♪ 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) - Hi.

Yeah, you need to take all of that over there to be recycled.

We want to protect the Earth.

Yes.

I have to go, bye.

Hey, welcome back.

My name is Mr. Dawson and I'm here at Discovery Ranch, so you can learn how to read and write.

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

I was just telling my crew to take all that chicken wire and take it to the recycling because it's good for the environment.

I just don't want to let it sit out, some animal may get caught in it.

We don't want that to happen.

But they can reuse all the waste material and make something new out of it.

Recycling is a good plan to protect the Earth.

Now remember, you are going to be learning a lot of things this week and if you will write to me right here at the station and tell me something you've learned, I will send you an activity book.

Let's get started.

It's time for dainty phonemic awareness.

Yes, today we're playing a new game.

We're gonna play the blending game.

Remember, we've been blending this whole year and even Professor Gessonbert taught us how to blend.

Oh, are you guys ready?

Remember, blending is when we take all the phonemes and we put it together to make the word.

Let's see if you can do it.

Are you ready?

Here's my first one.

Listen to all the phonemes.

R, ake.

R, ake.

What's my word?

Right, it's the word rake.

Rake.

Great job, rake.

Okay, here's the next one, you ready?

V, an.

V, an.

Blend them together and what's the word?

Oh, that was a great job.

Van.

Van.

Unbelievable, that is really awesome.

You guys are ready for first grade, I think.

Okay, here we go, you ready?

Last one.

Gonna do a hard one.

You ready?

Here we go.

D, ish.

Ooh, did you hear the digraph?

D, ish.

What's the word?

No way, I knew you could do it.

Dish.

Right, dish.

It's the word dish.

Good job blending.

Do you see how all year you've been learning and now you're being able to put it together?

Oh, that's so amazing.

Your teachers are gonna be so amazed, they're gonna say, "Wow, what have you been learning, where have you been learning?"

And you can say, "Oh, I've been watching the program on PBS."

I'm pretty excited.

Okay, here we go.

It's time for our sight words.

Are you ready for our sight words?

Remember, sight words are important because you see them a lot in books and you'll need to know some of these to just be able to write them when you're ready to write.

So, we've been revealing all of these because we have been learning these all year.

Okay, here we go.

Here's our next set.

Let's go.

B-U-T spells but.

H-I-S spells his.

A-N spells an.

O-N spells on.

I-N spells in.

B-E spells be.

N-O-T spells not.

I-T spells it.

A-S spells as.

And A-T spells at.

Remember, if you have all these words in the brain, when you see them in a book, you'll say, "Oh, I know that word."

Or if you're writing and you need to spell the word his, you'll go, "Oh, I know how to spell his, it's H-I-S." That's amazing.

Now let's talk about some sounds.

We have been talking about vowels and digraphs.

Oh, I want you to really understand about the vowels and digraphs.

Remember, vowels are special because in kindergarten they can make two phonemes.

They can say their sound, their phoneme, which they're happiest, that's why I put a happy face there, and they can also say their name.

And I put a straight line because they're not happy, they're not sad, they just do it when there's a clue that tells them, "Hey, say your name."

So, "A" can say ah or it can say "A".

"E" can say eh or it can say "E".

"I" can say ih or it can say "I".

"O" can say ah or it can say "O".

"U" can say uh or it can say "U".

And sometimes it can say ooh, like in Luke or clue.

All right, now we have digraphs.

Remember, digraphs are special because they're two letters that make one phoneme.

Digraphs.

So, here we go.

C-H says ch.

T-H says th.

S-H says sh.

And W-H says wh.

So, when you see a C-H or a T-H or a S-H or a W-H, you know that it makes one phoneme, ch, th, sh or wh.

That's a good thing to know when you're looking at books and reading books.

All right, now, we have been talking about ooh, we've been talking about ooh and over here we have our card where it has that spoon on it.

Remember, spoon, spoon, do you hear the ooh in there?

Right.

And these are all the clues that tell us that we should say ooh.

