- Hello and welcome to another
episode of At Home With APS.
I'm Mrs. Kay and I'm joined
by three other really
talented teachers today.
Miss Kathy, Miss Kraff, and Miss Lori,
and we've worked together to create
an English Language
Arts lesson that I think
you're really gonna enjoy.
This lesson is geared toward our second
and third grade population,
but students and adults
of all ages are welcome.
We're so glad that you're here with us.
I can't wait to get started.
So last week we started
a new thematic unit
focused on earth science.
We're gonna continue that unit today.
And today our focus is going to be seeds.
Oh, I love seeds 'cause I love plants.
And I know that plants come from seeds.
I bet you already know a lot
of interesting facts about seeds.
Maybe you'll learn some more today.
Now you know that I
usually start our lesson
with the word of the day.
But guess what?
We're gonna change this time
together a little bit today.
'Cause I know that you're
ready for a new challenge.
Our word of the day today is disperse.
Say that word again with me.
Disperse.
Have you heard this word before?
Now typically I show you the definition.
But you know what?
Today I'm gonna keep it a secret.
Because we're gonna work
together to figure out
this definition together.
Let me tell you how and why
we're gonna do it this way.
Well, first of all,
we're gonna use a tool,
our reading skills, to look
for some context clues.
Those context clues will help us
figure out the meaning of this word.
Also while we're reading we're gonna focus
on two important skills.
One is reading fluency
and the other is reading comprehension.
Let's talk about fluency,
maybe you've heard that word at school.
Now when we're first learning how to read
we sound out individual sounds
and read individual words.
So when we're reading a sentence
we might kind of sound like a robot
just because we say one word at a time.
But as we become better readers
we read with more fluency.
That means we read the words correctly.
It means we read with expression
so we read the way we talk,
and it means that we read
at an appropriate rate.
We don't read too fast
and we don't read to slow.
If you're still kind of sounding
like a robot when you read
that's okay, we all start that way.
But I'm gonna show you some
ways to practice reading
without more fluency today.
We're also gonna be
focused on comprehension.
That means we understand
what we're reading.
If we read with more
fluency, it's easier for us
to understand the words
that we're reading.
And if we understand the
words that we're reading,
we're gonna be able to figure out
the definition to our word.
Oh, it's gonna be exciting.
Are you ready?
Come over here with me.
We have two sections of sentences here.
We're just gonna focus on the top part
above the squiggly line.
Now our word of the day,
disperse, is in this sentence.
I want us to work together
to read this sentence three times.
The first time you're gonna
read it by yourself at home.
Go ahead and read it out loud.
The second time we're
gonna read it together.
And the third time we're gonna make sure
that we understand what we're reading.
Okay, I'm gonna point to
the words to help you.
You go ahead and read it
out in your clearest voice.
Excellent reading.
Kiss your brain. (lips smack)
Nice work.
Now let's read it together.
You know, sometimes
when we do a cold read,
when we read something the first time,
we do kind of sound like a robot.
This time let's try to
read this with fluency.
We're gonna read the way we talk.
Let's do it together.
Oh what, why did I put this down?
Silly Mrs. Kay.
Ready?
Four friends disperse $20 equally.
That means each friend gets five dollars.
Self check.
Did you read the way you talked?
Did you read with expression?
Let me show you a way
to visually represent
reading with fluency.
It's called swooping.
Have you heard that before?
We're gonna swoop groups of letters
to remind us to read with fluency.
Because when we read with
fluency we make natural pauses.
We don't sound like a robot.
Watch what I do.
Four friends dispense.
Ooh, disperse, I made a mistake.
Sometimes good readers make a mistake.
That's okay, I'll just go
back and read it again.
Four friends disperse $20 equally.
Now when I'm reading this, did you notice
I kind of made a pause here?
So it sounded like this.
Four friends disperse...
$20 equally.
Hmm, let's do it with this sentence.
Notice where I pause
and where I should swoop
my letters or my words.
That means each friend gets five dollars.
Swoop it with your finger.
That means...
Each friend...
Gets five dollars.
Wow, now if I go back
and read these sentences
I'm gonna read them with more fluency.
