis Public Schools and let's get our day started!

We are gonna get started, let me take off my hat, and I am ready to give some shout outs to some of my friends.

My first friend on the list is Maria.

Hi Maria!

How are you doing?

Excellent.

Let's spell Maria.

Capital M a r i a. Hi, Maria!

My next friend is Amir!

Hey Amir, how are you doing?

How's it going today?

Good, good, good.

Let's spell Amir.

Capital A m i r. All right, my next shout out goes to Chantel!

Hi, Miss Chantel.

How are you doing?

Good, good, good.

Let's spell Chantel.

Capital C h a n t e l. C h a n t e l. Hi, Chantel!

And my last shout out of the day goes to Howzee!

Hey Howzee, how you doing?

Excellent.

Let's spell Howzee.

Capital H o w z e e. Hi, Howzee!

All right, everybody.

Are you ready for a great day of learning?

Let's do it.

(children laugh) (bell rings) (upbeat music) - [Voiceover] Just like at home, there will be times that you wanna share your ideas and ask questions.

But remember, yelling and waving won't do the trick with your teacher.

Instead, raise your hand and sit quietly.

That's the best way to get your teacher to call on you, polite and patient.

Let's review today's lesson.

Remember, when you have an idea or a question, raise your hand and sit quietly.

Being polite gets you noticed in your class.

So let's learn together and have fun while being respectful in our classroom.

- [Voiceover] A, B, C, D, E, F, G. - Good afternoon, friends.

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

My name is Julia.

I'm a first grade teacher at the Soulard School and here for "Teaching in Room 9," my lessons focus on letters and sounds.

Today, friends, we're gonna focus our learning on listening for and being able to decide where syllables are in words.

But let's go ahead and start by reviewing what we already know about letters and sounds.

♪ Letters spell sounds ♪ And come together to make words ♪ ♪ Words are made up of letters and sounds ♪ ♪ They blend together to make a word ♪ ♪ Words have meaning, and they then come together ♪ ♪ To form sentences that we can read or write ♪ Nicely done, friends.

Now, go ahead and give me a "me too" if you've ever heard of syllables before.

Yeah, I'm seeing some friends showing me "me too," or "no," or maybe you've heard of them but you're not sure how to describe them.

Well.

♪ Syllables ♪ Are the beats ♪ In words ♪ Syllables ♪ Are built around ♪ A talking vowel Let's go ahead and practice.

So we're gonna go ahead and tap the sounds in the word that we hear on our finger.

Go ahead and say the word cat.

Tap the sounds with me.

C-a-t. Nicely done.

I only hear that one talking vowel, ah.

So if I clap the syllables in cat, cat.

How many times did I clap my hands?

Yeah, just once.

All right, let's try another word.

Say the word animal.

Okay, let's clap the sounds.

An-im-al.

Three times that time.

Nicely done.

Okay, let's try caterpillar.

Okay, let's clap the syllables in caterpillar.

Ca-ter-pill-ar.

Whoa.

Four times that time.

Nicely done.

Okay, I'm gonna sing a song, and hopefully maybe you can sing along with me, that helps us know more about syllables.

♪ Syllables ♪ Are the beats in words ♪ Syllables ♪ Are built around a vowel ♪ 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 ♪ Oh ♪ Syllables ♪ Are the beats in words ♪ Syllables ♪ Are built around a vowel Nicely done, friends.

We're gonna go ahead and practice listening for and working with syllables.

Okay, the first thing we're gonna do together is we're gonna blend two syllables together to make one smooth word.

Okay.

So just say it along with me, nice and loud.

Ready.

Nap kin.

Blend it together.

Napkin.

Nicely done.

Blis ter.

Blend it together.

Blister.

Great job.

Moun tain.

Blend it.

Mountain.

Great job.

Chil dren.

Blend it together.

Children.

Great job.

One more, friends.

Bas ket.

Blend it together.

Basket.

You're absolutely right.

All right, now we're gonna try to do the opposite.

I'm gonna give you a word and we're gonna clap the syllables that we hear.

All right, ready?

Pencil.

Clap The syllables.

Pen-cil.

Great job.

Say the word gentle.

Nice.

Let's clap the syllables.

Gen-tle.

Nice.

Say the word laughter and clap the syllables.

Laugh-ter.

Great job.

Say the word flower and clap the syllables.

Flo-wer.

One more, friends.

Say the word center and clap the syllables you hear.

Cen-ter.

