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Hey, welcome back to Discovery Ranch.

My name is Mr. Dawson, and I'm here to take you on discoveries so you can learn how to read and write.

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

And remember, that if you write to me and send me something that you learned this week, I will send you an activity book.

Yes, I'm so excited about that.

Now, listen, I was just on the phone, and great news, they have the bugs under control.

I'm so excited about that because they can do a lot of damage to all our food crops.

All right, I know what time it is.

Do you know what time it is?

I bet you do.

Let's say it together.

Daily phonemic awareness!

Wave your hands around!

Phonemic awareness!

Yes!

We're gonna have fun doing some games here today.

We're gonna do addition, phoneme addition.

And I'm gonna get my paper out because I want to make sure I remember what we're going to do.

You ready?

I'm going to give you a word and then I'm gonna give you a phoneme to add either at the beginning or at the end and it's gonna make a new word.

Let's see if you can figure out the new word.

Are you ready?

Here you go.

Here's the first word.

My first word is pot.

Pot.

Can you say pot?

Now, if I put a s in the front of pot, what's the new word?

Right, right, it's spot.

Spot, spot.

Good job.

Okay, here's my next one.

Are you ready?

My next one is war.

Can you say war?

Yes.

Now I'm gonna put a m at the end of that word.

What's my new word?

Warm.

Warm.

Good job.

That's excellent.

Okay, here's my last one.

Ooh, here we go.

Oh, I love this one.

Why?

Because it kind of reminds me about our bugs.

Are you ready?

My word is lug.

Can you say lug?

Yes, lug.

Okay, now if I put a s on the front of lug, what's my new word?

Slug.

Slug.

Slug!

Oh yeah, they're ooey, gooey things.

Ooh, I don't like slugs.

Slug is our word.

Good job.

All right, now it's time for our sight words.

All right, here we go.

Ooh, where's my pointer?

It's way over here.

I gotta get my pointer.

Let's do our sight words.

We've done these and these and these, so we better do these over here.

Remember, sight words are important because if you know them when you see them in a book, you'll say, oh, I know that word.

Or if you need to write them, guess what, you'll say, oh, I know how to write that word because I remembered it in my brain.

Are you guys ready?

Let's go.

One, two, three, here we go.

Not.

For.

Are.

To.

One.

Put.

It.

Or.

Little.

Like.

By.

Good.

Excellent, excellent.

We know all of these words.

And we're going to review them all, we've been reviewing them all week, and I want you to really get them in your brain so that when you see them in a book, you'll go, oh, I know that word for sure.

All right, now we've been talking about in phonics the vowel teams.

So I thought we better review first, and then we'll go to the one we've been learning this week.

Here's cow, and the phoneme for cow is ow, and these are the clues: ow and ou.

Here's book, and the phoneme is uh, and here is the clue: oo says uh.

Here's spoon, and the phoneme is ooh, and these are all the clues: oo, u blank e, u, blank ew, ue, ou, and blank ui blank.

And this one is boy, and the phoneme is oi and here are our clues: oi, and blank oy.

They both say oi.

All right.

Now we have been learning about aw, like in straw.

If we have a straw and you listen to that ending sound, aw, then that's what we want.

And these are the clues of what you would see in a book that would make you say aw.

It would be a, aw, au, augh, and al.

And I've also been talking to you about, a lot of the times, this seems like the one that you're gonna see the most, aw.

You'll get to see the other ones, and don't be confused if you do.

If you see augh, you're gonna say aw, or if you see au, you're gonna say aw.

But the one that I see a lot is aw, just like in straw, look, there's the aw.

Do you see it?

All right, so let's go back to our reading today and look at it.

Do you remember this story?

Let's read it again.

"Hawk at Dawn!"

Six hens met.

We need to make a plan.

A hawk will come at dawn.

Oh no, that doesn't sound good.

What do you think is gonna happen?

Do you think the hawk's gonna want the hens?

Maybe, maybe.

But if they make a plan, maybe it won't happen.

Okay, here we go.

It says six hens got busy.

These hens made a plan, they made a plan.

They ran across the lawn.

