- Oh, hello.

I just came back from my summer vacation.

I am so tired.

Did you hear that summer is over and it's time to go back to school?

Are you excited to go back to school?

I am.

That means you get to meet whole new friends and go visit a whole new classroom.

Now I have a song that we can sing together about school, and I wanna teach it to you because of course in Mrs Lara's classroom, we love to sing.

So we're gonna do this song two times, and it has actions that go with it.

Oh, I'm so excited to teach it to you.

Here it goes.

It goes, climb aboard the school bus.

We're heading off to school.

Hurry and get ready.

We're going to leave soon.

Put on your seatbelt, and buckle up real tight.

Oh.

Cause here comes the countdown, so count with all your might.

Here we go.

We're gonna count down from 10 all the way to zero, then we're gonna pretend we're in a bus and take off.

Here we go.

10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

Let's take off to school, oh the bus is bouncy.

Let's go.

Did you like that one?

Okay, let's do it one more time, that way you can do it along with me.

Climb aboard the school bus.

We're heading off to school.

Hurry and get ready.

We're going to leave soon.

Put on your seatbelt, and buckle in real tight.

Cause here comes the countdown, so count with all your might.

Here we go.

10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

Here we go, off to school.

Now all this week, we're going to be learning about school and you might be a little nervous to go, but there are some characters in some books that we're going to introduce.

That are gonna help us learn that school is a fun place.

And I think Mrs Maria even brought a letter for us to read.

Oh is that, oh I hear ringing the door?

(door bell) Oh it is, Mrs Maria left a letter for us.

Let's see who the letter is from.

I bet it's a character from a book, let's read.

Now, remember when we start to read, we start on the left and slide to the right.

This is the left.

(snaps fingers) This is the right.

(snaps fingers) When we read, we start at the left and go to the right.

So let's read.

Dear Mrs Lara, do schools have rules?

Have you heard of rules before?

Schools do have rules.

Rules are things that tell you how to act and how to behave when you're in a classroom.

Sometimes I get in trouble at home for doing things I should not be doing.

Me too.

How about you?

I get in trouble at school, will I?

Oh, that depends.

And it's from our character, David.

And I think he's a character in a book that we're gonna read.

Now, Mrs Maria also left some clues about the story, not just a character clue, so let's take a look at those together.

So let's see, I have a pot, and a wood spoon, I wonder if this is gonna have some banging of pots.

What a strange story Mrs Maria has left me.

A baseball?

Could our story be about sports?

I don't know.

Let's see, a fork?

I usually use a fork when I'm eating.

I wonder if the story is about food, and oh a Hoberman Sphere to calm down.

That's usually what someone uses when they're angry.

So, angry, food, baseball, music, what could the story be about?

She also left a letter clue.

I wonder if that's going to help.

Let me get my letter board here.

Put these away.

Oh, let's see what letter we're going to make.

First, I'm going to use a big line to go down like this and then a big curve.

What letter have I made?

D, that's right, D. So many clues.

Let's figure out what book it is.

Are you ready to see?

Goes like this.

"No, David!"

"No, David!"

by David Shannon.

He's the author of the story.

Now the author, if you remember writes the words.

I wanted to read the front cover of the story because he wrote right here.

When David Shannon was five years old, oh five, you might be five.

He wrote and illustrated his first book.

On every page were these words, No, David!

And a picture of David doing things he was not supposed to do.

Now, David is all grown up, but somethings never change.

So I wonder since the author's name is David, and this book is about a David, if he wrote it about himself.

Let's read, this is a fun one.

"No, David!"

Now look at that cover, it looks like either a teacher, or a mom, or a grandparent or aunt, and she has her hands on her hips like she's upset.

Oh no.

"David's mom always said, no, David!"

oh, look what he's doing.

Do you see that?

He's writing on the walls.

Are we supposed to write on the walls?

No, boo to that.

Look, he is reaching for the very top of the shelf for the cookie jar.

