♪ 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 ♪ (excited music) - Oh!

Hi.

Just telling everybody, all my friends on my friends list, that that this is our last week.

Welcome back to Discovery Ranch.

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

Join me here for today and tomorrow so we can learn new things together.

Remember that if you write to me right here at the station and tell me something you learned we will send you an activity book and I know you want one so write to me today.

Alright, so what should we start with?

Oh that's right, phonemic awareness!

♪ Daily daily daily phonemic awareness!

♪ All right.

We're going to play a game.

I'm gonna give you two words, and we have to figure out if they rhyme.

If they rhyme, are you ready?

Here we go, here are my two words: Dirt.

Hurt.

Do those two words rhyme?

Let me see.

Dirt... Hurt... - ert, - ert.

That sounds the same, dirt, hurt.

They both say '-ert' so they rhyme!

Good job let's do another one, you ready?

Here we go.

Goat.

Yes, 'goat'... and... 'boat'.

Let's see.

Goat, oat... Boat, oat... Oat, oat.

Did that sound the same?

Yes, then they rhyme!

A goat and boat.

They both say, -oat!

Nice job.

Let's do one more.

You ready?

Here we go.

Let's do.

Oh, I love this one.

House, house.

Can you say house?

Right.

Okay.

Here's the next one?

Hat, hat.

House, hat.

Do those two words rhyme.

Well, the beginning sound is the same but that's not what we want.

We want the ending sound.

I have to listen to the ending sound.

House, ouse.

Hat.

Ouse, at.

No, I don't think they rhyme.

House, hat, they both say, they have both different endings.

No, so those two don't rhyme.

No way, no.

Okay.

All right.

So, that was good!

You did it!

You found out which ones rhymed and which ones didn't!

And that's excellent.

All right.

Let's do some sight words.

Are you ready for some sight words?

Here we go.

Are you ready?

Here we are.

'Put'.

'For'.

'To'.

'Are'.

'One'.

'His'.

'Good.'

'Or'.

'Like'.

'Little'.

'By'.

'An'.

And remember, when you can remember all these sight words and you see them in a book, you'll say, Oh I know that sight word!

And if somebody says, Hey, can you spell a sight word for me, like 'for'?

You'll go: Oh, no problem, it's F-O-R!

I know it because I have it in my brain.

Right.

That's great.

Oh, that's good.

So remember those sight words, alright?

Now it's time to do our phonics and we've been doing vowel teams.

Are you ready to do some vowel team review?

Here we go.

We have 'boy'.

The phoneme is -oy.

And remember, O-I and blank-O-Y say 'oy'!

Then we have 'star'.

And the phoneme is -ar, and A-R says 'ar'!

That's a cool one.

We used that one yesterday, didn't we?

Then we have straw, and it says, -aw.

A is for 'aw', A-W is for 'aw', A-U is for 'aw', A-U-G-H is for 'aw', and A-L is for 'aw'.

Okay, and then we have cow.

And the phoneme for cow is -ow.

O-W is for 'ow', and O-U is for 'ow'.

And then we have book.

What is the phoneme?

Uuh!

Uuh is for... O-O.

And then we have spoon.

and the phoneme for spoon is ooh.

O-O is for ooh, U-blank-E is for ooh, U is for ooh, blank-E-W is for ooh, U-E is for ooh, O-U is for ooh, and blank-U-I-blank is for ooh Nice job!

I think we've done all of them.

Isn't that amazing?

All right.

Now let's talk about the ones that we're learning, or the one that we're learning this week.

Do you remember what it is?

Right, it's 'er', like in 'shirt'.

And here are all the clues that you'll see that will say, Oh, I need to say 'er'.

E-R, I-R, U-R, and O-R, right?

Just like in 'thermometer' and 'circle'.

And 'purple'.

Do you hear the 'er' sound?

Well, when you do it's going to be one of these clues.

One of these vowel teams is going to help you say the 'er'.

Here's one.

'Doctor', 'doctor'.

And then we have 'butter'.

Yes.

You just can't put an 'ar' there.

No, it's going to be one of these clues right there.

Very nice.

So I have a story today.

Here's my story.

Here's a picture of a girl with an apple.

Oh, she looks like she took a bite of the apple.

