♪ 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) - Well, welcome back to Discovery Ranch.

I'm Mr. Dawson, and I'm here to take you on discovery so you can learn how to read and write.

Today is another reading day.

Why are we doing two reading days?

Because, that's how smart you are.

Now you're beginning to use the skills that you learned over the year to be able to read and to write.

Isn't that exciting?

It should be, because you guys are so smart.

Now, remember if you will write me here at the station at Valley PBS, guess what?

I will send you an activity book.

Write to me and tell me something that you've learned this week, maybe about the long A, maybe about our sight words, what and this, or verbs and how I make them future tense by adding the word will, or maybe you'll talk about what we're gonna talk about today.

Let's get to work.

Okay.

Remember from yesterday, our essential question is, where do animals live?

Yesterday, we read a story about a bear, right?

And how he lived in a cave.

Well, today we're going to read another story, and it's actually in our book, "Bear Snores On," but it's at the end of the book, and it's called, "Animal Homes."

Before we get started with the book, though, I wanna show you a very, very special part.

Are you ready?

At the back of some books, there's this thing called a glossary.

Oh my goodness, it's a glossary.

What's a glossary?

Well, a glossary will tell us some of the words that you're going to hear in the story and what they mean.

Let's just read this whole thing.

It says, "Animals get what they want and need from their habitats.

Habitats is where they live.

What is your habitat like?"

So here are the habitats you're gonna listen to in this story.

A burrow.

This is a burrow.

It's an underground hole or tunnel dug by an animal.

Also, a den.

A protected rocky area where a wild animal lives.

And then they're gonna talk about a lodge.

I wonder who lives in that.

A beaver's house made of sticks and mud.

There it is.

It's a beavers.

Okay.

And last word is reef.

A place in the ocean with rocks and coral.

So you're going to hear about burrow, den, lodge, and reef in this book, and now you'll know what they mean when you hear it.

So this is obviously going to talk about different animal homes.

Oh, and here are the animals.

Do you know what this one is?

It's a Prairie dog.

Do you know what this is?

It's a snake, right?

And what is this?

A fish.

And then that is, must be the beaver they talked about earlier.

So I want you to enjoy this story.

And then when we come back, we'll talk more about it.

Here is "Animal Homes."

(bright music) "Animal Homes.

We are wild animals.

We live in homes called habitats.

Each habitat meets our different needs.

Come see where we live!

Prairie dog.

When I call out, it sounds like a bark.

I live in an underground burrow.

There are different rooms and tunnels.

My family lives in a big Prairie dog town.

Rattlesnakes.

Follow me into my rocky den.

I hide behind rocks to stay safe from enemies and predators.

My scaly skin matches my surroundings.

I shake my rattle when there's danger.

Clown Fish.

My home is in the warm ocean.

A coral reef is the perfect habitat.

There are many openings and cracks to hide in.

I live with sea animals called anemones.

The anemones feed and protect me.

Beaver.

My home is called a lodge.

I build it with sticks and mud.

The door to my home is under the water.

My lodge keeps me warm during winter."

Did you enjoy that story about animal homes?

It was so cool.

I really loved it.

Well, let's take a look at this story, a little closer look.

Are you ready?

Here is the first page I wanna look at.

It says, "We are wild animals.

We live in homes called habitats.

Each habitat meets our different needs.

Come see where we live."

Now, here is my first question.

Are you ready?

My first question is, who is speaking?

Who is speaking when it says these words?

Right.

It's the animals.

The animals are saying, that "They live in homes called habitats."

Can an animal talk?

Can an animal talk?

No way.

An animal can't talk.

So I know right away that this is fiction.

It's not true.

Why do I know that?

Because, animals can't talk.

So even though there's information that's true, which is animal homes, they're talking about animal homes, now that part's true.

But when I look at the story, I have to say, it's kind of fiction, because animals don't talk.

No way.

Let's move on.

Are you ready?

