(bright music) - Hello, everyone, and welcome to "Teaching in Room 9," the region's- - Shapes are everywhere we look, but- - Good job.

Now I want you to touch your throat right here and see how they feel.

- Can say to ourselves to be positive.

- Lemurs are found on the island of Madagascar.

- For one, I'm gonna risk it bigger as we go across to the right.

- We said that means taking a deep breath.

It may mean counting to 10.

- Today, we're gonna start with freestyle throw.

So I'm gonna put my arms, and I'm going to- - All righty, are you ready to learn?

Let's go!

(bright music continues) (dreamy music) (cap clicking) (Dr. Sanders gasping) Hello, everybody.

And welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9," the region's largest classroom.

I am Dr. Sanders.

And we are in a very special classroom, where you can go anywhere and be anything you wanna be.

As we start our adventure today, I want you to always remember it doesn't matter if you're 2 or 102, we will have some fun!

F-U-N, fun.

(letters popping) We will have some fun while learning.

It is time to get started.

And we're gonna get started by shouting out three of my friends' names.

But remember all of you are my friends.

Yes, yes, yes, I'll take my hat off.

All right, my first name today is Karter.

Karter name starts with the sound k. And it starts with a K. K makes the k sound.

Let's spell Karter, capital K-A-R-T-E-R, K-A-R-T-E-R. All right.

Hi, Karter.

(bell chiming) Hope you're having a great day.

And my next name is Harleigh.

Everybody say, "Hello, Harleigh."

What letter does Harleigh start with?

- [Kids] H. - An H, and what sound does H make?

H, h. Yes, let's spell Harleigh.

Capital H-A-R-L-E-I-G-H, H-A-R-L-E-I-G-H. And my third name for the day is Harlow!

Can you say hi to your sister Harley for me?

All right, but hi, Harlow.

Everybody say, "Hello, Harlow."

All right, let's spell Harlow.

Capital H-A-R-L-O-W, H-A-R-L-O-W. Hi, Harlow!

(bell chiming) It is time to get on our adventure!

Are you ready to go on our adventure?

- [Kids] Yes.

- Yes, I am too.

So let's go!

(playful music) - [Kids] Yay.

(kids applauding) - Bravo, come on.

- All right.

(kids applauding continues) (relaxing music) - Hey, Glen, what are you doing?

Oh, you're reading a book?

Do you know it's upside down?

Oh, you're being silly?

(scoffs) Well, why don't we turn the book over, and we can help our friends learn about how to look at and take care of a book.

Books have amazing stories in them, so it's really fun to learn how to look at a book and understand what's in it.

So when I look at a book, the front of the book is where I start.

Do you see this page?

This is called the cover.

And the cover tells us lots of information about the book.

You can see there's pictures and words.

Do you see these big words here?

These words tells the title of the book.

That's what the story is called.

This is "A, B, C, I Am What I See."

You can see some other words on the cover too.

They're people's names.

The first name here is the person who wrote the book.

That's the author.

This author is Alan Forbes.

The second name is the person who drew the pictures in the book.

That's called the illustrator.

The illustrator's name is DG.

When I open the book, I open it by the cover, and I turn the pages very gently because they can be fragile.

I see the words, and sometimes I can read them or sound them out, and I can also look at the pictures.

Hey, Glen, do you have a favorite book?

(gasps) That's a really good one.

Do you have a favorite book too?

You can ask a parent to read it to you, and you can practice your book skills.

And now that you have your book skills, you're also ready to go to school.

Great job, Glen.

Hey, high five.

(mesmerizing music) - Hi, friends, welcome back for another Read Aloud with Mrs.

Forth.

Today, I have a fiction book for us to read.

Fiction, have you heard of that before as a way to describe books that we read?

Fiction books, fiction are stories that are made up by the author.

Sometimes they seem like they could really happen, and sometimes they seem really farfetched, like when animals are talking and doing things that humans do.

In this book, it's called "A Dolphin's Tale."

We're gonna read all about a boy, and I want you to decide, is this a fiction book that could really happen or maybe is it all made up?

This book was written by Natalie M. Kennedy and illustrated by DG.

So thank you to the author for writing the words and the illustrator for drawing the pictures for us, "A Dolphin's Tale."

(page flicking) Earl had never learned how to swim, but he loved to sit by the pool and feel the water on his feet or sit at the beach gazing across the shimmering waves.

You see, Earl was born with noticeably short legs, and he spent most of his life in a wheelchair.

