♪ 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) - Well, good morning, boys and girls!

Welcome back to Discovery Ranch!

Man, I had a great weekend, but guess what?

I'm back in the place to show you some stuff.

We have been working hard at the ranch, and there's still a lot of snow, and did you see that, oh, more snow came.

Oh my goodness, we have so much to do around here at the ranch, but guess what?

Now, we have a lot to do right here.

Remember, we're here every day to show you things so you can learn how to read and write.

So let me take my jacket off, but I'm gonna keep my hat on because I want to keep my wigwam.

(laughs) Yes, hey, don't forget, though, that if you will send me a letter right here at Valley PBS, and tell me something you've learned this week, Guess what?

I will send you an activity book.

That's right, just write me here at the studio, and I will send you a book.

We're gonna learn two new letters this week.

We're gonna do some phonemic awareness.

I have two new sight words.

Oh, we're gonna have so much fun, and then remember on Friday, guess what?

It's reading day, and we're gonna use everything we've learned to read and write on Friday.

But let's get started with what we need to do.

We're gonna review our letters.

Are you ready?

Let me hear those loud voices!

Here we go.

W, window, wuh.

G, guitar, guh.

T, turtle, t. I, insect, ih.

O, octopus, ah.

N, nest, nnn.

C, camel, cuh.

H, hippo, huh.

U, umbrella, uh.

P, piano, puh.

V, volcano, v. And this is the letter we're gonna do today.

This is the letter V. Do you remember doing that before?

I hope you do.

All right, so let me put this up here, because this is the letter that we're going to do, and remember that this is the uppercase V and this is the lowercase v. And now here's a video to tell you more about the letter V!

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] Consonant V. The letter V stands for the v sound you hear at the beginning of volcano.

(volcano erupting) Two other words that begin with the letter V are vet and van.

This is an uppercase V. This is a lowercase v. This is how to write the uppercase letter V. Slant down, slant up.

This is how to write the lowercase letter v. Slant down, slant up.

It's your turn.

- Did you learn all you could from that video?

There's one thing that you couldn't learn, and that is what kind of animal letter is the letter v, the lowercase one.

It's a chicken letter because it's in the middle and it goes to the bottom.

Doesn't go below the line, and it doesn't go to the top of the line.

Just sits right there, so it's a chicken letter.

Yay!

So this is V, volcano, v. That's right.

Okay, and look at number one.

I have some pictures that have that sound that comes out of my mouth very first thing.

Listen to it, we're listening to v. You ready?

Here's the first one, violin, violin.

V, v is for V. Let's take a look at this one.

What is that?

Volcano, volcano.

Did you hear the very beginning sound that comes out of my mouth?

V, volcano, so that is v is for V. And then the last one.

Now, a lot of people don't wear these much anymore, but this is a vest.

Can you say vest?

Maybe I should find a vest and wear it.

Vest.

V, there it is.

Do you hear the very first sound that came out of my mouth?

V. V is for V. Nice job.

So I have violin, volcano, and vest.

That is so awesome.

So now you can see that v is for V. V is for V. Yes!

What time is it now?

Oh, I know.

It's time for daily phonemic awareness!

Okay.

Let me get right over here.

And I am gonna talk about alliteration this week.

Alliteration?

What does that mean?

Well, guess what?

I have Professor Giesenberg, and he's gonna let us know about alliteration.

Take it away, Professor Giesenberg!

- Hello, my name is Professor Giesenberg, and I know all there is to know about words.

Today, I'm going to talk to you about the word alliteration.

Can you say alliteration?

Yes, that's a big word.

But even though it's a big word, I'm going to explain to you what that is.

Now, when you have a lot of words that have the same beginning sound, that's called alliteration.

Listening for words with the same sound and the letters will help you learn how to read.

Let me give you an example.

Listen to this sentence.

Ted took his tools to town.

There are a bunch of words in there that have the same sound at the beginning.

Did you hear them?

Let's do it again.

Ted took his tools to town.

(grunts) Get my hand out.

Let's look right here.

Here is the sentence.

Ted took the tools to town.

Do you see the letters that are the same?

Yes, the T in Ted, that T in took, the T in tools, the T in to, and the T in town.

Alliteration is when all those words start with the same sound, the same phoneme, and the same letter, in this case, the letter T. So alliteration means many words that have the same phoneme at the beginning and the same letter.

Back to you.

- Alliteration, a big word, but really all it means, just like professor Giesenberg was telling us, is that the first phoneme in the words are the same, with the same letter.

Just like, look at this one.

Do you see this one?

Look at all those.

What is the sound that you see the most that's at the very beginning?

That's right, it's the letter S!

So I'm gonna put an S right here.

Now, tomorrow, I'm going to read one to you, and you're going to do this all by yourself.

Well, I'll help you a little bit.

Let's keep going.

We're gonna come over here and look at our sight words this week.

What sight words do we have?

Are you ready?

We have the word of, O-F. Can you say that?

O-F spells of, yes.

And then we have the word have.

Can you say have?

Yes, have!

So how do you spell have?

H-A-V-E spells have.

Of and have!

Oh, you have to learn those this week.

Can you do it?

I bet you can.

Now let's also talk about our grammar.

This week, we're gonna visit how to make plural nouns again.

Remember, if a word ends with Z, S, X, CH, SH, then we're going to add an ES, an ES.

But if it doesn't, then we're gonna just add the S. Are you ready?

Let's go.

Here's mop.

This is the word mop.

Does it end in one of these letters?

No, so what are we going to do?

This time, we're just going to add an S. Now mop becomes mops.

Let's look at this word, bush.

Bush.

Does it have one of the endings we want?

Yes, it has the SH, so what are we gonna add?

Right, we're gonna add E and S. You know what I want you to do?

I want you to think of these two by yourself, leg and box.

What should we add to these two?

What should we add?

Think about it.

Think about it.

Well, guess what?

It's time to do our reading.

Today and tomorrow, we're gonna do this one.

It says "Fix it, Vick!"

And what I want to do is try to find some V's.

Are you ready?

Mom has to pick up Rex.

But the van can not go.

Get Vick!

Vick can fix the van.

Did you see all the V's?

Did you see the V's?

Okay.

Let's find them.

Oh, here's one, V, v is for V. Do you see an, oh, here's one in number two.

Do you see one in number three?

Yes, right here.

And how about in number four, that sentence?

Yes, there's two of 'em!

There's two of 'em!

That's right, that's right.

Here's there, there's one there, and where's the other one?

Right in the back, right!

Good job.

And what is the phoneme for the letter V?

Do you remember?

We just did it.

We just did it.

That's right.

It's v, v is for V. Oh, we had so much fun doing this one, and we had so much fun throughout this day!

We're learning so much.

We're learning V, alliteration, oh my gosh, this is a big word.

Oh, that means the first phoneme and the first letter.

And then we did plural nouns.

Well, come back tomorrow, because tomorrow, we're gonna have much more fun, and we're not gonna have it unless you're here with me.

Have a great day, and 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 ♪