♪ 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 ♪ (mellow music) (jolly music) - Hey, how are you today?

I'm Mr. Dawson and we're here at Discovery Ranch, doing a lot of things, and I was gonna write some things down, but you know what?

I totally forgot what I was gonna write.

So I'll just have to do that later, later, later, later.

Look, that's the kind of day it is today, but that's okay.

We're here today, learning all that we can, so we can learn how to read and write.

Join me here each day, so that we can learn something new.

In fact, if we're gonna learn something new, I have something right over here to show you.

Yes, you probably know.

What is it?

It's our activity book.

Well, how do you get an activity book?

Remember, all you have to do is write to me right here at the station, Valley PBS, and guess what?

We will send you an activity book.

All you have to do is write to me and tell me something that you have learned.

Do it today.

All right, we're going to review our letters.

Are you ready to review our letters?

You ready?

Here we go.

W, window, wuh.

G, guitar, guh.

T, turtle, tt.

I, insect, ih.

Q, quiet, qwuh.

What?

I did it wrong?

Sorry.

You're right.

Okay, let me do this one over again, so I can do it right.

It's okay to make a mistake.

Mistakes are good, that's how you go and say, "Oh, that's right," and then you do it better the next time, like right now.

O, octopus, ah.

N, nest, nn.

C, camel, keh.

H, hippo, huh.

U, umbrella, uh.

P, piano, puh.

This is the one we did the other day.

V, volcano, vv.

And our letter today is, oh-oh.

Hmm, where is that letter?

It should be here.

Oh, oh, it's up here.

It's up here.

Sorry.

Yes.

Here's our letter for today.

It's X, box, kss.

Here's the uppercase X, and here's the lowercase X.

And it says kss.

In fact, here's a video to tell you more about the letter X.

(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Consonant X.

The letter X stands for the kss sound you hear at the end of box.

Three other words that end with the letter X are six, ox, and fox.

This is an uppercase X.

This is a lowercase X.

This is how to write the uppercase letter X. Slant down, go back to the top, slant down to cross.

This is how to write the lowercase letter X. Slant down, slant in to cross.

It's your turn.

- Did you learn a lot about the letter X?

But the one thing you didn't learn is that X is a chicken letter.

That's right, because it's in the top, in the middle, excuse me, and then it goes down to the bottom.

And remember that the phoneme for X is kss.

But I wanna tell you something kind of cool.

X usually, the phoneme for it is usually heard in the middle or the back of the word, and never at the front.

So let's take a look at these pictures and I want you to notice that the kss is for X is not, is not, in the front, but in the back, so listen very closely.

Here we go.

Listen to fox.

Fox.

Fox.

Do you hear the kss at the back?

Kss is for X.

Let's listen to this one.

Six.

Listen to it.

Six.

Do you hear the kss at the back?

That's because kss is for X.

And let's take a look at this last picture.

Ax.

Ax.

Do you hear it?

Ax.

Kss.

Kss is for X.

Did you see how all of those had the kss in the back?

And that's the way X is.

Very cool letter, very special letter.

We'll work on that some more tomorrow.

So what time is it now?

That's right.

Do you see it?

It's time for daily phonemic awareness.

Remember that we have been talking about alliteration.

Alliteration is when you hear a lot of words that have the same phoneme and letter at the very beginning.

That's right, there's a passage right under here, and I have it right here and I want to read you a passage and see if you can figure out the phoneme and letter that goes with all the words at the beginning.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

Larry loves to leap off logs like a lively little frog.

Laura loves to be lazy and lie in lovely leafs piled up high.

Did you hear a lot of words that had the same phoneme?

You did?

Okay, that's what we wanna know.

What letter, what letter did you hear that was the same in a lot of words?

Right.

Okay, I think I heard what you guys said.

Ll.

Ll is for L. Are you ready?

Are you ready to see?

Okay, let me peel off my paper.

Here we go.

Oh, and look right there.

Look.

Let's see if you found them all.

