(pleasant 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?

I'm so excited that you made it back today friend, another fun week of learning.

Let's start our morning off with our Good morning song.

Are you ready?

Here's Miss Maria, the mail person.

Say hello.

She's going to help us.

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 our 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, jello ♪ ♪ What's up buttercup ♪ ♪ We have so much to do ♪ ♪ I'm glad that you woke up ♪ ♪ So wipe the sleep from your eyes ♪ Get snug and ready for lots of learning.

Today, we're going to learn about a whole new book.

We're going to read a book about a mouse and a cookie.

Hmm, I wonder what book it could be?

We might get some mail from Miss Maria.

We'll work on our foundational skills.

And of course I have a fun project for you to play with at home.

So let's start our day off though, with a song about our feelings.

How are you feeling today?

Maybe you're happy, maybe you're sad.

maybe you're mad or maybe you're a feeling that happens when you put all those and you blend them up.

So let's sing a song and you show me how you're feeling.

Now, to sing and dance you're going to need a space.

Where you're not gonna bump into anything.

Are you ready?

All right, let me put my music on and we'll stand up and sing.

(happy music) (hands clapping) Start with happy.

♪ If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands ♪ (hands clapping) ♪ If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands ♪ (hands clapping) ♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪ ♪ Then your face will surely show it ♪ ♪ If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands ♪ (hands clapping) ♪ If you're mad and you know it, stomp your feet ♪ (feet shuffling) ♪ if you're mad and you know it, stomp your feet ♪ (feet stomping) ♪ If you're mad and you know it, ♪ ♪ Then your face will surely show it ♪ ♪ If you're mad and you know it, stomp your feet ♪ (feet stomping) ♪ If you're sad and you know it, say boohoo ♪ Boohoo.

♪ If you're sad and you know it, say boohoo ♪ Boohoo.

♪ If you're sad and you know it ♪ ♪ Then your face will surely show it ♪ ♪ You're sad and you know it, say boohoo ♪ Boohoo.

♪ Confused and you know it, say I don't know ♪ I don't know.

♪ You're confused and you know it, say I don't know ♪ I don't know.

♪ You're confused and you know it ♪ ♪ Then your face will surely show it ♪ ♪ Your confused and you know it, say I don't know ♪ I don't know.

♪ You're excited and you know it, say hooray ♪ Hooray.

♪ If you're excited and you know it, say hooray ♪ Hooray.

♪ Your excited and you know it ♪ ♪ Then your face will surely show it ♪ ♪ Excited and you know it, say hooray ♪ Hooray.

Back to happy.

♪ And you know it, clap your hands ♪ (hands clapping) ♪ If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands ♪ last time ♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪ ♪ Then your face will surely show it ♪ ♪ Your happy and you know it, clap your hands ♪ (hands clapping) Wow, you're such good singers and dancers.

All right, I think I hear.

(doorbell rings) Let's see.

Ooh Miss Maria, she's calling with a letter.

Let's see what Miss Maria brought for us today.

It says, "Dear Miss Lara," Now remember when I'm reading, I start on my left and I go to my right.

Are you ready to sing our song?

♪ This is the left ♪ (fingers snapping) ♪ This is the right ♪ (fingers snapping) ♪ When we read ♪ ♪ We start at the left ♪ ♪ We go to the right, ♪ (fingers snapping) "Dear Miss Lara, have I got a story for you."

Yay, I love a good story.

"Who knew what would come of me wanting a cookie."

A cookie?

Hmm.

"I did not know there would be so many consequences to my actions."

Consequences?

Have you heard that word before?

Hmm, I wonder what it means?

Let's see, I've heard it when someone's told me not to do something.

They've said, "There's gonna be consequences to that."

I think they mean that if I do that, something else will happen as a result.

And I think we have a book that Miss Maria delivered that tells us about it.

Now, she didn't tell me what the book was about, but she gave me some clues.

Let's see if we can figure it out.

I have some milk.

Milk.

I wonder if the book is about a cow and we have to milk the cow to get the milk.

Hmm.

I also have, ooh, chocolate chip cookie mix.

Milk and cookies?

I know it's about a bedtime story because that's what I love to eat and drink at bedtime.

How about you?

Let's see what other clues she gave me.

Oh, this is unusual.

So I have milk.

I have cookies.

And then I have a bandana.

This is something you put on your head.

What could that have to do with our book?

Hmm.

Then I have crayons?

Crayons and ooh, a little mouse.

I'm wearing mouse ears.

I'm wondering if that's a hint about our book?

Do you think you figured it out?

♪ Let's see ♪ All right, Miss Maria.

Let's see if we can figure out the book.

It is, ta-da If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

This book is by Laura Numeroff.

