♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and the games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (energetic music) - Hi.

I'm Hasani I am a gorilla and my name means handsome.

Hey, how are you?

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.

And today's another reading and writing day.

And I was just looking at this book.

Look at this cute gorilla.

Is that not cute?

I like books.

I like books.

By the way, remember if you will write to me and tell me something you've learned this week I will send you an activity book.

All you have to do is send it to Valley PBS right here and I will send you an activity book that you will like.

Alright.

Let's get started.

Oh, I love reading and writing day is so cool.

Alright.

Remember the essential question is, How can things in nature be used to make new things?

Oh, today our story is full of that for sure.

Making new things out of different things.

The wonders of nature.

Oh my goodness.

Just like in this, in this picture.

Look, they have oranges and what are they doing?

They are making orange juice.

I love orange juice.

Oh my goodness.

It is so good and sweet and a little bit tangy sometimes.

Oh, that is so cool.

Well, today what is our story?

Today's story is called Nature Artists.

Yes.

Nature Artists.

Now, remember after you get done with this story I wanna know is it nonfiction?

That means yes it's true.

Or is it fiction?

Which means what?

No, it's not true.

Right?

Right.

So is it, is Nature Artists?

What do you think?

What's your prediction?

Do you think it's gonna be nonfiction?

Or do you think it's going to be fiction?

What do you think?

(Dawson grunts) Okay.

Okay.

You're saying nonfiction maybe I'm gonna put that right here and I'm gonna put it right here because that was the prediction that I heard some people say.

Okay.

We all gonna find out.

Alright?

Now, when we look at this, of course you're gonna have to answer some questions.

But before we do, remember that in informational books a lot of times they'll put texts features.

And even sometimes in narrative books, they do that.

Okay.

And in this time they put lots of pictures.

That's a common text feature.

But then they start putting captions.

And captions give you a little bit more information about what's going on.

Now in this story, when I read it, guess what I did.

I read the story but I also read the captions.

So be paying attention for that.

Because when we come back I might be asking questions about the captions or I might be asking questions about the story.

You never know that's what's cool about asking comprehension questions.

You don't know what I'm gonna ask.

So you have to listen really carefully.

Can you do that?

I bet you can.

I bet you can.

Oh, I really liked this story Nature Artists.

I hope you like it too.

Here we go.

Let's watch Nature Artists.

- [Narrator] Nature Artists.

Native American artists have been making things from nature for many years.

This sculptor carved a mask out of wood.

The sculptor paints a mask.

This artist uses grass to weave into a basket.

The artist adds rows of designs.

The basket has a bowl shape.

It can hold many things.

What would you put in the basket?

Native Americans have weaved baskets for thousands of years.

Clay is found in the earth.

It is thick and sticky.

Artists use clay to make pots and other objects, called pottery.

See how a clay pot is made.

The artist shapes the clay with her hands.

The artist starts to form the pot.

The pot is baked in the oven.

The pot dries out and becomes hard.

The artist paints the pot.

The finished pot is a work of art.

The artist uses a loom.

(cool music) This artist weaves a wool rug.

That designs on the rug will tell a story about the beauty of nature.

What beautiful things in nature do you see?

- Hey, I hope you liked that story.

That was awesome.

I hope you liked it.

Okay.

Now I'm gonna ask some questions.

Are you guys ready?

Here we go.

Okay.

I wanna look at this page.

Oh, wait.

I forgot.

Oh my goodness.

I forgot.

Alright.

We have to say.

What'd you guys think?

Did you find it to be nonfiction?

Which means true story or a fiction not true.

You guys right your prediction was right.

It is nonfiction.

Awesome.

Now let's go on to our questions.

Are you ready for our questions?

Here we go.

My first question, it has to do with this page right here.

Okay.

And this is the question you ready?

It says, look at the photo, how was this mask made?

Look at that photo.

Look at that.

Isn't that a cool map?

That's a cool mask.

Okay.

But the question was, how was it made?

Well, sometimes if I don't remember, I can always reread.

Let's reread.

Native American artists have been making the things from nature for many years.

This sculptor carved a mask out of wood.

So how was this mask made?

That's right.

It was carved.

This artist carved that mask.

Oh my goodness.

How awesome is that?

Okay.

Let's take a look at my next question.

My next question is, how does the author use the photo to teach you more about baskets?

