(bright upbeat music) - Good morning boys and girls, and welcome back to Room Nine, the region's largest classroom.

It is Dr. Sanders, here to teach a little, ELA and math, to all of my Pre-K and K students who get to watch me.

But what do I always say?

It doesn't matter if you're two or 102, you can have some fun.

Let's spell fun, F-U-N, fun.

I work at Adams Elementary in St. Louis public schools.

Let's take a look at our objectives for the week.

Students will at ELA, understand problem and solution.

And in math, you identify the value of, oops.

I had to write the word of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.

And then I made a mistake.

And parents and grownups and teachers.

Please don't forget to look at pbslearningmedia.org.

It'll help.

It has so much fun stuff on there.

So much fun stuff and helps you get to learn.

You can learn about coins on your own after you get done with me.

If I don't teach you everything.

All right, are you ready to get started?

Let's get started.

Let's get started with some sounds.

Are you ready for some sounds?

I'm a tell you a word and you have to tell me what sound you hear at the beginning, middle or end.

And I'll let you know.

Here we go.

The first word is Vowel.

We have five vowels.

Vowel.

What letter do you hear at the beginning?

Vowel.

What sound?

What letter makes that sound?

A, V. You're right.

A, V makes that sound.

All right, what about Guppy?

Guppy, what letter makes, emit the sound you hear in the middle?

Ah, ah.

I told you the sound.

That's the sound?

What letter makes that sound?

A, U.

You are right.

A, U makes that sound.

And, map.

What letter do you hear at the beginning?

What sound do you hear at the beginning?

Map.

What sound?

What letter?

You hear the M what sound does it make?

Let me hear you.

Yes.

all right.

Tick.

What sound do you hear at the end of tick?

What letter makes that sound?

Yes, sometimes C but K. You all right.

Tick.

And at the end of tick, it's actually C K. And our last word is rough.

What letter do you hear at the beginning of rough?

R, you are right.

The letter R. R makes the what sound?

Rough, rap.

I'm a rapper, and you didn't know it.

But I will show it.

I'm sorry, I just get into my rap game.

All right, boys and girls, it's time to take off my hat.

Right?

I forgot who told me?

Yeah, I should've been listening.

Let me take off that hat.

Let's look at some of our friends' names.

The first name we have is Londyn.

Hi, Londyn.

What letter does Londyn start with?

A capital L. And what letter is this right here?

Yes, N. I heard so many people.

We have two Ns.

All right.

Let's spell Londyn.

Londyn, L-O-N-D-Y-N. And London's mother getting contact with my principal.

And so I love that.

I get to say Londyn.

Hi, Londyn.

And our next name is Miss Kylie.

Yes.

That's Kylie.

Hi, Kylie.

What letter is, what letter does her name start with?

A capital K. Let's spell Kylie.

K-Y-L-I-E. Hi, Kylie.

And whose name is this?

Yes, that is Jeanetta.

Hi, Miss Jeanetta.

And what letter is this?

A capital J.

And Jeanetta was my principal a long time ago, but hi.

And she's an amazing woman.

We are celebrating women this month, right?

Let's spell Jeanetta.

J-E-A-N-E-T-T-A.

Hi, Miss Jeanetta.

And whose name is this?

Yes that's Miss Jackie's name.

Hi, Ms. Jackie.

What letter does her name start with?

Just like Jeanetta.

A, J.

Let's spell Jackie.

J-A-C-K-I-E, and boys and girls.

Ms. Jackie.

She was the one who did my hair.

Does it look good?

Does my hair look good?

Yeah, it was looking a little rough but she's an amazing hair stylist and she's amazing woman.

And got me looking.

Got me together.

Hey, Miss Jackie.

And whose name is this?

Mila-Rose.

Hi, Mila-Rose.

All the way down in Arizona.

Hi, Ms. Mila-Rose.

What letter is this?

A capital M. And what letter is this?

A capital R. She has two capital letters in her name.

Let's spell Mila-Rose M-I-L-A dash R-O-S-E. Hi, Ms. Mila Rose.

All right, boys and girls.

Let's take a look at some of our sight words.

I hear them in my mind.

And I'm gonna use my ruler.

My handy dandy ruler.

Let's spell our words.

We'll read our words and we'll spell a couple of them.

Away, big let's spell big.

Big, B-I-G. Big, came, down, eat.

Did you eat your vegetables today?

Funny, good.

What'd you mean no, you didn't eat your vegetables?

They're good for you.

Help.

Do you need help?

Do you need me to help you eat your vegetables?

Let's spell help.

Help, H-E-L-P. Help, into, just, know, let, must.

