- Hello, scholars.

Welcome to second grade on "Read, Write, ROAR!"

Today with Mrs. Fuller, you are going to be listening to a story all about our Great Lake State, Michigan.

We're going learn about its history and about some of the cities.

Scholars, we're also going to be building words today.

We're going to find one mystery word.

Go ahead and get yourself something to write with and something to write on.

And scholars, let's get ready to 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.

(gentle music) (lion roars) (lion roars) - Hello, scholars.

I'm Mrs. Z-K. And today, we are going to be looking for a mystery word.

In order to find this mystery word, we are going to be building up to the mystery word.

So we are going to build words and we are going to change their sounds or change their letters to make new words and to see which word can we make with all of the letters, okay?

All right, scholars, so with your something to write with and you're something to write on, go ahead and write these letters down with me.

We're going to start with our consonant.

All right, you need the letter C. Write it down.

The letter G. The letter H. The letter P. There are going to be three letter R's.

R, R, R. (chuckles) And the last consonant, scholars, is the letter T. All right, scholars, let's go ahead and write down our vowel letters.

We have two letter A's.

A, A.

And then we have a letter E. And the letter O.

All right, scholars.

We're gonna go ahead and get started.

All right.

So I'm gonna go ahead and start with our first word.

And our first word is something you might do at school.

You know, sometimes you might go to music, or you might go to gym, or you might go build crafts in?

Art, yes, in art.

Art has the ar sound, which is made with the A-R, ar.

What's the last sound you hear in the word art?

T, nice.

All right.

Ar-T. What's our word?

Art, nice job.

Go ahead and write that down.

Art.

All right, like I said in the beginning, scholars, we are going to add, take away, or change one sound or one letter at a time.

We are going to add a sound to this word to make a new word.

Our new word is something you might push in a grocery store.

A cart, nice job.

Okay, well, if our word is art right now, how can we make it to be cart?

Mm, where are you hearing that new sound at?

At the beginning, okay.

Well, what makes the K sound in cart?

There's only one letter up here that can make the K sound.

It's the letter C, nice job.

So we can add a C at the beginning of this word.

And now we have K-ar-T, cart.

Go ahead and write it down.

All right, scholars, we are going to change our word from the word cart to be the word part.

Like, I don't want to do all of the work, but I want to do part of it.

Just some of it all.

(chuckles) All right, what sound is being changed?

Are we going to change the beginning, the middle, or the ending sound?

Our word is cart, we want the word part.

Nice, we're gonna change that beginning sound.

So we're going to put the K back.

And what sound are we going to get instead?

P, nice.

P. P-ar-T, what word?

Part, go ahead and write that down, scholars.

All right.

Mrs. Z-K is gonna be a little tricky and I am going to delete a letter.

Mm, I'm going to take a letter away.

And we are going to have a new word.

So I took away the letter R. Scholars, what's our new word?

Pat, nice job.

Like, you might give your head a pat or your pet a pat.

(chuckles) Go ahead and write down the word pat.

All right, scholars.

Let's change our word pat to be rat.

Hmm.

What sound are we going to change?

Our word is pat.

We want it to be rat.

The beginning sound, nice work.

And scholars, what sound do we need to make the word rat?

R. Nice.

Rat.

Nice job, go ahead and write down our new word, rat.

All right, here comes sneaky, Mrs. Z-K. (chuckles) I am going to add a silent E to the end of our word.

Mm, this is going to make a new word.

Because there is a silent E here, our vowel sound in the middle is going to change.

Instead of it being A for rat, it's going to change to a long A sound and say ae, R-ae-T. What word?

Rate, nice job.

If you want to check your heart rate, you could check your pulse, right?

You could count to see how fast your heart is beating.

That's your heart rate.

Go ahead and write down the word rate.

Mm.

We're going to change our word rate to be the word that you might do with your friends, and you all say, "On your mark, get set, go!"

And you all, to the finish line, to see who can get there first.

You... Race.

Oh, okay.

Super tricky here because right now we have R-ate.

Our last sound is T because the E is silent.

So we're changing our last sound to be R-ae-s. Oh, yeah, we're gonna take away T, but when I look up here, I don't see the S sound.

What letter can make the S sound?

Mm.

C also has a soft sound especially when it comes before an E. So now it can say R-ae-S, race.

I race with my friends.

Nice word, go ahead and write down the word race.

All right, scholars, we are going to add a sound to our word and we are going to change the word race to the word grace.

Grace can be the way you walk or the way you move, right?

So if you move with grace, you move very gently, right?

