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- Hi, friends.

How are you?

My name is Michael, and I'm a teaching artist with New York City Children's Theater.

Today, I'm super excited because we are going to read an awesome book.

It is called "Book Fiesta!"

written by Pat Mora and illustrated by Rafael Lopez.

So our book today is bilingual.

Have you heard that word before?

Bilingual means it's written in two languages.

So if you check out our title, book, I'm sure you've seen that before.

Book is in English.

And what about this word, fiesta?

Have you heard that before?

What language is that in?

Nice, yeah.

Fiesta is a word in Spanish.

And do you know what fiesta means?

If not, fiesta means party, so that's what we're gonna do today.

We're gonna have some fun.

We're gonna party.

Our book also today has two themes to it, which is celebrating Children's Day, or El Dia de Los Ninos, and that is a day, a tradition that was started in Mexico.

It is April 30th, and it is a day just celebrating you, celebrating children, so doing all your favorite activities, whether it's playing sports, dancing, eating food.

Whatever you like to do, Children's Day is a day where we celebrate that, and our other day, or our other celebration is Book Day.

Kinda similar, but just celebrating our favorite books, our favorite stories.

And yeah, so it's a super fun book.

I'm so excited to share it with you, and we are just gonna hop right in and read it.

So, enjoy.

And here is our inside cover.

It says "Celebrate Children's Day and Book Day."

[Michael speaks in foreign language] "Hooray!

Today is our day, El Dia de Los Ninos.

Let's have fun today and read our favorite books.

[Michael speaks in foreign language] We read in English and Spanish, in Chinese, and in Navajo too.

We read by ourselves.

We read with a friend."

[Michael speaks in foreign language] I just wanna pause for one second.

Has anyone heard of Navajo?

We mentioned English, Spanish, Chinese, and the last one was Navajo.

If you haven't ever heard of Navajo, that is a language spoken by Native Americans here in the United States.

It's actually the most popular language spoken by Native Americans in our country.

So just a little fact just so that we're all on the same page.

How about the next page, hm?

"And we read at the library too."

[Michael speaks in foreign language] That's a good place to read.

Do you have a favorite place to read?

Maybe it could be in your bed, or on your couch, at school.

I like reading outside when it's a little warmer.

Now it's a little bit cold.

So where's your favorite place to read?

"Our families tell us stories while we listen and play."

[Michael speaks in foreign language] That looks like a fun place to read and play to me.

"We read libros together in cars, planes, and trains."

[Michael speaks in foreign language] Now you might've guessed it by now, but as we said up here, "We read libros together."

Libro is a word in Spanish.

Do you know what it means in English?

Maybe you can guess just based off this sentence.

Yeah, totally.

Libro means book.

So this is a libro.

We are reading a libro, El Dia de Los Libros.

Can you try saying that with me?

Libro.

Nice.

One more time.

Libro.

Very cool.

Let's keep going.

"We read to our puppies and kittens, "and to lizards in our yard."

[Michael speaks in foreign language] Do you have a pet that you like to read to?

If you do, I'm sure they love it.

[chuckles] "We read riding an elephant."

Whoa.

[Michael speaks in foreign language] Now here is the elephant, and we said in Spanish, it is elefante.

Can you try saying that with me?

Elefante.

One more time.

Elefante.

Nice.

That sounds great.

And there's a lot of words in Spanish just like that.

Elephant, elefante, that actually sound very similar, and sometimes it makes it a little easier if the word in English and Spanish are so, so similar.

Let's keep going.

"Or sailing with a whale."

[Michael speaks in foreign language] So there's our giant whale that we're sailing in the mouth of, and in Spanish, as we just read, whale is ballena.

Can you say that one with me?

Let's try it together.

Ballena.

One more time.

Ballena.

Nice.

That one's a little bit tricky, right?

It doesn't sound quite like whale, so a little bit harder than elephant.

And let's remember those two words because we're gonna come back to them later, okay?

Let's keep going.

"We read in a long submarine."

[Michael speaks in foreign language] Very cool.

I do wonder how they keep that book dry.

Maybe it's a magic book.

[chuckles] "Or floating in a hot-air balloon."

