♪ 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 ♪ (upbeat music) - Hello, little learners.

Welcome back to our learning space.

My name is Miss Lara, can you tell me your name?

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

Today is Friday, the last day we'll be working on our focus texts, "That Cow That Went Oink."

I hope you've had fun this week.

So right now we're gonna take one of our farm friends, the pig.

Hello, and we'll be missing our good morning song.

Here we go.

♪ Good morning, good morning ♪ ♪ It's a sunshine kind of day ♪ ♪ Come join Miss Lara for some learning and some play ♪ ♪ Will we sing a song ♪ Of course we will ♪ Make our brain strong, like super strong ♪ ♪ So come along ♪ Yes come on friends ♪ For some learning and some play ♪ All right, my little pig friend is gonna go back here and we're gonna go through our schedule.

So, we're gonna do our emotional check-in.

Now remember, we always invite you to check in on how you're feeling not just once when you're with me, but throughout the day.

Checking in on how you're feeling really so important to how you learn, and how you even absorb books, so I hope that you're doing that.

Today, we're gonna sing a song about our focus feeling which is surprised, like that.

And then we're going to work on our book, we're going to do another fun experiment using something that comes from cows.

Hmm, what could it be?

And we're gonna end our day with a song and a goodbye smooch.

(smooching) All right, ready to get started?

Then let's see our song about the feeling surprised.

Remember, surprised is the feeling you feel when something unexpected happens.

Like if you're going onto a party and there's a fun present, or if a special visitor knocks on your door and comes and says.

- Hey, Mrs. Lara?

How are you?

- I'm so surprised, look who is coming to say hello, it's Mr. Dawson, boys and girls, can you say hi.

Mr. Dawson, you really surprised me.

- Did I?

- Look at my face.

- That's awesome.

And today you're gonna make magic milk?

- I'm gonna make magic milk.

- Oh, I'm exited.

I'm gonna let you go because I'm going to watch you do that.

- Okay, that sounds fun.

- Bye.

- That was a great surprise, thank you, Mr. Dawson.

Okay, hard to recover.

Now let's do our song, ready?

We're gonna start off with cows.

♪ 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 ♪ Then those pigs got in the bedroom, I hope they're not wearing my slippers.

♪ 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 of course we solve our own problems, we think of solutions so we chased them away.

♪ 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.

♪ Okay, so now it's time for a letter clue, are you ready?

Here it goes.

Of course, you're learning letters all the time, they're all around us.

When you're in the car, see if you see any, so here's the magic letter for today.

I'm gonna use four big lines, hope it looks like what I'm hoping it does.

There it is, what letter is it?

M, that's right, M from mindful, mindful minute.

And Ms. McCarthy, she's gonna lead us in a mindful minute, let's watch together.

- Hi boys and girls, welcome to Mrs. McCarthy's Mindful Minute.

Great to see you again.

Since the weather has been breezy lately, we will do some kite breathing and some kite stretching to control ourselves and feel better.

Let's practice our mindful breathing first.

Watch me as I show you how to do kite breathing.

I'm going to put my hand up, and move my hand toward my nose as I inhale through my nose.

I hold my breath for a moment.

When I exhale through my mouth, I will move my hand like a kite in the wind around my body.

Watch me one more time.

Now you try it with me.

Let's do that three times, taking in three deep breaths through our nose, holding up for a moment and exhaling through our lips.

That was very good, well done.

Let's move to kite stretching.

Stand with your feet together, extend your arms above your head like a kite, and place your palms together.

Inhale slowly through your nose, while stretching your body to one side.

Go back to the middle and exhale.

Watch me again.

Inhale as I move to the opposite side, hold it, exhale.

Try that with me two times on each side.

That was very good girls and boys.

Remember, like I always say, practice your mindful breathing when you're feeling good and use your mindful breathing when you're upset, it always helps you to feel better.

I'll see you the next time, bye girls and boys.

- I feel so relaxed now, thank you Mrs. McCarthy for your mindful minute.

And you can learn all about wellness and relaxation in books too.

