♪ 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.

♪ - Pizza farm, just like that.

Hey!

How are you doing?

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

I hope you join me here each day so we can go on discoveries together.

I was just making my pizza farm map and I'm gonna let people know exactly what to plant in each slice.

That's gonna be exciting.

I can't wait until all the crops come in.

I'm glad that you're here, you're with me today.

And remember, if you will write to me here at the station, I will send you an activity book.

I'm trying to get you to write a paragraph to me talking about shapes.

And you could talk about the shapes that are important to you.

That's what I did.

And I hope that you'll send it to me so I can read your paragraph about shapes.

All right.

Let's get going.

What do we do first?

That's right.

Let's shout it out loud.

Daily.

Phonemic.

Awareness.

Yes.

I'm so excited about phonemic awareness.

I have so much fun playing these games.

Today's game, we're gonna do syllables.

Are you ready to do syllables?

Do you remember how to do that?

Remember, syllables are chunks of words and sometimes there's one syllable, maybe there's two syllables, there can be all kinds of them.

We just, we just say the word and then we chunk it up to find the syllables.

Are you ready?

Here's my first word.

The first word is triangle.

Let's clap triangle and see how many parts or syllables there are.

Are you ready?

Let's clap it.

Tri- (claps) ang- (claps) gle (claps) Sometimes, I put my fingers up.

It's kind of tricky to do it.

Watch.

Tri- (claps) ang- (claps) gle (claps) How many syllables?

Three.

There are three syllables in triangle.

Good job!

Let's do another one.

We're gonna do rectangle.

Are you ready?

Let's clap it.

Rec- (claps) tang- (claps) gle (claps) Or we can use our fingers, let's do that way.

Rec- (claps) tang- (claps) gle (claps) How many?

Three.

Excellent.

You guys are so smart.

Okay, here's the last one.

Are you ready?

Our last one is circle.

Are you ready to clap it?

Let's go.

Cir- (claps) cle (claps) How many syllables?

Two.

Why is it so important in kindergarten to know about syllables?

Well, if I know each syllable, then I can sound out each chunk and spell that part and then I put it all together and I will have that word.

It may not be spelled right but that's where editing comes into play.

Yes, that's what we do with syllables, for sure.

Okay.

Now it's time to do sight words.

Remember, sight words are so important because when we put them in our brain and know them then when we see them in a book, we'll be able to read them.

Or if we need to write them like we've been doing this week, then I can recall them just like you're going to do for me.

By writing to me and telling me a paragraph about the about the shapes that are important to you.

Let's learn some sight words, are you ready?

Here we go.

N-O-T spells not.

F-O-R spells for.

S-E-E spells see.

O-N-E spells one.

That's a weird one.

P-U-T spells put.

A-R-E spells are.

I-T spells it.

O-R spells or.

C-A-N spells can.

B-Y spells by.

G-O-O-D spells good.

And L-I-T-T-L-E spells little.

Good job.

I wonder if we'll use some of those words today, you never know.

Look in the stories that we do or in the writings that we've done.

Look at them and see if you can see some of these words and you'll go, "Oh yeah, I know those words."

All right.

What time is it now?

It's time for phonics so let's review some of the phonemes that we've been learning.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

"A" Apple.

Ah.

This is a train and it has the A's phoneme.

And these are all the clues for "A" "E" Egg.

Eh.

This is tree and these are all the ways, all the clues that you can say "E" Next, "I" Insect.

Ih.

Five.

Five says "I".

And these are all the clues for when you say "I".

"O" Octopus.

Oh.

This is boat and boat has the phoneme "O" and these are all the clues for when to say "O".

"U" Umbrella.

Uh.

And cube has the phoneme "U" or "ew" and these are all the clues that tell you that, when to say that.

Now, let's go on to vowel teams.

Boy.

Boy says "oi".

O-I and blank O-Y say "oy" Cow.

Cow has the phoneme "ow" and "ou".

Here are the clues.

O-W and O-U they say "ow".

Book.

Book has the phoneme "oo".

