(upbeat guitar music) - Hello, little learners.

Welcome back to Camp Read-a-Lot.

The place where we read books, sing songs, and keep the learning going all summer long.

My name is miss Lara.

Can you tell me your name?

Ooh, I heard you way over here.

I'm so excited to get our day started.

So let's have Maria, our mail person, help us out with our good morning song.

Ready?

♪ 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 brains strong ♪ - Like super strong.

- ♪ So come along.

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

♪ Oh, hello, Jello.

- Hi there, Grizzly bear.

- What's up, butter cup?

- Nothing much, coconut.

- Hmm what shaking little bacon?

- Not a lot, tater tot.

- Ready to start, glitter heart?

- Of course, brave horse.

- I'm ready to start too.

So let's go through our plan for the day.

So this morning, we're going to continue focusing on our text "Abiyoyo", about a monster that comes to a village.

And a little boy and his father, who were brave and used a ukulele and a magic wand to make him disappear.

That's right.

We're going to maybe get some mail for miss Maria, and then we're going to focus on rhyming so that you can learn to read books, just like I do.

And of course, we're going to do some art, and tie it into rhyming to end our day.

Does that sound like a good plan?

Okay.

I think I hear, (doorbell rings) Ooh!

Ms. Maria.

She left me a note here.

Now, remember when we read, we start at the left and go to the right, and I have a song to help us remember, ♪ This is the left.

♪ (clicks fingers) This is the right.

(clicks fingers) When we read, we start at the left.

We slide to the right.

(clicks fingers) Let's read.

It says: Dear, miss Lara.

I was so brave!

When a monster named Abiyoyo came to my town, my father and I made him disappear.

Are you brave sometimes?

What does that word, brave, mean?

Do you remember in our story with Sheila Rae the mouse?

She was a brave because nothing scared her, But actually being brave means something can scare you, but you do it anyway.

I think our friend Sonia the snail has a story for us about being brave.

Let's watch together.

(happy music) - [Narrator] Exploring feelings, with Sonia the snail.

Sonia the snail was playing in her room.

(happy music) She loved playing with her dolls.

(happy music) All of a sudden, the lights went out.

(dramatic music) She didn't like being in her room by herself, in the dark.

(crying) She called out to her grandma, - Grandma!

(crying) Please come!

- There there, said her grandma.

Are you scared?

- Sonia, snail nodded.

- Everyone feels scared sometimes, Sonia, grandma said.

I'm glad you're talking to me about it.

Sometimes when I feel scared, I feel better when I count to 10.

Do you want to count to 10 with me, Sonia?

- Sonia, thought she would give it a try.

- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine And ten!

(sighs deeply) (happy piano music) I feel much better, Grandma, - Sonia said.

Just then, the lights came back on and this made Sonia happy.

But she knew that the next time something scary happened.

She could stop, name her feeling, talk to someone about it, and count to 10 to calm down.

(upbeat guitar music) ♪ You might fall.

You might fly.

♪ ♪ Baby, it's so brave to try.

♪ ♪ When you feel scared inside, baby its so brave to try.

♪ ♪ Babe ♪ - I'm so glad that Sonia the snail shared her story, about being brave.

Can you think of a time when you were brave?

I can.

Now, if you can think of a time when you were brave, draw me a picture and send me a little note.

I think my friends here are going to put the address below.

Now, I think that Maria, the mail person, might've left us more mail.

Let's see.

Ooh, it's our book from yesterday.

Yay.

I get to read it to you.

But I think she also left, ooh, some words.

They're going to help us comprehend or understand what's in the story.

Ooh, Let's go through our words first, and then we'll talk about our book.

So our very first word is "Magician".

A magician is someone who performs magic.

You might see them at fairs, or you might see them when you go out and visit them.

They do magic tricks, and sometimes wear a hat and have a wand.

Our next word is "Faint".

You feel faint when you feel dizzy and you fall to the ground, just like in the picture.

And our last word is a big one, "Ostracized".

Ostracized means that you leave people out.

