♪ 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 ♪ (mellow music) (jolly music) - "Peg served the bears, but the bears wanted."

Hey, how are you today?

Mr. Dawson here at Discovery Ranch.

I'm here.

Why?

That's right, to take you on discoveries to learn how to read and write.

Join me here each day, so we can go on discoveries together.

And remember, oh, my goodness, remember, oh, I see it right here, if you will write to me here at the station at Valley PBS, I will send you an activity book.

Would you like to have one?

All you have to do is write to me, just like Lincoln did, and tell me something you've learned, and then I will send you an activity book.

Well, this is another reading and writing day, so we should get started with reading and writing.

Remember, our essential question is what do you see in the sky, high in the sky?

We see all kinds of things in the sky, like the moon.

What are these?

What are these right here?

Yeah.

Stars.

Ooh, there's a shooting star.

Hmm.

Interesting, isn't it?

Yes.

Well, today we have another story.

I'm so excited about this one.

The title of this story is "Day and Night Sky."

Now, remember, there's two kinds of texts.

There's informational texts, and then there's narrative text.

Today, I have informational text, but like I did yesterday, I want you to be able to tell me is this information nonfiction or is it fiction?

Remember, nonfiction means, yes, it's true.

And fiction means, no, it's not true.

So after you listen to this story, you have to make that decision on whether it should be nonfiction, which means true, or fiction, which means not true.

Now, in these informational texts, a lot of times they put text features, and those features will help you to understand the story better.

For instance, especially in kindergarten, they like to put pictures.

They like to put pictures, but if you look, they also, let's look over here a little bit, they also like to put headings.

Like this says "Daytime."

This says "Daytime."

So you know that this portion of the text is probably gonna talk about daytime.

Here's another heading.

It says "Nighttime."

So what do you think they're gonna talk about here?

Right, they're gonna talk about nighttime.

Let's see on the last page if there's a heading.

There is, there is.

It says "The Stars."

So what do you think this text is gonna be about?

Right, it's going to be about stars probably.

Right.

So that is headings and pictures, they help us understand the story better.

So be looking at the headings and be looking at the pictures so that they can help you understand our story today.

Remember, the title of our story is "Day and Night Sky."

Are you ready?

Let's enjoy this story "Day and Night Sky.

This is the sky during the day.

The sun is in the sky.

This is the sky at night.

The moon is in the sky.

Daytime.

The sun rises in the morning and sets at night.

The sun is very hot and bright.

It looks like a giant fireball.

Be careful never to look straight at the sun.

Nighttime.

The moon looks different at different times of the month.

The moon can look like a thin crescent.

At another time, it can look full and round.

Sometimes, you can even see the moon during the day.

The stars.

The sun is a star.

It looks big because it is the closest star to the earth.

There are other stars we see only at night.

These stars are very far away from the earth.

We are always looking for new stars.

Maybe one day you will discover one."

Oh, that was an incredible story.

Did you enjoy it as much as I did?

I hope so.

Okay, now remember, the first thing I said I was gonna ask you is you make the decision, is it nonfiction, which means it's true, or is it fiction, which means not true?

What do you suppose it is?

Yes.

Yes, indeed.

This story is nonfiction.

All the information in this story is true.

It's true.

Yes.

It's not fiction, which means not true.

Everything in this story was true.

Let me put this over here.

And then I wanna talk to you about some comprehension questions.

You know I'm gonna ask those, right?

I really enjoyed this story, but here's my first question.

Are you ready?

Tell me, how is daytime different than nighttime?

How is daytime different than nighttime?

All right.

That is right.

The obvious one is that during the daytime, the sun is out, and then during the nighttime, is the sun out?

No.

No, the sun is not out.

Where is the sun?

It's on the other side of the earth.

Right.

So when we are enjoying nighttime, the other side of the earth is enjoying daytime.

And then when we enjoy daytime, guess what they're enjoying on the other side of the earth?

Right.

Nighttime.

What are some other differences you see?

Well, I can see something in here, that in the daytime, there's no lights on the bridge, but down here, look, there's lights.

