- Hello readers.

Welcome to "Read, Write, Roar".

Today, we will be learning about the vowel pattens OI, OY, OU and OW.

We will read the book about animal babies and their families.

You will be able to be an author and write your own book about your family.

Today's lesson, you will need three or four sheets of paper, some writing materials like markers, pencils, crayons and like I said before, you will need a pencil.

This is a mechanical pencil so I don't need to worry about sharpening it, but anything that you can use as your supplies will be great.

So, are you ready to do something fun?

Let's get ready to learn and let's now get started.

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(upbeat music) (lion roaring) (chill music) - Hello amazing learners.

My name is Ms. Rodgers.

Today, we're going to be talking about the vowel patterns OI, OY, OU and OW.

These vowel patterns are called diphthongs.

Diphthongs is when the sound is formed by combining two vowels in a single syllable.

What?

I'll explain exactly what I'm talking about.

So we start with the first vowel and then we glide along and then we say the other sound.

So for example, I have the word coin.

So if I try to sound out the word coin, it's cuh-oy-nn, coin, not cuh-ah-ih-nn.

Doesn't make sense that way.

So again, diphthongs will allow us to blend those sounds together to make one syllable.

So another word that I have for us would be toy.

Do you have any toys at home?

I'm sure you do.

So toy, when I try to sound out the word toy, it's tuh-oy.

So OY is making one sound together.

Toy.

The next word I have for you is boy.

Now I'm gonna put this one in a sentence.

The boy rode his bike to school.

OY is making the oy sound.

My final word that I'm going to show you right now is soil.

The OI is making the oy sound.

We planted seed in the soil.

So those have the oy sound.

Now, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to go with some more words and I'm going to put these words on my chart and I want you to help me to sort them.

So the first word is have is oil.

Oy-ul, oil.

Where do you think this should go?

Yes, OI, so it'll go right under the word coin.

My next word is couch.

I like to sit on the couch.

Cuh-ouch, couch.

Where should this one go?

Yes, it should go right under cloud because it has the OU sound.

So let's go ahead and put that under cloud.

The next word is enjoy.

So what spelling pattern would this be?

OY, so let's put that under toy.

This word is actually tuh-own, town, so where should it go?

Right, right under brown.

What about this word?

Cuh-ount, count.

What's the spelling pattern on this one?

OU.

Just like couch.

This is when there's a lot of people together.

Crowd.

Crowd.

What spelling pattern?

OW.

Let's put that up under town.

We have two more.

This one.

Let's try to sound that out.

Voyage.

Voyage.

What could that mean?

Voyage.

Possibly to go somewhere, but it takes a long time to get there?

A voyage?

What's the spelling pattern?

OY.

This one was kind of tricky.

So let's put that right under enjoy.

And then finally...noise.

It has the OI, the oy sound, so this is noise.

I'm sure you probably heard someone say, "You're making too much noise!"

I get that too, even as a teacher.

So let's put this OI over here.

(chill music) - Hi there, learners.

It's Mrs.

Spear again.

I'm really glad to be back with you and I'm really excited to read a wonderful story with you today that goes along with what we've been learning about animals and plants and how animals survive and plants survive.

Today, we're really gonna be thinking about animals.

And the story's called "Meet My Family: Animal Babies and their Families".

This story is by Laura Purdie Salas and it's illustrated by Stephanie Fizer Coleman.

Now before we read this story, there's a couple of things I wanna tell you about it.

First of all, there's some words that we need to know.

One of the words that you're going to need to know to understand things in this book is the word forage.

Can you say forage?

Great.

Forage is a word that we would use to describe when animals are out and about searching and hunting for their food.

Here's a picture of some bison or buffalo out foraging and finding food and it's animal parents with their babies, their offspring.

So these bison are with their calves foraging out and looking for food.

Another word that we're going to wanna know today besides the word forage is the word adopt.

Can you say the word adopt?

Here's what that word looks like.

Adopt.

When you adopt something, you take it as your own.

I have a picture here of our very first puppy that we ever had in our family together and her name is Mazzie.

Mazzie has passed now, but when we adopted her, she had been left alone in the woods.

We took her in as our own.

We wanted to adopt her.

So adopt is another word that you're gonna wanna know when we read our story.

The next word that's an important word to know is the word elders.

Can you say elders?

