(upbeat music) - Hello, early learners!

And welcome back to the week with Clementine Hunter.

Yesterday we celebrated her birthday by seeing what kinds of chores we do, and if they are the same as the ones she has.

Now I thought about that picture we did yesterday.

You can put it down in front of someone and have them guess, what do you think this chore is that I do?

And they say, "Oh, that's bundling up the newspapers to take them out to recycle."

What do you think this one is?

And they say, "Oh, that's when you crush the cans to take them to the recycle."

So it's kind of a fun game to let people look at your artwork and see what you're doing.

But today is wash day.

And look what I've brought.

I brought my wash tub.

I usually just put drinks in it when we have a picnic, but this is a wash board.

And a wash board is for someone who doesn't have a washing machine.

And you can take something from the laundry, look who it is, its Yayoi, Yayoi Kusama in her polka dots.

And you do this, into the water and scrub, scrub, scrub, and scrub, scrub, scrub.

And you go and take it with its match and you hang it up on the clothesline to dry.

Now, the story we're going to read, sing, today is about a wash day.

It's when Mrs. McNosh hangs up the wash. And I know that you've heard it before with Ms. Laura.

If you saw her reading the book, but this one, I want you to know that - I want you to pay attention to the rhyming words.

And there are some funny things.

There is a little bird that shows up on every page.

And if you were in class and sitting at my feet, I would ask you to show me your attentive scope.

Now, do you know how you do that?

When I say, if you see the little bird don't call out, don't say, "there it is!

", and point out and shout.

You just do this... like a pirate.

And you say, and I say, oh, she found him.

Oh, that boy found, oh, you found the bird in the picture.

Good, good.

Yeah.

And I could see.

So when you see the bird, even if you're at home and I can't see you just do this- that tells me, I found the bird.

It's a little blue bird, a little yellow bird.

But I also wanted to tell you when Mrs. McNosh brings out her barrel to do a big wash act like you get a barrel and you twist and turn and rock it all the way out.

And I say, ♪ You do a big wash ♪ ♪ You do a big wash ♪ So when we say, she brings out her barrel and, ♪ Does a big wash ♪ you do your hands, ♪ scrub a dub dub, scrub a dub dub ♪ Just like you were using the washboard.

All right?

Okay.

Let me sit down this because I can't do much wash with my clipboard on my lap.

But let's look at Mrs. McNosh hangs up her wash. Now here's Mrs. McNosh.

You'll notice, she ties her hair up because she doesn't want to get it in with the wash water.

And she puts on an apron and you know, I have my apron on.

So here she is using the old time clothes pins that you can use them sometimes as little people.

Mrs. McNosh, hangs up her wash. She doesn't have a washer and dryer.

So she has to use a scrub barrel.

But here she is hauling out her laundry, just like I have my laundry in my basket, so does Mrs. McNosh.

Now this story is by Sarah Weeks and the pictures are by Nadine Bernard Westcott.

Nadine Bernard Westcott also does the pictures for "Skip to My Lou", which I love.

Oh, oh, I already need to get my attentive scope up.

Do you see?

If you have your attentive scope up because you see the little yellow bird that shows up on every page, Good for you.

And here's the story.

♪ Each Monday at dawn Mrs. Nelly McNosh ♪ ♪ She brings out her barrel and does a big wash. ♪ Did you do your hands side to side and do the big wash?

♪ It takes her all morning.

And when the sun's high, ♪ ♪ she hangs what she's washed on the clothesline to dry.

♪ ♪ She hangs up the dresses.

♪ ♪ She hangs up the shirts.

♪ ♪ She hangs up ♪ ♪ the underwear, ♪ ♪ the night gowns, ♪ ♪ and skirts.

♪ Oh, Shirts.

Skirts.

They both say "irts".

♪ She hangs up the stockings, ♪ ♪ She hangs up the shoes.

♪ Oh, wait a minute, boys and girls, when she hangs up something silly, I want you to put your hands up to your head and say, "Oh, Mrs.

McNosh!"

Because look what she's doing.

She got the newspaper.

And she scrub a dub dubs it, in her barrel and wash board.

And when you twist something, they say, wring out the water, not a ring, like you'd wear on your finger.

This one has a "w" in front and she wrings it out.

So listen to it again.

♪ She hangs up the stockings.

She hangs up the shoes.

♪ ♪ She wrings out the paper and she hangs up the news.

♪ Oh, did you use your attentive scope?

Shoes.

News.

They both say "ews".

Get out your attentive scope.

Do you see the bird?

Oh, look.

He's putting his wing up to his head and saying, "Oh, Mrs.

