- Hello and welcome to another episode
of @Home With APS.
I'm Mrs. Kay and today I'm joined
by three very talented teachers,
Miss Kathy, Miss Kraff and Miss Lori,
and together we have prepared
an English Language Arts
lesson for you today.
I think you're really gonna enjoy it.
This lesson is geared for second
and third graders but as always,
whoever you are, however old you are,
we are so glad that
you're here with us today,
and we're excited for you to learn
right along with us.
So let's get to it.
This week we've been
talking about life science.
If you'll remember on Monday
we learned a lot about seeds.
Miss Kraff read a really wonderful book
called The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
about seeds that moved in the wind.
We're gonna talk a little
bit more about that today.
Seeds and plants are one
of my favorite things
so I knew that we couldn't
just talk about it
for one day.
We're gonna get back to it today.
Let's start with our word of the day
with Mrs. Kay.
Are you ready for this word?
This is a decodable word.
That means you can tap it out.
Can you go ahead and
read this word out loud?
Adapt.
Exactly.
Say it again.
Very good.
Say it a little louder.
Say it in your loudest voice.
Very good.
Adapt.
Adapt is a really interesting word.
Now, let's look over here
at the dictionary definition.
We can read it together.
To change something
so that it functions better
in its environment.
Wow.
As humans, we are constantly adapting,
we are constantly changing
so that we can function
better in our environment.
Do you know that right now
you are adapting?
Typically, we'd be learning in school
but our environment changed.
Now we have to stay at home.
You've adapted.
I've adapted.
We've changed.
Not just humans adapt, though.
Can you think of something else
that might change
so that it functions better
in its environment?
Yeah, maybe animals.
Animals adapt or they have adaptations.
They change over time
so that they can function better
in their environment.
Plants also have adaptations.
I like to think
of the really prickly cactus.
Picture a cactus in your mind
with its pointy quills, its pointy spines.
Those little points are adaptations
because they protect the cactus
from being eaten by other desert animals.
Hmm.
Do you know that seeds also adapt
or have adaptations?
On Monday, we talked
about the word disperse
because we know that seeds need to move
from their parent plant to a new space
so that they have room to grow.
Well, seeds can't just stand up
and walk away, they
don't have legs like us.
So they have adaptations
that help them move from
one place to another.
Let's talk about some seeds
and their adaptations.
Have you seen this before?
I bet maybe you've heard
it called an itch bomb
'cause they kind of make your skin itchy
if you touch them for too long.
Yeah.
Or a sticker bomb, exactly.
Now, if you can look carefully
at this seed pod what do you notice?
Or maybe you've felt one before.
Yeah, it's kind of sharp, it's rough.
This seed has little hooks
or little rough parts.
That's an adaptation.
Because this seed,
if an animal walks by,
it can get stuck to its fur,
and then the seed moves
from one place to another.
Sometimes we call those hitchhiker seeds.
Miss Kraff will tell you more about that
in a little bit.
Hmm.
We also have this type of seed.
Have you seen this before?
What adaptation does this seed have
that helps it to move?
Let's see.
Did you see that?
How it kind of spins.
It almost has like a little wing.
We call these helicopter seeds
'cause they spin in the wind
and it helps them move
from one place to another.
This shape in an adaptation
that helps it move.
Hmm, let's talk about
this other type of seed.
You can read the picture
or maybe even the word.
These are sunflower seeds.
Do you know how sunflower seeds move
from one place to another?
They don't look like they're sharp,
they can't attach to an animal's fur.
They don't have wings like this one.
They can't really move through the wind.
But they are a tasty snack.
This seed, its special adaptation
is that it's tasty, it's food.
And so sometimes a little bird
or maybe a little squirrel
will find this seed and eat it,
and then move somewhere else,
and then that animal will poop,
and the seed will come out.
And that's where the new seed will grow.
That's not how I would like to travel
if I was a seed.
But it works for them.
Now, here in a minute I'm gonna show you
a science experiment you can do at home.
And it'll show you
how certain seeds have adapted
to move with wind.
Kind of like these guys.
But before we do that,
we need to fill out our Frayer model
to make sure that we show what we know
about the word adapt.
I'm gonna stick it on my chart.