Nice.

Elders are those in your life that are wise, they're older than you.

Someone that is elder is older than you and you might get advice from them or go to them for help.

This is a picture of me and my brother with my grandparents when we were little.

They were my elders and I could go to them for advice, go to my gram and my granpy.

So those words that we talked about (clears throat), excuse me, forage, adopt, elders are going to be important as we think about how these animals are working together to be able to survive.

And another word that's important is the word solo.

Can you say solo?

Nice.

If you're a dancer, you might think about a solo as a dance that you do by yourself.

Solo means one.

So, sometimes when an animal is alone, when it's solo like my dog Mazzie, someone might adopt it.

Now that we know these words, we're going to be reading our story.

So here's our story "Meet My Family: Animal Babies and their Families".

You're listening for different kinds of animals and noticing the names of offspring, also be noticing what the word family can mean.

My parents both take care of me.

My mother and father stay close to our nest.

Do you recognize what animal this is?

We talked about it last week.

Be thinking about that.

We talked about it the other time.

They keep me and my brothers and sisters safe from foxes and other hungry creatures.

They also teach us to find tasty grains.

This is a swan and in the swan's nest is a cygnet.

Can you say that, cygnet?

Tundra swan cygnet.

Nice job.

Do you recognize those?

Raccoons, right?

I've never met my dad.

My dad's not a part of my family.

He's never even seen me.

He lives off by himself somewhere and I live with my mom in our den.

So in this family, this little raccoon hasn't met his dad and probably never will, but the mom takes care of him in their den.

A little raccoon is called a raccoon kit.

The author puts these nice labels right by the animals so we can make sure that we know what they're called.

I'm the only kid around.

I wish I had a brother or sister my age.

Having mum all to myself is great, but I sure would like someone to chase and race with.

Do you remember we talked about horses last week, or if you listened to the book "Nuzzles".

A little horse, a baby horse is called a horse foal.

Can you say foal?

Nice.

What's this animal?

A pig.

That doesn't sound so bad.

You are so lucky.

I have to climb all over my brothers and sisters just to get to dinner.

Piglets, right?

There's a lot of piglets who have to share with their mom and share the space and share the food.

And this horse feels all alone and the piglet's like hey, I'm a little bit jealous.

I wish I had a little bit more space.

Do you know what this animal is?

Rhinoceros.

I'm in charge of all my meals.

I find my own food below sunny skies.

I graze for grasses and plants just like Amai and Baba and all the elders do.

This is that word elder.

Did you hear it?

So he goes off by himself and so do the elders.

Now you'll notice I have a little sticky here.

There was a word I didn't know how to pronounce, so I used the pronunciation piece in the back to help me remember and then when I got to the page, I have it written how to say the word.

It's spelled A-M-A-I and you say it ah-my.

This is a white rhino and a calf is what you call a white rhino offspring.

Mi madre brings me lunch.

I happen to know Spanish, so I know mi madre means my mother.

I spend all day in my nest.

When I was very small, mis padres used to throw up entire fish into my mouth.

Now I grab that fish right out of their bills.

This is a wood stork chick.

Pretty neat.

They start out having to be fed food that's already been chewed up and then they get to eat full food.

We've lived in one place since I was born.

I've lived in my family lodge for almost two years.

When walls need fixing, I hunt for sticks.

Yippee!

I paddle and nibble and gnaw.

Then I drag a stick back and poke it in place.

Soon, I'll build my own lodge.

Do you know what animal that is?

Yeah, that's a beaver.

And a baby beaver's called a beaver kit.

They work really hard to build their lodges together.

This page is showing an orangutan and this is an orangutan infant, like what we call our babies, infants.

There's a word I'm going to need to pronounce on this page, ibu.

So here I go.

We move around a bunch.

Each night, my ibu builds us a new nest high in the branches of a tree.

I never know where I'll be, but I always know she'll be right beside me.

Can you figure out what an ibu would be?

Yeah, that's the mom, right?

Very good.

The mom always takes the infant with her.

Good job figuring out ibu must mean mother.

Ladies all look after me.

My mama takes care of me, but my grandpa, my aunties and wakina mama wote in the herd also care for me.

No boys are allowed here except for calves like me.

There's our clue.

So a baby elephant is called a calf.

More than one is calves.

When I'm all grown up, I will live on my own.

