(bright upbeat music) - Hi everyone, welcome back to teaching in room nine, the area's largest classroom.

I'm Mrs.

Forth from the Rockwood School District, here to bring you another reading lesson geared towards 1st and 2nd grade students.

But of course, anybody who loves books and words are welcome to join in today.

I know we're gonna have a lot of fun.

If you've been with me lately, you know we've really been thinking a lot about words and the words that authors use in their books.

We've looked at word parts, we've looked at whole words and talked about what they mean, we've figured out how to figure out what words mean when we're not really sure, we've done a lot of work together, haven't we?

Well, I was thinking, there's actually something about words we haven't even talked about yet.

Did you know that words have a job?

Yeah, it is true, words actually have jobs to do.

When words are written within a sentence, they're doing a special job.

And one of these jobs is to name people, places or things.

There are special words that do just that and they're called... Come in closer.

Nouns, can you say nouns?

That's right, that's what we're gonna talk about today.

We're gonna spend some time talking about nouns.

Nouns are words that name people, places and things.

And these nouns are all over the place.

So I think we should start off with a game, looking at some words and thinking, hmm, could that word be a noun or maybe mnhh, not a noun?

Are you ready to try it?

I have some cards here with some words, we're gonna really look at the word and think, hmm, is that naming a person, place or a thing?

Are you ready?

First word.

Take a good look.

The word is lake, the lake, lake.

Let's think about the word lake.

What's a lake?

Yeah, water, that's right.

You can go swimming in a lake, yeah, so is a lake a person?

Hmm, a person?

No.

Is it a place?

Is a lake a place?

Well, I see a lot of you nodding your head, yes.

Or a thing?

Yeah, it can be a place and it's also a thing, isn't it?

Yeah, lake, a lake is a noun.

You guys already found a noun, wanna try another one?

Here's another word, are you ready?

I want you to look closely at the word and say it and then let's talk about what the word is.

Here we go.

The word is the, we've used this word quite a lot this year, haven't we?

The, oh, some of you are like, no, yeah, thumbs down.

This not a person, it's not a place and it's not a thing.

It is not a noun.

The word the is not a noun.

So I'm gonna put that away from the word lake.

Here's another one, ready?

Again, look at the word and think hmm, what is that word?

And is it naming a person, place or thing?

Cats, cats.

Yeah, cats are animals.

Those are things.

That's right, cats, it's a noun.

This is naming something, isn't it?

The word cats is a noun, great.

Here comes another one.

Some of you already saying noun before I even hold it up.

Let's see, here we go.

Happy, the word is happy, happy.

I'm always happy to be with you, happy, is happy a person?

No, it can describe how a person feels but it's not a person, is it a place?

No, it's not a place.

Is it a thing?

Nope, is definitely not a thing either so guess what?

The word happy is not a noun, not a noun.

Here's another one.

From my friend out there, Sammy.

My friend's name, Sammy.

Sammy, hmm.

You're like that's a person, that's right.

Sammy is the name of a person.

So it is a noun, that's right.

How about this one?

Hmm, the word is funny, funny.

It's kind of like happy, I agree.

It describes somebody but it's not actually a person, is it?

And it's not a thing and it's not a place, I can't go to funny.

So it is not a noun.

How about the next one?

Here we go.

The word is bug, bug.

That's right, it's a noun.

Why is it a noun?

Because this word names something, doesn't it?

Yeah, a bug is a thing.

It's a type of insect, isn't it?

Perfect, so the word bug is a noun.

Here's another one.

It's another one of our sight words, the word is said, said, hmm, what are you thinking about the word said?

Can you show me thumbs up or thumbs down?

Said, oop, held it backwards.

Said, that's right.

The word said is not a noun because it does not name a person, a place or a thing.

Exactly right.

I need you to do something.

I need you to look around and I want you to name a noun that you see.

Watch me.

Oh, books, that names a thing.

The word book is a noun.

What do you see?

That's mom.

Blanket.

Pencil.

Table.

Rug.

Your brother's name.

Dog.

Wow, you guys are really good at finding nouns.

You know what you can do?

You can take pictures or you can draw and label the nouns that you see around you and share them with us at Channel Nine.

We'd love to see the work that you're doing with nouns.

Before we go, and I send you off to math, I thought maybe you were ready for a challenge.

I wrote some sentences down and I wanna see if you can find the noun in the sentence.

And remember, what is a noun again?