Let's do it one time together.
Four friends disperse $20 equally.
That means each friend gets five dollars.
Great fluency, friends.
Now let's work on our comprehension.
What does this mean?
What happened in these sentences?
Hmm.
Yeah, some friends were sharing money.
I drew a picture to help me understand.
We had $20 and these four friends,
they each got five dollars.
This money was dispersed.
So what does disperse mean?
Yeah, we kind of spread
it out or pass it out.
Oh, I think we're on our way
to understanding this word.
Let's do our next sentence.
This time I want you to
read this sentence again
out loud at home.
Read it in your clearest voice.
Remember, we have the word
disperse hidden in there.
You go head and read it, I'll
point to the words for you.
Wow, excellent job.
This time instead of kissing
your brain, give yourself
a big pat on the back.
Wonderful reading, let's do it together.
This time we're going to read it
with some more fluency,
so more expression.
The dandelions in the
field disperse their seeds
using the power of the wind.
Let's swoop this together.
Hmm, the dandelions in the field,
oh that sounds like one swoop.
The dandelions, ooh, it's a long one,
in the field disperse their seeds,
oh that's my next swoop.
Disperse their seeds using
the power of the wind.
Let's read it again
together with our swoops.
The dandelions in the
field disperse their seeds
using the power of the wind.
So much fluency and expression.
Well done readers.
For our adults that are watching,
this is a fun activity you can
do with your young readers.
You can write sentences
that they're able to read
and have them practice swooping the words
to practice their fluency.
Okay, now let's get back to our mission.
Dandelions.
What are these dandelions doing?
Do you know what a dandelion is?
I brought a picture.
They're these.
Yellow flowers.
I have a lot of these in my neighborhood.
They kinda pop up in between
the cracks in the sidewalk.
They also end up looking like this.
Have you seen these?
When I was your age I
liked to pick them (blows)
and blow the seeds all over my backyard.
So that seems to be what's happening here.
The dandelions in the
filed disperse their seeds
using the power of the wind.
What's happening in this picture?
Yeah, the seeds are moving
around, aren't they?
The wind is blowing them so
that they can move around
and grow somewhere new.
So what does this word disperse mean?
Well I think we figured out
that it means moving things around.
Spreading things around.
Moving things to different places.
Kind of like our friends
spread out their money
and our dandelion seeds
disperse their seeds.
Moved them around.
Let's read the definition,
see if we were right.
Ooh, we were super close.
Distribute or spread over a wide area.
Great job learners.
We figured it out using
our reading skills,
our fluency, and our comprehension.
Now briefly, let's think about
why seeds might need to be dispersed.
Why do seeds need to move around?
Yeah, because seeds need space.
They also need water and light and soil.
But they need space so
that their roots can grow
and so that they can grow.
Here in a little bit you're gonna hear
a really wonderful story.
Miss Kraff is gonna read it to you,
about ways that seeds are dispersed
or how they move around.
You know, maybe later today
you could go on a walk
with a grown up or maybe
a brother and sister
and look for different seeds.
I found these in my neighborhood.
Maybe you can find
different seeds of your own
and think about how they are dispersed
or how they move around.
Great job readers, thank
you for working with me.
I can't wait to see what Miss Kathy has.
- Hello and good morning readers
and welcome to word work with Miss Kathy.
I'm so happy to see you
all here again today.
So we've been working really hard
at looking for our multi-syllabic words.
Words that are a little
bit more challenging,
and breaking down into smaller
parts that we already know
so that we can read hard words.
We are not afraid of
difficult words anymore
because we have a lot of
skills that we can use
when we see them.
So I'm going to remind you,
when we see a really big word
that we haven't seen before,
the first thing we're gonna do
is say, "Hmm, do I see
any parts of this word
"that I've seen in other words before?"
Then I'm going to try
to sound out the parts
I'm not familiar with,
not as familiar with.
And then I'm going to
think, what makes sense?
I'm going to try to think really hard
about have I heard a
word like this before?
Because that'll be a clue
for you that you have
the correct pronunciation
for an unknown word.
So I'm gonna show you three words today
and I'm going to show you just the word
and we're not gonna talk
about what it means yet.
