[upbeat music] - [Narrator] Ready to learn?

- Hi.

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- [Narrator] It's time to share a story.

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- [Narrator] Read and write.

- Let's read it back.

- [Narrator] Discover science, sing.

♪ Somewhere ♪ - [Narrator] Play and so much more.

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- [Narrator] Stay tuned for lessons and activities.

- We're gonna start making some words.

Isn't that fun?

[upbeat music] - [Narrator] Funding for this program was provided by the JPB Foundation.

[upbeat music] - Hi, I'm Eileen Robinson and today we'll be reading "A Pouch for Pocket", written by Ran Yi and illustrated by Yongheng Wei.

Pocket is a little blue kangaroo who doesn't know what her pouch is for.

She tries everything from stuffing in flowers to fish and even honey.

Do you know what her pouch is for?

Well, we're about to find out.

On a big grassy grassland lived a little blue kangaroo named Pocket.

Pocket loved to hop high in the air.

Boing, boing, boing.

She knew all about hopping.

What she didn't know was why she had a pouch on her tummy.

One day, Pocket hopped through a field of flowers.

Boing, boing, boing.

"Wait a minute," said Pocket.

"Maybe my pouch is a vase."

But as soon as the wind blew, most of the flowers flew out.

And the ones that stayed wilted in the hot sun.

This was not what a pouch was for.

Pocket hopped across a river.

Boing, boing, boing.

Suddenly, a little fish jumped right into her pouch.

"Wait a minute," said Pocket.

"Maybe my pouch is a fishbowl."

But as soon as she stood, the water splashed out and the fish jumped back into the river.

This was not what a pouch was for.

Pocket hopped up to a beehive.

Boing, boing, boing, yum.

"Wait a minute," said Pocket.

"Maybe my pouch is a honey jar."

Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz.

But not only was the honey sticky, sticky, sticky, the bees wanted it, too.

Uh oh, Pocket hopped away as fast as she could.

She hopped and hopped.

Boing, boing, boing, boing.

Right into a big blue kangaroo who happened to be her mama.

"Quick, jump into my pouch," said Mama.

Mama hopped great big hops, boing, boing, boing, leaving those bees behind.

And Pocket fell fast asleep in Mama's safe, warm pouch.

Mama Kangaroo patted her pouch and said, "My pouch is your home, little Pocket."

"I see."

"This is what a pouch is for."

The end.

We have ears, eyes, fingers, toes, legs, arms, what creative things can you do with those things?

And have you seen other people do really creative things with their fingers and toes and their eyes and their ears?

We are all really special, just like Pocket.

Thank you so much for joining me and I hope you enjoyed this story.

- Hi friends, Andrew here and it's time for a song.

How about "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"?

It's a favorite of mine and maybe yours, too.

But it's okay if you don't know the song, I'll help you follow along.

Ready to sing?

Let's go.

♪ Take me out to the ball game ♪ ♪ Take me out with the crowd ♪ ♪ Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack ♪ ♪ I don't care if I never get back ♪ ♪ Let me root, root, root for the home team ♪ ♪ If they don't win, it's a shame ♪ ♪ For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out ♪ ♪ At the old ball game ♪ You hit a home run with that song.

Now did you notice the words here I highlighted in yellow?

What letter do they all end with?

Does that letter have a sound in the word?

What does that letter do to the vowel sound in the word?

Share your good thinking with a family member and I'll see you again soon.

[upbeat music] - Hello scholars, welcome to a wonderful day of learning.

My name is Anna and I'm a universal literacy reading coach over at PS 11 Highbridge in the Bronx.

Where do you go to school?

Oh, in Brooklyn?

Oh, Queens?

Oh, you're Staten Island in the house, Manhattan, more Bronx.

Isn't it amazing how we can be in so many different places and still come together here each day to learn together?

I love that, just warms my heart.

Well, today we're going to be focusing on the sound, the vowel sound, that you hear in these words.

Pig, witch, stick.

What's the vowel sound you hear?

That's right, you hear the ih sound.

Today we're gonna be focusing on the short "I" sound.

Let's begin.

So, short "I" says ih, like itch.

Can you say "I", itch, ih?

Awesome, so whenever you think of that sound, I want you to think of itching a really bad bug bite, okay?