And he is balancing on a chair.

He can get hurt.

And it says here, "no, David!"

He went outside to play in the mud and he tracked mud all through the living room.

Here are the tracks.

"No, David, no!"

Look at his face.

He looks a little surprised he's getting in trouble.

Now he's in the bathtub.

Look how murky or dirty that water is.

And he is playing with a shark and the water is getting all over the floor.

"No!

No!

No!"

Even the duck is scared here.

Hey, I'm gonna show you this picture and it's gonna make you giggle.

Are you ready?

Look at David now.

He forgot his clothes.

"Come back here, David!"

We're definitely not supposed to run in the street without clothes on.

"David!

Be quiet!"

Oh, that's the clue, the pan with the wood spoon.

He was making a lot of noise.

"Don't play with your food!"

Here he is.

He made a potato head on his fork, he used green bean arms, chicken legs, oh David, that's so silly.

Oh, and he's disgusting too.

Look what he's doing, opening his mouth saying, "that's enough, David!"

He's showing us the chicken leg and the carrots and the green beans.

What else do you see in there?

Oh, disgusting.

Oh, no.

I think he's in trouble.

"Go to your room!"

And look at his face, he's sad, and he's holding his blanket.

I wonder what he's going to do next.

"Settle down!"

He's jumping on his bed, pretending he's a superhero.

Oh no.

That's not what he's supposed to be doing in his room.

And look what he's doing now.

He's picking his nose, ew, gross.

Think of all the germs he's getting on his hands.

"Stop that this instant!"

they say to David.

"Put your toys away!"

They're scattered all over his room.

I bet that he would fall if he tried to walk in his room, he has a dinosaur and checkers.

What else do you see?

A wagon, a Teddy bear.

"Not in the house, David!"

What is he trying to do in the house?

He's trying to play baseball.

Oh no.

Look, he has a bat, and a baseball, and his helmet, and look at all the fragile things that he could break.

Like a vase and a little ballerina.

That's so scary to play baseball in the house.

And look what happened.

He indeed broke that vase and it fell all on the floor.

"I said, no, David!"

I think he's kind of sad this time.

What do you think?

I think he's sad because he's sitting in the corner, his expression is kind of down like this, and he has a single tear coming from his eye.

Do you ever feel sad when you get it in trouble?

He's sniffling and crying and mom says, "Davey, come here."

Oh, "yes, David, I love you."

And mom gave David a big giant hug.

The end.

So what did you think of that story boys and girls?

I love "No, David!"

because it reminds me that even though I get in trouble, there's always gonna be someone there to hug me at the end of the day and tell me that they love me.

Now, at school there are a lot of things that you shouldn't do for your safety.

We're gonna play a quick game of Yes, David!, and No, David!

using some things that he does in school.

And you're gonna help me figure out whether he should do them or shouldn't, okay?

Are you ready?

Here we go.

Here's the first one.

David is asked to sit in his square on the carpet when his teacher reads a book.

So when you go to school, there's going to be a carpet and you're gonna get either your own square, your own leaf, or your own little place.

And when teacher's reading, you're gonna be asked to sit in a square.

But David decides to jump in his square instead.

So he takes a big leap, jump.

What do you think?

Should he be doing that or not?

I think that that would disrupt the teacher.

She's trying to read a book.

She can't have everyone jumping around.

And what if there's someone behind him, that person wouldn't be able to see.

So I'm gonna put it in the No, David!

category.

Now let's look at the next one.

No, David shouldn't do that.

It's time for dismissal.

That's what happens when school is over, sometimes there's a bell, or you sing a goodbye song and your teacher tells you.

David rushes out the door once he sees his parents.

What do you think?

Should David have done that or not?

I think, let me see, that's not very safe, Is it?

What if your teacher doesn't see you running out the door, your teacher's gonna get all panicky and wonder where you are.

So you have to wait for them to tell you.

I'm gonna put that under the No, David!

where it's at.

