♪ 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 guitar music) (joyful music) - 4 Plus 2 equals 6.

Yes 6, I'm gonna need 6.

And then 8, oh yes.

Oh, oh!

I'm calculating how much fence I need to get those chickens in the pins.

Hi, I'm Mr. Dawson.

And I'm here at Discovery Ranch to take you on discoveries so that you can learn how to read and write.

Join me here each day so we can go on new discoveries together, that's right.

And when you do and you're learning things, you can write to me right here at Valley PBS.

And guess what I'm going to do?

Write to me and tell me what you've learned and I'll send you an activity book.

So let's get her started learning something so you can write to me today!

What should we do first?

Oh, that's right!

Daily phonemic awareness!

What are we gonna do today?

I know what we should do.

We should do phoneme adding.

What is that?

That's a game where I give you a word and then I'm gonna tell you a phoneme to put on somewhere, and that's gonna make a new word.

Let's see if you can get the word.

Are you ready?

My first word is, let me see, lay, okay?

You got that one.

Okay, now, if I put p in the front of lay, what's my new word?

Right, play, play!

Good job!

Okay, here's the next one.

Are you ready?

Ooh, this is gonna be a fun one.

Here we go.

Team, can you say team?

Team.

Now, if I put an s at the front of team, what would the new word be?

Hmm, let me see.

I have team.

I have a s, steam, steam!

That's the word?

Whoa!

Okay, last one.

This is gonna be the tricky one.

Okay, my word is den.

Can you say den?

Okay, now, if I put a t at the end of den, what would be my new word?

Figure it out.

Den and then put t on there.

Dent.

What's my new word?

Right, dent!

You got it.

How amazing are you guys?

Oh my Lord, that's great!

Great, great, great, dent.

You got those words so good.

All right, it's time for our sight words.

Are you ready for our sight words?

Here we go, sight words.

Remember, when you do your sight words, and you know 'em, and you put 'em in your brain; when you see 'em in a book, you'll say, "Oh, I know that sight word, it's easy."

Or if you need to write that word because you're writing a story for your teacher, or for your mom, or your dad, or your friend, who knows.

You'll say, "Oh, I know how to spell that word.

"I learned it on Discovery Ranch."

Are you ready?

Let's do our words.

Here we go.

Up, U-P spells up.

Had, H-A-D spells had.

Will, W-I-L-L spells will.

All, A-L-L spells all.

How, H-O-W spells how.

And I like this word this week.

Why?

Because it has that O-W vowel team that says ow, good job.

Okay, said, S-A-I-D spells said.

One, O-N-E spells one.

By, B-Y spells by.

From, F-R-O-M spells from.

And that, T-H-A-T spells that.

And who knows?

Maybe tomorrow or Friday, we're going to use some of these words, I don't know.

But if we do, you will know how to spell them.

Why?

Because we're practicing them this week.

I can't talk.

All right, now, let's turn the board around so we can talk about adjectives.

Are you ready to talk about adjectives?

Yes, here we go!

Adjectives.

Oh, remember what an adjective is.

An adjective is a describing word that tells more about something.

Adjectives can come before or after a naming word.

Now, I have two sentences here.

What is your job?

Your job is to find the adjective.

Let's look at the first sentence.

Peter made crunchy bread.

That's a naming word.

Made, now, that's the verb.

So, oh, bread is a naming word.

What do we know about the bread?

Right, the bread is crunchy.

So crunchy is the adjective.

There you go, crunchy is the adjective.

What is that telling us?

What is it giving me more information?

It's giving us more information about the bread.

What do I know about the bread?

The bread is crunchy.

Yes, the bread is crunchy.

We could just say Peter made bread.

That would be kinda boring, but when we say he made crunchy bread!

(bread crunches) Oh, that's way more interesting.

Okay, you're ready for the second sentence?

Okay, let's do it.

Mom made a healthy salad.

Oh, and it's good to eat salads, that's for sure.

Okay, so which one do you think is the adjective?

Remember, the adjective is a describing word that tells us more about something.