McNosh!"

Cause look not only does she hang up the newspaper, she hangs up the dog, his dish, and his bone.

She gets a wrong number and she hangs up the phone.

It's an old time phone.

And the cord goes all the way up and she hangs it up like that.

And here's what the page says.

♪ She hangs up a dog, and his dish, and his bone.

♪ ♪ She gets a wrong number and she hangs up the phone.

♪ And what do we say to her?

Oh, Mrs. McNosh.

Get your attentive scope ready?

Do you see him?

Look, he's flying down.

It's like, "ah, look out, a wedding gown!

Hey a hat!"

"Oh those bats are hanging upside down and they're fast asleep."

You can tell because they put Z when something's sleeping.

(imitates sleeping) So let's hear this one.

♪ She hangs up a hat and an old wedding gown ♪ ♪ and two sleepy bats, which she hangs upside down.

♪ Still has on her apron.

Still has her hair tied up.

Let's turn the page, get your attentive scope ready.

Who sees the bird?

You don't have to say it.

You just put your attentive scope up.

Look how big it is.

Oh, it's laughing.

(imitates laughing) Because look at grandpa's teeth.

You can put them in your mouth, but when he doesn't have any real teeth in, he has to remove them.

And they go, remove them means take them out.

So let's see what happens.

Oh, this is something people are putting on their doors now it's called a Christmas wreath.

Do you know what this is?

You plug it in and you can turn it on to read at night.

Yes, it's lamp.

Here we go.

♪ She hangs up a lamp and a large Christmas wreath ♪ ♪ and grandpa McNosh's, ♪ ♪ removable teeth.

♪ What do we say to her?

"Oh, Mrs.

McNosh!"

Get your attentive scope ready.

There he is.

He had this letter in his mouth and probably when he spoke to Mrs. McNosh it jumped off.

Now look at the postman.

The postman delivers the mail, but when he sees she's hanging it up on the clothes line, he thinks, "Oh, let me out of here!"

You can make your feet sit wherever you're sitting.

You can make your feet go up and down in a run.

But see what this says.

Oh, and you know what this is?

It flies in the sky, but they're hanging it up by the tip of the tail.

Let's see what it does.

Here we go.

♪ She hangs up a kite by the tip of its tail, ♪ ♪ the postman arrives, ♪ ♪ and she hangs up the mail.

♪ What did we say to her?

"Oh, Mrs.

McNosh!"

Get your attentive scope ready?

Oh, it's flying away.

I wonder why?

We know this is something where you keep your trash can- your trash in it.

It's a garbage can, or a trash can.

This thing.

People often think it's a piece of pizza.

But it's really upside down, and you can't really tell it's an ironing board where when the clothes are clean and dry, you can iron them to get the wrinkles out.

Now, does anyone know what this thing is?

It was in our book yesterday, "Chores, chores, chores."

It, (imitating vacuum sounds) it's a vacuum cleaner.

And what's this thing?

We use it to get the leaves all put together in a pile.

That's right.

It's a rake.

And look at this.

It's not a chicken.

It's what some people eat on Thanksgiving.

It's a turkey.

Let's see how the song goes.

♪ She hangs till she's hung, every last thing in sight, ♪ ♪ including the turkey, she's roasting that night.

♪ Now you slow it down because it's the end of the day.

And we're saying it's dusk.

That's when the sun starts to go down and it's not quite dark yet.

It's still a little bit light.

Now.

Listen, I slow down the song cause I want them everyone to know that she's tired.

She's done that all day.

♪ Each Monday by dusk, Mrs. Nelly McNosh ♪ ♪ has finally ♪ ♪ hung up ♪ ♪ the last of her wash. ♪ And I have to say to her for hanging up a turkey, "Oh, Mrs.

McNosh!"

Now look what she does.

She's all finished.

She doesn't need to have her hair tied up anymore.

And she doesn't need her apron to protect her clothes.

So it says, ♪ She takes off her apron and lets down her hair ♪ ♪ then hangs herself up.

♪ You won't believe what she's hanging herself up on, ♪ on a comfortable chair.

♪ Look, she's in a recliner.

When you sit up straight, it's just a chair.

But when you lean it back, it says recline.

Sit up straight, lean back, recline.

Sit up straight, lean back, recline.

Let's all clap for Mrs. McNosh and her little yellow bird.

(clapping) Thank you Mrs. McNosh and your little yellow bird.

Boys and girls.

What did I tell you?

If you see the little yellow bird, what do you do?

Do you see, watch, I didn't say a thing.

Get your attentive scope out.

