(bright upbeat music) - Hello, little learners.

Welcome back to our Pre-K and TK classroom.

My name is Miss Lara, and I'm gonna be your teacher today.

Hello!

I hope you're ready to do some fun activities.

We have a book today about the wind and it's gonna blow lots of things around.

And then we're gonna do some writing.

So if you just started watching, get your paper, pencil, or air tool, ready to write with me.

We're gonna end our week by making some fake snow.

Where I live, there's no snow anywhere.

I thought we'd make some so that we can play with it.

You'll need some white shampoo and baking soda for that activity if you wanna follow along.

And of course, I'll leave you with a recommended book to take you into the weekend.

So let's get started with a song.

Do you remember what it is?

It's "What's the Weather".

So let's sing it two times.

Here we go.

[{[{sung to tune of Clementine]}]} What's the weather?

What's the weather?

What's the weather like today?

Is it sunny?

Is it rainy?

Is it windy out today?

What's the weather?

What's the weather?

What's the weather like today?

Is it sunny?

Is it rainy?

Is it windy out today?

Let's try it in Spanish.

This is a different song, but we've been teaching you some words.

Like llueva, that means to rain.

And niña, means girl.

Cueva means cave.

And then we learned that nuves means clouds.

So now I'm gonna teach you another word.

You may have seen me do this.

It's pajaritos.

That means little birds.

And in our song, the pajaritos, or little birds are singing.

So you can sing along with me, ready?

Here we go.

(singing in Spanish) I hope you learned a little bit of Spanish with me this week.

Now it's time to learn some words so that we can really understand what our story is trying to say.

So behind my door, I've picked three to put inside of our thinking box.

Let's see.

The wind blew.

The first word is snatched.

Can you make that?

Snatched!

Make that movement with me.

It means to take quickly and to grab.

So you might have someone that comes snatches a toy from you.

It means they're gonna take it quickly.

The next word means whirled.

You can make this motion for whirled.

It means to move really, really fast, around and around.

So if you ever look at a blender, it whirls your food around and around like a little food tornado.

The last word is fluttering, and it moves to mean in fast and flapping motions.

So you get a flutter fast and flapping motions.

So all three words are going to be in our story.

If you hear them, you give me a clap and try to remember what they mean.

Our story today is called The Wind Blew by author, Pat Hutchins.

She's the author and the illustrator.

That means she wrote the words and drew the pictures.

If we look at the front cover of our story, it can tell us what the book is about.

So look, there's a kite and a balloon and an umbrella that's backwards, all flying through the air and the people look like they're trying to reach for them.

Hmm, what could this story be about?

Let's go through and figure it out.

The wind blew.

It has a dedication for Mark.

That must be somebody very special to the author.

The wind blew.

How can you tell that the wind is blowing?

Let's take a look.

I know the leaves are facing this way and there's rain.

Normally when rain comes down, it comes straight down.

But in this picture, it's going sideways.

That means something must be moving it this way.

Are there any other clues that are telling you that the wind is blowing?

That's right!

The coat on the man, it's blowing this way.

And the umbrella, and even his hair is coming this way.

It took the umbrella from Mr. White and quickly turned it inside out.

So there's the umbrella, (whooshing sound) flying away.

Poor, Mr. White.

It snatched, remember snatched means to take quickly, the balloon from little Priscilla and swept it up to join the umbrella.

So now Priscilla is hunting for her balloon.

Mr. White is hunting for his umbrella.

And look right here on this page.

What is that?

I wonder if that's gonna be the next part of the story.

And not content, it took a hat, and still not satisfied with that.

So look, it took that man's hat and there he's chasing it.

It whipped a kite into the air and kept it spinning round up there.

So look, it's whipping the kite in the air and kept it spinning around and around.

So, so far, Mr. White lost his umbrella.

Priscilla lost her balloon.

The man lost his hat and the kite is lost to the wind as well.

It grabbed a shirt left out to dry and tossed it upward in the sky.

Oh, there it goes.

It plucked a hankie from a nose and up and up and up it rose.

So look a hankie is there.

It's like a piece of cloth that you might use to wipe your nose.

Now it's flying through the air.

Now this man by the courthouse looks like he's wearing a very fancy wig.

I wonder if the wind is gonna take that wig.

Oh no!

It is!

It lifted the wig from the judge's head and didn't drop it back instead.

Let's see what it does instead.

It whirled, remember whirled means to spin around really fast.

The postman's letters up as if it hadn't done enough.

That poor postman.

Look at, there he is with his letters.

He's just trying to get the meal delivered, and there it goes, flying, flying through the wind all around.

It blew so hard.

It quickly stole a striped flag fluttering on a pole.

So the flag was fluttering.

It was moving quickly like this.

Well, there it goes.

Now I wonder how these people feel.

All of their things are up in the air where they can't grab them.

Now let's look at their expressions.

Some of them have their mouth open and they're looking straight up in the air with their arms up.

Do you think maybe they're surprised?

Or maybe a little nervous that they can't get their things?

That wind, it pulled the new scarves from the twins and tossed them into other things.