Itch, ih, let's start by reading some words together.

So I'm gonna write them down and then I want you to help me blend the sounds so that we can read them.

So here's the first word.

What's this word?

P, ih, g, pig, perfect.

How about this word?

Once again, let's blend those sounds together.

Lip, lip, remember, that "I" is making that ih sound in those words.

Let's add some digraphs and blends to these words now.

We're past these CVC words.

How about we try this word?

G, r, in, grin.

Grin is just another word for smile.

All right, how about, ooh, how about this word?

Ooh, can you figure this one out?

S, p, l, it, split, awesome.

All right, now, there are other words that also have that ih sound, but they're kind of part of what in school, you might've heard as like a welded sound or a glued sound.

So this would be an example of that.

Okay, so when we see that I-N-K, it's usually kind of all smushed together as one sound in school.

So this would be, p, ink, pink.

Let's do one more.

So this I-N-G is another example of kind of those welded sounds where they're all smushed together.

R, ing, ring, great job.

All right, do you want to try to write some words with me?

I knew you'd want to.

Okay, so what you need to do is go get a piece of paper and a writing utensil and meet me back here.

You have 30 seconds, okay?

Ready, set, oh, I can see you cheating, go, go, go.

[upbeat music] Three, two, one, oh, you made it back in time, nice job.

And some of you guys were back way before, love it.

All right, let's start by writing a CVC word with that short "I", ih, sound.

Say the sound with me again, ih.

Okay, Let's write the word pit, pit.

Now, when I write words, I sometimes like to stretch them out to hear all the sounds and sometimes I like to tap it out.

Whichever method you like best, just figure out all the sounds so we can write the word.

Pit, p, ih, t. Let's right it, p, ih, t. Is that what you have?

P, it, P-I-T, perfect.

Okay, how about the word, now listen carefully, stick?

Ooh, stick, stick.

S, t, ih, k, ooh, lots of sounds.

Let's write it, stick.

S, t, ih, ooh, now what's making that k sound?

Ooh, yes, that's right, C-K because it's a k sound at the end of a word.

I'm so proud that you knew that digraph, all right, stick.

Okay, let's do the word, chin.

Chin, chin, ch, ih, n, chin.

Ch, did you put that for the first sound?

Yes, okay, ch, ih, n, chin, perfect.

Okay, let's do one more word.

How about the word gift?

Like on my birthday, I like to get a gift, okay?

So, gift, gift.

G, ih, f, t, gift.

G, ih, f, t, gift.

Is that what you had?

Way to go.

Okay, let's do a word ladder activity together right now.

This is our word ladder.

We will use clues to climb up the ladder with words.

Pay attention to how many letters will change or be added.

We'll start with the word tin at the bottom.

Our first clue is to be the best in a competition or game.

Only change one letter.

What word should appear next?

That's right, win.

Next clue, two children born at the same time to the same mother.

Add one letter.

What word should appear next?

That's right, twin.

Next clue, the part of your face below your mouth.

Change two letters.

What word should appear?

Correct, chin.

Next clue, a baby bird.

Change one letter and add another.

What word should appear?

Yes, chick.

Last clue, a hard block of clay used to make buildings.

Change two letters.

What word should appear?

Brick is the correct word, terrific job.

All right, let's write a sentence together.

All you need to do is flip over the paper we were using for our words so we can write our sentence.

All right, today's sentence, is, Jill split her chin on the bin.

Oh, poor Jill.

Okay, remember, we're really focusing on the short "I" sound we're hearing in words.

What's that sound again?

That's right, ih, like itch.

Okay, so when I write sentences, I like to put lines to represent each word, so I know I'm not forgetting any of the words, okay?

So, Jill split her chin on the bin.

Okay, first word, Jill.

Well, this is a girl's name, but notice I hear that ih sound.

J, ih, l, j, ih, l, let's see if we can write it.

And don't forget, capital letter, start of the sentence and it's a name.

J, ih, l. Now, what's special about the l sound at the end of this word?

Kiss your brain.

That's right, there's a bonus letter here.

When we have that short vowel and we have an "L" at the end of the word, that l sound, we usually have what we call a bonus letter.

