(upbeat 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'm so excited you're here for another fun week of learning.

Shall we start our day off with a song with Miss Maria, the mail person?

Okay, let's sing together.

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 ♪ ♪ Hello, jello.

♪ ♪ What's up buttercup ♪ ♪ We have so much to do ♪ ♪ I'm glad that you are up.

♪ That's true, Miss Maria.

We have so much to do today.

Let's walk through our plan.

So the first thing we're going to do is see if we got a delivery from Miss Maria.

We have a whole new book to introduce, and we're gonna be talking about courage and bravery this week.

We're gonna read, "The Wild Things," and where they are, and watch a video story together.

And then we're gonna retell the story, because as you know, parents, comprehension is so important.

When we're little and young in preschool, and especially as we go to kindergarten, first through third grade, knowing and understanding what you read is as important as being able to read.

After that, we'll go to the project place and do a mask, wild thing mask, just like in our book.

Are you ready to get started?

Okay, I think I hear our doorbell.

(doorbell ringing) Let's see.

Oh, there it goes.

It's Miss Maria with a delivery of a letter.

So let's see what she has here.

Let's see.

It says, "Dear Ms.

Lara."

Now, do you remember when we start reading, we start on the left and slide to the right.

And, of course, I have a song to help us remember, ♪ This is the left ♪ (fingers snap) ♪ This is the right ♪ (fingers snap) When we read, we start at the left and slide to the right (fingers snap) All right, let's read.

It says, "Dear Miss Lara, Have I got a story for you!"

Yay, I love a good story.

"I went to the land where the wild things are, and scared them into making me the king.

It is so fun to scare others.

Love Max," a character in our story.

What do you think?

Is it fun to scare others?

Hmm.

I don't think others like it when you scare them, huh?

That can be causing mischief, which is a word that we're gonna learn about, which means doing naughty things.

Do you do naughty things?

Ooh, I hope not.

I have a story that Miss Maria dropped off about something that does naughty things too.

And it learns, this little seed learns at the end how not to be naughty.

So we're gonna read that story together before we visit our focus text for the week.

Now let's look at the front cover.

The title of the book says, "The Bad seed."

Ooh, and look at that seed.

His eyebrows are kind of focused down.

Look at that.

It was written by Jory John.

That's the author of the book, and illustrated by Pete Oswald.

That means Pete Oswald drew the pictures.

So let's start reading.

Ooh, "The Bad Seed.

'I'm a bad seed, a bad seed.'"

Look at his eyes.

Ooh, he looks kind of bad and scary.

"'Oh yeah, it's true.

The other seeds, they look at me and they say, That seed is so bad.'

When they think I'm not listening, they mumble, 'There goes the bad seed.'

But I can hear them.

I have good hearing for a seed."

Now, how do you think that he feels when he hears others, calling him a bad seed?

How would you feel?

"'How bad am I, do you really want to know?

Well, I never put things back where they belong."

Look, he's taking the shopping cart and just leaving it in the middle of the parking lot.

"'I'm late to everything.

I tell long jokes with no punchlines.'"

Woo, that sounds boring.

"'I never ever wash my hands or my feet.'"

Oh, there was something else that didn't wash its feet.

I think we're gonna learn about that character today.

"'I lie about pointless stuff and I cut in line every time.'"

That's not kind, cuts in line every time.

'"I stare at everybody, I glare at everybody.'"

Glare.

Ew, yeah.

'"I finish everybody's sentences, and I never, ever, ever listen.

And I do lots of other bad things too.

Know why, know why?

Because I'm a bad seed, a bad seed.'"

Look at it being so bad right there.

'"I just can't help it.

Sure, I wasn't always this bad.

I was born a humble little seed, a simple sunflower in an unremarkable field.

I had a big family, seeds everywhere.

We found ways of having fun.

We were so close.'"

So there he is on his sunflower with his family smiling.

"'But then the petals dropped, and our flower dropped.

It's kind of a blur.

I remember a bag.

But then everything went dark.

And then, and then, a giant.

Oh no.'"

It's gonna try to eat him, huh?

'"I thought I was a goner.

I thought I was done, for I screamed and I hollered, ah!

But I was spit out at the last possible second, a-poo.

I flew through the air and I landed under the bleachers with a huge thud.

When I woke up, it was dark outside.

A wad of gum had softened my fall.

I felt okay.

But something had changed in me.

I'd become a different seed entirely.

I's become a bad seed, a bad seed.

That's right.

I stopped smiling.

I kept to myself, I drifted.

I was a friend to nobody, and I was bad to everybody.

I was lost on purpose.

I lived inside a soda can.

I didn't care, and it suited me.'"

Hmm.

"'Until,'" ooh, I love an until.

"'Until recently I've made a big decision.

I've decided I don't want to be a bad seed anymore.

I'm ready to be happy.

It's so hard to be good when you're so used to being bad, but I'm trying.

I'm taking it one day at a time.

Sure, I still forget to listen.

And I still show up late, and I still talk during movies, and I do all kinds of other bad stuff.