But I want you to look at the
word and I want you to look
for parts you may already know.
And the first word I picked on purpose
to make it a little bit easier
as we practice this skill again.
Do you recognize this word?
That's right, this is our word of the day.
We just looked at this word with Miss Kay.
Good job friends.
So when we're looking at this word,
remember, we're thinking what
parts have I seen before?
And when you're doing
this you have two ways
you can approach it.
I like to fold a word when
I see a part that I know
so I see the part dis, I've
seen dis before in words,
so I can fold that to see what other parts
of the word are left that
maybe I can chunk out
to know the sounds.
So I've got disperse,
which we already know,
but I'm going to underline dis
'cause we've seen that
before in other words.
In disappear, dismay.
So now I have dis and I have
five letters left in my word.
Dis, and I've seen this before, P-E-R.
I've seen those letters together before
and that's per.
Per.
I can fold or I can underline per next.
So I have dis per, and then I have S-E.
And remember, we think what makes sense,
have I heard this before?
Dis per S eh?
Mm, sometimes we don't
say that last vowel sound.
So let's try without saying it.
Disperse.
(gasps) That's a word I've
heard before with Miss Kay.
Disperse.
So using our strategy of looking for parts
of words that we know before,
we're gonna try attacking two more words.
I believe in you, don't be afraid.
Okay, so my next word,
I'm gonna hold it up
and I want you to study it for a moment.
It' a tricky one, I wanted
to challenge you for sure.
Okay, so first we're looking
for parts of this word
that we've seen before.
I like at the end of the
word and it reminds me
of when we were studying inventions.
T-I-O-N makes the shun sound.
That's really great news.
I'm gonna go ahead and underline that.
Shun, T-I-O-N.
And then I'm gonna look
back at my word again
and look for other parts
that I might be able to sound out.
I see E and R together
and I think about my R controlled vowels
and E and R will make an er sound.
So that's good, I can underline er.
We're getting closer friends.
So I have er and shun in here.
I see M-I-N and I think I'm
gonna try sounding that out.
Mm, in, min.
Min.
I'm gonna underline min.
Kinda reminds me of minion.
Okay.
So I have G here, E-R.
So er, mm, in, and I
have an A and then shun.
We know that Gs can have two sounds.
They can have a hard G sound
or they can have a soft G sound.
So we're gonna try it the both ways.
Guh, er, min, ation.
Germination?
Let's try it the other way,
soft G sound this time.
Juh, like giraffe.
Ger, min, ation, germination.
That does sound like a word
that I've studied before in science.
So we found out that
our sounds in our word
make the word germination.
That was tricky, friends.
Our last word we're gonna attack,
I'm gonna hold it up for a moment
and you've probably seen it,
it's related to our other two words.
And I want you to go ahead
looking for parts, study it.
Hmm, have we seen any
parts of this word before?
Hmm.
Well, first off I see shun, T-I-O-N again.
Let's go ahead and underline or fold that.
(gasp) And I do see
another part in the middle
of my word, I-N.
I see those letters together often
and it always makes in.
Let's go ahead and underline that friends.
Okay, here's where it gets tricky.
Because I've seen P-O-L-L together before.
Have you seen it before too?
Maybe when you were studying government
at the beginning of the year.
I've seen that as poll, like
a place people go to vote.
Poll.
Poll, in, ation?
Pollination?
Think, what makes sense.
I know pollination.
It's very close to a word that I do know.
Pollination, and I've seen that word
alongside germination before.
All right friends, so now that
we've practiced our skills
of taking apart big scary
words so that we can read them,
we need to talk about
what those words mean.
When you're reading a book that has words
that you haven't seen
before and you're not sure
how to say them or read them,
you might be able to figure it out
but it doesn't necessary mean
that you know what they mean.
What is the definition of that word?
I can read it but what does it mean?
So with Miss Kay today
we looked at the words
around these in a sentence
that can help us figure out
what it means, and that's
called context clues.
When we're unsure of
the meaning of the word
we can look at a whole sentence,
we can look at a sentence
around a word and think,
what do I think this word is meant to be?
