(cheerful music) - Hello, friends.

It's me, Ms. Southern.

Can you say, "Hi, Ms.

Southern?"

I'm so glad to be with you again today.

Before we get started, let's put on our thinking caps.

Lock 'em in (clicks tongue), and put ready to move.

That's right.

I am going to bring you something so amazing today.

We're gonna be moving and making music, because music just makes the world such a better place.

But we need to do our letters.

Guess what, friends?

This time, I did not lose my letter bag.

I tucked it right behind me, because I didn't wanna disappoint you.

So let's look.

I got some special letters in here, and I'm really excited about the letters.

All right, ready for our letter clues?

Here we go.

I'm opening it up.

See.

The first letter clue is... What is this?

S-Sun.

That's right.

If you said sun, you're right.

Listen to the first letter, ss.

Sun, yes.

What about this?

This is a... S-sailboat.

If you said sailboat, you are correct.

On the ocean.

(gasps) Ooh, if you've ever been to the aquarium, you know what this is, or the beach.

It's a... S-sea lion!

Say hi, sea lion.

Pat him on the head.

Use your little finger.

All right, next is a... Oh my goodness.

Also we'll find this in the ocean.

What is that?

Look close.

A sea horse!

Say hi, little sea horse.

They're so tiny.

All right.

Ooh, this one makes me hungry.

A sandwich.

I love sandwiches.

It's my favorite, especially in the summertime on a hot summer day.

And lastly, Southern.

It's me, Ms. Southern.

S-Southern.

All right.

Think about it, all of our clues.

We had a sun, we had a sea lion, we had a sea horse, we had a sailboat and we had Southern.

So let's think, what do all those have in common?

The special letter is ss.

That's right, S. We're gonna make a S. Look S, here it is.

Okay, so S has two curves.

♪ We always start our letters at the top ♪ ♪ We always start our letters at the top ♪ ♪ At the top, top, top not the bottom, bottom, bottom ♪ ♪ We always start our letters at the top ♪ My special letter Southern.

I love it.

Let's draw it in the air.

Say hi, letter S. My special letter.

I love it.

All right.

Today, I have two letters for you.

Can you believe it?

Let's look at our next letter.

All right.

I don't know if you guys can guess it.

I'm opening up the letter box.

Ooh, this is fun.

Ooh, we can see these at nighttime.

This is a, what?

A bat.

If you said bat, you're right.

Hopefully it doesn't turn into a vampire.

Ooh, what's next?

(bell jingling) B-b-b bell!

Aw, some of you guys might have little siblings.

It's a b-b-b-bottle.

Can you believe it?

(imitates drinking) Aw.

Raise your hand if you've ever seen a bottle or helped your mommy feed your baby.

Or your daddy feed your baby.

Ooh, what's this?

I love this.

It's a ba-ba-basketball.

Three pointer!

I love basketball.

I used to play basketball way back in the day, when I was in high school.

Ooh, what's this, a (imitates horn) a boat, say boat.

Ba-ba-ba-boat.

All right.

And then lastly, oh, this makes me hungry again.

A banana!

Say banana.

Ba-ba-ba-banana.

So, let's think about it.

Ba-ba.

What letter makes the ba-ba sound?

If you said the letter B, you are correct.

Let's take down the letter S, put that back in our bag.

And put the letter B, we need one straight line.

Starting at the top, and we need two bumps, two curves.

And I have that here in our bag.

Here it comes.

Bumpity, bump.

Okay, let's write our letters.

You already know what to do.

Get your magic marker out in the air.

Ready?

Start it at the top, draw it in the air.

Straight line down, jump back up.

Bumpity bump.

We always start our letters at the ba-ba-bottom?

No, we always start our letters in the middle?

No, at the top, top, top.

♪ Not the bottom, bottom, bottom ♪ ♪ We always start our letters at the top ♪ Wow.

Good job.

You guys are doing an amazing job.

I have an amazing book for you guys.

And it is called... "I Got the Rhythm".

I love this book because in this book, it has some of my favorite things, but most of all, this little girl looks just like me.

And I love her beautiful skin and her beautiful hair.

And she loves music.

And this girl makes music throughout her whole city.

So wanna read with me?

All right.

And this book is by Connie Morrison, illustrated by Frank Morrison, ooh.

I thought of a rhythm in my mind.