You must eat your vegetables.

Let's spell must.

Must, M-U-S-T. Must, now, old, pretty, quit.

Quit putting your vegetables underneath the table.

Quit.

Let's spell quit.

Quit, Q-U-I-T. Quit, ride, soon, think, under, very, who.

Who is paying attention right now?

Are you?

Who and you.

That's right.

X-ray, your and zip.

Zip, let's spell zip.

Z-I-P, zip.

Do you know to zip your coat?

If you don't, what do you have to do?

Practice.

And all it takes is practice.

All right, boys and girls, remember we're talking about amazing women.

I would love to see some pictures of an amazing woman that you know.

Amazing woman in your life.

Somebody, maybe it's your teacher.

Maybe it's your principal.

Maybe it's your mommy.

Maybe it's your daddy.

Maybe it's your mommy.

Maybe it's your auntie.

Maybe it's, whoever, maybe your sister.

An amazing woman.

I would love for you to draw a picture and then take a picture of it and send it to Nine PBS tag Nine PBS.

I would love to see you all doing that.

All right.

Let's stand up.

Jump up and down 10 times, Go, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

Nod your head four times.

Go, one, two, three, four.

Let's do the way three times.

Go, one, two, three.

Hey, Freckles.

Yes.

Hi.

What do you wanna do?

I wanna raise the roof seven times.

Are you all ready to raise the room seven times.

Raise the room seven times.

Go, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

All right.

Anything else you want to do with Mr. Freckles or Miss Freckles or just Freckles?

I would love to see kids do the jumping jacks.

Hey kids, can you give me 10 jumping jacks?

Here we go.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

All right, Mr. Freckles, thank you for joining us today.

Thank you Doctor Sanders for allowing me to be in your class.

Teaching in Room Nine.

Boys and girls, don't forget to send those great pictures of your parents, or the greatest woman in your life.

Women are amazing, and I wanna make sure we celebrate all our amazing women.

Bye.

All right, let's sit down on three, one, two, three, up down, up down.

Sit right down on the ground or in your chair or on the couch.

Don't jump on that couch.

Or in your seat or on the floor.

Just don't leave out the door.

I'm not done yet.

Hopeful Ninja.

The book we are reading today is called Hopeful Ninja.

And it's written by an amazing woman, which the publisher, Grow Grit Press allowed us to read her book and her name is Mary Nhin.

And so, she's the author and a pictures of (inaudible) And it's called Hopeful Ninja.

This is the what?

Front cover.

This is the back cover.

And if you look, it's a whole series of books about the Ninja.

You should look it up.

But also, this is the what?

Spine.

And we are reading this with permission from Grow Grit Press, LLC.

Alright.

And this is the what?

Yes, that is the title page.

I'm sorry.

Yes, this is the title of the book.

"I'm gonna fly to the moon one day" announced Hopeful Ninja.

Who's that sound like?

Hopeful Ninja was very optimistic about her future.

She dreamed big and more often than not.

She would make her dreams come true.

How was she able to do this?

Hopeful Ninja was able to focus on her strengths and find the positives.

Even when things were turned upside down.

If she didn't get the class she wanted with all her friends, she looked forward to meeting new people and making additional friends.

When she didn't do so well in her schoolwork, she thought about how much she had improved since the start of the school year.

So we'll see hopefully Ninja.

She didn't always do, her problem was what was happening like in school she wasn't doing that good.

But her solution was, well I did good the rest of the school year.

Or I'll do better next year.

So she had a problem and solution.

In her spare time she loved reading stories of people who failed yet succeeded.

She visualized overcoming obstacles, just like she had.

And she reading that book we read last week about Amelia Earhart.

But Hopeful Ninja, wasn't always this optimistic.

Once upon a time, the world to her was quite bleak.

If Hopeful Ninja failed at something, she would feel sad and think negative thoughts.

"I'm not good at anything."

When her parents fought, she will worry and feel guilty.

"It's always my fault."

And her only exposure to people who failed and succeeded was very limited.

So she didn't know a lot of people who failed and then got out of it.

Do we think she can get out of it?

But her mindset changed after she was introduced to a great exercise that changed her life forever.

This is what I do.

This is what I do to grow a hopeful mindset.

It's called three Fs.

Find the positives, focus on our strengths, and follow success stories.

Find the positives.

Every situation has a silver lining.

If we look closely, there's always a positive, a good thing we can find.

Focus on our strengths, instead of looking at what we did wrong, we can choose to focus on what we did right.

Follow success stories.

My favorite way to build hope, is to follow success stories.

The people we follow can be real living people or people that we read about in books.

