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Hello, everyone, and welcome to "Teaching in Room 9," the region's... Shapes are everywhere we look, but... Good job, now go and touch your throat right here and see how they feel. You can say to ourselves, just be positive... Lemurs are found on the island of Madagascar. For one, I'm going to risk it bigger, as we go across to the right. RESET-- that means taking a deep breath. It may mean counting to ten. Today, we're going to start with freestyle throws. So, I'm going to put my arms up, and I'm going to...

(instructor) All right, are you ready to learn? Let's go!

(Describer) Title on a bright blue background: Teaching in Room 9.

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(Describer) Titles: Today's Objective. We will discover how to listen and decide where syllables are in words. We will learn about the seven days in a week.

(Describer) Dr. Sanders sits in a cluttered classroom.

Hm? How's the weather outside today?

(Describer) He looks at us.

I don't know, but it's fun in our classroom! Welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9," the region's largest classroom. I am Dr. Sanders, and in our new classroom, we can go anywhere and be anything, while engaging and learning about our community. But remember, what's that thing that I always say? It doesn't matter if you're 2 or 102, you will have some fun! F-U-N, fun! You will have some fun while learning. I work at Adams Elementary, in the St. Louis Public Schools, and let's get our day started! We are-- let me take off my hat. And I am ready to give some shout outs to some of my friends! My first friend on the list is Maria! Hi, Maria! How are you doing? Excellent. Let's spell "Maria." Capital M-A-R-I-A. Hi, Maria! My next friend is Amir. Hey, Amir, how you doing? How's it going today? Good, good, good. Let's spell "Amir." Capital A-M-I-R. All right, my next shout-out goes to Chantel! Hi, Miss Chantel, how are you doing? Good, good, good. Let's spell Chantel. Capital C-H-A-N-T-E-L. C-H-A-N-T-E-L. Hi, Chantel! And my last shout out of the day goes to Howzee. Hey Howzee, how are you doing? Excellent. Let's spell Howzee. Capital H-O-W-Z-E-E. Hi, Howzee! All right, everybody, are you ready for a great day of learning? Let's do it! -[children laughing] -[school bell ringing]

(Describer) Titles: School Readiness.

(Describer) A black and white film plays.

(Describer) Titles: How to raise our hands!

(narrator) Just like at home, there will be times that you want to share your ideas and ask questions. But remember, shouting and waving won't do the trick with your teacher.

[X buzzing]

Instead, raise your hand and sit quietly. That's the best way to get your teacher to call on you, polite and patient. Let's review today's lesson. Remember, when you have an idea or question, raise your hand and sit quietly. Being polite gets you noticed in your class. So, let's learn together and have fun, while being respectful in our classroom.

(children) A, B, C, D,

(Describer) Titles: Letters and Sounds.

E, F, G.

(Describer) Ms. Julia stands near a large chart.

Good afternoon, friends. Welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9," our region's largest classroom. My name is Julia. I'm a first grade teacher at the Soulard School. And here for "Teaching in Room 9," my lesson focus on letters and sounds. Today, friends, we're going to focus our learning on listening for and being able to decide where syllables are in words. But let's go ahead and start by reviewing what we already know about letters and sounds.

♪ Letters spell sounds and come together ♪

♪ To make words ♪

♪ Words are made about letters and sounds ♪

♪ They blend together to make a word ♪

♪ Words have meaning, and they then come together ♪

♪ To form sentences that we can read or write ♪

Nicely done, friends. Now, go ahead and give me a "Me too," if you've ever heard of syllables before.

(Describer) She signs "Me too."

Yeah, I'm seeing some friends showing me "Me too," or "No." Or, maybe you've heard of them, but you're not sure how to describe them. Well...

♪ Syllables ♪

♪ Are the beats ♪

♪ In words ♪

♪ Syllables ♪

♪ Are built around ♪

♪ A talking vowel ♪

Let's go ahead and practice. So, we're going to go ahead and tap the sounds in the word that we hear on our finger. Go ahead and say the word "cat." Tap the sounds with me. Kk, ah, at. Nicely done. I only hear that one talking vowel-- "ah." So, if I clap the syllables in cat-- "cat"-- how many times did I clap my hands? Yeah, just once. All right, let's try another word. Say the word "animal." Okay, let's clap the sounds. -An-eh-mal. -[teacher clapping] Three times that time, nicely done. Okay, let's try "caterpillar." Okay, let's clap the sound, or the syllables in caterpillar. Ca-ter-pill-er. Whoa! Four times that time. Nicely done. Okay, I'm going to sing a song. And hopefully maybe you can sing along with me. That helps us know more about syllables.

