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[upbeat music] - Hi friends, welcome to story time with me, Miss Darlene.

Today's read aloud is called "Bag in the Wind", written by Ted Kooser and illustrated by Barry Root.

In this story, we go on a wonderful journey of a plastic bag that blows in the wind and helps different people along the way.

When we use too much plastic, it can cause problems for our environment.

One way that we can stop the problem is to recycle it or reuse it.

I'll show you how you can make your very own reusable shopping bag.

So, if you're ready, let's have fun reading.

One cold windy morning early in spring, a bulldozer was pushing a pile of garbage along the landfill when it uncovered an empty plastic bag.

The woman driving the bulldozer didn't notice the bag and drove on.

It was a bag for carrying groceries, just the color of the skin of a yellow onion and it had two holes for handles.

It was a perfectly good bag, but someone had thrown it away.

All through the day, the wind tugged at the bag and shifted it around.

And then there came a big gust and the bag filled with air and began to somersault across the landfill.

It rolled and flapped all the way to a chain link fence at one side of the landfill, where it got pressed up against the wire with a lot of other trash, newspaper, candy wrappers and styrofoam cups.

Do you think the bag will stay there?

Do you think it will move on?

Let's keep reading to find out.

Soon it got dark and the stars came out and clouds like enormous black leaf bags raced across the moon.

A puff of cold wind got in under the grocery bag and lifted it high in the air.

Look where the bag ended up now.

In the tree.

In the morning, it was a little warmer, but still very windy.

A red-winged blackbird perched a few feet away, bobbing in the top of a little willow tree and it whistled angrily at the bag because the bird thought it was an owl or a raccoon that had invaded its territory.

After awhile, it began to fly at the bag again and again, flapping its wings as if to frighten it away and pecking it with his sharp beak.

Finally, the bird got hold of the bag with its beak and gave it a sharp tug and the bag pulled free and blew away.

The bag rolled for a long way along the side of a country road and then got caught on a barbed wire fence.

After awhile, a girl came walking along all bundled up in the cold.

Her coat pockets were full of crushed aluminum cans.

"Good," she said, "there's a bag I can use for these cans."

She unhooked the bag from the fence and emptied her pockets into it.

Then she went on down the road whistling a little tune, carrying a bag full of cans and picking up more cans as she found them.

I bet you she was so relieved to find that bag.

How did the bag help her carry the cans?

Right.

It was able to help her carry even more than she could fit into her pockets.

How useful.

A couple of miles further down the road, there was a funny little gas station.

"Got some cans to cash in, I see," the woman said with a smile.

"Yes, that's right," said the girl, holding the bag.

The old woman took the bag from the girl and let her into the building where she set the bag on a scale.

"I can give you 18 cents a pound today, Margaret," she said.

"And you've got two pounds here, that makes 36 cents."

"Thank you," said the girl.

When the girl had gone, the old woman put the cans in a barrel, then she wedged the grocery bag under the door to stop some of the wind from getting in.

Next, she sat down on a chair beside the window, so she could see if someone pulled off the road for gas.

How was the bag helpful here?

That's right.

It helped the woman in the story to stay warm.

By wedging it under the door, it stopped the breeze from coming in.

After awhile, a man in a pickup pulled in to fill up with gas.

The back of his truck was full of plastic bags stuffed with leaves.

When the old woman went out of the door to pump the gas, she didn't notice that the grocery bag came loose from under the door and blew a few feet along the front of the building.

Wow.

Do you see where the bag ended up?

Right here in front of the building.

Just then, a gust of wind came down the road carrying chewing gum wrappers and pieces of corn stock and snatched it up the grocery bag and carried it away.

Wow, look at it blowing in the wind.

This bag is traveling really far.

It was beginning to get dark again and the wind was sharp and cold.

A tall man with long hair and a beard came limping along the side of the road using a metal crutch.

The bag came rolling along the shoulder toward him and he caught it with the tip of his crutch.

He leaned down and picked it up and wadded it into his pocket with a lot of other things.

Wow, it looks like the man stopped off as it started to get dark to build himself a fire to keep himself warm.

The smoke from the fire made him cough and he pulled the grocery bag out of his coat pocket while he dug around for a cough drop.

He left the bag on the ground and it slowly came unwadded.

Soon the breeze began to nudge it away from the man's side.