If you don't have this drawn
on a piece of paper, go ahead,
take a quick minute to
draw your Frayer model,
and then let's fill it out together.
Do you remember what goes in the middle?
Exactly, our word of the day.
What was our word of the day?
Adapt.
I'm gonna write it while you write it.
Now, what goes up here?
That's right, the definition.
Let's read it again together
to make sure we remember it.
To change something so
that it functions better
in its environment.
I'm gonna write it while you write it.
Ooh, I have to write really small,
I didn't leave myself enough room.
That happens sometimes.
Let's go to this next section.
Do you remember what goes here?
Our synonyms, exactly.
So another word with a similar meaning.
Can you think of another word
that has a similar meaning to adapt?
Yeah.
Ooh, I bet you thought of this one.
To change.
Very good.
I thought you might think of that one.
Hmm, have you heard of this word before?
This word is modify.
Ooh, that's a $5 word, that's a good word.
To modify also means to change.
Maybe you change to fit
your environment better.
Now, these last two parts
I'm gonna let you do on your own.
We talked a lot about how seeds
have adapted or how they have adaptations
to better fit their environment.
Maybe you can even write a sentence
about how you have adapted before,
how you have changed to
fit your environment.
Or maybe you have a favorite animal
and maybe you can do a
little bit of extra research
to think about or to learn about
how that animal adapts
to fit its environment.
Now, before our time together is up
I want to show you a
quick science experiment.
I'm gonna move my chair.
Okay.
To do this experiment, you
are gonna need a balloon,
and some seeds.
Now if you don't have seeds at home
you can maybe find really
small pieces of sand
or maybe even glitter.
Ooh, that'd be kind of messy.
You should ask an adult first
before you use glitter.
But if you do have seeds,
I'm gonna use this experiment to show
how certain seeds move with the wind.
Now we saw these seeds that fly
kind of like a little wing
but some seeds move using the wind
because they're so small and so light,
and the wind is so powerful,
it blows them around.
We're gonna show that right
here in our experiment.
So I'm gonna take my seeds,
very carefully, dump some into my balloon.
And I'm gonna be really careful
that I don't inhale and
suck up all these seeds
'cause I will choke on them.
That would be a bummer.
That's not how I intend
the experiment to go.
So there are some seeds in my balloon.
I'm gonna blow it up.
Ready?
(blowing)
Okay.
Now, this is always the
hardest part for me,
tying it.
You might need to ask an adult
to help you tie the balloon.
Okay.
So I have my balloon, full of seeds.
And when I pop this balloon,
the seeds are gonna move everywhere,
almost like seeds outside move
everywhere with the wind.
Are you ready to pop the balloon?
It's gonna be a little loud.
You might want to cover your ears.
I'm kind of scared.
Ready?
Let's see where the seeds go.
Count down.
Three, two, one.
Ooh.
It's not working.
So now, you can't see it
because they're so small,
but there are seeds everywhere.
This is gonna be quite the mess for me
to clean up.
Maybe make sure when you do this at home
and you see where all these seeds move,
maybe you should do it outside.
Or inside with an adult
and just use a broom
to sweep up your seeds.
I hope you enjoy filling out
the rest of your Frayer model
and you enjoy the time doing
a science experiment of your own at home.
Next up, we have Miss Kraff
with a really cool piece of reading
that you're gonna do together.
- Welcome, friends.
I'm glad to have you back.
I wanted to talk a little bit
about what we did on Monday
and then move ahead
to what we're gonna work on today.
So if you remember on Monday,
we read this really amazing story
called The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle.
Talked about a seed that was blowing
and it went through all the seasons
and it survived, and finally
it ended up growing into a really large
giant flower.
So it not only survived, it thrived.
We're gonna talk a little bit
about that word today
as well as the words
that Miss Kay taught you,
adapt and adaptation.
So what I'd like to do today with you
is a close read, and you probably remember
doing this in your classrooms
with your teachers,
and so today we're gonna
do some practice with that.
Now, if you're able to
get onto the APS website
and download the close read for today,
it's there and you can print that out
and work with me.
If you don't have that option,
don't worry,
we're gonna work on it together up here.
So what you would need for today,
if you have them,
are three color highlighters,
it doesn't matter which ones.
