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K-318: Finding the Letter Q in I Can Not Quack
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K-318: Finding the Letter Q in I Can Not Quack
Season 3 Episode 85 | 14m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Kindergarten teacher, Mr. Dawson, welcomes students back to Camp Discovery, a fun learning space packed with reading adventures & fun games!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ 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.
Yeah, I'm just hanging with Ms. Hammack.
That's right.
But I have to go now.
Okay.
See ya.
Hey, how are you guys today?
Mr. Dawson here at Discovery Ranch, right there, yes.
And what are we doing?
That's right, we're learning how to read and write, and we have all kinds of activities that we're going to do today, including learning a new letter.
Yeah, I was hanging out with my friend, Mrs. Hammack.
She's gonna be leaving for a little bit, and I just wanted to say, "Hey, have a good time."
Just like we're gonna have a good time right here at the ranch.
And don't forget, if you will write a letter to me and tell me all the things you've been learning right here at Valley PBS, I will send you an activity book.
We better get started learning something so you have something to write about!
Let's begin by reviewing our letters and phonemes.
Here we go.
E, egg, eh.
The more you say these, the more it'll get right in your brain.
R, rose, urr.
F, fire, fff.
N, nest, nnn.
C, camel, cuh.
H, hippo, huh.
U, umbrella, uh.
P, piano, puh.
V, volcano, v. X, box, x. J, jump, juh.
And this is the one we're going to learn today.
Q.
There's the uppercase Q, here's the lowercase q.
This is a queen.
Q, queen, qwa.
It's kinda cool because usually if you have a Q, U, the friend of Q is never far behind.
It's like, they're always together.
They're a pair.
They like to be together.
Q and U, and it says qwa.
So let me put this up here so that you know we're learning the letter Q, and here we go.
Here's the uppercase Q, and the lowercase q.
And here's a video to tell you more about the letter Q!
(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Consonant Q.
The letter Q usually appears with the letter U.
Together, they stand for the qwa sound you hear at the beginning of queen.
(people applauding) You can also hear the qwa sound made by the letters Q and U at the beginning of quack, (duck quacks) and quilt.
This is an uppercase Q.
This is a lowercase q.
This is how to write the uppercase letter Q. Circle back, then around all the way, slant down.
This is how to write the lowercase letter q. Circle back and around, straight down, curl forward.
It's your turn.
- Did you learn all there was about the letter Q?
But the one thing you didn't learn is what kind of animal letter is the lowercase q!
That's right, it's a giraffe.
Not a giraffe letter, that's a monkey letter.
Why?
Because it goes below the line.
All right, there's uppercase Q and the lowercase q. Qwa is for Q.
Now look at our pictures today and listen to the very beginning sound in all of these, and you're going to hear that phoneme that we're working on.
Here we go.
This is a quilt.
Can you say quilt?
Quilt.
Listen to the very beginning sound, qwa, qwa, qwa.
Qwa is for Q.
Let's look at this one.
This is a quarter.
Can you say quarter?
What's the very beginning sound?
Qwa.
Qwa is for Q, and let's look at our last one.
This is a question mark, question mark.
Do you hear the very beginning sound?
Qwa.
Qwa, qwa is for Q.
Now I want to look at these words down at the bottom.
I don't usually look at these, but I want you to take a look at these words.
Look at this word, this is the word quit, but I want you to notice that they put the Q, but right next to it is that U.
The Q and the U are often found together.
Look, here's the Q, and there's the U in the word quack.
And here's the word quick.
Look, do you see it?
There's the Q, and there's the U.
They are not often apart.
They're usually together.
That's right.
Okay.
So we learned about the letter Q. Qwa is for Q.
What should we do now?
Yeah.
Why not?
Let's do daily phonemic awareness!
(whooshes) Just like a jet.
We've been learning about sounding out words and putting the phonemes and the letters that go with those phonemes to spell the word.
The other day, we've done, we did yak, and then we did sun.
Now we're gonna do this one.
This one's gonna be pretty easy, I think.
This is dog.
Can you say dog?