[Michael speaks in foreign language] I like that idea of reading floating in the air.

Here's one other question to think about.

Thinking about all your favorite stories, if you could float or fly into one of your stories, which one would you choose?

Maybe you can think about that and talk about that with a trusted adult near you, 'cause that's a fun thing to think about.

Which story would you wanna fly into?

"Then, snug in our beds, we read to the moon."

[Michael speaks in foreign language] And that's one more word I want us to try in Spanish.

The word for moon is luna.

Let's try that one.

Can we try it together?

Luna.

One more time together.

Luna.

Awesome.

Very cool.

"And fly away in our books."

[Michael speaks in foreign language] Very, very cool.

All right, so I hope you enjoyed our book.

I know I did.

What I think is so awesome about this book is that it's a celebration of books, and of you, of children, and the importance of books in our life at all ages.

When we think about it, books, stories, have helped preserve our culture, different cultures around the world for centuries through language, our traditions, food, and other different aspects of culture have always been passed down through books and stories, so I think it's so cool to just have a book that celebrates that and celebrates all the different stories in books that we may enjoy for all different types of children.

So I thought for our last little activity, we learned a couple of new words in Spanish today, so I wanna just review those really quick.

The first one we learned was libro.

Can we say that together?

Libro.

Nice.

And do you remember, what does libro mean?

Nice.

You got such a good memory.

Yep, it's a book.

Here's our libro.

Very cool.

Now we also learned a couple of animals.

The first one, big animals.

[chuckles] Our first one was an elephant.

Do you remember how we say elephant in Spanish?

Hmm.

Nice, yeah.

Elefante.

Let's say it together one more time.

Elefante.

Very cool.

Now maybe using our body, maybe you wanna stand up.

You can stay seated if you want, however you're most comfortable.

I'm gonna stay seated to stay in range of the camera.

Maybe using your body, you can show me, show me your best elephant.

Maybe you've got a trunk or whatever you choose, but show me, get it moving a little bit.

Maybe you get some sound into that.

How would an elephant sound if they were really happy and they were reading their favorite book?

[Michael trumpets] I dunno, maybe you have a better elephant sound than I do.

[laughs] You probably do.

Nice, that looks great.

I love it.

Awesome, so that was elefante.

And the other animal that we learned, another big animal, was a whale.

Do you remember the word for whale in Spanish?

Our word is ballena.

Let's say that together one time.

Ballena.

Nice.

Very cool.

And how do you think, using your body, can you show me?

Can we become whales?

They're very big and, [burbles] breathing under water.

[burbles] I don't really know what kind of sounds whales make.

[burbles] How do you make a whale, or what's your best whale sound?

I wonder, what kind of books do you think a whale would like to read?

Maybe books about swimming?

I don't know.

You tell me.

[chuckles] Anyway, so I really hope you enjoyed today's lesson.

I hope it got you and any of your trusted adults around in the mood to read a little bit.

Yeah, and I hope you have a great day.

Take care.

[playful music] - Hello, friends.

I'm Dr. Rivers, and it's time to do some work with sounds and words to help us become better readers and writers.

You're going to need your eyes to watch, your ears to listen carefully, your mouth to say and repeat, and your hands to do some of the work.

Let's get started with segmenting.

We remember that segmenting means to take apart.

I'm going to say a word.

You're going to repeat the word, and then say all of the sounds that you hear in that word.

We're going to move our hands to match each sound that we say.

Let me do the first one.

The word is doll.

Doll are the sounds that I hear in the word doll.

Your turn to try.

Say the word drove.

Now segment the sounds.

Drove.

If you said drove, you're absolutely correct.

Are you ready to try a few more?

Say the word stack.

Now segment the sounds.

Stack.

Say the word stay.

Segment.

Stay.

Say the word ten.

Tell me the sounds.

Ten.

Say the word when.

Segment.

When.

Flop.

Flop.

Float.

Float.

Remember to say every sound that you hear from beginning to end.

Say rid.

Segment.

Rid.

Ride.

Ride.

Bug.

Bug.

Boot.

Boot.

Shame.

Shame.

Same.

Same.

Great job segmenting the sounds in words.

Now let's do some work with rhymes.