Oh, David, he's so naughty.

Let's see this next one.

It's snack time and the teacher hands David some carrots.

David does not like carrots.

He decides to throw them at his classmate.

So he's eating carrots and he throws them at his classmates.

What do you think?

Are you supposed to throw food in the class?

Do you throw food at home?

No.

If you don't like a snack that they give you in the classroom, you can just tell someone, I don't like that, no, thank you.

And you can just sit and wait and maybe drink a little water while all of your friends eat snack, can't throw it.

Oh no David, no, no, no, no, no.

All right, let's see.

Oh, this is a good one.

I think it has a picture, let's do this one.

It is time to play outside.

David uses a level four voice to sing his favorite song.

So when you go to school, they're gonna teach you all about the levels of voices.

Level zero is when you're.

Level one is when you're whispering, and two is when you're talking to someone.

Three is when you're presenting, and level four is when you're outside.

That's right, when you're outside you can use a level four voice.

So David is right.

He can do that outside.

And it's his favorite song, who doesn't wanna sing their favorite song?

Let's see this one.

All right.

Let's see, in the cafeteria.

Let's see what it says.

David waits in line behind his friend.

He doesn't cut his friend in line.

He just waits there patiently.

What do you think?

So a cafeteria in school is a place where you go and get food.

Now sometimes there's these long lines to get your food, and sometimes that food is pizza.

So you have to wait, and wait, and wait, but it is never okay to cut somebody in line.

David did the right thing.

Okay, let's do one more.

And this one looks like it has a drawing.

Oh is David an artist?

Let's take a look.

It's taking a little long to come out here.

All right.

David drew a picture for his teacher in the art center, he asked his teacher for help writing his name before he gives her the picture.

What do you think?

Did David do the right thing?

You might think, well, David didn't know how to write his name.

Isn't that something wrong?

But when you're in school, you're there to learn.

So it's okay if you don't know how to write your name, teachers are there to help you.

So David did the right thing by asking his teacher for help.

So look at all the things that David did correctly when he's in school, and things that he's still learning to do right.

And that might be you as you go to school too.

Now, right now, we're gonna go over to our new project place in our brand new classroom.

What do you think?

Do you like it?

And we're going to do a No, David!

feelings kind of chart.

I can't wait to show it to you.

Let's walk over there.

All right.

So here's our brand new project place, look at all this space that I have.

My goodness, I feel like a true artist.

Now we're gonna make this guy.

Look at that, it's David, isn't it?

He has his head and his shirt and his pants.

And actually, if you notice, he kinda spins around and shows different feelings.

See if it works here, he could be surprised, or mad.

So I'm gonna show you how to make this feelings top part right here of David.

And boys and girls this is something that you can do as you read the story over and over again, focus on a different part each time.

So for this story read, you would focus on how David is feeling throughout the story.

when he does something that he shouldn't do.

And when his mother at the end tells him that she loves him.

He's feeling different things.

So I'll show you what to do.

You are going to need some paper.

I happen to have orange paper handy, a marker, glue stick, some crayons, scissors, and some black paper.

All right.

So the first thing you're going to do is you're going to draw a circle.

Now I'm not very good at drawing circles.

So I brought this lid that we can use to draw a circle here.

We're gonna go all the way around with the circle, just like this.

And you can use anything that you have handy or just kind of freestyle it.

Now, what I did is I took two pieces of paper and stuck them on top of each other.

That's my secret trick to making sure that I don't have to cut too many times.

So I'm gonna take my scissors using my helper hand, I'm gonna go all the way around, just like this.

Here we go, round and round.

Just like that.

All right.

And I'm gonna save those scraps for later.

They might become my ears, my nose, my hair, who knows.

Now, in order to make our feelings kind of rotate through, we're going to need to divide this into four parts.

Now you could measure it using a ruler, but one way I like to do it is folding it, that way I make sure that they're exact without having to use a ruler.