Okay, now remember, when we're getting the phonemes and isolating the phonemes, we do it using that really cool skill and strategy called slow motion slow.
At least that's what I call it, and it's like in a movie, they always go slow sometimes so you can really see the action, and that's what we want to do, because if we do, then we'll be able to segment all the phonemes.
Are you ready?
Here we go.
We're gonna do dog.
Gotta remember it.
I got it in my brain.
Here we go.
Do you have your hands up?
Here we go.
Duh, aw, guh.
How many phonemes?
Three.
And we were to find those, why?
Because we did slow motion slow, right!
What was the beginning phoneme?
Duh, duh.
What was the middle phoneme?
Aw, and what was the ending phoneme?
Guh.
Now all we have to do is find the letters that go with those phonemes.
Are you ready?
Duh was the very beginning sound.
Which letter is that?
Oh, right!
It's D. Duh is for D. What was the middle phoneme?
Aw, aw.
Aw is for O.
Let me see, oh, here it is right here.
O.
And what was the ending phoneme?
Guh, guh is for G. And I found the G right here, down at the bottom.
I'm gonna put it right here because G is a monkey letter.
So it's gotta go below the line.
Remember that below the line.
Okay, let's put it back together and see if we have spelled the word dog.
Duh, aw, guh.
Let's blend it.
Dog, dog, dog.
We did it!
Oh, we've done all of these words.
I better find some more words for tomorrow.
Okay, here we go.
Oh, I know.
I know.
We have to do sight words.
Let's come over here and remember our sight words.
Are you ready?
Here we go.
What's this one?
Right, it's or, or.
And what is this one?
They.
Let's play a little game, you ready?
I am going to spell a word, and you tell me which one it is, you ready?
T-H-E-Y.
Shout it out.
What's the word?
Right!
It's they, they!
Whoa, that was amazing!
Let me do another one.
O-R. Shout it out!
Shout it out!
Right, or!
Or!
We did it!
Or and they.
If you put those words in your brain, when you see 'em, you can read them.
And when somebody says, "Hey, can you write the word they?"
You can say, "Oh, that's easy.
That's easy, T-H-E-Y!"
Yes!
Wow, that is so amazing.
Okay, let's move on to verbs.
We've been learning verbs all week.
Remember, verbs are action words that tells what is happening.
I have two sentences today.
Are you ready?
My first sentence is Youssef reads a book.
So I'm looking for the word that's telling what is happening in the sentence.
Youssef reads a book.
Good job, good job.
What he can do is read.
He reads a book.
There is the verb.
The verb is telling what is happening, in this case, reads.
Let's do the next one.
Sophia plays a game.
Let me get my frame here.
Which one is the verb?
Which one is showing the action?
Right, plays!
That's kind of an easy one, because we play a lot.
Yeah, Sophia plays.
That's the action word.
So reads and plays, they are both verbs, and they're showing the action that's happening in each sentence.
That was amazing.
Let's go and do our story.
Let's look at our story for today.
Let me get this down and put this up.
Let's look at our story.
Are you ready to look at our story?
Look at all those sight words that are there.
One, two, three sight words, that if you know them, if you know them, you can say them.
Let's read it.
I can not, and this is quack.
I can not quack.
Let's read.
My duck can quack.
He can jig.
I can jig with my duck.
But I can not quack.
Oh, you know what today is, we're gonna find the letter Q today.
Are you ready?
In the title, you have a Q there.
In this first sentence, there's a Q. Qwa is for Q.
And sometimes, they don't put a hook on a Q.
You gotta be careful of that.
You gotta be careful of that.
Oh, and here's one right here.
Do you see?
There's no hook on that.
But it's still a Q for sure.
All right.
So here we found three words.
I don't think I found any other ones.
I have one there, one there, and one there.
And do you remember what Q, what is the phoneme for Q?
Yes, qwa is for Q.
We learned it right up here.
Qwa is for Q.
We've done so much today.
We've learned about the letter Q, we did more verbs, we did the sight words or and they.
Oh, I'm so excited.
We're gonna learn more tomorrow.
Don't forget to tune in and learn more with us, and we'll see you later, 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 ♪ (upbeat music)