In our book, the father and the son were ostracized, when the people in the village didn't like their tricks and sent them to live at the edge of town.

Okay?

So let's read our book now, Abiyoyo.

Now just like Sonia, snail.

The characters in our story had to be brave, right?

Hey, let's read.

Abiyoyo, by Pete Seeger.

And it's a story song.

Now I also know that this is a south African folk tale.

Do you know where South Africa is?

I wonder if you can find out.

It's illustrated by Michael Hayes.

That means Michael Hayes drew the pictures.

Let's read.

Abiyoyo.

Once upon a time, there was a little boy who played the ukulele.

Remember I showed you one yesterday?

Around town he'd go plink, plunk, plunk, plunk.

And the grownups would say, take that thing out of here.

Not only that, the boy's father got into trouble too.

The boy's father was a magician.

He had a magic wand.

He'd go zip, zip, zip, and make things this disappear.

But he played too many tricks on people.

He'd come up to someone about to drink a nice cold glass of water.

And zip, the glass disappeared, and he water would get all over their face.

Someone doing a hard job of work.

Zip, zip zip.

Up comes the father with his magic wand and zip.

No saw.

What do you think?

Was that very kind of the father?

I don't know.

He'd come up to someone about to sit down after a hard day's work.

And zip.

No chair, not nice at all.

People said to the father, you get out of here too.

Take your magic wand and your tricks, and you and your son just get!

The boy and his father were ostracized.

That means, they made them live on the edge of town.

They're walking to the edge of town.

Now, in this town they used to tell stories.

The old people used to tell stories about the giants that lived in the old days.

They used to tell about our giant named... Do you remember?

Abiyoyo, that's right.

They said he was as tall as a tree and could eat people up.

Oh no!

Of course, nobody believed the story.

But they told it anyway.

One day, one day, the sun rose blood-red over the hill.

The first people got up and looked out the window.

(gasp) They saw a great big shadow in front of the sun.

They could feel the whole ground shake.

Women screamed.

(screams) Strong men fainted.

Oh!

Run for your lives!

Abiyoyo is coming.

He came to the sheep pasture.

He grabbed a whole sheep.

(munches) Yup!

He came to the cow pasture.

He grabbed a whole cow.

(munches) Oh, that poor sheep and cow.

Men yell, "grab your most precious possessions and run!"

Run!

Just then, the boy in his father woke up.

"Hey, Pa, what's coming over the fields?"

"Why son, that's Abiyoyo", "If only I can get him to lay down, I can make him disappear".

Now I want you to think, why did the father want to get him to lay down?

What did he have that can make Abiyoyo disappear?

That's right.

His magic wand.

Let's see what happens.

The boy said "Come with me, Pa".

He grabbed his father by one hand.

The father grabbed his magic wand, and the boy got his ukulele and they ran across the fields.

People yelled, "Don't go near him.

He'll eat you alive!"

There was Abiyoyo.

He had long fingernails because he never cut'em.

He had slobbery teeth, ugh, because he never brushed them.

And stinky feet.

Cause he never washed them.

And of course his hair was all matted, because, you guessed it.

He never brushed it.

Just then the boy whips out his ukulele.

And do you remember what he began to sing?

♪ Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo.

♪ Well, the giant had never heard a song about himself before, so a giant grin, that means a smile, spread across his face.

And he started to dance.

♪ Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, ♪ The boy went faster.

♪ Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, ♪ There he is dancing.

♪ Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, ♪ ♪ Abiyoyo ♪ The giant got out of breath.

(pants) He staggered.

He fell down, (imitates falling tree) flat on the ground.

Now, what did the father say he was going to do when Abiyoyo was on the ground?

Do you remember?

That's right.

He was going to use this magic wand, and go zoop, zoop, zoop.

And make Abiyoyo disappear.

People looked out their windows.

They said, "Oh, he's gone".

"Abiyoyo's disappeared".

They ran across the field.

They lifted the boy up on their shoulders and sang.

♪ Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, ♪ And they told them, come back to town, bring your ukulele.

We don't care anymore.

♪ Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, ♪ The end.

And so boys and girls, I hope that you enjoyed the story.

