
Can You Find the Long “e” in Here?
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Make bouncing bubbles, play “traffic jam,” sing traveling music, read HOW A SEED GROWS.
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Can You Find the Long “e” in Here?
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Make bouncing bubbles, play “traffic jam,” sing traveling music, read HOW A SEED GROWS, practice long u and e sounds in words. LET’S LEARN helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. One-hour programs feature instruction by educators and virtual field trips.
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- Hi every one.
My name is Ms. Davis, how are you today?
That's so great to hear.
Well today I would like to share a story with you.
This story is called, "How a seed grows."
And so, in stories, people write the words.
That's called the author.
The author of this book is Helene J. Jordan.
So let's read it, find out, how does a seed grow?
A seed is a little plant.
It is a plant that has, not started to grow.
Apple trees and daisies, carrots and corn, clover and wheat.
All grow from seeds.
Here, is a tree seed.
Someday, it will be a tree like this.
So someday this seed, is gonna grow and grow and grow, till it becomes a big tree like this.
Let's keep reading.
Here is a flower seed.
Someday it will be a flower like this.
So this little seed right here, this flower seed, is gonna grow and grow and grow into a flower.
Some seeds grow slowly.
These are the seeds of an Oak tree.
An Oak tree grows very, very, slowly.
Suppose you planted an oak tree seed.
You would be a father, or a mother, or even a grandfather, or a grandmother.
And the oak tree, would still be growing.
So you would grow up, and get older and older, and the oak tree, will still be growing slowly.
So we grow faster than the oak tree seeds.
That's what that means.
Some seeds grow fast.
This is a bean seed.
It grows very fast.
It grows so fast that it becomes a big plant in just a few weeks.
You can plant bean seeds, yourself.
We use the pole bean.
You can use a pole beans, bush beans, or lima beans.
You can plant the seeds in, egg shells or tin cans.
or old cups or a little flowerpots.
Be sure that your containers have holes in the bottom.
Sprinkle the soil carefully with a little water, number the shells.
Write the number one, on the first shell.
Put the number two, on the next shell.
Keep going, until all of the shells are numbered, from one to 12.
Put all of the eggshells, in a carton.
Put the carton, in sunlight, on a windowsill.
Some beans seeds grow faster than others.
Our seeds begin to grown in three days.
Your bean seeds may take a little longer.
You won't be able to see your seeds growing yet.
They start to grow in the soil, where you can't see them.
So in this picture, it is showing you, what a windowsill is.
So this is the window, and that little ledge that comes out, is called the windowsill.
And that's why they placed their egg cartons, full of seeds and soil, on the windowsill, so it can catch the sunlight.
Water your seeds a little every day, the water soaks into the seeds.
The seeds begin to grow, more water soaks into the seeds.
The seeds get fatter and fatter.
Well why do you think the seeds are getting fatter and fatter?
They're growing.
That's right.
Wait for three days and then dig up seed number one.
It may be soft, it may be fat.
Maybe it will look the same, as it did before.
Soon, the seed will grow so fast, that its skin will pop off.
In two more days, dig up seed number two.
Maybe it will look a little different now.
Maybe the skin, this seed will be loose.
So in this picture, you can see, they're really checking out the seed and investigate it.
And she has a magnifying glass, because that helps you see little objects.
It makes them bigger.
Now a root starts to grow.
The root grows from one side of the bean seed.
The root pushes down into the soil, down and down.
Dig up, see number three.
Can you see the root?
Does it look like this?
This part right here is the root.
If you do not see a root, wait for another day.
Then dig up seed number four.
A few more days, dig up seed number five.
Something else is happening.
Little roots will be growing, from the big root.
They look like tiny white hairs.
They're called, root hairs.
Day after day, the roots and root hairs, push down into the soil.
Day after day, the bean seeds are pushed up.
The soil is pushed aside.
Watch your seeds.
Soon you will see pale shoots, push through the soil.
A shoot is the beginning of a green plant.
A shoot grows toward the sun.
Watch your seeds.
Some may have come through the ground.
Some may have broken up.
Maybe some of your seeds, have not started to grow.
How many are growing?
Count them.
The bean seeds grow fast.
The shoots turn green.
The leaves come next.
Now your bean seeds, are a bean plant.
They look like this.
So you see the shoot, the root, the root hairs, and now the plant has leaves.