She's the author of the story.

That means she wrote the words.

It is illustrated by Felicia Bond.

The illustrator draws the pictures.

So we are going to read this book.

See, looking at the front cover.

Ooh, I see the crayons and the mouse and the cookies.

I wonder what else, this book is about?

First page.

Let's read together.

"If you give a mouse a cookie."

So look at there's the little boy, and he's holding out a cookie to the little mouse and the little mouse is wearing overalls like I am.

So what do you think?

Do you think that this is a work of fiction?

Meaning it's make-believe?

Or do you think it's non-fiction?

Meaning it's based on facts.

That's right.

It's make-believe because mice don't really wear overalls.

Do they?

Let's keep going.

"If you give a mouse a cookie, he's gonna ask you for a glass of milk."

♪ When you give him the milk ♪ (book page fluttering) "He'll probably ask you for a straw."

Ooh, do you drink your milk with a straw?

"When he's finished, he'll ask for a napkin."

Now look at him right here.

He's all sweaty.

He looks very satisfied and full of milk.

(book page fluttering) "Then he'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache."

Ooh.

♪ When he looks in the mirror ♪ "He might notice his hair needs a trim, so he'll probably ask you for a pair of nail scissors."

So nail scissors are those tiny scissors that you use to cut your cuticles.

Hmm, just the right size for a little mouse.

"When he's finished giving himself a trim, he'll want a broom to sweep it up.

He'll start sweeping."

Can you sweep with me?

(swishes) "He might get carried away and sweep every room in the house."

Oh, that's so responsible of him.

(book page fluttering) "He may end up washing the floors as well.

When he's done, he'll probably want to take a nap."

(snores) (book page fluttering) "You'll have to fix up a little box for him with a blanket and a pillow.

He'll crawl in, make himself comfortable and fluff the pillow a few times."

Look, there he is.

And look, there's the bandana.

That was our clue.

"He'll probably ask you to read him a story."

I wonder what a mouse's favorite story is?

Hmm.

(book page fluttering) "So you'll read to him from one of your books and he'll ask to see the pictures.

When he looks at the pictures, he'll get so excited.

He'll wanna draw one of his own."

He'll ask you for some paper and some crayons.

"He'll draw a picture."

Now I wanna stop and I want you to make a prediction.

What do you think he's going to draw a picture of?

Do you think he'll draw a picture of cookies and milk?

Let's find out.

(book page fluttering) "When the picture is finished, he'll want to sign his name."

Look, look what he drew.

His little mouse family.

He has a mouse mother, father, sister and brother.

All in the woods.

(book page fluttering) He's gonna sign it with a pen of course.

"Then he'll wanna hang his picture on your refrigerator.

Which means he'll need, scotch tape."

Oh, no.

Look at them looking for scotch tape.

A mouse with scotch tape does not sound like a good idea.

"He'll hang up his drawing and stand back to look at it.

Looking at the refrigerator will remind him that" (book page fluttering) He's so thirsty.

(coughs) He can barely breathe.

♪ So ♪ "He'll ask for a glass of milk" ♪ And chances are ♪ "If he asks for a glass of milk," What is he gonna want?

He's gonna want a cookie to go with it.

The end.

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

Remember to check out the Sora app in your local library for lots more stories.

Now I love reading books to you, but part of the fun is you learning to read too.

So we like to practice our comprehension.

We're taking everything out of a book that you can, so maybe you can write books and create books of your own that you can read to me.

Now, in this story, there were a lot of consequences to the actions of the little mouse.

Meaning, one thing led to another.

We're gonna look at the consequences of the little mouse's actions right here on my chart.

So, first what happened is, the little mouse got a cookie.

Now, do you remember what he wanted afterwards?

He got a cookie and then he wanted some milk.

And because he wanted some milk, he got a?

Straw.

That's right.

The cookie led to the milk which led to the straw.

Now, let's look at another one.

So then the mouse noticed that his hair was much too long.

And so he needed to?

(squishes) Trim it.

That's right.

So he needed nail scissors.

After he needed nail scissors, he made a huge mess on the floor, which meant that he needed a broom to sweep it up.

Do you remember?

After he swept everything up, he decided to be responsible and use a mop to clean everything.

So the scissors led to the broom which led to the mop.

All right, last one.

He really wanted to draw a picture after he was read a story.

So he asked for some crayons and he drew his picture of his mouse family.

And then what did he need to sign?

That's right, a pen.

So he asked for crayons, which led to the picture, which meant he needed a pen.

One thing led to another.

Now I love this book and I hope that you loved it too.

Right now, I'm gonna show you a project that you can do at home to play around and act out the story.

So let's go to our project place.

What to know here?

Let's see.