I have a book about Rosa Parks, a book about Anne Frank.

I think we've talked about Ms. Anne Frank, and Mae Jemison.

We didn't read a book about it but a lot of you all know who Mae Jemison is.

Hopeful Ninja, thought about what positive Ninja has said.

It seems so difficult to change her mindset.

But she was determined to be more optimistic.

So she decided to try it.

When the waitress announced that they were out of French fries, instead of complaining about it, Hopefully Ninja decided to find the positives.

"We can order a side of carrots and get our serving of vegetables in."

See Hopeful Ninja thought vegetables were good.

During down hour, she couldn't get her strokes down right.

So she focused on her strengths to keep her spirits high.

At home, she went to look for books in the library.

She was surprised to find that there were stories of real people who failed yet succeeded just like her.

One after the other, as she followed them, she was transported back in time.

The more Hopeful Ninja practiced the three Fs,.

the more hope it gave her that someday she would accomplish something magnificent too.

Remembering the three Fs could be your secret weapon to reach all of your dreams.

Check out.

Did you like that story?

Boys and girls, it is important to be hopeful.

We all have problems, some things we don't think we can solve, but, you can be hopeful to get there.

Right?

That's how you solve some of your problems.

What were the three Fs?

I can't hear you, say it again.

Yes, that's right.

Find the positives, focus on your strengths, and follow success stories.

And a lot of you can turn around right now and see success right in front of you.

And you can follow them.

All right, boys and girls you are amazing.

And let's get to some Counting.

Who's ready to count with me?

I'm ready to count with Doctor Sanders.

Who's ready to count with you?

I'm ready to count with you.

Let's see if we can get some bubbles.

The bubble (inaudible) broke.

So we got little a bubble.

You see this bottle.

Let's see if it works.

Woo.

I'm glad I get to blow bubbles.

I'm glad I get to blow bubbles.

Here we go.

Let's count from zero to 100 by twos.

Here we go.

Zero, two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 16 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 42, 44, 46, 48, 50.

I'm missing my yellows, but you can help me count.

Right?

52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100.

Let's count from zero to 100 by five, zero, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100.

Let's count from zero to 100 by tens.

It's like adding tens.

Zero, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90,100.

Let's count backwards by ones.

Just like subtracting.

Right?

Here we go.

10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

Lift off.

You heard the last time better?

Lift off.

all right.

Let's go from zero to 10 in Swahili.

From zero to 10 in Swahili.

(speaking Swahili) You all again so wonderful at that.

And if you can do it, or you can keep practicing.

And have your parents have a video for you.

Okay.

And I would love to see those tag Nine PBS in those videos, it'll be amazing.

Boys and girls.

What is this?

This is a quarter.

This is a quarter and a quarter is worth twenty-five cents.

Everybody say twenty-five cents.

All right.

And what is this?

It is a nickel.

Everybody say nickel.

And it is worth 5 cents.

Everybody say 5 cents.

5 cents.

(laughing) And what is this?

You're right.

That's a dime.

A dime is worth 10 cents.

And then we have a penny.

And how much is a penny worth?

Once cent.

I wanna show you something and just show you a little bit.

And just to show you.

All right.

I made this little chart and I take some, I take some coins to it and I want to show you how much each.

How much will make a dollar.

So we have how many quarters, how many quarters do you see?

One, two, three, four.

You have four quarters and four quarters, make a dollar.

And, if you had two quarters, guess what boys and girls.

you can buy a bag of chips, a little bitty bag.

The little bags of chips.

They're usually 50 cents.

And then I have on here, dimes.

Dimes are worth 10 cents.

That's like counting by tens.

So let's count by tens.

Let's see how many, let's count them first.

And then we'll come back tens.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

We have 10 dimes and 10 dimes.

Let's count by tens, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, one dollar.

10 dimes make a dollar.

And then Nickles, there were 5 cents, right?

So Nickles, it takes 20 nickels.

We're not gonna count them but it's like counting by fives to 100.

And 20 nickels will give you one dollar.

And then pennies.

I didn't put all the pennies.

It takes a hundred pennies to get to a dollar, a hundred pennies.

So these pennies and these pennies in the bag, they add up to a hundred.

I counted them.

It's a hundred pennies, which makes a dollar.

Boys and girls.

Guess what?

It's about that time to get out of Room Nine.

Let's spell nine, N-I-N-E, nine.

Thank you for being in Room Nine.

(bright upbeat music) - [Narrator] Teaching in Room Nine is made possible with support of Bank of America, Dana Brown Charitable Trust, Emerson, and viewers like you.

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