(soft music) - Hello, little learners.

Welcome back to Camp Read-a-Lot.

The place where we read books, tell stories and of course sing songs all summer long.

My name is Miss Lara.

Can you tell me your name?

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

I have my friend again, Maria, the mail person.

She's gonna help us start our day off with the song.

Are you ready?

Hey, 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 ♪ Hello, Maria the mail person.

Hello jello.

Hi there grizzly bear.

How are you kara-boo?

I'm fine porcupine.

What's up buttercup?

Not much coconut.

How you been dolphin?

Just great rattlesnake.

What's shaking little bacon?

Not a lot tater tot.

Think it's time to stop Jiffy, pop Oh, whatever you say.

So let's start our day.

And of course Maria is gonna come back here because she's gonna deliver our letter a little bit later but let's go through our plan for the day.

So we're gonna start off by checking in on how we feel.

How are you today?

Are you happy?

Are you smiling?

Maybe you're a little bit grumpy because you had to get out of bed and get out of your comfortable pajamas.

It's always good to check in on how you feel and don't forget to check in on those around you.

Then we're gonna move on to our story.

We're gonna continue reading our story, "I Stink", about a garbage truck, my favorite garbage truck, actually.

Then we're gonna take it to play and do a project.

That's gonna help you learn your beginning sounds in a fun way.

Are you ready to get our day started?

Wait, I think I hear something.

(bell rings) Oh, it's our doorbell.

Maria delivered our mail.

Let's see what's behind the door today.

Oo, we have another letter.

I love getting mail.

So let's see.

It says, dear Miss Lara, I love letters that start off that way.

Do you start your letters that way?

It says, did you know I am a community helper.

I provide a service by keeping our neighborhoods clean.

How do you or your friends help our community?

Sincerely, the garbage truck, that character in our story.

And that's true.

Garbage collectors are community helpers.

Now you may have heard that word community before but you might not know what it means.

Community is a group of people living or working together in the same area.

We help our community when we do acts of service, like I'm a teacher.

I help my community by teaching you boys and girls you might help your community by picking up trash when you go for a walk, maybe planting trees or flowers in your yard or your neighborhood.

Have you ever tried that?

Maybe you donate your old clothes or toys to a place that gives it to people that can't afford them.

That's also helping our community.

There are so many ways to help.

Can you think of any more?

Hm.

I bet I can think of one or two.

Of course, I have a song for you that's gonna help you remember what it's like to be a community helper and be of service to others.

Now the tune to the song is twinkle, twinkle, little star.

You're ready to sing with me?

It goes like this.

♪ Let's help in our community ♪ ♪ And make things better for you and me.

♪ ♪ Help others be healthy, safe and clean.

♪ ♪ Do what you knew can fill a need.

♪ ♪ Working together will help us be ♪ ♪ One great big happy community.

♪ So I hope that you help your community in some way today.

Now, of course, we looked at our story yesterday, "I Stink", about our community helper, the garbage truck.

Today, I'm gonna read it out loud again for you.

Now, just like us, books have parts too.

So let's review the parts of a book.

This is the front of the book.

Do you have a front?

Yes, right here.

This is the spine of the book.

It holds all the pages together.

And if you reach back, there's a hard part on your back.

That has a spine right here.

That's your spine, it holds you together too.

And this is the back of the book.

It usually has some words that tell you about the story and maybe a picture.

So let's look at the front.

""I Stink"" by author Kate and Jim McMullan.

Oh, there's two.

Remember the authors write the words.

Let's turn to the first page here.

Here we go.

Who am I?

I've got lights.

10 wide tires.

No AC, not me.

That means air conditioner.

I've got doubles.

Steering wheels, gas pedals, brakes.

I'm totally dual up.

No, what I do at night when you're sleeping, do you remember?

Oh, I eat your trash, that's what.

Ew, I don't think I would like to eat trash.

I'm so grateful the garbage truck does it.

See those bags right here?

