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What Sounds Do You Hear in Bump?
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Play bottle cap hockey, sing songs from around the world, read HOW DO YOU WOKKA WOKKA?, decode words with final blends. 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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[upbeat music] - Hi everyone.
How are you today?
That's so great to hear.
My name is Miss Davis, and I would like to share a story with you.
So I'm going to read today has some rhyming words, silly words, and it's just a fun story to read.
So there's a question that's going to be asked throughout the whole book.
And I hope that by the time I'm done reading the book you'll be able to answer the question.
Here we go.
"How do you Wokka-Wokka?"
"How do you Wokka-Wokka?"
The author is Elizabeth Bluemle and it's illustrated by Randy Cecil.
"Some days you wake up and you just gotta wokka.
Say hey to your neighbors up and down the blocka.
Wammy-lammy-wotcha-hoo do your funky wokka, get your dance on."
So wokka is a dance that you make up?
It's how you move your body.
How do you go wokka-wokka?
I wokka-wokka like flamingos on flocka.
Crokie-yocka.
Leggy-longy.
Pinky-hoppa-hoppa."
So how does she dance?
Like a Flamingo bird.
"How do you wokka?
I wokka like a mariachi with maracas.
Chipi-chipi.
Chaba-cha-cha.
Shake-a-the-maracas.
Hey, let's wokka-wokka, shimmy-shake and shocka-shocka.
Everybody dance now in your shiny shoes and socka-socka.
Always wokka in your own wokka way.
Won't you come out with me on this final wokka day?"
So he's inviting everybody else to come out and wokka with him.
"How do you wokka-wokka?
I wokka-wokka like a clock.
Go ticka-tocka."
That's like tick tock what a clock does.
"Pitta-pattta, time no-matta.
Pick-pock-ticka-tocka.
How do you wokka-wakka?
I wokka-wokka like a fish flop on a dock-a.
Flip-a-floppa off-the-docka.
A-wokka."
What does he dance like?
That's right, a fish.
"Hey, let's wokka-wokka, shimmy-shake and shocka-shocka.
Time to get a move-on in your shiny shoes and socka-socka.
Everybody wokka-wokka in their own crazy way.
Won't you wokka with me on this fine old sunny day?"
So now here, everybody else is asking him because he got to ask everybody else now it's their turn to ask him.
So they say, "How do you wokka-wokka?
I wokka-wokka at your door, go knocka-knocka rap-bap, biddly-ap open-up-and-boppa.
We wokka-wokka like a party on the blocka.
Shacka-racka, daddly-acka, cotton-candy, snacka-snacka."
So what they're saying is we wokka-wokka, which is dance, we dance like a party on the blocka.
So we dance like it's a party on the block.
"Nobody wokkas in the same wokka way.
It's a wokka-wokka party each and every day.
We all gonna rocka, cakewalk till we droppa."
So what do you think they're having?
A dance party, good job.
Everybody's doing their wokka-wokka.
And they're celebrating.
You see balloons.
"Yeah, you gotta wokka."
The end.
So I hope you enjoyed that story.
Lots of fun, silly rhyming words.
I hope you get to move and dance sometime today.
I hope you really enjoyed the book.
"How Do You Wokka-Wokka?"
Let's revisit one of the pages.
Let's reread.
"How do you wokka-wokka?
I wokka like a mariachi with maracas."
Maracas.
Maracas is a musical instrument in case you didn't know.
When you shake the instrument it makes sound.
When I read this page it made me think of making an instrument with you.
Let's see what type of instruments we can make today with materials around the house.
[upbeat music] You can use a toilet paper roll.
So our toilet paper, when we first get it, looks like this.
Then when you use up all the paper that cardboard that's left inside, that's this.
You can use an empty bottle or an empty can, okay.
Some of the possible materials that you can use to go inside of our objects are beans, rice or uncooked pasta.
So let's start with our first object.
Here's that can, and it even has the lid.
Now, if I take my can, [can Clattering] you hear that?
