(bright ambient music) - Hello, little learners.

Welcome back to "Camp Read-a-Lot", a place where we're gonna read some books and have some fun, of course sing a song all summer long.

So let's get started this morning with a song with our dragon friend Darlita.

Say hello Darlita.

Hello!

Are you ready?

Here it goes!

♪ Good morning.

♪ ♪ Good morning.

♪ ♪ It's a sunshine kind of day.

♪ ♪ Come join Mrs. Lara for some learning and some play.

♪ ♪ Will we sing us a song?

♪ Of course we will!

♪ Make our brains strong.

♪ Like super strong.

♪ So come a long.

♪ Yes, come on friends for some learning and some play.

All right, Darlita, we have so much to do today.

Let me put her away in our beautiful campsite and we'll run through our day.

So can you guess what book we're reading this week?

It's the "Paper Bag Princess"!

And we're gonna start off by exploring the character Elizabeth and how she feels throughout the book.

And then of course we're gonna read the book and finish our day with a project.

We're going to be making some paper crowns far more colorful than the one that Ms. Lara has on.

Are you ready to get started?

Okay.

So it's very important that each day you check in on how you're feeling and the characters in books have feelings too.

The character in our story this week is Elizabeth.

She's a princess.

Now I'm gonna show you some pictures and we're gonna talk about how she might be feeling in the book.

Are you ready?

Now, let's look at Elizabeth's face here.

She has a big smile on her face, and she's surrounded by hearts.

How do you think she's feeling?

Hmm.

How about here?

Ooh!

Elizabeth has her hands on her hips and she's grimacing and growling.

How might she be feeling there?

And our last one, Elizabeth is talking to Ronald, the Prince.

Hmm, Ronald is pointing at her and he doesn't look too happy.

I wonder how she's feeling.

I always liked to sing song to help me think about how people are feeling.

And this is a song we'll sing all week together.

Are you ready?

It goes like this.

You might know the tune, it's to bingo.

Like ♪ B-I-N-G-O.

♪ Let's try it together.

♪ There was a princess that I know ♪ ♪who was happy all that time, oh!

♪ ♪ H-A-P-P-Y ♪ ♪ H-A-P-P-Y ♪ ♪ H-A-P-P-Y ♪ ♪ She was happy all the time, oh!

♪ She was happy, look at all her hearts and her smile.

How about on this one?

♪ There was a princess that I know ♪ ♪ who was angry all the time, oh!

♪ ♪ A-N-G-R-Y ♪ ♪ A-N-G-R-Y ♪ ♪ A-N-G-R-Y ♪ ♪ She was angry all the time, oh!

♪ Do you ever make this face when you're angry?

Hands to hip, really grimace like this.

I know I do.

Let's see the last one.

Oh, I think she's being scolded by Prince Ronald.

We'll learn more about that with our book.

But that made her upset.

So let's sing the lyrics with upset.

♪ There was a princess that I know ♪ ♪ who was upset all the time, oh!

♪ ♪ U-P-S-E-T ♪ ♪ U-P-S-E-T ♪ ♪ U-P-S-E-T ♪ ♪ She was upset all the time, oh!

♪ Poor Elizabeth.

We found out she was happy, she was angry and she was upset.

I wonder how she's gonna feel at the end of the story.

You know, Elizabeth is my very good friend and sometimes she writes me letters.

(door bell chimes) (Lara gasps) I think that's the mailman now!

Let's see if Elizabeth wrote me a letter.

She's so sweet.

Oh, here's the mail.

It says, Mrs. Lara, Valley PBS.

And you know, you can send me mail here too.

If you try any of the projects or read any of the books that we do, make sure you send me a note.

I love to hear from you.

Let's see what she put in here.

Oh, here's the letter right here.

(paper rustling) Getting ready.

And then she put a little surprise in there.

She put, "Dear, Mrs.

Lara."

That's me!

"Have I got a story for you?"

Oh, I wonder what her story could be.

"I lived in a castle."

Ooh, fancy!

"Wore fancy clothes and was about to marry a handsome prince when a dragon ruined it all!"

Oh no!

But wait look what she wrote.

"Best thing to ever happen to me!

Love Elizabeth."

Did I read that correctly?

She lived in a castle, wore fancy clothes, was about to marry a handsome prince, didn't get to do that because a dragon destroyed it all and she's still happy!