Don't forget to check out the Sora app.

Okay, time for our project, our last one of the week.

We're going to make magic milk.

Ooh, also called exploding colors.

So let's see the materials we're gonna need.

We're going to need full fat milk.

It's so important that it's whole milk not the 2% or 1% kind that comes in a blue container.

Then we're going to need some food coloring, some dish soap and cotton swabs.

Now before we start, I want you to think, I'm going to pour this milk in, and then I'm going to pour in, little droplets of food coloring.

What do you think is going to happen?

Do you think that the milk is gonna mix with the color and turn into one big color?

Do you think it's gonna bubble and burst?

I want you to make a prediction and think what's gonna happen before we do our experiment.

Now, here we go, I'm gonna pour in some milk.

Now, why we're using milk this week, is because cows give us milk, don't they?

What else do they give us?

Lots of other things, but my favorite is ice cream.

Yamm, I love ice cream.

Okay, let's pour a little more milk, here we go.

Pour it all in.

I'm gonna let it settle for just a moment.

The milk has to be so still, are you ever so still?

It's really hard to be very still when you're three or four years old, isn't it?

All right, we have to be still like the milk.

Okay, here it goes.

First, I'm going to use the color green and I'm gonna put little drops of green in there.

Let's see, okay, nothing much happening yet.

Then I'm gonna put some red, red like our burn.

Just adding little drops.

And it's actually better if they're closer together like this if you want them to be really colorful.

My next color is yellow.

Here we go, droplets of yellow.

What's your favorite color that I've used so far?

Maybe I haven't used it yet.

Maybe it's this one blue.

Let's put it in there.

Okay, now we have our droplets.

Is it doing what you thought it was gonna do?

I don't know, I thought that they would spread a lot more.

So for the next part of our experiment, we're actually gonna take a cotton swab, it's those things that you might stick around your ear to kind of get them clean, and we're gonna dip them and some dish soap.

Let's see, a prediction pause.

What is going to happen?

I gave you a clue earlier when I said exploding colors, but why?

Let's see, Oh, I hope this works.

Do you see that?

What's happening to all the colors?

They're running away.

Colors come back.

Look, and actually the blue and the red is mixing to make what color?

Do you know what color that mixes to make?

Let's see, it makes purple, that's right.

I'm gonna add a little bit more blue here in the center.

Now, let's talk about why this is happening.

The milk has a lot of fats in it.

And when I, let's pour a little more yellow here or just wants to explode all over the place.

And when I dip my cotton swab in the dish soap, the dish soap actually repels those fats and proteins and minerals.

Doesn't want to explode so much anymore.

There it goes.

You kind of have to find just the right spot.

Normally we can't see this process but the food coloring really allows us to see the swirls and the patterns that are made as the milk kind of fats and proteins move away from the dish soap.

I'm gonna see if I can get a nice big explosion again, and then we'll end our week.

I kind of have to find the just right spot for it to work.

There it goes.

Now, parents, this can get a little bit messy, so make sure that you do it in a place where you don't mind if anything spills.

I hope that you try this at home, and if you do send me a note, let me know if your predictions came true and how the process was for you.

And of course, if you send in your address here at the station, you get one of these fun activity books and they have all kinds of stickers and things that you can do.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Okay, time to end our week, we studied "The Cow That Went Oink."

That was our focus text.

Next week, we're gonna move on to another book, another adventure, I hope that you come back until then.

Hey, let's say our ABC song as much as we're able.

♪ A, B, C you later ♪ ♪ D, E, F, G, I'm gonna miss you ♪ ♪ H, I, have to go now ♪ ♪ J, K, bye-bye now ♪ ♪ L, M, N, O, I had a good time ♪ ♪ P, Q, R, you gonna miss me ♪ ♪ S, T, U, are my best friend ♪ ♪ V, W, X, Y, Z ♪ Phew, we made it, I am gonna miss you.

We'll see you again next week, boys and girls, goodbye.

(upbeat 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 everyone.

♪ (upbeat music)