That's the sound of metal.
Now what I'm going to do is take some beans put them inside.
Let's listen.
[beans clattering] That's the sound that the beans make one inside a can.
[beans clattering] I'm gonna put the lid on my can so the beans don't fall out.
Now I'm going to take my next object and inside my bottle because it has a small hole, I am going to use rice.
I can tell that the rice will easily go inside that opening.
So I carefully hold my bottle over the rice, and I try to scoop as much rice inside as I can.
All this rice inside.
So I just repeat and I grab a handful of more rice and I scoop it inside.
I wanna make sure that the rice fills up the bottom of my containers, all right.
Now the bottom of my container is full with rice.
I can close it up.
My third object, that toilet paper roll.
There's two openings here and we don't want anything to fall out.
It doesn't have a lid like the other two objects.
I have pre-cut two squares.
Ask a trusted adult to pre-cut two squares for you so you can tape them to the ends.
So all four corners are taped up to the sides of the toilet paper roll.
one, two, three, four.
I'm gonna take my uncooked pasta and I'm gonna put it inside.
Do not fill it all the way to the top.
We're gonna take our other pre-cut square and tape it to the top.
Now, of course you can ask a trusted adult to help you tape, you just wanna make sure that it's very secure.
So now it should be secure.
Okay.
So now we have three different sound instruments.
Let's review.
We have the metal can that we put beans inside.
We have the plastic bottle that we filled with rice inside and we have the cardboard toilet paper that we filled with uncooked pasta inside and taped paper on the end.
Now I'm going to decorate.
I'm going to decorate the bottom of my can with these raffles I have here.
Now my can has beautiful ruffles.
I wanna put a heart on top.
You can use stickers, you can use any type of decorations you have access to at home.
And I'm gonna decorate my bottle with the sun 'cause I love sunshine, the sun warms me up.
And because I love it so much I'm gonna also add a heart.
This is my own unique sound instrument.
So I want to decorate it with things that I love and represent me.
All right.
So now I'm going to decorate this with some stars.
Make it look a little more fancy.
Okay.
And let's add one on top.
And let's add one on the bottom.
All right.
How does it look?
Pretty?
I'm happy with it.
What do you think?
Do you like what I created?
Me too.
So now let's look and think.
I wonder what each sound will sound like.
Let's start with our can first.
Let's give it a shake.
[beans clattering] Is that a hard loud sound or a soft, quieter sound?
I'm thinking a hard sound.
Let's try this one.
This was the plastic container let's see the sound.
[rice clattering] That's a softer sound, right?
Let's compare.
[beans clattering] [rice clattering] Notice how this was a harder sound.
And this was a softer sound.
I wonder, what do you think this little guy's gonna make, a hard sound or a soft sound?
Let's listen.
[beans clattering] What do you think?
Soft sound, that's right.
So now through our experiment, we know that plastic containers and cardboard containers make soft sounds.
[rice clattering] And metal containers make hard loud sounds.
[beans clattering] I wonder what you are going to make.
I encourage you to give it a try.
I can't wait to see what type of instrument you're gonna make so you can have a wokka-wokka party at home.
Thanks for joining me.
Bye bye.
- Hi movers and shakers.
This is violet, and this is my sister Ivy.
- Hi.
- Today we're gonna sing a song with you called My Aunt Came Back.
It has a pattern in it, and I wonder if you can hear it by the end.
So this is a call and response song.
And that means I'ma sing the words and you're gonna repeat after me.
And Ivy is going to sing that part with you.
But there are also movements that go with each verse.
So look at us and you can do the movements along with us.
And you can do that, sitting up, standing up sitting on the floor, however you want to.
All right, so we're gonna sing the song.
Are you ready?
Okay.
♪ My came aunt came back ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ From Kalamazoo ♪ ♪ From Kalamazoo ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ A wooden shoe ♪ ♪ A wooden shoe ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ From the New York fair ♪ ♪ From the New York fair.
♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ A rocking chair ♪ ♪ A rocking chair ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ From the Jersey shore ♪ ♪ From the Jersey shore ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ An apple [indistinct] ♪ ♪ An apple [indistinct] ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ My aunt came back ♪ ♪ From [indistinct] ♪ ♪ From [indistinct] ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ And she brought with her ♪ ♪ Some friends like you ♪ ♪ Some friends like you ♪ Thanks everyone.
- Thank you.
[upbeat music] - Hi everyone.
Welcome back.
My name is miss Nicole.
And today we're going to be learning the sound spelling for final consonant blends.
Remember a consonant blend is when a consonant holds its own sound, but just moves closer to the consonant sound next to it.
Then after we do that work, we're going to use what we learned about relationships of sounds and letters to decode words.
And then we're going to use those blends and sounds to decode one syllable words that have that final consonant blend.
All right, you're going to be listening, you're going to be building words with me and then you're going to be reading words all with final consonant blends.
I'm excited for the work we're going to do today.
I hope you are too.
Are you ready?
Awesome, let's go.
For the first part, all I want you to do is watch and listen as I add a sound on to the end of this word, to make a new word.
Watch.
A, N , an.
Now I'm going to add another constant next to the N consonant at the end of the word to give a blend.
N, D. N, D, ND, and.
And.
So as I blend together those two final consonants I'm able to create new words.
Do you wanna try it?
All right.
Let's start with this word.
P, L, A, N. Plan.
Plan.
Nice.
Now I'm going to add another constant on to the end of the word.
Try it with the new consonant blend.
N, T. NT.
Plant Plant.
Nice work.
All right, here's another one for you.
Let's read this word first.
D, E, N. Den.
Now I'm going to add another consonant onto the end of the word.
Now we have a consonant blend.
N, T. NT.
Dent.
Dent.
Dent.
All right, here's one more.
I hear you trying.
All right, let's do it together.
G, A, S. Gas.
And I'm going to add one more consonant onto the end and I want you to blend those consonants together, okay.
Gasp.
SP.
Gasp.
[gasps] That's a gasp, excellent work.
Now for this one, I'm not going to put it up any letters.
I just want you to listen.
And I want you to see if you can guess the new word by thinking about the letter sound that we're going to be adding to the end of the word.
All right.
The word is mil.
Repeat the word, mil.
Good.
I want you to add the K sound after the final L sound.
Let's say the word again, mil and now are you going to add a K sound after the final consonant.
Mil, what's the word?
Did you get this?
Milk.
Awesome.
All right, let's do another one.
The word is lamb.
Lamb, like a sheep.
All right.
Repeat the word lamb.
Now I want you to add a P sound after the final consonant.
So let's do it again, lam.
Think you have the new word?
All right.
Lamp.
Lamp.
Lamp.
All right, how about this one?
The word is yell.
Repeat the word.
Yel.
Now I want you to add a P sound onto the end of yel.
What's the new word?
Yelp.
Do you hear the consonant blend at the end?
Yelp.
LP.
LP.
Yelp.
Great work.
For this part of the lesson, we're going to be listening to the sounds and writing what we hear.
If you would like to, you can get a pencil and a piece of paper and write along with us.
♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪ ♪ Clap your hands ♪ ♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪ ♪ Clap your hands ♪ ♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪ ♪ And you really wanna show it ♪ ♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪ ♪ Clap your hands ♪ ♪ If you're happy and you know it shout hooray ♪ ♪ If you're happy and you know it shout hooray ♪ ♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪ ♪ And you really wanna show it ♪ ♪ If you're happy and you know it shout hooray.
♪ All right, friends.
So what do you see a picture here?
Look what Miss Nicole drew.
I drew ants, right?
That's an ant.
All right.
Let's listen to the sounds in the word ant.
A N T. Now I'm going to write those letters, A, N, T A, N, T. I'm going to underline the final consonant blend.
Remember a consonant is any letter other than a vowel.
Our vowels are, A, E, I, O and U.
Everything else is a consonant.
So here is the consonant blend.
