[bright music] - I can't get my daughter to wake up in time for school.

What are things you do to wake someone up?

Oh.

I like those ideas, like appealing to their senses, like making a loud noise or waving something yummy underneath their nose.

All right, I like those ideas.

I'm gonna have to save some of those and try to figure this out later.

But let's get to our work for today.

I'm Anna, and we're gonna do some fun activities today with sounds.

But first, let's get our ears ready and let's add some words.

In order to do this activity, I'm going to say a word and then I'm gonna have you add another word to make a completely new word.

Sounds cool, right?

So for example, if I said the word board and I told you to add the word card at the beginning, what would that word be now?

Well, card, board, cardboard.

All right, you see what we're doing?

Okay, say butter.

Add fly to the end.

What's the word?

Butterfly.

Say pan.

Add cake to the end.

What's the word?

Pancake.

Say foot.

Add ball to the end.

What's the word?

Football.

Okay, now try this.

Listen carefully, say bow.

Now add rain to the beginning.

What's this word?

Rainbow.

Okay, say brush.

Add tooth to the beginning.

What's the word?

Toothbrush.

All right, last one, say fish.

Add star to the beginning.

What's the word?

Starfish.

Awesome.

Today we are going to work with open syllables.

So these are words or word parts where the vowel is making its long sound or saying its name.

So before we can do this, we need to know which letters are our vowels.

So which letters are our vowels?

That's right.

Our vows are A, E, I, O, and U.

Okay, so now let's quickly review their long sounds.

I want you to repeat after me.

Everyone say the long sound of A is A.

Good.

A, A, acorn.

Awesome.

The long sound of E is E. E, E like me.

The long sound of I is I. I, I like hi.

The long sound of O is O. O, O, no.

The long sound of U is U. U, U like flu.

[Anne sneezes] Okay, great.

So today we're only gonna be focusing though on three of these, we're gonna be focusing on our long E sound, which is?

Awesome.

Our long I sound, which is?

And our long O sound, which is?

Beautiful.

E, I, and O.

All right, let me erase these first.

And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna write some words and we're gonna blend them together knowing that we're working on the long sound of these vowels.

So let's take a look at this first one.

Okay, how would we blend this?

Okay, remember now E is going to be making its long sound.

So it's going to be saying E. Be.

What's the word?

Be.

How about this one?

Me.

Me.

How about this one?

Beautiful.

We.

We.

Okay, let's throw a diagram in there.

What's this word?

Let me hear you.

Good.

She, she.

Okay, so we're doing pretty well with the long E. Let's switch it up and try another one of our long vowels.

Here we go.

How about... Now what is I going to be saying in this?

That's right, it's gonna be saying I.

So what's our word?

Hi, hi.

Okay, now with our long I, watch this because this is gonna help you guys with your reading.

What would this say?

Si.

Si.

Like the word si-lent.

You see?

We were talking about our open syllable working, so it can be words or word parts.

Cool, right?

All right, let's do one more with our long I.

What would this be?

Bi, bi.

Now this is not bi like bye, bye.

This buy actually means like two.

So for example, if I were to pair it with this, we would get bicycle, right?

Like two wheels.

Okay, let's go on to our last one.

So we said we were gonna work with E, we were gonna work with I.

And what was the last?

Does anyone remember the last sound?

It was... That's right.

O, that long O.

Okay, so here we... What's the word?

Go, go.

Here we go.

Okay, that was a little tricky.

Here we go.

What's the word?

So, so.

No, no.

Now let's try this one.

This is a word part.

Let's see if we can figure this one out.

So fo, fo, like the word focus, right?

When you're paying attention to something.

Okay, I have a bonus word for you guys.

Let's see if you can figure this out and I'm gonna help you 'cause I'm gonna break it up for you.

So we have two open syllables.

So how do we say this first syllable part?

He, he.

And then what about the second one?

Ro, ro.

He-ro.

What's the word?

Hero.

Do you see how understanding how these open syllables work can help you read bigger and longer words?

This is so cool, right?

Okay, let's get ready for the lightning round.

You are gonna read some words all by yourself.

Don't worry, I know you can do it.

Okay, just remember we're working on those open syllables, so we're going to be hearing those long vowel sounds.

Some of them will be actual words like hi and go and no, but some of them will just be word parts, but you're still focusing on the long vowel sound.

Are you ready?

Get to it.

Let's review.

Think of our sounds for today, and let's see how you do with these questions.

What sound does this letter make in an open syllable?

That's right, O.

What sound does this letter make in an open syllable?

Correct, E. What sound does this letter make in an open syllable?

That's right, I.

Okay, you ready to read some words.

Go.

Did you say go, si, be, mo, hi, and de?

If you got all six correct, give yourself a high five.

You all did such a great job working with open syllables today.

See if you can find more open syllables when you're reading books in school.

Okay, now remember, this is just one way to help you break up words.

Try breaking it up and see if the open syllable or long vowel sound works.

Well until next time friends, bye.