Great job.

All of those had two syllables.

Okay, now we're gonna add a syllable to the end of a word and you're gonna tell me what the new word is.

Ready?

Say in.

Great.

Now add vent.

Blend it together.

Invent.

Nice job.

Say in.

Now add volve to the end.

Blend it.

Involve.

Great job.

Say in.

Now add come.

Blend it.

Income.

Say in.

Now add sect.

Blend it together.

Insect.

Great job.

One more, say in.

Now add dex.

Blend it.

Index.

Nicely done.

This time, friends, we're gonna take away a syllable and you're going to tell me what is left.

And we're taking it away from the end of the word.

Okay.

Ready?

Say forget.

Forget.

Take away get.

What do we have left?

For.

Great job.

Say sixty.

Take away ty, what do we have left?

Six.

Great job.

Say flower.

Take away er, what do you have left?

Flow.

Say below.

Below.

Take away low.

What do you have left?

Be.

Great job, friends.

You did such a nice job listening for and separating out the syllables that you hear in words.

And remember, syllables are built around a talking vowel.

Kiss your brain, friends.

You did such a great job.

I'll see you next time.

Bye!

(upbeat music) - Hi everybody, and welcome to "Room 9."

My name is Miss St. Louis and I'm a teacher at Rogers Elementary School in the Mehlville School District and we are located in South St. Louis County.

Today I'm here to teach a little bit of a movement lesson with a basketball twist.

So let's get moving.

We're gonna start by warming up our body.

So let's start by stretching up nice and tall.

And we're gonna reach to our toes and count to five.

Stretch on down.

One, two, three, four, five.

And let's come on back up.

Now we're gonna do a little bit of a twisting from our trunk, that core center.

So we're gonna twist one, two, three, four, last one, five.

And now we're gonna practice bending forwards and backwards, leaning forwards and backwards for one, two, three, four, and five.

So today, boys and girls, our lesson has a basketball twist but you don't actually need a basketball to play with us.

So we're gonna start by dribbling the ball.

And I'm gonna use my imaginary basketball.

Here it is.

Do you have yours?

So we're gonna start by bouncing the ball with one hand for five times.

One, two, three, four, five.

And let's switch.

One, two, three, four, five.

Excellent job.

Now that we have started to dribble the ball, let's try and practice passing it.

I'm gonna use my ball here to show you.

Now because we don't actually have a person to practice passing to, I'm gonna hold onto the ball and go through the motions.

So we're gonna start with a chest pass.

Holding the ball at our chest, we're gonna push it out for five.

Are you ready?

One, two, three, four, and five.

And now for that big long pass, we're going to do our overhead passes, bringing the ball behind our head and throwing it all the way over for five times.

Ready?

One, two, three, four, and five.

And once we get that ball all the way down the court, the last thing to do is to do our shooting.

So I'm gonna hold the ball at my face and I'm going to practice pushing the ball up for five.

Are you ready?

Let's make those shots.

One, two, three, four, last one, five.

And once you make that very last shot, the last and final thing to do, is to celebrate.

So on the count of three, you're gonna show me your best celebration pose.

Ready?

One, two, three Excellent job, boys and girls.

So now that we have done our basketball warmup, we're gonna end with a few deep breaths to help bring our heart rate back down.

So you're gonna breathe in with me as we raise our arms up and out.

One more time.

Breathe in.

And out.

Excellent job, boys and girls.

Remember, the goal is to practice our movement for 60 minutes every single day, any type of movement that you can.

So don't forget to move each day and drink your water and we'll see you back here on "Room 9."

Bye everybody.

(rooster crows) (snake hisses) - Welcome back to our amazing classroom.

It's the time for our favorite wildlife expert, Mr. Bare Hands Beran!

- Hey, hey, hey, Dr. Sanders.

How are you?

- I'm doing all right.

How about you?

- We are doing good.

I'd like to introduce you to Rocky.

- Ooh, look at Rocky.

- Yeah.

So Rocky is a Eurasian Eagle-Owl.

- Okay, okay.

And Rocky, where's Rocky from?

Where do you find Rocky?

- So you will find Rocky all up and down the Mongolian mountain range.

- Okay.

- That separates Asia and Europe.

- Okay.

- Yeah, so he inhabits all those countries that have "stan" in the end of them.

- Okay.

- Pakistan, Tajikistan, all those countries like that.

- [Dr. Sanders] All right, and I see he just turned his head all the way around.