And "oo" is spelled with O-O.

And our last one is spoon.

Spoon has the phoneme "oo" and these are all the clues to say "oo".

We've done it.

Good.

All right.

Now we've been talking all week about this vowel team.

A-R. A-R says "ar", do you remember that?

Just like in barn, star, yarn, car and jar.

Did you hear the "ar" in there?

Yes.

And then we've been looking at our story, At the Park with Star.

Do you remember that story?

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.

Yes.

Now we are looking for all the places that we find A-R. A-R says what?

It says "ar".

Let's look at our first sentence.

At the, look here it is, do you see the A-R?

So if I was going to sound that out, I'd say "puh" I wouldn't say ah-er No, A-R says "ar" so I'd say puh- ar- k. Park.

Look at that.

How about Amar?

Amar.

Amar, that's somebody's name but he has the "ar" in there.

And here's another one, A-R.

So if I was to sounded out sm- sm- ar- t. Smart.

Do you see that?

That's so nice.

Okay, here's another one.

A-R, so we can send it out.

Mm- ar-k. Mark.

Mark.

Oh, and of course we have star.

And there was one more.

Oh yes, here it is.

You guys ready?

Right here, there's the A-R.

So if I see the A-R, what am I going to do?

Yes, I'm going to say "ar".

Are you guys ready?

Let's sound it out.

Duh- ar- k. Blend it.

Dark.

Dark.

Dark.

We did it.

So when you are reading in a book and you see A-R, what are you going to say?

Right, you're going to say, "ar".

That's what I would do when I sounded it out.

Duh- ar- k. Dark.

Right.

Well, let's talk about our essential question this week.

Our central question has been, "What shapes do you see around you?"

Let's look around.

Let's look around.

Oh, I see some rectangles.

I see some circles.

Oh, I see, here's another one, another circle.

What shape is my board here?

That's a rectangle.

Oh, yes and over here we have our letters are on rectangles.

Oh my goodness.

What else do I see?

Oh this, look at this.

The easel is a rec- Look at all those shapes that we have.

That is so amazing.

Shapes are all around us for sure.

Oh my goodness.

Okay, let's talk about writing.

Yesterday, we did our editing and then we made some corrections, didn't we?

We sure did.

So here is the finished product, so far.

Look at it.

It says: 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.

That is a great paragraph.

Oh my goodness.

It's great if we could leave it just like that, but you know what?

I started looking at it and I said, "These are kind of boring."

They just give us the regular information.

I want to jazz it up a little bit.

What could I say about the circle?

Oh my goodness, what could I say?

Oh, I know.

How about if we talked about an adjective and put an adjective in there?

What kind of a circle?

We could say a big circle, you can see a big circle.

Look at that.

Now, it makes it a little bit more interesting.

Look, it's just not just any old circle.

You can see a big circle.

Whoa.

I want to change this one, "You can see an oval."

What could we say there?

Oh, maybe, I'm going to do a color this time.

Maybe I'll use a color, let's say green.

Let's say green.

You can see a green oval but then I want to change, 'cause I'm using "you" a lot, so I changed the pronoun to a "we".

We can see a green oval.

And the last one, "You can see a star."

That's kind of boring, I want to jazz it up but I have one right here.

You can see a yellow star and then I tell you where it is.

You can see a yellow star, look, in the room.

And I've had a yellow star every day, haven't I?

Look at that.

Now, we have a paragraph that's been jazzed up.

Let's read it one last time.

Are you ready?

You can see shapes all around.

You can see a big circle.

You can see a green oval.

You can see a yellow star in the room.

Shapes are all around us.

Look at that paragraph.

Now you have an idea what do I want you to do.

I want you to write your own paragraph and send it to me so I can read your paragraph about shapes.

You don't have to use my shapes.

Use the shape that are important to you.

And when you write your paragraph, put it in an envelope and send it to me so I can read it.

Thank you so much for being with me today.

Hey, tomorrow is going to be a great day.

I hope to see you.

Bye.

(guitar sound starts playing) ♪ 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.

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