Alone, the end represents the sound, N. The T represents the sound, T. NT.
Ant.
Good, all right, let's do another one.
Lamp.
You say it.
Lamp.
Now we're going to write the letters that we hear in the word lamp.
L, A, M, P. Good.
I'm going to underline the final consonant blend.
M and P because it's underlined together and it's the final consonant blend I'm going to blend those sounds together.
MP.
LAMP Lamp.
Nice work.
Milk.
Milk.
Remember we did this one earlier.
All right, here we go.
M, I, and listen for that final consonant blend, LK.
Do you think you know the letters?
All right, check yourself.
And underline the final consonant blend.
LK.
Milk.
Milk.
Excellent.
The last part we're going to be able to read and decode those one syllable words With the final consonant blend.
All right.
let me get the list of words.
I'm going to point to some words and I want you to read them.
For this part of the lesson, I have my favorite little helper, my son Daniel, say hi.
So before we begin I just want to review what a final consonant blend is.
As you can see here, I have written down some one syllable words that we're going to decode together.
I've underlined a few of the final consonant blends.
Maybe Daniel, you can help me underline the rest of them.
Okay.
- Okay.
- So let's look at this word.
The final consonant blend is the last two consonants okay.
So the last two continents in this word is the N and the D. Okay.
So let's look at this word.
What does the final consonant blend?
What are those last two letters?
- N, T - Good.
How about on that word?
Could you do that one for me?
- Yes.
- All right, and this one down here.
All right, we've underlined all of our final consonant blends.
Now I'm going to read some of these words and I want you to point which word I'm reading.
Okay, you ready?
- Yes.
- All right.
The first word I want you to point to is the word.
Oops, we forgot to underline one word.
That's the one I want you to do.
The word is help.
Do you see the word?
Help.
Go ahead, underline the final consonant blend for me.
You forgot to do that one.
- I can't believe that.
- Thanks, good.
So the final consonant blend is the letters.
L and P. LP.
- LP.
- LP.
- LP.
- It's almost like lap.
- Help.
Help.
Help.
Good, all right.
Ready to find the next word?
The word is lamp.
- Lamp.
- Repeat the word Lamp.
- Lamp.
- All right, find it with your eyes.
Got it?
All right, do you have it?
- Lamp.
- Yes.
- All right, point to it.
Good, lamp.
All right, ready for the next one?
The word is sand.
Repeat the word.
- Sand.
- All right, find it with your eyes.
Point to it, don't give it away.
- Already can see it.
- You ready?
All right, go ahead.
Excellent.
All right, let's do one more together.
The word is gasp.
Repeat the word.
- Gasp.
- Gasp.
And now find it.
Gasp, can you find it?
Got it?
- I can see it already [indistinct].
- All right , where is it?
Got it.
- First shot and we won.
- Good job.
All right, friends.
Well, I hope you had fun enjoying what we did today on learning the final consonant blends.
Don't forget, continue working on this at home with a trusted adult in your reading and your writing everyday.
I look forward to working with you again soon, bye.
[upbeat music] - Hi everyone, my name is Norah and I'm here to show you how I like to be a scientist at home and how you can be one too.
Today my friends was a little bit rough.
This morning was cleaning day in my house.
So my job was to clean the floors and I got on my mop and I was cleaning the floors and I felt really good about how nice and shiny they looked.
Then I needed to get a glass of water.
So I walked to the sink and my foot slipped right out from under me and [indistinct].
I fell right down on the ground.
Don't worry, I'm okay.
But as I was sitting there I was feeling the ground with my hands.
And I noticed something.
I noticed that the ground felt really, really smooth.
It was sort of slippery and slick which must have been why I fell down.
This made me wonder, "I wonder how many different textures I can find in my house?"
Do you know what a texture is?
Texture is the way that something feels.
We use lots of different words to describe different types of textures.
Something could be bumpy, it could be scratchy.
It could be soft or smooth.
Let's see how many different textures I can identify in my house.