Nice job, okay, so Jill split, let's see if we can figure out split.

Split, s, p, l, ih, t, whoa, so many sounds.

S, p, l, ih, t. Did you get all that?

Nice, split, okay, another word, her, that's a high frequency word that I know you know from school, so write it, her.

Did you remember that "R" controlled vowel there?

Awesome, okay, Jill split her chin.

Ooh, I hear that ih sound, spell the word chin.

Chin, ch, ih, n, chin.

That's what you had.

I love how you guys are writing this before I even get it on there, nice job.

Jill split her chin on.

You know this one, do it.

Great, Jill split her chin on the.

That's a high frequency word I know you know.

How do we spell the?

Tell me, nice and loud, oh, that was.

That's right, T-H-E, that was really loud.

T-H-E, Jill split her chin on the bin.

You hear it?

You hear that short "I"?

Let's do it, Bin.

B, ih, n. B, in, I love it.

B, ih, n, bin.

And then don't forget, we always end our sentence with proper punctuation.

So in this case, we're gonna end it with a period.

I mean, we could end it with an exclamation point and then say it with a lot of excitement.

Jill split her chin on the bin.

Or we can leave it as just a simple period.

Jill split her chin on the bin.

You pick, great job, scholars.

Wow, you did an incredible job today.

You practiced reading and writing words with that short "I" sound.

Remember, "I", itch, ih.

Say it again.

That's right, see how many short "I" words you can find in the books that you're reading at home.

Well, until next time, friends, be safe, keep learning and have fun, bye.

[upbeat music] - [Narrator] He observes, he questions, he investigates.

- [Grover] What does this button do?

- Whoa.

- [Narrator] Super Grover 2.0, he shows up.

Somewhere by a woodland stream, one little duckling is about to waddle into a big problem.

- Ha ah, yippee.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.

I can't wait to get to the party.

It's going to be so much fun.

Huh, a stream?

And the party is on the other side.

Oh no, how will I ever get across, help, help.

- [Grover] Ahh, oh, oh, oh.

- Super Grover 2.0, you showed up.

- It is what I do.

So, what seems to be the problem, little one?

- I'm trying to get to that party over there, but I don't know how to get across the stream.

- First, I shall unleash the power of observation, mmm.

- Oh, oh, I don't want to miss the party, oh, oh.

- Hmm, I see with my super eyes that you walk like a duck.

- Quack.

- Ah, and I hear with my super ears that you quack like a duck.

- Quack.

- My super powers of observation tell me that you are a duck.

- Of course I'm a duck, quack.

- Well, then do not be Daffy Duck.

You can swim across the stream, everyone knows that ducks can swim.

- Oh, yes, but if I swim across, I'll ruin my brand new party shoes, look.

- Stunning, but wait, ducks can also fly, can they not?

If you fly to the other side, your shoes will not get wet.

- Oh, yes, but I'm just a duckling, a baby duck, I haven't learned to fly yet.

- Ah, a toddler waddler, I see, yes.

So, the question is how can a duckling cross the stream without getting her new shoes wet?

- That's the question.

- Well, fear not, my fashion forward friend, I will now unleash the power of investigation.

Hmm, hmm, excuse me.

- Sure.

- Ah, I see the stream is full of water, no wonder it is so wet.

We must soak up all this water and dry out the stream.

- How, have you got a plan up your sleeve?

- No, but I have a towel down my sock.

Ha, ha, this highly absorbent paper towel should do the trick.

- One paper towel?

I don't think that's enough to soak up all the water in the stream, Super Grover.

- Uh ho ho, I beg to duffer, Dicky, uh, differ, Ducky.

Observe as I simply dip this towel into the stream.

Ah and would you look at all the water it absorbed?

Yes, there, you can run along to your party now, the stream is all dried up.

- No, no, it's not, it's still full of water.

- What?

- Oh, if only there were a bridge here.

- What's that now?

- Something sturdy and dry that connects one side of a stream to the other side.

- Oh, you mean a crossy over thing?

What good would that do?

- Well, I could walk across it without my shoes getting wet.

- Ah, well then stand back, for I, Super Grover 2.0, will now unleash the power of engineering and design you a crossy over thing.

- You mean a bridge.

