♪ 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 ♪ (playful music begins) - Right, right, it's a circle, right?

Not an oval, pizzas are not in an oval, they're in a circle.

Hey, I gotta go, it's time for me to go, yeah, bye-bye.

Hey, hello, my name is Mr. Dawson, welcome back to Discovery Ranch.

I'm here to show you some activities so you can read and write, join me here each day so we can go on discoveries together.

I was just on that phone call because one of the workers at the ranch wanted to make an oval pizza.

He thought that would be cool.

And I said, "No, no, no, it's gotta be a circle," 'cause a pizza is a circle, all right.

Hey, remember if you want to write to me here at the station and tell me something you've learned, guess what?

I'm gonna send you an activity book.

I can't wait to see what you write to me.

'Cause that's really what I'm looking for is writing.

And today, this week, we're gonna be writing about shapes, so write to me about shapes.

Well, we better get learning, we better get learning.

What's the first thing we're gonna do, you know it.

I know it, what is it, shout it out loud.

Daily phonemic awareness, yes!

Today our game is rhyme.

I'm gonna give you two words, and you tell me if they rhyme, are you ready?

Here's my two words, my first two words, jet, pet.

Do they rhyme, what's rhyme mean?

Remember, rhyme means the sounds at the back sound the same.

Juh et, et, puh et, et, jet et, pet et, et et, yes, they rhyme, so jet, pet, they both say et, yes, good.

Okay, here's another one, are you ready?

Car, jar, do those two words rhyme?

They do, yes, they both have ar.

And don't forget when you hear ar, what is it?

It's A-R right, but here we go, here we go, you ready, car, jar, they both say ar.

And we know A-R spells ar.

Okay here's our last pair, 'kay, my words are cat and Jeep.

Cat, at, Jeep, eep, at, eep, no, those don't rhyme.

No, those don't rhyme, so I'm not gonna do my little thing 'cause they do not rhyme, no, okay.

Let's go on to our sight words.

Are you ready for our sight words?

Okay, here we go, now we're gonna do the second row.

Here we go, you ready, right here.

A-N spells an, M-E spells me, A spells a, U-P spells up, W-H-O spells who, W-I-T-H spells with, O-N spells on, W-A-S spells was, T-O spells to, H-A-D spells had, H-A-S spells has, and G-O spells go.

Remember, when you put these words in your brain and keep 'em there, when you see 'em in a book, you'll be able to read them.

And if you need to write them, you'll be able to recall 'em right out of your brain and say, "Oh, I know how to spell go, it's G-O."

Right, that's the power of knowing all of these words.

All right, let's move on to phonics.

And remember, we're learning and reviewing our sounds, are you ready?

A, apple, ah.

This is train, it has the phoneme ai, and ai is for A.

'Member, vowels can have two sounds in kindergarten, E, egg, eh.

And then we have tree, and tree has the phoneme ee, and these are all the clues that are gonna tell you it's gonna say E. I, insect, ih.

And then we have five, and that has the phoneme i, and these are all the clues that you might see that tell you to say I. Aw, octopus, oh, I did that backwards again.

Oh, octopus, aw, it's all right to make mistakes, I do it all the time.

And this is boat, and it has the phoneme oa, and these are all the clues for you to know when to say O. U, umbrella, uh.

Cube, and cube has the phoneme of u or ooh.

And these are all the clues to let you know that.

Oh, diagraphs, whale, wh is for W-H, cheese, ch, is for C-H, and tch is for T-C-H at the end.

Shell, sh is for S-H.

Thumb, th is for T-H. And then we have our vowel teams oy, O-I and O-Y.

And then we have ow, O-W and O-U say ow.

And then we have oo for spoon, and these are all the clues for that.

Let's stop there, 'cause we have a lot of work to do and just a little time to do it in.

Okay, remember, do you remember, I remember, A-R, what does A-R say?

