♪ 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) - Definitely, we should have some cows in one slice.

Hey, how are you?

Here I am again, Mr. Dawson, right here, Discovery Ranch.

And we're talking about things that you can do and I can do, so we can learn how to read and write.

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

Just like I was telling some of my people, that on one slice of our pizza farm, we should have cows because the cows are gonna help us make the cheese.

Make the cheese for the pizza.

Yes.

Now, remember, if you will write to me right here at the station and tell me something you've learned, like, I want you to write a paragraph about shapes and send it to me, so I can read your paragraph.

And then I will send you an activity book.

I can't wait to read some of your paragraphs.

Well, let's get started.

What should we do?

Yes, you know it, I know it, let's shout it out together.

Daily phonemic awareness.

I love phonemic awareness.

It's so fun 'cause we're playing lots of games.

Today, we're going to do onset and rhyme.

Do you remember how to do that?

Remember, the onset is the very first sound of a word and the rhyme are all the sounds that are left over.

So, let's do one right now.

You ready?

Far, let's clap far, you remember how to do that?

Far.

What's the onset?

F, right.

What's the rhyme?

Ar.

Oh, ar.

That reminds me about ar.

So if I wanted to spell ar, how would I spell it?

Right, I'd use that A-R. Let's do another word.

Vet.

You ready to clap it?

Vet.

What's the onset?

V, right.

What's the rhyme?

Et.

V, et.

What does it say?

Vet.

Right.

Here's our last one, you ready?

Our last one is rug.

You ready to clap it?

Rug.

What's the onset?

R, good job.

And what's the rhyme?

All the sounds that are left over, all the phonemes left over.

Ug.

Right, r, ug.

And I can put it together.

R, ug, rug.

Isn't that awesome?

That is so cool.

Okay, are you ready for sight words?

Remember, sight words are important because if you have them in your brain and then you see them, then, guess what?

Guess what?

Then you'll know them when you see them and then when you need to write them, you can write them.

Oh my goodness, that is so cool.

All right, are you ready?

Now, we're gonna do some sight words right here.

You know, all of a sudden, I feel, like, a cool breeze in here at the ranch.

Why?

Oh, I know.

I don't have my hat today.

Where did I put that hat?

I've gotta find my hat, so I can keep my top warm.

Here we go.

But, we're gonna do sight words, are you ready?

I-N spells in.

P-L-A-Y spells play.

L-I-K-E spells like.

W-I-L-L spells will.

W-H-A-T spells what.

S-H-E spells she.

B-E spells be.

T-H-E-Y spells they.

I spells I. A-L-L spells all.

S-O-M-E spells some.

And H-E spells he.

Look, we've done all these words so far and we're not done yet.

We're gonna learn more tomorrow.

Oh my goodness, remember these words because when we read and when we write, we might have to use some of these words.

All right.

Here we go.

Now, let's talk about what we're learning.

We're learning phonics and before we get going with phonics, I would like to do a review of our phonemes.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

A, apple, ah.

And then we have train.

And remember, train has the phoneme A and these are all the clues for that.

E, egg, eh.

And this is tree and it has the phoneme E and these are all the clues that are gonna give you the idea to say E. Here we go.

I, insect, ih.

And this is five and its sound is I and these are all the clues that tell you when to say I. O, octopus, ah.

And this is boat and it has the phoneme O and these are all the clues of when to say O in a word.

U, umbrella, uh.

And this is cube and it has the phoneme U or ooh and these are all the clues that tell you when to say that.

And then, here are our vowel teams.

This is boy, O-I and blank O-Y say oy.

Cow, it says ow and these are the ways to say ow, O-W and O-U.

Uh oh, missed one.

Book, it says uh, as in O-O, O-O says uh.

And our last one is spoon and it says ooh and these are all the clues of when to say ooh.

Nice job, we did it.

That's awesome.

Okay, what should we do next after phonics?

Oh, I know, writing.

Oh my goodness, writing.

No, we can't do writing first because I forgot the A-R. Oh my goodness, okay.

Let's not forget that, Mr. Dawson.

We have been talking about A-R and how A-R says ar.

Like jar, car, yarn, star and barn.

When we say A-R, we say ar.

