- Hello, readers.
Welcome to Read, Write, ROAR.
Today, we're going to learn all about the letter O.
We're also going to learn two new high frequency words, and read to learn about predicting the weather.
Today, we're going to be answering the big question.
How can we know what the weather will be like today?
For today's lesson, you're going to need something to write on, a piece of paper, or a notebook, and something to write with, like a pencil.
So go get your things, and we can get started.
- [Narrator] This program is made possible in part by the Michigan Department of Education, the state of Michigan, and the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation.
Additional support by, and by viewers like you, thank you.
(soft music begins) - Hi, I'm Mrs. Skelly, and today you're going to be a letter hero.
Today, you're going to learn all about the letter O.
We're going to learn the name, the sound, and how to write this letter.
Learning how to read and write this letter is going to help you read and write many words.
Let's first learn the name of the letter O.
So this is the letter O.
Now this is the upper case letter O, Can you say that?
Upper case O.
This is the lower case letter O.
Can you say that?
Lowercase O.
Good, now let's practice naming the letter O, are you ready?
Here we go.
What letter is it?
Upper case O, good.
What letter is it?
Lower case O.
Okay, let's try again, I might mix it up.
What letter is it?
Lowercase O, I didn't trick you, did I?
And what letter is it?
Yes, it is upper case O, good job.
Now the letter O is really special, because it can make two sounds.
It can make the short sounds, like in the word octopus.
Listen to the beginning sound of that word.
O, O, octopus.
The letter O's short sound is O.
Now watch me make that sound, and you can try it too.
To make the short sound for the letter O, you're going to open up your mouth, drop your tongue down, and lower your chin to make a big O shape like this.
O, O, O.
You try it.
O, O, O.
Great job.
The letter O can also make the long sound.
It can say its own name like this.
O, O, like in the word oval, like the shape.
O, O, oval.
Now watch my mouth to make this sound, and you can try it too.
I'm going to make a small O shape with my mouth, and say, O, O, you try it.
O, O, good job.
Okay, let's practice naming the sound for the letter O.
All right, let's practice the short sound first.
Ready?
O, O, O, good.
O, O, O, nice.
Okay, now let's practice the long letter O sound.
Ready?
Say it with me.
O, O, O, good.
O, O, O, nice work.
Okay, now we're going to practice finding the letter O in a question.
Now I'm going to ask you a question to get your brain ready about what we're going to learn today.
It's all about predicting the weather, or knowing what the weather's going to be like.
Our question today is how can we know what the weather will be like today?
Hm.
Can you think of some ways that you can predict, or know what the weather will be like?
Well, we're gonna learn a little bit about that later by reading a book, but for now I'm gobba get out my handy-dandy magnifying glass, and we're going to search for the letter O in this sentence.
Are you ready?
All right, great.
Let's look at our first word.
Our first word is the word how.
Do you see the letter O in the word how?
You do, that's right.
It's right here in the middle.
There is a lowercase O, how, how.
Our next word is can.
Do you see the letter O and the word can?
Nope.
Our next word is the word we.
Do you see the letter O?
Nope.
Our next word is the word no.
Do you see a letter O?
Yes, here it is.
The lowercase O.
Listen to the ending sound in no, we hear the long O sound at the end of that word.
Our next word is what.
Do you see O in the word what?
Nope.
Our next word is the word the.
Do you see an O?
Nope.
Our next word is weather.
No O.
Will?
No O.
Be.
Like.
Today.
Do you see an O in the word today?
Yes, very good.
We see another lowercase O.
Great work finding the letter O in our question today, we'll be answering that one later.
Now we're going to learn how to write the letter O.
We're first gonna learn how to write the uppercase letter O.
Watch me make the upper case letter O, and we're gonna practice before we try it on our own.
We're going to start at the top.
Go around, down, and back up to the top.
All right, now before you write it on a piece of paper, or a notebook, I want you to put your finger in the air, and trace it with me.
Are you ready?
Start at the top, around, down, and back up to the top.
Do it again.
Start at the top, around, down, and back up to the top.
One more time.
Start at the top.
Around, down, and back up to the top.