Now let's see which of my five senses do I use to identify a texture?
Can I smell it with my nose?
No, I don't think so.
I don't think you use your nose for texture.
Can I hear with my ears?
No, textures don't make a sound you can hear.
What about my eyes?
Could I use my eyes to see a texture?
Well, they might help a little bit but you don't use your eyes to feel.
That's right, I use my sense of touch to feel.
I use my sense touch to feel different textures.
I'm gonna go get some materials and then let's see how many I can identify with my sense of touch.
I'll be right back.
Okay, I'm back and I had a friend help me gather a bunch of different materials from around my house and I'm going to identify them using my sense of touch to see what texture they are.
Now I've set up this little box here so I don't cheat and use my other senses.
I'm gonna put the material in the box and I've cut off the sides so that I can put my hands in and feel.
But I can't see what's there through the top.
All right, let's try material number one.
[upbeat music] I feel something soft.
And fuzzy.
[upbeat music] I think it might be fur.
[upbeat music] Material number two.
Ooh, this feels stiff and rough.
Maybe even a little bit scratchy.
Kind of like a nail file.
Don't think it's a nail file.
[upbeat music] Is it sand paper?
Yay.
Material number three.
[upbeat music] This one's a little bit soft.
It's definitely very bendable.
[upbeat music] I think it might be fabric of some kind.
Yeah, it's [indistinct].
Material number four.
[paper clattering] This one feels kind of slippery like my floor did.
It's kind of waxy like a [indistinct].
Is it wax paper?
Yay.
Our last material, material number five.
[upbeat music] This is smooth but also has a part that's a little bit bumpy or ridged kind of.
[upbeat music] You know what?
This feels kind of familiar.
I think it might the same material as my box.
Is this cardboard?
Yay, we've identified all five materials.
So I learned from feeling all those different textured materials.
That textures can be pretty different from one another.
I wonder if my floor had been scratchy like the sandpaper or maybe kind of bumpy or soft like the fabric.
Do you think I would have slipped and fallen down?
I don't think so.
I think some materials allow things to slide easier than others.
That reminds me of a game that I like to play called Bottle Cap Hockey.
Okay, for this game, we're going to need three different surfaces with three different textures.
I have my floor, which is smooth.
This blanket which is soft and fuzzy.
And this bubble wrap, which feels bumpy.
You're also going to need a bottle cap or some other kind of lid like this one and some tape.
So the way the game works is we're gonna do three rounds one on each of my different surfaces.
And I'm gonna start with my, with my smooth floor for round number one.
And the first thing you have to do is make an X out of tape on the floor.
But remember, before you put tape on any of your surfaces ask a grown-up first to make sure that it's okay.
All right, I'm gonna make an X of my tape over here, on the floor.
[indistinct] Use two pieces of tape to make my X.
All right, then I'm also gonna use my tape to make my starting line back here.
All right, now, the way you play the game is to you take your lid or your bottle cap and I have to push it from behind the starting line and try to get it to land all the way on the X over there.
Now I have three chances in each round to get it onto the X and each time I get it onto the X, I get one point.
Let's see how many points I can get in each round, ready?
Slide one.
[upbeat music] Let's try slide two see if I can get it closer.
Slide two.
Not quite far enough.
Let's try slide number three.
[upbeat music] It went too far again.
Time around two.
For round number two, I'm using my blanket and I set it up the exact same way as round number one.
So I put my tape X as my target and I made a tape starting line on this side.
All right.
Now, what do you notice about my blanket?
I notice that it feels soft but it's not as smooth as my floor woods.
So let's make a prediction or a guess, do you think it will be easier or harder to slide my lid on this surface?
Let's see.
All right.
Oh, it didn't go very far when I pushed on the blanket surface.
Let's try to push a little harder.
[upbeat music] Still not going very far, I need to push even harder.
Oh, that was pretty close.
All right, time for round three.
For this I've used my bubble wrap which I noticed is really bumpy.
So I'm predicting it might be a little bit harder to get my lid to slide straight on the bumpy texture.