And if the text that we're
reading isn't too hard
those clues can help us
and it is okay to use
those clues to help you.
So I'm gonna go head and turn over here
to a diagram that I drew.
And we're gonna be looking
for the word germination.
Germination.
So up here we see a seed.
This seed has an arrow and it points
to our word germination.
And I'm gonna say, what do I notice?
Well I notice in this
diagram that there's dirt,
that the seed is underground,
and when it says germination
there are these black squiggly
lines coming out of it.
My guess is that they're roots.
I'm gonna put my arrow here
at the word germination.
After this we see seeds, stems,
and roots are starting to sport.
Next we see leaves are growing.
Next we see that there
are flowers growing.
And finally it says seeds disperse.
And these little things
coming outside of the flowers.
I think that those are the seeds.
So in this we see a circle,
meaning that this is a cycle.
And here is germination,
part of the cycle.
What part of the cycle is it?
It looks like it's the
part where a plant goes
from just being a seed only
to starting the whole cycle over again.
That's germination.
So that's our guess based
on what we see up here.
Now our other word of the day
that we were looking at just now,
not disperse but pollination,
is going to be in our paragraph.
And our paragraph title
says, "The Plant Cycle".
I'm gonna read this
out loud to you friends
and I want you to listen
for that word, pollination.
The plant cycle starts with a tiny seed.
Seeds disperse in many ways
and find soil to grow in.
As the seed grows into a plant,
it develops leaves and roots.
Once a plant flowers,
birds and insects pollinate
the flower, and seeds develop once more.
I didn't hear pollination,
I heard pollinate, which is similar.
So let's read that once
sentence with pollinate in it.
Once a plant flowers, birds and
insects pollinate the flower
and seeds develop once more.
Hmm, so using both our
diagram and our sentence,
can we figure out pollination?
Well we have some clues that can help us.
What I'd like for you to do is
turn to somebody in the room
and give them your best
guess for pollination
and we'll talk more about
it again on Wednesday.
Thank you for your help readers.
Have a good day.
- Welcome.
It's Mrs. Kraff, and today
we're gonna read a story
and talk a little bit about
what Miss Kathy introduced
and Miss Kay, about seeds and germination.
And we're gonna read a
story by an amazing author.
You've probably read a book by him before,
maybe when you were younger,
and maybe it's your favorite book now.
The book that he wrote that
you may be very familiar with
is called, "The Hungry Caterpillar".
Do you remember that one?
Caterpillar crawls through and
he eats everything in site.
It's an awesome book.
This is by the same author
and his name is Eric Carle.
And he wrote the book
called "The Tiny Seed".
So we're gonna read this today.
The really awesome
thing about Mr. Carle is
he not only wrote the book,
he also illustrated the story.
So that's pretty cool.
The book is published by Simon & Schuster.
So, "The Tiny Seed".
But today when we read I'm
gonna ask you to do something
a little bit extra.
So I would like you to practice
some active listening skills.
And in order to do that
I want you to create
kind of your own graphic organizer.
Let me show you.
So we're gonna create a graphic organizer
that looks very much like this.
The book talks a lot about seasons,
and so I'd like you to
take a piece of paper,
any paper, probably the bigger the better,
and I'd like you to fold a
hamburger, just like that,
and then unfold the
papers and fold a hot dog.
Go ahead and make those creases
and then open it back up.
Now you can see it's been
separated into fourths, right?
Into four different squares.
And what I'd like you to do
is write the seasons on there.
The first one is autumn.
Let me spell that for you
because it's a little bit different.
So, A-U-T-U-M-N.
Autumn.
Sometimes we call autumn fall,
so that might ring a bell with you.
In the next square I'd like
you to write the word winter.
W-I-N-T-E-R.
But you probably knew that already.
Let's go down to the
bottom and write spring.
I'd love you to sound that one out for me.
Spring, ing.
It has that I-N-G that
Miss Kathy taught you.
And then in the final box
I'd like you to write the word summer.
S-U-M-M-E-R, summer.
So our paper was divided into fourths
for our four seasons that we have.
So while I'm reading the book
I'm gonna stop at times
and have you fill in this
with some information, and
we'll talk about that as we go.