Awesome, you are ready to write.
So get out something to write with, and let's practice writing the letter O.
Here we go.
Start at the top, around, down, and back up to the top.
Do it again.
Start at the top, around, down, and back up to the top.
One more time.
Start at the top, around, down, and back up to the top.
Great work.
What letter did we just write?
Yes, uppercase O.
All right, now we're gonna learn how to write our lower case O.
Watch me write it, and then we're gonna trace it before we write it ourselves.
We're gonna start in the middle, go down, around, and back up to the middle.
All right, now put your finger in the air, and I want you to trace it with me.
Start in the middle, go down, around, back up to the middle.
Do it again.
Start in the middle, go down, around, back up to the middle.
One more time.
Start in the middle.
Go down, around, back up to the middle.
Okay, now you're ready to write.
Here we go, write it along with me.
Start in the middle.
Go down, around, back up to the middle.
Good, let's do it again.
Start in the middle.
Go down, around, back up to the middle.
One more time.
Start in the middle.
Go down, around, back up to the middle.
Nice work.
What letter did we just write?
That's right.
A lower case O.
Great work today.
You're a letter O letter hero.
Remember, we learned the uppercase letter O, and the lowercase letter O, and remember, O can make two sounds.
Let's practice those together.
It can make the short sound like in the word octopus.
Say the sound with me.
O, O, octopus.
Or it could make the long sound, like in the word oval.
Say the long sound with me.
O, O, oval.
Nice work.
All right, I want you to look around your house, and see if you can find the letter O anywhere.
(soft music continues) We're going to learn two new words today.
We call these high-frequency words, because they pop up often when we're reading.
Our first word is the word how.
Can you say that word?
Good, you can use the word how when you're asking a question.
How long is it supposed to rain today?
How.
Okay, let me show you how the word how works.
Let's listen to the sounds in the word how.
H, ow.
There are two sounds in the word how.
Let's count the letters in the word how.
H, O, W. There are three letters in the word how.
Now watch me write the word how.
H, O, W. The first letter is an H, and it makes the H sound.
Now the next two letters are O, W, and they work together to make one sound, ow.
They make the ow sounds, like in the word cow.
The word how is spelled H, O, W. Let's go ahead and stand up, and we're going to practice spelling the word how by tapping it out on our shoulder.
So let's put out our arm.
I'll show you how to do this.
We're going to put our other hand to our shoulder, and we're gonna spell it like this.
H, O, W. Now we're gonna push it out, and say how.
Try it with me.
This will help you to remember how to spell the word how.
H, O, W, how.
Good, try it again.
H, O, W, how.
Good job.
Another thing I like to do is to put my finger out in the air, and trace, and spell the word how to remind me how to write and spell it.
So put your finger out, and trace the word how with me.
Ready?
H, O, W, how.
Spell it with me, okay?
H, O, W, how.
Let's do it one more time.
H, O, W, how.
Nice work.
All right, what word is this?
One more time.
Yes, it's the word how.
Good.
Okay, our next word is the word can.
Can you say that word?
Good.
You can use the word can when you're talking about something that you can do, like I can wear my gloves when it is getting cold outside.
Can.
Okay, let me show you how this word works.
Let's listen to the sounds in the word can, ready?
C, an.
There are three sounds in the word can.
Let's count the letters in the word can.
C, A, N. There are three letters in the word can.
Watch me write the word can.
C, A, N. Good.
The first letter is a C, and it makes the C sound.
The next letter's an A, and it makes the short A sound, A.
The next letter is an N, and it makes the N sound.
The word can is spelled C, A, N. All right, let's stand up again, and tap out the word can to help us remember how to spell it.
Let's do it together.
Ready?
C, A, N, can.
Do it again.
C, A, N, can.
One more time.
C, A, N, can.
Nice work.
Now, put your finger in the air.
Let's trace the word can together, and spell it.
Here we go.
C, A, N, can, again.
C, A, N, can, one last time.
C, A, N, can.
Nice work.
All right, what word is this one more time?
Yes, it's the word can.
Good job.
Now we're going to practice finding our two new high-frequency words, and our big question that we worked on earlier.