Dad holds me 'til first light.

This is a special kind of monkey called a titi monkey.

Mamae only comes at dinnertime, but papai stays near always.

I sleep snuggled up on him and his hair is like a thick, warm blanket.

That sounds cozy, doesn't it?

So we learned that the papai is the one who stays nearby.

So which animal parent would that be?

Our clues tell us that's probably the dad, right?

My family frolics in a group.

Frolics means run around and jump and play.

My family loves to play.

We slip and slide and swim together.

I chase ma and my brothers and sisters on slippery river slopes.

Tag, you're it!

These are otters.

We actually have otters in the lake just near my house.

This is a North American river otter pup.

So these are river otters.

Here's that word solo.

I'm solo, day and night.

What animal is this?

Yes, very good.

We're looking here at a special turtle.

When I hatched from my egg, many other hatchlings crowded the sandy beach.

We hurried toward the water and were swept away in swirling waves.

Now I swim alone in the silent ocean.

Here's a green sea turtle hatching.

Oh, a shark.

Even sharks have little babies, right?

That says great white shark pup, so a baby shark is a pup.

I look just like my parents.

I already looked like my mom when I was born, only smaller.

I swam off on my own right away to hunt for food.

So they hunt right away when they're born.

I'm fierce and I'm growing.

I don't need anybody to take care of me.

That's really different from what we've read.

A shark gets right off into the world on its own and goes hunting right away, not needing anybody to take care of it.

Can you imagine?

We sure don't look the same.

Do you know what this is?

That would be a ladybug.

I wonder what this is.

Let's read.

Can you believe I wasn't even round when I hatched?

I was a larva, long and prickly.

Now that I'm a pupa, my body has ridges instead of prickles.

After my next change, I'll be round and plump and polka-dotted like my parents.

Finally.

So this baby stage of a ladybug is called the ladybug pupa.

It kind of reminds me when we learned about frogs, that the baby stage for frogs is a tadpole and they look very different from the adults.

Look!

My dad gives piggybacks.

Here's another word I'm going to need to pronounce.

Mi p'pa, so I'm gonna keep that in my head.

I don't look like my parents either, but check this out.

My mi p'pa gives me a ride to my very own pond.

I slide off his back and glide right in.

I'll swim here until my arms and legs are fully grown.

So it's a tadpole that grows into a frog.

We know about that, right?

We play a wrestling game.

Do you know what animal this is?

Yeah, that's a wolf.

And a baby wolf is called a pup.

Wolf pup.

I'm the only pup in the pack.

All the big wolves help take care of me.

Sometimes my pop, hey, wrestles with me.

I, oops, even, oof, win sometimes.

And he does not let me win.

That tells me they must be pretty fierce when they're born too, right?

To be able to win a wrestling match with a parent?

Whoa.

This is an albatross.

Twice the moms, that's what I have.

Two moms.

Lots of chicks have a mom and a dad, but some of us have two makuahine.

I'm gonna reread that 'cause I had to go back and check.

Some of us have two makuahine instead.

A makuahine must be a mom.

Two moms.

One stays with me at the nest and the other flies off to find food in the warm waves.

Then, they switch.

We are family, chick, parents and love.

How sweet is that?

A laysan albatross chick.

Two dads are what I've got.

My two daddies feed me fish.

Do you guys know what animal that is?

A penguin.

It's called the chinstrap penguin and the little one's called a chick.

My two daddies feed me fish.

One is always next to me, strong and sturdy and warm.

Both of them protect me and play with me.

I am double-daddy lucky.

Two moms in this animal's life and two dads in that animal's life.

Pretty cool, huh?

Someone else gave birth to me.

Guddi adopted me.

We talked about adopting, right?

She is not a monkey like me.

She barks instead of squeaks, but that's okay.

Do you know what kind of animal that is?

A dog.

I run to her and hold tight to her long white fur.

She feeds me and lets me ride under her belly.

This is a dog as you guessed and this is a rhesus macaque infant, so a rhesus macaque is a kind of monkey.

A harbor seal pup.

Notice it's a different color, huh?

My mother works a lot.

My mother dives into the ocean once or twice a day to hunt for food.

Sometimes I wait onshore with other pups.

Other times, I practice diving or napping.

(woman yawning) Yawn.

I am an all right diver, but I'm an excellent napper and my mother always comes back.