Oh, Elizabeth, I must read your story.

I hope that's what you included in your package.

Oh, let's take a look.

Ooh, it says "To Mrs. Lara and friends", that's us!

Let's open it up.

(paper bag rustling) ooh it's, love getting presents, presents are my favorite, how about you?

Ooh!

It says, it's a copy of the book!

Yes!

Let's take a look before we read the book.

So it says, "The Paper Bag Princess".

Now here's Elizabeth.

What do you think the story is going to be about?

Elizabeth is a princess, does she look like a princess in the front of the book?

Hmm, she's not wearing very fancy clothes, is she?

And then let's look at the dragon.

Do you notice what the dragon is wearing around his neck?

Ooh, that's the kind of thing that you wear when you're going to eat something.

Oh!

I hope that he's not gonna eat Elizabeth.

Oh no.

Let's look at the back of the book for more clues about what the story is about.

Here's the dragon again.

And I can tell it's a fire-breathing dragon because it has a little bit of smoke coming out of its mouth.

And there's Elizabeth looking perplexed like this.

Hmm, I wonder if there's another surprise in the story that I noticed last night when I was looking at it.

Sometimes when you get a book like this, it has a special illustration in the center.

This one is of the whole dragon.

I'll open it up (paper rustling) so you can take a look.

I wonder what Elizabeth's story is gonna be about.

Are you ready to watch a video with me that's gonna tell the whole story?

Let's watch together.

(tranquil ambient music) (bells ringing) It's story time!

(bells rings) (tranquil ambient music) "The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munch retold by Mrs.

Lara."

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess named Elizabeth.

She lived in a castle and had expensive (bright ring) princess clothes.

Expensive means they cost a lot of money.

She was in love with the prince named Ronald.

(loud thumping) One awful day, a dragon came around and smashed princess Elisabeth's castle.

(loud thump) He also burned (fire crackling) all of her expensive clothes, and carried off Prince Ronald.

(wings fluttering wildly) Elizabeth decided to chase the dragon and get Ronald back, but all that she had to wear was a burnt paper bag.

(swoosh) Elizabeth followed the trail of burnt forests and horses bones until she came upon the dragon's cave.

She banged on the door three times.

(three loud thumps) The dragon stuck his nose out of the cave and said, (dragon hums) "Ooh, a princess!

I love to eat princesses.

But I already ate a castle today, and I'm super busy, so come back tomorrow!"

And with that, he returned deep inside the cave.

But Elizabeth was persistent, meaning she did not give up easily.

And once again, she banged on the door three times.

(three loud thumps) Out came the dragon and said "Go away!

I already told you I love to eat princesses, but I already am full from eating a castle.

Come again tomorrow!"

"Wait!"

shouted Elizabeth.

Is it true that you're the smartest and fiercest dragon in the whole world?"

Fiercest is a word that means wild and dangerous.

The dragon replied, "Yes I am."

"Is it true," said Elizabeth "That you can burn up 10 forest with one fiery breath?"

"Oh, yes!"

said the dragon.

He took a huge deep breath (inhales sharply) and breathed out so much fire (fire crackling) (swoosh) that he burned 50 forests!

"Fantastic!"

said Elizabeth.

And with that, the dragon took another deep breath (inhales sharply) and burned up a 100 forests!

(fire crackling) "Magnificent!"

said Elizabeth.

But this time when the dragon took a big, huge breath, (inhales sharply) (bubbles popping) nothing came out!

(dragon moaning) The dragon didn't even have enough fire left to cook a meatball.

Then Elizabeth said, "Dragon, is it true you can fly around the whole world in just 10 seconds?"

"Yes."

said the dragon.

(wings fluttering wildly) And he jumped up and flew around the world in 10 seconds.

(dragon moaning) He was tired when he got back.

But Elizabeth said, "Fantastic!

Do it again."

So the dragon flew around the world (wings fluttering wildly) in 20 seconds.

(dragon moaning) When the dragon got back, he was too tired to talk.

He laid down (dragon snoring) and went straight to sleep.

Elizabeth whispered very softly, "Hey dragon."

But the dragon didn't move.

So she shouted, "Hey dragon!

", but still the dragon didn't budge.

Elizabeth walked right over the dragon and opened the door to the cave and inside was prince Ronald.

He looked at her and said, "Oh, Elizabeth, you're a mess!