However, that never stopped Earl from dreaming and believing that one day, he would be able to swim in a lake or surf on one of those waves in the ocean.

See him dreaming?

(page flicking) Earl's greatest joys were to sit up close to the ocean's edge and watch the waves and tides move like clouds on a windy day.

Every weekend, Earl's mom would take him to the beach and sit him where the water met the sand so he could feel the warm water break over his knees.

Earl loved how the water felt, and sometimes he would get all giggly when the tides came over his waist.

(page flicking) So far, do you think this could really happen?

Yeah, me too.

(page flicking) Some days when Earl would sit on the beach, he would dream that he owned a boat and was sailing around the world through the Mediterranean Sea and Pacific Ocean, capturing sites of unique native fishes, like bluegill, paddlefish, flathead catfish, or sockeye salmon, and hearing the sounds of humpback whales.

He really loves the ocean, doesn't he?

(page flicking) He dreamed of swimming in the blue waters of Hawaii, exploring the coral reefs and sitting on the rock cliffs of Cape May while crabs snapped at his feet.

Snap, snap, snap.

(page flicking) One afternoon as Earl sat at the water's edge, daydreaming, he looked out over the bay and spotted a buoy about 50 feet out, bobbing up and down in the water.

A buoy, do you see that thing bobbing up and down in the water?

That's called a buoy.

Suddenly, Earl got excited because as he looked toward the buoy, he thought he saw a couple of dolphins jumping in and out of the water.

Even more special, Earl thought, as he saw a pink fin rising out of the water near the buoy.

Earl was so excited he forgot he had never learned to swim.

He scooted himself into the water and jumped into an oncoming wave to swim out to the buoy, quickly realizing the waves were pushing him back to shore.

As they kept pushing him back toward the beach, Earl kept trying to swim toward the buoy.

(page flicking) Then from out of nowhere, a pink dolphin came right under Earl's legs, and Earl slid back and caught on to the dolphin's tail.

The dolphin took Earl for a ride out toward the buoy.

Look at Earl getting to go out into the ocean, what he's always daydreaming about.

(page flicking) Earl was in such delight, he raised one hand in the air, waving and holding on to the dolphin's tail.

"Yippee!

One more lap, Pinky!"

Earl shouted the name he had chosen for the pink dolphin as they both circled the buoy for the second time.

And as they were making the third lap, the dolphin started heading back toward the beach and began to dive into the water.

What are you thinking now?

Are you thinking that this could really happen or, hmm, something seems like a little farfetched about this?

I'm wondering, would a pink dolphin appear and take a boy for a ride through the ocean in real life?

Sounds kind of fun.

(page flicking) As the dolphin dived deeper, she disappeared, and a strong wave got ahold of Earl and carried him back onto the beach.

So there Earl is right back where he started at the edge of the water, sitting in the sand, looking at all the waves coming in.

(page flicking) Earl was in a daze as he laughed and pointed toward the buoy when his mom came up to him.

She shook him and said, "Earl, Earl, what are laughing about?

Where have you been?

And why are you so wet?

What are you pointing at?"

His mom seems really confused.

Hmm, I wonder what's going on here.

Earl thought he could see the tail of the pink dolphin swimming around the buoy with a couple other dolphins, and then he thought he saw the pink dolphin swim straight out of the water doing a double somersault before heading out to sea.

Earl said, "Mom, don't you see that pink dolphin?

There, over there!"

He's really trying to convince his mom about the pink dolphin.

Do you think his mom sees the pink dolphin?

She did seem pretty confused when she was wondering why he was laughing, having such a great time.

I don't think she saw it either.

(page flicking) Earl's mom turned to look back toward the water, only to see the buoy bobbing up and down.

No pink dolphin.

Do you think he really saw a pink dolphin?

Do you think he really rode on the pink dolphin's tail out to the sea?

I don't know.

(page flicking) Just then a small wave came up over Earl's waist as he was lying down in the water, gazing at the blue sky.

"Earl, Earl," Mom said as she shook him, then picked him up to dry him off.

"Are you all right?"

Earl, shaking his head, said, "Mom, where have you been?

Why am I all wet?

Oh, wait, I remember.

I swam out toward the buoy, and these dolphins came and circled around me like they were protecting me.

And they were jumping in and out of the water all around me.

Then a pink dolphin lifted me out of the water.

I caught on to the dolphin's tail and swam around and around the buoy.

I remember as we made that last lap around the buoy, I was hanging on to the dolphin's tail."

I mean, boy, does he have a story, doesn't he?