We know that rhyming words are words that sound the same at the end.

The rhyme is the part that's left after we take away the beginning or the initial sound.

Listen.

Lead, red.

Ed is at the end of the lead, and ed is at the end of red, so lead and red rhyme.

Let's look at some pictures.

Bread.

Swing.

Ring.

Vest.

A vest is like a jacket with no sleeves on it.

Nest.

Sun.

Can you tell which pair of pictures have names that rhyme?

Swing, ring.

If you said swing, ring, you're absolutely correct.

Can you see another pair?

Vest, nest.

Vest and nest sound the same at the end, so they rhyme as well.

Great job.

Can you think of another word that rhymes with vest, nest?

Maybe best.

Maybe lest.

Maybe rest.

Zest.

Good job.

How about words that rhyme with swing and ring?

Can you think of another word that rhymes with swing and ring?

Bring.

Fling.

Zing.

Zing is not really a word, but it rhymes.

Nonsense words can rhyme as well.

Let's try bread.

How many words can you think of that rhyme with bread?

I'll give you five seconds.

Good job.

Red, fed, Ted, bled, said, any of those, or any that you may have thought of.

Let's try another one.

Five seconds, what rhymes with sun?

Good job.

Fun, run, bun.

Those work, or any more you may have thought of.

Great work producing rhymes, words that sound the same at the end.

Now let's do some work with sounds and spellings.

We've learned that a few consonants can stand for different sounds.

I'm going to say two words, and you're going to listen to hear if they sound the same at the end or if they're different at the end.

If they're the same, you're going to say "same," and then you're going to say the sounds that are the same.

If they're different, you're going to say "different," and then say the sounds that are different.

Let's do the first one together.

The words are big, log.

Do they sound the same or different at the end?

Same.

What sounds the same?

Guh.

Good job.

Your turn.

Big, ridge.

Are they the same at the end or different?

What sounds do you hear at the end?

Guh, juh.

Very good.

Place, rice.

Same or different?

What's the sound?

Ss.

Badge, page.

What's the sound?

Juh.

Pack, cage.

What's the sound?

Kuh, juh.

Rig, bridge.

Guh, juh.

Ledge, judge.

Juh.

Great job telling whether words are the same or different at the end.

You know that the consonant G can stand for guh at the beginning or the end of a word, as in goat, guh.

When the consonant G is followed by the vowel E or the vowel I, it makes the juh sound, or the soft G sound.

Juh as in jellyfish.

This word, gent, it's short for gentleman.

The G, consonant G, is followed by the vowel E, so when I blend it, it's jeh, gent.

Gent.

In this word, the silent E has two jobs.

It tells the vowel to say its name, and it reminds the G to make the juh sound.

So when I read this word, I read it cage.

Cage.

There are a few words that begin with the G-I spelling.

We remember that when the consonant G is followed by an E or an I, it makes the juh sound.

So this word is giant.

Giant.

Giant.

In this word, the silent E only has one job: to remind the G to make the soft juh sound.

This word ends in the trigraph D-G-E. D-G-E stands for juh.

Bridge.

The vowel is short.

Bridge.

And now, let's use the spelling rules that we've learned to blend and read some words.

Today, we went over the jeh sound, as in jellyfish.

We learned that when consonant G is followed by vowel E or vowel I, it makes the juh sound, or when the trigraph D-G-E comes in a word, it makes the juh sound.

Let's blend and read some words.

In this word, the silent E has two jobs.

It reminds the vowel to say its name, and the G to be soft, like juh.

Let's blend it.

Page.

Page.

Page.

Page.

The word is page.

Great job.

Now you try.

Remember the rule.

Go ahead and blend the sounds together and read the word.

Gem.

Gem.

If you said gem, you're absolutely correct.

A gem is a jewel, like a diamond or a ruby or a amethyst or a pearl.

Gem is a short way to say jewels.

Great, let's try another one.

Go ahead and blend the sounds to make a word.

If you said lodge, you're absolutely correct.

A lodge is like a little cabin in the woods.

People stay in them overnight if they go skiing or camping in the woods.

Lodge.

Great work today segmenting sounds and words, producing rhymes, and blending and reading words with the soft G sound.