- Yeah, whatever, design, design, design, and ta-da.

- A bridge made of broccoli?

- Yes, it is the latest in green design, what do you think?

- Well, I don't think that broccoli is the right thing to make a bridge out of Super Grover.

- Of course it is.

Now, let me check my utility sock for some broccoli.

Ah, ah, there we are.

And now, I will just follow my design and place this broccoli across the stream.

- Oh no, the broccoli is not long enough to reach the other side of the stream.

Now I'll never get to the party.

I'm gonna cry.

[duckling crying] - Well, it is your party, you can cry if you want to, but I know what I must do.

- What?

- Find a longer piece of broccoli.

There must be one here somewhere, hmm, ha?

What is this wooden rounded thingy doing in my sock?

- Hey, maybe we could use that.

- Ha, do not be silly, this is not broccoli.

- I know, it's a log, Super Grover, and it looks like it might be long enough to stretch across the stream.

- Not now, little waddler.

First, ah, I must find that pesky vegetable, ah.

- Then it's time for me to unleash the power of engineering.

Super Grover, look, I just made my own bridge.

- That's not broccoli, ah, ah.

- Oh well, I guess I'll just build the bridge myself then.

If I can just push this log over to the stream.

- Ah, where's the broccoli?

- Super Grover, I did it, I engineered a bridge with the log, it was long enough.

Okay, let's see if this works.

Ah, I'll start on this side and waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle to the other side without getting my shoes wet, ha.

It worked, now I can go to the party.

Thanks for the log, Super Grover.

- Ah, do not thank me you lucky ducky.

Enjoy the party.

- [Narrator] And so our Grover, indebted engineer, needs the right size and shape materials to solve a problem.

- Well, it looks as though my work here is done.

Up, up and away.

Whoa, oh, oh, perhaps next time I should take the bridge.

- Welcome to the party, Super Grover.

- Party.

- Well, while I'm here, I might as well get my party on.

Ha ha, yeah.

- Whoo.

- Whoo.

[ethereal music] - [Narrator] In a world where love can be hard to find, some things can be even harder to find.

- Darling, I love you, will you make me happy as a clam and marry me?

Aahhh.

- Oh my stars, yes, yes, yes.

Oh, oh, oh no, oh.

- I'm all right.

- Well, where's my ring?

- Hmm, oh, I don't know, honey, did you see where it landed?

- Oh no, it's lost in the sand.

How will we ever find it?

- [Grover] Ahhh.

- Oh, wait, do you hear that sound?

- The hit or lick music?

- Uh, no, the other sound, like a sick walrus.

- Ahhh, oh, oh, oh, puh, puh, uh.

Greetings, it is I, Super Grover 2.0.

- We are so glad you showed up.

- That is what I do, now how can I help?

- Well, I've lost my engagement ring somewhere on this beach.

Can you help us?

- Have no fear, I shall unleash my powers of observation and have a looksy.

Mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm.

Well, no wonder you cannot find your ring, this whole place is covered in sand.

- Well, yes, it is a beach.

- The ring is somewhere in the sand.

- Hmm, I shall once again unleash my powers of observation and get a closer looksy, unleash.

I shall pick up this sand and, I shall pick up this sand and, uh, why is it so hard to pick up this sand?

- Because sand is made up of many tiny pieces of rock or shell, it just falls through the spaces between your fingers.

- Huh, so it does.

But, but then how do you explain this?

- That shell must've been in the sand, the little pieces of sand feel between your fingers and the bigger shell got sifted out.

- Hey, maybe that's how I can find my ring.

We can use something to sift it out of the sand.

- Yes, something with a hole in it, so the sand will fall through, but the ring won't.

- Stand back, I shall now unleash the power of technology.

Let's see what tools I have in my utility sock.

Ah, ah ha, this should do the trick.

- A bagel?

- It does have a hole, but will it really work as a sifter?

- Let us investigate and try to sift, sift, sift.

- Oh, it's no good.

The sand falls through, but so does everything else.

Nothing got sifted out, the hole is too big.

- Okay, I will just put it back in my sock then.

[bird squawking] Ah, hey, my bagel, I was planning on eating that.

- Oh, we're never going to find my ring.