I'm gonna use orange, green and blue.
And if you don't have that
you can have a pen or a pencil.
So that all works.
And if you don't have
the sheet in front of you
don't worry.
You can follow along with me
right up here.
All right.
So I wanted to just remind you
a little bit about what we mean
when we talk about close reading.
Close reading is when we take
a small piece of writing,
it can be fiction or non-fiction,
and we read it a couple of times.
So when we read something once
we kind of just get an
overview of what it was.
You might work through some
of the hard vocabulary,
and then that's kind of it.
And then we read it
another time to dig deeper.
But let me kind of show
you why we do that.
So think about when you're at home
and you might go for a
walk in your neighborhood,
chances are you probably pass
the same house or store or apartment
a couple of times on your walk.
Well, let's say that you're walking
and you see a house
that has a really cute cat in the window.
That cat's gonna catch your attention
and you're gonna focus on that cat.
Then you keep walking.
But when you come back around
and pass that place again,
you might see some beautiful flowers
planted in the yard
that you didn't notice before.
And so that's why we close read
because we notice things
each time we read it
that we didn't notice before.
All right, so are you
ready to practice with me?
Let's go.
So we read that fiction book on Monday.
Today we're gonna look at some non-fiction
about the seeds that we talked about
and that Miss Kay just showed you.
So, let's take a look
and focus up at our board here,
and this is our first read.
So our first read,
let's go through this with me,
let me get my pointer here
so we can see the words together.
So just read it with me.
Humans need plants to live.
Seeds are very important in our lives
but not every seed grows
into a plant.
A seed often has to travel
to grow and germinate.
To get enough sun and water,
a seed has to be away from other plants.
Wind helps spread seeds.
Some seeds, called hitchhiker seeds,
depend on animals to move.
Hitchhiker seeds are often prickly
and have rows of very small hooks
which stick to birds' feathers
and animal fur.
Then they take a ride with the animal!
Then finally.
Plants and seeds have adapted
to their environment
so that they can grow and thrive.
All right, so that was our first read.
And in our first read
we kind of just talk about
what happened in the text.
So we know that this is
a paragraph about seeds
and how those seeds like thrive
and they can be moving around
in different ways, right?
There might be some hard words in here
that you didn't understand.
So hmm, humans.
That might not be a word
that you've seen too much.
I know we talked about
this word germinate before
so that's the word that's
in your vocabulary,
that you learned, but it's not one
that we use all the time.
So when we close read,
that's our first reading,
we're just getting the main idea
of the article.
So now you have the main idea
talking about how seeds
are really important to our lives, right?
All right.
Let's take a look at the second read.
And this is the fun one
because this is the one
where you get to use your highlighters
if you have them, and if you don't,
you can mark the text.
So let me quickly show you
how I mark the text
in a very simple way.
So if you want to mark the text
you can use any kind of a pencil, a pen,
whatever it is you have.
You can just do a question
mark for I wonder.
A star for I notice.
And then a smiley face for I like this.
So things in that reading
that might jump out at you
once you read it a little closer.
All right, let's go back
and read it for the second time
and see what we want to highlight.
So when I do this, I'm going to use
a blue highlighter, just so you know,
for vocabulary words that I think
are important, maybe I didn't know.
I'm gonna use an orange for information
that might be new to me.
That's that I wonder.
And I'm going to use a green one
for information that I
may have already known
so that I know when I read that,
I've got that.
Alright, are you ready?
Let's try this.
Humans need plants to live.
Did you know that?
I'm pretty sure I knew that
so I'm gonna go ahead
and make that my orange
for information that I
kind of already knew.
Humans do need plants to live.
Let's read our next one.
Seeds are very important in our lives
but not every seed grows into a plant.
Hmm?
That's really interesting, isn't it?
I am going to take my green
and I'm gonna highlight that.
I might put a star there
because not every seed grows into a plant.
Hmm, I'm gonna think about that one.
I can even underline if I want
'cause that information is important.
A seed often has to travel
to grow and germinate.
There's our word germinate.
I'm gonna go ahead and highlight that one.
That's a great word.
Remember our germination jar?
How are your seeds coming
if you were able to do it?
Let's talk about that next week
when we see if we have any germination
going on there.