So the seed turns into a bean plant, like that.
How many of your bean seeds, are bean plants?
A seed needs many things to grow.
It needs soil, and water and sun.
If a seed has all, these things, it will grow into a plant.
It will grow into, the same kind of plant, that it came from.
an apple tree, or a daisy or a carrot or corn.
It will grow into clover, or it will grow into a bean plant, like the ones you planted.
And on the last page of our book, it gives you information.
Find out more, about seeds.
Now we would like to show you, one of the activities we learned about today, called planting.
One, you will need, a container with holes.
Like I have here, an old flowerpot.
There is a hole on the bottom.
Or you can use eggshells, like we learned about or anything you have access to at home.
Just make sure that the container has holes.
Number two, you will need some soil.
Right here I have a bag of soil, a little bag of soil.
And the last material, three beans.
Here I found some beans.
Again.
You can use whatever beans you have access to.
All you have to do is take your egg shells, like so.
Fill the eggshells with step two, some soil.
I take my soil, little fell out, that's okay.
Sprinkle a little in here.
Okay.
And I just repeat, some more soil, some more soil, okay?
I have some more eggshells I can fill up.
So I'm gonna do just that.
Put the soil inside.
Okay.
And look, one more egg shell.
Okay.
So now my eggshells, are filled up with soil.
Now, I'm going to make a hole with my finger.
Whoop, easy like that.
Stick your finger in the soil and making little holes.
All right.
Now, I'm ready for three beans.
Today, I am using black beans.
Again, you can use, whatever beans you have access to.
So the holes that I made, I'm gonna carefully, place the bean inside those holes.
Inside this hole, inside this hole, this bean is gonna go inside this hole.
I have another one here and, my last one.
Okay.
Now we have to cover the seed with soil.
I wanna make sure every seed is covered up, just like that.
So I'm just gonna place my eggshells with the soil and beans.
Carefully, carefully, inside my cartons.
Just like this.
Okay.
I'm going to put a little water, and put them on the windowsill.
And watch and wait for my seeds to grow.
I can't wait to see your plant and what you grew.
I encourage you to give it a try at home.
All you need, are three easy materials.
I hope you enjoyed the book and learned a lot, about how seeds grow.
Remember seeds need, water, soil, and sunlight to grow.
So I encourage you to give it a try, grab some seeds and see what type of plant you can create.
Thank you for joining me today.
Bye, bye.
- Hi movers and shakers, this is Violet.
And I'm really excited, to get to, sing a song today, with my friend.
- Thank you, Violet, for inviting me to meet, with you and your friends.
My name is Jeremy Watson and I am a music teacher at PS 21 Staten Island, home of the Eagles.
Violet asked me to share a song with you today, because of everything that's going on in the world.
With kids, suddenly having to learn from home, or even others making each other feel bad, because of how different we look from one another.
It's important to remember that we are not alone.
That we're in this together, and that we are apart of one race, the human race.
So, when things look dim, look to the light that shines inside and let your light shine, for the whole world to see.
This song is called, this little light of mine.
It's a call and response song which means I'll sing a phrase, the call and you'll sing back the response.
Are you ready?
Let's go.
♪ This little light of mine ♪ ♪ Am gonna let it shine, oh ♪ ♪ This little light of mine ♪ ♪ Am gonna let it shine ♪ ♪ This little light of mine ♪ ♪ Am gonna let it shine ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ ♪ This little light of mine ♪ ♪ Am gonna let it shine, oh, ♪ ♪ This little light of mine ♪ ♪ Am gonna let it shine, oh ♪ ♪ This little light of mine ♪ ♪ Am gonna let it shine, oh ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ ♪ Let it shine ♪ - Thanks, Jeremy.
I always love singing with you.
Thanks everyone.
- Hi, my name is Meredith and today we're going to blend and read words.
Using a new spelling and sound pattern.
Let's get started.
Now we're going to blend some words.
I'm going to stretch out the sound and I want you to tell me the word.
For example, if I say, grow.
What word is that?
That's right.
It's the word grow.
You're ready to try some?
Listen again.
Groan.
That's the word, groan.
A groan is a sound you make, when you get hurt.
Oh, groan.
Let's do another one, Flute.
What's that?
That's right.
It's a flute.
It's a musical instrument that you play.
Here's another one.
Flu.
Flu is something that might get you sick.