♪ Syllables are the beats in words ♪

♪ Syllables are built around a vowel ♪

♪ Syllables are the beats in words ♪

♪ Syllables are built around a vowel ♪

♪ Vowels are A-E-I-O-U ♪

♪ And then, sometimes Y ♪

♪ But you must hear the vowel ♪

♪ And each vowel gets a clap ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh, syllables ♪

♪ Are the beats in words ♪

♪ Syllables are built around a vowel ♪

Nicely done, friends. We're going to go ahead and practice listening for, and working with syllables. Okay, the first thing we're going to do together, is we're going to blend two syllables together to make one smooth word. Okay, so just say it along with me nice and loud. Ready? Nap-kin. Blend it together. Napkin! Nicely done! Blis-ter. Blend it together. Blister! Great job! Moun-tain. Blend it. Mountain, great job! Chil-dren. Blend it together. Children! Great job! One more, friends. Bas-ket. Blend it together, basket. You're absolutely right! All right, now we're going to try to do the opposite. I'm going to give you a word, and we're going to clap the syllables that we hear. All right, ready? Pencil. Clap the syllables. Pen-cil. [clapping twice] Great job! Say the word, "gentle." Nice, let's clap the syllables. Gen-tle. [clapping twice] Nice! Say the word "laughter," and clap the syllables. Laugh-ter. [clapping twice] Great job! Say the word "flower." And clap the syllables. Flow-er. [clapping twice] One more friends. Say the word "center." And clap the syllables you hear. Cen-ter. [clapping twice] Great job! All of those had two syllables. Okay, now we're going to add a syllable to the end of a word, and you're going to tell me what the new word is. Ready, say "in." Great! Now add "vent." Blend it together. Invent, nice job. Say "in." Now add "volve" to the end. Blend it. Involve, great job! Say "in." Now add "come." Blend it. Income! Say "in." Now add "sect." Blend it together. Insect! Great job, one more. Say "in." Now add "dex." Blend it. Index! Nicely done! This time, friends, we're going to takeaway a syllable, and you're going to tell me what is left. And we're taking away from the end of the word. Okay, ready? Say "forget." For-get. Take away "get." What do we have left? For! Great job! Say "sixty." Take away "tee." What do we have left? Six! Great job! Say "flower." Take away "-er." What do you have left? Flow. Say "below." Be-low, take away "low." What do you have left? Be. Great job friends! You did such a nice job listening for and separating out the syllables that you hear in words. And remember, syllables are built around a talking vowel. Kiss your brain, friends. You did such a great job! I'll see you next time! Bye!

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(Describer) Titles: Movement.

(Describer) Mrs. St. Louis stands on an exercise mat.

Hi everybody, welcome to "Room 9." My name is Miss St. Louis, and I'm a teacher at Rogers Elementary School in the Mehlville School District. And, we are located in South St. Louis County. Today, I'm here to teach a little bit of a movement lesson with a basketball twist. So, let's get moving. We're going to start by warming up our body, so let's start by stretching up nice and tall! And, we're going to reach to our toes and count to five. Stretch on down. One, two, three, four, five, and lets come on back up. Now, we're going to do a little bit of a twisting from our trunk, that core center. So, we're going to twist one,

(Describer) Twist with hands on hips.

two, three, four, last one, five, and now we're going to practice spinning forwards and backwards leaning forward and backwards for one, two, three, four, and five. So today boys and girls, our lesson has a basketball twist. But, you don't actually need a basketball to play with us. So, we're going to start by dribbling the ball. And, I'm going to use my imaginary basketball. Here it is, do you have yours? So, we're going to start by bouncing the ball with one hand for five times. One, two, three, four, five. And let's switch. One, two, three, four, five. Excellent job. Now that we have started to dribble the ball, let's try and practice passing it. I'm going to use my ball here to show you. Now, because we don't actually have a person to practice passing to, I'm going to hold onto the ball, and go through the motions. So, we're going to start with a chest pass. Holding the ball at our chest, we're going to push it out for five. Are you ready? One, two, three, four, and five. And now for that big long pass, we're going to do our overhead passes. Bringing the ball behind our head, and throwing it all the way over for five times. Ready? One, two, three, four, and five. And once we get that ball all the way down the court, the last thing is to do our shooting. So, I'm going to hold the ball at my face. And I'm going to practice pushing the ball up for five. Are you ready? Let's make those shots. One, two, three, four, last one...five. And once you make that very last shot, the last and final thing to do is the celebrate. So on the count of three, you're going to show me your best celebration pose. Ready? One, two, three! Excellent job, boys and girls. So now that we have done our basketball warmup, we're going to end with a few deep breaths to help bring our heart rate back down. So, you're going to breathe in with me as we raise our arms up. -And out. -[long exhale] -one more time, breath in. -[long inhale] -And, out. -[long exhale] Excellent job, boys and girls. Remember, the goal is to practice our movement for 60 minutes every single day. Any type of movement that you can. So, don't forget to move each day, and drink your water. And, we'll see you back here at "Room 9." Bye, everybody.