Can you say the word rhythm?

Think, think, think, think, think, think, think.

That's a rhythm, think, think.

I heard the rhythm with my ears.

Beat, beat, beat, beat.

Do you see that word?

Beat, beat.

I looked at the rhythm with my eyes.

Can you make a rhythm with your eyes?

Blink, blink, blink, blink, blink.

Look, she's making a rhythm with her eyes.

I smelled the rhythm with my nose.

Oh my goodness.

What is she smelling?

(sniffs) Sniff, sniff, sniff.

Ice cream.

Yeah.

I bet you that's yummy.

And look, if you notice on each ice cream cone, or cupcakes.

I thought that were ice cream cone, they're cupcakes.

They smell even better.

They have little music notes on them.

I sang the rhythm with my mouth.

♪ Ooh la la la la la ♪ I bet you that's how it sounds, too.

See?

The radio.

I caught the rhythm with my hands.

Can you clap?

And we'll clap in a little bit.

Clap, clap.

You're doing a good job!

Looks like she's playing a game with one of her friends.

I keep the rhythm with my fingers.

Ooh, snap, snap, snap.

And look at this little girl, she's dancing.

This girl is snapping.

I know snapping is a little bit hard, but if you keep trying, you can get it.

I shook the rhythm with my hips.

Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.

Those friends are having a good old time out there on that playground in the city.

I felt the rhythm with my knees.

Knock, knock, knock.

I walked the rhythm with my feet.

Walk, walk, walk, walk, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp.

Oops.

I tapped the rhythm with my toes.

Tap, tap, tip, tip, toe, tip, tap.

I danced the rhythm of a drum.

Beat, bop, beat, beat, beat, bop.

I clapped and snapped.

I tipped and tapped.

I locked, I hipped, I hopped.

Wow.

Beat, bop, bing, bang, boom, boom.

Boom, box, beat, bop, kaboom, kaboom.

I've got the rhythm and you can too.

That was an amazing book and great illustration.

Can you say illustration?

Let's look at this book before we move on to our music station.

I can't wait.

This is a book and this part of the book is called the spine.

Say spine.

Spine.

Can you feel spine on your back?

That hard part there?

That's called the spine.

This is the top of the book.

This is the bottom of the book.

And this is the cover of the book.

The cover of this book has a lot of music notes on it.

It has a beatbox and the girl dancing.

And so we're getting ready to head over to our music table and make our own little music.

I'm gonna introduce some music.

Who wants some instruments?

Who wants to do music with me?

All right, let's head on over.

Come on.

When I walk over, I'm gonna just do a little bit of beat.

Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

All right.

So today we are going to look at some different instruments.

There's so many instruments that you hear in music or you can hear when you're in the car or at school, or sometimes you can hum.

So I'm gonna introduce a few little instruments.

This is called a tambourine.

Say, tambourine.

You might see this at church or different places.

I know someone named Ms. Tatum and she always has a little tambourine.

(tambourine rattling) And you hear that?

That's nice music.

And this tambourine is special because when you turn it on like that, it lights up.

I don't know if you can see that, but that is so amazing.

So we can use that.

Say tambourine.

Good job.

I also have some rhythm sticks.

Say rhythm sticks.

All right, listen to it.

(sticks tapping) And then this rhythm stick has ridges, so it's a little bit rough, say rough.

And this one is smooth so I can go like this.

(sticks rattling) And I can go like this.

(sticks tapping, rattling) Okay.

And then we have the drums.

These drums, you can use your hands.

(drum rapping) Or you can use sticks, but you wanna be really careful not to bang it.

(drums rapping) Ooh, don't you love the music when it comes alive?

And I also have a piano.

I'm gonna turn it on.

(keyboard blipping) All right.

And listen to it.

You just hit the little things.

(keyboard chiming) Little keys.

(keyboard chiming) And this is fun too.

So we're gonna make our own music.

And there's two more instruments that you have that are very unique.

Your voice.

Say la, la, la, la, la.

Good job!

Even if it's a little offkey, you still got it.

And then we have our hands.

Say (claps).

Can you try that?

All right.

And what about your feet?

(feet tapping) Good job.

Or your legs.

(hands tapping) Or your cheeks.

(cheeks tapping) All right.

So those are some instruments that you can use.

So I'm gonna do a beat up here.