(sniffing) I smell breakfast.

Crew, get me to the curb.

Lights, blink, brakes, squeal.

There he goes, tailgate, say, ah, that's the tailgate.

That's where the trash is gonna go.

Feed me straight into my hopper.

Nice task guys.

Stop, right here.

Hopper's full.

Hit the throttle.

Give me some gas.

Rev me to the max, engine roar.

Roar.

It's ready to go.

Did I wake you?

Too bad.

Pistons, bring on the crusher blade, blade, push back the bag.

Squeeze them, crush them, mash them, smash them.

Whoa, these bags are way compacted.

Can you say that word?

Compacted.

That means to make smaller, you take something big and make it smaller so that it fits somewhere.

It's gonna fit in the back of the garbage truck.

Oh no, he does something kind of rude.

Maybe you can say it with me.

Burp.

Excuse you, Mr. garbage truck.

Ah, now I have room for alphabet soup.

Get a load of my recipe.

Oh, here we go.

A for apple cores, B, banana peel.

C, candy wrappers, D for dirty diapers, oh no.

E for eggshells.

F for fish heads, gobs and gobs of gum make G H for half-eaten hot dogs.

I for icky ice cream cartons.

J for jam jars.

K for kitty litter, L for lobster claws.

Oh no, the worst one.

M for moldy meatballs.

N for nasty neckties, O for orange peels, P for puppy poo, oh no.

Q for quail bones.

R for rotten radishes.

S for smelly sneakers, T for toothpaste tubes.

U for ugly underpants, V for vacuum bags W for watermelon rinds, X for extra large t-shirts.

Y for year old and Z for zipped up ZD with zucchini, all in a bag, the smell must be awful.

Oh, he read our mind.

He says, what's that you think "I Stink"?

Whew, do I ever?

No skunk ever stumped this bag.

Go on, hold your nose, but think about it, without me, you're on mount trash-a-rama baby.

We don't want to be there, do we?

Next up, the river, lights, flash, driver reverse.

Get me to the barge.

Hear me.

Blast my backup wrap.

Beep, beep, beep.

Hey, beep, beep, out of my way.

So he's taking the trash to the barge in the river.

Ready crew, action, pays out, power takeoff switch, hit it, tailgate separate, up up, up, up.

Tailgate, sweeper, Egypt and plop, in goes the trash to the river.

He says, I'm empty.

I'm beat.

You're waking up now.

But I need some zz.

Back to the garage crew, hose me down and gas me up.

See ya tomorrow night guys.

Did you guess who he was, remember from the story who am I?

I'm the garbage truck, that's who.

He looks really proud there, doesn't he?

The end.

So I hope that you enjoyed that story.

And of course I love reading to you, but part of our work is getting you to read too.

So we focus on a few skills that'll help you get there.

So today we're gonna look at beginning sounds So let's work on our lesson on beginning sounds.

Beginning sounds, you'll remember, it's the first sound you hear in a word.

So we're gonna focus on the beginning sound of B.

It makes the ba sound.

And I have some things here that may or may not start with B.

You're gonna help me figure it out.

Are you ready?

Let's look at the first one.

Oh, lobster claws.

L, does that sound like ba at the beginning?

No, that's gonna stay right here.

It's not gonna go in our character.

How about, oo, here's one.

A bone, bone, does that sound like ba at the beginning?

Bone.

Yes, it does.

Bone starts with B. I'm gonna put it in their, munch, munch, crunch.

Ooh, a garbage truck loves to eat bones.

Let's see another one.

How about this one?

Dirty diapers.

Ooh, yuck.

Da, dirty.

No, that doesn't start with ba.

That would be birdie.

That's not right.

We'll put her back.

How about this one?

Box.

Ba, ox.

Does that sound with ba at the beginning?

Yes, box starts with B.

We're gonna put them in the trashcan, ba, ba.

Yum, yum, yum, yum, crunch.

Ooh, let's get another one.

How about this?