It's a word that names a person, place or thing.

That's exactly right.

Let's take a look at the sentences that I have, ready?

The boy is laughing.

The boy is laughing.

What do you think?

Which word in there is the noun?

Boy, why do you think the word boy?

It names a person, doesn't it?

Yeah, the word boy is the noun in this sentence.

Its job is to tell us who is laughing, the boy is laughing.

It wouldn't make sense if we didn't say who, if we just said is laughing, we would be like who's laughing, that's right.

Let's try the next one.

Read the sentence with me.

I have a brown cat.

Hmm, what could be the noun in that sentence?

A person, place or thing?

That's right, cat.

Cat is being named.

Who is brown?

The cat is brown, that's right.

Oh, one of you said I, I, is that the name of a person?

Now when you're talking about yourself, that is, that's another special type of noun.

Let's look at the next one.

They live in Australia.

Hmm, Australia, why?

Because it's a place.

Oh, you wanna talk about the word they?

Well, let's talk about it, what is they?

It's people, so like who lives in Australia?

They do, that is naming who, right?

I think we should circle it to.

And if you stick around with me all week, we're actually gonna talk more about these special types of nouns that we're seeing.

There's a lot of things that we can do with words.

And there's so many jobs that they have and it helps us understand as readers and writers how to read sentences and write sentences making sure that all of our words are doing their job.

Let's look at this last one.

He has a toy car.

Hmm, person, place or thing?

Is there any word there naming?

He, yeah, that names a boy or a man, right?

He has a toy car.

Yeah, car.

Toy, this one's really tricky because the word toy here is actually not the thing, the car is.

Toy is acting like it's describing what kind of car, that was tricky but toy could be a noun too.

What if I covered up the word car.

He has a toy.

Yeah, now toy is the noun, good work.

Your challenge today as you are reading or looking around the world, I want you to notice nouns.

I'll see you again tomorrow, have fun at math.

Bye readers.

- Hey friends, how are you?

Thanks for another great reading episode Mrs.

Forth.

I am here in my kitchen and I am doing a little cooking today, getting my lunches ready for the week and I thought man, there's so much math happening right now, I better share this with my favorite kids on teaching in room nine.

So, this coming week I have to work five days of school so I have to work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, right?

Five days and I eat a salad each day of those, of the week.

Hold on one second, I can hear somebody coming.

Marley is that you?

Marley?

Guess not him, we'll see.

Anyways, I need a boiled egg... Well, hello.

Hi, how are you?

I need a boiled egg.

Wait, maybe we should do some exercises with marley first.

Marley come here, let's do some exercises, are you ready?

Sit, when marley sits you stand, do the opposite of her.

Sit, come here.

Good girl.

Now sit.

Stand, come on.

Sit.

Oh, good job, okay, come here.

Up, come here, up, come up.

Oh, yeah, all right, say hi to our friends in teaching in room nine.

You'll get a treat, you're being a really good girl, listening for once.

So, come here, show me what you can do.

Come on.

Sit.

Shake, oh, good girl.

So like I said, I need... That was a little brain break for you.

I need five boiled eggs because I have five salads.

So let me show you...

I have a recipe for boiled eggs so let's go ahead and put our eggs into this boiling or what will be boiling.

So one, can't crack it, two, didn't crack it, don't worry.

Three, four, five.

Look at that counting.

Now it says... Look, this was a full container of eggs.

I used five so how many are left?

I used five, one, two, three, four, five from there apparently.

How many are left?

Yeah, wait, hold on, hold on.

Do you know how many I started with?

Oh, so you guys know how many I started with because you counted the empty spaces and the eggs right here that are still there and you added them together.

So let's see how many I started with, one, two, three, four, five.

So five I used, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13.

Wow, so I have 13 eggs left that I did not use, I used five so five and 13 make?

You got it, 18 eggs.

Nice job.

So let's go ahead, I have to cover the top of these eggs.

Be like one inch over the top with water.

Now, I don't know how much water that is so I am going to use this math tool, which is one cup, one measuring cup and I'm going to add it to our pot.

So I'm going to fill it all the way up.

So so far we have one cup, not covered yet.

Maybe I should move you a little closer so you can see this.

There we go.

Lets go on a little tour.

Here we go.

So one cup of water and we don't have it covered just yet.

So let's add another cup.

Two cups, nope.

How many cups do you think it will take to cover these eggs?

