♪ 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 ♪ (upbeat music) - Lots of trees, man.

There's a lot of trees that have bloomed.

We have a lot of work to do.

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.

I'm excited because I found a lot of trees, that have blossoms on.

It's gonna be a great year I think this year.

Just like right here it's gonna be a great year right here at the ranch right here, because we're learning all kinds of stuff so that we can learn how to read and write.

And don't forget, that if you will write to me and tell me something that you've learned, I will send you an activity book.

I am so excited to be able to send it to you.

While we better get to work.

So you'll have something to write about.

Here we go.

You know, what we're gonna do, we are going to review our letters and phonemes.

Are you ready?

Say them with me?

P, piano, /p/ V, volcano, /v/ Q, queen, /q/ K, koala, /k/ B, bat, /b/ Are you practicing them too?

Y, yo-yo, /y/ That's the one we did yesterday.

R, rose, /r/ F, fire, /f/ N, nest, /n/ C, camel, /c/ Oh, and here's the one that we're doing for today and tomorrow.

This is the letter Z do you remember?

Z, zipper, /z/ Yes okay so let me put this up here, so that we know that we're doing this one.

Put it right up here, and remember, this is the upper case Z, and this is a lowercase z.

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

(upbeat music) Consonant Z.

The letter Z stands for the /z/ sound, you hear at the beginning of zipper.

Two other words that begin with the letter Z, are zoo and zero.

This is an uppercase Z.

This is a lower lowercase z.

This is how to write the uppercase letters Z.

Straight across, slant down to the bottom, straight across.

This is how to write the lowercase letter z.

Straight across, slant it down to the bottom, straight across.

It's your turn.

Did you learn everything you could learn about the letter Z?

Ah, but the one thing you probably didn't learn in that video is what kind of animal letter, is the lowercase Z, and what was it?

Or what is it?

Right it's a chicken letter.

It's a chicken letter good remembering.

Well, let's take a look at our pictures today, and remember we're looking for /z/, because /z/ is for Z.

So look at these pictures and listen to the very first phoneme, and see if you can hear that /z/ is for Z.

Here's the first one it's called a zipper, zipper.

What's the very beginning phoneme, /z/.

Yes 'cause /z/ is for Z. I pointed to the Y that was a mistake.

/z/ is for Z.

Okay here's the next one.

Zoo, zoo.

Now that's kind of a giveaway because they have the letter there.

Zoo but you hear the sound?

/z/ is for Z.

And look at the last one.

What could that be?

What do you guys, what?

All right, right thank you.

Zero, zero, zero.

Do you hear it?

/z/ is for Z.

Great job.

Now guess what time it is.

Oh, I know.

It's time for daily phonemic awareness.

And like I said, I don't have a board.

Oh, wait a minute, I do have a board.

Look right here.

I have right here, the word dog.

Can you say dog?

Yes, this is the word dog.

Let's sound it out together D-O-G, dog, dog.

Now the question is, what phoneme do I need to change?

So that dog, becomes log.

Which phoneme do I need to change?

Would it be the beginning, the middle or the end?

Good thinking, good thinking.

Yes, right.

I need to get rid of the /d/.

So I'm going to erase the /d/ because I don't need the dog anymore, the /d/ anymore when I say, log, do I?

No.

So what phoneme would I put if I wanted log?

'Cause the og is right.

What phoneme would I have to put?

Yeah, yeah.

O and O is for, /l/ good.

Whoa you guys were able to do that.

So now if I sounded it out, hopefully it says log let's do it you ready?

L-O-G. log log, log.

We did it.

Oh, we changed the phoneme and made a new word.

Now it's time for our sight words.

Are you ready for our sight words?

Let's look at our sight words.

Here are the two sight words we're learning this week.

Do you remember what this one is?

Say it loud.

Let me hear you shout it out.

Come on, do it.

You ready?

Right?

It's here.

Let's spell here together.

You ready?

H-E-R-E spells here.

Nice job.

Okay how about this one?

What is this one?

Shout it out, me!

And how do you spell me?

M-E spells me, great job.

And remember, why do we wanna remember these?

We wanna put them in our brain because we see these sight words a lot.

And when we see it and we wanna be able to know what they are, and if somebody asks us to write them, I say it's easy.

You want me to spell me?

That's easy, M-E.

Yes that's why we put them in our brain and leave them right there.

That is so awesome.

Okay.

Let's talk about verbs.

We've been talking about that all week.

And remember a verb is an action word, that tells what something or some person, or an animal what they are doing.

Also, we've been talking about, what do we do if we wanna say it happened in the past?

It's not happening now.

It's not going to happen, but it happened sometime in the past.

And we've been talking about how a lot of times we can add the -ed onto a verb, and that tells us that it happened in the past.

So when I look at my two sentences and I look at the verbs, here's jump and here's walk, I noticed there's an -ed there.

So immediately, I know what?

This is not happening now.

It's not going to happen.

It happened in the past.

So let's read them and see what happened in the past.

Are you ready?

This one says, Gywen jumped over the log.

Just like the word we just did, log.

Gywen jumped over the log and here is the verb jump.

So if I took that -ed off, it's the verb jump but she's not doing it now, she did it in the past.

So I'm going to add -ed.

A lot of times that's what you're going to do is add the -ed.

So now it says, Gywen jumped over the log.

Let's take a look at the next one.

Look at the sight words, by the way.

Here's the, and here's in and here's the again.

Do you see what I'm talking about?

When you have them in your brain, when you see them, you can read them.

Well, let's read our sentence.

The fox walked in the snow.

What did the fox do?

Yes he walked.

Is he doing it now?

No, he did it in the past.

How do I know that?

Because they added -ed, and that's what you do a lot of times to make it in the past.

The fox walked.

And where did he walk?

In the snow.

Very nice, very nice.

Well, let's end up looking at our passage today.

Let me take down my book and put it over here.

That'll be a good place for it.

And put up our little story, and you know what we're going to do today, right?

We're going to look for the letter Z, but let's read it.

The title is Not Yet, Zeb.

Can Zeb go with me?

Yes, he can.

But not yet.

Get a hat, Zeb.

All right.

Let's look.

We have to look for the letter.

Zs.

Are you ready?

I think I'll use blue this time.

Okay, in the title, do you see the letter Z?

Yes, right here.

Zeb, and I want you to notice, that it's his name.

So it's gonna be upper case for sure.

Okay how about in the first sentence?

Can Zeb go with me?

Do you see the letter Z?

Right, right there it is again, Zeb.

And notice again it's upper case, because this is a proper noun.

Remember talking about proper nouns?

Yes and proper nouns always have to be upper case.

Can Zeb, go with me?

Do you see any more Zs?

Where, oh, in the last line, get a hat Zeb.

And there it is again.

And remember it's uppercase here.

Not only because it's a proper noun, it's the name, it's the name of a person in this case.

And I think maybe this is Zeb.

Maybe that's the picture of Zeb.

Zeb, and when I hear Zeb, what do I hear?

/z/ is for Z.

Well, that about does it for us today.

Oh, I'm so excited about what we're doing.

We're learning so much here at the ranch today.

We picked up the letter Z and we found out /z/ is for Z.

Yes and then, we did some phonemic we changed dog into log.

Wasn't that exciting?

Oh I had so much fun.

I think we're gonna do that again tomorrow.

We're gonna have fun.

And then we're learning the sight words, here and me, and then we're doing past tense verbs.

I wanna see you guys here tomorrow, so we can learn some more.

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 ♪ (upbeat music)