- Yeah, so he does have the ability to turn his head 280 degrees.

So now to give you, that's zero.

Now turn back this way.

All right, that's 180.

- Oh, so he can, oh my goodness.

- He can go even further than that, but not all the way around.

- Not all the way around.

- He can't go quite all the way around.

- And why does he need to turn his head all over?

Why does he need to turn his head?

- Well, the reason why he has to turn his head is because you see these great big old eyes right here?

- Mm-hmm.

- Those eyes are fixed solid in his skull, okay?

- Okay.

- His eyes don't move like ours.

See, I can move my eyes around.

See kids.

Y'all can move your eyes around.

He cannot move his eyes.

So he has to move his whole head.

- Oh, okay.

So like, we're looking over our shoulder.

But he has to look everywhere.

- [Beran] He's gotta look everywhere.

- Okay.

Okay.

And how does he get his food?

- So these guys are stealthy flyers.

- Okay.

- And hunters.

As a matter of fact, they make zero sound when they fly.

Yeah, just like that.

- Oh, wow.

- Exactly like that.

Yeah, and so he'll see a little mouse or he'll see a little lemming on a rock, and he'll swoop in with these giant talons right here.

Look how big those talons are.

- Okay.

- And he'll catch his prey item, and then he'll squeeze it.

- Ooh.

And then he eats it.

- And then he eats it.

And he is a hardcore carnivore.

- Okay.

Explain that.

What's a hardcore carnivore?

- A hardcore carnivore is, much like myself, but eats only meat.

- So no berries - No vegetables.

As a matter of fact, the only vegetable content that he eats is inside the stomach of the mouse that he swallows.

- Okay, so we don't wanna make it, you all, do not eat like Rocky!

You need your fruits and vegetables.

- Chew your food.

And you need to chew your food.. - And chew your food.

- Yeah, so.

- All right.

Is it possible?

Go ahead, I'm sorry.

- Oh, I was just gonna say that Rocky has a bigger mouth than what it looks like.

See how big that mouth is?

Anyway, he swallows his food whole.

- Oh, all right.

All right.

You know, when I was in school.

- Mm-hmm.

- And maybe later, and maybe some of you all do it, I used to dissect owl pellets.

- Correct, correct.

That's because owls cannot digest fur, teeth, toenails, or bone.

And so what happens is that stays in a special little compartment.

They extract all the other nutrients out of the animal, all the fat, the amino acids, and meat, and then they cough up the pellet that comes out this end, the front end.

- Oh, it comes out the front end, okay.

- Yeah.

- And then they make us dissect them.

- Yeah, and then they can dissect them.

- Okay, okay.

I have a question.

- What's the question?

- Is it possible that I can hold Mr. Rocky?

- Absolutely.

Rocky loves to be held.

So what we're gonna do is, this glove is gonna go on your left hand.

- All right.

- So I'm gonna take my glove out.

You slide your hand in.

There you go.

Now make a fist.

Make a fist and hold it.

And then turn around like this.

Perfect, and then you can pet him like this.

- Oh.

- Feel how soft that is.

- It's really soft.

It's really soft.

- Yeah, it's like a cloud.

It's so soft.

- Now, since I'm holding him, I bet you can make the sound that Rocky makes.

- So Rocky does not make the traditional hoot hoot, the hoot owl.

He just goes ha-ooh, ha-ooh.

- Ooh.

I mean, ha-ooh, ha-ooh.

(Dr. Sanders laughs) You almost got it.

Try it again.

Ah-ooh, ha-ooh.

- Perfect.

- Thank you.

Thank you.

Rocky is nice and calm.

- He is.

He's a really good owl.

He's also a famous owl.

- He's a famous owl?

How is he famous?

- So he's been in several TV productions and movies.

- [Dr. Sanders] Cool, does he sit like this in all his productions?

- [Beran] No, we usually have him flying.

- Oh, okay.

Okay.

- He's very trainable.

However, fun fact, owls are on the lowest end of avian intelligence.

- Oh, that's okay.

Rocky looks like he's very intelligent to me.

- Well, a big part of it is because those eyeballs take up 50% of the space in his head, in his skull.

(Beran laughs) - A little hollow up there.

- Not a lot of room left for any brain material.

- All righty.

Well, thank you for bringing Mr. Rocky in.

- Yeah, absolutely.

- Boys and girls, did you enjoy Rocky?

I'm enjoying him 'cause I get to hold him, but I'll see you in a bit.