That was a fun book.

Thank you for helping me read it.

Now today, let's take a look at our art over here on the chart.

I brought the picture that Clementine Hunter painted called "Wash Day".

And, "Wash Day" they have a big cauldron and I brought a photograph of a cauldron.

Underneath, they light a fire and the fire hits the bottom of that big iron pot.

And they use one of these sticks so that they can stir it and not get their hands hot.

And they stir the laundry in there, and then they rinse it, and they hang it up to dry.

And we're going to do one, something like hers.

We're going to do some drawing, you could do some cut and paste.

You can decide what coloring tools you want to use.

We just have to make sure that we have a line.

I brought a little piece of yarn that I'm going to do.

I'm going to paint a little of the sky and a little bit of brown at the bottom.

And then I'm going to put on my clothesline.

Shall we begin?

Let me get at my little table.

I think I'll move some of this out of the way, (metal clanking) One minute boys and girls.

I'll move the laundry out of the way.

And I'll get my white paper, and get my table out.

Put it on my lap.

And I have some little papers for my laundry, cause I want it to be colorful.

I had the glue started so that it will be ready to glue my yarn on.

How will I decide to do my sky?

I thought I would watercolor, but I think I'm just going to use a little piece of my broken oil pastel.

So can you see, my paper is white and it's on the white table, but I'm just going to turn it sideways so I can just put the blue sky and I'm going to make it look kind of windy-ish by making it go swoop, swoop, swoop, swoop.

So here's my sky.

Got that.

Now I'm going to get a piece that has brown or green.

I better bring my pastels over.

Cause this stretching over here is a little hard to do.

Okay.

Now on hers, she has bright green and brown down on the bottom.

So I'm going to do that too.

Do my brown and green, and some of the grassy parts.

And remember how I told you with her people in the pictures, she always does them in profile, which means side-view.

And because I think it's hard for her to make the faces up close maybe.

Break off a little bit of this.

Can you see my picture?

Are you seeing it up close?

Let's get this over here.

There we go.

There's my brown, and I can do it darker later if I want.

I just want you to get the idea of how it's going.

Let's see if we can see what it looks like now.

There's my sky and there's my ground.

I'm going to stretch my laundry all the way across.

So I already cut my yarn to be the size of my paper, and yarn doesn't stick very well with glue sticks, So I brought glue and I'm going to put it up high in the sky and I will put this across, try and make a whole steady stream.

If you can't, I sometimes put my glue in a jar and I dip the yarn in there, and then stretch it across because then it's super wet and it will make things stick.

Oh, I think I did it.

It made my fingers kind of tired.

Sometimes the glue bottles are so sticky.

You always have to remember to close it down.

I always take a little bit off and just rub it into my fingers, cause you know, if you get glue on your fingers, it usually will just rub off or I can rub it on my paper towel.

All right.

I've gone into my scrap box and I got many pieces of paper.

I thought wouldn't it be fun if I just did some, a bunch of shirts the same t-shirts because a lot of times people wear the same shirt kind of shirts everyday t-shirts or polo shirts.

I'm putting this and tapping it onto the glue.

Do you see my yarn?

I chose one that was many colors.

If you don't have yarn, you can just draw a line, make your clothes line go across.

But there we go.

And it's sticking to the glue.

Any that hangs over the edge, look how I'm just rub a dub dubbing, most of the glue, and getting rid of it.

I don't like to waste it.

I don't encourage people to get glue on their hands just so they can rub it off.

That's not a good idea because everything costs money and we don't want to be wasteful.

Now I know a t-shirt, is called a t-shirt because it is the shape of a T. So watch, I can either fold my little stack of mini-color papers in half.

And I can go in, with my scissors, in just a little bit for a short sleeve t-shirt.

And then I cut all the way up, and when I hit that sleeve, I stop cutting.

And it makes it into what letter boys and girls?

It's a T. It's a t-shirt.

So look, I'm going to just make a little scoop for the neck.

I'll start at that fold and just make a U, cut out of it.

Pretty good.

I think it's a little too long of a shirt.

So I'm going to cut it off a little bit, you know, put these scraps aside so they don't become bothersome and get in our way.

Might be good to use them, for a clothesline or these would be good things for birthday candles for Clementine's birthday cake from yesterday.

Now, if you've ever done laundry, the best thing to do to hang your clothes is to keep the shoulders up at the top.

Cause then it kind of makes it nice and straight and it makes it easier to fold them once they're dry.

I should just glue a little at the top and let them fly in the wind.

But I don't want it to pop off.

I will put the yellow one there.

