♪ 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) - A lot of friends.

(keyboard clicking) Hey, good morning!

Mr. Dawson back here at Discovery Ranch, and yes, I can always use more friends.

I was just telling some people about that.

Hey, what are we doing here at the ranch?

That's right, we're learning how to read and write.

Join me here every day so that we can do some great learning together.

And if you do, look right here, if you do, I'll send you an activity book.

Just write right here at Valley PBS, and tell me something you've learned this week, and I'll send one of these to you.

Write me today!

Well, let's get started.

What do we do first?

That's right, we're going to review all of our letters.

Let's come back over here.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Let's get it done.

W, window, wuh.

G, guitar, guh.

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

No, I'm not gonna make that mistake again.

Oh, octopus, ah.

N, nest, nnn.

C, camel, cuh.

H, hippo, huh.

U, umbrella, uh.

P, piano, puh.

V, volcano, v. And what is the letter that we've been learning?

That's right, X.

The uppercase X, and the lowercase x. X, box, x.

Remember yesterday we were talking about how when we hear the X is for X, it's usually in the middle or at the end.

So I want to look at my pictures today, and I want you to listen for the X, and this time it's going to be in the back.

So if you hear the X is X in the back, then I will write the X.

Just like here they put box.

Listen to that ending sound.

Box, x. X is for X, so that's why they put X.

Let's look at this one.

What's that?

Oh, that's a candle, candle.

Candle, no, no, that doesn't have that X sound.

So forget it.

I'm not doing it.

Okay, let's do the next one.

What is this?

Ox, ox.

Ox.

Oh, I do hear the X, X is for X.

So guess what?

I have to put that X there.

And I remember that it's a chicken letter.

There I go.

Okay, let's look at the next one.

Can.

Do you hear the ending sound there?

Can.

No, that's a N, we want X.

Well, let's take a look at this one.

That's a hat.

Listen to that ending phoneme.

Hat, t, no, no, no.

That's not right.

I don't want that one either.

Let's listen to this one.

Ax, ax.

Ax, yes!

Yes, that one has the X sound at the very end.

So let's do that one.

All right, you guys are doing a wonderful job.

Let's look at this one.

May be hard to see, but that girl is doing a mix.

Mix.

Do you hear the X at the very end?

Mix.

Yes, so we're gonna have to put an X there, Because X is for X.

All right, last picture.

Here we go.

Here we go.

What's the word?

Six, listen to the ending phoneme.

Six, X, do you hear it?

I hear it too.

So we're gonna put a X is for X.

We found all the pictures that have X is for X at the very back.

We did it!

That is so cool!

We're getting really smart.

All right, what time is it now?

Right, daily phonemic awareness!

Here we go, whoo!

And we've been learning about alliterations.

Remember what alliteration means?

What does alliteration mean?

Right, it means all the phonemes and the letters that are the same in a passage, and we've been doing a lot of them all this week.

Now here's another one.

I'm gonna read it, and what's your job?

That's right, listen to the words, all the words that have the same phoneme and letter at the very beginning.

That's what we're going to do, and we're gonna put the letter right there.

Are you ready?

Okay, here we go.

Danny doesn't dare to dig in the dirt with Dot the pig.

Dora doesn't dare to try her dad's dreaded pickle pie.

Ugh, pickle pie?

Ugh.

Never heard of that.

Heard of fried pickles, but not pickle pie, no way.

I wouldn't try it either.

Oh, I got lost in that pickle pie.

Hey, what is the phoneme that you heard that was the same in that passage?

Right!

It was duh, duh.

And what letter is that?

Duh is for D. Let's take a look at the passage now and look at all the D's that we have.

Look, do you see all the D's in that passage?

Look at them all.

Look at 'em.

Danny doesn't dare dig, dirt, Dot, Dora doesn't dare, dad, dreaded.

Oh my goodness, look at all those.

They have duh is for D, and that's what alliteration is.