All right.
Are you ready?
All right, let's go.
"The Tiny Seed", by Eric Carle.
Also illustrated by Eric Carle.
It is autumn.
A strong wind is blowing.
It blows flower seeds high into the air
and carries them across the land.
One of the seeds is tiny.
Smaller than any of the others.
Will it be able to keep
up with the others?
And where are they all going?
One of the seeds flies
higher than the others.
Up, up it goes, but it flies to high
and the sun's hot rays burn it up.
But the tiny seed sails
on along with the others.
So let's stop for just a minute
and think about those seeds.
So we're in autumn right
now, we're in fall.
I want you to think about the fall.
What happens in the fall?
You go back to school.
Yeah, we're so excited for that.
And once you get back to school
think about what happens.
Hmm, the leaves start to turn
and they fall off the trees, right?
We think about jumping
into piles of leaves.
We also have pumpkins, right?
That's Halloween time?
So what happens during Halloween?
I'd like you to take just a few moments
to jot down some words
that remind you of autumn.
What are your favorite things
about that time of year?
Is it dressing up in your costume?
Is it jumping into piles of leaves?
Maybe raking the leaves.
It's a lot of work to
be done there, right?
Or bagging the leaves.
How about finding those beautiful
colored leaves on the ground?
And then what happens to the temperature.
We go from summer and it starts
to get a little chilly doesn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
All right, so write down a couple of words
that remind you of autumn
or the fall season.
All right, let's continue on our story.
Another seed lands on a
tall and icy mountain.
The ice never melts and
the seed cannot grow.
The rest of the seeds fly on by,
but the tiny seed does not
go as fast as the others.
Now they fly over the ocean.
One seed falls into the water and drowns.
The others sail on with the wind,
but the tiny seed does not
go as high as the others.
One seed drifts down into the desert.
It is hot and dry and
the seed cannot grow.
Now the tiny seed is flying very low
but the wind pushes it on with the others.
Finally the wind stops and
the tiny seed falls down
gently to the ground.
A bird comes by and eats one seed.
The tiny seed is not eaten.
It is so small that the
bird does not see it.
Now it is winter.
After their very long trip
the seeds settle down.
They look just as if they're
going to sleep in the earth.
Snow falls and moves them
like a soft white blanket.
A hungry mouse that
also lives in the ground
eats a seed for his lunch,
but the tiny seed lies very still
and the mouse does not see it.
Okay, let's stop for a
moment and take a look
at the chart that you made.
Let's go over to winter.
Hmm, what are some things
that remind you of the winter.
You can look up and see
the snow capped mountains.
Sometimes we get snow here don't we.
You can see the snow coming
down from the sky, right?
Falling down gently.
That might be the time where
you drink hot chocolate.
Maybe some hot cider to warm up your body.
The heat comes on in your
school and your house.
And maybe when you get into your car
if you take a car somewhere,
it's pretty chilly.
So let's think about those
things that remind you of winter.
What kind of holidays happen in winter?
We definitely have a
long break from school.
Go ahead and jot a few words down
that remind you of that winter season.
Does the pictures in the
book remind you of anything?
Do you think of blue and white?
You can jot down some colors.
Okay.
Got some winter ideas, I know.
Oh wow, now it is spring.
After a few months the snow has melted.
It is really spring.
Birds fly by, the sun shines, rain falls.
The seeds grow so round and full
that they start to burst open.
Now they are not seeds anymore.
They are plants.
First they send roots down to the earth,
then their little stems
and leaves begin to grow up
toward the sun and the air.
There is another plant
that grows much faster
than the new little plants.
It is a big fat weed.
And it takes all the sunlight and the rain
away from one of the small new plants.
And that little plant dies.
The tiny seed hasn't begun to grow yet.
It will be too late, hurry!
But finally it starts
to grow into a plant.
Okay, so let's use some
active listening now
and go to spring.
We are actually in spring
right now, aren't we?
It's April.
All right, so what are you seeing outside
when you look around?
Are you seeing the sun shining?
Are you seeing the birds chirping?
Is the sky blue?
What are you thinking
about sun and spring time?