Let's say, what shape should we use?

How about a heart?

So if we do a heart.

When you draw a heart, that means two taps, okay?

So a heart, let's do two hearts.

Tap, tap.

Another one, tap tap.

So when you see two hearts, you're gonna do two taps or two claps.

And then when you see a dot, that means stop.

Stop.

That's a rest, okay?

Stop.

So what should we do?

A dot, another dot or should we do another heart?

Ooh, another heart.

So that means we're gonna do two taps.

Ooh and you know what we should add?

We should add two tap, tap, tap, tap tap, okay?

So we should add two tap, tap, taps and our piano is ready.

Ready to go.

So let's do a star, when you see a star, that means sing.

♪ La, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪ Try it.

Good.

Do it again.

♪ La, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪ I think I'm gonna add two stars.

And then we're gonna do repeat.

I am not a music major, but I have music down on the inside.

So I'm just gonna put a R for repeat, 'cause I don't know the sign, but it's okay.

We're just learning music.

All right, so here is our music that we did and you can do, very amazing.

So what instrument should I use?

I know, I'm gonna use my rhythm sticks and I wanna use my drums.

I love drums, especially when we do African music, you know, we just came out of Black History Month so we could use African music, ready?

So our first thing is two taps.

Okay?

(drum tapping) Another two taps.

(drum tapping) And then a rest.

Remember our rest?

So we can go like that, rest.

We can just hold our sticks up.

Or if you're using your hands, 'cause some people don't have these instruments at home.

It could be two taps, (taps) two taps (taps) rest.

You could put your hands up like this, rest.

And then another two taps (taps) and then, ♪ La, la, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ Okay.

You guys wanna try it?

All right, here we go.

And we are gonna repeat it two times, okay?

So what repeat means is you start all over again.

So I'm gonna put a little arrow so you guys will know what to do, okay?

You guys ready, ready, ready?

If you're ready say, "Oh yeah!"

All right, here we go.

So two, two, here we go.

(drums tapping) And rest.

Do it again.

(drums tapping) And sing.

♪ La, la, la, la, la, la ♪ Again.

(drums tapping) Rest.

(drums tapping) And sing.

♪ La, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪ And you can do that as many times as you want to.

Kiss your brain, you sounded amazing.

You followed our pattern.

This could be a pattern, right?

Because we did it first and then we did it again.

We did two taps, two taps, rest, two taps, sing, sing again.

Two tap, two tap, rest, two tap, sing, sing again.

Can we make another one?

Raise your hand if you wanna make another one.

Okay.

This time you're gonna tell me what to do.

And we can use our hands, okay?

So for our hands, we will use a smiley face.

Every time we have a smiley face, we can clap, right?

So let's do this.

Smiley face, clap, smiley face, clap, smiley face, clap.

Okay, what's next?

A stomp?

Okay, we're gonna stomp our feet.

We can do, do you wanna do stomp, stomp, stomp?

Or do you wanna just do stomp, stomp?

Okay, stomp, stomp, stomp.

So we can draw a line.

Stomp, stomp, stomp.

Okay, so three claps, three stomps, three claps, three stomps.

All right, let's make sure we draw it out, 'cause we don't wanna forget.

When we're doing music, you have so much fun that you forget.

And now we have to repeat.

Can you say repeat?

All right, I'm gonna put a little R, and I'm gonna put a line so you'll know what to do and where to go.

All right.

You guys are so good at this.

All right, here we go.

Remember, the smiley face means clap, clap, clap.

The lines mean stomp, stomp, stomp.

The smiley face means clap, clap clap.

The lines mean stomp, stomp, stomp.

The R means repeat it.

Okay?

All right, here we go.

So we're gonna count down.

Ready?

5, 6, 7, 8.

Clap, clap, clap.

Stomp, stomp, stomp.

Clap, clap, clap.

Stomp, stomp, stomp, repeat.

Clap, clap, clap.

Stomp, stomp, stomp.

Clap, clap, clap.

Stomp, stomp, stomp.

Oh, wow.

You guys are ready to go to Carnegie Hall.

All right.

And you can make it if that's where you wanna go.

All right, let's do another one.

Raise your hand if you wanna do another one.

All right.

This time we're gonna sing.

We're gonna use this.

(tambourine rattling) Okay.

Let me show you how to use this one.

You're gonna go like this.