The man was sleepy and he got a big black leaf bag out of his pack and pulled it over his feet and laid down with his knees pulled up against his chest.

Inch by inch the grocery bag rolled toward ribbon of water flowing into the culvert and soon, the water had carried it away.

There was just enough air in the bag to keep it floating and the bag rode along the surface of the stream through the dark culvert and out into the night on the other side of the road.

All night, the bag floated in this wide river.

I wonder where it will end up next.

The bag blew across the surface of the river and up alongside a dock.

A woman was camped there and was just rolling up her sleeping bag to put it away in her grocery cart.

She saw the bag at the edge of the water and picked it up and shook the water from it.

Then she stuffed it in front of her outside coat.

I bet you she'd find that this bag will be useful, also.

The woman pushed the cart down the street a few blocks to a corner where a woman was serving the people on the street donuts and coffee from the back of a station wagon.

"Good morning," the woman said, "would you like some donuts and coffee?"

The woman nodded and snatched a donut from a box and as she did, the grocery bag fell out of her coat.

She didn't notice it.

When a gust of wind blew the grocery bag out from under the woman's feet, a man in a cowboy hat ran after it and caught it and stuffed it inside his leather jacket.

The man got on his bike and peddled a couple of blocks down the street to a secondhand store.

Oh wow.

I wonder what he's going to do with the plastic bag.

"I've got some bags for you," the man said.

"I can see that," she answered, "looks like quite a few," she leaned on her broom.

"More than I could ever count," the man said.

"Can I give you two dollars for them?"

The woman squinched up her face.

"No, but maybe a dollar, though."

"I just bought a big pile from you last week and I still have some left."

The man took the dollar and the woman carried the bags into the store.

Do you think the little yellow plastic bag ended up in the group of bags that the woman bought from the man with the cowboy hat?

Let's see.

Just then, a girl walked in.

It was Margaret.

"Do you have any baseball gloves?"

she asked the woman.

"Right over there," the woman answered, pointing to a crate full of baseball gloves and catcher's masks and balls and bats.

Wow, it looks like Margaret is looking to buy some items to play baseball.

Margaret gave the woman the money and the woman rang up the sale.

Then she said, "Let's put them in a bag for you."

It was the very same grocery bag that Margaret had used to collect cans in.

But Margaret didn't recognize it because it looked like every other grocery bag in the world.

The color of the skin of a yellow onion with two holes for handles.

Wow, that plastic bag ended up so many places and it was so useful to so many people.

I hope you enjoyed today's story.

I'll show you how you can make a reusable bag, so that you can carry it around and help solve the problem of too much plastic in the environment.

So, for today's activity, we're gonna be using an old T-shirt and a pair of scissors in order to make a reusable shopping bag.

You can ask a trusted adult to help you cut the pieces that we don't need.

You're going to cut the top of the neck hole out because we need this part of the shirt to be the opening for the bag.

Next, we're gonna cut off the sleeves because you're gonna put your hands through the arm holes for the handles.

So, you're gonna cut off both of the sleeves of the T-shirt.

So, this is what their old T-shirt should look like.

No sleeves and the neck hole cut out.

The next thing you're going to do is you're gonna cut off the hem of the bottom of the T-shirt.

Next, you're going to cut the sides of the T-shirt til about the length of your index finger, you can mark it with a pencil or a marker.

[relaxing music] Cut on both sides.

[relaxing music] Here comes my favorite part.

Here's how you're gonna sew up the bottom of your bag without using a needle or thread.

You're going to cut the bottom of the shirt, both the front and the back at the same time into little strips until the point that we just cut on both sides.

Make sure that you're cutting the front of the T-shirt and the back at the same time, okay?

You're gonna now stretch each part of your fringe out.

It's gonna make it look nicer and it's gonna make it easier to tie because we're gonna tie all of these together.

After you're done pulling all of the fringe pieces, you're going to take the front tops fringe and the fringe from the back of the shirt and you're gonna just tie it together, nice and tight.

This is gonna seal up your bag on the bottom.

So, you're gonna take all the pieces and you're gonna tie them together.

The front to the back, the front to the back.

Nice and tight in nice little knots.

And the bottom of your bag is all sewn up.

And there you have it, your very own reusable bag.

It looks like someone's ready for a slumber party.

[giggles] I hope you all enjoyed today's read aloud and I hope that you will continue making reusable bags at home.