Now I have a special surprise for you today.

We're gonna make some dramatic play equipment.

Dramatic play is when you act things out.

Can you guess what this is?

It's a (hisses) Aww.

Oven, that's right.

And what will we do inside this oven?

What could we use it for that goes with our story?

Bake cookies, of course.

But first we have to make an oven to play with.

So we're going to need a box for this activity.

You're going to need aluminum foil.

If you wanna cover it like I did, or you can just leave it a box.

I use some lids from some recycled soda bottles and some black paper and tape to add a little bit of decoration.

Are you ready to make your oven with me?

All right, here we go.

Here is my box.

Can you believe that this box is going to be an oven?

Now for this activity, boys and girls, you might need parent help.

And the reason is, is you got to poke a hole in the middle of cardboard, and that can be really hard for little hands.

So how I do it parents, is I open up the scissors and I take one side of the box.

I think this is gonna be where my doors and I kind of go down the side and just like with the knife, (cardboard crunching) back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

This is gonna be the door to my oven that I'm gonna put my cookies in.

(cardboard crunching) Now dramatic play is so important in preschool.

Play really is the best way that children, any child really, learns.

So anytime you can bring the story to life with some play materials, you'll develop children's oral language skills, their critical thinking skills.

And I'll show you in a minute how you can even tie writing to it and make it so that children are actually motivated to write.

And really that's what they need going into kindergarten is the motivation and desire to learn.

(cardboard crunching) All right, I'm almost done.

Keep going.

Okay, you can see, right down here I made myself a little oven door.

Now this box, I got at a store.

They were gonna throw it away, I said, "Stop.

This needs to be an oven."

So here's my little oven door.

Just like the one I have here.

Now, it doesn't look like an oven yet, but I thought it would be really fun to cover it in aluminum foil.

Now you can use paint to paint your oven black, if you like, or just leave it like a box like this and add buttons and different things.

With a, lids that you might have laying around or paper, you don't even have to cut out a door.

Just makes it more fun.

So let's add some aluminum foil.

So I can show you how I did that.

So here's my aluminum foil.

(foil crumpling) Now, I really like to use, there's kind of like a shiny side?

You see the shine?

And then there's a side that's less shiny?

I like to use the side that's a little less shiny.

I felt like it gave me a more realistic look.

All the materials that you see here, I bought at the place where everything costs a dollar.

But like I said, you can go as elaborate, as fancy or as simple as you'd like.

So here's my top.

(foil crumpling) Ooh, a little large there.

And then I'm gonna use some glue to glue it down.

Let's put the glue on the box itself.

Now there's lots of different things you can make with the box.

And if you go and get creative with boxes, I would recommend a book called, This Is Not a Box, that you can read and have students create anything they want out of a box.

Okay, here's my top piece.

Let's do the front before I show you how I added the decorations.

So here's the front now for the front piece, I'm actually gonna need some pieces, of aluminum foil like this.

(foil crumpling) and I use my scissors to cut them, but you can tear them as well.

(foil crumpling) Maybe you can make a collage stove.

Hmm, that would be interesting.

A very artistic stove.

(foil crumpling) Okay?

Then I'm going to glue it down here.

♪ Do do do do do ♪ Now, you know what I say about glue.

"Dot dot not a lot, unless you need a lot."

In this case, yeah, I need quite a bit of glue.

Cause we're gluing down a bit.

I know why teachers always say, "Don't put so much glue."

One, so you don't waste glue.

Just use what you need.

But also if you put a lot of glue, things just take longer to dry.

Don't they?

And then you're waiting and waiting and waiting.

And waiting is no fun.

Okay, we're almost done with the front here and then I'll show you how I made some cookies and maybe we'll have time for us to create our own recipe.

(foil crumpling) Now, do you like to eat chocolate chip cookies?

Those are my favorite kind of cookies.

There is a restaurant here in California that sells a cookie, that it is $40.

Can you imagine?

I wonder what they put in that cookie?

I don't know if I would pay $40 for a cookie.

Would you?

All right, one last little piece.

And then I'll show you how I added the buttons.

All right.

(foil crumpling) Now, aluminum foil is really fun to have around the house because you can create lots of different things with it, right?

Sculptures, different things.

So here's what my oven is looking like so far.

Of course I could put a piece of aluminum foil right there so you can see it opening up.

Now, the next thing I need to do of course is add my buttons.

So I have a little piece of black felt here.

You can use paper.

You can use newspaper, paint.

Whatever you have laying around the house.

I just happen to have some black felt and I wanted to add a little texture.

Then you could add your buttons to the top.

Just like that.

Here's one button and here is two.

And then those can be your knobs that you turn on and off.

