♪ 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) - His friend began to... Hey, welcome back to Discovery Ranch!

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

Join me here each day, so we can learn something new, and this has been our writing and reading day yesterday and also today.

I'm so excited about today.

We're gonna do some great things.

But before we get started, remember, I want to talk to you about writing to me.

If you will write to me right here at the station at Valley PBS, and tell me something you learned this week, I will send you an activity book.

It's so exciting to get one of these.

A lot of people have received them.

You too could be one that gets one.

All you have to do is write to me here at the station.

All right, so let's get to work today.

I've been having so much fun here at the station doing all the things that I'm doing.

Let's talk and review our essential question.

Our essential question is how can you help out at home?

Helping out is a very big thing.

We can help out so many different ways at home, and that's what we're talking about.

How can you help out at home?

Can you help clean your room, or can you help do the dishes, or can you help with yard work?

All those things you can do to help out!

Well, today, our story is called "The Clean Up!"

"The Clean Up!"

Now, when you're looking at this story, I want to tell you about text features.

The first text feature is the title.

The title is a text feature, 'cause it's giving you more information about what this story is about, "The Clean Up!"

Sounds like they're gonna clean up.

Also another text feature is the pictures.

The pictures will help us to understand the story as well, and then, of course, the text itself is going to help you understand the story.

Now, when we look at this story, of course, we're gonna decide if this is a nonfiction, which means it's true, or is it fiction, which means it's not true?

You have to that decision yourself after we read this story.

Now, also, I can tell you that this story is a narrative story.

Remember, there's two types of text.

There's narrative text, and there's informative text.

Informative text gives us information, and it's true.

Narrative text can be true or maybe not true, but it's usually in a story form that we can enjoy, right!

So this is a narrative text.

All right, so listen, as always, you know when we come back, I'm gonna ask you questions about the story, that's right.

But before we go, I want to tell you one thing.

There's a word on there and the word is chore.

Can you say chore?

You might hear the word chore, and if you don't know what that means, that means, guess what?

A job.

That's right, a job!

So when you listen to the story, remember, I'm gonna come back and ask you questions.

Are you ready?

Let's watch the story, "The Clean Up!"

"The Clean Up!"

"'When can we go to the park?'

Anna asks.

'We have to clean the kitchen first,' says Dad.

'That's our new rule!'

'Let's all help to clean up!'

Gabe says.

'I'll wash the dishes,' volunteers Luis.

Gabe carefully dries the dishes.

Anna put the dishes away.

'Teamwork gets the job done faster,' says Mom.

Dad frowns.

'Look at all that mud!'

Mom mops the floor.

Gabe helps.

Anna picks up the toys.

Luis pulls Ace's leash.

'Time for your bath, Ace!'

he says.

Everyone starts working faster.

The kitchen shines.

'We did it!'

Gabe cheers.

'Let's work together to keep the house clean from now on,' says Mom.

'We can make a chores chart,' says Anna.

The family fills out their chart together.

At the park, the family finds a nice spot in the shade.

Luis kicks a ball to Ace.

'Oh, no!'

But it's too late.

Another chore!

Everyone laughs.

They will all give Ace another bath later."

Did you enjoy that little story?

I hope you did.

Okay, so here's the big question.

Is it nonfiction, or was the story fiction?

What did you decide?

Right, this story is fiction.

Why is it fiction?

Because it's really not true.

This narrative story is not true.

It was make-believe.

Well, let's talk a little bit more about the story.

The first thing I wanted to do is kind of go to the back of the story and look at this little chart.

This is called a chores chart, and a chore chart was pretty good.

They made a chart to say what each person was gonna do when they did the dishes.

So when we look at the essential question, how can you help at home, how can you help out at home, they made a chore chart.

So here are all the names up here, and down the side was the job.

And you can see that each person had a job by their name, and they had an X to say which job they were going to do.

So let's go back and look at this story a little bit closer.

Here we go.

Let's go back and back to the front of "The Clean Up!"

Now, how does the family clean up?