Yes, let me get my little pointer right here.

Look, you were right.

L, L, L, L, L, L. Look at all those Ls.

I have Larry, loves, leaps, logs, likes, lively, little, Laura, loves, lazy, lie, love, leafs.

They all had ll.

Ll is for L. Very good.

Now, if you can identify those things, remember, being able to hear those same sounds, it's gonna help you to read and write.

Now, talking about words, let's take a look at our sight words.

Are you ready?

They're right over here on my chart.

Let's take a look.

Remember, if you can remember these words in your brain, when you see 'em, you'll be able to read 'em.

And when you need to write 'em, you'll go, "Oh, I know it."

Okay, and these are the two words that we have been doing all week, just to make sure we can get 'em in our brains.

Here's the first one, of.

How do you spell of?

Yes, O-F spells of.

O-F spells of.

And here's the other one.

Do you remember what this one is?

What is it?

Yes, it's have.

Let's spell have.

H-A-V-E spells have.

Whoo, you guys are awesome.

Of and have.

All right.

Now, let's move on to plural nouns.

I like how they're right next to my sight words.

It kind of makes it convenient.

All right, here we go.

Remember, with nouns that we wanna make plural, there's a rule, and the rule is if a word ends with Z, S, X, ch, sh, we're gonna add S. And if it doesn't have one of those letters, we just put an S. So here we go.

I have four words up here.

I'm going to read them.

Ant, inches, maps, lamps.

And here's what we're gonna do.

It's kind of easy today.

Let's see if you can do it.

You ready?

I want to find the one that is not plural, that is not plural.

Do you see it?

Right, it's ant.

How do I know it's not plural?

Because it doesn't have an S or an es, so this one is not plural, but inches, maps, and lamps, those words are plural.

Nice job.

All right, now let's end up doing our passage for today and tomorrow.

I think I'll just put it right up here and then we can read it.

Are you ready?

The title is Sick Fox.

Are you ready?

Let's read.

Max is a red fox.

Max is sick.

Is the vet in?

Can the vet see Max?

Oh, I cannot believe it, a sick fox.

You know what I wanna do?

I wanna find the Xs.

Kss is for X.

Are you ready?

Do you see one in the title?

Right.

Right there.

And look, do you notice it's at the end?

It's at the end.

How about in sentence one?

Right.

Okay, I hear you.

It's two.

Where are they?

Oh, in Max and, well, that's it.

Oh, I know what I'm doing wrong.

I'm in sentence two instead of sentence one.

Sorry.

X there and then where was the other one?

In fox.

And notice that they're at the end.

Now I don't have to do sentence two, because we already did it, why?

Mistake.

I've been making lots of mistakes today.

And guess what?

Mistakes are okay.

They help us to say, "Ooh, I can do it different, so I can learn."

That's really how you learn, boys and girls.

It's by making mistakes.

And then you say, "Ooh, I'm gonna correct that mistake," and then you go, "Oh, now I know what to do."

Is there an X in three?

I don't see an X in three, but how about in sentence number four?

Yes.

Which one?

Right.

There it is.

And what's the phoneme for X?

Kss.

Kss is for X.

And look, where is the X every time?

It's in the back.

Yes.

I don't know too many words that have X in the front, that have kss for X that's in the front.

Usually the X is in the middle or at the end.

So that's cool.

All right, well tomorrow, guess what we're gonna do?

We're gonna do plural nouns again.

So I wonder, can you see the plural nouns?

They're there.

They're there.

Okay, so let me tell you that today we were talking about the letter X. Kss is for X.

And we also did alliteration.

We're gonna do it again.

We're gonna do it again.

So be ready.

And then we did plural nouns and then we did sight words.

Oh, we had so much fun.

We had so much fun.

Guess what?

We're gonna do it again tomorrow on Thursday.

Oh, I'm so excited.

Now, listen, you're gonna do a lot of work today.

Do it well and let's be back here tomorrow, so we can learn as well.

Bye.

(mellow 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 ♪