But I also say, thank you, and I say, please, and I smile and I hold doors open for people, not always, but sometimes.

And even though I still feel bad, sometimes I also feel kind of good.

It's sort of a mix.'"

So look, what he's gonna say, he's pointing.

He says, "Hey, look, there goes the bad seed."

He says, "Actually, he's not all the bad, not that bad anymore."

The seed says, "'I heard that.'

The End."

What did you think of our story?

In the end, our bad seed turned things around, and he reminded us that sometimes good seeds or good people can make mistakes and do bad things too, right?

So right now we're gonna watch a video story from our focus text, "Where the Wild Things Are."

The character in the story, Max, he's not all that good, kind of just like the bad seed, he turns it around.

So let's watch it together.

(bright music) It's Storytime.

"Where the Wild Things Are," story and pictures by Maurice Sendak, retold by Miss Lara.

"That night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another.

His mother called him wild thing.

And Max said, 'I'll eat you up.'

So he was sent to his room without eating anything.

That night a forest grew in Max's room until the very walls became the world all around.

An ocean tumbled by with a private boat just for Max.

(waves crashing) And he sailed off night and day, in and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things are.

And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars, (wild things roaring) and gnashed their terrible teeth, (teeth gnashing) and rolled their terrible eyes, and showed their terrible claws.

That is until Max said, 'Be still,' and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into their yellow eyes without blinking once.

They were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all.

Max became the king of all wild things.

(horn blaring) 'And now,' cried Max, 'Let the wild rumpus start!'

Woo.

(suspenseful music) 'Now stop,' said Max, and sent the wild things off to bed without their supper.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Max gave up being king of the wild things, even though the wild things roared their terrible roars.

(wild things roaring) and gnashed their terrible teeth, (teeth gnashing) and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye.

(waves crashing) Max sailed right into his very own room, where he found his supper waiting for him, and it was still hot.

The end."

(thrilling music) So I hope that you enjoyed that story, "Where the Wild Things Are."

Did you enjoy how Max scared the wild things?

That was fun, huh?

Remember that you can check out more stories like that on the Sora app and at your local library.

Read, read, read all summer long.

Right now, we're gonna focus on comprehension, or understanding what we just watched.

Let's review our story, "Where the Wild Things Are."

I have a song to help us remember the words that we'll use to review.

It goes like this.

♪ When I retell a book to a teacher or a friend ♪ ♪ I tell the beginning and the middle and the end ♪ ♪ First, next, last are the words that help me out ♪ ♪ When I read my favorite book, I tell what it's about ♪ So let's start off telling what it's about, "Where the Wild Things Are."

Do you remember there was a character named Max, and he got into all kinds of mischief?

He even, look here, has a fork and he's chasing the dog.

And then he actually got sent to his room, didn't he, by his mom who said, "Max, that was not a good thing to do chasing the dog."

Now, did Max get any supper?

Supper's another word for dinner.

No, he went to bed hungry.

That must've made him angry.

Well that night, do you remember what grew in his room?

A giant forest and vines covered all the walls, and then an ocean appeared, and his very own personal sailboat.

So he got in the sailboat and traveled a long time, a year, weeks and weeks, until he got to the land of the wild things.

Now was he scared?

Not Max, he was very brave.

He decided that he was going to become king of the wild things by staring into their yellow eyes.

But then he kind of got tired of being around the wild things.

Do you remember why he wanted to go home?

That's right.

He wanted to be where people loved him the best.

So he got back in the sailboat and went right into his room, where he found his supper waiting for him.

And it was still hot.

Now I love to review stories like this with you.

I also love to teach you projects that you can do at home, where you can reenact or act out the story.

So let's go to our project place together, and I'll show you how to make a wild thing mask.

Oh, before we do, let me show you the materials you'll need.

You'll need a paper bag, tape, paint, and some scissors.

So to the project place, here we go.

Now I have to tell you that this mask that I made was super scary.

I'm gonna show it to you.

I don't want you to be scared.

It looks like a real wild thing.

I don't know how I made that happen.

It's like this.

Ready?

Look at this mask.

Ooh, like a real wild thing, huh?

You can actually put it on and pretend that you're a wild thing in the story, and tell the people around you about all that happened in the book.

So lets start making it together.

You're going to need a paper bag, just an ordinary paper bag that you're gonna get at the grocery store.

You're gonna open it up like this.

Now, you'll notice that your paper bag will fit you kind of loose if you're four or five years old, and your head is kind of smaller than Miss Lara.

So what we can do is actually make horns.

Just like in the "Wild Things," they had horns to make it fit a little bit better.

So we're gonna do that.

Now, this is kind of tricky.

It took me a little while.

I don't know if I can do it now, but what you're gonna do is you're gonna take your hand and you're gonna reach into the bag and kind of crumble it like this.

See how I'm crumbling it around my fingers.

And then when you remove your fingers, you have some of this crumbled piece here.

Do you see that?

Next thing you're gonna do is take some tape and you're gonna tape that down.

And that's gonna be your first ear or your first wild thing horn.

I'm gonna grab some tape here.

It actually works best with tape.