So what do I know about the salad?

What kinda salad is it?

Right, it's a healthy salad.

So healthy is my adjective.

It's giving me more information about the salad.

What do I know about the salad?

It's healthy, right!

I could just say mom made a salad.

That would be kinda boring, but when I add an adjective like healthy, wow, it becomes more exciting!

Mom made a healthy salad.

Oh, that's the power of adjectives.

Right, it can make things more interesting.

They're, you should use them in all your sentences all the time to make your sentences really interesting.

Okay, let's take a look at our vowels and our digraphs.

We've been reviewing these all week because you already know your letters, right?

You already know all your phonemes, right?

Yes, so we need to move on.

We need to get smarter.

That's what it's all about here at Discovery Ranch.

All right, let's remember the vowels.

And the vowels have at least, in kindergarten, two phonemes.

That's right, two phonemes.

So, and I want you to remember them.

And remember, the vowel say its name if there's that clue, right?

If their clues are there.

So here we go.

A, a and a is for A. E, e and e is for E. I, i and i is for I. O, o and o is for O. U, u and u is for U.

And those are the vowels.

And then we have the digraphs, remember digraphs.

That's where we have two letters that make one phoneme, right?

So we have C-H says what?

Ch as in cheese.

T-H says th as in thumb.

S-H says sh as in shell.

And W-H says wh as in whale.

Great job.

You guys are learning so many things here at the ranch.

I'm so excited about all the learning that's going around.

Let's take this off.

And remember, over here, I have the cow that we're learning.

And remember that the O-W and the O-U says what?

Ow, it says ou, right.

So here we go.

I have a paper for us today.

And I don't think we're gonna be able to do all of it, but I'm gonna try to do a couple of 'em at least.

Let's look at this.

All right, it says, circle the picture whose name has the same sound you hear in the middle of town, ow, okay?

And then write O-U or O-W to complete the word.

Okay, here we go.

So I have three: I have house, hat, and boat.

Which one has the ou?

Right, it's the house.

Now, we have to choose which one is it gonna be.

Is it gonna be, O-U or O-W?

What do you think?

And that's what you do, you just choose one.

And sometimes you get it right, sometimes you get it wrong, but you just learn as we go along.

Making mistakes is okay.

But this time it's O and U.

There you go, house.

Let's look at another one.

Are you ready?

We have book, we have egg, and we have crown.

Which one?

Book, egg, or crown?

Which one has that ow sound?

Right, it's this one, crown.

Okay, so we have to decide, which one do you guys wanna use?

O-U or O-W?

You decide.

Okay, you've decided?

Now, I'm gonna tell you that it is O-W. Did you get it right or did you put O-U?

You're still learning!

You know what?

In my class, if they put either one, I'd be excited.

And then I tell them, "Well, I'm glad that you put O-U, "but, O-W is the right one."

I think we have time for one more, are you ready?

(basket rattles) Oops!

Almost dropped our basket.

Brow, and then moon, and bat.

Which one had the ow?

Right, the brow.

And it's gonna be O-W. Oh, I'm looking at my clock.

And the clock says you don't have much time, Mr. Dawson.

Okay, so let's take a look at our story.

And I wanna know if we can find some, O-Us.

You ready?

Do you see any O-Us?

Yeah?

Here we go.

Oh, yes!

I see one right here, south, ou.

O-U, says ou.

Did you see that?

Oh, that's good!

Let me see.

Do you see any more O-Us that say ou?

I don't see anymore, but I do see this one, frown.

Nice job, so when you see ow or when you hear ou, you know it's gonna be either O-U or O-W. And that is the ow, the ou vowel team.

Oh, we've learned so much today!

And guess what?

Tomorrow is reading and writing day.

I can't wait, it's gonna be so exciting!

I have a couple of stories, they're gonna be amazing!

I hope that you'll come back tomorrow, and read, and write with me!

All right, I had fun today.

And we'll see you guys tomorrow, bye!

(gentle guitar 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.

♪ (gentle guitar music)