This is a bag.

You hear that beginning sound?

Ba, ag.

Does it say ba at the beginning?

It does.

Let's put them in our garbage truck crunch, crunch crunch.

Oh, let's see.

How about this one?

A tire.

Ta, ire.

Does that say ba at the beginning?

No, we're gonna go ahead and leave it right here.

All right, boys and girls, now remember beginning sounds are one way to help you learn how to read because they help you take apart the sounds and words.

Now, in order for you to learn how to read and practice your beginning sounds at home.

Of course I have an activity for you.

So let's look at the materials that you're going to need.

So for this activity we're gonna make a recycled materials, garbage truck.

You're gonna need one large box one small box, tape, glue, paper roll.

Like you might find in a napkin or toilet paper roll and decorations of your choice.

I chose paint, but you can decorate however you want.

Okay, let's go over to our project place so we can get started.

Now I had a lot of fun making this garbage track.

Let me show you what the final product is gonna look like.

It's gonna look like this.

See, I found the small box and it even had a little window.

This was a pasta box I believe.

And this one was just another box I had laying around and a toilet paper roll.

So let's start our construction.

The one we're gonna make today is a little bit smaller because I used the materials I had on hand.

So this is the small box that we're gonna use, it's gonna be the body of our garbage truck.

I'm gonna put it right here.

And then this is an old tea box and I'm gonna put it right here.

Now that is going to be the base of our truck.

You see here?

And we would glue or tape it together like this.

Now, before I do any of that I'm gonna want to decorate it.

So I'm gonna use some paints.

I decided that I want to paint my truck green.

Do you like the color green?

I think that green stands for the environment and recycling.

So it reminds me of a garbage truck.

So I just start painting here.

Now, remember when you're painting, you're going to want to do it in a place where you can get things a little bit messy because the paint sometimes goes everywhere.

So right here, I'm on a table that I can easily wipe off, so I'm just gonna paint all the way around.

I'm using my paintbrush right here.

And just going up and down, painting around.

Now, you might have to wait to paint the bottom, just because you're gonna have to have it sit somewhere where it's not wet.

All right.

I'm gonna paint one more side so you can see and then I'll show you how we can get the wheels together.

So here, I'm gonna paint this side.

So starting to look like a garbage truck like in my example, isn't it?

Now, one thing that you can do is you can kind of make it so that it's hollow in the middle like this.

And that's gonna allow you to play a game that we're gonna play in just a minute.

Let me get my little box here, so I can show you, we're gonna paint this side.

Again, we're not gonna paint the bottom just yet, because what would happen if you paint the bottom?

Then wherever you set it, it's gonna get paint all over it, isn't it?

Oh, we don't want that.

Like cover it up.

Just like that.

Cover up all the words.

So I can start to use my imagination and pretend that it's a truck.

Hey, I think I got most sides.

I'm just gonna do the here.

Then while that is drying I will show you how I made the wheels.

Now for the wheels, I used a napkin roll like this, again, another recycled material that would have gone straight to the trash.

And I decided, nope, I'm gonna make some wheels out of it.

So I cut four wheels.

You can cut more if your tube allows it.

So here I just cut straight across.

Here's one.

Sometimes they fly away and here's two.

And three, maybe I'll do five wheels.

And four and five.

It looks like I have enough for five, and we'll pretend that each one is two wheels.

So the next thing you're gonna want to do is paint those wheels, black or any color.

I'm gonna use a mixture of black and green.

And I'm just gonna paint all the way around them like this.

And I paint the outside and I also paint the inside because that's really what you're going to see.

So I'm gonna reach in and paint the inside too.

I'm getting a little bit messy.

So I'm making sure to wear clothing that I don't mind getting dirty.

All right.

So that's what one wheel is gonna look like right here.

See it?

And once they dry it all up then you can glue them together.

And they'll actually look like my finished product right here.

I'll show you my truck.

Vroom, vroom, vroom.

My garbage truck.