All right.
To get enough sun and water,
a seed has to be away from other plants.
Hmm, so a seed needs some space to grow.
Did you know that?
I'm not sure I did and I'm gonna go ahead
and highlight that.
Actually I'm gonna put an
exclamation point there
because I think that's
important information.
That has to be away.
Wind helps spread seeds.
Oh, you know what,
I knew that because that's what happened
in our story The Tiny Seed.
So I'm gonna go ahead
and put that in orange
because I know that wind is out there
helping spread those seeds.
Some seeds called hitchhiker seeds.
Ooh, that's a really
interesting vocabulary word.
I'm gonna go ahead and highlight that
and let's talk about
that word, hitchhiker.
So I know what a hiker is
when I'm reading this word.
Hiker is somebody that walks, right?
What's a hitch?
Hmm, that might be something.
If I see somebody driving a big truck
and they have a trailer on the back,
how is that trailer hooked on?
It's hooked on with a big
metal piece called a hitch.
So it might be something
that carries when they walk.
Right, so that hitch-hiker.
All right, so those seeds are gonna be
carried along and move.
Awesome word.
Hitchhiker seeds depends
on animals to move.
Hitchhiker seeds are often prickly.
Ooh, I love that one, too.
Remember our adjectives?
Yeah, we love those adjectives
because they are gonna make things
come alive and be descriptive
in that writing you did.
So prickly seeds, ooh, interesting.
And they also have rows
of very small hooks
which stick to birds' feathers
and animal fur.
So little hooks like fish hooks
but not that sharp.
They don't hurt the animals
when they do that.
That's really interesting.
So I'm gonna go ahead
and highlight that also.
'Cause they are traveling
only on those animals
and I love that idea,
they're using each other.
Then they take a ride with the animal.
So we call that a symbiotic
relationship, right?
They're working together.
Plants and seeds have adapted.
Ooh, there's our word
that Miss Anna taught us.
Adapted to their environment
so that they can grow and thrive.
I love thrive and I love environment.
This is a hard word to spell.
I want to pay particular
attention to the N.
You don't hear it and
it's a silent letter.
So they grow and thrive.
All right, so we have some good,
you probably have made
some different notes than I did.
You may have starred a couple of things.
Maybe you've highlighted some things
that you thought were interesting.
But you can see when we
read things a couple times
that we get more out of it, right?
All right.
So, let's try this one more time.
And when you read something
for the third time
that's when you get to analyze it
and maybe compare it.
So I'm gonna compare this
to our tiny seed story.
And of course this has
illustrations, right?
So we can look at those illustrations
and use that to help us understand
what's going on in this paragraph also.
So humans need plans to live.
That's my topic sentence.
The author thought that
was really important.
So they do need plants to live.
And this tiny seed was able to live
by adapting to her environment, right?
Yeah, she adapted because she got through,
she went through all the seasons
and then finally, in the end,
do you remember, she grew
into a really beautiful tall flower.
All right.
Now, we didn't have any hitchhiker seeds
in our fiction story.
But I do have some
hitchhiker seeds up here
so we can compare those
and kind of see what's going on.
So I wanted to show you these.
These are hitchhiker seeds
because they have tiny hooks in them
and it could hook onto an animal
as they walk and be carried along.
Another type of hitchhiker seeds maybe
are these really cool little ones
that float down, right?
These are probably carried on the wind
but they can also hook onto an animal.
So those are awesome.
So if go out around your neighborhood
and you see seeds there,
right now it's the spring time
so you're gonna also see those
beautiful plants growing.
Look for those seeds and
see what you can find.
All right, let's continue
just real briefly now
to read a little bit more to compare
to our fiction story.
So, we have those hitchhiker seeds
that we talked about
and that they have small hooks,
and that they can hook onto
animals and travel around.
Here's what I want to
talk about right now,
though, especially in
the story, The Tiny Seed.
Remember how she adapted, our little seed?
She missed the bird eating her
because she was so tiny.
And then the wind blew her away.
And it was winter.
Do you remember winter, when she was able
to bury down and keep warm?
And that's how she adapted
to that environment.
And then she found the
perfect place to land
and she was able to thrive.
