♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music) (playful music) - Right, right.

I understand.

You can't do it until the snow melts.

Well, that'll be a while, but I gotta go.

It's time for me to go do the show.

All right, bye.

Hey, welcome back to Discovery Ranch!

I'm Mr. Dawson, and I'm here to take you on some adventures around the ranch, so you can learn how to read and write.

Join me here each day so we can learn new things.

And why would we want to learn new things?

Well, of course, to read and write, but also, if you write to me and tell me the things that you learned, I will send you an activity book.

That's right!

I will send you an activity book.

Just write to me, write and send it to Valley PBS, right at this address, and I will send you an activity book.

All right, so let's get started so you can tell me something in a letter.

Let's review all of our letters.

Now, yesterday I did it kind of fast, and I felt bad.

So today I'm gonna try to slow it down so that you can have a good time reviewing them and keeping these letters and phonemes fresh in your brain.

Here we go.

C, camel, cuh.

H, hippo, huh.

F, fire, fff.

R, rose, urr.

P, piano, puh.

E, egg, eh.

Wow.

K, koala, kuh.

U, umbrella, uh.

A, apple, a.

D, dolphin, duh.

L, lemon, ull.

B, bat, buh.

T, turtle, t. We're gonna stop there, because I want to talk about our letter that we started yesterday.

Do you remember our letter?

Right, it's the letter G. Remember there's an uppercase G, and then there's a lowercase g, and the phoneme for G is guh.

So it goes like this, G, guitar, guh.

Now, we're gonna take a look at some pictures and find which picture has guh is for G at the very beginning.

Are you ready?

Just like on this one right here for gate, guh, guh, gate.

They put G, because guh is for G. Let's take a look at this one.

What is that?

That's a gorilla.

Can you say gorilla?

Gorilla.

Listen to the very first sound.

Guh, guh, gorilla.

Now, is that have guh is for G?

Yes!

So guess what?

I'm going to put a G there.

Why?

Because the very first sound was guh, and guh is for G. All right, let's take a look at the next one.

This is a gift, gift.

Think about that.

Do you hear the guh at the very beginning?

Guh, guh.

Yes, guh, so guh is for G. So I will write the letter G here.

And remember, that is a monkey letter, so I have to go below the line to put that hook.

There you go.

Okay, let's take a look at the next picture.

What is this?

This is a goat.

Can you say goat?

So I'm gonna listen to the word goat.

Goat.

Guh, guh, guh.

Yes, guh is for G. So I'm going to put that lowercase G there.

Go below the line.

There you go.

Let's keep going.

What about this one?

What is this?

Umbrella, umbrella.

Uh, uh.

No, that doesn't have guh on it, so I'm not gonna put anything on that one.

Let's go to the next picture.

Guitar, guitar.

Guh, guh, git.

Definitely, that had guh at the very beginning, so I am going to put guh is for G. Wow, all right.

You guys are helping me so nicely on these.

Okay, let's look at this one, what is this?

Right, girl.

Okay, let's listen to it and see if it has that guh sound at the very beginning.

Guh, guh, girl.

Guh.

It does, so I have to put a G because guh is for G. All right, last one.

Last one.

Let's look at it.

This a book.

Book.

Can you say book?

Book, buh, buh, book.

No, that doesn't have guh, that has buh.

That's a different letter.

Well, it looks like we're all done with that.

That is so awesome.

All right, so what should we do now?

What?

Right, right!

Daily phonemic awareness!

All right, remember that we have been practicing sounding out words and getting their phonemes and putting them on the board, the letter, the right letters.

Okay, so the word that we're going to do today is box, box.

Are you ready for box?

All right, get those hands up.

Get those hands up.

Remember, we gotta go slow motion slow so that we can get all the phonemes.

Are you ready?

Get that hand up.

Here we go.

Go.

Buh, ah, x.

How many phonemes?

Right, it was three phonemes.

What was the first phoneme?

Buh, right.

What was the middle phoneme?

Ah, and what was the ending phoneme?

X, all right.

So all we have to do is find those phonemes and put 'em in the right place.

So what was the beginning phoneme?

Buh, buh is for B, right.

So I'm gonna get the B, and I'm gonna put it right here.

What was the middle phoneme?

Ah, ah is for O, right.

Oh, it's being stubborn.

Okay, so I'm gonna put it right there.

And then what was the last phoneme?

X, right?

X, X is for X.

That is so cool.

Right there, look.

So I'm gonna put the X right there.

Let's see if we did it.

Let's blend it now.

Buh, ah, x.

Box, box!

We did it!

That is so cool.

You guys are getting so amazing at segmenting, finding those phonemes, and putting the letters that go with those phonemes.

You are amazing.

Keep up the good work.

All right, so let's stop there, and what I want to do is talk about our sight words.

Are you ready to talk about our sight words?

Well, let's go over here to our sight words.

Let's look at them.

Do you remember this word?

Yes, this is the word was.

Can you say was?

Let's spell was.

W-A-S spells was, was.

Let's do this one now.

Do you remember that word?

Right, it's the word for.

F-O-R spells for.

And like I've been saying, when you take these words and we put them in our brain and we remember them in our brain, when we see these words, we can read them, and if somebody asks us to write these words, we can say, "Oh, we can do that, 'cause I remember right up here in my brain."

Yes!

Isn't that a good thing?

Now, usually I would be talking about proper nouns right here, but as you can see, there's nothing there.

So where is that proper noun stuff?

Oh, it's right over here!

I'm gonna do it over here today.

Look right here what I have.

Oh, I have a word right here, but first I want to put a yellow piece of paper, and then I'm gonna put a word right up here.

Look at this word.

It's the word park.

Can you say park?

Yes, but look, it's lowercase.

Why is that?

Because it's just a regular noun.

Right now it's a regular noun, but we want to talk about proper nouns, and remember, a proper noun is a noun that has a name.

So for instance, if I was talking just about a regular park, that would be great.

But if I had a park with a name on it, like if I had Woodward Park, look at that.

All of a sudden, guess what I have to do?

That's right, the first letter of each name has to be uppercase.

Woodward, and then I'm gonna do park, but now, because it's the name of a park, I have to put it uppercase.

Why is that?

Because I'm talking about a specific park, and because I'm talking about the name of a specific park, I have to put uppercase letters.

Because if it's a name of something, I have to make it uppercase.

Just like if I had a park, it would be Dawson, and then I'd say park, but it has to be uppercase because it's part of the name.

Do you see that?

Proper nouns, nouns that have a name.

Well, let's end up talking about our passage that we did yesterday.

Remember yesterday, we were looking for the letter G, and we found a lot of letter G's in this.

Do you remember that?

And remember that guh is for G. Let's read it.

Get the Bug.

Sam can see a bug on the rug.

Dad can get the bug.

Dad can set it on a deck.

The bug is in the hot sun.

Whoa, well, the first thing I want to do for sure is see if you can find a proper noun in this passage.

Remember, it's a name of somebody or something or someplace, it's gotta be the name of something.

Okay.

So, yes!

Whoa, that's pretty amazing.

You got it so quickly!

Yes, here's the uppercase letter for Sam.

Sam is the name of dad.

This is dad.

Dad is just any dad.

But when we're talking about this person, Sam, says Sam's dad, or yeah, Sam's dad.

Here's Sam, and we're gonna do uppercase because Sam is the name of the son, actually.

That's right.

So uppercase, proper nouns.

If it's a name of something, we always make it uppercase.

Well, that's all we have time for today.

I hope that you come tomorrow so we can learn some more.

I'm so excited to be here with you.

We'll see you tomorrow!

Bye!

(upbeat music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