You smell like ashes, your hair is all tangled and you're wearing a dirty old paper bag.

Come back and get me when you dress like a real princess!"

"Ronald," said Elizabeth, "Your clothes are really pretty and you look like a real prince, but you're a bum!"

She decided she didn't love him after all.

Woohoo!

The end.

(jolly ambient music) Thank you Elizabeth for sending me that wonderful story.

I hope you enjoyed it, boys and girls!

Remember that you can read more stories on the Sora app and by checking out your local library.

So right now we're in our project space and we're actually gonna be making these paper crowns.

Now they can be princess crowns or prince crowds or even dragon crowns!

It's up to you.

So let me run through the materials that you're going to need.

You're going to need a brown paper bag, just a plain one from the grocery store, just like this.

We're going to need water color paints.

Now, if you don't have watercolor paints, that's okay!

I'm gonna show you today another way that you can paint your paper that still looks really beautiful.

You're going to need scissors and any decorations of your choice.

I chose to keep my crown plain, so it's nice and colorful, but you can add anything you'd like.

Okay, to get started, (paper bag rustling) we're going to use our paper bag, and we're going to take our scissors and we're going to cut around the lines of the paper bags.

So you'll notice here that there's some lines.

You can have a grownup help you with this part or you can try to tackle it on your own.

(scissor cuts through paper) Notice that when I'm cutting I'm using my helper hand to hold one side of it, the bag, and then using my scissors for the other.

So now that I've cut down one side, I'm gonna cut and follow the other line.

What we want to end up with (scissor cuts through paper) is a big piece of paper that we can use to make our crown.

(paper bag rustling) All right.

Keep following the lines, here we go!

I'm gonna try to take the rectangle out from the bottom.

Now this is just a (scissor cuts through paper) plain old grocery store bag that I got at my local grocery store.

Here we go, almost there.

Isn't it so fun when you're so close!

And one more line to go!

Ooh!

See I removed the bottom of the rectangle like this.

The bag and we're left with a big, long piece of paper.

The next thing you're gonna wanna do is remove the handles.

So, I'm going to go through and cut the handles off like this.

(scissor cuts through paper) Now you can use those handles for another thing, maybe to make a bracelet or a necklace to go along with your crown.

That would be interesting.

Once you have your very large sheet of paper like this, you're actually gonna want to cut out some spikes on your paper.

That's gonna be the crown part, just like this.

Okay so, how I cut the spikes is I just kind of grab on one side of the paper and then I go up and down.

It's the same method (scissor cuts through paper) you might use if you're cutting grass, have you ever made grass on a project?

It's the same thing.

And we'll cutout triangles all the way around, just like that.

And here we go.

Triangles, triangles all the way down.

Now, another way that I like to remember what I'm doing is it kind of looks like dragon's teeth, doesn't it?

There was a dragon in our story.

Oh, that dragon, it was trying to eat princess Elizabeth.

I'm so grateful that dragons aren't real.

Can you imagine we had to live our lives worried about dragons eating us?

Ooh, I think I would be one of the first ones to be eaten.

I'm too friendly.

All right, let's keep cutting our crown up and down, up and down till we make a really good crown.

Now for parents, it is so important that your child be able to cut on a line.

It really helps build their fine motor skills.

And as you know in kindergarten, they really, really emphasize writing.

So these types of activities where they're having to cut with the specific purpose really helps build their muscles in their hands.

Play dough also helps with that too.

Okay, few more teeth, a few more dragon teeth.

Whew!

My crown is looking spectacular.

I think princess Elizabeth would approve.

Okay, so we have a bunch of scraps here that, again, we could use for different things.

I'm just gonna clean it off here, so you can see.

This is what your crown is gonna look like.

Whew, looks kind of spiky doesn't it?

The next step is you're gonna wrap it around your head.

So let's wrap it around like this, just like I'm doing there and you're gonna figure out where we're going to need to staple it.

So you can use a stapler or you can use glue, whatever you have on hand and you can just take it (stapler punches into paper) and close it up so that it fits on your head.

I'm using a stapler because well, (stapler punches into paper) we don't have a lot of time for the glue to dry.

So I'm putting it.

(stapler punches into paper) Whew, and there is my crown.

Isn't it glamorous?

The next step is going to be adding some color.

I need a colorful crown, of course.