Now, I would like to read a story.

And here's my story.

"At The Park With Star".

At the park, Tara and Amar play with a smart pup.

Mark owns the pup.

The pup's name is Star.

Star can jump high.

Star can run far in the park.

Star can then rest when it gets dark.

What an amazing story.

But the thing that I want to look at is our two letter, A-R. And what does A-R say?

It says ar.

Look at the title.

"At The Park With Star".

Do you see those clues?

I bet you do.

Right here, here's one.

There's the A-R, and what does the A-R say?

It says ar.

Do you see another one there?

Right.

Right here.

Star.

A-R says ar.

So we have p, ar, k, st, ar.

Do you see that?

A-R says ar.

Isn't that awesome?

We're gonna stop there and look at this more tomorrow.

But right now, I want to talk about our essential question.

Look at our essential question, do you remember it?

What shapes do you see around you?

Name that shape.

And we looked at all the shapes around here in our studio and looked at all the shapes that we could find, like the rectangles and the circles.

Oh my goodness, there's so many shapes around here.

And then, do you remember what we did yesterday?

We started writing.

We started writing, oh my goodness.

It was so much fun to do some writing.

Remember we said, "You can see a circle, you can see an oval, you can see a star."

Right.

We wrote that down and we tried to spell the best we could.

I think I did a pretty good job, but somebody gave me one that I want to take a look at today.

Here it is.

And we can read it.

Let's read it.

You can see shapes all around.

You can see a circle.

You can see an oval.

You can a star.

Shapes are all around us.

All right, now, I can see that I need to do some editing on this one.

So, let me get my trusty dusty pen and let's take a look at all the things that we need to look at.

So, if I come over here and look at my sentence checklist, I'm going to look and see what do we need to look for.

Remember, one of the things says, "Do I have a capital letter at the beginning of my sentence?"

Let's take a look at that.

Are you ready?

Let's take a look at all our detail sentence and see if we can see upper case letters.

Yes, there, that's an uppercase letter.

Uh oh, do you see that one?

That's not an uppercase letter, so we're gonna have to correct that.

There we go.

There we go.

And that's part of the editing.

Once you do your writing, you go back and you check these things.

How about this one?

Is it uppercase?

Yes, this one is uppercase.

So, we found one that was not uppercase and we fixed it.

Isn't that awesome?

Okay, let's take a look at our chart again and see what's next.

Here we go.

Do I have the correct ending mark to end my sentence?

The punctuation.

All right.

Let's see, does the first one have punctuation?

It doesn't.

Okay, we're gonna have to fix that.

Here we go.

There's the period.

Now we fixed it.

How about this one?

Oh, that one has the period, right.

How about this one?

No, no it doesn't have a period either.

Okay, let's take a look at the next thing.

What do we have to do?

Do I have a naming word?

The noun.

Yup, here's the noun, right there.

You, that's the subject, I'm talking about you.

And then, the last one, let's take a look at the last one, are you ready?

Do I have a telling word or the verb?

See is the verb, good job.

There's see there.

You can, oh, look, there's no verb here.

You can, they forgot the word see, so I better put it in there.

See.

You can see a star.

And then the last thing I want to look at is spaces.

Are there spaces?

Look at this first one.

Can see.

Oh my goodness, they put that together.

There's supposed to be a space, so I better rewrite it, so there's a space.

Can and see.

Do you see that?

So, let me see, is there any, oh, star, look at star.

Oh my goodness, we know that A-R says star, or it says ar, so let's spell star right.

S-T and then A and R. All right, I think we've done it.

You can see a circle.

You can see an oval.

You can see a star.

We correct, we edited it.

That is so awesome.

Aw, we've done our paragraph and it's so cool.

What we need to do tomorrow is look at this one more time, maybe, and see if we can jazz it up because this is kind of boring and I want to jazz it up.

Maybe that's what we'll do tomorrow.

All right.

I've had so much fun with you today.

We've done some writing and some sight words.

Oh my goodness.

I've had so much fun today.

I hope that you come tomorrow, so we can finish up our writing.

Oh, it's gonna be so much fun.

I hope to see you tomorrow.

I want you to have a great day and we'll see you.

Bye 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 ♪