♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (guitar music) (upbeat music) - Hello, little learners.

Welcome back to my learning space.

My name is Mrs Lara Can you tell me your name?

I'm so excited that you made it back today.

Today is Wednesday another fun day to learn.

So I have my pig friend that's gonna lead us in our good morning song.

Are you ready?

Do you have your singing voice on?

Here we go.

♪ Good morning ♪ ♪ Good morning ♪ ♪ It's a sunshine kind of day ♪ ♪ Come join, Mrs. Lara for some learning and some play ♪ ♪ Where we sing us a song ♪ Of course we will.

♪ Make our brains strong ♪ Like super strong.

♪ So come along ♪ Yes, come on friends.

♪ For some learning and some play ♪ All right, I'm gonna put my pig friend away.

Let's go through our plan for the day.

We're gonna do an emotional check-in.

And this week we've been studying the emotion surprised.

Can you make a surprise face?

(Mrs Lara gasps) That's right.

You might make a surprised face if you see an insect on the ground when you're taking a walk like we talked about.

Or if someone's surprised you with a big stack of pancakes for breakfast and you weren't expecting it.

We're gonna sing our song.

Cows in the Kitchen about farm animals that surprised the farmer by going into the human house.

That's so silly.

Then we're gonna go to our project place and work on our weekly investigation.

Our focus text for the week is the cow that went oink.

And today we're gonna make a big red barn which is where cows live on a farm in preparation for our rhyming story that we're going to do tomorrow.

And of course, we'll end our day hopefully with a goodbye song.

If not with that goodbye squeeze if we have time.

All right you ready to do our song?

Now I wanna lead you through what happened in our song.

First, there were the cows and normally they live on the farm.

But this time they went into the kitchen.

How silly?

Maybe they were making a milkshake.

Then the sheep went into the living room.

I think they wanted to watch TV.

And of course the pig was in the bedroom snoring away.

How silly?

Okay, let's see our song about being (gasps)surprised.

Goes like this.

♪ Cows in the kitchen moo, moo, moo ♪ ♪ Cows in the kitchen moo, moo, moo ♪ ♪ Cows in the kitchen moo, moo, moo ♪ ♪ What shall we do ♪ ♪ Tell farmer ♪ ♪ Sheep in the living room baa, baa, baa ♪ ♪ Sheep in the living room baa, baa, baa ♪ ♪ Sheep in the living room baa, baa, baa ♪ ♪ What shall we do ♪ ♪ Tell farmer ♪ And there's the pigs.

♪ Pigs in the bedroom oink, oink, oink ♪ ♪ Pigs in the bedroom oink, oink, oink ♪ ♪ Pigs in the bedroom oink, oink, oink ♪ ♪ What shall we do ♪ ♪ Tell farmer ♪ And lastly, it's our solution.

What are we going to do?

What would you do?

I'm gonna shoo them away.

So here we go.

♪ Chase them away shoo, shoo, shoo ♪ ♪ Chase them away shoo, shoo, shoo ♪ ♪ Chase them away shoo, shoo, shoo ♪ That's what we'll do tell farmer.

I'm so glad you got to sing with me.

Right now I'm going to give you a letter clue.

That's gonna give you an idea of what we're going to watch in our next video.

So remember all letters have lines and curves.

To make this letter we're going to need a big line down, starting from the top.

We're going to need a little curve right here at the top.

And lastly, a little line kind of sliding down like this.

What letter have I made?

Yes, the letter R. R for rhyming.

Do you remember what rhyming is?

Yes.

It's when words sound the same.

Now we're gonna watch a video all about farm animals and rhyming that's gonna test your skills.

Let's watch it together.

♪ Rhyme time ♪ (A cappella music) ♪ Rhyme time ♪ (A cappella music) Let's check our rhyming skills.

Remember rhyming words sound the same.

What word rhymes with cow?

Does it Meow or is it corn?

(soft music) (beep) That's right.

Meow rhymes with cow.

Meow, cow.

They both say aw.

♪ Listen to the ending oh, oh ♪ How about the word that rhymes with pig?

Is it pot or is it fig?

Remember to listen to the ending sound.

(soft music) (beep) Yes it's fig.

Fig and Pig both say ig.

♪ Listen to the ending oh, oh ♪ Let's find the word that rhymes with barn.

Is it books or is it yarn?

Which one sounds the same?

(soft music) (beep) Yes, it's yarn.

Yarn, barn.

They both say arn.

♪ Listen to the ending oh, oh ♪ Let's do one more.

What rhymes with sheep?

Is it jeep or is it shirt?

(soft music) (beep) If you said jeep you're right.

Sheep and jeep rhyme.

Sheep, jeep They both say eep ♪ Listen to the ending oh, oh ♪ Let's play a bonus round.