And, as always, keep reading.

- Hi friends.

My name is Carlton and one thing I love, love, love to do is sing.

Are you ready to sing along with me today?

Today we'll be singing "Old McDonald Had A Farm".

Are you ready?

♪ Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ And on this farm he had a dog, ruff, ruff, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ With a ruff-ruff there and a ruff-ruff here ♪ ♪ There a ruff, here a ruff, everywhere a ruff-ruff ♪ ♪ Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ And on this farm he had a cow, moo, moo, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ With a moo-moo here and a moo-moo there ♪ ♪ Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo-moo ♪ ♪ Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ And on this farm he had a pig, oink, oink, oink-oink, ♪ ♪ E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ With a oink-oink there and a oink-oink here ♪ ♪ There a oink, here a oink, everywhere a oink-oink ♪ ♪ Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O ♪ Good job, friends.

See you next time.

[upbeat music] [humming] - Hi friends, I didn't see you there.

My name is Isabel and welcome to my learning corner.

Today we're going to blend syllables, build words, read words and write words.

Some of the words are going to be contractions that end in 've or 're, so keep an eye out, okay?

Are you ready?

Let's go.

For today's phonemic awareness activity, we are going to be blending syllables together to make words.

Remember, a syllable is a word or a part of a word that you can say with one breath, okay?

So, we're, today, we're gonna take out our choppers and we're going to chop out each syllable and then blend it together to make the word.

Let's try one.

The first one is won, der, ful.

Did you use your choppers?

Wonderful.

Great job.

Let's try one together.

Choppers out.

Back, pack.

Backpack.

Great.

Now we're ready.

Let's try a few more together.

Ap, ple.

Apple.

Lad, der.

Ladder.

Pitch, er.

Pitcher.

Ze, bra.

Zebra.

Great job.

Now that we're warmed up, we are going to build contractions that end in 've and 're.

Are you ready?

- [Crowd Of Kids All Together] Yay.

- Let's go.

Today, we are going to build contractions that end in 're and 've.

So, let's get started.

Remember, a contraction is a set of words brought together by a special punctuation mark that we call the apostrophe.

Remember, the apostrophe will take the place of one or more letters to bring the two words together.

In this case, we are will become this.

Let's build it together.

We, 're.

We're.

What's this word again?

We're.

Let's look at another contraction that also ends in 're.

Let's say the first word, they, 're.

They're.

They're.

What's the word?

They're.

Let's try one more.

Remember, this contraction says 've.

Let's put these two together.

They, 've.

They've.

Good job.

What is they've short for?

That's right, good memory.

It is short for they have.

Now, let's build some multisyllabic words with some of my, using some of my favorite suffixes.

When we're adding a suffix to a word, it helps to look at the base word first.

What does this word say?

Qu, ick.

Quick.

You were right.

Now we're going to add a suffix to make this word a multisyllabic word.

Quick, er.

Quicker.

When you use E-R to compare, you're comparing two things.

Who's quicker?

You or me?

I bet you.

Let's go and add a different suffix to the word.

What is this word now?

Quick, est.

Quickest.

When you are quickest, you're comparing yourself to everyone else.

More than one other person.

Great job.

Now that we've done this work, you're ready to read some words on your own.

- [Crowd Of Kids All Together] Yay.

- Now that we've learned or reminded ourselves about contractions and multisyllabic words, we're ready to read some words together.

Before we read, take a look at the first line and the second line.

What do you notice about the first line of words?

That's right.

They're all contractions that either end in 've or 're.

How about the second line?

Excellent.

They all have suffixes.

What suffixes do you see?

That's right.

We see er and est.

Now you're ready to read, so take about eight seconds and read each of these words all by yourself.

Great job.

They've, they're, we're, you've, faster, fastest, tallest, smaller.

Now let's take what we know about contractions and read this sentence together.

I'm going to whisper read it and you're going to read it as loud as you'd like.

Are you ready?

We're looking at pictures from the past.

Excellent job.

Let's try that one more time.

We're looking at pictures from the past.

Great reading.

Now we are going to write some words, so make sure you have a paper or something to write on and a pencil or something to write with and I will see you in two shakes of a lamb's tail.

[upbeat music] For our last activity of the day, we are going to take some dictation.

In dictation, I say the word, you repeat the word and then we sound it out and we write it down.

Are you ready?