- Oh, there, there, my little starlet, we just need something with smaller holes.

- Ah, I know just the thing, ah ha.

- Swiss cheese, this was in your sock?

- I get very hungry on the job.

- Well, Swiss cheese does have smaller holes, but will it make a good sifter?

- Time to investigate and sift, sift, sift.

- It's not working.

The Swiss cheese doesn't have enough holes, so the sand can't go through.

That's not a good sifter, after all.

- Eh, oh well, I will just save it for snack time later.

[seagull squawking] Ah, hey, my cheese.

Ugh, the gall of that gull.

[seagull squawking] - Oh, my ring is going to be lost forever.

- Oh, don't worry, my shining star, all we really need is something with a lot of holes, a lot of tiny holes.

Don't you have any tools like that in your sweat sock?

- Utility sock, let me check.

Hmm, all I have left in here is this spaghetti strainer.

- Wait, that could work.

It's got tiny holes and lots of them.

This is just what we need to sift the tiny sand and find my ring, start sifting.

- All right, all right, sift, sift, sift.

But I do not think it will work.

After all, this is meant for spaghetti, it is not going to help us find a.

- Oh, it's my ring.

Now we can get married.

- Aww, congratulations, this calls for a celebration.

I keep a cake in my other sock for special occasions just such as this.

Ah, ha, ha, ha.

[seagull squawking] Oh no you don't.

- [Narrator] And so, using his super powers of observation and investigation, our hero found that a sifter is a tool that helps separate small and large pieces.

- No, no, this is not for you.

Not for you, no.

[seagull squawking] - Hi, I'm James and my wife Kimberly and I have three wonderful boys, Jayden, Jordan and Justin.

I know, as a father, that learning starts at home.

It was crushed into juice.

Hey, is that how we get grape juice?

- [Child In Orange] Yeah.

- So I like to communicate with my child's teachers to let them know that, "Hey, we're a team."

Hey, Mr. Man, how are you?

I like to connect with my kids' teachers the first week of school, but it's never too late to do so.

When I communicate with my kids' teachers, I also keep in mind that they're very busy, so I keep the messages very short and sweet.

And I like to ask them, "What is it that my kids are learning this year?"

"What are the expectations?"

"How do we know that they're actually achieving what you need them to achieve."

"What can I do to help my child?"

The goal for my child is to learn.

And together with the teacher, I know we can fulfill that.

By building a solid relationship with the teacher, my child knows that I care and so does the teacher and that's a win for all of us.

Perfect job, give me five.

- Give me five.

- All right, let's go.

[upbeat music] - Hi friends, it's Deja from the Bronx Children's Museum.

I hope you're having a STEAMtastic day and you're super excited to learn some fun new things.

Today we're going to learn all about rainbows, los arco iris.

Have you ever seen rainbows in your neighborhood?

What colors did you see?

When did you see them?

To learn all about rainbows today, we're going to read a book called, "How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow" by Monica Sweeney and we're gonna create some rainbows using some things we can find around our homes.

And after, we're going to actually catch some rainbows with a cool science experiment.

"How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow", written by Monica Sweeney, illustrated by Feronia Parker Thomas.

Read with permission from Sky Pony Publishing.

The sun and the clouds were best friends.

They worked together to keep the Earth warm and gardens growing.

But of all the things they did together, their very favorite was making rainbows so that the whole world was colorful and happy.

Then one day, the sun and the clouds had a big fight.

The clouds were blocking the sun and the sun couldn't shine through to the Earth.

The sun went sizzle, sizzle, sizzle at the clouds and the clouds went clap, bang, boom back.

They stopped being friends and were never in the sky together again.

With the sun and clouds far apart, it was scorching hot on some days and damp and cold on others.

And worst of all, there were no more rainbows.

Without rainbows, the flowers, streams and even cities started to lose their color.

Soon, the Earth was black and white.

But in one little town, in one little school, in one little desk, there was one little forgotten box of crayons, and the crayons still had their colors.

The desk rattled, shook, clambered and clanked.

All of a sudden, it toppled over and the box of crayons tumbled out.

The crayons started to search for the colors.

They raided marker bins and tore through art projects, but everything as far as they could see was only black and white.