Maybe you're seeing some flowers,
we have spring flowers that grow for sure.
All right, go ahead and jot down
a few ideas about the springtime.
Is the air warm yet, or is
it still a little bit chilly?
'Cause it depends on the day doesn't it?
For sure.
All right.
The warm weather also brings
the children out to play.
They too have been waiting
for the sun and springtime.
One child doesn't see the
plants as he runs along
and oh, he breaks one.
Now it cannot grow anymore.
Look at the big foot coming down.
We have to be gentle around
the new plants, right?
But the tiny plant that grew
from the tiny seed is growing fast.
But it's neighbor grows even faster.
Before the tiny plant has three leaves
the other plant has seven.
And look, a bud!
And now even a flower.
But what is happening?
First there are footsteps.
Then shadows loom over them.
Then a hand reaches down
and breaks off the flower.
Oh, somebody's picked the flower's friend.
A boy has picked the
flower to give to a friend.
Now it is summer.
Now the tiny plant from
the tiny seed is all alone.
It grows on and on and it doesn't stop.
The sun shines on it
and the rain waters it.
It has many leaves.
It grows taller and taller.
It is taller than the people.
It is taller than the trees.
Oh my.
It is taller than the houses.
And now a flower grows on it.
People come from far and
near to look at this flower.
It is the tallest flower
they have ever seen.
It is a giant flower.
All right, let's stop
for just a moment again.
And I know you're actively listening.
Let's think about that summertime.
What happens in the summer?
What do you love to do?
I know you're on break right now,
but you're also gonna have a
break in the summer aren't you
where you can get outside.
Oh, can you go for a swim?
Hmm, go for a hike?
Yeah, lot's of fun things
to do in the summer time.
So jot down a couple of words
that trigger your
imagination for the summer.
Maybe something you've done
or something that you
really wanna do this year.
All right, good job.
All summer long the birds and the bees
and the butterflies come visiting.
They have never seen such
a big and beautiful flower.
Look at the colors.
Now it is autumn again.
You circled back around.
The days grow shorter,
the nights grow cooler,
and the wind carries yellow
and red leaves past the flower.
Some petals drop from the giant flower
and they sail along with the bright leaves
over the land and down to the ground.
The wind blows harder.
The flower has lost
almost all of its petals.
It sways and bends away from the wind.
But the wind grows stronger
and shakes the flower.
Once more the wind shakes the flower
and this time the flower's seeds open
and the seed pods come out.
Out come many tiny seeds
that quickly sail far away in the wind.
Look at that.
See how they blow and disperse.
That's our word disperse
that Miss Anna taught you.
All right.
So you've got some good
notes about your seasons
and some really wonderful words
I know that you wrote down.
If you didn't have a chance to do that
that's just fine, you can do this later.
But I would love to have you do is because
Mr. Carle actually wrote
the book and illustrated it
I would love to have
you do an illustration
for each of your seasons.
So read your words and then draw a picture
of something that you're reminded of.
And that's an awesome thing to have.
So one more thing I wanted
to do with you today
while I'm here, is talk
about that word germination
that you learned with Miss Kathy.
She had that lovely poster up there
that she told you about the cycle.
How the seeds disperse
and then they germinate.
So I wanted to give you an idea
of a project you could do
with the help of a grown up
if you have somebody
there that can help you.
And that is to plant some seeds
and to see if we can germinate some.
So let me show you what I have.
I have some paper towel that
I got kind of wet, right?
So I put it in some
water, and not soaking wet
but just wet enough.
And I'm gonna take that paper towel,
I found an old jar.
So I'm gonna put that
paper towel inside my jar,
stretch it out a bit, and
you can have any size jar.
Mine happens to be big so you can see it
but you can definitely use a smaller jar.
We're gonna put this
paper towel inside here
and then I have some seeds,
a couple of different kinds.
I have sunflower seeds.
And that might be the kind of seed, right,
that our giant flower was in our story.
So that tiny seed became
a giant sunflower plant.
So you could take a few of those seeds
if you have them, and
these are pretty big seeds.
Sunflower seeds, you may
have eaten sunflower seeds.