So it looks like those pups can be left alone while the moms go off hunting whereas seals can leave their pups behind.

I'm a super sister.

These are meerkats and they're called meerkat pups when they're babies.

I babysit my little brothers and sisters while mme forages for food.

Forages means she's going out to find food to eat.

We play, we wrestle.

I teach them how to look for food and I hardly ever, almost never pull their hair.

Siblings, right?

Brothers and sisters.

They do those things to each other.

My pops and me are tight.

When you say you're tight, it means you're close.

And pops mean a dad.

Mi padre, another word, my dad, mi padre is cool.

He watches me all the time.

My half brothers and half sisters and me dash and dart.

We pick and peck.

Later, we will join the whole herd.

What kind of animal is this?

This was a new animal for me to learn about.

The babies are called hatchlings, but this is called a lesser rhea hatchling.

A lesser rhea is a new word that I learned that type of animal and their babies are called a hatchling.

Every family's different.

Each family is just right.

Are you thinking about your family and how your family is different, but just right for you?

I was too.

We live in every kind of family you can think of.

That's true, right?

So I like in this book, this boy is labeled a human child.

That's what we call our babies.

And then we get to the end of our book, so if you wanna learn more about where these animals live, you can do that, but in our big idea, we got to learn a lot about animals and the different ways that they live together and take care of one another and how each family is a little bit different, but perfect for how their family needs to be.

I hope that you can remember some of these great animal names to share with someone that's special to you, an adult in your life or a friend in your life.

Wishing you a great day to go off and do some exploring and observing and maybe some more reading about an animal that interested you in the book we read today.

See you next time, learners.

(chill music) - So animal families and human families come in all shapes and sizes.

What about your family?

Today, I would like us to brainstorm and write about our families.

If you have supplies handy, you will need to get some paper, some markers, some coloring supplies, it could be crayons, something to write with and I want us to brainstorm together what our family is like, but I'm going to show you for an example by using my own family and I'm going to do our circle map or story map with you.

I'm going to start with my family.

So, if I'm talking about my family, I simply need to write my family right in the middle.

So I'm just gonna write my family.

Now as I'm writing, since we're brainstorming, my writing may seem a little sloppy and so does yours, but it's okay because we're just gathering our ideas.

So my family goes in the middle and then I'm going to circle that.

Now, who is in my family or who's a part of my family?

So I'm going to say, I'm going to think of this as when I was a child.

So, my mom.

So I'm gonna write mom.

Then I'm going to circle it.

My dad.

My brother, who's older than I. I'm gonna write brother.

And then I have a sister.

And she's older than both my brother and I.

And we live in a house, so I'm gonna put house right here.

That looked like mouse (giggles), but that was hmouse, house.

(woman laughing) Remember, I said if it's a little sloppy, it's okay.

So this is house.

And one of the things we loved to do was to play family games, so I'm going to write games right here.

And then I'm gonna circle that.

So, this is helping me to understand what's going to be a part of my book when I write it.

So it's going to be about my family, but I need to make sure that I have my mom, dad, brother, sister, where we live, in our house, and also some things that we did, which were play games.

Now, I did just a quick rough draft of what my book could look like.

So I have those sheets of paper that I said to get.

So I have those three sheets and all I did was fold it in half just like that.

Again, this is still my rough draft.

And on the front, because I'm talking about my family, my family, I wrote the title "My Family".

And as you can see here, I have uppercase M and then uppercase F. On my rough draft, I didn't really need that for my map.

Then I have my dad, mom, my brother and my sister and who else do you think I should add?

Probably me, right?

(woman chuckling) So I'm going to add another little circle there and a stick figure and that's me.

Now, I can add all of my details later.

And I have the author, which is myself, by Ms. Rodgers, or my first name when I was younger, people just called me Nita, N-I-T-A, so I could change that to Nita.

So each page in my book could be about each one of my family members or something that we've done as it relates to playing games or things that we loved to do around the house.

So, I want you to take some time to make your own book, but first, start with a rough draft by using a story map about your family.

I look forward to seeing you soon.

Thank you for joining us on "Read, Write, Roar".

- [Narrator] This program is made possible in part by Michigan Department of Education, the state of Michigan and "The Kresge Foundation".

Additional support for educational programming provided by... And by viewers like you.

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