- [Crowd Of Kids All Together] Yay.

- Great.

For today's activity, I am going to be using two syllable words, which means when I sound out the word, I am going to sound them out in syllable parts.

You're going to think about the letters that make up each syllable and write them down.

Are you ready?

The first word is bigger.

Can you say that word?

Watch me break that word into it's two syllables.

Big, ger.

Bigger.

Go ahead and write it down now.

Wow, that was so fast.

Let's see.

Big, ger.

Did you write this word?

Great job.

Let's try to write one more word.

The word is richer.

Can you say that word?

Richer.

Excellent.

Rich, er.

Go ahead and write the word down now.

You're ready?

Excellent.

Rich, er.

You've done an excellent job today, friends.

We blended syllables to make words, we built words, we read words, we wrote words and we focused on some contractions that ended in 're and 've.

I am so proud of you and I love the work we did today.

Remember, the karate chopping you can always use to help you break up syllables and you can even make it a game, an exercise game where your trusted adult will tell you a word and you'll chop out the syllables.

Hi-yah.

Great job today.

Don't forget to watch the next episode and I'll see you soon.

Bye friends.

[upbeat music] - Hi friends.

How are you today?

I'm Miss Lauren and today we're going to focus on working with the number nine.

We're going to decompose it and break it down into different parts.

Okay?

If you would like to join me and participate, if you have a whiteboard and a marker or a paper and pencil and you would like to grab those materials, go ahead.

I'm going to put some music on and when the music stops, we'll begin.

All right friends, go ahead.

[upbeat music] Okay friends, let's go ahead and begin with doing a little fluency practice.

And that just helps us to warm up our minds and get ready for math.

We'll be working with the number eight, so that way we can practice that before getting to the number nine for our lesson today.

All right?

I'm gonna hold up a card and it has dots on it.

I need you to count the number of dots and then think about how many more dots do we need in order to make eight, okay?

We'll do the first one together.

Are you ready?

All right, here's the first card so let's count them.

Ready?

One, two, three, four.

All right.

There are four dots on this card.

How many more do we need in order to make eight?

Hmm.

Well, for me to do this, what I would do is I would put four in my head, say four in my head, four, and then I would count up until I reached eight.

Ready?

So, four, right?

Five, six, seven, eight.

So, how many more do we need?

Yeah, we need four more.

Do you see how that works?

Okay.

Here's another one, are you ready?

All right, let's count.

There are five dots.

How many more do you need to make eight?

Five and what number make eight?

Three.

Did you get three?

Yeah.

Five and three make eight.

Great job.

All right, here's another one.

Are you ready.

Okay, let's count.

Six.

There are six dots on this card.

So, how many more do we need to make eight?

Did you say two?

You're right if you said two, right?

Six, seven, eight.

Great job.

Let's do one more.

There's only one dot, so how many more do you need to make eight?

One and what number make eight?

Seven, yeah.

If you said one in your head and you counted up, one, right, we go two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

So you would need seven.

You need seven more in order to make eight.

Great job.

All right, now we're all warmed up and we're ready for our math.

Right now what's gonna happen is the screen is going to change and you're going to hear my voice, so just follow along and enjoy counting with me.

Okay friends, here is Rover and Rover has some bones.

Let's take a look to see how many bones he has.

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

Rover has nine bones and Rover wants to split these nine bones into two different groups.

He wants some in the house and some in the yard.

So, we're going to see how many different ways Rover can decompose, or break down, the number nine into two groups.

Are you ready?

Count with me.

One.

Next group.

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

Yeah, he could have one in the house and eight outside or vice versa, he can have eight in the house and one outside.

That is up to him.

This is one way of breaking down the number nine.

One plus eight equals nine.

Count with me.

One, two.

Next group.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

All right, so Rover can have two in the house and seven outside or vice versa, that's up to him, right?

He can choose that.

This is what it would look like as a number sentence.

Two plus seven equals nine.

Count with me.

One, two, three.

Next group.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Okay, so Rover can have three in one group and six in another.

It would look like this.

Three plus six equals nine.

Count with me.

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four, five.

So Rover can have four in one group and five in another.

This is another way of breaking down the number nine.

Four plus five equals nine.

Let's see.

Oh, let's count, are you ready?

Count with me.

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

Yeah, Rover can also just choose, say, "You know what, maybe I don't want the bones in two places, maybe I just keep them in one."