Here's another one.
Clue.
That's the word clue.
If you were trying to solve a mystery, you would take all the clues and put them together.
Now we're going to, play with words.
We're going to say a word, change the sound and then say another word or make it another word.
Let's give it a try.
If I say, these, and I take out the E, and an add an O, I get those.
These, becomes those.
You wanna do it together?
Coat.
You say it.
Now take out the O sound and add a U.
Coat becomes cute.
That's right.
The O became a, U.
Coat, cute.
Here's another.
Rude.
You say it.
Take out the Uu and add an E. Rude became read.
That's right.
We changed the Uu to an E. Here's another, tune.
You say it.
Tune.
Now take out the U and an E. What do you get?
Teen.
Tune became teen.
A tune is a song.
A teen is a number, that's bigger than 10 and less than 20.
Now we're going to look at our new, spelling sound pattern.
The long E sound is Ee.
But it can be spelled, many different ways.
Here we have, E, Eagle E and look at all the different spelling patterns, for a long E. We're, focusing here, on E consonant E today.
This blank space, represents the consonant.
So any consonant can go right here.
And we're gonna take, a closer look at this, in a word.
Here, I have a word, that has an E in the middle and another E at the end.
This E at the end, isn't saying anything.
It stays silent, but it tells this E to say E. I took the sounds apart.
So we can say each sound and put them together to make the word.
Let's do it.
Th-, -ese.
Let's bring them a little, closer together.
Th-, -ese.
And just a little closer together.
Th-, -ese.
What's the word?
These, these are my friends.
That's how I use it in a sentence.
These, there's things that belong to me.
These are my books.
These are my pencils.
These are things that I have.
These.
U constant E, has one spelling pattern, but two different sounds elements.
Let's look at the first one.
Here, we have, U uniform U.
So, one of the sounds, that U consonant E makes, is Uu.
Like in uniform.
These are all the different ways to spell U but we're looking at this one today.
U consonant E, remember this space is a place for a consonant.
The other sound, that U consonant E makes, is Oo.
Like in moose.
Here, we have the U constant E, it's a way to spell, Oo.
So we need to be careful today, as we're reading and writing words, that we have the U sound and the Oo sound.
Let's look at some words, that have the U constant E spelling pattern.
Here, I have a U in the middle of my word, with an E at the end, remember this E, doesn't say anything.
It just tells the U to say in this word, U.
Because remember, you can make either the U sound or the Oo sound.
In this word, it's making the Uu sound.
So here, I have it stretched out, for us, so we can stretch its sound and then, bring that closer together.
So we can read the word.
M-, -ute.
Let's bring them a little closer.
M-, -ute.
Mute, and the word is mute.
Mute means to be quiet.
You might hear someone say, mute your microphone or mute the TV.
It needs to turn off the sound.
Let's take a look, at a different word with the U continent E, spelling pattern.
In this word, I have another U, in the middle with an E at the end.
The E is telling the U, this time to say, Oo.
The other spellings sound, that U consonant E can make.
Let's stretch each sound and then we'll bring it closer together, to blend it.
You ready?
D-, -means.
D-, -une.
D-, -une.
Dune, a dune is something you'd see at the beach.
It's sort of a little hill, made out of sand, dune.
Now, let's blend and read words.
Remember, U consonant E can make, a Uu sound or the Oo sound.
So be careful.
I'm gonna read, in a quiet voice, so I could hear your big, beautiful reading.
Are you ready?
Let's look at row number one.
Cube, cute, mule.
What did you notice, about row number one?
There was a U consonant E and the U is saying Uu in, cube, cute, and mule.
Let's look at row number two.
Are you ready?
Tube, tune, prune.
What do you notice about row number two?
The U is saying, Oo.
Tube, tune, prune.
A prune is a dried plum.
Let's look at row number three.
Get ready.
Pete, Eve, Theme.
What did you notice, about row number three?
That's right.
Those are E consonant E words.
Did you notice something else?
Pete and Eve, have capital letters.
That's because they're names, and all names get a capital, for the first letter.
Let's look at row number four.
Be careful, on row number four because it's all mixed up now, we're practicing all of our new skills.
You ready?
Steve, tune, huge.
Okay.
Did you get mixed up?
Let's look at this word, with a U in it.
Is the U saying Oo, or U?
Let's listen, J-, -une or J-, -une.