So you can see in our close reading
that when you read
things a couple of times
you're gonna get so much more meaning
out of that paragraph.
We can read it the first time
and it might be a struggle sometimes
to learn those words.
But once you know them,
then you can go back
and use your knowledge
that you've learned before
to understand what's going
on in this paragraph.
So you did an awesome job today.
I'm very proud of you.
When you go out for your walk tonight
I want you to look around you
and look at the plants and the flowers
and see if you can find any seeds.
- Hi, welcome back friends,
and it's time for writing with Miss Lori,
and I am so excited to be back
with you today to continue our work
on our informational report.
I really hope you enjoyed today's lessons
as much as I did.
I learned so much from Miss Kay
about how seeds are dispersed
and learned so much about how to read
and reread an article again
to get more meaning out of it.
So that was really wonderful.
So today we are going to
go a little bit deeper
along our path of writing
an informational report,
and let's review really quick
what we've been working up to.
So, so far for our
informational report checklist,
which you can find on the
@Home With APS page at APS,
we brainstormed.
That was the first thing we did.
We picked a bunch of different topics
and hopefully you brainstormed yours.
Then we selected, we learned how to select
credible sources off of the internet,
and I hope that you have found
some really wonderful websites
that are helping you with
your informational report.
And then last time we were together
we took some detailed notes,
and I'm hoping that you have taken
several notes so that you'll be ready
for our work that we're going to do today.
I'm going to take our marker
and check that off.
Any time I can check something off
I absolutely love it.
Ooh, look at this nice big marker.
Big old check.
Check that off.
So today our work that we have set out
for ourselves is number four on our list,
which is I planned and organized my ideas.
So those ideas are going to come
from the notes that we
took off of our sources
that we used for the
information for our report.
And then number five, we are gonna begin
talking about how we make a paragraph,
how we use the information
that we have gathered
to help us write a really strong
well-thought out paragraph.
So number five says "I began my paragraph
"with a topic sentence," include,
oh, I forgot a D, I need to add,
"included three details
"and a conclusion sentence."
So we're gonna talk about the beginnings
of this today, and then on Friday
when we come back together,
we are going to actually write
our paragraph around our topic, okay?
So let's get started for today.
So today the first thing
you're going to need
is you're going to need
the notes that you took.
This is my page of notes that I took
so that I can use it to
fill out my planning web.
So, who remembers what the topic was
that I chose to write my report on?
So think about that for a second,
think back to Wednesday,
oh, today is Wednesday.
Think back to Monday and think about
what was it that Miss Lori chose.
If you said the moon, you are correct.
So that is gonna go in
this nice, big circle
in the middle, because
that is the main topic
of my informational report.
So I'm gonna write moon, M-O-O-N.
And I'm gonna put that there
so that I remember that
that is my main topic.
Now, the next thing is I
have four other bubbles,
and right now in our planning stage
it doesn't matter what order I put
my thoughts in in these four bubbles.
It just has to be four different thoughts
about the moon.
So, as I was reading my sources,
I had my NASA source,
remember I went to nasa.gov
and typed in moon on the search bar,
and it brought up all different kinds
of information around the moon,
and that is where I found the information
about the International
Observe the Moon night.
And that's going to be one of my topics
that I'm going to write about
in my informational report.
That will become a paragraph.
So, I need to write that here
and I'm gonna have to write across it
because if I wrote it inside the bubble
it would be way too small.
So International
Observe
the Moon night.
So that is one topic that
I'm going to write about.
Then I had, remember, from Monday,
I found a couple different sources
around my house that were my kids'
when they were growing up.
So I am going to use some information
that I read in this book by Gail Gibbons,
The Moon Book.
And then I also found
even more information
in this book called
A True Book, the Moon,
and I'm gonna include that in my report.
So, one of the topics
that I want to address in my report
is the phases of the moon.
So I'm gonna write that down here.
And then another thing
that really I found incredibly interesting
was all the different
legends and mythologies
that different cultures or societies have
about the moon, or why
the moon was created
or how it came to be.
And so I think that's something
that I really want to address
in my informational report as well.
So that's gonna be another category
that I'm gonna have, so Moon Mythology
and Legends.
Now this is a very,
very, very wide big topic
so when I do this in my report
I'm really gonna want to narrow that down.