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(Describer) Titles: Nature in Room Nine.

-[gentle music] -[rooster crowing] Welcome back to our amazing classroom! It's that time for our favorite wildlife expert, Mr. Bare Hands Beran! Hey, hey, hey, Dr. Sanders, how are you? I'm doing all right, how about you? We are doing good. I'd like to introduce you to Rocky. Oh, look at Rocky. Yeah, so Rocky is an Eurasian Eagle-Owl. Okay, okay. And Rocky-- where is Rocky from? Where do you find Rocky? So, you will find Rocky all up and down the Mongolian Mountain range. It separates Asia and Europe. -Okay. -Yeah. So he inhabits all those counties -that have "-stan" in them. -Okay. Pakistan, Tajikistan, all those countries like that. All right, and I see he just turned his head all the way around. Yeah, so he does have the ability to turn his head 280 degrees. Now to give you-- that's zero, now turn back this way. All right, that's 180. Oh, so he can...oh my goodness. He can go further than that, but not all the way around. Not all the way around. He can't go quite all the way around. And, why does he need to turn his head all... Why does he need to turn his head? Well, the reason why he has to turn his head, is because you see these great big 'ole eyes right here? Mm-hm. Those eyes are fixed solid in his skull. So, his eyes don't move like ours. See, I can move my eyes around. See kids, y'all can move your eyes around? He cannot move his eyes. So, he has to move his whole head. Oh, okay. So like, we're looking over our shoulder. But he has to look everywhere? He's gotta look everywhere. Okay, okay. And, how does he get his food? So these guys are stealthy fliers and hunters. As a matter of fact, they make zero sound when they fly.

(Describer) Dr. Sanders flies his hand forward.

Yeah, just like that. -Oh, wow. -Exactly like that. Yeah, and so he'll see a little mouse, or he'll see a little liming on a rock, and he'll swoop in with these giant talons, right here. Look how big those talons are. Okay. And, he'll catch his prey item. And then, he'll squeeze it. Oh, and then he eats it? And then, he eats it. And he is a hard-core carnivore. Okay, explain that. What's a hard-core carnivore? A hard-core carnivore is much like myself. But eats only meat. So, no berries? No vegetables. As a matter of fact, the only vegetable content that he eats is inside the stomach of the mouse that he swallows. Okay so, we're going to make y'all. Do not eat like Rocky. You need your fruits and vegetables. And you need to chew your food. -And chew your food. -Yeah. Is it possible? Go ahead, I'm sorry. Oh, I was just going to say that Rocky has a bigger mouth than what it looks like.

(Describer) It opens a couple inches.

See how big that mouth is? Anyway, he swallows his food whole. Oh, all right, all right. You know, when I was in school, and maybe later, maybe some of y'all do it. I used to dissect owl pellets. Correct, correct. That's because owls cannot digest fur, teeth, toenails, or bone. And so what happens is, that stays in a special little compartment, they extract all the other nutrients out of the animal. All the fat, amino acids and meat, and then they cough up the pellet that comes out this end. Oh, it comes out the front end, okay. And then, they may just dissect them. Yeah, and then they can dissect them. Okay, okay, I have a question. What's the question? Is it possible that I can hold Mr. Rocky? Absolutely, Rocky loves to be held. So, what we're going to do, is this glove is going to go on your left hand. All right. I'm going to take my glove out, you slide your hand in.

(Describer) Rocky wobbles to keep his balance.

There you go. Now, make a fist. Make a fist and hold it. And then, turn around like this.

(Describer) Dr. Sanders turns toward the camera.

Perfect! And then, you can pet him like this. -Oh! -Feel how soft that is. It's really soft, it's really soft. It's like a cloud, it's so soft. Since I'm holding him, I bet you can make the sound that Rocky makes. So Rocky does not make the traditional hoot, hoot, the hoot owl. He just goes, "Ah-oo, ah-oo." Oo! I mean, ah-oh, ah-oh. You almost got it, try it again. -Ah-oo, ah-oo. -Perfect. Thank you, thank you. Rocky is nice and calm. He is, he's a really good owl. He's also a famous owl. He's a famous owl? How is he famous? So, he's been in several TV productions and movies. Cool. Does he sit like this in all his productions? No, we usually have him flying. Oh, okay, okay. He's very trainable. However, fun fact. Owls are on the lowest end of avian intelligence. Oh! That's okay. Rocky looks like he's very intelligent to me. Well a big part of it is, because those eyeballs take up 50% of the space in his head in his skull. [chuckling] A little hollow up there. Not a lot of room left for any brain material. All righty, well thank you for bringing Mr. Rocky in. Yeah, absolutely. Boys and girls, did you enjoy Rocky? I'm enjoying him because I get to hold him. -But, I'll see you in a bit. -[gentle music]

(children) One, two, three,

(Describer) Titles: Math.

four, five, six, seven. Hi there, "Room 9." It's me, Mrs. Williams, the Woodland Creature teacher. When I'm not here teaching and learning in "Room 9" with you, I'm teaching and learning at Windsor Elementary, where I teach first grade. So hi, and lots of love to my woodland creatures, and all of my Windsor C-1 family. And this one goes out to Grandma Laura. Today, we're going to be learning about the days of the week. Hm? Let's stop and think about this. How many days are there in a week?