Let's see what happens.
Slide one for round three.
It didn't go very far when I pushed from this bubble wrap.
It also really didn't go straight.
Let's try again.
[upbeat music] I think my bumpy bubble wrap is making it hard for me to go straight to the X. I'm gonna have to push really hard.
Still, not very far on the bubble wrap.
Well, my final score was zero points in all three rounds.
I guess I need to do a little more practicing to get my lid onto the X, but I did learn something.
I learned that my floor, my smooth surface was the easiest for me to push my lid and it slid really far.
And then it was a little bit harder.
I had to push a little harder to get it to slide on my fabric on the blanket.
And I had to push really hard to get it to slide far on my bubble wrap.
I have some friends who were playing this game at home too.
I wonder if they could give me some pointers and maybe teach me how to play this game even better.
Let's take a look.
- Hi, I'm Harry.
My brother, Leo and I are gonna play battle cap hockey.
I have my puck and it's time for round one on the wooden floor.
Yeah, got it on on the first try.
A little too short.
Too short again.
- A bit too long.
Again.
And for the third time.
- It's round two and this time we are gonna try on a rug.
Too far.
Yay, I got it on the X.
Too short.
- Right on target.
Again.
For the third time.
- It' round three and this time I'm gonna use a yoga mat.
I didn't go so far.
Yay, I got it on the X.
Too short.
- A bit too long.
[indistinct] This one is a bit too short.
- We just finished and what I realized was that the wooden floor was smoother and I can move the bottle cap than the rug or the yoga mat.
Also I realized that the yoga mat was more bumpier and I couldn't get it to go as far.
Also, next time I'm gonna try with the smaller punk like this one.
- Wow, they're getting really good at that game.
You can play at home too or take some time to go on a texture, scavenger hunt and see how many different textures you can observe by feeling in your space.
And remember, you can always be a scientist at home if you stop to notice and wonder about the world around you.
See you next time.
[upbeat music] - Hey there everyone, welcome.
For our Hello song today.
I'm going to be using a home-made shaker.
I made this all by myself, out of a toilet paper roll some colorful masking tape and some beans and rice.
If you wanna play along with song, you can either use a shaker that you have at home or anything that makes a sound when you shake it.
For example, you could use a container of rice or a bag of cereal that would do the trick.
Whatever you choose to add, go ahead and find it if you'd like or just sing along.
This is a column response song.
So I'll sing the call and you sing the response.
[singing in foreign language] [clattering] [speaking in foreign language] Everybody.
I'll give you a hint what [speaking in foreign language] might mean.
You guessed it.
[speaking in foreign language] Is the word for hello in the Swahili language.
Did you know that?
Swahili is a language that's commonly spoken in Eastern Africa.
Now we can figure out what these words mean altogether.
It's pretty simple.
We already know that [speaking in foreign language] means hello, but there were two more Swahili words in our song, did you catch them?
The first was [speaking in foreign language] and [speaking in foreign language] means everyone.
So when we sing [speaking in foreign language] we are saying hello to everyone in the room.
The second Swahili word was [speaking in foreign language].
[speaking in foreign language] Means children.
So when we sing [speaking in foreign language], we're singing to all the children in the room.
Let's try singing [speaking in foreign language] in English this time.
Can you continue being my echo like you just did?
Let's try it.
♪ Hello ♪ ♪ Hello everyone hello ♪ ♪ Hello ♪ ♪ Hello children hello.
♪ Beautiful.
One thing I love about the song [speaking in foreign language] is that you could sing it in any language.
It only has a couple of words.
What language do you speak at home?
I bet you could sing [speaking in foreign language] in whatever that language is with your friends or family.
Let's get together one more time in Swahili.
Pick up your shaker if you've got one.
[singing in foreign language] Thanks for singing with me everyone.
My name's Jennifer, welcome.
I am a music teacher at Third Street Music School and I'm so happy to be here with you guys today.
Our music segment is all about singing in new languages.