And I think the way that I would choose
to narrow it down is I may just focus
on legends and myths from New Mexico
so that that way it's just
much more specific than all of the legends
and myths around why the moon came to be.
So I'm gonna keep that
in the back of my mind
as I'm getting ready to write.
And then I have one more box,
and this box I'm going to put
maybe some basic
information about the moon.
So Basic Information.
Because I think my readers, my audience
might be very interested in learning
some basic things about the moon
before I go into all these other topics
for my report.
So, what I'm going to do now
as I get ready to start thinking
about how to write a paragraph,
I'm going to think about what order
do I want to put this
information in my report.
So, hmm, looking at the different topics,
so I have the International
Observe the Moon night,
Moon Mythology and Legends,
Phases of the Moon, and Basic Information
about the Moon,
which one, do I think, is about,
that I need to start with?
What does my reader
really need to hear first?
So of these four I think
this is going to be my first paragraph.
And then, because I've done information
I think I'll probably move
to phases of the moon.
And then I might do the moon mythology
as my third paragraph.
And then finish with some information
about something that I
could do with my family
and watch the International
Observe the Moon day.
Okay, so that is what I want you guys
to work on today and then tomorrow
what we're going to do, not tomorrow,
next time we meet, which will be Friday,
we are going to start
thinking about writing
our paragraphs.
And I'm just gonna show this to you today
because we're not gonna fill it out,
we will start filling that out together
on Friday, and I have a very special guest
that's going to come and join us.
I'm not gonna tell you who it is today
but he's gonna come join us
to help us fill this out.
So, when we're looking at a paragraph
there're certain things
that paragraphs have to have.
They have to have a topic sentence,
and we will talk more
specifically about that,
and then you're gonna have
one, two, three details
that tell us more information
about this topic sentence,
and then our closing sentence
kind of summarizes everything
that we just talked about.
So that's what we're going to do
for each one of these different areas.
So we have that to look
forward to on Friday
and I look forward to being back with you
and getting to share that part
of the writing process with you.
You guys are so lucky because up next
we have Miss Kathy.
So I look forward to what she is going
to teach us today.
- Hello and good morning,
readers and writers!
I'm so happy to see you again
and to be your teacher once more.
Welcome to Word Work with Miss Kathy!
So, previously we've been working
really hard on multi-syllabic words,
and today we're going to have
a little bit of fun with
our multi-syllabic words.
We're going to be breaking
them up into pieces
and to do that, you're going
to need a couple of materials.
So I'm gonna give you a chance.
If you have them available
you can certainly get them ready today.
I like pieces of paper, like post-it notes
or just like little scraps of paper
for what we're going to be doing today.
You could start with
a whole sheet of paper
and chop it up using some scissors.
And we're also going to need
something to write with.
I'm writing with a black marker
but I always tell my
students to use a pencil
because if you make a mistake
it's so easy to fix it.
You choose the tool that
makes sense for you today.
So once you have those materials ready
we're gonna get started.
And just to review, this word of the day
with Miss Kay was really important.
You're going to be seeing it
or parts of it in a little bit.
So keep that word adapt
or adaptation in your brain.
Are you ready, friends?
I have a word that we saw
from our previous episode on Monday
and it was our word of the day then.
Do you remember this word?
This is the word disperse.
Disperse, we underline certain parts of it
because we said "I've seen those parts
"in other words before."
Well, today we're not just going
to underline those parts,
we're actually going to cut them out
and we are going to sort those word parts
based on whether we usually see them
at the beginning of a word,
the middle of a word,
or do we usually see that
at the end of a word.
So, this word disperse
is really important.
But what I'm going to do
is to organize my piles,
my materials so that I
know if I usually see
a piece of a word at the beginning,
in the middle of the word,
or do I often see that
word part at the end.
A couple of important words
that you need to know
in order to do this activity.
Let me teach those to you.
When we often see a part
of a word at the beginning,
sometimes you'll hear your teacher
call that a prefix.
Prefix means that it is a common word part
that you see at the beginning of the word.
So you might hear me say prefix.
"That's a common prefix,"
which means that we often see it
at the beginning of the word.
Or you might hear somebody say
"That's a common suffix."
