♪ 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) - Joy dog, a boy's dog, a choose a brand new toy dog.

Hey, welcome back to Discovery Ranch.

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

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

Well, remember, if you will write to me right here at Valley PBS, I will send you an activity book.

Yes, write to me today and tell me something you've learned this week.

I love getting the letters that I've been getting, they're so awesome, so nice.

I've been enjoying each and every one.

Well, you can send for one of these, and I can read your letter as well.

Okay, let's get busy.

Now, yesterday, we've been talking about the essential question, and our essential question is what do good citizens do?

Yesterday, we were talking about how when we're gonna get a message from somebody, we should really make sure that that message is right, 'cause if I'm going to tell someone else, I want to make sure that I give them the right message.

Good citizens do that for sure.

We also found out that good citizens care.

We care, yes.

We care about everything.

We care about the environment, for sure, and today, our story is exactly about that.

How can we take care of our environment?

Our story today is "Team Up to Clean Up!"

That's right, "Team Up to Clean Up."

That's what good citizens do, they clean up.

Now, this story is informational.

Remember, we have two kinds of books.

We have informational books, which gives us information, and then we have narrative books that tell a story.

This one is going to be a informational book.

Now remember, like always, I'm gonna ask you at the end of the story, is it nonfiction, which means it's true, or is it fiction, which means it's not true.

The next thing I want to talk to you about is text features.

We've been talking about text features for a while now, and remember that text features are a number of things.

One, it can be the title.

That's a text feature, because it helps me understand about this story, 'cause when I read the title, I think, "Oh, this story's gonna be about cleaning up."

But also it has little inset pictures.

Look at that.

And it has captions, look at that.

In fact, if I go to the next page, sure enough, look at that.

There are more pictures and more captions, more pictures and more captions.

They give me more information about this book as well.

So make sure you're listening to those too.

They may be on the book.

Text features are so important.

They help us to understand the story.

Ah, yes, now, as always, at the end of the book, make sure you're listening, because I'm gonna be asking questions to see if you really have been listening.

Are you ready?

The title of this story is "Team Up to Clean Up."

I hope you enjoy the story.

Here it is.

"Team Up to Clean Up."

"The playground is a great place to play.

It has swings, slides, and a place to sit and talk.

Right now, some areas of the playground are messy.

We make plans for a Clean-Up Day.

We share our ideas with our teacher.

The principal says that we are all good citizens.

'Your plans show that you care about the school and the neighborhood.'

The principal talks about Clean-Up Day.

We ask our parents and older brothers and sisters to help.

We ask others to help out.

We put on gloves and pick up bottles, cans, and newspaper.

We put the litter in big plastic bags.

Everyone works together.

We plant a tree.

The tree will add beauty and will give us shade.

We took responsibility for making our neighborhood an even better place.

The tree will grow and grow.

We did a good job!"

Hey, did you enjoy that story?

That was a great story.

All right, so here we go.

Here are some questions, but before we get to the questions, nonfiction or fiction?

Nonfiction or fiction?

I said this one is nonfiction, because I think this is a real class that was cleaning up.

They were cleaning up their playground, right!

All right, now let us do some questions to see what you remember.

My first question is, oh, wait.

Before I do that, I have to say this.

Now, good readers will re-read things when they don't understand, like, let me see.

Why did they clean up?

Why were they cleaning up?

Oh, so I'd say, "Right now, some areas of the playground are messy."

So I re-read, and I know why, because the playground is messy.

It's messy, so of course they had to clean up.

That's right!

Okay, all right.

Here's some questions for you, ready?

Here's my first question.

How does this show the children are good citizens?

So remember that our essential question is what do good citizens do?

And how are they showing that they're good citizens?

How are they showing they're good citizens?

Right, they are going to clean up the playground!

That's right.

That's what they're going to do.

"We share our ideas with our teacher."

So they had ideas.

They had a plan.