(tambourine rattling) And if you don't have one, let's use our imagination.

Cause remember, our thinking caps are lightening up.

I see them on the screen.

Go like this.

Woo.

This could be your tambourine.

Your hand could be your tambourine.

We're using our imagination and we're gonna do, (tambourine rattling) Okay, and then we're gonna use our piano too, 'cause we wanna make sure that we use all of our instruments.

I'm gonna turn that on.

(keyboard beeping) It's ready.

It's telling me it's ready.

So what can we do?

We'll do this for a tambourine.

Tambourine.

What else?

Another tambourine?

Okay, you guys are ready.

So two tambourines.

So tambourine, tambourine.

Piano, piano?

Piano, piano.

Tambourine, tambourine, piano, piano.

You know what we did?

A line for the stump and I don't wanna confuse us.

So let's do tambourine, tambourine, piano, piano.

Tambourine, tambourine, piano, piano.

That sounds like a fancy one.

All right.

What comes after?

Tell me what comes next.

Okay, listen to the pattern.

Put your hand on your ears.

Ready?

Tambourine, tambourine, piano, piano.

Tambourine, tambourine, piano, piano.

You got it.

If you said tambourine, tambourine, you were right.

Good job.

And I'm gonna put a R for a repeat, and we're gonna take you back to the top when we do it.

Okay.

Now, can you guys keep up?

Cause Ms. Southern's gonna need all her hands, okay?

We're gonna need the tambourine.

I'm gonna need the piano.

So can you guys remind me what it says?

Yeah?

Who's gonna remind me?

Perfect.

Okay.

So let's see what note am I gonna hear on this one?

(keyboard chiming) Can you guys hear that?

Say la, la, la, la, la.

Yes?

All right.

I'll put it up here so you guys can hear.

All right.

It's a little low, but I'm gonna try this.

Okay, here we go.

Ready?

5, 6, 7, 8.

Tambourine, tambourine, piano, good.

(tambourine rattling) (keyboard chiming) Keep going.

(tambourine rattling) (keyboard chiming) One more time.

(tambourine rattling) (keyboard chiming) Oh my goodness.

Woo!

Give yourself a round of applause.

You guys are amazing.

I've never met some kids like you before, you guys are great.

Okay, you ready to do a little bit of music?

We're gonna do a little bit of freestyle.

(sticks tapping) Woo!

Okay, ready to sing our ABCs?

Here we go.

You guys know this song?

Who knows their ABCs?

All right, here we go with our ABCs.

So when you're in a marching band or you're getting ready to play music, you might hear them go 5, 6, 7, 8.

And when they say eight, that means get started.

Okay.

Ready?

5, 6, 5, 6, 7, 8.

♪ A-B-C-D-E-F-G ♪ ♪ H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P ♪ ♪ Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y and Z ♪ ♪ Now I know my ABCs ♪ ♪ School is where I love to be ♪ Again.

♪ A-B-C-D-E-F-G ♪ ♪ H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P ♪ ♪ Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y and Z ♪ ♪ Now I know my ABCs ♪ ♪ School is where I love to be ♪ You know what?

Did you know?

That that song is "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"?

Let's try it.

♪ Twinkle twinkle little star ♪ ♪ How I wonder where you are ♪ ♪ Up above the world so high ♪ ♪ Like a diamond in the sky ♪ ♪ Twinkle twinkle little star ♪ ♪ How I wonder what you are ♪ Woo!

Good job.

You know what?

If we were in a little jazz cafe, you would just do like this (snaps).

You would snap or you would get a round of applause or you can go like this.

You guys are so amazing.

Can I hear your beat?

Let me hear.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah!

You guys are so amazing.

Well, I just wanna say that I am so happy and so amazed that I get to make music with you.

And one day you're gonna probably be in a great big hall, or on a great big stage playing music and Ms. Southern's gonna be there with you.

Thank you so much for having me.

Before I get going out the door, let's say our affirmation.

Say I'm brave, I'm smart.

No one could tell me different.

When you look at me, you see the future.

Thank you for having me and I cannot wait to see you again.

I'm gonna head out the door.

Bye!

Let's clap while we go out the door.

Oh, you know what?

I'm gonna take these with me and I'm gonna play some music out the door.

♪ A-B-C-D-E-F-G ♪ ♪ H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P ♪ (cheerful music)