I think I'll let the bottom of the green one flip, floppity, flip-flop out.

Put it up next to the clothesline.

Put it across the T, across there, across so that it can go on the clothesline.

Put it right there.

I'll put this on here.

Put it on the clothesline.

There we go.

Now I can put the clothes pins if I'd like, I think I will get some brown out.

Oh, even this one.

Remember when we did this so long ago, we were making the scarecrows and I used a fork and dipped it in the paint and went on there, but I just need some brown to put my clothes pins on.

So I think I'll make them about that long, and I can cut a rectangle, and we know the clothes pins are just little rectangles.

So I'm going to fold it, so they can cut out many, clothes pins at once and I'll fold it again.

Let's see how many I need.

I'll need one, two... Oh, I could count by twos.

Two for you, four, six, eight.

Help me count again?

Two, four, six, eight.

Let's be sure.

And I'll cut them out and then we can see if indeed I have enough.

There we go.

And there we go.

Do I have eight?

Going to glue them on so they can hold my clothes on there.

One for you, Two for you.

Get off my fingers you.

One for you for the orange shirt, and two for the orange shirt.

One for the blue shirt, two for the blue shirt.

Let's see how many we have so far.

It should be four because two, four.

Let's see one, two, three, four.

Just right.

Let's see how many now for the green shirt I need one.

I need two, I should have six.

Let's see if we can count by two's.

Stay on there you.

It's trying to stick to my fingers instead.

Two, four, six.

Two more, will make it eight.

Oh, here's one that's already cut in half.

I don't need to cut it.

I'm having to do it on the side where the paint is.

Maybe that's why it's not sticking very well.

Cause maybe the paint is kind of globbed on there.

And for the yellow, well, it's kind of goldenrod, I think they call this color in the paper world, One, Two.

Here we go.

Now, what I need is a cauldron.

Do you remember cauldron?

It's like that big pot that they had to heat up to do the laundry in.

I want it to be big and black.

Just like the iron one that's there.

So I'll put it down here.

And I know that it's just a half circle.

I wonder if that's too tall?

Maybe a little bit.

I'll cut it down a little and I'm going to glue it on there.

And remember what we talk about.

It needs to be glued around the edges mostly and a little can go in the middle.

I'll put that cauldron there and it needs some legs to keep it from sitting on the ground because I know that the one that's in this picture has three legs to keep it up off the ground.

So the fire will stay under it and stay lit.

So I'm going to make another third leg that is about the same width as that.

And I can do this and I will make four, but I will only use three.

So I'll put this leg here, and this leg here.

I probably should make a stick for stirring, because remember I told you how hot the water is, it's boiling and they put the clothes in there and stirred around with a stick.

And so the stick will make it so that they don't have to get their hands hot.

I'm just going to make mine kind of like a boat paddle.

I think that will help it stir it like a spoon kind of.

If I go on here to make the paddle, I think I'll make the paddle, the handle up.

Boys and girls you can add people to this.

You can add more laundry.

I know that they have trees in their picture.

And remember how I showed you that, how I did my tree by doing the brown pencil.

And then I added the color of the green leaves.

I might do that on this side, over here, just kind of it hanging out off the edge.

Tomorrow, we're going to be doing the pecan picking.

I'm bringing some real nuts, and I thought you might want to see a pecan.

The only time I really see pecans in my neighborhood are when the squirrels come and try and plant them in my garden because they are trying to save them up for the winter.

I'm putting the tree here and remember how I showed you how I could go up and down and kind of make it look like a tree branches.

And I'll put my branches up, through the clothesline, and I'll do some of my dark green and light green, and make it swoop around.

But the pecan looks kind of like a walnut, but the walnut has kind of a rigid shell.

And it's a little bit, (coughs) excuse me, bigger.

And we're going to talk about what it was like for her because she got extra pay, Clementine did, for picking the pecans.

Sometimes they would even let, the farmers, would let them take the pecans home because the new ones, the ones on the ground, they thought that they could take home and just use for their own families.

Here's my Wash Day picture.

You can see my laundry, and all of the things there.

Tomorrow you'll want pink paper, construction paper, scraps, scissors, glue stick, oil pastels.

If you have any tempra brushes and Q-tips, or cotton swabs, I'm going to be painting my pecans, using a Q-tip.

Boys and girls, it's so great having you here.

♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends, ♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends, ♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye, ♪ ♪ Give a smile and wink your eye, ♪ ♪ Oh, it's time to say goodbye to all my friends.

♪ I'll see you tomorrow, When we talk about pecan picking.

Good to having you here.

Bye-bye.

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