What are they doing?

What do they want to do?

They want to go to the park.

That's right, they want to go to the park, but Dad says, "No way, that's not happening."

Why?

That's right.

Because he wants them to clean up the kitchen.

So what does everybody do?

They say, "Yes, let's all help out."

Just like our essential question.

How can you help out at home?

So they all decided to do different things to clean up.

All right, what were some of the chores that they had to do?

Right, they had to wash the dishes, wash the dishes, right.

And then what else?

Dry the dishes, right, right.

Okay.

And then what else?

Yes, they had to put the dishes away, and what was wrong with Ace?

Right, Ace was, wait a minute.

Let me go back and ask, who was Ace?

Right, Ace was the dog, and he was dirty, so they had to give him a bath, clean him all up so that he can not mess up the house, 'cause they didn't like that.

Because look at what he was doing, he was leaving, there's where the pictures become very important.

Look, he's leaving tracks everywhere.

Oh, that Ace, he needs to be clean.

Oh my goodness!

Oh yes, now, how does dad feel at the beginning of the story?

Yeah, he's not very happy, but at the end of the story, how does he feel?

Right, he's happy!

So let me take this down right here.

There we go, and I want to take a look at our writing today.

Here we go.

There we go.

All right.

So I'm gonna write, so guess what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna come at the other side so I can write on this, but let's take a look at this.

Here we go.

Let's take a look at the top.

It says "The Clean Up!"

Find clues how Dad's feeling change on these pages.

How do you know?

Let's circle the clues.

This is the text features.

Look right here.

How does he feel right here?

Oh, he's not happy.

No way.

He's not happy.

He's upset.

So I'm gonna circle that, because that helps me understand that Dad feels upset.

And then how does Dad feel over here?

Now Dad feels, what?

Happy.

How can you tell?

Yes, you're using the text features again.

That is so awesome.

When you look at Dad's face, you can see that he's smiling, he's happy.

So in this picture at the front of the story, he's upset, and at the end of the story, he is happy.

So let's write that now.

Here is my sentence starter.

Dad feels, and how did he feel here?

He felt upset.

Okay.

Ooh, you know what we gotta do?

We gotta do syllables.

Let's see how many syllables upset, how many it has.

You ready?

Let's go, up, set.

How many?

Two syllables.

What's the first syllable?

Up!

Well, let's spell up.

Uh, puh, up.

Uh is for U. Puh is for P. And what was the second syllable?

Up, set.

Let's sound out that part.

Sss, eh, t. Three phonemes.

Sss is for S. Eh is for E, right.

And what's the last phoneme?

T, t is for T. We've done it.

Dad feels upset, and I'm not gonna forget.

I'm not gonna forget.

Yesterday, I forgot.

I'm not gonna forget today.

I have to put a period so I have a sentence.

Dad feels upset.

Have my uppercase, my punctuation.

There's Dad, that's the noun, and he feels, that's the verb.

Dad feels upset.

At the beginning of the story, that's how he felt, but at the end of the story, now Dad feels... How does he feel now?

Right, happy!

Ooh, let's see how many syllables are in happy.

Are you ready?

Get your clappers ready, here we go.

Hap, py.

Two!

What's the first syllable?

Hap.

Let's sound it out.

Huh, ah, puh.

So that's huh is for H. Ah is for A. Puh is for P. And what was that second syllable?

Hap, py!

Py!

Oh, did you hear that?

Oh, that's amazing.

Puh, E!

So we have puh is for P, and E, and do you remember what the clue is?

This time at the end, it's that Y!

How nice is that?

Now, Dad feels happy.

And what do I put at the end?

The period, right!

All right, now we have two sentences.

Dad feels upset.

Now Dad feels happy.

Oh, we've done so many things today.

I'm so glad that you came and spent time with me this week.

We learned all about some words, we've been learning sentences, we've done so much today.

Well, I have to go, and I'm hoping I'll see you next week.

I have to get out to the ranch and do some work!

We'll talk to 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)