How did the author use the photos?

Look at the photos.

Oh, when I look right here, look right here, man that grass is thin.

That's thin grass.

Oh.

And she's weaving it together to make a colorful basket.

Look at the basket.

Ooh.

Look at that design on it.

That is so cool.

It's very, very colorful.

Oh, that's cool.

Alright.

Now let's go to page.

The next page.

I have a question on for 34 and 35.

Are you ready?

Here's my question.

This has to do with the captions.

Here we go.

Why did the author include numbers in the captions?

Look one, two, three, four, and five.

Why did they use numbers in the captions?

Right.

It gives us the directions, right?

It says the artist shapes the clay with her hands.

And then what does she do?

The artists starts to form the pot and then the pot is baked in the oven.

The pot dries out and becomes hard Four, the artist paints the pot and five, the finished pot is a work of art.

And look how great that pot is.

They used things in nature.

This is the clay, and they made a beautiful, beautiful bowl.

Isn't that exciting?

Oh my goodness.

Yes.

So there was five steps in the process and that's what the captions were good for.

They showed that.

Alright.

Well, let's talk about our writing.

Here it goes.

It says, find clues.

How does the author use photographs to teach you more about basket weaving?

Circle the clues.

Okay.

You know what I need to do?

I need to go on the other side.

So I can do some writing and drawing.

Are you ready?

I'm gonna go over there.

Here we go.

Let me come over here 'cause we have to circle the clues.

Here we go.

What were the clues?

Do you remember that she used the thin grass?

Yes.

She used the thin grass.

And then what did we find out?

Oh, the bowl was colorful.

It has like a picture on it and all that good stuff.

Oh my goodness.

Those were the clues.

Now when she was weaving that must take a very long time to do that.

Look how pretty, that bowl is.

It's so nice.

Wouldn't it be nice to have that bowl?

It would be.

Okay.

So what is our sentence?

What should we do?

Let me see.

What did we learn?

I learned that the bowl has a picture.

The bowl has a picture.

I learned that.

Oh, look, look, what do you see there?

The word THAT, the side word THAT.

T- H- T spells that.

Did we not learn that this week?

Oh my goodness.

We learned so many things here at Discovery Ranch.

Okay.

So back to writing.

I learned that the bowl has a picture.

Okay.

So here we go.

I learned that.

That's a side word.

How do you spell THAT?

T, Right?

H and E Oh, good.I learned that the bowl .

Here we go.

Okay.

What's that first sound, B.

Now this is a vowel team.

We're gonna talk about this one later but look it's an O w but did it say ow?

It didn't, did it?

Listen to it.

- Bowl.

- Did you hear, did you hear it?

Did I say BAW?

No I didn't say AW that's because O W sometimes can say OW too.

I learned that the bowl has another side word.

Has, how do you spell HAS?

H. Right?

A, good Job.

And what's the last one?

S, nice job.

Oh my goodness.

That's awesome.

I learned that the bowl has, A Okay.

How do you spell A.

A spells A there you go.

Good job.

Oh, we are doing so well here.

Okay.

I learned that the bowl has a picture.

Before I get to spelling that, let's see how many syllables, you remember learning that this week?

Let's see how many syllables are in picture.

Are you ready?

Clap.

Get your clapper ready.

Here we go.

PIC-TURE.

How many syllables?

Two.

Now what was the first syllable?

PIC.

Let's sound out PIC.

P-IC Can you tell me the letters now?

Yes.

P ,I ,C is for C. Good job.

What's the second syllable?

TURE.

PIC-TURE.

And I'll have to help you spell that one.

Here we go.

It's T U R and E. Here we go.

There we go.

I learned that the bowl has a picture.

Are we done?

Yeah, score done.

(Dawson exclaims) No, we're not done?

What am I missing?

Let me see.

I have my upper case first letter.

I have my verb learned and I, yes.

And a bowl those are all nouns.

What am I missing?

(Dawson grunts) My period.

Right.

My punctuation gotta have that.

I learned that the bowl has a picture.

Isn't that amazing?

We did it.

We did some reading and we did some writing.

Isn't that exciting?

Oh my goodness.

We are doing it.

Look how much you learned all this time.

Well, it's time for me to go.

I will see you next week where we'll have some more fun.

See you later.

Bye.

♪ 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 ♪