Suffix.
That means it's at the end of the word.
It's a common word part
in a multi-syllabic word
that you'll see at the end.
But sometimes we see a common word part,
not usually in the beginning
and not at the end but
we see it in the middle
and it's really important
to know those word parts also
and to be on the lockout for them.
But I made another one.
Another category.
I made Other.
Because sometimes we see word parts
at the beginning, the middle, and the end,
and we're like, "Well, is that a prefix,
"is that a suffix?"
And so we're gonna make that
our Other category today.
We're gonna say, you know what,
I see that word part
all the time in different places.
So we're gonna need a fourth category
for Other.
So, I did some work
before I came here today
and I created a chart
to help me sort them.
So I'm gonna show you
what my chart looks like.
As you can see, my chart
is a large piece of paper
that I broke into four quadrants,
four separate areas.
So that I can put up my topics
for beginning, middle, end, and other.
And I'm gonna tape those titles up.
Beginning.
Tape can be tricky.
I'm gonna put Middle next.
Beginning, Middle,
End, and Other.
Those are those parts that we see
all over the place.
And the reason I want you to
do this game with me today
while we're gonna do
this activity together
is because this is something you can do
with words that you hear and see
when you're at home, when
you're reading anywhere
and you see a word, you're like,
"I've seen that word part before."
Write it down or make a
note of it in your brain
and add to your own little chart at home.
So let's take that word disperse.
We said we often see the letters
D-I-S together and we knew
how to say that part of the word.
So I'm going to use my scissors
and I'm gonna cut out dis.
And I'm gonna ask you
in disperse do we see
that at the beginning,
the middle or the end?
That's right, it's at the beginning.
So I'm going to add that
to my Beginning category.
And you can do the same.
Dis.
That is a word part that I often see
at the beginning of a word.
And then we said that we
saw P-E-R together, per.
We said we often see
those letters together,
and we often see them, that's right,
in the middle.
So I'm gonna add that to my chart.
And what we're creating
is a chart of all these word parts
that we can read quickly,
which shows us how much
we know as learners.
That feels pretty powerful.
I'm gonna move on to another word
and we're gonna look
for parts in this word,
adaptation.
There's our word of the day adapt,
it's hidden in there.
And we're looking for a word part
that we've seen before.
You as learners are getting
really good at this.
Now, my mind automatically went
to the end of the word, tion.
T-I-O-N.
Let's cut that out.
We often see T-I-O-N
at the end of a word.
I'm gonna add that to my category for End.
All right.
Looking back at our word adaptation.
I often see A and D together
at the beginnings of words.
That is a common prefix.
I'm gonna chop out that prefix
and I'm going to add it to our chart.
And I'm beginning to see
a chart that's filling up
with everything I know.
That feels really good.
So I have some more words and word parts
that I'm gonna have you look at.
And let's see if we can
really focus on this word.
There are two pieces in this word
that I think are really important.
The prefix and the suffix
in this word unneeded are very common.
Un.
I see un all the time.
That is an extremely common prefix.
So prefix means the beginning.
So let's add it up there.
I see un, it's very common.
And then if we go back to our word,
what I love about the word unneeded
is that I still have a
word up here, needed.
I see E and D together
at the very end of this word.
I see ed often at the end of words
and that's because it is a common suffix.
And then I have just a word
left over which is need,
which I think is exciting.
So I'm gonna add this to our suffixes,
our end of words.
I can't wait until we get
to fill our Other category.
Okay.
My next word for you.
I want you to focus on, can you read that?
I see a common prefix re, R-E,
and then I see a common word cycle.
I've seen that before in bicycle also.
So recycle.
I'm going to chop out re.
That's a very important one.
We see re, reuse, reduce.
Re is a very, very common prefix.
And then I'm going to look
for a very, very special word.
You may recognize this
word from yesterday.
Not yesterday, Monday.
Pollination.
We said tion was up there
but do you see what's in the middle?
I see in.
In, that's in the middle.
But do you know what?
I often see in at the
beginning of words, too.
Include.
So it doesn't quite
fit into just prefixes,
just middle, or just suffixes.
It is in our Other category.
We see the letters I and N
as our common word parts that we see
often in all different kinds of words
in different spots.
