♪ 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 ♪ (acoustic music) (upbeat music) - A P taste.

Hey, hi, I'm Mr. Dawson.

Welcome back to Discovery Ranch.

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

Join me here each day so that we can go on adventures together and learn how to read and write.

Hey, what is today?

Today is reading and writing day and I'm so excited about it.

I was just reading this book, "Pete the Cat and The Bad Banana."

Oh, I'm so excited.

We're gonna do so many things today that have to do with reading and we're gonna end up doing some writing, I'm so excited.

And remember, if you will send me a letter telling me what you've learned this week, I will send you an activity book.

So write to me today so that I could send one of these books to you.

All right, let's get started.

And as always, we're gonna start off with our essential question, what is our essential question?

It says, in what ways are things alike?

How are they different?

A place for everything.

Look what they've done here in these pictures.

What have they done?

They put things that are alike in each jar.

Like here's some pens and here's some paper clips.

They put them in there because they are the same.

And what ways are all these the same?

They're all paperclips.

But I could say, how are they different?

Well if you look in there, the paperclips have all different colors as well.

So something is the same and something is different.

A place for everything.

Now talking about that, I wanna talk about our book for today.

Our book is "All Kinds of Families."

Oh now, and every book and most books, there's two people.

There's usually the author.

The author is the person who writes the words.

So who came up with this title?

It was the author because the author is coming up with the words that you see in the book.

The illustrator is also important.

The illustrator is the person who draws the pictures.

So when the author wrote "All Kinds of Families" for the title, they went to the illustrator and said, "Hey, what do you think of?

"What, can you draw a picture?"

And it says," Oh, I have just a picture."

So the illustrator draws all the pictures that you see in the book.

Isn't that exciting?

Now, I wanna say that there's two kinds of books.

Remember there's narrative books and there's informational books.

Informational books give us a text that's mostly information.

And then narrative tells a story.

Oh yes, and sometimes we have fiction books and nonfiction books.

Remember if I have a non-fiction book, that means, yes it's true.

If I have a fiction book, then it means no, it's not true.

All right, so your job when we read the story is to decide, is this book nonfiction or is it fiction?

Right, that's the first question I'm going to ask you.

And then afterwards, I'm going to ask questions because teachers, you know I've been telling you this all year, teachers love, they just love to ask questions to see how much you've been paying attention to the book.

So just like those teachers, I'm a teacher, so when you come back I'm gonna ask you three questions.

Let's see if you're able to answer the questions.

All right, we're gonna watch the book, "All Kinds of Family," I hope you enjoy it.

Here we go.

- [Narrator] "All Kinds of Families" by Mary Ann Hoberman and illustrated by Marc Boutavant.

"All Kinds of Families."

Families, families, all kinds of families.

Families are people and animals too but all sorts of other things fit into families.

Look around and you'll see that they do.

Bottle caps, ginger snaps, buttons and rings.

You can make families from all sorts of things.

A knife and a fork and a spoon are a family.

The stars and the sun and the moons are a family.

The socks in the drawer and the rocks on the shore and the blocks on the floor, they can all become families.

As soon as you're born, you're part of a family.

As soon as you're born you're a daughter ora son.

As soon as you're born, your family gets bigger.

As soon as you're born, it's bigger by one.

Eggs in a carton can seem like a family so can a loaf with its slices of bread.

Celery stalks or a big bunch of carrots.

They sleep in the fridge with a drawer for a bed.

What other things can you find to make a family?

Pennies and card, decks and marbles and jacks.

Ribbons and bobby pins, hair clips and thimbles.

Pencils and rulers and crayons and tacks.

Bottle caps, ginger snaps, buttons or rings.

You can make families from all sorts of things.

Clams in the sea make a clammily family.

Lambs in the field make a lambily family.

Jams in their jar make a jammily family, and yams in the cupboard make a yammily family.

Out in the yard, you'll find dry twigs and branches, horse chestnuts, barberries, acorns and cones.

Down at the beach, you'll find pebbles and seashells.

Soft colored beach glass and ocean smoothed stones.

A saucer and cup can be a brother and sister.

A comb and a brush can be a husband and wife.

A plate and a bowl can be Mrs and Mr. And so can the spoon or fork or the knife.

Your hand is a family, a family of fingers.

Your foot is a family, a family of toes.