They had a plan of how they're going to do it.

So they shared their plan with their teacher.

Let's go on.

Let's go on to this side.

Okay, what's my next question?

Okay, it says, "We ask our parents and older brothers and sisters to help."

Oh my goodness.

That is awesome.

So tell me, what was part of their plan?

What was their plan?

Right, it was to have older brothers and sisters help out, maybe even moms and dads.

Isn't that exciting?

All right, so all the children are cleaning up.

Let's look right here.

It says, "We put on gloves and pick up bottles, cans, newspapers.

We put the litter in the big plastic bags."

So what did the children do to help clean up?

Right, they are putting stuff in plastic bags, right, and they're putting them in recycling cans.

Ooh, that is being a good citizen right there for sure.

Being a good citizen.

We're gonna recycle things, because recycling is good for our environment.

It's good for the whole world, right!

That is good.

Okay, so when they did that, when they did that, oh my goodness, they were able to get the whole playground nice and pretty and ready to go.

But how did they do that?

The first thing they did was they made a plan.

They made a plan.

So they made a plan, and then they told their teacher, and they asked other people to help out to be good citizens too, and then they worked together.

Oh, good citizens will work together to get a job done.

That is so exciting.

Oh, you guys did very well on knowing all the information on this story.

Well, it's time for us to do some writing.

We did some reading, and now it's time to do some writing.

So I better go to the other side so I can do my writing.

Okay.

Here we go.

All right, so it says "Team Up to Clean Up!"

Find clues.

How do the children feel about cleaning up?

Underline a clue in the text.

Circle the clues in the photos.

Okay.

All right.

Oh, got to get over here.

So it says, "We took responsibility for making our neighborhood a even better place."

So we took responsibility.

I like that word for sure, for sure.

And look at their faces.

How do they feel?

How do they feel?

Oh my goodness.

I see this one.

She looks happy.

She looks happy.

And this person and this person, they look proud.

Oh my goodness, and look over here, they even plant trees to make it look nicer.

Well, let's take a look at our sentence starter.

Our sentence starter says the children feel.

Okay, what were the clues?

Let me see.

They felt happy, and they felt proud, right!

They felt proud.

Oh my goodness, so you know what?

I think that's what I'm going to say.

I'm gonna say the children feel happy and proud.

So, the children feel happy and proud.

That's three words.

So we have to put three words right down here.

The children feel happy.

Ooh.

You know what?

I feel like doing syllables.

Do you want to do a syllable for happy?

How many syllables are in happy?

Get your clappers ready!

Get your clappers ready!

Are you ready?

Show me happy.

We're gonna clap happy.

Here we go.

Hap-py!

How many syllables was that?

Two.

There are two syllables in happy.

Good job.

All right, here we go.

So we're gonna spell happy.

Hap.

That was the first syllable.

Sound it out.

Huh, ah, puh.

What was, huh is for?

H, right.

Ah, ah is for A.

What was that last phoneme?

Puh, puh is for P. And then the second syllable is py.

Well, it sounds like it should just be the letter P, but it really is a P and a Y. Oh, Y, I should tell you about Y someday.

And, that's a sight word, how do you spell and?

Right, A-N-D!

And then what's the last word I said, proud?

The children feel happy and proud.

What's the beginning phoneme in proud?

Right, puh, puh is for P. Do you see how you're learning all those phonemes and letters, and you're being able to use them?

Urr is for R, and then ow is O-U.

I'll have to talk about that.

And proud, duh, duh is for D. See how you can use those phonemes and the letters that go with them to help you spell?

And here is our sentence.

The children feel happy and proud.

That is so awesome.

Oh, we did so many things this week.

We've done so many things today, talking about how we can be a good citizen!

You should practice being a good citizen as well.

Well, that's all I have time for.

I hope that you had a great week with me.

I had a great week, and I hope to see you next week, where we can learn more things.

We will see you next week.

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)