Okay, friends, I'm gonna have you
practice on my next word.
Take a moment, can you read that word?
What parts are familiar,
and what do you see?
I actually see a word part non.
So I'm just gonna fold
that over, non and sense.
Nonsense.
I'm gonna cut out non
and I love when this happens,
when I have my prefix
and then I also have a word
left over afterwards.
That's exciting.
I'm gonna add non to my beginning.
So today, friends,
we've learned a lot of word parts,
suffixes and prefixes,
that are super common.
Here we have dis, re, ad, un, and non.
Do you see how quickly I was able
to read those word parts?
This activity helps you and your brain
organize some of those word parts
to make you a more fluent reader.
This is an important skill.
Let's look at our middle parts.
We found per.
And over at End we said tion and ed.
And we also said we often find
the word part in in a lot of places.
When you do this at home
and you're looking for words
that are in books or you're listening
for those multi-syllabic, those big words,
I want you to start making,
writing them down and
making your own cards.
Chopping up those different word parts
that you see and to add
them to your own chart.
I would love to see pictures
of you at home doing this,
showing all the word parts that you know
as your brain grows.
'Cause you're impressive learners.
So today we looked at a
lot of different things.
We looked at a lot of words
and I'm wondering do
you remember these ones?
Prefix and suffix.
These are the last two words
we're gonna add up to our chart
because we need to say
which one is which?
Which one is beginning
and which one was end?
Do you remember?
Let's start with prefix.
Go ahead and tell somebody
you're watching TV with.
Where do you think prefix
should go on this chart?
Was it the beginning sounds,
middle sounds or end
sounds that are common?
That's right, friends.
It was at the beginning.
And then we had suffix.
Go ahead and tell the grownup or sibling
that you're watching TV with,
where do you think this goes?
That's right, this was our end sounds.
So, our prefix was for Beginning
and our suffix was for End.
So today we looked at a lot of words
including our word of
the day with Miss Kay,
which was adaptation.
And when we looked at that word
we found that there were pieces
that we had definitely seen before,
including the word adapt.
We also with Miss Kraff
looked at non-fiction text,
we were looking for meaning,
even when there were words
that we didn't know already.
And we used our brain to look and search
and hunt for pieces of those words
that we did know.
She used some really great examples.
So readers, as you're using your skills
tomorrow and the next day
I want you to be brave.
You are a brave learner
who can take on new things all the time.
And you're definitely
gonna need to be brave
as you write your
paragraph all by yourself.
So when you come back with Miss Lori
you're gonna have really
impressive writing
that you can share with
the people around you,
with the grownups and your siblings.
Because what you write and
what you read is important,
and a writer is the best kind of learner
because they share all the beautiful ideas
in their brain with the world.
And there're a lot of ways
that you can share that,
by reading it, by sending
it to your teachers,
or even with your own classmates
if you're able to.
All right, friends.
So as you go about the world this weekend
and if you're able to
go for a nature walk,
that'll be really incredible,
because Miss Kay also showed us things
that we should be on the lookout for.
We should be on the lookout
for different kinds of seeds
that occur naturally.
Look around your neighborhood.
What do you notice about them?
Can you use some of the words
that you've learned about disperse
and adapt when describing them?
I wonder how these seeds disperse.
Do you remember?
I remember these ones
are called helicopter,
which is very exciting.
And then she also showed us some seeds
that maybe you might even plant
in your own germination
jar like Miss Kraff.
I know my neighbors are working
on a beautiful garden and I can't wait
to see what they grow.
So learners, even though
we're not in our classrooms
and we're at home instead
I want you to see the world around you.
I know that the world around you
can be your classroom, too.
Learning happens everywhere.
And I'm so proud of you
for using the world around you to learn.
And so this will be my chance
to say goodbye to you today.
I won't see you again here on NMPBS
but you can always find previous episodes
where you can say hi to Miss Kathy
and we can do some word work
on our YouTube channel.
So I want you all to have a fantastic day,
to keep learning, and
I want to say thank you
for joining us today.
We're @Home With APS
and I hope you come back next time
because there's going to be
a very special guest with Miss Lori
who you're going to love.
Bye, readers and writers.
Have a good day!