This is two cups and the eggs are almost covered.

Like, well, I guess I should say halfway covered.

And remember, they want us to cover the eggs and then cover like an additional inch.

Yeah, we're at two cups now, I kinda think it's gonna be four cups.

So at least two more, let's keep going.

Three cups of water and let's see, it's our last cup of water.

Whoa, not covered all the way yet.

So this is four cups of water and it's still not quite covered.

Five cups of water and the eggs are covered but they need that other little inch so there we go, that's it.

Six cups of water it took to cover these eggs.

Now, I need to turn them on, turn my stove on and it has to boil or it has to come to a boil and then I'm gonna use the timer and I will set a timer for 15 minutes for the eggs to cook and I'll set the timer on this stove here.

Do you think time is a math tool?

Yeah, I agree with you Time is definitely a math tool, right?

We have to know how much time it takes to do something, we have to know how much time has passed, we have to know what time it is right now so time is a math tool that is really important.

You use math all the time and you don't even realize it.

So, we are going to let these eggs cook, well, start to boil and then we will get them out and I'll show you that they're hard boiled eggs.

All right friends, the eggs are still boiling but I had to hap on here and I had to show you all these math tools that I'm finding.

I was going through my cabinets and look, I found more measuring cups, that's a math tool.

This is a broken measuring cup but that's fine.

I found these tablespoons and teaspoons.

Measuring cups, these are cups measuring scoopers.

I don't know, tablespoon, teaspoon, that's like math.

More measuring cups.

I also found these kabob sticks, these could totally be used as a math tool, right?

Like, I don't know, look.

Three and two makes five, right?

Math tools all around your house, it's crazy.

It's crazy how many math tools you can find.

Look, I also found these marshmallows, could be used as a really yummy math tool.

What else is in here that could be used as a math tool?

Oh, yeah, look at these, measuring cups.

These are awesome math tools.

Then...

Put this away.

I could use all these different spices as math tools.

Like look, two and two is four, right?

Lots of good counting.

I mean, I'm just amazed at how many math tools are in one room.

Look at this, I could use Molly's dog treats as a math tool.

How many dog treats do you think are in here?

Show you the bottom.

Yeah, do you think 10 is a good guess for this?

Yeah, we don't think that's good guess, do we?

Because we can tell there's more than 10.

I think there's less than 100 but more than 50, that's what I think.

Less than 100 but more than 50 are in here.

Should we count them?

I mean, why not, right?

Let me rearrange and then we can count them.

Here we are.

I think the best way to count these would be to put them into groups of 10.

So let's get started with that.

I'm gonna scoop this back, whoa that was shaky.

Showing my kitchen with my recipe book, all my dirty dishes back there.

So let's put these into groups of 10.

One, two, three, four, five Wow, that was crazy.

Pulled out exactly 10.

And this bright, pink shirt is messing up the lighting.

So we have this group, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, here's another group.

Another group, two, four, six, eight, 10 So so far we have 10, 20, 30.

Two, four, six, eight, 10.

Two, four, six, eight, 10.

Marley does not appreciate this math activity.

Two, four, six, eight, 10.

I'll give her one of the broken ones, here you go.

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

Let's see how many we have so far.

10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 and this is how much is left, all this.

So do you think it's less than 100?

I think I'm gonna revise my guess.

I think that this is more than 100.

So 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, I'm gonna put these in a big pile, 70.

Two, four, six, eight, 10, that's 70 plus 10 is 80.

Two, four, six, eight, 10, 80 plus 10 is 90.

Two, four, six, eight, 10, 90 plus 10 is 100.

And we still have some left.

So it's definitely more than 100.

Can we put them out here on the table, more than 100, I'm not gonna count the broken ones.

So here marley, how many do you think is left?

I'm thinking 150ish.

Let's see, this is 100, so two, four, six, eight, 10,110.

Oops.

Two, four, six, eight, 10, 120.

Two, four, six, eight, 10, 130.

Let's try counting the rest by twos.

Two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 16.

We had 110, 120, 130 and then we had a group of 10 inside of here so we had 16 in here which has a group of 10 in it so that would be 140 plus the six would be 146.

Wow, man, so much math in the kitchen today.

I can't wait to see what other math we can find around the house.

Bye.

(bright upbeat music) - Teaching in room nine is made possible with support of Bank of America, Dana Brown Charitable Trust, Emerson and viewers like you.

(bright upbeat music)