So already we've sung in two different languages today, friends, we sang in Swahili and we sang in English.
By the end of our music segment today, we are going to have some in four different languages.
Can you believe it?
I'm excited, so let's get started.
Our next song has an interesting twist.
I'm going to show you our new language that this song is in.
I wonder if you'll be able to tell which language is this.
Here I go.
Do you know what language I was singing in?
You might've noticed I didn't use my voice or even my mouth for this language.
That's because I was singing in American sign Language or ASL for short.
This language was created by the American school for the deaf.
for those that are deaf or hard of hearing.
Without using their voices they can use their hands to show their language.
Now, the song we're going to learn altogether is Peace Like A River.
Does that name sound familiar to you?
It might because this song is an African-American folk song.
So while it wasn't originally sang using American sign language with a couple easy words we can perform this song using our voices and American sign language.
Before we learn it altogether I wanna give you a sneak peek.
I'ma use my ukulele to accompany me and sing you the first verse of our song.
You or someone else in your home might recognize it.
It's a really famous traditional song.
Here we go.
[gentle music] ♪ I've got peace like a river ♪ ♪ I've got peace like a river ♪ ♪ I've got peace like a river ♪ ♪ In my soul ♪ ♪ I've got peace like a river ♪ ♪ I've got peace like a river ♪ ♪ I've got peace like river ♪ ♪ In my soul ♪ Sound familiar?
If not, we're gonna learn it together right now.
Let's put our sign language along with our voices as we learn the song altogether.
The first line goes.
♪ I've got peace like a river ♪ Can you try those four words?
♪ I've got peace ♪ ♪ Like a river ♪ Nice.
♪ I've got peace like a river.
♪ Your turn.
♪ I've got peace like a river in my soul ♪ Your turn.
Nice work.
Can we sing the rest together?
♪ I've got peace like a river ♪ ♪ I've got peace like a river ♪ ♪ I've got peace like a river in my soul.
♪ Beautiful everyone.
Now I know we've just learned this song but I think we can actually learn two more verses today because we only need four new words to sing the remaining verses.
The melody stays the same the whole time.
The next verse goes like this.
♪ I've got love like the ocean ♪ Can you try that?
♪ I've got love like the ocean ♪ ♪ I've got love like the ocean in my soul ♪ Your turn.
Beautiful, let's sing the rest altogether.
♪ I've got love like the ocean ♪ ♪ I've got love like the ocean ♪ ♪ I've got love like the ocean in my soul ♪ Lovely, now the third verse, I think might be my favorite one.
Our two new words are joy and fountain.
If you're standing up or have a lot of energy you can jump every time you sing fountain as well as doing the hand sign.
I'll sing first then it's your turn.
♪ I've got joy like a fountain ♪ Your turn.
♪ I've got joy like a fountain ♪ ♪ I've got joy like a fountain in my soul ♪ Your turn.
Can we sing the rest together?
♪ I've got joy like a fountain ♪ ♪ I've got joy like a fountain.
♪ ♪ I've got joy like a fountain in my soul.
♪ Wow, everyone, nice job learning all those new sign language words.
Now it's time for us to sing a quick goodbye song but we're not done learning new languages yet.
Our goodbye song is [speaking in foreign language].
Have you heard that phrase before?
[speaking in foreign language] Is a traditional Hebrew farewell.
What it means in English is goodbye my friends until we meet again or see you next time.
So it's a perfect song for us listening today.
Now I'm gonna sing the whole song for you and if you know it already, you can sing along.
If not, I want you to just to sit back and listen to the beautiful song, then we'll learn it all together.
[singing in foreign language] Sound familiar?
Let's learn it together.
I'll sing, then it's your turn.
[singing in foreign language] Your turn.
Nice.
[singing in foreign language] Nice job.
Before we have to go, let's sing it together one last time.
Altogether.
Here we go.
[singing in foreign language] Goodbye my friends until next time.
- [Announcer] Funding for this program was provided by The JPB Foundation.
[upbeat music]
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