[upbeat music] The crayons looked out the window.

The sun was all the way to one side of the sky, looking angry, and the clouds were all the way to the other, looking gloomy.

[upbeat music] So, the crayons started drawing little rainbows all over town.

But nothing happened.

The sun and the clouds didn't seem to notice.

"We have to make our rainbows bigger," Violet said.

Working together, the crayons drew and scribbled.

They made the biggest, brightest, most colorful rainbow the world had ever seen.

Ever so slowly, the sun perked up and the clouds floated in for a closer look.

[instrumental music] The sun and the clouds both peered down, admiring the giant rainbow that the crayons had drawn.

"What bright colors," said the sun.

"It's incredible," said the clouds.

They looked at each other with great big smiles.

The sun said to the clouds, "Remember when we used to be "together all the time and make rainbows?"

The clouds nodded.

"I'm sorry for going clap, bang, boom at you."

"I'm sorry for going sizzle, sizzle, sizzle at you," said the sun.

"It's better being friends," said the sun and the clouds agreed.

They hugged.

The sun shined brightly and the clouds misted happy rain.

Ever so slowly, rainbows reappeared near and far, turning the world colorful once again.

[ethereal music] Wow, that book was really great.

Did you notice the two things needed to create rainbows?

That's right, you need rain from clouds and sun from sunshine.

Rainbows are formed when the sun's rays hit rain or water at just the right angle.

Believe it or not, even though we often see only one color in something, most things are made of multiple colors.

For example, the sun's rays look white, but when the sun shines through water droplets at just the right angle, the light is refracted, or separated, into seven different colors, creating the rainbows that we all know and love.

The colors of the rainbow are red, or rojo, orange, or naranja, yellow, or amarillo, green, or verde, blue, or azul, indigo, or indigo, and violet, or violeta.

Did you know that you don't always need water and sunlight to create rainbows?

You can actually create rainbows using objects that you could find around your home or in your classroom.

These objects can also refract, or change the direction of the light, to create rainbows that we can see.

Some of the things that you'll need in order to create your rainbow without water or sunlight is a flashlight and a CD or DVD.

If you don't have the materials, just follow along.

Hold your CD or DVD in one hand and try shining a flashlight on it from different angles.

Which angles help refract, or change the direction, of the light best?

What happens to the rainbow when we turn off the light?

Oh no, it disappeared.

Now that we've created our own rainbows in our homes, we're actually going to catch our own rainbows with a cool science experiment.

For this activity, you'll need a couple of things.

You'll need a couple of pieces of black construction paper, you will also need a bowl of water and clear nail polish.

You can choose to use scissors to cut up your paper or you can just tear it if you don't have any scissors.

Something really important we need to remember is scientists don't eat their materials.

Be careful not to eat nail polish or get nail polish anywhere but in your basin of water.

Let's get started.

What you're going to do first is take your black construction paper and cut it into smaller shapes and sizes.

Ask a trusted adult for help using scissors.

You can do any shapes you want.

Just make sure that your shapes can fit into your basin or bowl of water.

Now, add a drop or two of clear nail polish to the basin of water.

Now, what happens?

Do you see how the water and nail polish refract, or change the direction, of the light to create a rainbow on top of the water?

Take your black piece of paper and lift it through the rainbow on top of the water.

You should see a rainbow pattern on your paper.

How did that happen?

The nail polish creates a film or a layer of interference from the light.

The nail polish sort of traps the rainbow and when you put your black paper through it, you're able to catch it, as well.

The same thing happens with motor oil on the road after a rainstorm.

What's really amazing is each time you add a drop of nail polish to the water and press your paper, you create a different rainbow.

No two are the same.

They're kind of like snowflakes.

Keep capturing your rainbows until you've used all of your paper.

Which ones have the best rainbows and which ones have different colors?

I really hope you enjoyed catching and creating your own rainbows with me.

Now, remember to stay safe and until next time, we'll see you soon, bye.

[upbeat music] - Hi, I'm Ashley and I teach music at Third Street Music School and I'd like to make some music with you today.

I've got my instrument here.

Oh no, it looks like somebody spilled some spaghetti noodles on it.

This is crazy.

Should I eat them, no?

They're not noodles?

Well, what are they then?