(page flicking) "Then the dolphin brought me back toward the beach and swam away, slapping its tail up and down as if to say goodbye."

"Oh, really, Earl?"

his mom said with a smile.

"Tell me how exactly did you get back again?"

Earl said, "The dolphin, Mom.

It did happen!

It was real!

I just held on tight to the dolphin's tail and floated right onto the beach.

I had the greatest ride ever!"

All the way home, Earl could not stop talking about the dolphin's tail.

And Mom just smiled and said, "Yes, Earl, yes."

(page flicking) Do you think Earl actually rode on a dolphin out to sea and the dolphin brought him back?

That would be a great story to tell, wouldn't it?

Thank you for reading this fiction book with me.

Remember, fiction is a story made up by the author, and sometimes it could really happen, and sometimes maybe not, like to Earl with the pink dolphin.

Thanks for joining me for another read-aloud.

I can't wait to see you back next time.

Bye, everybody.

(enlightening music) (bubbles plopping) - Hi there, Room 9.

It's me, Mrs. Williams, the Woodland Creature Teacher.

When I'm not here teaching, and learning, and growing my brain in Room 9 with you, I'm teaching, and learning, and growing brains with my woodland creatures.

All my first graders, lots of love.

Today, I hope you have lots of energy because that's what we're talking about.

We're talking about all types of energy.

I need you to do something.

I want you to stand up straight and tall, and I want you to jump five times.

Count with me.

One, two, three, four, five.

How did you do that?

Well, you use your muscles and your bones, and you use energy.

Use the energy from the food you eat to move your body and muscles to do that work.

We're talking about all sorts of energy today.

Energy is anything that makes something else able to do work.

We'll talk first about heat energy.

Stop and think about the things in your home or in your daily life that produce heat.

Hmm.

First thing that came to my mind was a campfire.

I heard someone else say, "A stove."

What about the furnace in your home?

Yes, all of those things produce heat energy, and they also need energy and fuels to produce heat.

Your campfire runs from wood.

Your stove will run off electric or gas, so they require fuel to produce that heat energy.

Let's think about another type of energy.

Did you think about this one too?

Yeah, light energy.

Light is all around us.

Stop and think about all of the different things that produce light around you each day.

Maybe the night-light next to your bed.

There's a really, really big one.

It also produces heat energy.

It's the sun!

Also, all of the lights around us.

Lights require energy to run, typically from electric or solar energy, as in the sun.

This type of energy is one that I love.

It makes me wanna get up and dance.

What do you think it is?

Yeah, it's sound energy.

Sound energy travels from things like our radios to our ears to produce those sounds that we love to hear, and maybe even some that we don't.

All sound requires energy as well.

Think about what types of things power your radios and other things that produce sounds.

The big one that I was thinking about was electricity.

So we have electricity all over our homes.

We're very lucky we have outlets in the walls that we can plug different things into, and they power all kinds of electronic items in our homes.

Stop and think about what types of items in your homes are plugged into the wall.

If you thought about some of the things I thought of, a computer or TV screen, the lights in our home, maybe a phone or tablet, and even appliances, like a toaster.

All of those things require energy to be powered, and energy takes a lot of fuel.

Fuels are something that we don't have an infinite amount of, so it's important for us to conserve energy.

How do we do that?

I know a little bit about conserving water, and the word conserve means to save.

So how can I save energy?

Hmm, going back to those electronic devices, we usually plug them into a charger and plug the charger into the wall.

What do you do when your phone or your tablet is full?

When it says 100%, you need to pop that plug out.

That's not the only thing you can do to help save that electrical energy.

You can also unplug the charger from the outlet (charger clicking) because even though our phone, or tablet, or laptop is not still plugged in, it can still use small amounts of energy.

What else could we do?

When you're not using that fan to cool your room or cool yourself, switch it off.

If you're going to be coming right back, go ahead and leave it on, but if you're going to leave for the day, go ahead and take that plug right on out.

Remember, we need energy to power all of these things in our lives.

So conserving that energy is extremely important.

I want you to make a tally chart with your family this week, include each person's name, and every time you find an item that can be unplugged to conserve energy, I want you to put a tally under your name.

That's your homework for this week.

And I also want you to tell two friends about what you learned.

I hope that you had fun learning about energy conservation, and I'll see you again soon, bye!

(enlightening music) - [Kids] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

- Welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9," our region's largest classroom.

My name is Ms. Knarr, and we're here for our Song Time.

Today we're going to be focusing our learning on "Skip Counting by Fives."