So, first I fold it in half, I fold it over like this and I do kind of make it deep like this.

So it looks like a taco, doesn't it.

And then I fold it once again like this, and there you go.

It kinda looks like a little nacho.

There we go.

And then you're gonna unfold it.

So now we have a circle with four parts, one, two, three, four.

Now you're gonna take one of the circles and you're actually gonna cut out that circle, like this.

There you go.

And this is gonna be for making sure that we see each of the emotions that are underneath for our David emotion wheel.

Okay, the next thing we're gonna do is on that bottom circle that we did not cut out.

We're gonna draw some expressions.

So how should we make David feel?

I think he should feel happy.

That's my favorite expression or feeling isn't it.

Now David has very sharp teeth.

That's the first thing I notice.

My daughter said he does not go to the dentist very often, cause teeth are so sharp.

Now, something that starts happening when you're four, is you start losing your teeth.

Maybe David is just in the process of losing his teeth.

Is that a David smile?

Let me show you, what do you think?

All right, that's one.

What should our next emotion be?

How about surprised?

Do you remember in the story he was surprised?

Let me do an oval here for surprised.

Remember when you make a surprised face you're gonna go.

And then the next one, let's do sad.

He was so sad when he got in trouble.

And the the next one, let's make him mad.

I think I like that.

Okay.

So we have our four emotions here.

The next thing we need to do is make our face.

So this is top part with a cutout is gonna be our face.

So we're gonna need two eyes.

I'm gonna make those with my marker here.

Of course you can make this as fancy as you'd like.

I'm gonna make him kinda have his little eyebrows that he has, and he's gonna need a nose.

So I'm gonna take my cutout that I used.

And I'm just gonna make it go this way, that way, and ta-dah, a little triangle nose, put his nostrils here.

All right.

Glue them on, Glue on the nose.

And then maybe I'll add some ear ears.

Oh, that would be fun, see told you to save the scraps.

We always end up using scraps for a lot of things.

In fact, my friend Mrs Readwright, she has a whole box full of scraps.

I want a box full of scraps too.

Okay.

And then we're going to add the ears, just like that.

And maybe a little bit of hair, looks like that's what we'll have time for.

And some hair.

Now he has spiky hair.

So I'm just gonna make some quick spiky hair to glue on.

He has spiky teeth and spiky hair, he's a rebel.

Okay, here goes, I cut out a bit more.

Now teachers of preschool and early learning classrooms, or any other classroom, if you wanna try this activity, it would take a couple of days to get this right.

Just because you're gonna wanna have a body with it or a little head.

But how I would use this activity in the classroom is I would make me one of these guys, and I would have my students come up and actually change the emotion for me.

And then they can make one of these guys on their own to take it home.

Okay, so here's what I have, kind of finished you can see.

What you're gonna wanna do is you're gonna wanna poke a hole in the middle here and put a little Brad so that it spins.

You can also use my secret trick because not a lot of people have Brads, is a little pin, and then just put a little bit of eraser at the tip of it, and it won't move.

So then you can spin it around like that.

So you can see David is happy, then he's surprised.

And then he's sad.

Oh, David, don't be sad.

And he's angry.

Ooh, probably because our episode is ending.

Don't be angry, I'll see you tomorrow.

All right, boys and girls, I hope that you try this activity.

Looks like we won't have a lot of time to sing our goodbye song.

So I'll try my best to get through it, but I'll see you tomorrow with some more school stories, and some more fun from our new classroom.

All right, here we go.

We'll try our best to get through as many letters as we can.

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, Z.

Look how got we are, we got through all the letters.

Okay, boys and girls, I'll Z you tomorrow.

We're gonna be reading a book about a dinosaur who eats his classmates.

He really doesn't know how to behave in school, and we're gonna make some dinosaur feet, so I hope that you join me then.

I'll see you tomorrow.

A big squeeze and a big smooch.

And a reminder to read, to play, and of course, use your imagination every single day.

We'll see you then, goodbye.