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How are you?

Welcome back to the Discovery Ranch.

I am Mr. Dawson and I'm here taking you on discoveries so that you can learn how to read and write.

I was just typing a note to my friend, Mrs. DeLacerda, because we have missed her around the ranch.

Oh, I wish you were here, so I could just say, "Hey, how are you?"

But alas, she has to take care of herself, for sure.

So, you know, when you're here at the Ranch, you know that if you will write to me here at Valley PBS, I will send you an activity book.

That's right.

Write to me and tell me something you have learned on the show.

We better get busy learning some things, so you can write to me.

Let me go over to my Discovery Ranch bucket and we can review the phonemes and the letters.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

E, egg, eh.

R, rose, err.

F, fire, ff.

N, nest, nn.

C, camel, keh.

H, hippo, huh.

Umbrella, uh, oh, you missed that one.

I'm gonna start all over again.

Here we go.

U, umbrella, uh.

Remember, it's okay to make mistakes.

That's how we learn, we get better.

P, piano, puh.

V, volcano, vv.

X, box, kss.

And don't forget that we have a letter that we have been learning, Q.

Let me get this right here, so you can see everything.

Here we go, Q, queen, kwuh.

Kwuh is for Q.

Now, we need to find the pictures that have the kwuh sound.

And remember, here it is again.

If there's a Q, usually that U is right there next to it, just like one queen.

Kwuh, Q-U.

Here we go.

Let's look at some more pictures and figure out if it has kwuh is for Q.

This is a quail.

Listen to that beginning sound.

Quail, kwuh, kwuh.

Do you hear it?

Yes, so I'm going to put the Q, which is a monkey letter.

And remember, sometimes people leave it like that and sometimes they put a hook.

And if Q is there, its friend the U is not far behind.

Right next to it.

Okay.

Here is another word, car, car.

Do you hear the beginning sound?

Car.

Keh, keh.

We don't want that one.

No way.

No way.

Here's one.

This is a quill.

Can you say quill?

Quill.

What's the beginning phoneme on that one?

Quail, quill, sorry.

Quill.

Kwuh is for Q.

And remember, if the Q is there, the U is not far behind.

Let's look at the next picture.

Quarter.

Do you hear the very beginning phoneme?

Quarter, quarter, kwuh.

Kwuh is for Q.

So I have to put a Q on that one for sure.

And remember, if the Q is there, yeah, the U is not far behind.

Okay?

Let's look at this next one.

Do you know what this is?

It's a quilt.

Can you say quilt?

Quilt.

Kwuh, kwuh, kwuh is for Q.

So I'm gonna put a Q. Yeah, I heard you.

That was really good.

That's right.

If you have a Q, the U is not far behind.

There it is.

Okay, let's look at this one.

Map.

Mm, oh, you got it right away.

Mm, mm is not the phoneme we're looking for, so I'm not gonna put anything there.

Let's do this last one.

Question mark.

Question mark.

Kwuh, kwuh.

Yes, kwuh is for Q.

So I'm gonna put that Q, and you know what goes next.

Right, the U.

There you go, we found all the words that have kwuh is for Q. Kwuh is for Q.

We found all of them.

That is so cool.

Well, that must mean that it's time for daily phonemic awareness.

Woo-hoo.

We have been learning how to sound out words, find their phonemes, isolate them, and then put the letters that go with those phonemes.

Let's look at the word we're going to do today.

Today, we're gonna do box.

Box.

Can you say box?

Box.

Okay, you ready to do slow motion slow?

Remember, we've been talking about that?

Let's see if we can do slow motion slow and isolate all the phonemes.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

Buh, ah, kss.

How many phonemes?

Three.

Three.

What was the beginning phoneme?

Buh, right.

What was the middle phoneme?

Ah, right.

And what's the ending phoneme?

Kss.

Three phonemes.

Now all we have to do is find the letters that go with those phonemes.

So, the first phoneme is what?

Buh.

Buh is for B. Buh is for B.

There's the B.

Okay.

What was the middle phoneme?

Ah.

Ah is for O. O.

There's the O. Oh, they put it on there really good.

There it is, oh.

And what's the ending phoneme?

Kss.

Kss is for X. X.

There it is.

Let us sound it out and see if we made the word box.

Here we go.

Buh, ah, kss.

Box.

Box.

We did it.

We spelled the word box.

Oh, that's so nice.

So, now it's time for our sight words.

Let's go over to the sight word area and learn our sight words.

Do you remember the sight words?

Here they are.

Do you remember this one?

What's this one?

Or.

O-R spells or.

And what is this one?

They.

So nice.

Spell they.

Right.

They, T-H-E-Y.

That is so amazing.

Remember, if you can put these words in your brain, when you see them, you'll be able to read them, and if somebody asks you to write them, you'll have no problems.

You'll say, "Oh, I know how to spell or.

It's O-R." There you go.

Now, we've also been taking about verbs, and remember, verbs are action words that tells what is happening, what is happening, that's right.

I have four words up here, foxes, climbs, smells, and kicks.

What I wanna do is find which word fits best in these sentences.

Will you help me?

Okay, here we go.

Mia mm the soccer ball.

Which one is gonna fit?

Foxes?

Mia foxes the, no, that doesn't even sound like a verb.

Okay, climbs.

No, no.

Which one do you think is gonna fit best?

What?

Really?

That's interesting.

Let's see.

Let's see.

See if it works.

I heard somebody say kicks.

Let's find out.

Mia kicks the soccer ball.

Sure, what would you do?

You could kick a soccer ball, sure.

So kicks is the verb.

Why?

Because it's telling the action.

Let's do this one.

Elias mm the flowers.

Which one do you think on that one?

Really?

Okay, I heard somebody say smells, so I'm gonna put it in there.

And let's read it and see if it sounds right.

Elias smells the flowers.

That did.

That did.

That is the verb.

Why?

It's telling what's happening.

Yes, that's awesome.

You guys are so smart.

Here's the last one.

Carissa mm the ladder.

Would it be foxes or climbs?

Yes, climbs.

There's the verb.

Carissa climbs the ladder.

So what was the action with Mia?

Yes, kicks.

What was the action with Elias?

What was he doing?

He was smelling.

Right.

And what was Carissa doing?

Climbing.

Right, climbing.

Very nice.

You are learning about verbs nicely.

Well, let's end our day with our passage.

Yesterday we found all the Qs.

Oh, my goodness.

Let's read our passage again.

Are you ready?

I can not quack.

My duck can quack.

He can jig.

I can jig with my duck.

But I can not quack.

Do you know what I wanna do today?

I wanna look at the sentence.

Remember, there's four parts of a sentence.

It has to have an uppercase letter, it has to have a punctuation, it has to have a verb, and it has to have a noun, or a subject that we're talking about.

So if I look here, look.

I have an uppercase letter, that's for sure.

And I have punctuation.

In this case, it's a period.

But let's think.

What would be the noun?

What was the subject?

Oh, there it is, it's duck.

The duck, my duck.

The duck is the noun, so what is the verb?

Can.

Can.

And I put the N for noun and V for verb, 'cause can, can is the verb.

So it does, it has all four parts.

It had an uppercase letter, it had a punctuation, it had a noun, and it had a verb.

So that is a sentence.

It has to have all four of those things to be a sentence.

Well, we've learned so many things today.

We learned about the letter Q.

We learned about verbs.

We learned how to spell words.

Oh, it's so amazing.

I hope to see you tomorrow, so that we can learn some more.

Bye.

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