And we're going to place
those inside our jar
so in between the paper towel
and the glass of the jar.
You're gonna place your seeds.
'Kay, so make sure they're kind of wet
from the paper towel,
right, that's gonna give it
the water to nourish it,
and place those seeds inside there.
I have another kind of seed
that you might have at home also.
And these are pinto beans.
I don't know if you can see
them, let me hold them up.
They are pinto beans and I
soaked these over night in water
and they should sprout.
So I'm gonna go ahead and
stick those in my jar also.
Now be sure you ask a grownup to help you
with your jar and to see
if you can have seeds
before you take anything.
So make sure somebody's
helping you with that.
I'm gonna go ahead and
place those seeds in my jar
and then I'd like you to take that jar
and put it in a sunny
window if you have one.
And then we're gonna
come back in a few days
and I'd like you to do a chart.
Day one, describe what's happening
inside your germination jar.
Day two, and I'm gonna keep mine
and I will bring it back to show you.
All right?
So that's wonderful.
We can be our own tiny
seeds and see how they grow.
All right.
Thank you so much for
sharing this wonderful story
with me today and doing
all that hard work.
So you have a couple of jobs.
Doing your germination jar
and drawing some pictures
with the graphic
organizer that we created.
All right.
- Welcome back friends.
We are getting ready to start
our writing portion of today's lesson.
I just want to say how exciting it was
to learn our word of the day with Miss Kay
and learn some more words
and practice finding out
how to learn words in
context with Miss Kathy
and what a wonderful story
Miss Kraff read to us
about the tiny seed.
So all of that stuff is
leading up to our continuation
of learning how to write
and informational report.
So we're gonna quickly review
what we talked about last week
and then move on to what we
are going to be doing this week
that will get you nice
and organized and set up
to write your informational report
before we're done with this unit.
So let's go back to last week.
Think back, think back.
And remember that the
first thing we did was
we brainstormed some ideas
about different things
that are interesting to us
that we would like to write
our informational report on.
So I picked that I'm
going to work on writing
something about the
night sky and the moon.
That's gonna be my report,
but yours could be certainly around
how seeds germinate, right?
Or maybe how seeds disperse,
or maybe both things
would be included in your report.
Or you can pick a different topic.
Then we have our checklist
that hopefully you have printed down
or looked at online from our resource page
that has the different parts
that we need to go through
to do our informational report,
and what I just talked about
was our brainstorming piece.
I think we can check that off
because everybody has brainstormed
and picked their topic.
So it always feels good to
put a check mark in a box
to say it is done.
So hopefully that part is done.
Then last week we talked about how
to identify credible sources online
and that was what we did with this chart.
And this chart can also be
found with our online materials.
So that you can refer back to
it if you can't see this one.
And remember that we want
to be focusing on .org,
.edu, and .gov extensions
when we are looking
for reliable, credible resources online.
So when you are looking for your sources
make sure that you're doing that.
Now I know a lot of students like to start
with Wikipedia and it
is not the best resource
but it can be a good starting place
to give you an idea of
maybe other places to go to.
So if you're using Wikipedia, okay,
but it can't be your main source.
It should just be a starting source, okay?
So we are gonna focus on nasa.gov today
because that is both a
reliable and a credible source.
So hopefully you will
find one for yourself
around your topic to look at.
Okay, so we are gonna move
into what we're gonna learn today.
Which is this box, so I
can check off this box
because we know about
how to find credible and reliable sources.
So we are going to work on
how to take some detailed notes today.
Before I go to talking about
the ones we can find online
I want to show you some things that maybe
you have around the house.
So maybe at your home you
have some books already
that are informational text books
or informational books that
have true facts in them.
So you can certainly use
those during your report.
And I went around my
house and kind of sifted
through my children's stuff
and I found some books
that we had on the moon.
I found a book by Gail
Gibbons called "The Moon Book"
which would be a great
book if I was using that.
Okay, then I also found a
book that is just on the moon
that will have a lot of
interesting information
that I could include in my report.
I found one on the solar system
so I'm pretty sure that
there might be a mention
of the earth's moon in a
book on the solar system,
so I might use that as
one of my sources as well.
