♪ 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 ♪ (playful music) - Hey, hey, welcome back to Camp Discovery!

I'm Mr. Dawson, and we're here to go on discoveries together.

Look at me, I was out on my ranch, and there's just so much snow, it's so cold out there, and that's why I'm wearing all this stuff.

But it's time to get started with learning some new things.

Are you ready to learn some stuff with me this week?

I hope you are.

Remember that if you will write me a letter and tell me something that you have learned right here to Valley PBS, I will send you an activity book.

Would you like to have one?

I bet you would.

All you have to do is write to me, and tell me something you've learned this week.

Well, let's get busy.

Let's get busy so you can write to me.

Here we go.

Do you remember what we're gonna do first?

Here we are.

We're going to do, there's snow on my stuff!

I'm telling you, out at the ranch there's a lot of snow.

Let's review our letters and sounds.

Are you ready?

L, lemon, ull.

B, bat, buh.

T, turtle, t. I, igloo, ih.

O, octopus, aw.

N, nest, nnn.

C, camel, cuh.

H, hippo, huh.

F, fire, fff.

R, rose, rrr.

P, piano, puh.

E, egg, eh.

D, dolphin, duh.

And what are we going to learn today, I wonder?

Oh, it's right up here under my boards.

It's the letter K!

Can you say K?

Right?

This is the letter K. K, koala, kuh.

K is a very nice letter.

In fact, here's a video to tell you more about the letter K. (upbeat music) - [Teacher] Consonant K. The letter K stands for the K sound you hear at the beginning of koala.

(Koala munching) Two other words that start with the letter K are key and kite.

(wind whistling) This is an uppercase K. This is a lowercase k. This is how to write the uppercase letter K. Straight down, go back to the top, slant in, slant out.

This is how to write the lowercase letter k. Straight down, slant in, slant out.

It's your turn.

- Hey, did you learn a lot about the letter K?

The one thing that you didn't learn about is what kind of animal letter is it?

Do you remember what kind of animal letter K is?

That's right, it's a giraffe letter, because it starts at the top and goes all the way to the bottom.

Well, let's take a look at some pictures here, and see if you can hear the K sound at the very beginning.

Here's a word, king.

K, k, king.

Did you hear that?

Yes, K is the very beginning sound, K is for K. Oh, here's another one.

It's the word key.

Can you say key?

Yes, key, listen to the very first sound that comes out when I say that word, k. Key, k, k is for K. And here's our last one.

Kite.

Can you say kite?

Kite, k, listen to that very first sound.

K, k, kite.

Kite.

It has the K sound, so k is for K. Very nice, very nice.

So remember that there's an uppercase K, and a lowercase k. Hm, what time is it now?

Oh, yes!

It's time for phonemic awareness!

Oh my goodness, children.

Before, a long time ago, we were learning about rhyming words.

Do you remember what rhyming words are?

Right, rhyming words are when two words sound the same in the back.

So if I had, let me see.

Oh, I know, pig and wig.

Their back sounds sound the same, pig, wig.

They both say ig, right!

So we're going to do rhyming words again all week.

Here are some words or some pictures that I want to look at and see if you can help me find the words that rhyme.

Let's look at this one right here.

We have a gate, skate, and game.

So which two words sound the same at the end?

Gate, game?

No, no, no.

Skate, game?

No.

How about gate, skate?

Oh, yes!

Gate, skate.

They both say ate.

So if I get my trusty dusty pen, gate and skate rhyme, because they have the same sound at the back.

Let's look at our next two pictures.

Or three pictures.

Hook, throw, and book.

Which two words sound the same in the back?

Hook, throw.

Hook, hook, throw.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

How about hook, book?

Yes!

Hook, book.

Hook, book, they both say ook!

So I'll get my trusty dusty pen, and say these two rhyme.

Oh, you guys are so smart.

Let's look at the next set of pictures.

I have kite, nine, and vine.

Which two have the sounds at the end that sound the same?

Right!

You guys are getting this all so quickly!

Yes!

Nine, vine.

They both say ine!

So I will get my trusty dusty pen, now it's purple.

How will that work?

Nine and vine.

Very nice!

Well, we better stop there, because our time is growing short already.

Oh my goodness.

What should we do now?

Oh yes, as always, let's take a look at our sight words right over here.

We have two sight words that we're learning this week, and I want you to learn them really good, so that when you see 'em, you know 'em, and if somebody says, "Hey, what word is this?"

You go, "Oh, I know that one!"

Here are our two words.

This is the first one.

She, S-H-E spells she.

And this is our second one, is.

I-S spells is.

Look for those in books that you're reading this week, or in things that we do this week.

Look for those words she and is.

Let's take a look at nouns.

You wanna remember about nouns?

Here's Professor Giesenberg to give us a little bit of more information about nouns.

- Hello, my name is Professor Giesenberg, and I know all there is to know about words.

Today, Mr. Dawson has asked me to talk to you about naming words.

Now, we here in the scientific community refer to naming words as nouns.

What is a noun?

A noun can be a person, a place, or a thing.

Let me demonstrate.

Here is person.

When we talk about a person, we're talking about a mom, a dad, a teacher, a police officer, anything that names a person.

The next one is a place.

A place could be your house.

It could be the school.

It could be right here in my laboratory.

Laboratory is a place.

The last one is thing.

A thing can be anything.

It could be a camera, a dog, a light.

Yes, it can be anything.

So when you look in a sentence and you find a word that names something, whether it's a person, place, or thing, you know that that is a noun.

Back to you, Mr. Dawson.

- You learned a lot from Professor Giesenberg, didn't you?

Well, let's look at a couple of sentences and see if we can find the nouns.

Remember, a noun is a person, place, or thing, and as my friend tells me, it can be an animal as well.

Let's look at this first sentence.

The squirrel is building her nest.

Do you see a noun?

Right, it's a squirrel, 'cause it's an animal.

So I'm gonna put it right here.

Bam.

There you go.

And do you see another one, a person, place, or thing?

Right, nest!

Nest is a thing.

So it is also a noun.

Let me put that right there.

Okay, here we go.

Here we go.

You know what?

I was gonna do this next sentence, but guess what?

I forgot that we have to do our book, or actually, our story.

So let's take a look over here and look at our story for today.

It's called "Pack It."

And the reason why I want to read it is because I want you to find some K's.

Here we go.

Ken has to pack a sack.

Can he pack Mack?

Ken can not pack Mack.

Mack is back on the dock.

Do you see K's in there?

There are so many K's in there.

Uppercase, lowercase, all kinds of K's.

Here's one.

Do you see another one?

Right here, and there's one more in the first sentence.

Yes, right here.

We better stop right there.

We have to go, and we'll see you tomorrow.

Keep learning.

All right, 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 ♪