So there's the scarves and there's a pair that means two, because twins are two people that are brother and sister or siblings, right?

It sent the newspapers fluttering around.

Then tried, then tired of all the things it found.

So the wind is gonna grow tired of those things.

So what do you think the wind is gonna do?

Hmm.

It mixed them up and threw them down.

And the wind blew away to the sea.

There it is, getting that boat going.

That boat's name is Neptune.

The people have smiles on their faces.

I think they're happy to get all of their things back.

So I hope you like this story, The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins.

I love this story because it has different sequencing activities that you can pair with it.

Now, before we move on to our project, I thought let's do another mindful minute.

That's gonna remind us to slow things down and teach us either a movement or provide an activity for calming down when we're a little, a bit stressed.

We could all use a little more of that.

So let's watch Mrs. McCarthy's mindful minute together.

♪ I need so things down ♪ - Let's slow down and follow along as Mrs. McCarthy leads us in a mindful minute.

♪ I need to slow things down ♪ - Hi boys and girls.

Welcome to Mrs. McCarthy's mindful minute.

Today, we're gonna review the breathing techniques that we have learned in the past.

Remember all of our breathing techniques, we breathe in through our nose and out through our lips.

Our first breathing technique that we learned was the flower-candle breathing.

We hold up our finger like this.

We're gonna breathe in through our nose like we're smelling the flower.

Then we're gonna breathe out through our lips like we are blowing out a candle.

Let's try that three times.

(breathing in) (blowing out air) (breathing in) (blowing out air) (breathing in) (blowing out air) That was very good, boys and girls.

The next one that we learned was the shoulder roll breathing.

That's when our shoulders go up, when we take a breath through our nose and then we roll our shoulders back down and breathe out through our lips.

Let's try that three times.

(breathing in) (blowing out air) (breathing in) (blowing out air) (breathing in) (blowing out air) That was very good.

Our last one is our rainbow breathing technique.

That's when we have our arms down at our sides and we're gonna put our arms up like a rainbow and breathe in through our nose.

And then we're gonna put our arms back down to our sides and breathe out through our lips.

Let's try that one, three times.

Here we go, boys and girls.

(breathing in) (blowing out air) (breathing in) (blowing out air) (breathing in) (blowing out air) That's very good.

Were you mindful of breathing in through your nose and out through your lips?

I was.

Remember boys and girls, that when you're nervous or upset, it's always good to do one of these breathing techniques.

I know that it helps me calm down when I do one of those.

Thank you, boys and girls for joining me today and I hope to see you soon.

Bye, bye.

♪ Take a big deep breath ♪ ♪ I need to slow things down ♪ - Oh, I feel so much more relaxed already.

Thank you Mrs. McCarthy.

Now we're ready to move into our writing activity.

So like I said, get your writing tools ready.

We're going to be writing weather words.

So I like to write them in all upper or capital letters because that's how we learn to write in preschool.

The letters are just a little bit easier to form that way.

So the first word that I wanna write that when I think of weather, I think of this word is cloud.

So let's sound it out.

C-L-OUD, kuh, kuh What letter makes the kuh sound?

Two letters do.

But I know that cloud starts with the letter C, which is a big curve.

I'm gonna write it right here.

C, the next sound is uhl, uhl.

An L like Laura.

L, then the next letter is O, U, and the last ending sound is cloud, duh, duh.

D!

D as in dog.

Big line down, big curve.

Cloud.

What other word do you think of when you think of the weather?

How about sun?

Sun?

What's the beginning sound or the first sound you hear?

S, s, s Yes, letter S!

Let's write it down here.

S, letter S can be tricky.

It's little curve and little curve like that.

That one takes a little practice.

Now let's focus on the middle sound.

S, uh, uh, uh U, that's right.

U and the ending sound, n. The N makes the n sound.

So I'm gonna write big line down, big line down and big line down.

Sun.

What's another word that you think of when you think of the weather?

How about rain?

Rain?

Let's see the beginning sound of rain.

If by say it real slow is rrr.

R, yes.

So R, rrr.

Ah, ah, ah, A.

You got it.

Big line down, big line, down, little line across.

And then there's an I.

And the last sound is a nnn.

Yes, an N. We already wrote that one so we can just write it again.

Rain.

Look at that.

We have cloud, sun and rain.

What's another word that you can think of that reminds you of the weather?

How about from the book we just read?

Wind.

Yes, let's write that.

Ooh.

Running out of space.

How about right here?

Wuh, wuh, wuh.

W!

W has four big lines and it looks like this.

Can you make a W in the air?

Boop, boop, boop, boop.

That one's fun to make.

Then, wuh, iii, I. Winnn, N and let's focus on that last sound, duh, duh, duh.

D!

Big line and big curve.

Those are our four words that we wrote today that remind us of the weather, cloud, sun, rain, and wind.

Of course, you can add any other words that you can think of.

And if you can't write letters yet, like I do.

How about drawing pictures?

Pictures are a great way to communicate your thoughts.

All right, let's go over to our project place because we're gonna make fake snow to end the week.

