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

Mr. Dawson here at Discovery Ranch.

I'm gonna take you on some discoveries, so that you can learn how to read and write.

Do you remember, did you remember all the stuff that we did last week?

Oh my goodness, I am ready for this week.

Hey, hey, hey, did you watch last week?

Did you watch Punxsutawney Phil and see whether or not we're gonna have winter?

Yeah, so we're gonna have winter but I guarantee you, if you go outside it is going to be, you're gonna see leaves starting sprouting so I don't think we're going to have winter anymore in fact it's a little bit warm over here at the ranch.

Hey, don't forget, that If you write to me and tell me something you've learned this week, guess what?

I'm gonna send you an activity book.

That's right, send it right here to Valley PBS.

We have a lot of things to do.

I don't even know if we're going to get through all of it, but we're gonna try.

And let's get started right now.

Let's review all the letters that we've been learning.

Are you ready?

Let me hear your voice loud loud loud.

Here we go.

E egg, e. R rose wr.

F, fire, ph.

N, nest, gn.

C, camel, ck.

H, hippo, h. U, umbrella, u.

Are you saying then with me?

Piano, excuse me.

P, piano, p. V, volcano v. What's next?

What's next?

What's next?

X, box, x.

Uh oh, it tried to get away from me.

And this we, today we're gonna do j, jump, juh.

Do you remember the letter j?

Yes, this is the letter j.

Remember, that this is the upper case and the lower case.

Let me put it right up here so we can remember what we're learning.

There it is.

And now, watch this video to learn a little bit more about the letter j.

(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Consonant J.

(air whooshing) The letter J stands for the j sound you hear at the beginning of jump.

(rope thuds) (air whooshing) Two other words that begin with the letter j, are jam and jet.

This is an uppercase j.

This is a lower case j.

This is how to write the uppercase letter j, straight down, curl back, then stop, straight across the top line.

This is how to write the lower case letter j.

Straight down, past the bottom line, curl back, then stop, dot above.

It's your turn.

- Did you learn a lot about the letter j?

Do you know the one thing you didn't learn in that video, is that lowercase j is a monkey letter.

That's right, why is that?

Do you remember?

Yes, because the j starts in the middle and it goes down but it goes below the line, you remember that?

It goes below the line.

Yes.

So here's the uppercase j, here's the lowercase j. J jump dge.

Well let's look at some pictures over here.

And listen to the j sound at the very beginning of each one.

Here's one, jacket.

Can you say jacket?

Dge, dge, dge jacket.

Dge, right.

Dge is for j, that's right.

Let's look at the next picture.

Juice.

Can you say juice?

Right.

Listen to that very first sound.

Dge, dge, juice, dge.

Did you hear it?

Right, when you hear dge, you know dge is for j.

Let's look at this one.

This is a jar.

Can you say jar?

Right, this is a jar.

Listen to the very first sound, jar, dge, dge, dge.

When you hear that dge sound what do you know?

Right, dge is for j.

So all three of these had the dge sound in the beginning, so I know that dge is for j.

And if we look at our card again, that's the whole thing right up here.

So look, j, jump, dge, dge is j, isn't that awesome.

Oh, wow.

That is so cool.

What time is it now?

What?

Oh, I know, it's time for daily phonemic awareness.

Wo hoo!

What are we learning about today?

Oh my goodness.

Oh my goodness.

Do you remember a couple of weeks ago, when we did we did sounding out some words and then we put the letters that went with it?

We're gonna do it again.

We didn't have much time, so we only did one a day and that's what is gonna happen today.

Let's look at our picture for today.

Do you know what this is?

I have to say this is one of my favorite pictures I use every time.

This is a yak.

Can you say yak?

Right.

Okay, let's get our, our hands up and do slow motion slow are you ready?

Let's go we're gonna do yak.

Here we go.

Yak!

Just like in the movies when they do slow motion.

It helps us to isolate our phonemes.

What was the beginning phoneme.

Yah.

what was the middle phoneme?

Ah.

And what was the ending phoneme?

Ck.

Good job so now all we have to do is find the letters that go it.

What is the beginning?

Yah, yah is for y, right.

There is my y.

There is my y.

What's the middle phoneme?

Ah.

Do you see the ah is for a right.

Thank you for helping me with that.

There's my a.

And what was the last sound?

Yah, ah, ck.

Ck is for K, right.

And there's my k. Yah, ah, ck.

Yak, yak.

We did it, awesome.

Oh, that is so cool.

We'll do another one tomorrow.

But right now, this is the time for us to learn about our sight words this week, are you ready for sight words?

Let's go over here and check out which sight words we're going to be reviewing today.

Here they are.

Oh my goodness, I have the word or and I have the word they.

Oh, that's so exciting.

Remember if we can put those sight words in our brain, we can read it when we see it and if somebody says, "Hey, can you spell a word?"

Then you'll be able to spell it.

How do you spell or?

Right o-r, spells or.

And then this is the word they, how do you spell they?

T-h-e-y spells they.

It's kinda cool that it's kind of like sideways, it doesn't always have to be straight up and down.

They, or, and they.

A while back, when we did this, I had some fun.

And it was verbs.

Do you remember verbs?

Let's remember verbs with this video, by Professor Giesenberg, - Hello, I'm Professor Giesenberg, and I know all there is to know about words.

Today, Mr. Dawson wants me to talk to you about action words.

We here in the scientific community refer to action words as verbs.

What does it mean?

Action words.

Oh, I know.

Instead of showing you on my chart I'm going to demonstrate to you what verbs are.

Because verbs are anything that Professor Giesenberg can do.

For instance, I could run.

I could walk.

I could, oh, bend.

Yes.

And I could, I know, lift.

(professor groans) Oh Professor Giesenberg just went out.

So action words, can be anything that you can do, and we refer to them here at the scientific community, as verbs.

Now, Professor Giesenberg has to go to the doctor.

Back to you, Mr. Dawson.

Oh!

Oh my back.

Oh my back.

- Poor professor Giesenberg I hope that he feels better.

Remember, verbs are action words that tell what is happening.

Just like we said, well, here I'm gonna do some and see which one I'm doing.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

What am I doing?

What am I doing?

Oh, I gotta stop.

Whew.

What was I doing there?

I was jumping, so I could put that right there.

Look, I can jump.

Jump is telling what is happening?

What is happening?

I was jumping.

Maybe let's do one more, are you ready?

Here we go.

(Mr. Dawson groans) What am I doing?

Right, I'm climbing.

So I can climb.

Here it goes, right there.

I can climb.

Verbs we're going to be studying them all week.

Verbs are action words that tell what is happening.

Hey, we're almost out of time, but I think I just have enough time to get to our quick story.

Here we go.

The title of my story is Quick Jan. Let me read it.

Quin has no jam in the jug.

Quin can get Jan. Jan is quick.

Jan can get jam and get back.

(Mr Dawson laughs) You know what I wanna do?

I want to get some js, I wanna find some js, can you help me?

Here we go.

There's one, j, dge is for j, jam.

How about jug?

Dge, dge, jug.

Dge is for j.

And Jan, Jan dge is for Jan. You know what?

I better stop there.

We're almost out of time.

We've done so much, we just jam-packed it today.

Jam, juh, juh, is for Jay.

We've jammed a lot of stuff in today by learning the letters, and verbs, oh, I'm gonna have to go, but we'll do some more tomorrow.

Come back tomorrow and let's have fun together.

Bye.

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