♪ 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.

♪ (upbeat playful music) - [Mr. Dawson] Really?

That is awesome.

Okay, I have to go.

Thank you, bye.

Hi, my name is Mr. Dawson and I am here at Discovery Ranch to take you on some discovery so that we can learn how to read and write together.

I just got some exciting news - out on the ranch, our trees are starting to blossom.

Can you believe it?

Oh, everybody says it's earlier this year, but guess what?

It usually happens around the second or third week of February, so this is perfect timing.

Oh, I'm so excited about that.

Well, guess what else I'm excited about?

I'm excited to share some things with you today, but before I do, remember, if you will share with me what you've learned this week and write to me at Valley PBS, I will send you an activity book.

Write to me today and tell me what you've learned.

Well, let's get started.

You know what we're going to do.

That's right.

We are going to do our letter and phoneme review.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

X, box, (vocalizes X) J, jump, (vocalizes J) E, egg, (vocalizes E) R, rose, (vocalizes R) F, fire, (vocalizes F) N, nest.

(vocalizes N) C, camel, (vocalizes C) Are you doing it?

I bet you are.

H, hippo, (vocalizes H) U, umbrella, (vocalizes U) Hey, wait a minute, where - where's the one we're learning today?

What?

Oh, oh, oh, yes.

It's up here.

I keep forgetting.

I keep forgetting that.

Right, and we are learning about Y, yo-yo, (vocalizes Y), is for Y Now, we've done this before, we have some pictures and I want to find the ones that have "yuh" at the very beginning.

Let me get one of my trusty, dusty pens out.

Just like they did on number one, do you see that?

Yak, (vocalizes Y), and they put the Y.

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

That's a picture of a vest.

Vest.

Listen to that very beginning sound.

(Vocalizes V).

Vest.

No, we don't want that one.

Okay, let's check this one.

Oh, yolk, yolk, yolk.

Yuh, yuh, now that one we want.

Yuh is for Y.

And remember that Y is a monkey letter because it goes below the line.

Let's look at the next picture.

Do you know what that is?

Yarn.

Yarn.

Can you say yarn?

What's the beginning phoneme in yarn?

Yuh.

Yuh is for Y, so we have to put the Y there.

Here we go.

Oh, I bet you know what this is.

Right, it's a yo-yo.

What is the beginning phoneme in yo-yo?

Yuh, yuh, and we know that yuh is for Y.

So I'm going to put that lower-case y, our monkey letter.

Let's go to the next one.

What is this?

Yogurt.

Yogurt.

Do you hear the very beginning sound?

Yuh.

Yuh.

Yuh is for Y.

How smart, how smart.

I'm just so excited about this.

Okay, and our last one.

Or, not our last one, but our last row.

Yawn.

Yawn.

Oh, I do that a lot.

Yawn.

What is the very first phoneme in yawn?

Yuh.

Yuh.

Yuh is for Y So I'm going to put that Y there.

And then our last picture.

Jump, Jump.

What's the beginning phoneme in that one?

Juh, juh, we don't want that one, that's for sure, right?

So there you have it.

We found all the pictures that have yuh is for Y.

Now its time for daily phonemic awareness.

Oh and you remember, Professor was telling us that we can take one phoneme and change it for another phoneme and make a whole new word, Isn't that awesome?

Well I have a game for you.

Let's see if you can figure out which phoneme needs to be changed in this video.

- [Narrator] Hello kids, welcome back to .. (echoing voice) phonemic awareness.

That's right, kids.

It's another episode of phonemic awareness.

Today's picture is cub.

Can you say cub?

Let's find all the phonemes in the word cub.

Sound it out with me.

Ready?

Go.

(Vocalizes letters C-U-B) Wonderful.

Now, let's find all the letters that go with those phonemes.

What is the beginning phoneme in cub?

Right, (vocalizes C) is for C. Very good.

What is the middle phoneme in cub?

(Vocalizes U), that's right!

(Vocalizes U) is for U.

Man, your skills are awesome.

Now, let's figure out the ending phoneme.

What's the ending phoneme in cub?

Wow.

Right, (vocalizes B) (Vocalizes B) is for B, right.

Now that we have all the phonemes in cub, I want to change one phoneme so that cub changes into cut.

Which phoneme do we need to change?

That's right.

Man, you are so amazing.

We need to change the ending phoneme.

So if we take away the "buh" in cub, what phoneme do we need to replace it?

Right.

We need to change the "buh" to "t." That's great thinking.

(Vocalizes T) is for T. Now, that is awesome.

Let's sound it out and see if we have made the word.

C-u-t. (Speaking slowly) Cut.

Cut.

You did it!

Did you figure out that you had to change the B to a T?

Good job.

Well, let's continue on with our sight words.

Remember, sight words are important to put in your brain so that when you see them, you'll be able to read them, and if somebody asks you to write them, you'll be able to write them.

These words, they call them sight words or high-frequency words because they're words that you see a lot in books or use a lot in your writing.

And that's why you just put them in your brain and just leave them there.

And remember our words this week are here and me How do you spell me?

Oh, I tricked you that time.

I went over to this one first.

M-E spells me.

And how do you spell here?

H-E-R-E spells here.

Practice them every day.

Write them down, say the word and get them in your brain.

And then when you see them in a book, you'll say, oh, I know that word.

And you'll be able to read it.

Well, let's move on to verbs.

We've been talking about verbs and how verbs are action words, action words, and it tells what someone or something is doing.

So, we talked about how you can do it right now, but what happens to the verb when you do it in the past?

Well, I have a sentence I want to answer.

It says, what did I do at the park?

My clue is did, what did I do?

It's not what I'm doing right now.

It's what did I do.

So that's my clue, I'm gonna have to add the -ed to these words so that they can be in the past.

Here you go.

What did I do at the park?

I jumped.

I'm not doing it right now, but when I was at the park, I jumped.

So what did I do?

I added the -ed, and that tells me that it happened sometime in the past.

I played hopscotch.

Here we go, I added the -ed.

And that tells me that it happened in the past sometime.

And the last one says I kicked a ball.

It happened in the past.

And what did I do to show that it happened in the past?

A lot of times you're going to just add -ed, -ed, -ed.

And that tells me that it happened in the past.

It's not happening now.

I'm not going to do it.

It means I did it sometime long ago.

Maybe a minute ago, maybe a day ago, maybe a week ago.

Whenever I went to the park I'm adding the -ed to tell me that it's in the past.

Well, let's finish up with our story.

Let's look at our story again.

And then I'm going to ask some questions.

Are you ready?

It says the title is Yan and Jeb.

Yan won a yam.

Jeb won a bug in a jug.

"Yum," said Yan.

"Yuck," said Jeb.

Here's my question, I have two questions for you.

What did Yan win?

What did Yan win?

Yes, right.

She won a yam.

And what did Jeb win?

Right, he won a bug.

And where was the bug?

The bug was in a jug.

Why do you suppose Yan said yum?

Because a yam will taste good.

How about a bug?

Do you think a bug would taste - who wants a bug?

I would like to have a bug, but I don't know if I would eat a bug, that's for sure.

All right.

Well, that's all we have time for today.

We learned so many things today.

We learned more about the letter Y and it's phoneme "yuh".

And then we played a fun game where we switched the phoneme to make a new word.

And then we talked about sight words.

And then, we talked about past tense verbs, and how to write -ed on it to make it past tense.

Well come tomorrow and see what we're going to do.

I had fun.

I hope you had fun.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Bye.

(playful 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 ♪