It says 'A Firm Apple'.

'Take a turn to eat an apple' 'First, check to see if it is nice and firm' 'If it is, then clean off the dirt' 'Then take a bite.

Yum!

Yum!'

All right.

Let's find some 'er's.

Do you remember all those clues that we just talked about?

Here we go.

Let's look in the title.

Oh, here's one!

Er, Firm!

Okay.

Let's keep going.

Oh, here's another one.

Turn.

Nope... Oh, here's one right here, 'er'.

Oh, that's one we did yesterday, isn't it?

'First'!

Let's keep checking... to see if it is nice and... Oh, here's one, 'ir', 'firm'.

Nice.

Nice.

If it is then clean off the... oh, here's one!

Here's the I-R, there's a clue.

'Dirt', 'dirt', then take a bite.

Yum.

Yum.

We found all the clues.

Isn't that exciting?

Yes.

It's so exciting to know these vowel teams and use them to our advantage to help us to read things.

So when you see those clues in other books you'll be able to read them.

Remember our essential question.

Since the question is what places do you go to during the week?

What places do you go to during the week?

Whoa, let's go.

Where did he go?

He went to the barbershop, right!

He went to the barbershop.

Oh, what places have you gone this week?

Have you gone to any places in your neighborhood?

Oh my goodness.

That's so exciting to go places in our neighborhood!

Like right here at Discovery Ranch!

Or PBS is another place to go in our neighborhood.

Now, when we were talking about this, we wrote a paragraph.

Let me come right over here and look at our paragraph.

And we did the editing.

Here we go.

It says: Neighborhoods have many places to go.

We can to school...

Uh oh, we've made another mistake there.

Oh my good... We have to do some quick editing there because we forgot the word 'go' again.

Okay.

So I'm going to put 'go' right in there, and I'll have to fix that in the final final draft that I'll have to fix later on.

Okay.

So let's keep going.

Neighborhoods have many places to go.

We can go to school.

We can play at the park and we can go to the store.

The neighborhoods, the neighborhood has many places to go.

That is a great paragraph because it tells you what I'm going to talk about.

What am I talking about?

The places we can go in our neighborhood!

And in my details, did I tell you the places I could go?

Yes!

And then I ended up telling you pretty much the same thing, that in neighborhoods, there's many places to go.

Well, I want to jazz these up.

So 'we can go to school', that's okay.

But let's like, make it a little bit more exciting.

I think... if I add the word big, I like that word.

That's an adjective.

So if I say this, now look what we have.

'We can go to the big school'!

Oh, that made it a little bit more exciting!

Okay.

'We can go play at the park'.

Oh, what if I add another adjective?

Like a color one?

And I say right here, look, 'we can play at the green park'.

I like to go to a park that has lots of green grass.

Just the other day I was with my grandson and we were running around the park on the grass.

And we were having such a good time.

Except when Mr. Dawson got home, he had to take a little bit of a nap because he was a little bit tired.

Alright.

So the last one is 'we can go to the store'.

Now I want to tell you more information about going to the store.

Like what did I do when I was at the store?

That's, you know right now, this is kind of boring because you don't know what I've done.

But if I went there to say, buy a shirt, buy a shirt?

Oh, then that would be a great sentence.

Here.

Look at this.

There's a sentence.

'We can go to the store to buy a shirt'.

Whoa!

We have spiced this paragraph up by using some adjectives and also giving you more information about why we're going somewhere.

So let's read our paragraph again.

The neighborhoods have many places to go.

We can go to the big park.

We can play at the green.

Oh, excuse me.

We can go to the big school.

We can play at the green park.

We can go to the store to buy a shirt.

The neighborhood has many places to go.

Isn't that awesome.

This is a great, exciting paragraph to me.

Oh, I think I'm going to share it with some other people.

Now what's cool about this is tomorrow.

I have a book, a selection that I want to share with you about neighborhoods.

I'm so excited to share about it with you!

It's going to be exciting.

Well, it's time for me to go for right now.

We've done some sight words, we've talked about 'er', and we've done some writing.

We've done a lot of work today.

I hope you use this information so that you can learn how to read and write too!

Join me here tomorrow so that we can learn some more.

We'll see you later.

Bye bye.

♪ 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 ♪