So you can, like I said, add any decorations, you'd like, and you'll end up with something that looks like this.

Now, what I used to do in my classroom, is this would be an oven for awhile, and then, it would be a washing machine.

When we read a pair of socks.

So you can change it up.

All right.

So you're gonna need some cookies to go in your oven.

So what I did was I made some cookies with some cardboard and some paper.

So you can do that as well.

And then you'll put them on a pan that you might have laying around the house like this, and pretend to bake your cookies.

Now I think I have a friend who's going to join us.

And he's gonna come and eat the cookies.

Who do you think it is?

Not the cookie monster.

No, he was busy.

It's my little friend.

Whoop.

♪ Ooh, here he is ♪ (lip smacking) You want a cookie, my little mouse friend?

(lip smacking) He's nibbling.

What's that?

Now he wants a glass of milk.

Ooh, what's next?

The straw?

No.

So you can see how you can pretend just with socks and I'll show you how I made this little guy.

Before we write our recipe.

So for this little guy, I just used a plain gray sock.

Some gray felt and black felt and some paper.

So you can go around pretending that you're a little mouse trying to sneak the cookies from our story.

Looks like we have just a little bit of time.

So the last activity that we're going to do is actually some writing.

So parents, this is great.

And once your children are done playing with it, you can actually introduce writing and drawing into this activity and help them with their skills that they're going to need in kindergarten.

So I, what I did is I wrote recipe at the top of a piece of paper.

So you can see how simple it is.

Then I drew a cookie.

Now recipe is spelled R-E-C-I-P-E.

I wonder what kind of recipe we should write?

What do you think is a mouse's favorite?

Chocolate chip cookies, that's right.

Now you can make up your own chocolate chip cookie recipe and you can be as silly or as real as you'd like.

I think I'm gonna go silly.

So for my recipe for chocolate chip cookies, the ultimate, the $40 ones I'll sell.

Are hmm, gummy bears.

Ooh la la.

I've never tried gummy bears in a delicious cookie, but I, I like gummy bears, I like cookies, so it should go.

So let's make the beginning sound of gummy bears.

Ga ga. Ga. Gum.

Gum.

I know it has two Ms and it ends with the Y. Gummy worms or gummy bears.

I guess I could do either one.

Maybe I'll draw the gummy bears down here.

Ooh, there they are.

Gummy bears, gummy worms.

All right, what else should I put in my cookies?

Let's see, maybe I'll put, ooh, sprinkles.

Yay.

Okay, sprinkles.

Nothing practical.

So far, gummy bears, gummy worms and sprinkles.

Let's write the word, sprinkles.

Ready?

S Pa pa rr ink cols sprinkles.

All right, sprinkles.

Okay, one more ingredient.

What should I write?

I think I have room for one more.

Okay, I guess I'll add some eggs.

We'll add eggs in here.

Oh there's my egg.

Well, let's write the word egg.

Eh eh ga ga ga.

Egg.

I'll put more than one.

Eggs.

Okay, so for my recipe, I have gummy bears and gummy worms, sprinkles and eggs.

Let me know if you try that at home.

Is it a winning recipe?

I don't know.

Okay.

Well, I hope that you try any of these activities that I shared with you today.

And if you do, send me a note or a picture here at the station.

I love to hear from you.

I think my friends will put the address down below in just a minute.

Looks like it's time to say goodbye my friends.

Join me tomorrow.

We're gonna read a whole other book by Laura Numeroff.

Let's say our letter, Goodbye.

Together.

Ready?

♪ A ♪ ♪ B ♪ ♪ See you later ♪ ♪ D ♪ E, come on E, ♪ F ♪ ♪ Gee, I'm gonna miss ya ♪ ♪ H ♪ ♪ I ♪ ♪ have to go now ♪ ♪ J ♪ ♪ K buh-bye now ♪ ♪ L ♪ ♪ M ♪ ♪ N ♪ ♪ Oh I had a good time ♪ ♪ P ♪ ♪ Q ♪ ♪ Are you gonna miss me ♪ ♪ S ♪ ♪ T ♪ ♪ You are my best friend ♪ And you are, you're my best friend.

♪ V ♪ ♪ W ♪ ♪ X ♪ ♪ Y ♪ ♪ Z ♪ All right, boys and girls, I'll Z you tomorrow.

Now, if you wanna join and read a book with me tomorrow, we're gonna be reading, If You Give a Dog a Donut.

So bring your copy if you have it.

We're also gonna make donut cloud dough with lots of sprinkles.

Yum.

Only not for eating, for playing Ms. Lara.

So silly.

Until then Miss Lara sends you a big squeeze and a big smooch.

(kisses) Reminds you to read, play, and to enjoy your day.

Goodbye.

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