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Oh, hey!

Welcome back!

Right here at the ranch, man.

I am so excited to see you.

I'm Mr. Dawson, and I am here to take you on some discoveries around the ranch so we can learn how to read and write.

And today, today is reading day!

I'm so excited about reading day.

We're going to use everything that we've learned so that we can read and write.

It's pretty exciting.

By the way, remember that if you will write to me, right here at the station at Valley PBS, I will send you an activity book.

Write to me and tell me something you have learned and I'll send this to you.

Let's get started with today.

Oh, let's look right over here.

And I want to look at our essential question.

Right here, it says "it's raining cats and dogs."

Is it really raining cats and dogs?

No.

When somebody says "it's raining cats and dogs," they're just saying "it's raining a lot!"

My question today is "what happens in different kinds of weather?"

"What happens in different kinds of weather?"

All right.

That is our essential question.

So today is going to be surrounded with talking about that.

Here's our book that we're going to read.

Here's the front cover.

Here's the back cover.

And here's the spine that holds it together.

The title of our story today is Rain.

Now, remember when we have a book, there are two kinds of books.

There's an informative book, or there's narrative.

And narrative is a story.

And this is a narrative text because it's going to be a story.

It doesn't have much information in there.

Maybe it does, but mainly it's just a story for our enjoyment.

Remember, when we read books, teachers love to ask questions and that's what we're going to do after the story.

I'm going to ask you some questions to see if you remember anything that you saw in the book.

It's going to be a great book.

This is one of my favorite books.

Remember the story title is Rain.

Are you ready?

Let's watch the video.

And I hope you enjoy Rain.

- [Narrator] Rain.

Rain, written and illustrated by Manya Stojic.

It was hot.

Everything was hot and dry.

The red soil was hot and dry and cracked.

A porcupine sniffed around.

"It's time," she whispered.

"The rain is coming!

I can smell it.

I must tell the zebras."

Lightning flashed.

"The rain is coming!"

said the zebras.

"Porcupine can smell it.

We can see it.

We must tell the baboons."

(thunder) Thunder boomed.

"The rain is coming!"

Cried the baboons.

"Porcupine can smell it.

The zebras can see it.

We can hear it.

We must tell the rhino."

A raindrop splashed.

"The rain is here!"

said the rhino.

"Porcupine smelled it.

The zebras saw it.

The baboons heard it.

And I felt it.

I must tell Lion."

The lion spoke in a deep purr.

(thunder) "Yes, the rain is here.

I can smell it.

I can see it.

I can hear it.

I can feel it.

And," he sighed, "I can taste it."

It rained and it rained and it rained.

It rained until every river gushed and gurgled.

It rained until every water hole was full.

Then the rain stopped and everywhere long, feathery grasses grew from the soil.

Every tree began to sprout fresh, green leaves.

"I can taste the rain now," purred the lion, "but I can enjoy the shade of these big, green leaves."

"I can't feel the rain now," said the rhino, "but I can lie in the cool, soft, squelchy mud."

"We can't hear the rain now," shouted the baboons, "but we can eat fresh, juicy fruit from the trees."

"We can't see the rain now," said the zebras, "but we can have a refreshing drink from the water hole."

"I can't smell the rain now," whispered the porcupine, "but I know that it will come back again, when it's time."

The sun shone over the plain.

It was hot.

Everything was drying out.

The red soil was hot and dry.

A tiny crack appeared.

- Did you enjoy that book?

Aww, it's so cool!

And it's just like what we said, the essential question is talking about different kinds of weather in that book.

Now let's take a look, a closer look at the book, and see if we can answer some questions.

Are you ready?

My first question that I have is what were some of the animals that you saw in the book?

Get my trusty dusty pen.

Oh yeah.

There was a zebra, so I'm gonna write "zebra" right here.

What other animal?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Baboons.

There was baboons on there.

What other animals?

What was that?

Right.