And as you get older, each family gets older.

And as you keep growing, each family grows, bottle caps, ginger snaps, buttons or rings.

You can make families from all sorts of things.

If you're the first baby born to your mother, your mother's a mother because you are here.

If you're the first baby born to your father, your father is a father because you appear.

If you're the second one born in your family, someone is a brother because you arrive or someone's a sister and you are a sister or a brother the moment you are alive.

You can make families from clay or from play dough.

You can make families from mud or from snow.

You can make families from paper or cardboard.

Make them from sticks or balloons that you blow.

Spools are a family and tools are a family, and chalks from the chalkboard at the school are a family.

Six slices of cheese or a pod full of peas, or a key ring with keys, they can all become families.

Bottle caps, ginger snaps, buttons or rings.

You can make families from all sorts of things.

You might say that numbers belong in a family or alphabet letters or notes in a scale.

The colors in rainbows, the words in a language.

The keys on a piano or stamps for the mail.

Inside or outside in summer or winter, you can find families for so many games.

Families to play with, spend most of the day with telling them stories and giving them names.

Bottle caps, ginger snaps, buttons or rings.

You can make families from all sorts of things.

Make-believe families and families of people.

Families of people from long, long ago.

Families like stepping stones crossing the water leading to now and families you know.

Everyone comes from a number of families.

When you look backwards, it looks like a tree.

People from families make other new families.

The more you go back, the more people you see.

Play families, real families, all kinds of families.

Think of the families, the ones that you are from, someday you'll grow up and you'll have a new family and you'll be the family of families to come.

- Did you like that story?

Oh my goodness, what a great story about "All Kinds of Family".

Did you see what makes a family?

All kinds of things can make families.

Family just means things that go together.

Isn't that awesome?

Okay, so and that's my first question, what makes a family?

Yes, things that go together.

Just like those paperclips.

Oh, they can be all different colors but they're all paperclips.

All right, here's my second question, what happens to the families as they get older?

Well, in case of the people, they just some make new families, that's right.

I had a mom and dad and I was in their family and then when, as I got older and guess what?

I got married and I had a family of my own.

So I had a new family, but just like in the book where families are like trees, they keep going back in the past and they get bigger and bigger.

Oh, it's so exciting about having a family for sure.

Okay, now here's my next question, what is the author telling us about families in this story?

What is he really trying to get?

What are they, really trying to get to?

Yes, there are many kinds of families.

There are many, we can have animal families, we can have people families, we can have rubber band families, we can have old paperclip families with all kinds of families.

Right, all kinds of families.

Which brings me to my picture.

Oh wait, wait, I almost forgot.

Oh my goodness, was this story non-fiction or was it fiction?

Which one was it?

Right, this story was fiction.

Right, it wasn't true, so we call it fiction.

Fiction means this story is not true.

Non-fiction means yes, it is true.

All right, oh I'm glad I remembered that 'cause I like talking about nonfiction and fiction.

All right, let's do our writing.

Are you ready for our writing?

Here's our writing, it says, look at the items in the photo.

Look, think about all kinds of families.

What name could you give this family?

Write a caption next to the photo.

Okay so, I'm gonna look at this photo and I'm thinking and you should be thinking, what kind of things, what could we write here?

And then we're gonna write a caption right here of what?

Let's take a look.

So we take a look.

I have see crayons.

I see scissors and paint.

All right, right, I see a paint brush.

I see tape.

Do you know this makes me think that this family could be called art supplies.

Oh my goodness, they're all art supplies.

Does that work?

I think so, and there, there's my caption right here that talks about this.

So what are we going to write?

We're gonna write, these things are a family because they're all art supplies.

Are you ready to do that one?

They, these things are all are a family because they, that's a sight word, are, that's another sight word.

What's the next word.

They are all.

There's another sight word, A-L-L, they are all art.

Oh, I have it right here so, I'm just gonna use that information.

Art, I already know how to spell art because it's right here, A-R-T, they are all art supplies.

And I have supplies here.

S-U-P-P-L-I-E-S, and don't forget the punctuation.

These things are a family because they are all art supplies.

We did it.

We wrote a big, long interesting sentence, I'm excited.

We've done reading, we've done writing.

We're putting to use all the things that we've learned.

Hey come back tomorrow and we'll have another meeting day, so exciting.

Will see you later, bye.

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

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