(Describer) She turns to a poster.

Well, let's check. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. There are seven days in a week. And the best way that I know is to remember the seven days in a week, are the special song. So, I'm going to sing it once, and then, I want you to sing it with me.

♪ There's seven days ♪

♪ There are seven days ♪

♪ There are seven days in a week ♪

♪ Sunday, Monday ♪

♪ Tuesday, Wednesday ♪

♪ Thursday, Friday ♪

♪ Saturday ♪

Now, it's your turn. I'll sing it a little bit slower so you can stay with me. Here we go.

♪ There are seven days, there are seven days ♪

♪ There are seven days in a week ♪

♪ Sunday, Monday ♪

♪ Tuesday, Wednesday ♪

♪ Thursday, Friday, Saturday ♪

Great job, guys. Now, let's talk a little bit about those days of the week on a calendar. So the whole purpose of a calendar is to help us organize how many days there are in a week, and how many days there are in a month. There are lots of days in a month. And it depends on which month we're talking about how many days there are. So taking a look at our calendar, we're starting here on Saturday, as the first day of the month. Now, let's take a look at this row, because this shows us the entire week. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. This calendar can help us to organize all types of things. It will help you know when it is time for school to be over for the week, your last day of the week. And it'll let you know when it's time for, maybe your soccer practice, on Sunday, the ninth. And, it'll help you remember to call and wish your friend a happy birthday on the 12th. So, one more time, our seven days of the week. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Which day is your favorite? That's all I got for you today. I will see you soon. Lots of love and a big smile. -[gentle music] -[rooster crowing]

(Describer) Titles: Nature in Room Nine.

(Describer) Rocky's big orange eyes stare. Titles: Quick Facts.

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Now we have some fun facts about Rocky. Yeah, so interesting things about owls is that their eyeballs are not spheres. Their eyeballs are actually long tubes. And that way, they can focus and see a very long distance. All of these feathers right here, make up their facial disk. And that facial disk is what moves sound to their ears. Another fun fact about owls is that their ears are not symmetrical like ours. They're asymmetrical. One is up here, and one is down here. Eagle owls and all owls are hard-core carnivores, meaning that they only eat meat. They don't eat any vegetable material. And then, you see this fur down here?

(Describer) On his feet.

That's actually not fur. It's actually modified feathers. Oh, wow. And all owls have four very strong talons. And these two talons back here, they can move them around, so you have two in the front, or he can have three in front. All right, thank you for those fun facts about the owl! See you in a bit.

(Describer) Candice appears on a cell phone screen.

[air whoosh]

Great day! It's Candice with KHAOS, and I want to introduced you to my friends here. This is Tia right here. Tia is an amazing little girl. So Tia loves to dance, and she loves to rollerskate, and she loves to do people's hair. But also, Tia worries a lot. She worries about almost everything. She drives across the bridge with her family, and she worries, "What's going to happen if we drive across this bridge?" Or when she's in school she's like, "What's going to happen while I'm in school?" And so, Tia has to really work on being PATIENT with herself. And, she works on other people being PATIENT with her, as well. Because sometimes she worries about making friends, and keeping friends, because she thinks about what other people are going to think about her. And sometimes, Tia gets into arguments with people, because she gets a little irritated when she can't control what's happening around her. And so, when we talk about being PATIENT, we're making sure that she learns how to: Pause And Think, Inhale, Exhale, now Talk, or Now Tap Out. Can you say, "PATIENT?" So, I want you just like Tia, to think about being PATIENT whenever there's a time in your life where you have a whole lot going on. I want you to Pause And Think, Inhale [inhaling], Exhale [exhaling], and Now Talk if you can. But Tap Out if you can't talk without being rude, or being mean to somebody, or being rude with yourself. Because nobody wants to be rude to themselves, or anybody else. That's just not fair. So, I want you to try that out. Let a trusted adult know how it works out, and have an amazing day. I'll see you soon. -Air hugs and cyber kisses. -[chimes ringing] Welcome back, everybody. It's bright and sunny in the class today.

(Describer) He removes his sunglasses.

Did you have a great adventure? Oh, I did, too. But, it's that time for us to get out of "Room 9." But before we go, we're going to spell our favorite word. And what's 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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(Describer) Title: Teaching in Room 9.

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