The other thing I wanted to share with you
is if you have magazines.
Sometimes magazines have articles in them
that might be non-fiction
and might support
the work that you're trying to do.
So this one is a "Kid's Discover" magazine
and it does have a lot of different things
on the solar system.
So if you have some
magazines around the house
that are non-fiction, you
can use these as a source
for your informational report as well.
But because maybe we don't
have access to this type
of material since we're all
staying home and staying safe,
we might use only things
that are found online.
So back to what we were
talking about last week.
So we're searching for reliable
and credible information
that can be found online.
So I have put into my search bar,
I put in NASA, N-A-S-A dot gov, G-O-V
and this is what came up.
It came up with a whole list of things
and then, well, it didn't
come up with a list of things,
it came up with a search box
and I typed moon into the search box
and then this is the list that came up.
So what I'm going to use today is
this first one, and it is
"Earth's Moon" is the title
of the webpage that it's
going to take me to.
So if we look at the graphic
organizer that is included
with your online materials,
is this graphic organizer,
and it has a place for the website
that you're getting your information from.
And then a place for you
to write your information.
Now I've put two on here,
but you certainly can have
more sources than two.
We're gonna work on one
source today together
and then I'm going to
leave the second source
for you to work on at
home around your report.
So you may not be going to nasa.gov.
You may be going to a different
informational website.
Okay, so right here where it says website,
let's think about what do I
need to write in that box.
So I'm gonna let you think
about that for a second
and then I'm going to write it up here.
Okay, so the website I went to is
capital N-A-S-A dot gov.
And remember when we're typing things in
and trying to go to a website,
there are no spaces, okay?
No spaces, so nasa.gov,
and then it pulled up this
where it said "Earth's
Moon" and that actually said
W-W-W, which I didn't put on here,
but most search boxes or
search engines will put
the W-W-W for you.
Anybody know what W-W-W stands for?
You guys are right, it
means world wide web.
You are so smart.
So the other thing that
I didn't put up here is
because I specifically asked it
to search for moon information
it has a backward slash
and then there's no space, moon,
and another backward slash.
So if I was going to type this in
and you wanted to see the exact same thing
I'm seeing here, you would type in
www.NASA.gov\moon\
and it should take you exactly where I am.
So I'm going to click on that
and it's gonna take me to another webpage
and it has several different
things about the moon.
The earth's moon.
So now I have to decide which
of these different areas
is the area I wanna focus
on getting information for my report.
So they have things on the Apollo,
which was a spacecraft,
a manned spacecraft
that went to the moon.
They have things about moon and Mars.
They have another thing
on the moon to Mars.
Around the moon with NASA's
first launch of the SLS
with Orion, and I have
no idea what that is
but it sounds super interesting,
so maybe I'll go back and read that.
Then we have pictures
from the space station,
the International Space Station
that have pictures of
a waxing gibbous moon
and that might be
something that I would want
to learn more about because I remember
that one of the books I have at home
right here, this book
has a lot of information
about the different phases of the moon
and maybe that's what I
want to focus my report on.
We'll have to see.
Then they have an image of the day,
and then the NASA Goddard, media invited
to the NASA's lunar surface
invitation consortium.
That sounds interesting too.
So there's more stories down here,
I can click on that and let's see
if there's something else
that I want to look at.
Oh this looks interesting.
I didn't know this that there is an
International Observe the Moon Night.
So that's where I'm going to look at
to get my first information.
So International Observe the Moon Night,
and that happens in October it looks like.
So I'm gonna put on my notes,
International Observe the Moon Night
happens in October.
And I'm assuming that that's each year
'cause last year it was October 5th.
And let's see what else it says in here.
Okay, and then I might look
for some other information.
It says that 52 countries participated.
Okay, so that is how you
take a note on a website
off of the internet.
So I want you to take a
chance and do one for yourself
and then we'll talk more about
what we're gonna do with our notes
the next time we get together.
Okay, so we'll so that.
I hope you've had a wonderful
time learning with us today.
I have had a wonderful time
learning today with you
and I want to say thank
you for joining us today
for At Home With APS.
Have a wonderful day.
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