Go ahead and kiss your brain.

[lips smack] Share what you learned today with someone that you love, and don't forget to come back again.

There's so much more to learn.

See you soon.

[bright music] - Hi, I'm Helena, and I have an amazing husband, Andrew, and a wonderful daughter, Leah.

Leah is very loving and caring.

There's such a range of emotions that I think children go through and that I know Leah must go through during the day, and so we try to provide an environment for her where she can express those feelings back to us in a safe place.

Before we go to sleep, we always ask her, "Is there anything that you wanna talk about?"

How was your day today?

- Sad.

- Why was it sad?

- Because they're like older than me- - And we make sure that she understands that there's no judgment and it's a safe zone.

It's a safe place that she can feel comfortable sharing whatever she wants to share, and we always end it with some form of love, some form of like, saying even thank you for where we are, and once you have that hug, you're calm, you're comfortable, and you'll fall asleep.

It continuously helps her grow.

She's learning that she can come to her parents at any time for anything.

[Leah laughs] - Where are you?

- [Helena] And along with that, she's learning compassion, kindness, how to communicate with others.

This is not only helping her at home, but it's helping her in school, especially with her classwork, with her teachers, and of course all her friends.

[bright music] [playful music] - Hi, learners.

My name is Trinette.

- Hi, learners.

My name is Skyla.

- And for today's math lesson, we're going to learn to identify and recognize some attributes of solid shapes.

Are you ready to begin?

Great, so are we.

I'm going to start by sliding some items over to Skyla.

Skyla, are you ready?

Okay, here we go.

Here's the first item.

Skyla, what are you holding?

- A tissue box.

- Learners, this is a tissue box.

Do you know what it is shaped like?

That's right, a cube.

Can you say that?

- Cube.

- Cube.

Okay, slide the tissue box next to the side over there.

Now I'm going to slide another item to Skyla.

Are you ready?

Hmm, Skyla, what are you holding?

- A can.

- A can.

Learners, do you know what shape the can is?

That's right, a cylinder.

Can you say that?

- Cylinder.

- Cylinder.

Okay, go ahead and put that to the side.

Skyla, I'm gonna roll another item.

Learners, are you ready?

Let's see what it is.

[gasps] Learners, what is Skyla holding?

That's right, it's a basketball.

But do you know the shape or the name of the shape for a basketball?

Yes, a sphere.

Great job.

So let's put that to the side so it doesn't fall, okay?

Skyla, get ready.

We have one more item.

Close your eyes, Skyla.

Learners, take a look at this.

[gasps] Open your eyes.

[Skyla laughs] What is Skyla wearing?

Yes, it's a huge party hat.

[Skyla laughs] It's huge, right?

Learners, do you know the shape of this party hat?

Yes, cone.

Can we say that together?

- Cone.

- Cone.

That's what we're gonna be discussing and learning today.

We're gonna be learning about solid figures, and there's four that we're gonna be working with: a cone, such as a party hat, a ball, or what we would call a sphere.

The other shape would be a cylinder, kinda like a can of beans, and the last one would be a cube, kinda like a tissue box.

Excellent job, learners.

Let's move on to the next activity.

Learners, now let's take a closer look at solid figures.

Here we have a sphere.

It has no flat sides and is round.

Some examples are the planet Earth, a moon, and the beach ball that you see on your screen.

Learners, our next solid figure or solid shape is a cube.

Some examples of a cube are a Rubik's Cube, which you see on your screen, and a set of dice.

All cubes have six flat sides, and they're shaped like squares.

Learners, our next solid shape is called a cylinder.

A cylinder has two flat sides, and they're shaped like circles.

Some examples of a cylinder are a glue stick, an empty roll of toilet tissue, and a Pringles can of chips.

Our last solid figure is a cone.

A cone has one flat side that's shaped like a circle.

As you can see on your screen, there are some orange construction cones and some ice cream cones.

- Learners, it's time for our last activity.

- And for our last activity, I want you to ask a trusted adult to help you find some items in your home that are shaped like solid figures.

For example, I have a can of hairspray.

It is shaped like a cylinder.

