 Today I'm going to teach you how we do syllables. Syllables are words that are broken into chunks. We have one syllable words, two syllable words, and three syllable words. I have today a ball and a cube. This is a one syllable word and I'm going to show you how we can teach syllables. Children love movement. They love to move, they love to learn. So I'm going to do the clapping syllable. Then I can also do the stump, stump, stump syllable. I can also do the chomp, chomp, chomp syllable. But I'm going to start with ball. So the first syllable, let's do the clapping syllable for ball. Ball. I'll ask my students how many syllables. And they'll have to say one, cube, one syllable. So they love it. Sometimes they hear two. Then I'll say, okay, listen. I'm not going to say a word. I'm just going to clap it out. And you tell me how many claps there are. So I just clap out. And then they get it. They say, okay, ball, one syllable. Then we move on to two syllables. I broke it down so that you can see how the word, the sub words are broken up into syllables. These are two, a, po, ye, lo. Now let's use the stump, stump for these two syllables. So I'm going to say, a, po. And my students will say, I'll say, how many stumps did I have? And the students will say, two. Ye, lo, two. So one syllable, two syllable. And then we get to three syllable words. Three syllable words. Try, and go. Try, and go. Sur, lend, da. Sur, lend, da. Let's use our next movement, which is the chomp, chomp movement. So let's do triangle first. Try, and go. How many syllables? Then my students will have to say three. So let's try the next one. Sur, lend, da. And I'll say, how many syllables is that? And they'll say three. And that's a great job. You guys are doing a great job. What they love most about the syllables is their names. So I'll use me as an example. I'll say, I am Mrs. Dennell. So how many syllables are there in my name? Let's count. Dan, no. How many syllables is that? Two. Then I'll go around the classroom and I will call each child by their name and they have to stand up and tell me how many syllables are in their names. We can learn about syllables in various ways. We can do the months of the year like January. January has got four syllables. Now this is very tricky for young children. They got to listen very carefully. So this is when I say, listen carefully. I'm going to clap it out first before I say the word. And then I said, now let me say it together. January. This is difficult for them because some will say three. Some will say five. Some will say four. And I'll say, let's try it again. Let's do it together. January. So we teach them the months of the year. Then let's do one syllable. May. And then August. Two syllables. And then this is another one. Saturday. And they love doing that exercise with us. It's a fun game to teach your friends syllables and to improve on the fanatical skills.