Let's take a look at this one.

Now this one was talking about the Prairie dog and the rattlesnake.

Oh, here's my question.

I wanna look at two things.

I wanna do what's called comparing and contrasting.

So here's my question.

Compare means look to see what things are the same, and contrasting means look at things that are different.

What did you notice that's the same about these two homes?

Right, right.

Their home homes are in the dirt.

Right.

Okay.

So let's find something that's different, when they talked about their homes.

Did you notice?

Look at the two pictures.

Yes.

This one is rocky.

Rocky.

So that must be a den.

Den.

But this one is not.

So it must be a burrow, because we learned that in the glossary.

You guys are amazing.

Let's take another page and look at it.

Okay, we're gonna do some comparing and contrasting again.

This time we're gonna contrast the habitat or the home of the clown fish and the beaver.

So when you look at these two, what do you notice that's the same?

Right.

Both habitats are in the water.

Both of them are in the water.

Okay.

So what's something that's different?

Ah, that is a good one.

The fish stays in the water all the time.

The beaver, does he stay in the water all the time?

No.

Sometimes he has to get out and go chop down some logs to build his home bigger.

That's right.

So, there's something that was the same, and something that was different.

All right.

So where do they live?

Let's go look at this.

Let's go back to the glossary.

Are you ready?

Who lived in the burrow?

Was it the beaver, the fish, the snake, or the Prairie dog?

Which one was it?

The Prairie dog lived in the burrow.

And who lived in the den?

The snake, the rattlesnake.

Put that over there.

And who lived in the lodge?

Ah, yes.

It's Mr. Beaver.

Hello.

Which means the fish lived in the reef.

How nice is that?

That is so cool.

Habitats are homes where these animals live.

Awesome.

Well, let's take a look at some writing now.

We've done some reading.

Let's do some writing.

It says here, "Which two habitats are in the ground?"

Which two habitats are in the ground?

Was it the burrow and den?

The burrow, lodge?

Was it the lodge?

Which two are in the ground?

Right.

It was the burrow and the den.

Why is that?

Well, the other two, were they in the ground?

No, they were in the water.

Right.

Okay.

So here's what we have to write.

It says, "A fish lives in a," Where did the fish live?

It lived in a reef.

Reef.

So if I wanna sound that out, let's go.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

r ee f. R ee f. Reef.

So I can sound that out and spell it.

Are you ready?

What is the first sound?

r. r is for R. And then the middle sound, e, e. And I know that, that's gonna be e and e. We're gonna learn about that in another week, how ee can say e. And what was the last phoneme?

r ee f. f, f is for F. And now I'm done.

A fish lives in a reef.

Well, wait a minute.

That's right.

What am I missing?

I'm missing something.

That's right.

It has to have a punctuation at the end, a period in this case, to tell me that I am finished.

Here we go.

A fish lives in a reef.

Isn't that exciting?

Well, I have a little bit of time.

Oh, I brought something extra.

Let's see if we can get some, here's some more homes.

Where's a bird live?

Does a bird live in a nest or in a cave?

Oh, which one is it?

Yes.

It lives in a nest.

Ah, how about the lizard?

Where does it live?

Does it live in a hive or does it live in, it looks like rocky, so I'm gonna say den.

Does it live in a den?

Right.

I think it lives in a den.

Oh, that is so nice.

I'm gonna stop here.

Even though there's a fish, it doesn't live in a web, and it doesn't live in a hole in the tree.

We've learned so many things today.

We learned about animal homes.

We learned about fiction and nonfiction.

It's been so good.

This week has been a great week.

I hope you have a great weekend for sure.

And then, I hope you come back next week, so we can learn more things.

We're gonna learn another letter.

I can't believe it.

I've had so much fun with you today, and it's time for me to go and it's time for you to go.

And we're gonna enjoy the rest of this day.

I love you guys, and we'll see you next week.

Bye.

(upbeat guitar 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 guitar music)