There was a lion.

Yes.

There was a lion.

I saw that one.

We'd better stop there because I want to ask my next question.

My next question is after the rain stopped, what happened?

Let me see if I can find that in the book, just to give you a...

Here we go.

There we go.

After the rain stopped, what were some things that happened?

Right.

The grass grew.

I'm gonna write that down.

The grass grew.

Anything else?

Anything else happened?

Yes.

Yes.

Oh, yeah.

The trees.

The leaves sprouted, right?

The trees came right off.

The leaves came right out and made it nice and green.

Right.

Nice.

That was pretty good.

What else?

Is there anything else?

Oh yes!

The fruit.

The fruit grew.

Now before it rained, I'm gonna go back a little bit.

And before it rained, how did they know?

How did they know?

How did they know it was about to rain?

Well, yes, the porcupine.

He said he smelled it.

Okay.

And then what else?

What else?

Oh, there it is!

The lightning flash.

So I'm going to just say that there was lightning.

Ooh, am I going to make it?

I think I will.

Lightning.

That is incredible.

You guys were listening!

That is so cool.

That is so cool.

Hey, and remember, let me get this right here.

Remember, what happens in different kinds of weather?

And I want to let you look at some of the books that I brought that talk about weather.

I have Splash!, that's a great story.

And then I have all these cool informational texts that talk about weather, like hurricanes and tornadoes and blizzards.

And one of my favorite is The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.

Check these out on Soar, I'm sure they're there.

All right.

Let's do our last exercise and it's writing.

Here we go!

Now there was a lot of colors in our book.

And this says, "how do colors help you think about the weather?"

Oh, let's see if I can do it!

I'm going to need your help.

And I'm going to help also.

So this is my sentence I want to do "red makes me think about hot weather."

That's seven words.

"Red makes me think about hot weather."

Woo.

That's a lot.

Let's get started.

We don't have but about three or four minutes.

Let's see if we can do it.

Are you ready?

The first word is "red."

We can sound that one out.

You ready?

"Rr-eh-duh."

Okay.

Rr is for R. Eh is for E. Duh is for D. "Red makes."

Now this one, I'll help you with.

"Makes."

Mm, we can do that one.

Mm is for M.

"Mm-ay-ks."

"Red makes me."

Now that's a sight word.

How do you spell "me?"

Right.

M and E. "Red makes me," what was the next word?

"Think."

Now that one I'm going to have to help you with.

Here you go, it's T-H-I-N-K.

Okay.

Remember our sentence is "red makes me think about hot weather" and I have "red makes me think about."

"About."

A-B-O-U and T. "Red makes me think about hot."

Okay.

Let's do "hot" together.

You ready?

"Huh-aw-t." Three phonemes.

Help me spell it.

What was the first phoneme?

"Huh" is for H, what was the middle phoneme?

"Aw."

"Aw" is for O, and what was the last one?

"Ts."

"Ts" is for T. So now I have "red makes me think about hot."

Now, we're going to do "weather."

Are you guys ready?

W, "wuh," that's the letter that we learned about today, or this week.

"Weather."

"Red makes me think about hot weather."

Now, I have my upper case.

I have my noun and my verb.

What am I missing in my sentence?

I have to have four parts.

What's the one I'm missing?

Right!

It has to have punctuation.

It has to have that period right there.

"Red makes me think about hot weather."

Isn't that exciting?

Well, that's what it does to me.

Because when I see hot weather, it usually makes me feel hot and red.

That's right.

Well, we've learned so much this week and I'm so glad that you are here with me all week.

Now, next week is going to be another week and we're going to learn brand new things.

I hope that you come here with me and stay with me all week so that we can learn new letters, new words.

Oh, it's going to be so exciting.

That's all I have time for today, but I hope to see you next week.

I'm going to be excited to do some brand new things with you.

Have a great day, have a great weekend, and we will see you next week.

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 ♪