♪ 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 ♪ (gentle music) (jolly music) - Yes, five, six.

We're gonna need a lot of boxes of bees, yes.

Hey.

Oh, let me get rid of this.

Welcome back to Discovery Ranch.

My name is Mr. Dawson and I'm here to take you on discoveries everyday, so you can learn how to read and write.

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

I was just adding up how many boxes I need of bees to come on my ranch.

And I need a lot because the ranch is huge.

Ah, but I'm here with you right now, so we need to do some learning.

Don't forget, if you will write to me at the station at Valley PBS, or email me, I will send you an activity book.

Just write to me, tell me something you've learned this week and we have been learning a lot of things, and then I'll send you an activity book.

Well, let's get started, so we can learn some more, so you can write to me.

We should do some daily phonemic awareness.

How about that?

Let's do that.

Okay, this is another game.

Are you ready for my game?

Remember last week we did the deletion game?

So I'm gonna say a word and then, hmm, oh, I know, I'm gonna tell you which phoneme to take off and then you tell me the word that's left.

It'll be a new word.

Are you ready to play?

Here we go.

The first word I have is play.

Can you say play?

Play.

Now, if I take the puh off of play, what's the new word?

I have play, puh, I take the puh, play.

Play.

Yes, lay.

Lay.

I took the puh off, the rest is lay.

Awesome job.

Let's do another one.

Ooh, let me get a harder one.

Hmm.

I know.

Here's a good one.

Slime.

Oh, what a fun word that is.

Slime.

Can you say slime?

Yes, okay, if I have the word slime and I take the ss off of slime, what's my new word?

Let me see.

Slime.

Slime.

Oh, that's right, it's lime, 'cause I took the ss off and I have lime still there, so my word would be lime.

Excellent job.

You did it.

Okay, last one.

Are you ready?

Here's the last one.

Okay, my word is, oh, here's a good one.

Nice.

Nice.

Can you say nice?

Nice.

Now, if I took the nn off of nice, what would my new word be?

Let me see, I have nice.

Nn, ice.

Nn, ice.

That's right, it's ice.

Good job.

You did it.

That's so exciting.

You took off a phoneme and you've made a new word.

You got the new word.

That's awesome.

Okay, let's move on and do some sight words.

We've been talking about sight words a lot, but I want you to notice these two right here.

Look, these two.

Did you notice that they have a digraph?

Yes, T-H.

It doesn't say tuh huh.

No, it doesn't say tuh huh.

What does it say?

Remember that digraphs are two letters that make one phoneme.

So this says thh or thh.

Let's go through our words.

Have.

H-A-V-E spells have.

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.

Not waz.

Waz, I know I heard some people say waz, but it's not waz, no way.

This says was.

And the last one.

H-E-R-E spells here.

Nice job.

Let's go on to adjectives.

An adjective gives more details about a person, place, animal, or thing.

So today I wrote a sentence and we have to find the right adjective that fits.

Sometimes adjectives, you could put 'em in there and they'll sound funny, or not funny, they just don't fit sometimes.

So that's what we're gonna do today.

Here is my sentence.

I feel mm when I win the race.

I feel mm when I win the race.

So we need to find an adjective that will fit in there.

Let me see.

So I have slippery, lumpy, and proud.

Let's see if this one fits, slippery.

I feel slippery when I win the race.

No, no, no.

That slippery, no, that doesn't work.

Ooh, how about lumpy?

We're gonna feel lumpy.

I feel lumpy when I win the race.

No, it just doesn't sound right, does it?

Okay, let's try this last one.

I feel proud when I win the race.

Which one fits the best?

Yes, proud for sure.

I feel proud when I win the race.

So you can have adjectives, but you have to make sure that they fit, unless you're trying to be funny, and then maybe you would say I feel slippery when I win the race.

Who knows?

That would make it funny for sure.

All right, let's move on and do our phonics.

We've been talking and reviewing how the vowels, what are the five vowels?

A, E, I, O, U.

And what is important about the five vowels?

In kindergarten, they make two phonemes.