Is it June or June?
That's right.
It's saying the Oo sound.
Now let's look here.
Huge or, h-, -uge.
Is it huge or huge?
That's right.
It's saying the U sound, huge.
So you need to be very careful, when you're reading U consonant E words.
And you need to try, both the U sound and the Oo sound, if you're not sure.
Now, let's read some sentences.
Eve and Pete, use rules, to play games.
Hmm.
Did you see any, U consonant E words?
That's right.
Use has, a U constant E and the U is saying U, what else has a U constant E?
Rules and the U saying Oo.
And we had our names, with the E consonant E words.
Let's read our second sentence.
Are you ready?
June thinks, these ducks are cute.
Hmm.
That one was tricky.
June was saying Oo, did you say that right?
And cute.
The U was saying, U, very nice.
Wow.
We did so much learning today.
We learned two new spelling patterns, E consonant E, which says E and U constant E, which can say U or Oo.
We practice blending and changing sounds by listening.
Then we practice reading and writing using our new spelling patterns.
I am so proud of you.
Today, I want you to look around and see if you see words that have the E constant E or the U constant E. And especially with that, U consonant E. You need to practice.
Is it U or Oo, in that word?
Bye.
- I check the labels on my kids' lunch boxes and toys wanna know why?
- [Narrator] The dangers of lead, might feel like old news.
But it's still a very real threat.
Lead is a dangerous metal, that can cause serious learning and behavior problems in children and problems during pregnancy.
People with lead poisoning, usually don't look or feel sick.
Lead can be found in old paint and in some products from other countries.
Here are a few things to look out for, to protect yourself and your little ones, from lead.
Lead paint was banned in New York city, but some buildings may still have lead, in the older layers of paint.
If you notice peeling paint in your home talk to your landlord immediately.
If your landlord doesn't act quickly report the peeling paint to 311.
Health remedies, foods, spices, pottery, cosmetics, toys, and jewelry from certain countries may contain lead.
Use with caution.
If the paint on a toy cracks, throw it out.
It's not worth risking, exposing your child to lead.
Safe lunchboxes are labeled lead free.
Be sure to check for this label, before you buy your little one, a lunchbox.
Remind your doctor to test your one or two year old for lead poisoning.
Lead your family away from lead.
- Hello friends.
My name is Delia Meza, and I work at, the New York Hall of Science.
Which is a science museum, in Queens, New York.
Where I get to have fun, teaching science, to children, just like you.
Thank you, for joining me for science time.
Today, we're gonna play with something that's very special.
I wonder if you can guess what it is.
Bubbles!
I love playing with bubbles.
Do you?
Then let's use science, to make a super strong bubble solution, to make some special bubbles at home.
Let's make some, bouncing bubbles.
Yeah, that's right, let's make some bubbles that bounce.
All we need are just a few ingredients, that you may already have at home.
Such as dish soap, water, corn syrup which is a simple ingredient, found in the baking section of most supermarkets.
Measuring cups, spoon, a mixing bowl a bubble blower, or a straw.
But if you don't have one, that's okay.
Because you can also use objects, in your kitchen as bubble blowers.
Such as a slotted spoon, potato masher, or any other object that has small holes, or opening on it.
A pair of cotton gloves, or, a small microfiber towel.
And finally, napkins or paper towels in case there's a spill.
We can quickly clean it up.
Let's get started, science and math often go together.
So we'll start off by measuring and counting three cups of water.
We'll take our measuring cup and we'll measure three cups of water.
Count with me.
One, two, and three.
Next.
We're going to measure and count, one cup of dish soap.
One.
Finally, we're going to measure and pour, half a cup of corn syrup and pour it inside of our bowl.
Next, take your spoon and mix all of the ingredients together.
Do it gently, so that you don't spill, any of the liquids on the table.
You can do it for 10 seconds.
Do you wanna count with me?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10.
Let's take a look.
Wow!
You just created a mixture.
Can you say that word with me?
Mixture.
You just created your bubble solution mixture.
It's better if you let your bubble solution mixture, rest for a few hours.
But if you don't wanna wait that long you can use it right away too.
Now it's time for us to try our bubble solution mixture.
Pick your bubble tool and dip it inside of the mixture to blow a bubble.
Let's see, I'm going to choose, a straw to blow a bubble.
Before I do it, let's make a prediction or a guess.