I'm gonna give you 10 seconds, and Skyla, you're gonna have 10 seconds, to find an item in your home shaped like a cylinder.

I'm gonna count to 10.

You'll have 10 seconds, and then bring it to the screen.

Ready, set, go.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Time's up.

Learners, were you able to find something shaped like a cylinder, like my can of hairspray?

Okay, awesome, Skyla.

[gasps] Look at what she found.

What did you find?

What's this?

- I found a candle and a tissue roll.

- Roll of tissue.

So here's a candle.

It is shaped like a cylinder.

- And here's a tissue roll.

- Circle at the top, circle at the bottom.

And a roll of tissue.

Learners, show me what you have.

[gasps] Wow, do you see those cylinders?

Excellent.

Let's try a few more.

Now I want you to see if you can find something that is shaped like this.

So this is shaped like a cube, right?

- Cube.

It has a cube here.

- Or a square, right?

I want you to find something shaped like a cube while Skyla and I count to 10.

Ready, set, go.

- [Both] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

- Great job learners.

Let's see all those cubes out there.

Awesome.

Let's try another one.

I'm gonna roll something to Skyla.

Skyla, are you gonna catch it?

Woo!

Got it?

- Got it.

- And I have something here.

I have a soccer ball.

Skyla, what are you holding?

- A orange.

- An orange.

We're gonna give you 10 seconds to find something that's shaped like our soccer ball and our orange, which we call a sphere.

Are you ready?

Set, go.

Let's count.

- [Both] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

- Great job, learners.

Skyla, look at all of those things they were able to gather at home.

Yes, that is a sphere.

Awesome, could I have the orange?

- Okay.

- We wanna put that away.

We have one more.

Can you guys find something at home shaped like a cone, like that party hat that Skyla had on earlier?

10 seconds, ready, set, go.

- [Both] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

- Wow, great job.

Look at all those cones.

Learners, you did a fantastic job today.

You can continue to practice finding things around your home that are shaped like solid figures.

Remember, the solid figures that we learned today were cylinder, - Cylinder.

- Cube.

- Cube.

- Cone, [Skyla laughs] [Skyla speaks indistinctly] and sphere.

Learners, until we meet again, bye-bye for now.

See you soon.

Say bye-bye, Skyla.

- Bye.

See you soon.

- Thank you for tuning in.

[bright music] - Hi, I'm Helena.

[translator speaks in foreign language] How was your day today?

- Sad.

- Why was it sad?

- Because they're like older than me- [translator speaks in foreign language] [playful music] - Hello, scholars.

Welcome to music class.

I'm so glad you could join me.

My name is Ms. D'Amico, and we are going to have so much fun together.

Today, we are going to sing some songs and practice rhythm together.

Let's get started.

Before we play any music today, it's important to start by warming up our bodies.

Please stand up, up, up, and be my echo.

That means I'll go, then you will go.

Ready?

Hands up, to the side, to the side, hands down.

Good job.

Now let's bring both arms to the air and flap them like a bird.

Ready?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Good job, and now let's flap them inwards.

Ready?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Great job warming up.

I think you're ready for a song.

Let's begin.

We are going to start by singing the song "Hello There."

"Hello There" is an echo song, so that means I will go, then you will go.

That's awesome.

Ready?

♪ Hello there ♪ ♪ How are you ♪ ♪ It's so good ♪ ♪ To see you ♪ ♪ We'll sing and ♪ ♪ Be happy ♪ ♪ That we're all here together again ♪ That part's a little tricky.

Let's sing that together.

Ready?

♪ That we're all here together again ♪ Great job learning the song.

Let's practice it one more time together.

Ready?

♪ Hello there ♪ ♪ How are you ♪ ♪ It's so good ♪ ♪ To see you ♪ ♪ We'll sing and ♪ ♪ Be happy ♪ Let's sing this together.

Ready?

♪ That we're all here together again ♪ Awesome job.

I think we're ready to add some piano to this.

Let's go.

[bright piano music] ♪ Hello there ♪ ♪ How are you ♪ ♪ It's so good ♪ ♪ To see you ♪ ♪ We'll sing and ♪ ♪ Be happy ♪ ♪ That we're all here together again ♪ ♪ Cha cha cha ♪ In music, we have a special word called the beat.