Remember, our big question is how can we know what the weather will be like today?
Okay, now we're gonna first look for the word how.
Can you take your finger, and point to the word how in our question today?
Let me read it to you one more time.
How can we know what the weather will be like today?
Can you find the word how?
Did you find it?
There it is.
We're gonna go ahead and circle it, and spell it together.
Ready?
H, O, W, how.
Nice work.
Now in this word, it's the beginning of our sentence of our question.
It has a capital letter, but it's still the same word.
It's still how.
All right now we're going to look for our other high-frequency word.
The word can.
Can you take your finger, and point to the word can?
Did you find it?
There it is.
Nice work.
Let's go ahead and spell it together.
C, A, N, can.
Good work today, spelling and finding our two new high-frequency words how and can in a question.
Next time somebody's reading you a book at home, look for these two new words.
(soft music continues) Have you ever seen a weather report on TV?
Well, it made me really curious to know how the predict, or know what the weather will be like.
Do you remember our big question from earlier?
Our question is how can we know what the weather will be like today?
Well, I went to my local library, because I wanted to find the answer to this question.
And I checked out some books.
Did you know that you can go to your local library, and find books when you're curious about something?
Do you have a library card?
Well, you can ask an adult in your home to help you get one.
All right, our first book that I found is called, What Is Precipitation?
The author of this book is Robin Johnson.
And this book is read aloud with permission from Crabtree Publishing.
Studying the sky.
Meteorologists are scientists that study and measure weather.
I think that's a pretty important word to know.
Let's go ahead and add that word to our chart.
Meteorologist, that's a big word.
Can you say it?
Meteorologist, good.
They're the people that study and measure weather.
They use different tools to collect weather data or information.
They use this information to predict the weather that is coming.
I think the word predict is pretty important.
Can you say that word, predict?
Good, the word predict tells us what the weather will be like before it happens.
Meteorologists warn people when there's heavy rain or big snow storms on the way.
Weather patterns.
Meteorologist measure and record the amount of precipitation, or rain, that falls in a set period of time.
They study this data, and look for weather patterns.
A pattern is something that repeats over time.
I think this word is also pretty important.
Can you say that word, pattern?
It's something that repeats over time.
For example, meteorologists might notice that we have a lot of sunny days in the summer in Michigan.
So we might say that summers are often hot and sunny.
It's a pattern, because it repeats every year, where most summers are hot and sunny.
So this book helped us learn a lot about how meteorologists study the weather.
Now, I was still curious.
I wanted to know about what different tools they can use to study the weather.
So I found this book called What Is Weather?
It is also written by Robin Johnson.
She's the author.
And this book is also read aloud with permission from Crabtree Publishing.
So I found this page, and it's called weather tools.
And I thought that would give us more good information about how they can predict, or know what the weather will be like.
Weather tools.
Meteorologists use many tools to help them predict the weather.
They use thermometers to measure the temperature of the air.
Have you ever seen a thermometer before?
Well, if you have one at home, you can ask an adult to help you go outside, and measure the temperature of the air.
Meteorologists also use wind vanes, like this in the picture, this is labeled wind vane, and wind socks, this is labeled wind sock.
So you can see how much wind is in the air, to figure out the direction the wind is blowing.
They use rain gauges.
Here's a picture of a rain gauge, to measure how much rain falls.
Wow, we learned a lot of information from these two books, and I think we're ready to answer our question.
Remember, our question is how can we know what the weather will be like today?
What are some ways that we learned that how we know what the weather will be like?
Well, we can listen to a weather report on TV, and listen to a meteorologist.
We can look outside of our window, or we can use a tool like a thermometer to check the air temperature.
(soft music continues) We're going to play a game called what's the weather like today?
I'm going to give you different types of weather, and you're going to pretend to put on different weather gear, so you're prepared for that type of weather.
Stand up, so you can play along with us.
All right, what's the weather like today?
Let's look out the window.
Our first weather today is rainy.
What should we wear?
Hm, I think we need to put on our raincoats.
Go ahead, and put on your rain coat.
Zip it up.
Put the hood up, so our heads don't get wet.
