♪ 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, good morning, good morning.

How are you guys today?

Here it is another week at Discovery Ranch.

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

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

In fact, remember if you will send me a letter and telling me something that you have learned this week I will send you an activity book.

I know you want one.

So all you have to do is write to me here at the station at Valley PBS or email me and I will send you an activity book.

Well, if you're gonna write me, we better get busy.

Here we go.

What is the first thing we are going to do?

Let me see.

Oh, I know Danner phonemic awareness.

That's right.

We're doing daily phonemic awareness.

What should we do today?

I know.

Oh, we're gonna play a game.

Are you ready to play our game?

I have some picture cards up here.

I'm gonna say each one and I want you to tell me the phoneme that is the same in each picture.

Here we go.

Ant, feet, jet.

Which phoneme is the same?

Right, the ending phoneme.

T, T, T, T is for T!

Here's the next one, are you ready?

Here are the next three pictures, kite, five, dime.

That might be a little harder.

Let's do it again.

Kite, five, dime.

Did you get it?

Which phoneme is the same?

It's I, did you hear it?

K-ite, f-ive, d-ime There you go.

Yes, it has that long I sound.

That was good.

I heard somebody tell me that.

Here's the last three pictures.

Are you ready?

Remember, you're finding the phoneme that is the same.

Here we go.

Nail, nut, nose.

Which phoneme is the same in all three pictures?

Nail, nut, nose.

N, N is for N. Oh, that's incredible.

You did it.

Oh my goodness.

You guys are amazingly smart.

That was hell phonemic awareness.

Let's move on to some sight words.

We were talking about sight words.

Remember if we put those sight words in our head and we remember them forever when we see them in a book, we'll know them.

And then if somebody says, Hey, can you write this word?

You can go, yes, that's easy.

I have it right in my brain.

Well, let's take a look at the words we're gonna do this week.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

Right here, 10 new words.

Here you go.

Have, H-A-V-E spells have.

And remember, we've already had these words once so you should really know these, let's go.

Let's keep going.

It's always good to review though.

This, T-H-I-S spells this.

They, T-H-E-Y spells they.

Play, P-L-A-Y spells play.

Me, M-E spells me.

Of, O-F spells of.

Or, O-R spells or.

For, F-O-R spells for.

Was, W-A-S spells was.

And here, H-E-R-E spells here.

These are the words that we're going to do all this week.

So I want you to really pay attention and get them in your brain.

A deal between you and me.

We're gonna get these done and get them in our brain.

All right, here we go.

Let's move on to something else.

I have something cool.

I wanna talk about adjectives.

Let's talk about adjectives.

Are you ready for adjectives?

Here we go.

Remember an adjective gives more detail about a person, place, animal or thing.

Now, I want you to take a look at the animal that I have down here.

It's an ostrich.

Do you see that ostrich?

All right, there's an ostrich.

Now remember, an adjective gives us more infor or more details about a person, place, animal or thing.

So when I look at that ostrich down there, when I look at that ostrich I want you to think what are some details about that ostrich?

Are you ready?

Give me some I'm listening to you, I'm listening.

What?

Yes, yes black.

Black, that ostrich is black.

So guess what?

That's an adjective.

That's giving me more details about that ostrich.

What else do you see?

Tell me more.

Big, yes big.

I'll take that.

Big, the ostrich is big.

There's another adjective.

Nice, it's giving me more details about that ostrich.

What?

Yes, long.

It has a long neck.

Whoa, that is so amazing!

That is so amazing.

Long, a long neck.

Is there anything else that you see?

Oh, Oh, I heard somebody else say, white.

There's some white down there.

So yes.

White is an adjective because it's giving me more details about the ostrich.

The ostrich has white in it.

So there's another, look at all these adjectives.

Remember an adjective gives more detail about a person, place, animal or thing.

That is so amazing.

Oh yes.

Look at all those adjectives.

Do we see any more?

Oh, yes, small.

I'm gonna do small.

Now, people are saying, oh, some of you are saying, why small?

Why small?

Because to me, the ostrich has a small head.

Look at that head it's small compared to this body.

That is amazing.

All right, we better stop there or I'm gonna run out of time which I usually do here at the ranch.

So let's move on.

You know what I wanna do?

I wanna talk about our phonics.

Now you remember all last week, I was talking about vowels.

Do you remember the five vowels?

A, E, I, O, and U.

What's special about the five vowels.

Do you remember?

That's right.

In kids Garden, the vowels can have two phonemes.

They can say their sound, which they're happy with.

They're happiest doing that.

But when they're asked, they will say their name.

So here we have E remember, E usually says, Ee but when it's asked, it will also say E. And remember, these are the clues to help you know, when it's gonna say E or Ee.

Let me get rid of these two, and then let's go to this one.

There's U and what's the happy sound for U?

U, U, that's what usually wants to say, but sometimes what?

Yes, it'll say its name, U and sometimes, Uu.

And these are the clues.

These are the clues.

So it has two sounds.

Here we go.

We have A, and Aa, do you remember that?

Okay, we'll look at these more all this week and then we have O, and Oo.

And then the last one is, I and igh, do remember that?

Very, very nice.

Each vowel can have two phonemes.

They can say their sound and they can say their name.

Awesome, now I wanna take us back to diagraphs.

Do you remember talking about digraphs a long time ago?

Well, we're gonna do it again to keep you refreshed.

Who better to let us know more about digraphs then professor Giza Berg, take it away professor.

- Oh, I'm professor Giza Berg.

And I'm here to talk to you about another word.

Mr. Dawson has asked me to talk to you about the word diagraph.

Diagraph simply means two letters that make one phoneme.

Let me show you what I mean.

Here is the letter C. Usually the C says, /k/.

Here is the letter H, usually the H has the phoneme /h/ but watch as my two friends put the two letters together.

And as they do, I wanna tell you that when those two letters are together, they make one phoneme.

They say, /ch/, thank you boys.

/Ch/, I see C and H, I don't say /c/h/, I make one phoneme /ch/, one sound /ch/.

Let's do some words, Mr. Producer, give me a word.

Right, here we go.

First, I'm going to isolate those phonemes.

CH-A-T and then I'm going to blend them, ch-a-t, ch-a-t, chat It doesn't say khat, it says chat.

Here's another word.

First, I'm going to isolate them.

CH-I-N, I say /sh/ because the C and H, I know is one sound because it's a diagraph.

Now let's blend it, CH-I-N, chin, chin.

Very nice.

Now there are some other digraphs as well.

There's a th, there's the sh, there's the wh, and there's a pH.

And Mr. Dawson is going to show more of the diagraph this week.

So pay attention.

Back to you, Mr. Dawson.

- Thanks professor, digraphs.

Digraphs are so cool, why?

Because there are two letters that make one phoneme.

And I have four of them right here that we're gonna talk about this week.

Just like this one /ch/.

Do you hear that beginning sound /ch/, /ch/, cheese, /ch/.

And then we have thumb, thumb, and then we have shell, shell, /sh/ is for SH, /th/ is for TH, /ch/ is for CH and then we have whale, /wh/, /wh/ ad that is for WH.

We didn't get time to do a lot of things but we're gonna talk more this week about digraphs.

I'm excited about that.

I've had so much fun here today.

We've learned so many things and if you wanna keep learning you'll have to come back tomorrow.

Oh, I can't wait until tomorrow comes.

I hope you have a good time today.

We'll see you later, bye.

(gentle 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 ♪