Strings, really?

Let me just pluck them, make sure they're not noodles.

[instrumental music] Hey, you're right, they are strings.

They're saying ♪ My dog has fleas ♪ That's what a ukulele says.

Can you say that word with me?

Ukulele, and I know if I put my finger right here on the ukulele, the sound gets, whoop, higher.

Let's listen again.

[instrumental music] Higher and that's the sound we need for our together song.

Can you rock with me?

[instrumental music] ♪ Oh, here we are together, together, together ♪ ♪ Oh, here we are together, making music with our friends ♪ ♪ There's you and me and all our other friends ♪ ♪ In their homes ♪ ♪ Oh, here we are together, together, together ♪ ♪ Oh, here we are together, making music with our friends ♪ Let's end with a drum roll, please.

[indistinct] And stop, tiniest drum in the world.

T, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, and stop.

Now, I'm thinking of a small animal, small enough to play that tiny drum.

It's a mouse.

Let's go fast, like a mousey.

Fast like a mousey, fast like a mousey, fast like a mousey and hide, now, I'm thinking of another small animal, but this animal has only two legs and it has two wings and it has a beak.

Do you know what animal I'm thinking of?

That's right, a bird.

Today we are going to sing songs like birds and we are going to move our bodies like birds.

So let's get our bodies ready, let's transform these two human arms into two bird wings and get ready to flap our wings.

And birds have two legs, as well, so if you want to stand up on your legs, look around your space, make sure it's safe for you to go flying around your room or you can sit with me and flap your wings like this.

Here we go.

♪ Fly, fly, fly little birds ♪ ♪ Fly around the room ♪ ♪ Fly, fly, fly little birds ♪ ♪ Fly around the room ♪ ♪ La, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪ ♪ La, la, la, la, la, la ♪ ♪ La, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪ ♪ Now you fly back home ♪ And do you remember what the name of a bird's home is?

A nest, that's right.

Let's pretend we're sleeping in our nest.

♪ Sleep, sleep, sleep little birds ♪ ♪ Sleep until the sun ♪ ♪ Sleep, sleep, sleep little birds ♪ ♪ Then we'll have some fun ♪ All right, let's meet our first bird friend.

Have you seen a bird like this before?

There are so many of them in New York City where I live.

Maybe there are some in your neighborhood.

The name of this bird is robin.

Did you know?

Robins are known for their red tummies.

Some people call them robin redbreast.

Now, let's listen to the robin song.

I have a little app on my phone, I'm gonna push the button and we'll hear the robin song.

[robin chirping] That's a tricky song, right?

Here's how I remember the robin song.

I say cheerio, cheer up, chirp chirp, but we use a really high bird voice, okay?

Let's give it a try.

Cheerio, cheer up, chirp chirp.

Let's do it again.

Cheerio, cheer up, chirp chirp.

- Cheerio, cheer up, chirp chirp.

- Great, now let's meet another bird friend.

This one is called crow.

Does it have a red tummy?

No, black, how about the wings and the beak?

They're black, too.

Even the crow's feet are black.

Let's listen to the crow's song.

[crow cawing] Have you heard that before?

I know I have.

Let's try the crow's call.

Caw, caw, caw.

Caw, caw, caw.

It's a strong sound, right?

Strong and loud.

The music word for strong is forte.

So let's try the crow's call really forte.

- Caw, caw, caw.

- Caw, caw, caw.

- Caw, caw, caw.

- Caw, caw, caw.

- Great, all right, I have one more bird friend, and this little gray sweetie is called mourning dove.

It's not named for the morning like good morning, it's named for mourning like sadness because some people think the morning dove's call sounds sad.

Let's see what you think, let's listen.

[mourning dove cooing] What do you think?

Does it sound sad to you?

I think it sounds beautiful.

Let's put our hand up and we're going to practice the mourning dove call.

It goes low to high and then right in the middle.

Let's go, coo wee, hoo, hoo, hoo.

Coo wee, hoo, hoo, hoo.

How many hoos are there right at the end?

Let's count them together.

Hoo, hoo, hoo, three.

Let's try it again and make sure to get those three hoos at the end.

- Coo wee, hoo, hoo, hoo.

- Coo wee, hoo, hoo, hoo.