We need some rain boots too.
Put on your rain boots.
Oh, we need an umbrella.
Put up your umbrella.
We're ready to play in the rain.
All right, here's our next weather.
What's the weather like today?
Let's look out the window.
Our next weather is hot and sunny.
Oh, how fun.
What should we wear?
Well we need to protect ourselves from the hot sun, so let's put on our sunglasses.
Let's put on a hat, and we can't forget our sunscreen.
Can you put on some sunscreen?
Put it all over, so your skin's nice and protected from the sun.
It looks like we're ready to play in the pool.
All right, let's check out our next weather.
What's the weather like today?
Let's look out the window.
Our next weather is snowy and cold.
What should we wear?
We're gonna need a nice warm winter coat.
So put on your winter coat.
Zip it on up.
Let's put on a hat.
Let's put our winter boots, so we can play in the snow.
Oh, we can't forget.
We've got to keep our hands warm.
Put on your gloves.
I think we're ready to build a snowman.
What do you think?
(soft music continues) Okay, letter heroes, you've learned quite a few letters, and now you're an expert on predicting the weather.
Will you help me give a special weather report for this week?
You will?
Okay, let's go.
Hi, I'm your meteorologist, Mrs. Skelly.
Now remember, a meteorologist is a scientist that studies the weather.
They predict or tell us what the weather will be like before it happens.
They do this by using special tools, like a thermometer.
They study the sky, and they look at patterns that happen from year to year.
Today, I'm reporting from Kennedy Elementary in Livonia, Michigan.
This is your weather for this week in the state of Michigan.
On Monday, we are going to have sunny weather.
Will you help me find the word sunny?
We can use the letters and sounds that we know to help us find the word sunny.
Let's first review the letters and sounds that we learnt.
All right, what letter is this?
Yes, that's a P, good.
What sound does P make?
P. What letter is this?
C, what sounds does C make?
That's right.
It can make two sounds.
It can make the hard sound, C, and the soft sound, C. What letter is this?
Yes, an S. What sound does S make?
S. And what letter's this?
An R, good, and what sound does R make?
R. Great job.
We can use those letters and sounds that we know to help us stretch out words.
So the first word we're trying to find is the word sunny.
Can you take your finger, and point to the word sunny?
Hm.
The word sunny has a S sound at the beginning.
So I think that it probably starts with an S. Both of these words start with an S, so we can stretch out the sounds, and see which word is sunny.
Snowy, not that word.
Sunny, that's the word sunny.
Nice work.
Thanks for helping me find the word sunny.
On Tuesday, our weather will be partly cloudy.
Our next word is the word cloudy.
Can you help me find it?
What sound do you hear at the beginning of the word cloudy?
C, C, cloudy?
Can you point to the word cloudy?
Well, we have two words that start with a C, or a C at the beginning.
So let's stretch them out to figure out which word says cloudy.
Cold, not that word out.
Cloudy, that's the word cloudy.
Nice work.
On Wednesday, there's a chance of rain.
It's going to be rainy.
Can you help me find the word rainy?
Take your finger, and point to it.
R, R, rainy.
We hear an R at the beginning of this word.
Rainy.
Thank you for helping me.
On Thursday, the temperatures will be dropping to 34 degrees.
It's going to get cold.
Cold is our next word.
Will you take your finger, and point to it to help me find the word cold?
That's right.
C, C, cold starts with a C. Cold.
Cold.
And on Friday, there's a chance of snow.
It's going to be snowy.
Will you help me find the word snowy?
Take your finger, and point to it.
Snowy starts with an S. Let's stretch it out, snowy.
Snowy.
Nice work.
Thanks for helping me find all of those important weather words.
Thank you for watching our weather report this week for the state of Michigan.
Today, we learned all about the letter O.
We also learned two new high frequency words, and answered a big question about how we can predict the weather.
And you even helped me give a special weather report.
Way to go.
Great job, readers and writers.
I'll see you next time on Read, Write, ROAR.
- [Narrator] This program is made possible in part by the Michigan Department of Education, the state of Michigan, and the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation.
Additional support by, and by viewers like you, thank you.
(soft music continues)