The beat is a steady pulse that keeps us even throughout our piece.

This is like a heartbeat or a clock tick.

Many people like to clap their hands or stomp their feet to a beat when they listen to music.

Let's practice keeping a steady beat together.

Ready?

♪ Steady beat stays the same ♪ ♪ Clap your hands with me ♪ [hands clapping] [metronome ticking] ♪ Steady beat stays the same ♪ ♪ Pat your legs with me ♪ [hands slapping] ♪ Steady beat stays the same ♪ ♪ Tap your head with me ♪ Great job practicing.

I think we're ready to add some music on top of our steady beat.

In music, we have another special word called rhythm.

Rhythm is the long and short notes that fit inside of the beat.

Let's practice some rhythm together.

Ready?

Please be my echo.

That means I'll go, then you'll go.

Ready?

[hands clapping] ♪ Clap, clap, clap your hands ♪ ♪ Clap, clap, clap your hands ♪ ♪ Clap your hands together ♪ Great job.

Let's sing this together one more time.

Ready?

♪ Clap, clap, clap your hands ♪ ♪ Clap your hands together ♪ ♪ Clap, clap, clap your hands ♪ ♪ Clap your hands together ♪ Awesome job.

Notice that we kept a steady beat in our hands and sang the rhythm with our voices.

Let's keep practicing that.

This time, instead of saying the song, we are going to sing it.

Please listen just once.

Ready?

[hands clapping] ♪ Clap, clap, clap your hands ♪ ♪ Clap your hands together ♪ ♪ Clap, clap, clap your hands ♪ ♪ Clap your hands together ♪ Please be my echo.

Ready?

♪ Clap, clap, clap your hands ♪ ♪ Clap, clap, clap your hands ♪ ♪ Clap your hands together ♪ ♪ Clap, clap, clap your hands ♪ ♪ Clap your hands together ♪ Awesome job.

Let's stand up, up, up together and sing the song as a team.

Ready?

One, two, ready and ♪ Clap, clap, clap your hands ♪ ♪ Clap your hands together ♪ ♪ Clap, clap, clap your hands ♪ ♪ Clap your hands together ♪ Awesome job.

The fun part to this song is that there's more to go.

Try to follow along with me.

Ready?

♪ Pat, pat, pat your legs ♪ ♪ Pat your legs together ♪ ♪ Pat, pat, pat your legs ♪ ♪ Pat your legs together ♪ ♪ Tap, tap, tap your head ♪ ♪ Tap your head together ♪ ♪ Tap, tap, tap your head ♪ ♪ Tap your head together ♪ ♪ Bop, bop, bop your nose ♪ ♪ Bop your nose together ♪ ♪ Bop, bop, bop your nose ♪ ♪ Bop your nose together ♪ That was awesome.

I hope you had as much fun as I did.

Remember, our special word called beat is a steady pulse that runs throughout our song.

This is just like a clock ticking or a heartbeat.

When we have a steady beat, we like to add rhythm over it.

Rhythm is the long and short notes inside of the beat.

This is just like the song that we sang.

Great job.

It's time to say goodbye, but I have one more song that I would love to sing with you.

Try to follow along.

Let's start by patting our legs one more time.

Ready?

[hands slapping] ♪ Say, say, say goodbye ♪ ♪ Say goodbye together ♪ ♪ Say, say, say goodbye ♪ ♪ Say goodbye together ♪ Goodbye.

[playful music] - Welcome, friends.

My name is Dr. Katie Cunningham, and I'm a professor at Manhattanville College.

I'm excited to share with you today a technique called heart mapping, 'cause I've been thinking a lot lately about the things that matter to me most.

I've been thinking about people and places that I love.

I've been thinking about memories that I have, and heart mapping is a way that we can record all of the things that are inside our heart that we wanna hold onto and remember later.

So what do we already know about maps?

Think for a moment to yourself, what's the job of a map and what do maps look like?

I have with me here a map you might be familiar with.

You were probably thinking to yourself, "This is a map of the New York City subway," and maps use colors and lines and shapes to tell us where we wanna go.