What size bubble do you think I'll get?
Do you think I'll get a big bubble, a little bubble, no bubbles?
Let's find out.
Wow.
Did you see that?
I got a lot of tiny little bubbles.
Now you try it.
Wow.
That was so cool.
How did we even do that?
Well, I'm glad you asked.
You see, a bubble is simply a pocket of air, that's trapped inside, layers of soap and water.
The bigger the bubble, the more air is inside.
Bubbles have three layers, two layers of soap and right in between, there's a layer of water.
When you blow a bubble, the film is soap, expands outward creating the shape of a sphere.
Can you say that word with me?
Sphere.
That sphere will remain a bubble.
As long as the layer of water, stays in between the two layers of soap but the bubble will pop.
As soon as the water goes through a process called, evaporation.
Let's say that together, evaporation.
But you see we did not make, a regular bubble solution mixture, because we added a special ingredient.
Do you remember what it was?
Corn syrup.
When we added corn syrup to our mixture, it made our bubble a little bit stronger.
But also it prevented, the layer of water, in between those two layers of soap.
It prevented it from evaporating as quickly, allowing us to be able to bounce the bubble, for a little bit longer than in ordinary bubble.
Also, when you put on your glove, or you covered your hand with a microfiber towel.
You created a barrier in between, the bubble and your hands.
Sometimes there's a little dirt or oil on our hands.
And when we touch a bubble, boop, it pops.
But by covering our hand with these materials we created that bubble, that allowed us to bounce it in mid air.
Well, there you have it.
Thank you so much for joining me for Science time.
I had a really good time.
Thank you for watching and have a wonderful day.
Bye.
[Girl speaking in Spanish] - Hi there.
Are you ready for music today?
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
Either way, I know a song that will help us all, get in the mood for music.
Goes like this.
♪ I am in the mood for singing ♪ ♪ Hey how bout you ♪ ♪ I am in the mood for singing ♪ ♪ Hey how bout you ♪ ♪ I am in the mood for singing ♪ ♪ Singing along with you.
♪ ♪ Hey, hey what do you say ♪ ♪ I am in the mood to sing today ♪ ♪ Hey, hey what do you say ♪ ♪ I am in the mood to sing.
♪ But singing is not the only thing we do in music class.
Will you join me in clapping our hands?
♪ I am in the mood for clapping ♪ ♪ Hey how about you ♪ ♪ I am in the mood for clapping ♪ ♪ Hey how about you ♪ ♪ I am in the mood for clapping ♪ ♪ Clapping along with you ♪ ♪ Hey, hey ♪ ♪ What do you say ♪ ♪ Am in the mood to clap today ♪ ♪ Hey, hey ♪ ♪ What do you say ♪ ♪ Am in the mood to clap ♪ One of my favorite things to do while singing or listening to music, is to dance.
You can either follow along with my dance moves or do some of your own.
♪ I'm in the mood for dancing.
♪ ♪ Hey, how about you ♪ ♪ I'm in the mood for dancing ♪ ♪ Hey, how about you ♪ ♪ I'm in the mood for dancing ♪ ♪ Dancing along with you ♪ ♪ Hey, hey ♪ ♪ What do you say ♪ ♪ I'm in the mood to dance tonight.
♪ ♪ Hey, hey ♪ ♪ What do you say ♪ ♪ I'm in the mood to dance ♪ Nice, everyone.
Thanks so much for singing and clapping and dancing along with me.
My name is Jennifer and I teach at Third street Music School.
In today's segment.
We're gonna be talking, all about transportation.
I bet you know a couple of forms of transportation yourselves.
How do you get from here to there?
Do you, walk?
Do you ride a bike?
Don't forget your helmet.
Do you push on a scooter?
Or do you take the bus?
There's so many ways, to get around.
Today we're gonna be talking about, three different types of transportation.
Some are pretty old and some are a little bit newer.
Let's get started.
The first song I wanna sing today is called riding in a buggy.
Do you know what a buggy is?
Back in the day, people used to ride in a horse and buggy.
Which was like a small, carriage pulled by horses.
Let's learn it together.
Grab the rings, get your horses ready and see if you can follow along.
♪ Ridding in a buggy, Miss Mary Jane ♪ ♪ miss Mary Jane, miss Mary Jane ♪ ♪ Riding in a buggy, miss Mary Jane ♪ ♪ I'm a long way from home ♪ Were you able to follow along.