Very fancy like, (chuckles) move with grace.

All right, what sound are we adding to the word race to make grace.

G, nice, to the beginning, okay.

And that G-R makes a little blend there.

Grace, go ahead and write that down, scholars.

You're doing an amazing job.

I think we're getting there.

We're using more and more letters, but we haven't used all of them.

(chuckles) All right, let's change our word grace to be a fruit.

It usually come in little ovals.

They can be green, purple.

You pull 'em off the vine and you eat them.

It is a grape.

(laughs) All right, so we have gr-ae-S and we want gr-ae-P. We're changing our last sound, right?

So instead of the S sound, we need a P sound, gr-ae-P, grape.

All right, go ahead and write down the word grape.

Mrs. Z-K is going to be sneaky again.

Whew, I am going to change a letter.

We change that silent E and I'm going to put the letter H at the end of this word.

Hmm.

And why I did was at the end I made a digraph?

Do you know what the letters P and H make?

What sound do P and H represent?

F, the F sound, you're right.

So what's our new word?

gr-ae-f, graph, nice job.

In math class, you might make a graph to show the data you collected.

Graph, go ahead and write down the word graph.

Nice work.

Whew, we made a lot of word, scholars, but we haven't found our mystery word yet.

Hmm.

I'm going to take two of our words from our list.

I'm going to take the word cart and the word graph.

I am going to build a new word with these two words.

So I'm not simply just putting the two words together and making a compound word.

Our word is not cart graph.

No, I'm going to add some sounds in there to make a new word.

I'm gonna put a new sound here in the middle.

Mm.

I'm gonna put a O there in the middle.

Yes, okay.

I'm gonna put the letter O in the middle to put these words together.

And now I'm going to add the sound er which is made by E-R.

I'm going to add E-R to the end of the word to show that this is someone who does this thing, okay?

All right.

So right now, it looks like it says cart-o-graph-er.

So really close.

But when we put all these letters together, the syllables break up a little differently.

Okay.

What I've done is I have all the letters that I had before, but I split them up into their syllables.

Yeah, so it says car-tog-ra-pher, cartographer.

Yeah, so we're not hearing necessarily cart and graph anymore because the way the word is split up.

It's car-tog-ra-pher.

A cartographer is someone who makes maps.

In a way, scholars, you've been a cartographer.

You've made maps about where you live.

Yeah.

(chuckles) Scholars, I wanted you to pay attention to how we changed our word each time just by adding one sound or one letter or taking it away, and we got a whole new word.

Scholars, you have to be very careful when you are reading and writing to make sure you look at or listen for all the sounds in the word.

Uh-hmm, because just one little sound can make it a whole different word, right?

Nice job.

What was our mystery word again, scholars?

It's a big one.

Cartographer, and that is someone who does what?

Who makes maps.

Nice work today, scholars.

(gentle music) Hi, scholars.

I'm Mrs. Fuller.

Today we're gonna be reading the book "Exploring the States, Michigan: The Great Lake State," written by Lisa Rechner and read with permission from Bellwether Media.

As we read today, I'd like you to listen for information that'll help us to answer our two big questions.

First, what communities are part of the state of Michigan?

A community is a neighborhood, a city, or a town like the city or the town that you live in.

Our second big question, how is Michigan part of the Midwest region?

Looking at this map, we can see that the United States is divided into four regions.

The area in green is called the Midwest region which is made up of 12 states, including Michigan.

Let's see what other great facts we can learn about Michigan.

Where is Michigan?

Michigan sits in two parts in the northern Midwest.

The larger part is a peninsula shaped like a mitten.

This is called the Lower Peninsula.

To the north is the Upper Peninsula.

Lake Michigan and Lake Huron separate these two landmasses.

A peninsula is a piece of land that's almost completely surrounded by water.

Wisconsin lies southwest of the Upper Peninsula.

Notice that the map on this page has a compass rose.

This can help us determine which way is southwest.

The rest of the peninsula is surrounded mostly by Lake Superior, Michigan, and Huron.

Canada lies to the north of the Upper Peninsula and east of the Lower Peninsula.

Indiana and Ohio are neighbors to the south.

The state capital of Lansing stands in the middle of the Lower Peninsula.

Native Americans were the first people to live in Michigan.

French explorers arrived from Canada in the 1600s.

They traded with the native tribes.

England took control of this land after the French and Indian War.

The United States gained the region after the Revolutionary War.

Michigan became a state in 1837.

Did you know?

In 1835, Michigan and Ohio fought each other for the city of Toledo.

