Vowel Boot Camp

Vowel Boot Camp is a segment from Between the Lions. It makes the recurring character of Sergeant Mark, known as the exclamation point. Sergeant Mark tells the Vowel Squad to make a word. The vowel makes it short in the three-letter word, and the vowel makes it long in the four-letter word with 2 vowels, and the silent E. When two vowels go in the four-letter word, they sing, "When two vowels stand side by side, the first one says its name with pride." When silent E makes it in the four-letter word at the end, they sing, "When E on the end plays a no-talking game, the vowel before it says its name."

Segments

• Camp Gummy-Wummy-Cutie-Pie - cut/cute - u (Humph! Humph! Humph!)
• Camp Hoppa-Woppa-Coppa-Nope - not/note - o (Bobby the Hopping Robot/Stop That Chicken!)
• Camp Nappy-Packy-Wacky-Lake - man/main - a (Oh, Yes, It Can!/The Popcorn Popper/Oh, Yes, It Can!)
• Camp Itty-Bitty-Kitty-Time - rip/ripe - i (The Spider and the Lie/Pigs in Hiding/Stop That Pickle!)
• Camp Easy-Peasy-Eat-a-Lot - bet/beat - e (The Chess Mess/Help!)

Transcript

Vowel Boot Camp/Transcript

Appearances

• Humph! Humph! Humph!
• Bobby the Hopping Robot
• Oh, Yes, It Can!
• The Spider and the Lie
• The Chess Mess
• Stop That Chicken!
• Help!
• Pigs in Hiding/Stop That Pickle!
• The Popcorn Popper/Oh, Yes, It Can!

Words

• man
• main
• bet
• beat
• rip
• ripe
• not
• note
• cut
• cute

Words by Sergeant Mark

• Camp Nappy-Packy-Wacky-Lake - man/main
• Camp Easy-Peasy-Eat-a-Lot - bet/beat
• Camp Itty-Bitty-Kitty-Time - rip/ripe
• Camp Hoppa-Woppa-Coppa-Nope - not/note
• Camp Gummy-Wummy-Cutie-Pie - cut/cute

Gallery

Three-Letter Word

man

bet

rip

not

cut

Four-Letter Word

main

beat

ripe

note

cute

Characters

Sergeant Mark

Vowel Squad