Rover could do that, too, if he decides to change his mind.

So, that would look like nine plus zero, those would be the two groups.

Nine in one and zero in the other.

Nine plus zero equals nine.

Great job, friends.

We practiced decomposing the number nine.

All right friends, let's continue breaking down or decomposing the number nine.

So you're gonna need a paper and pencil and whiteboard for this, all right?

You could just follow me along.

Ugh, let's take our caps off.

And the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna draw nine circles, can you do that with me?

Okay.

Nice and big, too.

Let's fill up the board and the paper.

So, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

All right?

So, we have nine circles on the board.

I'm gonna ask you to make some circles polka dot.

Some circles have polka dots in them and the rest do not.

So, when someone says that to you, well, it means that it could be any number.

You're going to choose what you want that some to be.

So, what I choose could be a little different than what you choose and that's okay.

So, I'm going to do, let's see.

All right, polka dots look like that.

So, one, two, three, four and I'm gonna keep going and do five.

So, I chose to have five circles filled with polka dots.

You could have the same number or you can have a different number, that's up to you.

What we're gonna do is we're gonna make a number bond that matches that, okay?

So, over here, a number bond, you start with a circle and the first circle on top is going to be your whole, right?

It's gonna be your whole number what we're working with and that is the number nine.

So when we make a number bond, we're dividing it into two parts, okay?

Let me go ahead and move over some of these circles.

So I have two circles that are here, they were just too close, so I want to separate those a little.

So, the first number of my number bond, I'm going to put the number of polka dots that I used.

So, one, two, three, four, five.

I filled five circles with polka dots.

And then how many is left over?

How many do we have left with no polka dots?

Hmm.

Four.

So, four.

So, this would be my number bond for these circles.

You got it?

Okay.

Let's change it up a little bit now and let's use a different shape.

Let's do squares.

So, go ahead and erase your boards, all right?

You erase them along with me.

Erase the boards and we're going to make nine squares.

And they could be anywhere on your board.

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

And remember, my friends, math pictures are pretty fast.

They're not perfect, right?

They're kind of like quick sketches that we put on the board.

All right?

So, here I have nine squares and for this one, I'm gonna ask you the same thing.

For this one I'm going to ask that we color some in.

Some we're gonna make into stripes.

Not polka dots, but stripes.

Can you do that?

All right, now remember, your number could be a little different than mine and that's okay because there are different ways of making nine.

So, if you remember, we are gonna have a number bond.

So, I'm gonna go ahead and put my number bond here to get us ready.

All right, I'm gonna put the number nine right there.

And then I'm gonna make some of them have stripes.

Ready?

Let's see.

One.

Two.

Three.

I just want three to have stripes, that's all.

So, let's see.

If I choose the number three, what is my other number?

What other number do I need?

How many more to make nine?

Well, for this, I would just count the ones with no stripes.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Yes.

So, my two numbers are three and six.

Good job.

Okay friends, you did such a wonderful job today.

Thank you so much for hanging in there and participating and decomposing the number nine.

If you learned something new today, please go ahead and share it with someone that you know.

All right?

So, please come back and join us again to continue learning about math.

See you soon, my friends.

Bye.

[upbeat music] - Guten morgen my friends.

Do you know what that means?

It means good morning.

In a different language.

Guten morgen means good morning in German.

All over the world, people speak different languages.

All over the world, people say good morning.

And all over the world, people sing.

I'd like to teach you a song that says good morning in different languages.

Listen one time.

Also, [bells jingling] I'm gonna play this instrument right here, it's called a finger tambourine.

Listen.

♪ Guten morgen, guten morgen, good morning, good morning ♪ ♪ Buenos dias, buenos dias, buongiorno, buongiorno ♪ Good.

Did you hear any languages that you recognize?

We already discovered that guten morgen is German.

We know good morning is English.

What about buenos dias?

It's Spanish.

And does anyone know what buongiorno, buongiorno is?

Parla Italiano.

It's Italian.

Friends, can you echo me and do what I do after me?

It'll be my turn, then your turn.

Ready?

My turn.

♪ Guten morgen, guten morgen ♪ [bells jingling] ♪ Good morning, good morning ♪ [bells jingling] ♪ Buenos dias, buenos dias ♪ [bells jingling] ♪ Buongiorno, buongiorno ♪ [bells jingling] Good.