And I love reading books to you.

But, of course, my goal and hope is that you one day, read books to me.

So in order to do that, we need to practice our foundational skills like rhyming.

All right.

And I have some practice that we can do together here.

So let's see.

I have rhyming words.

Now, do you remember?

Those are words that sound the same at the end.

And I have something here.

It's a sheep.

Do you remember?

That's what Abiyoyo grabbed and ate all up.

(munches) We're going to try to find words that rhyme with sheep.

Let's see.

Let's look at our first word.

We have "Jeep".

Do Jeep and sheep sound the same at the end?

They do.

Jeep, sheep.

They both say "eep".

So I'm going to put it right here with the thumbs up.

And you can actually give me a thumbs up at home, if you think they rhyme.

Or a thumbs down if they don't.

How about cow?

Let's think: cow and sheep.

No.

Boo to that.

They don't rhyme.

They don't sound the same at the end.

Let's see.

How about this picture?

It shows a truck and it's going up something steep.

Steep and sheep.

Do they rhyme?

Yes, they do.

Steep, sheep.

They both say "eep".

Let's put it here.

We'll do a couple of more before going on to our project.

Practice at home.

How about this?

It's weep.

Oh, so sad.

Weep and sheep today, right?

Weep, sheep.

They both say "eep".

They do rhyme.

Let's put it right there.

And, let's try this musical instrument.

We made one yesterday.

It's called a ukulele.

Grab it.

Ukulele and sheep.

Ukulele and sheep, rhyme?

No.

Boo to that.

They don't rhyme.

So I want you to keep practicing your rhyming words at home.

And in order to do that, I have project that you can do with me right now.

So let's go over to the project place.

So, in order to practice our rhyming words, I thought we'd bring in some art too.

So, I made a water color Abiyoyo.

Now, in order to do this project, you're going to need some paper, a black crayon and some watercolors.

And we're gonna make it a rhymey activity, because I have my rhyming basket here.

And every time we hear a rhyme, we're gonna make Abiyoyo dance.

That's how we're going to make him disappear.

Huh?

All right.

The first thing you're going to need is a sheet of white paper.

Now, mine is kind of large.

But you can have yours as large or as small as you'd like.

Then we're going to need a black crayon.

Now I drew, I started off by drawing my Abiyoyo's head.

I'm going to put it right here so you can see me.

Hmm.

I'm going to make kind of a round oval head like this.

Just like that.

Do you see?

And then I'm going to give him some hair, that's gonna come out just like this.

Do you remember?

They used a word to describe his hair.

They said it was matted.

Matted means it's so tangled, and kinda like this, that it kind of becomes a little bunch.

So there it is.

My matted hair all the way around.

Next, I'm going to make his big eyes he's going to use, to see the people and things he's going to try to eat up.

Not us though.

We're going to make some rhymes and make him dance until he falls.

Just like that.

Then a large nose and a mouth.

Now, in our story, our monster had some gruesome teeth, because he didn't brush his teeth.

So I'm gonna make some gruesome teeth come down, and you can actually color them in black.

Because that's what happens to our teeth, if we don't brush them.

They turn black and they even fall off.

Oh no.

I hope that doesn't happen to us.

Here it goes.

Next, we're going to need a body.

Now make a large oval body like this.

And then two, what?

Two arms.

Hey, let's make some arms.

Now in the story, there was something unique about his hands and his nails.

Something strange.

Do you remember?

Did he ever cut his nails?

No.

So he had these long yellow fingernails, probably full of grime.

I'm going to try to make some right here.

Ooh.

I always try to cut my fingernails.

Can you imagine how uncomfortable that would be, to have them full of dirt and grimy?

What's missing?

We have a head eyes, nose, mouth, hands.

Hmm how's he going to get around?

Oh, we need some feet.

He probably doesn't wear shoes, huh?

It would be hard to go to a store, and buy monster shoes that are big enough to fit him.

Maybe that's why he's so angry.

And, of course, his toenails are going to be big like this and long, because he doesn't cut them.

There we go.

