♪ 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 ♪ (mellow music) (jolly music) - Well, good morning, good morning.

How are you guys doing today?

Mr. Dawson here at Discovery Ranch, saying I am so glad to be here today.

We have so much to learn this week.

You may notice that I don't have my bucket today.

Well, guess what?

I misplaced it somewhere.

It's on the ranch somewhere.

I'm gonna have to go look for it later.

So I just found this white one and I'm gonna use it.

I hope you don't mind.

By the way, don't forget, whatever you learn this week, if you will write to me and tell me some things you've learned right here at Valley PBS, I will send you an activity book, so that you can have something at home to learn with.

Ah, we've been learning so many things and it's time for us to learn right now.

The first thing we're gonna do, of course, is review our letter and phonemes.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

X, box, kss.

J, jump, juh.

E, egg, eh.

R, rose, err.

F, fire, ff.

N, nest, nn.

C, camel, keh.

H, hippo, huh.

U, umbrella, uh.

You guys are doing so well.

And then this was the one we're gonna do for today and tomorrow.

Y, yo-yo, yuh.

Well, let me put it up here, so we can have it.

Okay.

And remember, this is the uppercase Y, and here is the lowercase Y.

And here's a video to give you more information about the letter Y.

(upbeat music) - [Presenter] Consonant Y.

The letter Y stands for the yuh sound you hear at the beginning of yo-yo.

Two other words that begin with the letter Y are yak and yam.

This is an uppercase Y.

This is a lowercase Y.

This is how to write the uppercase letter Y. Slant down to the dotted line.

Slant in to touch, then straight down.

This is how to write the lowercase letter Y. Slant down, slant in to cross, then down.

It's your turn.

- Did you learn everything you need to know about the letter Y?

Yes, but you know the one thing that you didn't learn is what kind of animal letter is the lowercase Y.

Do you remember?

Right, it's a monkey letter, because the last part of it goes below the line.

Right.

So we have Y, yo-yo, yuh.

Yuh is for Y.

Well, let's take a look at our book down here and look at these three pictures and listen for that yuh phoneme at the very beginning.

Here we go.

This is yak.

Can you say yak?

Yak, that's one of my favorite words.

Do you hear the yuh at the very beginning?

Yuh, yuh, yuh is for Y.

Nice.

How about this one?

Ooh, do you like yogurt?

Listen to that very beginning sound.

Yuh, yuh.

Yuh is for Y.

You guys are so smart.

And here's the last one.

That arrow is pointing to that yellow stuff.

Do you know what that's called?

That's called the yoke, yoke.

And when I listen to yoke, I listen to that very first sound, yuh.

Yuh, right.

Yuh is for Y.

So, every time, every time you hear yuh, what you're going to do is say, "Oh, I know what letter that is.

Yuh is for Y."

Let's look at our letter card one more time.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

So I would say what?

Y, yo-yo, yuh.

Yuh is for Y.

Awesome.

Now, what time is it now?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, guess what?

It's time for daily phonemic awareness.

And usually I have a board up here that's kinda cool, but today I don't.

That's because we're gonna be talking about phoneme substitution again.

And who better to tell us more about that than Professor Geisenberg?

Take it away, Professor.

- Hello, I'm Professor Geisenberg and I'm back with some more words.

Mr. Dawson has asked me to talk to you about substitution.

What does substitution mean?

Let me think.

Oh, yes, I know.

Excuse me one minute.

Can't drop my baton.

Substitution.

You know when you're in school and your teacher may get sick and they have to go and then another teacher takes their place, that's called the substitute teacher.

Substitution means when something takes the place of another.

Well, what does that mean with words?

Let me show you.

Mr. Producer, put a word up here, right here.

Thank you, Mr. Producer.

This right here is the word mat.

Let's isolate the sounds, mm, eh, tt.

Now I want to substitute one of those phonemes.

In this case, I'm going to do the beginning phoneme, mm.

I'm gonna take that off and substitute it with the phoneme for S, ss.

There it is.

Now, the first thing I wanna do is to isolate those phonemes again, ss, eh, tt, and then I want to blend them together to see what the new word is.

Sat.

Sat.

Sat.

When you change a phoneme, that's called substituting.

When you substitute a phoneme, it makes a new word.

Back to you, Mr. Dawson.

- Now, that was really good.

So let's do one ourself, oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.

I'm gonna save this maybe for tomorrow.

I just thought about something.

Do you know today is a very special day?

Right, guess what day it is.

It is President's Day.

This is the day that we celebrate all the presidents.

Yes, and here's one of the, my favorite one, Abe Lincoln.

Abe Lincoln is so important to our country.

If you wanna learn more about presidents, like Washington, or any of the other ones, you can go to Sora.

I'm sure that there's some stuff on Sora, if not, you can look in other places.

Find out about our presidents.

It's so important.

All right, all right, that was it.

I have to keep going.

Here we go.

Let's talk about some sight words.

Remember, sight words are really important because if you can put 'em in your brain, when you see them, you can read them.

And when somebody asks you to write them, you'll know how to write them.

Here are our two words for this week.

This is the word here, H-E-R-E, here.

And here's the word me.

M-E spells me.

So I really want you to know these two words by the end of the week.

Can you do it?

I bet you can.

Here and me.

Now, we've been talking a lot about verbs.

We've been talking a lot about verbs, yes.

Remember, a verb is something that I can do.

It's telling me what I can do, or what someone or something is doing in my sentence and story.

And usually, I talk about things that I can do right now, like here's a book.

I open the book.

I open the book.

That means I'm doing it right now.

What if I do this?

I jump.

I'm doing it right now.

But what if it happened yesterday?

What if it happened yesterday?

Well, then I say what?

I opened the book.

Did you see the difference?

I opened the book.

Wait, here's the verb open, but I did something at the end.

What did I do?

Yes, I added an E-D. A lot of times, that's what you're going to do, and when you do that, that lets me know that it happened some time in the past, just like I have the word walk, and if I did it long ago or yesterday, then I would add E-D, and then I'd say I walked.

Well, I just did it right now.

I jump, but if it happened like two minutes ago, like when I did it, I can't say I jump anymore, I have to add that E-D, and now it says I jumped.

When you see the E-D, it means it happened in the past some time.

We're gonna do this more this week.

We better come over here and do our reading right before we have to leave.

Oh, my goodness, we don't have much time.

Here it is, Yan and Jeb.

Yan won a yam.

Jeb won a bug in a jug.

"Yum," said Yan.

"Yuck," said Jeb.

You know what we wanna do?

Of course, I wanna find the letter Y.

Here we go.

I have to go kind of fast.

Here we go.

Look at all these Ys.

And what is the phoneme for Y?

Right, it's yuh is for Y.

So when I see that Y, the first thing I'm gonna say is yuh when I'm sounding it out.

So if I go like this, I go yum.

Yum.

Yum.

All right.

That's all we have time for today.

I want you to come back tomorrow, so we can learn some more.

We've been studying about the letter Y, we've talked about past tense verbs, and our two sight words, and Professor Geisenberg told us about phoneme substitution.

We're gonna do more tomorrow.

So I hope to see you tomorrow, because I'm gonna be here.

Will you be here?

I'm hoping so.

So have a great rest of the day, and we'll see you guys tomorrow.

Bye.

(mellow 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 ♪