Take a look around your house.

Can you find something that rhymes with pear?

Here's a clue.

You have something that rhymes with pear on top of your head.

In my house, I found a bear with crazy hair on top of a chair next to a square.

He had quite a mean glare.

It gave me quite a scare.

Just kidding.

The bear in my house.

Doesn't like rock music.

Rhyming is so important as you learn how to read the words in books, isn't it?

And speaking of books you can check them out on Mrs Lara app.

And I hope that you do.

So for our project today we're actually gonna make this red barn out of recycled materials.

And we're gonna use this red barn for rhyming and beginning sound activity that I have planned for tomorrow.

Okay, so here are the materials that you'll need.

You'll need a box.

Cardboard, glue, paint or paper.

So this is the box that I have today.

It's a pasta box.

There was pasta in there.

So the first thing that you're gonna wanna do is you're gonna wanna make an opening for the farm animals to go in.

Have you ever been to a farm before?

I don't get to go to farms too often, but here where I live in the central Valley, there are a lot of farms nearby.

I should go to one.

So I'm cutting out a rectangle and you can see I'm using my helper hand to guide my box.

Okay, just enough for a door.

That's where animals are gonna go in.

Now you'll notice in my finished barn that I kind of have a roof set up like this.

Barns have kind of triangular roofs.

So to make that roof, I'm actually going to just kind of fold over like this.

A little piece of the cardboard box, here goes.

And of course, you know I'm gonna hold it together with some glue.

So let's put some glue on there.

♪ Glue, glue, glue glue.

♪ Here we go.

Not too much glue.

Ooh, you know the worst feeling is getting some glue all over you and it dries up and then you have to peel it off.

I never liked that some people do.

So I'm holding it down so it sticks together.

There we go.

Looks like I have to hold it a little longer.

And if it doesn't stick, that's okay, boys and girls because you'll have the time at home to hold it just a little longer.

A little more time than I have here.

So once you get your basic frame down, you're gonna wanna make something like this.

That'll really make it seem like a farm and a barn.

It's called a silo.

Now for this one, I used a paper napkin role but if you don't have that you can actually use two toilet paper rolls like this that you can tape together.

And I have time to do that and show you.

So here's my tape.

Tape like glue is an adhesive.

Ooh, super fancy word.

That means something that sticks things together.

Can you think of another adhesive?

Okay, so this is kind of the beginning of what our barn is going to look like.

Now I want it to be extra fancy.

I will glue this right on there so it wouldn't move.

Now parents it is so important that you make props to go along with the stories that you read.

Through play children really learn to express what their comprehension of the text is.

So here we go.

This is the beginning of it.

Next is the fun part.

We get to paint.

Now I'll tell you if you really want it to be covered in red you're going to wanna use paper.

Because the paint that I'm using is kind of thin and requires multiple layers.

But I wanted to use paint because I get to use this big paint brush that I had in my house.

Make me feel like I'm painting a real barn.

Ooh, here's the red paint.

Now I wonder why all or most barns are red.

Is that something you can investigate maybe with your family?

Why are most barns red?

I imagine it's so that the farmers can see them easily.

Maybe it has something to do with the animals.

If you find out, will you let me know?

All right, here we go.

Painting it over, painting it down.

And of course we're gonna get our silo.

What we're gonna do tomorrow is we're gonna play a rhyming game where we're gonna guess what's in the big red barn.

There some new different animals in there.

Sheep and a pig.

There's a dog and a cat, a cow if it fits, you know, cows are very large.

All right.

I hope some of you are wearing your cow mask.

That'd be so much fun.

Okay, let's paint a little bit of the roof here the top edge that didn't wanna stick too well.

I'll stick it when the cameras are off and I have a little more time.

It goes up like that.

Looking a little like a barn, missing couple of edges here.

Okay.

Now the next step is going to be to add your decorations.

Now, if we don't get to finish this today we'll finish it again tomorrow, before we play our game.

but I wanna add a window.

So I'm gonna use some black paper and I'm gonna cut out a square.

Now a square has four sides, doesn't it?

And it has four sharp corners.

Notice I'm using my helper hand to kind of hold things together.

Here we go.

Ha, ha rectangle actually.

Let's glue that on.

And boys and girls, it's looking like we're gonna finish decorating this tomorrow.

So I'll put my window on now the paint is a little wet and we'll stop right here.

I hope that you get to make this project.

And if you do, please send me a picture and a note here at the station.

They're gonna put the address up in just a little bit.

Oh, there it is.

All right.

It was so fun playing with you today and making a barn.

I hope that you come back tomorrow where we get to use this barn to play a rhyming and beginning sound game.

Until then boys and girls.

Don't forget to use your imagination and play every single day.

Goodbye.

(guitar music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for every one ♪ (guitar music)