Great.
See if this time you can do, some of the motions along with me and maybe even sing a little bit.
Here we go.
♪ Ridding in a buggy, Miss Mary Jane ♪ ♪ miss Mary Jane, miss Mary Jane ♪ ♪ Riding in a buggy, miss Mary Jane ♪ ♪ I'm a long way from home ♪ It seems like we've ridden pretty far already.
I hope they don't miss us back home.
I think it's time for us, to learn the next part of our song.
Can you shrug your arms along with me?
♪ Who moan for me?
♪ ♪ Who moans for me?
♪ ♪ Who moans for me?
♪ ♪ My darling ♪ ♪ Who moans for me?
♪ Sounds like they miss us a lot.
Will you sing that part along with me?
♪ Who moans for me?
♪ ♪ Who moans for me?
♪ ♪ Who moans for me?
♪ ♪ My darling ♪ ♪ Who moans for me?
♪ Sounds to me like we should be getting back.
I'm gonna put that horses gallop onto my, knees.
Will you gallop home along with me?
♪ Riding in a buggy, Miss Mary Jane ♪ ♪ Miss Mary Jane, Miss Mary Jane ♪ ♪ Riding in a buggy, Miss Mary Jane ♪ ♪ A long way from home.
♪ Keep going we have to get back.
♪ Riding in a buggy, Miss Mary Jane ♪ ♪ Miss Mary Jane, Miss Mary Jane ♪ ♪ Riding in a buggy Miss Mary Jane ♪ ♪ A long way from home.
♪ Nice singing and moving.
The next type of transportation that we're gonna sing about, actually has a horse involved as well.
This song is called Old Brass Wagon.
It was written in the American Midwest in the early 1900's.
Even though it's about an old brass wagon, it was actually a pretty popular party song.
So let's learn it together.
I'm gonna use my arms, to show which direction we're singing about.
And I'm gonna clap the rhythm, every time we sing, old brass wagon.
I'll sing first, and then it's your turn.
♪ Circle to the left, ♪ ♪ Old brass wagon ♪ ♪ Circle to the left, ♪ ♪ Old brass wagon ♪ ♪ Circle to the left, ♪ ♪ Old brass wagon ♪ ♪ Round the old brass wagon ♪ Very nice, thanks for being my echo.
Let's try that again, but this time we'll sing about circling to the, right.
♪ Circle to the right, ♪ ♪ Old brass wagon ♪ ♪ Circle to the right, ♪ ♪ Old brass wagon ♪ ♪ Circle to the right, ♪ ♪ Old brass wagon ♪ ♪ Round the old brass wagon ♪ Great.
Now this song was originally a circle dance.
Since I'm here all by myself, I'll keep singing directions.
But if you are at home with some grownups or some siblings or cousins or friends.
You can invite them, to do the circle dance along with you.
All you have to do is take each other by the hand and either move around the circle, to the left or to the right.
If you wanna sing it that way, go right ahead.
Let's put those two parts together and I'll keep doing the directions and copying the rhythm.
You're welcome to move however you want.
Here we go.
♪ Circle to the left, ♪ ♪ Old brass wagon ♪ ♪ Circle to the left, ♪ ♪ Old brass wagon ♪ ♪ Circle to the left, ♪ ♪ Old brass wagon ♪ ♪ Round the old brass wagon ♪ Here we go to the right.
♪ Circle to the right, ♪ ♪ Old brass wagon ♪ ♪ Circle to the right, ♪ ♪ Old brass wagon ♪ ♪ Circle to the right, ♪ ♪ Old brass wagon ♪ ♪ Round the old brass wagon.
♪ I hope no one fell out of the wagon while they were dancing.
And I hope you had fun as well.
This is a great song to sing it at a game to play.
When you have, people in your family you can sing and dance with.
All right friends, our last song about transportation, might be my favorite.
It's called L Lane.
And it's all about the train, but not just any train, as we'll come to see.
The song is in Spanish.
So let's take it line by line.
I'll sing first, and then it's your turn.
[Singing in Spanish] Do you think you know any of the words to our song.
Maybe some of you out there speak Spanish and already know the whole song, but I'm gonna break it down for those of us, who don't know Spanish.
[Jennifer speaks in Spanish] means get on the train.
We sing about a couple of different types of trains.