How did you do?

Friends, can we try this together using these hand movements or gestures?

We shake hands first, guten morgen.

Ready, here we go.

♪ Guten morgen, guten morgen, good morning, good morning ♪ ♪ Buenos dias, buenos dias, buongiorno, buongiorno ♪ Good job.

Friends, I'm fortunate enough to teach in a setting where the children I make music with speak all different kinds of languages.

They speak Hebrew, French, Japanese, Swahili.

If I were to sing the song using those languages, it would sound like this, listen.

♪ Shalom, shalom, bonjour, bonjour ♪ ♪ Konnichiwa, konnichiwa, mambo, mambo ♪ What languages do you speak at home?

If we didn't sing it today, try to put it into the song and make it your own.

Today in Let's Learn, we will be exploring something that is at the very core, or center, of all of the music that we make.

That something is called rhythm.

Do you know what that is?

Hmm.

When we're first learning music, we can think of rhythm as the way the words go.

When we sing songs or speak chants, the words create patterns of sounds.

These patterns are called the rhythm.

When we sang the song "Guten Morgen", the first words went like this, guten morgen, guten morgen.

I could clap that.

[clapping] Guten morgen, guten morgen.

Did you hear the way the words go?

Today, we're going to discover the rhythm of a song called "Apple Tree".

We'll discover how to play the rhythm, how to hear it and how to write it.

Let's get to it.

Have you ever gone apple picking?

Or maybe you got some apples from the market.

Maybe your parents pack some apples in your lunch.

There are so many different kinds of apples, sometimes it can be hard to choose.

I've picked some here.

Look what I got.

I have a golden apple.

This one's sweet and crisp, it's wonderful if it's cold.

I've also got a McIntosh.

Mm mm, McIntosh.

I've got a Granny Smith.

Granny Smith.

This one's a little bit more sour.

And I've also got that most of us are probably familiar with, it's Red Delicious.

Most of us have seen this one before.

Do you have a favorite kind of apple?

I'd like to teach you one of my favorite songs, friends.

It's called "Apple Tree".

When I was little, I used to sing this song with other children while we were shaking the branches of apple trees, trying to make the apples fall off, so we could eat them.

Friends, can you keep a beat with me?

Music has a beat, just like your body has a heartbeat.

And it keeps going and going.

I'm gonna pat the beat on my chest, but you can keep the beat anywhere.

Your shoulders, your head, your ears, up to you.

Keep the beat with me as I sing.

♪ Apple tree, apple tree, will your apples fall on me?

♪ ♪ I won't cry, I won't shout, if your apple knocks me out ♪ How did you do?

Were you able to keep the beat?

Let's move the beat somewhere else.

If you kept the beat on your shoulders, move it to your head.

If you kept it on your head, move it to your ears.

I'm gonna play my hand drum and while I play my hand drum and sing, you keep the beat.

One, two, keep the beat as I sing.

♪ Apple tree, apple tree, will your apples fall on me?

♪ ♪ I won't cry, I won't shout, if your apples knock me out ♪ Good.

All right friends, I'd like you to echo me.

It'll be my turn, then your turn.

I'm gonna speak the words first.

Apple tree, apple tree, [rhythmic knocking] will your apples fall on me?

[rhythmic knocking] I won't cry, I won't shout, [rhythmic knocking] if your apples knock me out.

[rhythmic knocking] Good.

Now, friends, I'm gonna ask you to echo me again.

This time I'm gonna sing the words, okay?

My turn, then your turn.

♪ Apple tree, apple tree ♪ [rhythmic knocking] ♪ Will your apples fall on me ♪ [rhythmic knocking] ♪ I won't cry, I won't shout ♪ [rhythmic knocking] ♪ If your apples knock me out ♪ [rhythmic knocking] Good job, friends.

Now that we've spoken it and sung it back and forth, I think we can sing it together.

Let's try.

Keep the beat anywhere you like.

One, two, let's sing it together, apples.

♪ Apple tree, apple tree, will your apples fall on me ♪ ♪ I won't cry, I won't shout, if your apples knock me out ♪ Good job, friends, learning the song "Apple Tree".

Now, let's discover how we can hear and write the rhythm of it.

Remember we said that right now we're gonna think of rhythm as the way the words go.

Take a look at my felt board.