All the words, a lot of words that have the same phoneme and the same letter.

Well, we've done alliteration, now it should be time to do, that's right, sight words.

Let's take a look over there at our sight words.

Are you ready?

Let's head over there.

Okay, let's see if you can do the sight words all by yourself.

What are they?

Whoa, that was pretty good!

Right!

This is the word of, and this is the word have!

Great job, you did it without me!

That's so wonderful.

Of and have, and remember, when you know these words, you'll be able to read 'em in books as well as write them.

Yes, yes, that's why we want to learn these sight words and just have them in our brain.

Okay, well, let's talk about nouns and making nouns plural.

Remember, if a word ends with Z, S, X, CH, SH, we're gonna add ES, but if not, we just add the S. And I have two sentences.

Let's see if you can find the noun where I've added the S to make it plural.

Here's the first one.

The blocks are red.

The blocks are red.

Where is the noun that's plural?

Yes, blocks.

Do you see how it has the S there?

Now, it didn't have, look.

It has a K. No K, no K, so that's right.

I just add the S. Let's look at the next one.

I put two lemons on the dish.

Do you see the noun that's plural?

Right, lemons, and what did I add, an S or an ES?

Why did I add an S and not an ES, then?

Right, because it's an N, and N is not one of our letters, no way.

So we have to add just an S and not an ES.

That is so wonderful.

Man, you guys are so good at this.

I can't believe it.

When your teachers see you and see what you can do, they're gonna go, "Whoa, that's amazing!

Where did you learn that?"

And you're gonna say, "Well, I learned that at Discovery, the Discovery place."

Where are we at?

Discovery Ranch, right!

Here at Valley PBS!

Whoa!

Yes, that is so cool.

Well, here's the last thing we're gonna do today.

It's our passage.

Are you ready to read our passage?

Let's read it.

What's the title?

"Sick Fox."

Let's read it.

Max is a red fox.

Max is sick.

Oh!

Is the vet in?

Can the vet see Max?

Oh my goodness.

All right, yesterday, we found the letter X in all of those.

How many were there?

Let's count them.

One, two, three, four, and five.

Well, today, we're going to look up for the proper nouns.

Are you ready?

Remember, a proper noun is a noun that has a name.

It's a noun that has a name.

So we have to figure out which one of these are proper nouns.

Are you ready?

In number one, do you see a proper noun?

Yes, even though it's at the beginning, Max is a proper noun, because it's a name of something.

In this case, a red fox.

So Max.

Oh, how about in two?

Yes, Max again, right.

Because it's uppercase, but I also know that Max, we remember, is the name of the fox.

How about in three?

Is there a proper noun?

No, no, I was gonna say is, 'cause it's an uppercase letter, and that's one of the clues that we look for, but I say no, because I know that's the beginning, the beginning letter of a sentence.

And remember, there's those four rules for a sentence.

And one of them is it has to start with an uppercase letter.

So this is just the sentence and not a name.

Okay, let's look at the last one, number four.

Can the vet see Max?

Yes, Max again, look.

Max again.

Isn't that awesome?

That is so awesome.

Hey, I have a little extra time, so look at this.

I just want to just point out is, a, is, is, the, in, can, the, see!

What are those?

Those are all sight words!

You remember I was telling you, if you put them in your brain and remember them, when you see them, you'll say, "Oh, I know that word!

It's the word see!"

That's the kind of thing I'm talking about with the sight words, by just putting them in your brain and remembering 'em, you can say, "I know that word!"

And you guys did it.

That was really nice job.

All right, well, it's time for me to go here at the ranch.

I got a lot of work to do out there to get rid of that snow and just get ready.

But we learned so much today.

We learned about the letter X.

We learned about alliteration.

We learned about plural nouns, and even proper nouns.

And we learned about sight words.

So amazing.

Well, guess what?

Tomorrow is Friday, reading day!

Be here so we can use all those things to read and write.

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 ♪