- Great, all right, now we're going to play a game with these birds.

I'm going to press the button on my phone for the bird call and you're gonna listen and try to guess which bird it is.

I'm not gonna tell you the name, you just try to call it out as soon as you think of it, okay?

Here goes the first one.

[robin chirping] Did you guess robin?

That was the robin's call.

All right, let's get up and fly like robins.

Really light and fast.

Stretch your wings out and fly.

[instrumental music] ♪ Fly, fly, fly little robins ♪ ♪ Fly around the room ♪ ♪ Fly, fly, fly little robins ♪ ♪ Fly around the room ♪ ♪ Chirp, chirp, chirp, a chirp, chirp, chirp ♪ ♪ Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp ♪ ♪ Chirp, chirp, chirp, a chirp, chirp, chirp ♪ ♪ Now you fly back home ♪ Come on over and let's listen for the next bird call.

Let's see if you can guess who it is.

[mourning dove cooing] Did you remember that that's the mourning dove's call?

The little gray sweetie?

All right, mourning doves, let's get up and fly like a mourning dove.

And since their song is a little slower, let's fly with big, slow, beautiful wings, ready?

[instrumental music ] ♪ Fly, fly, fly little doves ♪ ♪ Fly around the room ♪ ♪ Fly, fly, fly little doves ♪ ♪ Fly around the room ♪ ♪ Coo, coo, coo, ca coo, coo, coo ♪ ♪ Coo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo ♪ ♪ Coo, coo, coo, ca coo, coo, coo ♪ ♪ Now you fly back home ♪ All right, mourning doves, well done.

Now there's one bird I haven't played yet.

Can you think of it?

Did you say crow?

You're right, it's the crow.

Do you remember the crow's call?

Caw, caw, caw, forte, strong.

Caw, caw, caw.

Let's fly like the crows now.

Stretch out your wings and be really strong.

We'll go flying like crows.

[instrumental music] ♪ Fly, fly, fly little crows ♪ ♪ Fly around the room ♪ ♪ Fly, fly, fly little crows ♪ ♪ Fly around the room ♪ ♪ Caw, caw, caw, ca caw, caw, caw ♪ ♪ Caw, caw, caw, caw, caw, caw ♪ ♪ Caw, caw, caw, ca caw, caw, caw ♪ ♪ Now you fly back home ♪ Great job, birds, great.

Now we're going to play one more game today and this is for the cuckoo bird.

The cuckoo bird sounds like this.

Coo coo, can you try that with me?

Coo coo, this is a hiding game.

So we're going to hide, I'm going to hide under this blanket and maybe you want to hide under a blanket, as well.

Or maybe you want to hide behind a chair or behind a pillow or a grown up.

Or you could even just put your hands up like this and hide behind your hands.

And then my friend, Yukiko, is gonna play the piano for us and every time we here her play, coo coo, we're gonna pop out and sing, coo coo.

All right, let's get ready, let's hide.

Hi everybody, my name is Yukiko and I love to play piano for you.

[piano music] - Coo coo.

[piano music] Coo coo.

[piano music] - Coo coo.

- Coo coo.

[piano music] - Coo coo.

- Coo coo.

[piano music] - Coo coo.

- Coo coo.

[piano music] - Coo coo.

- Coo coo.

[piano music] Coo coo.

[piano music] - Coo coo.

- Coo coo.

[piano music] - Coo coo.

- Coo coo.

[piano music] Great job, cuckoo birds.

I hope you enjoyed meeting all of our bird friends today and I hope you can listen for the robin and the crow and the mourning dove in your neighborhood and maybe even hear some new birds and learn their songs.

It's time to say goodbye and for our goodbye song, we need two claps.

[clapping] ♪ We gotta go now ♪ [clapping] ♪ Bye bye ♪ ♪ We gotta go now ♪ [clapping] ♪ Bye bye ♪ ♪ We gotta go now ♪ [clapping] ♪ Bye bye ♪ Big stomp, boom.

♪ See you later ♪ ♪ Alligator ♪ Boom.

♪ See you later ♪ ♪ See you next time ♪ See you soon.

[upbeat music] - [Narrator] Funding for this program was provided by the JPB Foundation.

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