[Speaking in Spanish] Which means laughter.
[Speaking in Spanish] Which is the word for love.
[Speaking in Spanish] The fantasy train.
At the end, we sing, [Speaks in Spanish] Which means sing the song.
Can we try it one more time?
I'll sing first then it's your turn.
[Singing in Spanish] Beautiful.
Now things get a little bit trickier and a little bit more fun.
Here's how this game's gonna work.
Imagine you're on a train.
Every time we hear the word , the train moves forwards.
Every time we hear the word the train moves backwards.
You can either do this with your body.
Like I am.
Or if you have a toy train or any kind of train at home you can move it forwards and backwards.
Let's see if we can keep up with the words.
Here we go.
[Singing in Spanish] Were you able to move along?
I think we're we're ready to put both parts of our song together.
Let's see if we can sing and then move along as the train goes forwards and backwards.
Here we go.
[Singing in Spanish] Were you able to make a train with anyone at home?
I hope you didn't step on each other's toes.
It can be pretty tricky when, moving forwards and backwards.
So fast.
Well friends, thank you so much for singing, three songs about transportation with me today.
Unfortunately it's time for us to go.
So you'll have to keep singing about, horse and buggies, old brass wagon, and magical trains at home.
Let's sing one of my favorite goodbye songs.
It's called Shake Hands with friends by Ella Jenkins.
Can you join me?
♪Shake hands with friends.
♪ ♪ It's time to go.
♪ ♪ Shake hands with friends.
♪ ♪ It's time to go.
♪ ♪ Shake hands with friends.
♪ ♪ It's time to go.
♪ ♪ I'll see you again next time.
♪ How else can we say goodbye?
Oh, maybe we could wave.
♪ Wave goodbye to friends.
♪ ♪ It's time to go ♪ ♪ Wave goodbye to friends.
♪ ♪ It's time to go.
♪ ♪ Wave goodbye to friends ♪ ♪ It's time to go ♪ ♪ I'll see you again next time ♪ Be sure to either shake hands or wave or hug your friends.
Whenever you get a chance, when you're saying goodbye.
Especially if there's someone that lives at home with you.
It was so great to see you all today until next time.
- Hi riders.
My name is Morgan and this is Danny and Paisley.
- Hi guys.
- And we were just about to play a game to get us up and moving.
Do you wanna join us?
Great.
Okay.
So today we're gonna play a game called traffic jam.
And a traffic jam is when there's a lot of cars on the road and people move really slow.
Cause there's so many cars.
So today we're gonna pretend that we're driving our own cars.
Now to play, you're gonna have to move around and so make sure you have a safe space to move around in.
We're gonna be moving our bodies.
Okay.
[Indistinct] It's okay.
All right.
So plenty of traffic jam there's three motions we need to know.
We have, when I say green we're gonna go really fast in place.
And when I say a traffic jam, we're gonna go really slow.
Cause there's a lot of cars on the road.
And when I say a red light, we stop.
Okay.
I think we got it.
All right.
So now let's hop in our cars.
Mine's gonna be purple and sparkly.
What's your car.
Oh, that sounds awesome.
What's your car?
- Cayenne.
- Cayenne?
What's your car?
- Pink.
- Pink, love it.
All right.
We ready to get started?
Ready?
- Buckle your seat belt.
- Buckle your seatbelt.
Good job.
We ready?
And green light.
Red light, green light.
Traffic jam.
So slow.
Green light.
Red light.
Traffic jam.
Green light.
Traffic jam.
Red light.
Wow, you guys are good at that.
Should we add two more moves?
Make it a little harder.
Ready?
All right.
So now we're gonna have the same moves but we're also gonna go through a tunnel.
When we go through a tunnel, we have to crouch down.
Okay?
So that's our tunnel.
And then, when we go over a speed bump a speed bump is a big bump in the road.
We're gonna jump over that speed bump.
- Okay.
- So we have green light, traffic jam, red light, tunnel, and speed bumps.
Okay, think we can do it?
- Hmm - Yeah, all right.
Ready?
Let's go.
Green light, traffic jam, tunnel, traffic jam, speed bump, red light, green light, red light, tunnel, traffic jam.
Oh, almost got 'em.
Speed bump, good job.
Red light, green light, speed bump, green light, red light.
Wow, great job friends.
Thanks for playing with us.
[All] Bye!
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