Now, once you have it all done like this when you glued the wheels and I glued a little exhaust here you can actually play a beginning sound game using things around your house.

So I gathered some materials here that we can play a game with.

So let me show you what they are.

I'm just gonna clear off my paint and you can actually put things in a basket like this.

You can use magazine cutouts with special letters or you can just go around your house and put things in the garbage truck that start with a particular letter.

Of course, I'm in TV land, so I put things in a basket 'cause I can't really move around.

Let me show you what I have.

I have a magnifying glass.

You use that to see things closely, a balloon some sprinkles, yum, some garlic, not so yum, a goat, pencil, a spoon, claw, stick, straw reusable of course because we want to be kind to our environment.

and a clip.

So looking at all my things the first part of the game is picking out a letter.

Hmm, I think I'll find things that start with the letter.

S that's what my garbage truck is gonna eat.

Okay.

Let's look at the first one.

How about spoon?

Does spoons start with the letter S?

Remember the letter S makes the ss sound like a snake.

Do you hear that beginning sound, spoon?

Yes, okay into my garbage truck.

Come on down, collect it.

And it goes with the letter S, it's still hungry.

So let's keep looking.

How about Clip?

Clip, hmm does that sound like it starts with the letter S clip?

No, it starts with a K, K, that's a different letter.

That's actually a C sorry garbage truck can't eat that.

How about stick?

Stick, does it make the sound like the ss sounds.

Okay, let's get our garbage truck.

It's gonna eat the stick.

Ooh, yummy breakfast, but it's still hungry.

Let's find some other things.

How about garlic?

Let's see the beginning sound that I hear is ga, ga, ga. Good, does that sound the same as ss, no.

Now Kenny garlic today, let's try another one.

Sprinkles.

Yes.

You hear that ss?

Like the S at the beginning here comes the garbage truck.

In go the sprinkles.

So, so far for breakfast you've had letter S words, sprinkle, stick, and spoon.

Ah, but her garbage truck is still hungry.

I think we have time for two more things.

Let's see.

How about pencil?

Pencil, does that say ss at the beginning?

No, sorry can't eat a pencil.

How about straw, straw?

Do you hear that sound?

Yes, you can have a straw.

Come on, garbage tin, in goes the straw.

Still hungry though.

Maybe for one more thing.

Do we have one more thing to give it?

Oh, a balloon, ba, ba, ba loon, ba, ba cea.. No, that doesn't say S, how about a rag?

Rrrr.

How about a goat?

Hmm, no.

Sorry, garbage truck, You're all done with letter S words.

You can go to the dump now, strong and off it goes to the dump.

So I hope that you get to make this project.

And of course, if you do send me a picture or a note I love to hear from you.

Here's the address below in just a minute.

All right, boys and girls looks like we have just enough time to sing our goodbye song which is also a great way to practice our letters.

So let me grab our letters here and we'll sing together.

Are you ready?

♪ A, B, C you later ♪ ♪ D, E, F, G ♪ I'm gonna miss ya.

H, I have to go now.

J, K, okay bye-bye now.

L, M, N, O, P, I had a good time.

P, Q, R. Are you gonna miss me?

S, T, U are my best friend.

V, W, X, Y, and Z.

All right, boys and girls, I'll see you tomorrow.

We're gonna have a lot more fun.

We're gonna think about how our two stories for the week tie together, paperback, princess and a garbage truck.

Hmm.

I wonder we're also gonna do fun science experiment.

In our book, the garbage truck took garbage over to the river.

Does that mean that it disappears?

What happens to garbage?

I wonder, we're gonna explore that through a science activity with oil and water at different garbage things.

So if you want to do the science activity with me bring a pan, some water, some garbage little bit of oil and some water, and we'll do it together.

And till then, Miss Lara sends you up big squeeze and a big smudge and reminds you to read and to play and to use your imagination every single day.

We'll see you again tomorrow, boys and girls.

Goodbye.

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