- [Children] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

- Hi there, "Room 9."

It's me, Mrs. Williams, the woodland creature teacher.

When I'm not here teaching and learning in "Room 9" with you, I'm teaching and learning at Windsor Elementary, where I teach first grade.

So hi and lots of love to my woodland creatures and all my Windsor C1 family.

And this one goes out to Grandma Laura.

Today, we're gonna be learning about the days of the week.

Hmm.

Let's stop and think about this.

How many days are there in a week?

Well, let's check.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

There are seven days in a week.

And the best way that I know to remember the seven days in a week are the special song.

So I'm gonna sing it once and then I want you to sing it with me.

♪ There are seven days, there are seven days ♪ ♪ There are seven days in a week ♪ ♪ Sunday, Monday ♪ Tuesday, Wednesday ♪ Thursday, Friday ♪ Saturday Now it's your turn.

I'll sing it a little bit slower, so you can stay with me.

Here we go.

♪ There are seven days, there are seven days ♪ ♪ There are seven days in a week ♪ ♪ Sunday, Monday ♪ Tuesday, Wednesday ♪ Thursday, Friday ♪ Saturday Great job, guys.

Now let's talk a little bit about those days of the week on a calendar.

So the whole purpose of a calendar is to help us organize how many days there are in a week and how many days there are in a month.

There are lots of days in a month, and it depends on which month we're talking about, how many days there are.

So taking a look at our calendar, we're starting here on Saturday as the first day of the month.

Now let's take a look at this row, because this shows us the entire week.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

This calendar could help us to organize all types of things.

It'll help you know when it is time for school to be over for the week, your last day of the week.

It'll let you know when it's time for maybe your soccer practice on Sunday the ninth.

And it'll help you remember to call and wish your friend a happy birthday on the 12th.

So one more time, our seven days of the week.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

Which day's your favorite?

That's all I've got for you today.

I'll see you soon.

Lots of love and a big smile.

(rooster crows) (snake hisses) (upbeat music) - Now we have some fun facts about Rocky.

- Yeah, so interesting things about owls is that their eyeballs are not spheres.

Their eyeballs are actually long tubes and that way they can focus and see at a very long distance.

All of these feathers right here make up their facial disc.

And that facial disc is what moves sound to their ears.

Another fun fact about owls is that their ears are not, they're not symmetrical like ours.

They're asymmetrical.

One is up here and one is down here.

Eagle-Owls and all owls are hardcore carnivores, meaning that they only eat meat.

They don't eat any vegetable material.

And then you see this fur down here?

That's actually not fur, it's actually modified feathers.

- Oh wow.

- And all owls have four very strong talons.

And these two talons back here, they can move them around so that you have two in front, or you can have three in front.

- All right, thank you for those fun facts about the owl.

See you in a bit!

- Great day.

It's Candice with Chaos.

And I wanna introduce you to my friend, Tia.

This is Tia right here.

Tia is an amazing little girl.

So Tia loves to dance and she loves to roller skate and she loves to do people's hair.

But also, Tia worries a lot.

She worries about almost everything.

She drives across the bridge with her family and she worries, "What's gonna happen if we drive across this bridge?"

Or when she's in school, she's like, "What's gonna happen while I'm in school?"

And so Tia has to really work on being patient with herself.

And she works on other people being patient with her as well, because sometimes she worries about making friends and keeping friends because she thinks about what other people are gonna think about her.

And sometimes, Tia gets into arguments with people because she gets a little irritated when she can't control what's happening around her.

And so, when we talk about being patient, we are making sure that she learns how to pause and think, inhale, exhale, now talk or now tap out.

Can you say patient?

So I want you, just like Tia, to think about being patient whenever there's a time in your life where you have a whole lot going on, I want you to pause and think.

Inhale, exhale.

Now talk if you can, but tap out if you can't talk without being rude or being mean to somebody, or being rude with yourself, because nobody wants to be rude to themselves or anybody else, that's just not fair.

So I want you to try that out.

Let a trusted adult know how it works out and have an amazing day.

I'll see you soon.

Air hugs and cyber kisses.

- Welcome back, everybody.

It is bright and sunny in the class today.

Did you have a great adventure?

Oh, I did too.

But it's that time for us to get out of "Room 9."

But before we go, we're gonna spell our favorite word, and what's our favorite word?

Nine!

Let's spell nine.

N I N E, nine!

Thank you for being in "Room 9."

Bye-bye!

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