President Andrew Jackson gave the city to Ohio.

Michigan got the Upper Peninsula instead.

The Land.

Michigan's two peninsulas have very different terrain.

Something handy about this book is that I can look up the definitions of the bold words in the glossary in the back of the book.

Let's look up the word terrain.

Terrain, the surface features of an area of land.

The Lower Peninsula has high bluffs along its shores.

Gentle hills roll into rich farm land in the south.

Sand dunes line the western coast, and large lakes dot the northeast.

Damp air from the Great Lakes brings snowy winters and sticky summers.

Much of the Upper Peninsula is wilderness.

It is covered with thick forests and rocky land.

The Huron and Porcupine Mountains march along the Lake Superior shore.

The Upper Peninsula has a much cooler climate than the Lower Peninsula, especially in the winter.

Fun Fact.

Michigan is the only place where Petoskey stones are found.

Their rare pattern was formed around 350 million years ago by a plant-like animal called coral.

I brought a Petoskey stone to show you that I found along the beach near my house.

Let's take a look.

Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.

Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park covers the northwest corner of the Upper Peninsula.

It boasts one of the largest uncut hardwood forest in the country.

The Porcupine Mountains inside the park are two billion years old.

They rise near the Lake Superior shore.

More than 90 waterfalls break up the park's rivers.

Colorful striped rocks called agates are scattered on the beaches.

Lake Superior's strong waves create ice volcanoes in the winter.

Water freezes and build up in a cone shape on the shore.

Pounding waves spurt water up through the cone.

Here is a video and a picture that I took of an ice volcano in Manistee, Michigan on Lake Michigan last February when I was on a snowshoe hike.

The waves underneath are pushing the water up through the volcano.

Landmarks.

Michigan has many beautiful places to explore.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is a row of colorful sandstone cliffs in the Upper Peninsula.

Formations such as Miner's Castle and Battleship Row were named for their shapes.

In the Lower Peninsula is Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

It's sand dunes tower more than 400 feet above the shore of Lake Michigan.

Dearborn is home to Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.

The museum spotlight the history of innovation in America.

Innovation means the development of new ideas, methods, or things.

Greenfield Village is filled with historic buildings that were moved or rebuilt there.

One attraction is the Ford Rouge Factory.

It is the only Detroit-area auto plant that holds public tours.

Fun Fact.

The Wright brothers built the first successful airplane in their Ohio bicycle shop.

The shop was later moved to Greenfield Village.

Fast Facts About Michigan.

Michigan's Flag.

Michigan's dark blue flag features the state coat of arms in the center.

An elk and a moose hold a shield that shows a man on a grassy peninsula.

Above the shield, a bald eagle holds an olive branch and arrows.

The state's motto surround the coat of arms.

The state flower, the apple blossom.

The state bird, American robin.

The state animal, white-tailed deer.

(gentle music) (lion roars) Next, scholars, we need to add the information to our Facts About Michigan chart.

And we can use information that we already know about Michigan and some information that we read in our book today.

Facts about Michigan, state nicknames.

Two of the most common nicknames for the state of Michigan are the Wolverine State and the Great Lake State.

The state motto.

A motto is like a sentence or a phrase that expresses the belief of a person or a state or a country.

So Michigan's motto is, "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you."

Statehood.

Michigan was the 26th state and they became a state in 1837.

The capital city of Michigan is Lansing.

The population or how many people are in the state, there were 9,974,000 people living in the state of Michigan in the year 2020.

The area or size.

Michigan has 96,713 square miles, and Michigan is the 11th largest state in the country.

Major industries.

Michigan has car manufacturing, tourism, farming, and mining.

Natural resources.

Natural resources are the things that we use that come from or that are created by nature.

Michigan has lumber from trees, fresh water from our lakes, copper, and iron.

The biggest city in our state is Detroit.

And the abbreviation is capital M, capital I.

Let's look back at our two big questions.

First, what communities are part of the state of Michigan?

So we read about several communities in the book today and you're also familiar with the community that you live in and the communities in the surrounding area.

So scholars, if you could get a copy of an outline map of the state of Michigan, I'd like you to see how many cities or communities you can find and label on the map.

You can print off a copy of our outline map in the activity guide in today's lesson.

Our second big question, how is Michigan part of the Midwest region?

Looking at that map again, we can see that the United States is divided into four regions.

The area in green is called the Midwest region which is made up of 12 states, including Michigan.

Scholars, thank you so much for learning with us today and continue to explore and learn about our great state of Michigan.

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.

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