♪ 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 ♪ (soft music) - Well, good morning, good morning, good morning.

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 glad that you came back for another week, I'm excited about all the things we're going to learn.

Oh yes.

Yes indeed.

And by the way remember, if you will write me a letter right here to Valley PBS, or email me, I will send you an activity book full of stuff to do.

Yes, it's exciting.

So write me today.

Well, we better get started right away because there is a lot of things to learn.

The first thing I want to do is phonemic awareness.

And here it is, right here boys and girls.

Oh, look at all those nice pictures.

Look at all those nice pictures.

This is the game.

Here's the game, are you ready?

We're going to look at each one of these pictures and listen to them, and then your job is you're going to have to tell me, what is the beginning phoneme.

Are you ready?

It's kind of like alliteration.

Well, it is alliteration.

Kind of.

Okay, you ready?

Let me get my handy dandy notebook, and my handy dandy pen.

So when you tell me the letter, I'm going to write it down, put right up there.

Okay, here you go.

I have vegetable, volcano, violin.

There you go.

What is the beginning phoneme in all those pictures?

Right!

V, v, is for V. So here I go.

I'm going to write V is for V right there.

Take it off my notebook, and put it right there.

You're right.

V is for V. Nice job.

Let's look at the next three pictures, are you ready?

I have nine, nose and newspaper.

Did you hear all three words?

Okay, what is the beginning phoneme?

Right!

N is for N. Amazing.

Amazing.

Do you see how smart you guys have gotten?

Oh my gosh, you guys are so good.

Okay, last one.

Here we go.

I have gate, game and gorilla.

What is the beginning phoneme in all of those?

Right, right.

G. G is for G. Good job.

That was amazing, amazing, amazing.

Oh my goodness, you were able to listen to all the beginning phonemes and identify the letter that goes with those phonemes.

Ah, now the next thing we're going to do are sight words.

Do you notice a difference?

Do you notice a difference?

Yes, there's a lot more.

Well listen, we've done a lot of sight words, and now it's time to really review them all so that we can keep them in our brain so that when we see them in a book, we'll know how to read them.

And then when somebody asks us to write them, we can say, oh, I know that one.

Okay, here we go.

Are you ready?

Let's go.

What is this one?

L-I-K-E spells like.

To.

T-O spells to.

What's this one?

C-A-N spells can.

Can.

What's this one?

A.

A spells A.

What's this one?

And.

A-N-D spells and.

What's this one?

I. I spells I.

What's this one?

See.

S-E-E spells see.

What's this one?

The.

T-H-E spells the.

What's this one?

If.

I-F spells if.

And what's the last one?

We.

W-E spells we.

Remember, when you put these words in your brain and you just know them, once you see them in a book, you'll say, oh, I can say that word.

Or somebody asks you to write it, you'll be able to write it.

That's why these words are important just to put in your brain.

All right.

Now, guess what time it is?

That's right.

We're going to talk about adjectives.

We're going to talk about adjectives this week, and who better to tell us about adjectives than Professor Giesenbert.

Take it away professor!

- Hello, I'm Professor Giesenbert.

And I know all there is to know about words.

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

We here in the scientific community refer to describing words as adjectives.

An adjective gives us more information about the noun.

Let me give you an example.

Mr. Producer, can you put a picture up here for us?

Thank you sir.

This here is a cat.

It's just a cat right now.

But, if I want to give more information about the cat, I would do something like this.

Yes, thank you.

Ah, here it is.

The cat is black.

So it's a black cat.

Black is giving me more information about the noun cat.

In this case, black.

Black is an adjective because it gives me more information.

How about this one?

The short cat.

Short is giving me more information about cat.

Therefore short is an adjective because it's describing more in detail the cat.

The last one.

Oh, happy.

This is a happy cat.

So happy is an adjective.

Why?

Because it's giving us more information about the cat.

Adjectives.

They are describing words, words that give us more information about the noun.

Back to you Mr. Dawson.

- Thanks professor.

So, remember an adjective is a describing word that tells more about something.

And here I have moon.

Moon.

So let's just do a couple of words on moon.

How could we describe moon?

What's something you say?

Oh, I heard you.

I heard you.

I'm gonna write that right on my handy dandy notebook.

I'm going to put white.

I heard somebody say white.

You could say white moon.

That gives me more information about that moon.

What's another one?

What?

Bright.

Okay, bright, bright.

I have to spell that a little bit small.

Bright.

What's another one?

Yeah, round, round, round.

There you go.

Round.

So we could say round moon, white moon or bright moon.

All of those are adjectives because they give us more information about something, in this case, the moon.

Well now it's time to review our letters.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

W, window, w. G, guitar, g. Y, yo-yo, y. K, koala, k. B, bat, b.

D, dolphin, d. Are you saying them with me?

You gotta practice all the time, practice.

Q, queen, q.

Always practice with me.

H, hippo, h. U, umbrella, u.

And we're going to talk about this one.

It's a vowel.

And remember vowels are important in kindergarten because they have two phonemes that they make.

They can say their sound, which is what they usually like to say, uh.

Uh.

But sometimes, it'll say its name, U.

And that's what we're going to study about today.

Look right here.

Here it is.

This is a cube.

A cube.

Right!

And did you hear the U in there?

Cube.

I hear U.

And there's clues, there's clues to say when the U is gonna say its name.

Here they are down here, here are the clues.

U.

And then this is the famous one right here right?

U blank E. Remember the blank means it's a letter.

And then we have blank E W. And then we have blank U E. All these are clues that the U is going to say its name, and not its phoneme.

Well, let's take a look at some pictures.

Are you guys ready?

Put that right back there.

And let's look at this.

Oh, I want to look at this one.

Ready?

Let's look at that one.

That is a mule.

Can you say mule?

Do you hear the middle sound?

Mule.

U. I hear it right in there, that's right.

Okay, here's the next one I want to look at.

This is a flute.

No, flute that doesn't work, does it?

Flute.

No that one doesn't work at all.

But mule, now that one works.

That's right.

I want to look at U because that's the sound that we're looking at today.

So you know what?

I want to look at our book, our little writing today.

Here we go, here it is.

Let me read the title.

"June the Mule."

Do you see right away?

Do you see it right away?

Yes, I see it right away.

I see the U blank E, where the blank is a letter.

So the E is telling the U, hey U, say your name.

U, June, June.

And then the same thing here.

Here's that same clue.

The E is telling the U.

Hey U, say your name.

U!

So how would I pronounce it?

Mule, I wouldn't say mah.

No, no, no, no, no.

That E is saying to say its name, mule.

So our title is "June the Mule."

Now listen, that's almost all the time that we have for today, isn't it?

Well, maybe not.

I think I have time to read this at least.

Okay, here we go.

"June is a mule.

"June is cute.

"She can help Luke.

"June can use a rope.

"Luke can pat June on the nose."

Oh my goodness.

Did you see all those?

Yes, I want you to take a look at this one.

June.

Do you know if that E wasn't there?

It would say Jun.

Would that be right?

No.

Why?

Because the E is telling the U, hey U say your name.

June.

June.

Well, that's all we have time for today.

We learned so much just in this.

We had to pack it in.

We had to pack so much in today.

So we'll have to keep going tomorrow.

We've learned about the letter U.

We've learned about adjectives.

We've learned about our sight words.

Oh my goodness, we've had so much fun today.

Well, I hope that you come back tomorrow, because I'm going to have fun tomorrow.

We'll see you guys later.

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 ♪