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

So with I, it would be ih or I.

And here are the clues.

Do you see that?

Let's do these.

There's E, and we know E can say eh, or it can say E. And there is the clues to help you know when.

And what is this one?

Oh, U, and we know that U can say uh and U, and ooh sometimes.

And then what's next?

We have A, and A can say eh and A.

Right.

Right.

And then last we have O, and O can say ah and it can say O.

And here are the clues.

Isn't that nice?

The vowels, special because they can say their sound and when you look at the clues or see the clues, they can also say their name.

All right.

Well, let's move on to our next thing called digraphs.

You remember digraphs, right?

Digraphs, what are digraphs?

Where two letters, two or more letters, I should say, will make one sound.

So we have cheese, chuh, C-H. Chuh, it says chuh, or T-C-H can say chuh too.

We have T-H, and T-H says thh.

And then we have S-H and it says shh.

And then we have W-H and it says wuh, wuh.

So yesterday we talked about C-H and T-H. Today I would like to talk about S-H and W-H.

So S-H says shh, like in shell, shell.

Do you hear the shh?

And when you hear a shh, you know that it's a digraph and it has two letters, S and H. So I wouldn't say suh huh when I see S-H, I would say shh.

And here is W-H and it says wuh, like in wuh, wuh, whale.

Well, let's take a look at some pictures and see if we can find the shh and the wuh.

Are you ready?

Here's our first picture, white, white.

Wuh, wuh, white.

Do you hear the beginning phoneme?

Wuh, wuh, so we want this one.

Wuh is for W-H. How about the next one?

Fish.

Fish.

Listen to that last phoneme.

Fish.

Yes, shh.

That has an S-H. Shh is for S and H. How about this one?

Thumb, thumb.

No, no, 'cause remember, thumb, that was yesterday.

That was yesterday we had thh.

How about, let's do this one, brush, brush.

Yes, did you hear the ending phoneme?

Shh.

Shh is for S-H. How about whale, whale?

Well, we already know that one, because it was on our digraph card.

That one's gonna be W-H. How about shrimp?

Shrimp, shh.

Beginning phoneme, yes.

Shh is right there.

What's this one?

Whistle, whistle.

Wuh, wuh.

Yes, we want, I'm finding 'em all.

Wuh is for what?

Right, W-H. And I'm gonna stop right there, 'cause I know we're running out of time.

Let's look at our story again.

Chad with Chance.

Chad with Chance.

Chad showed a ball to Chance.

Chad through the ball.

She chased the ball.

The ball went into the brush.

Chance cannot go.

Chad will go.

Both of them dash home.

Let's take a look at the first one.

Do you see the digraphs?

Yes, here we go.

Look, C-H, chuh, and S-H. Look at those.

And there's another C-H, chuh.

How about the second one?

Oh, there's another one, 'cause it says Chad again.

Through.

Look, look.

T-H, thh.

Let's look in this one.

Do you see any in that one?

Yes, S-H. Good job.

How about in the fourth line?

Right, right, right, bush, S-H. S-H says what?

Shh.

How about in this one?

Oh, yes, C-H. Oh, you guys are finding them all.

How about, there's another C-H. And how about on the last one?

Ah, right, we have T-H there, and we have a T-H there.

And what does T-H say?

Thh.

And there's an S-H here.

What does S-H say?

Shh.

Good job.

S-H says shh.

Right.

That is so good.

That's amazing.

So tell me, what did Chad do?

Chad through a ball, and did Chance go get that ball?

No, he couldn't go in the bush, or she couldn't go in the bush, but Chad did.

That's right, Chad went and got it.

And then what did they do at the end of the story?

They dashed home.

That means they ran home.

That's right.

We've learned so much about digraphs and sight words.

We've learned about adjectives.

I'm so excited that we're discovering so many things here at the ranch.

Well, tomorrow starts our reading and writing day.

I hope you come back and you can read and write with me.

I'm so excited about that.

I'm gonna have a good time, you're gonna have a good time, and we'll see you tomorrow.

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 ♪