So for this step, you're actually going to need some water.

So I'm gonna put some water that I have here in the jar right in these little containers I have.

Now remember I told you that you might need watercolors, well, I thought about it and I said, "Well, what if my friends at home don't have watercolors?

I bet you, what they do have is some food coloring."

And that's what we're going to use, we're going to use some food coloring.

Now be very careful with food coloring because it does stain and there's no getting it off.

So I'm gonna open it up and I'm gonna add a dot of red.

Red, and then I'm gonna add some blue to my middle one.

Ooh, let's see.

And then I'll add some yellow.

Those are the primary colors aren't they?

You can use a paintbrush, but again, if you don't have a paintbrush, another tool you might use is this.

It is a little clip like this that you might use to hang clothes with a little pompom that I found at the place where everything costs a dollar.

And you're gonna take your crown, (paper bag rustling) and you're gonna dip your little pompom right in the paint and you're gonna start to paint it up.

Let's get some more color on here.

Ooh, we need a little more color.

So I'm gonna add it directly on there so you can see it here on TV Land.

We got it a bit too much water to my containers, that happens boys and girls.

But you can kind of see how it looks and you can make it all kinds of swirly patterns, you can make straight lines, zig-zags, any kind of wavy line, so I am making a blue crown and then I'm adding straight lines up and down, up and down.

Now it's so important that when you read books that you have these extension activities to connect the content to something students will later want to do.

So I'm imagining students wearing these crowns and acting out the story, pretending to be princess Elizabeth going to get her prince, only to be told, ooh, I don't like you, you have a paper bag on.

That was not very nice, was it?

Let's add a little bit more red here.

Add it directly on.

Now of course, if you're doing this at home, you will have your water colors in the container.

Mrs. Lara just added a bit too much water there.

Okay, look at that.

And you can mix the colors together like this.

All right boys and girls, soon enough when you cover your whole crown, it will look like this, a beautiful, colorful princess crown, prince crown, even dragon crown, that you can wear at home to act out the story.

I hope that you give it a try.

And if you do, please send me a note here at the station so I can see what you look like wearing it.

I might even feature you here on our show.

Okay, so let me tell you what we're gonna do tomorrow before we end our day with the goodbye song.

Tomorrow we're gonna continue learning about the Paper Bag Princess!

And we're gonna make some paper bag puppets to act out our story.

I hope that you can make it back.

For now, I have a new goodbye song for you.

It's the letters of the alphabet.

We'll see how far we get.

Okay, here we go.

Do you know this letter, letter A!

♪ A is for amazing, that's what you are.

♪ ♪ B is for brave that'll carry you far.

♪ ♪ C is for caring and community.

♪ ♪ D is for determined to be the best you can be.

♪ ♪ E is for empathy, caring for all.

♪ ♪ F is for friends that'll catch you when you fall.

♪ ♪ G is for grateful for everything around.

♪ ♪ H is for hopeful there's more good to be found.

♪ ♪ I as for imagine all the fun things we could do.

♪ ♪ J is for joyful how I feel when I'm with you.

♪ ♪ K is for kind to people and animals too.

♪ ♪ L is for love, put it in all that you do.

♪ ♪ M is for mindful, be present every day.

♪ ♪ N is for nice words and everything you say.

♪ ♪ O is for original, always be you.

♪ ♪ P is for persevere until you make it through.

♪ ♪ Q is for quiet, all the bad thoughts.

♪ ♪ R is for remember all the greatness you've got.

♪ ♪ S is for strong, body and mind.

♪ ♪ T is for talent, why not make yours being kind?

♪ ♪ U is far as unique, special and loved.

♪ ♪ V is for victorious, always rise above.

♪ ♪ W is for worthy and wonderful too.

♪ ♪ X, don't X out those mistakes they help make you, you.

♪ ♪ Y is for, yes we're getting to the end of this rhyme.

♪ ♪ And that's the alphabet.

♪ ♪ I'll Z you next time.

♪ All right, boys and girls, I will see you tomorrow.

Please remember to come back with your paper bags.

We'll be making the prince, the dragon and the princess.

And of course we'll be reading more about Elisabeth's adventures and we might even hear about prince Ronald.

Until then, Mrs. Lara sends you a big squeeze and a big smooch.

(blows kiss) Well, see ya next time.

Goodbye.

(upbeat ambient music)