Why do you suppose they use lights at night?

Well, that's an easy answer, right?

So we can see, of course.

Now, here's one of the tricky ones.

Is the moon only a nighttime object?

That's right, it's not.

There are some times that you can see the moon during the day.

Correct?

Yes, you can.

That's so exciting.

Okay.

Let's take a look at our next page right here.

Pages 30 and 31, 'cause I have questions about this one.

Here's our text feature about daytime and it talked about daytime, and here's the one about nighttime, and it did talk about nighttime, but here's my question.

What might you see in the sky on a rainy day?

So if it was a rainy day, if it was raining, what would you see?

Would you see the sun?

Well, maybe.

Maybe you'd see the sun, but what would you see mostly?

That's right, cloud, clouds.

Just like our story from yesterday, you know, the clouds hid the moon.

Right, we would mostly see clouds on a rainy day.

Right.

And here is the daytime and here is the nighttime, and we can see the sun coming up.

This is what we see during the daytime.

And at nighttime, what do we mostly see?

Right.

We see stars.

Yes.

Which, here's my question.

You guys ready?

What is the star that we see during the daytime?

Right.

It's the sun.

Did you know the sun is a star?

Yes.

It's a star.

It's a star.

Why do we see it during the daytime then if it's a star?

Right, it's so close to us.

It is so close that we can see it all the time, unless it's on the other side of the earth.

Right.

Okay.

So, at nighttime, can we see stars?

Yes, we can see a whole bunch of stars at nighttime, but can we see them during the daytime?

No, we can't see during the daytime.

Why is that?

Because the stars are so far away.

They're so far away.

Oh, my goodness, they're so far.

You can't see them.

You can't see them usually, unless it's nighttime.

Ah, that is exciting.

Okay.

So I have a question now.

Let's see what it says.

It says, what do you see in the night sky?

Circle it, then draw how the sky looks in the daytime.

Okay.

Oh, where's my pen?

I gotta find, oh, here it is.

What do I see?

Right here, right here, what do I see?

It says in the night sky you can see, and what can you see?

I can see, oh, the moon, the moon, and I can see the stars, right.

So my sentence is gonna be in the night sky, you can see the moon and stars.

Let's start writing it.

In the night sky, you can see the, the.

How do you spell the?

It's a sight word.

Right.

Do you remember it in your brain?

Yes.

So now here's the time.

How do you spell the?

T-H, thank you, and what's the last letter?

E. Very good.

In the night sky, you can see the moon, moon.

What's the first sound in moon?

Mm, M. right.

Mm.

Mm, ooh, it's a double O, and then what's that last phoneme?

Moon.

N. Right.

So, so far we have in the night sky, you can see the moon, and the next word is and.

Another sight word.

That's right.

Do you remember it?

Do you remember the letters?

Okay.

Tell me.

A, right.

N, thank you, and what's that last letter?

D, right.

D. Oh, okay, here we go.

In the night sky, you can see the moon and stars, stars.

Oh, what's that first sound in stars.

Ss, tt, ss, S, right.

Do you hear any other sounds?

Listen.

Ss, tt, ss, tt.

Tt if for T, right.

Star.

Now we're gonna talk about this one later on, but when I hear R, I usually think of an A and an R, and then I'm gonna put an S, because there's just not one star, there's lots of stars.

So my sentence is, in the night sky, you can see the moon and stars.

Am I done yet?

Right.

Why?

Why am I not done?

I have my uppercase letter.

I have my noun, the night sky, and see is my verb.

What's my problem?

What?

That's right.

It needs a period.

You caught it.

So now I have a sentence.

In the night sky, you can see the moon and stars.

Yes, you can.

Well, we had so much fun at the ranch today.

I'm so excited that you joined me.

We learned so much about the letter U and adjective and sight words.

We even did some books.

And we found out that we could know them and answer questions about the stories.

Oh, we learned about fiction and nonfiction.

I had so much fun.

I hope you did too.

It's time for me to say goodbye.

I hope to see you next week.

Bye (mellow 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 ♪