See how this video models descriptive writing with a vivid paragraph from an 1800s miner's perspective, using sensory details to bring the pasty and the mining experience to life.

Have you heard all the buzz about bees lately? Join Mr. Peterson as he explores two native Michigan bees and their role in pollination. Plus, learn how a Venn diagram can help organize your thoughts and improve your writing skills when comparing and contrasting!

Do you love tasty treats? So do we! Mrs. Mora helps us to understand how to use vowels to break words into parts and how to read and understand multisyllabic words all while learning about food related terms.

Take a trip with Mrs. Mora as she teaches us how prefixes and suffixes can help us understand challenging words related to travel.

Learn strategies to help decode words using prefixes and suffixes. Mrs. Mora teaches us how large words, like renewable, can be easily decoded by understanding word parts!

Learn bow to use word parts, like prefixes and suffixes, to break big words down into understandable word parts.

Learn how to use vowels to break words into parts to make them easier to read. Mrs. Mora shows us how to break apart an important word to learn about syrup farming.

Farmers use a lot of challenging words as part of their work growing and harvesting our food. Mrs. Mora teaches us how to use prefixes and suffixes to decode words related to farming.

What are the people who help us stores and restaurants called? Service workers! Learn all about these community helpers as we prepare a menu and start our own pizzeria!

Learn all about Food and Farm Workers, who are very important Community Helpers. Then, try farming for yourself by learning how to plant your own food!

Where can you go to find books, movies, music, and so much more? The library! Libraries are the home for books in our communities and they are run by librarians. Learn all about how librarians do their work, and then help us write a song all about them!

Learn about the community helpers that keep our bodies healthy – medical helpers! Then, learn how to keep germs away and how to teach others to do it too.

Learn about the people who make the buildings in our communities...construction workers. Learn about the tools they use and even practice building on your own!

How do packages and letters make it to our homes? They are delivered by community helpers called mail carriers. Learn how to write your own letters to a friend.

Follow a recipe to make a healthy snack with a funny face, and read a story about gardening.

Learn all about the letter /a/ including its sounds, and how to write it. Then find the letter /a/ in a riddle about an agile animal.

Play with the sounds that start words and act like animals in the outdoors in this exciting episode.

Practice action, or movement, words as we read the story Over and Under the Pond.

Take a trip outdoors using our imaginations and write about your adventure with some help from Mr. Colón.

Practice writing the first letter of your name in a sandbox, talk about other things that you can do in a sandbox, and strengthen our core muscles with a fun Brain Break.

Learn all about the letter A, have fun with sounds, learn one new high-frequency word, and sing a song.

Read a book that compares what schools looked like in the past and what schools look like now, then sort sounds in words as we learn the -sh- sound.

Answer the big questions: What are the parts of a map and how can a map help me describe where I live? Then, work with words that have the -ar- spelling.

Help answer the question: What is special about Michigan? Then work on compound words and read some facts about Michigan, and RACE to write an informational text.

Learn all about the letter T, play with sounds, learn two new high-frequency words, and learn a silly song about our names.

What did schools look like in the past, and what do schools look like now? Plus, try a word ladder to practice -sh- sounds at the beginning and end of words.

Make your own book about where you live and learn about different ways to spell the sound /or/.

Learn about compound words, read about Michigan, and write an informational text.

Learn all about the letter H, play with sounds, learn two new high-frequency words, and read part of a story.

Learn the diagraph sound -ch- and some new high frequency words with diagraphs -ch- and -sh-.

Learn about different ways to spell the sound /er/ and answer the big questions: What are the parts of a map and how can a map help me describe where I live?

What is special about Michigan? Learn about the re- and un- prefixes, read a hybrid text about a Michigan turtle, and work on some informational writing.

Learn all about the letter I, play with sounds, learn a new high-frequency word, and read a story.

Build words, write a sound poem and learn more about schools of the past and today.

Draw a map of your neighborhood, then read and match homophones with the /air/ sound.

Learn more about the prefixes re- and un-, and work on some informational writing.

Learn all about the letter L, review the alphabet, learn two new high-frequency words, read a book about families and write a sentence.

Practice the -th- sound and learn about names.

Learn about your town and about the /ear/ sound.

Help answer the big question: what makes you a Michigan kid? Learn about the -ful and -less suffixes and practice narrative, writing.

Learn all about the letter M, learn a new high frequency word, read a poem and listen for rhyming words, and build a sentence.

Sort words with the -th- sound and solve a word mystery.

Make maps of your country and your continent and learn about spelling words with the /oy/ sound.

Learn how base words change when we add a prefix or a suffix, and work on some narrative writing.

Learn all about the letter P, play with sounds, learn two new high-frequency words, discover letters all around us and read a story.

Learn about special patterns called blends for -bl-, -cl-, and -fl-. Then review the -sh-, -ch-, and -th- sounds.

Make a book about the world we live in and learn about words with the /aw/ sound.

Answer the big question: what is special about my community? Learn about the -able and -er suffixes, read a text about a powwow, and practice narrative writing.

Learn all about the letter O, play with sounds, learn two new high-frequency words, and read a story.

Learn about -gl-, -sl-, and -pl- blends and write a type of poem called an acrostic.