What do we think of Abiyoyo?

Ooh, he look kind of scary.

Doesn't he?

Oh, I forgot his ears.

Let me get them his ears.

How's he going to hear me?

And maybe he has horns.

You can make your monster any way that you'd like.

Now, the next thing you're going to do, is you're going to take some water colors.

So, I have my paint brush here and a little bit of water.

And you're going to see, I'll just show you what it looks like before I show you a rhyming activity.

Take a little bit of water there, and you're going to paint over it.

Ooh.

Some blue.

Now, anywhere that there is black crayon, you're going to start to see bubbling.

And it actually resists.

That means it doesn't absorb or take in the paint.

So there we go.

We're just going to paint his head, and then I'll show you the rhyming activity here.

You can make them as colorful as you'd like.

Now, of course, monsters like Abiyoyo are not real, right?

The book was a work of fiction.

That means it was made up in someone's head, and shared with you boys and girls.

All right.

Well now I gotta color all his gruesome matted hair green.

(laughs) Here we go.

And I'll show you what the finished product looks like here.

This, is what my Abiyoyo ended up looking like.

Ooh, kind of silly, huh?

Lots of different colors.

Now to make this a rhyming activity, we're going to make him dance every time that he hears our rhyme.

So I have my rhyming basket here.

Now parents, rhyming is so important to hearing the patterns in the words that we read.

Now, one thing that's especially difficult is producing rhymes.

Children can learn early on to identify them, but producing them gets a little bit hard.

And that's what this activity is.

But you can make it as easy or as hard as you'd like.

So, we're going to see how many rhymes we can come up with, with ball.

Let's see if we can make him dance ball, ooh, tall.

Let's make him dance.

Tall.

How about hall?

He's still dancing.

How about fall?

And that's what he's gonna do.

And you wanna make continue until you make them fall, and it's the last rhyme.

Let's do another one.

How about, Ooh.

Let's see if I can think of one with honey.

Can we make him dance, honey?

Ooh.

What comes to mind is money.

Money!

Honey and money rhyme so he's gonna dance.

Ooh, honey and, is he going to keep dancing?

Oh no.

He might attack me.

Funny.

Ooh, funny.

Let's keep rhyming.

Money, funny, honey.

Oh, I can't think of any other ones.

So ooh, he might attack.

I better come get another one.

How about brush?

Brush.

Let's think of some more rhymes to make him dance.

Bush and flush.

All right.

Really dance, flush.

I can't think of anymore.

Is he gonna fall down?

Not quite yet.

Let's go to another one.

Goat goats.

So let's see, goat.

He's gonna dance.

Boat, moat, float.

I think I got him.

Fall.

So you can see how you can play this activity.

And, of course, art is learning in and of itself.

If you do this with your child, make sure that as you're creating the art, you talk about the story.

Why are they picking out those fingernails?

Why the matted hair?

All right, boys and girls.

So I can't wait to do more activities with you tomorrow.

Until then, I'm going to sing our ABC song.

Our goodbye.

Are you ready to do some letter practice with me?

All right, here we go.

♪ A, B, ♪ ♪ "C" you later ♪ ♪ D, E, F, ♪ ♪ "G", I'm gonna miss ya ♪ ♪ 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, and Z ♪ Okay boys and girls.

I'll "Z" you tomorrow.

We have lots of fun learning to do.

We're going to read a whole new book, and guess what?

If you're in your pajamas, when you watch me, you get to stay in your pajamas, because it's about a little boy who's very naughty.

And he goes into his pajamas and goes into a strange land where there's wild things.

It's called "Where the wild things are".

I'm going to wear my pajamas too, and my crown.

We're going to get to read the story, and make our own wild thing projects as we practice our beginning sounds.

So I hope that you join me tomorrow for some more learning fun.

Until then, Ms. Lara is going to send you a big squeeze (groans) and a big smooch, (kiss) A monster smooch, just like in our story.

Reminder to read and to play, and to use your imagination every single day.

We'll see you tomorrow, boys and girls.

Goodbye.

(cheerful upbeat music)