I tried it with string and glue.

Tape seems to work best.

All right, there's our first ear or horn.

What do you think?

We're gonna do the same thing on the other side.

So put your hand in the bag, and kind of crumble it around like this, just like that.

Then, you're gonna take some tape and move it around the ears.

Here we are, or horns.

For me, I decided they were gonna be horns.

I like the idea of adding different ears later.

All right, so here we go.

Here's our first part.

Bring it out a little bit.

And then, I know what you're thinking, "Miss Lara, how am I gonna see if I put this over my head?

I won't be able to."

So of course, we need to cut out some eye holes.

So you do that with some scissors.

Now, boys and girls, you might need some help from your parents to do this, 'cause it is a little bit tricky.

You do kind of have to pinch the bag like this, and then go and make a little spot here.

And what I like to do is make my first eye and then kind of measure where the next one should be.

Now take that, put it in, and go around and around, and make them kind of large because we also want to be able to breathe in our bag, don't we?

So here goes the first one.

I'm going around and around as you can see, using my helper hand to hold it still.

All right.

There's my first eye, just like that.

Ooh, you know what?

If I make it big enough, this can be a one-eyed wild thing.

That would be so much fun.

That would make it even creepier, wouldn't it?

(laughing) I think I'll do that.

I'll make my eyes super large, that we can see out of it.

I've seen where they make Max costumes out of paper bags.

That would be fun to use recycled materials to make that happen.

Okay.

One-eyed wild thing.

The next season you're gonna wanna do is you're gonna take some paint.

So I have some brown paint here, and I like to use brown or blue paint or green, just because those were the colors that I saw in the book.

So there's some brown paint.

And, I'm gonna try painting my wild thing.

So let's dip our paint in there.

Now, if you don't have paint, of course, you can use markers, crayons.

Use anything you have at home.

Or since the paper bag is kind of a different shade of brown, you can just leave it that.

I like the texture that the paint brings to my wild thing mask.

I think it looks kind of neat, all painted up, just like that, all the way around.

Now, this might take a little while, huh, to paint all of it brown.

I'm gonna go kind of quickly, because we're in TV land, and I wanna show you how to do other things.

But you take your time, mix your own colors, and paint your wild thing however you want it.

And, of course, I'm gonna paint the ears and the horns too.

Now it doesn't look like much now, but when we add the paper decorations, that's when our wild thing comes to life.

Now in the story, Max got in trouble, didn't he?

He got sent to his room.

Do you ever get in trouble?

Grownups, when they get in trouble, they don't really get sent to their room anymore, but they still feel bad.

All right, let's see.

There we go.

I think this is gonna be my last paint.

See, kind of, paint it all up, and the rougher, the better, because we want it to feel like fur on a wild thing.

The next thing we're gonna do, if you notice on my mask, is I put a mouth with some teeth.

And remember in the story that the wild things, they had teeth that were very grimy, because they didn't brush them, did they?

Do you brush your teeth?

I hope you do every morning.

It's so important.

I brush my teeth.

So I'm gonna grab my green paper and use my scissors.

I'm gonna cut out a mouth, that I'll put there, right here.

What do you think?

Should we put it on there?

Of course, the paint is wet, so I won't be able to add it, but you'll be able to see what it looks like.

And then I'll show you how I cut the horns.

I used my special trick of folding the paper in half to get two exact pieces.

Exact means they're the same.

So I'm gonna take it and kinda cut up and curve, curve, curve.

Okay, and then I'm gonna start again at the bottom and go down like this.

Okay.

And then I can put my horns or my ears right up here.

just like that.

Again, the paint is wet, so I won't be able to show you how to glue them, but you can kind of see.

The last thing I wanted to show you how to do is make the hair and the eyes.

So to make the hair, I'm gonna take some black paper, like this, and I'm gonna cut strips.

Now, cutting, as I told you before is so important.

When you're about to enter kindergarten, because you do do a lot of cutting, so parents, if you want your children to practice, make little lines with some pencil marks here, and then they can cut on the line.

So you can see, I have some hair here that I'll add to my monster.

The last thing I'll do is show you how to cut out the eye, my one-eyed monster.

First, I make an oval, so that's a round shape.

That's not quite a circle.

And then I'm going to fold it in half and cut a smaller oval inside.

And then you're gonna glue that on your monster, like this, like a zero.

All right.

And you'll end up with something that looks like this if you followed my directions, or any other kind of wild thing mask that you make.

Remember it's yours to create, whatever you'd like.

I hope that you try this activity, and if you do, send me a little note or a picture here at the station, I think my friends will put the address below in just a second.

Right now, it's time for us to say goodbye.

We'll try to get through all of our alphabet as best we can.

Are you ready?

Let me move my mask.

I'm gonna put him, I'll leave him here.

We can do it.

It goes like this.

♪ A, B, C you later ♪ ♪ D, E, F and then what comes next ♪ ♪ 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, Z ♪ And I hope boys and girls that I Z you tomorrow.

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

We'll see you tomorrow for more reading fun.

Goodbye.

(upbeat music)