A-R says ar, and these are all the pictures that we had that have ar in them, like farm or barn, maybe.

All right, so this is what I wanna do.

I wanna look at a paper, look at this paper right here.

It says, "Read the words and listen for the A-R sound.

"Circle the word that names the picture."

Okay, what is this, a star, right.

'Kay, so which one is gonna say star.

Remember what says ar, it's the A-R, so we know it would be this one, right?

There's the word, ar, there's the A-R, do you see that?

What is this, arm, right, arm, which one is gonna say arm?

And remember the clue, which, yes, it's the second one.

And there's the A-R, do you see that, how nice.

Okay, what is this, ooh my goodness, what is this?

Shark, shark, okay, which one is gonna say shark?

Which one, right, it's the second one again, how did you know, that clue, the A-R, A-R says ar.

How about the next one, scarf.

Which one is scarf, right, the first one, did you see the clue right away, I bet you did.

And then the last one, barn, barn, which one?

How incredible, yes, it's the second one because A-R. What does A-R say, A-R says ar, that is so cool.

All right, now I want to go into writing.

Are you ready for some writing?

Remember, we've been using our essential question to help us, "What shapes do you see around you?"

Name that shape, and we've been talking about all the shapes around the ranch.

And we've been talking about the pizza farm that we're doing, oh my goodness.

Now it's time for us to write on what we were talking about and brainstorming yesterday.

But before we do, I wanna come over here and look at the parts of a paragraph, because that's important when we're doing our writing.

Look right here, parts of a paragraph.

You remember we have a topic, which is the bun, right?

Remember me eating that burger last week?

And then we have the conclusion, which is the bottom bun.

These are important, but the really juicy parts are in the middle, the lettuce, the tomatoes, the onions, the pickles, the hamburger, those are the good parts.

And I call those the details, the details, the details.

That's what we're going to talk about today.

Now remember, do you remember doing our brainstorming tool yesterday?

Let's go over here and look at it.

I'm gonna move these sight words right here so we can remember, here we go.

Do you remember, we're talking about shapes, and here's our details, do you remember our details?

Our details are, we want to talk about a circle, right?

And then, you know, I thought about triangle and I said, "No I don't want to do a triangle," so I crossed it out after the show and said, "I wanna do oval," oval, I like that word.

And then I wanna do a star, yes, we're going to talk about it.

So now we have our ideas, and we're gonna use these to do our details in our writing, are you ready to write?

Here we go, let me get my writing board up.

Take this one down, here we go, and I'm gonna put my writing board up here.

Whoa, that would've been a nice one.

Okay, now you can see our detail, or our topic sentence, "You can see shapes all around."

Now we have to use our board that we have, I think I'll use black this time, and we're gonna write.

What was our first one, it was, oh that's right, it was a circle, I can see it.

So we're gonna say, "You can see a circle."

You can see a circle, right?

Look at all those sight words!

You.

Can, how do you spell can, C-A-N. You can see, another sight word, S-E-E. You can see, A, then what was that word?

Circle, how many syllables is that?

Circle, two, circle, there we go.

What was that other one, oval.

And I'm gonna use these same words 'cause they're the same thing.

You can see, an this time, because it's a vowel is the next word, oval.

That's a nice one.

And our last one was what, oh star, star.

You can see a star, and I can use these same words.

You, uh-oh, that was a mistake, I put an A instead of an O.

You can see, see how I'm doing this, just like you, I'm remembering all these sight words in my head.

You can see a, and then star.

We did it, we did it, "You can see shapes all around.

"You can see a circle.

"You can see an oval.

"You can see a star.

"Shapes are all around us."

Look what we've done, we wrote a paragraph with a topic, details, and a conclusion.

We're gonna look more at this tomorrow.

Be with me, come back, so we can look at our paragraph a little bit closer.

Right now it's time for me to go.

We'll see you later, bye.

(folksy music plays) ♪ 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 ♪ (folksy music continues)