I have these hearts here that we can think of as the beats of the music.

We read music the same way that we read words, from left to right.

Let's sing "Apple Tree", following along with our eye and our finger to the beat.

Ready?

Finger up.

♪ Apple tree, apple tree, will your apples fall on me?

♪ ♪ I won't cry, I won't shout, if your apples knock me out ♪ Good job.

Were you able to follow along to the beat?

Good.

Now, friends, let's clap and speak the way the words go of the first part of "Apple Tree".

Ready?

Here we go.

Apple tree, apple tree.

That, friends, is what we call the rhythm.

Now, friends, we can also write the rhythm.

Did you hear that as we were following along, some of these beats had one sound and some of them had two?

Let's clap the rhythm.

Apple tree, apple tree.

How many sounds did you hear on that last beat?

I heard one.

So, let's put one apple there to show that we hear one sound.

So that tells us that we're gonna play one sound, okay?

Apple tree, apple tree.

Now, what about this third beat?

How many sounds did we hear there?

Apple tree, apple.

Mm, I heard two sounds there.

So, I'm gonna put two apples there.

And let's go over to the first beat now.

Apple.

Apple.

How many sounds do you hear?

Two.

So, I'm gonna put two apples there to show that there are two sounds.

Now, what about this second beat?

Apple tree.

How many sounds do you hear there?

You hear two beats?

Hmm.

How would that sound?

Apple tree tree.

No.

One sound.

Tree.

Apple tree, apple tree.

Good.

Friends, are you hearing that some of these sounds are long and some of them are short, short.

I hear short, short, long, short, short, long.

Good.

Friends, let's clap the rhythm and speak the words.

Ready?

Here we go.

Apple tree, apple tree.

Now, friends, let's think the rhythm of the words, but we're gonna hide the words in our heads.

So, we're gonna play the rhythm with our clap, but we're not going to speak the words out loud.

Ready?

Here we go.

[clapping] How did you do?

Were you able to clap the rhythm while hiding the words in your head?

Good for you.

Let's go onto the next part, friends.

So, we have apple tree, apple tree, will your apples fall on me?

Hmm, do I need to change anything?

Is it the same or is it different?

It's different.

Will your apples fall on me?

How many sounds there?

One sound.

So, that can stay the same.

What about the third beat?

Will your apples fall on, fall on.

Two sounds there.

Good.

And here.

Will your apples, apples.

Do I need to add anything?

I do 'cause there's two sounds there.

So, I need to show that with another apple.

Will your apples fall on me?

Short, short, short, short, short, short, long.

Let's clap it again, friends, this time, again, hiding the words in our head.

Ready?

Clap the rhythm.

[clapping] Good.

Good, good, good.

Friends, let's go onto the next part.

It says, "I won't cry, I won't shout."

I won't cry, I won't shout.

I won't.

How many sounds there?

Two.

I won't.

So, I'll keep two apples there.

What about the second beat?

I won't cry.

You think two beats?

Hmm.

Or two sounds?

I won't cry, cry.

No, one sound.

I won't cry, I won't shout.

Do I need to change anything?

No because I hear two sounds here.

I won't shout.

Short, short, long, short, short, long.

Good job, friends, let's clap this rhythm, hiding the words in our head.

Go.

[clapping] And let's go to the last part, friends, it says, "if your apples knock me out".

If your apples knock me out.

[clapping] Do I need to change anything?

How many sounds on the first beat?

If you're, two sounds.

Apples, how many sounds there?

Two.

So, I need to add a sound.

If your apples knock me.

[clapping] Got two sounds there.

Out.

One long sound.

Short, short, short, short, short, short, long.

If your apples knock me out.

Clap it with me and hide the words.

[clapping] Good job, friends.

In music, there's rhythm and when we're first learning to read and write it, we're going to describe it as the way the words go.

Good job in discovering the rhythm of "Apple Tree".

Here's a little song I like to end with, friends, it's called "I'll See You Again".

♪ I'll see you again, I'll see you again ♪ One of these days.

♪ One of these days, I'll see you again ♪ ♪ For singing and dancing and having more fun ♪ ♪ I'll see you again, I'll see you again ♪ One, two, ready, stop.

Thank you for making music with me today, friends.

I'll see you next time.

Bye now.

- [Narrator] Funding for this program was provided by The JPB Foundation.

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