They crawled under a mill.

Six hens hid from a hawk.

So what was their plan?

What was their plan?

Right, their plan was to hide under the mill to hide from the hawk.

Do you think that's a good plan?

I don't know, it could be.

Well, they'll see, they'll find out.

All right.

Anyway, I want to take a look at our clues.

Now remember, when you see a clue, you're gonna say aw.

Right, so let's look at the first sentence.

Do you see an aw?

I'm looking for those clues.

I'm looking for those clues.

I don't see one yet.

Do you see one?

Oh, there it is.

Look.

Aw.

Now, when I sound it out, I'm gonna say aw.

Hawk.

Hawk.

Very nice.

Okay, let's keep going.

We'll come at... Oh, here's another one right there.

Do you see it?

D, I'm gonna say aw 'cause it's aw.

Awn.

Dawn.

Let's keep it going.

Six hens got busy.

These hens made a plan.

They ran across the... Oh, here's another one, aw.

And what does aw say?

Aw.

Lawn.

Lawn.

Oh, here's another one.

Crawled.

We had that word earlier in our sheet that we did.

Okay, they crawled under a mill.

Six hen hid from a...

There it is again, hawk.

Hawk.

Whoa, we did it.

We found all of the aws that we could see: aw, aw, aw.

And all of them were what?

Aw.

Isn't that nice?

Well, let's move on to reading.

Are you ready?

Now before we go on to what we've written this week, I want to take a look at our essential question: what kinds of bugs do you know about?

We've talked about a lot of bugs, all kinds.

And we have bugs, bugs, bugs.

And remember on Monday I showed you all those bugs.

Oh my goodness, if I had them here, I'd show you again, but I don't.

And then what did we do?

We started writing.

Yes, we did.

We started writing.

And then after we wrote, do you remember what we did?

Yes, we edited.

We edited.

That's right.

And this is our finished piece so far.

Here's our paragraph.

Let's take a look at our paragraph card way over here.

Parts of a paragraph.

Remember, there's a topic, which is like the top bun, you need it to hold that juicy part in, and the bottom bun, the conclusion.

But the main part that's important are all the juicy parts in the middle.

And that's what we've done right here, look.

We have our topic, maybe I should write this down.

Here's our topic and here are all our details, and then here's our conclusion.

Uh oh.

Uh oh, I didn't know if I was gonna have room for that.

Okay, conclusion.

Okay, so we have our topic, details, and conclusion.

Let's read it.

There are many kinds of bugs in nature.

A spider is a bug.

A ladybug is a bug.

A beetle is a bug.

These are some bugs we find in nature.

Now, remember yesterday when I was talking about this, I was saying that these are cool sentences, but it's a little bit boring.

So I want to jazz it up, I want to make it a little cooler, so I want to change a little bit of the detail sentences to make it a little bit more exciting.

So instead of a spider is a bug, what can we say?

Oh, and this is what I came up with.

A hairy spider is a bug.

How about that one?

That's pretty cool.

And then, instead of saying a, I don't want to say a all the time, maybe I'm gonna use the this time and say the small ladybug is a bug.

Not a big one, it's just a small one.

And what could I do with beetle?

You know what, a lot of times I see beetles and they're kind of brown, so I'm gonna say a brown beetle is a bug.

How about that?

Look at that.

A brown beetle is a bug.

Now that jazzed up my story a little bit more.

So it just doesn't say a spider is a bug.

I gave you some information, the adjectives.

These are adjectives.

Remember, we talked about that, and how adjectives make it more exciting.

There are many kinds of bugs in nature.

A hairy spider is a bug.

A small ladybug is a bug.

A brown beetle is a bug.

These are some bugs we find in nature.

Do you see how the adjectives made it a little bit more exciting?

It did for me.

Maybe you could do that too.

Write me a paragraph about some bugs that you know about and send it to me to the station so that I can read what you've wrote.

Work on it, edit it, and send it to the station so I can read it.

Well, that's all the time we have for today.

Remember, tomorrow is Reading Day, so I am very excited about that.

We'll see you guys tomorrow.

Bye-bye.

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