This is really gonna help build our fact fluency and our number sense.

It also helps with telling time and counting change.

All right, we're gonna try to sing it.

See if you can sing along with me at home.

(fingers clicking) ♪ Skip counting by fives ♪ Helps us take a dive ♪ Into our fact fluency ♪ Watch learning come alive ♪ 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 ♪ 30, 35, 40, 45 ♪ Then 50 ♪ Skip counting by fives ♪ Helps us take a dive ♪ Into our fact fluency ♪ Watch learning come alive Wow, nice job, friends.

All right, we're gonna try it one more time.

See if you can jump in and either sing along or count with me.

♪ Skip counting by fives ♪ Helps us take a dive ♪ Into our fact fluency ♪ Makes learning come alive ♪ 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 ♪ 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 ♪ Skip counting by fives ♪ Helps us take a dive ♪ Into our fact fluency ♪ Makes learning come alive Wow, nice job, friends.

You did such a good job singing along with me.

We skip counting by fives all the way up to 50 two times.

And again, that's gonna help us build our number sense, get comfortable with numbers, telling time on a clock, and counting change.

All right, friends, thank you so much.

Kiss your brains.

I'll see you next time, bye.

- Great day, everybody.

(scene buzzing) So I'm Candace with Chaos, and today, we are going to talk about my friend, Jen.

And so Jen is short for Jennifer.

And Jen is a chaos kid.

And Jen deals with depression.

And so with depression, sometimes Jen feels sad most of the day or at some point during the day.

And so, you know, when we think about our feelings and we think about sadness, sadness can be like clouds.

You know, they kinda just go through the air, and they just go and float.

But sometimes those rainy clouds, they can kinda stick around for a while.

And when those clouds come around and they stick around for too long, we gotta say something to somebody because we have to make sure that we are being the healthiest that we can be.

And just like you would go to a doctor if something was going on with your body, it's absolutely okay for you to handle and deal with your feelings and emotions.

And so if you are feeling sad and you are doing things like you're crying a lot, or sometimes, like, your tummy is hurting, and you can't really focus or sleep, or you are thinking bad thoughts, or even thinking about hurting yourself, I need you to make sure that you find this trusted adult.

And so a trusted adult can be a parent or it can be a teacher, or it can be anyone in your life that you know, and that makes you feel safe, and that is good for you to talk to them.

And there's other things that you can do as well.

You can journal or you can color.

I like to color.

Do you like to color?

You can also do an activity, like you can go running outside or you can go play with friends, you can call someone, or you can watch a cool show on TV or on your tablet.

Any of those things would work.

But anything that you do, if it's not working when you do it on your own, remember it's absolutely okay for you to reach out to somebody and for you to talk to somebody.

Because when we keep all of those feelings in and like the clouds, if all of the clouds come and they just are there, it starts raining, and if it rains too much, then it floods.

And so when it floods, it's too much happening, and you can't do anything in a flood.

So you wanna make sure that you don't do that to yourself.

So I want you to remember whenever you're feeling sad, or whenever you have bad thoughts going through your head, or if you ever think about hurting yourself, or even if you find yourself where you can't eat, or you can't take your naps, and you just don't feel like you're in a good place, just like Jen, I need you to make sure you go and talk to somebody, okay?

You got this.

Air hugs and cyber kisses.

(scene chiming) - Welcome back.

Did you enjoy your adventure today?

- Yes.

- Yes.

- Oh, cool.

And tell me what was your favorite part of the adventure?

(upbeat music) All right, okay.

That sounds like fun.

Yeah, yeah, I like that part too.

Oh yeah, that was funny.

Oh!

All right, I have a question for you.

What is your favorite thing to do?

Like if you are at school or if you're at home, what is one of your favorite things to do?

Play video games?

Okay.

You play video games at school?

Interesting, learning games, okay.

You know what I love to do?

I love to read.

I love to read.

You can take a look around in our classroom and name some of those places in our classroom where you can read.

Yes, what the pink bunny is?

It's a little couch.

Oh, that looks so comfortable.

Yeah.

Oh, it's a pink... Man, I've sat there so many times, but usually when I sit there, I usually fall asleep.

But reading is so much fun.

If you don't, go pick out a good book, and you just sit down and read, and let me know how that book is.

But you know it is time for us to get outta "Teaching in Room 9!"

But before we go, can we spell our favorite word?

Nine!

Let's spell nine!

N-I-N-E, nine!

Thank you for being in Room 9, bye-bye.

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