One of them is O-O, you gotta be careful about that one, why?

Because we know that O-O can also say uh.

And you have to be careful about O-U because sometimes O-U says ow.

But, to this week, we're studying ooh.

Oh, look at these pictures right here.

I have a lot of pictures up here and I want to find the picture that you hear ooh and we'll circle them.

Are you ready?

Let's look at this first picture.

Boot.

B, oo, t. Does it have the ooh sound?

Yes, it does.

So I'm gonna circle it.

How about this one?

Flute.

Yes, it does.

How about this one?

Leaf, l, ea, no.

How about rope?

R, ope, nope.

How about moon?

M, oo, yes, that one, for sure.

How about quill?

Qu, i, qui, qu, qu, no.

Not gonna take that one.

So we found three of them.

That's good.

That's good.

So, there you go.

So, if it's ooh, then guess what?

Guess what?

Then I'm going to have to figure out which clue is the right spelling for those pictures.

But I can't do that today because I want to talk about writing.

You remember, we've been talking about writing yesterday and we were talking about the strategy of writing and making a plan and having a rough draft and then editing and then the final writing, do you remember that?

Well today, I want to go a little bit deeper and talk about paragraphs.

And who better to teach us than Professor Gessonbert.

Take it away, Professor.

(upbeat music) - Hello, my name is Professor Gessonbert and I know all there is to know about words.

Today I'd like to talk to you about the word paragraph.

What does that mean?

Well, let me show you.

Where's my pointer?

Oh, where's my, oh, here it is, I found it.

Okay.

Paragraph.

A paragraph is a group of words that tell something that you want other people to know about.

Now, a paragraph has three parts to it.

Mr. Producer, could you help me with my graphic?

Ah, here we go.

So, we have in our paragraph, we have a topic.

A topic tells everybody, oh, I don't know, it tells everybody what you want to talk about, right, right.

So, that's what the topic is.

And then you have the details.

The details are all the juicy parts that everybody needs to know about what you want to write about.

And then, last of all, we have the conclusion.

The conclusion restates what you want everybody to know and it may give you an ending idea.

So, that's what a paragraph is.

It's a group of sentences that tells someone something that you want them to know about.

It has a topic, it has details and it has a conclusion.

I hope that you have enjoyed learning about paragraphs and I want you to have a very good day.

Bye bye.

(lips smacking) Oh.

Oh, sorry, sorry.

Oh, I was just enjoying this burger right here while Professor was talking, but you know, now that I'm thinking about it, I would take, I'd like to take a look at this burger.

This burger's very interesting and it'll help us with writing, can you believe it?

There are three parts to this burger.

There's the top part, there's the bottom part, look at it, there's the bottom of that delicious burger, and then there's the middle part.

Yes, you know, it reminds me of writing because in writing, in a paragraph, just like what Professor was saying, there's three parts.

There's the topic, there's the conclusion, oh, that burger was good, and then there's the details, sorry, in the middle, and the conclusion at the bottom.

The most important part of it is the middle part.

All the delicious, juicy parts inside my burger.

The top and the bottom is okay, but really, it's the middle that's good.

It's just like my poster right here.

Look at my poster.

In my poster, I have the topic, which is the top bun, and the conclusion, which is the bottom bun, but all the juicy parts of what I want to know about what we're talking about, the details, are in the middle of the burger.

So, when we write a paragraph, there's gonna be a topic, details and then a conclusion, just like my delicious burger.

Oh my goodness, it was so good.

So, we've learned so many things today.

We have learned, we learned about the ooh sound, we learned some sight words, we did some blending and then we ended up talking about paragraphs, how a paragraph has a topic, details and conclusions.

Now, we're not stopping here with writing, we have even more things to talk about.

Yes, tomorrow, we're going to look at a paragraph, it's gonna be so good.

So make sure you're back with me, so that we can, we can delve a little bit deeper into paragraphs.

Will you come?

I'm gonna be here.

Oh yes, you know what?

I'm gonna enjoy this burger a little bit more.

(crunching) 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 ♪