Your heart map that you're gonna create today has a similar idea, where you're gonna use whatever colors and materials that you have on hand at home in order to make a map of what's inside your heart: the people and the places and the memories that matter to you most.

Let's look at what's inside my heart map.

So to start out, I drew a really big heart that took up most of the page.

And then I thought to myself, "What's most important to me?"

And those are the people in my life, and so I drew another heart in the center, and I drew some people and I put the names of my family and friends that are really the center of my heart.

Then I thought places that I love.

So I drew a heart over here in the corner, and I drew my apartment building and the skyline of New York City, and I especially love New York City at night, so I wanted to make my drawing look like it was at night.

I have a drawing here of Bear Bear, which is a stuffed toy from my childhood that's especially important to me and I wanted to put him inside my heart.

You'll meet Bear Bear later.

I wanted to put a drawing of the sun because I love the feeling of the sun on my face, any season really.

I love the memories that I have of walking alongside the Hudson River with my family and my friends, and so I drew a little squiggly line to represent the river and I wrote the river's name.

I love the magic of snow and the way it changes the world overnight or sometimes right before our eyes, so I drew a snowflake.

And finally I thought about some of my favorite foods, like ice cream and pizza and apples, and I wanted to include those in my heart map too.

So this is one way to make a heart map.

There are lots of different ways, depending on the materials that you have at home.

So I made this with markers and paper, but you might have different materials at home.

If you don't have any markers or crayons, what could you do?

Well, maybe you have different colored paper at home, even from scraps that you might have on hand.

So you could cut out a heart, and you could put a heart within a heart, maybe even a heart within that heart.

I wrote Granny and Gramps in here because they're really important to my heart, and I wanna make sure that they're in the center.

Maybe when you cut out your hearts, you decide that you like the leftover pieces better.

Art sometimes works that way.

So you could use some scraps that you have to make a heart, and then a heart within that heart, and a heart within that heart.

There are lots of different ways to make heart maps.

Another way is you could just start with a pencil, 'cause that's what I have right now.

So I'm gonna use a pencil, and you know what?

Making hearts is actually really hard sometimes, so you could ask someone for help, or just do your best job.

There's no right or wrong way to make a heart map.

If you have crayons, you might even decide that you like the look of subway maps, and you could make your heart map out of lines that kind of remind me of the subway map.

And you might even shade in different sections of your heart map to make it look like a stained glass window.

So really, depending on whatever you have at home, get creative.

Think about what matters to you most and what you wanna put inside your heart map and how you wanna make it.

And once you have your heart map design with whatever materials you have on hand, then you do the hard work of really thinking about who are the people and the places that matter to you most, and making the heart map really represent whatever is in your heart.

You've seen lots of different things that represent what's inside of my heart.

So, let's go over a little reminder of how you might mine what's inside your heart.

So first, think about the people that matter to you most.

They're probably the center of your heart.

Do you have places that you love?

They're gonna go in your heart map too.

Hmm.

Do you have memories?

And memories are often a combination of the people that you love and the places that you've been, and think back across your whole lifetime.

What are the memories that you cherish the most that you wanna hold onto and remember by putting in your heart map?

You saw that I had Bear Bear in my heart map.

Do you have pets or toys that you wanna put inside your heart map?

I had pizza and ice cream and apples in mine.

What are some of your favorite foods?

Put them in your heart map.

And finally you saw that I had a snowflake and I had sunshine.

Are there seasons or things that you love to do during different times of year that you wanna put inside your heart map too?

All right.

Look around your home.

What materials do you have?

And then think about what matters to you most.

All right, friends, I am so excited that you were here with me today to do some heart mapping.

And as I promised, in my heart map was Bear Bear, and here he is.

You can see that he's really well loved, so that's why he ended up inside my heart map.

But take time enjoying making your heart map and thinking about what matters most to you.

One of the beautiful things about heart maps is that everybody's is different, and you can always go back to it to add on.

So spend some time thinking about the people and the places and the things and the memories that matter to you most.

Bravely put them down on paper, and then when you feel ready, think about the people that you trust most in life, and share your heart map with them, because they're gonna love seeing what's inside.

All right, till next time.

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