How many steps?

I think, hmmm, 8.

1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Oh, I never get it quite right.

So to do this activity, you're going to need just two main ingredients.

You're going to need some baking soda, and you're going to need some shampoo that's white.

Now I got both of these items at the place where everything costs $1.

So you can have those two ingredients to make the snow.

You're also gonna need a bowl and some measuring cups.

Okay.

So this is what it's going to look like at the end.

And if you put it in the refrigerator, it feels cold like snow.

Look at that!

I thought we would make our some snow to end our week, so you would have something to play with over the weekend.

And I thought, "Oh, I don't get a lot of snow where I live."

I would love to play with some fake snow.

Look at that.

Okay.

Let's make it together.

Here is our recipe.

The recipe calls for two and a half cups of baking soda to one half cup of shampoo.

That's what's called a ratio.

You can have a grownup explain that to you at home.

I don't know if we'll have a lot of time to go into it.

So here's one cup and I might just pour the whole thing in 'cause the little trick is I may have measured it before.

(laughing) There's the baking soda.

Now the baking soda reacts with the shampoo to harden.

So it gets hard.

And that's what you get to play with.

So I'm gonna add a little bit under half of a cup of white shampoo.

Why do you think I need the white one?

So it looks like snow.

If we had blue shampoo, you could still make something fun to play with, but it really wouldn't be snow if it's not white.

Okay?

Hmm.

That shampoo smells like coconut.

Next I'm gonna take a little paint brush like this and I'm gonna mix it all around.

Here we go.

Now you can use your fingers, but it does get clumpy and messy.

Oh, here it is.

And if you added the right amount, it should look exactly like snow.

Here.

Let's see.

This is what it looks like.

See how it's kind of crumbly.

Then I might stick this in the refrigerator for about 20 minute and then it'll be cold.

So you can play with it.

There still might be some clumps.

Just kind of squeeze those out and clump it through.

Oh, wouldn't it be so fun.

So how I might use this in the classroom?

Of course, I would make the recipe with my students together and then I would put it out during independent exploration and just have a few tools.

Maybe some of the Play doh tools out so they can practice and squeeze.

Do all kinds of fun things with it.

Now I thought that's a very short activity, but I do hope you try it.

And if we had time, I wanted to show you just one more thing that you can try at home over the weekend when we don't have school here together.

That's to make a cloud rain.

Wouldn't it be so cool to do that in real life?

If you could just snap your fingers and say, "Cloud, I need rain."

I know the people and farmers here would love that where I live.

So you'll need a container of some sort and some water.

Then we're gonna use the shaving cream that I had before.

So here it is, this is going to be our cloud.

Remember I said, it looked like a cloud.

We're gonna open it up.

I'm big and strong so I can open things.

And then we're gonna put some shaving cream on top, like this, to make our clouds.

Ooh.

I need to shake it up a little bit.

That cause it to air out.

Oh, this one's not wanting to come out.

Let's try another one.

I have a backup one.

Don't worry.

Sometimes that happens.

All right, now let's try this one.

There we go.

Making a large cloud on top.

Now in order for it to rain, we're gonna need some blue water.

Oh, look at that cloud.

Beautiful.

We're gonna need some water.

So I have blue water here.

What I did is I took some water and I just added a little bit of food coloring.

Now you can use a spoon for this part.

You can use an eyedropper if you have it.

But I thought I would just kind of pour it in like this.

Because it does take a little bit of time if you're using an eyedropper for all the water to go through the shaving cream and for it to start to rain.

You just pour it in.

You might see it a little faster.

Is it going?

Oh, it's starting to fill up.

I'm starting to see.

It's like, does it wanna rain?

Oh, there it goes.

Going down, creating a little rainstorm.

Look at that.

It almost looks like a tornado.

If you go slow.

Whoa.

I wish you could see it where I am.

It looks like the cloud is touching the ground.

Do you remember what that's called?

Fog.

That that's right.

Okay.

So that's another activity that'll keep you busy over the weekend to try having to do with the weather.

I'm gonna leave you with one recommended book and then we'll sing our alphabet song to say goodbye.

My recommended book this week, or today is called, It Looked Like Spilt Milk.

Now this is another fun book that'll remind you to take a look at clouds and see the shapes that you have in them.

Remember just like the other book, it has a tree cloud and a birthday cake cloud.

Ooh.

I would love to see that one.

And a squirrel cloud.

I've never seen one of those before.

So check out this book at your local library.

Okay.

Time to end our week, let's sing our alphabet song and then we'll say goodbye.

So we can learn about something new next week.

Here we go.

A as for amazing, that's what you are.

B is for brave.

That'll carry you far.

C is for caring and community.

D is for determined to be the best you can be.

E is for empathy, caring for all.

F is for friends, that'll catch you when you fall.

G is for grateful for everything around and H is for hopeful.

There's more good to be found.

I is for imagine all the fun things we can do.

J is for joyful, how I feel when I'm with you.

K is for kind to people and animals too.

And L is for love.

Put it in all that you do.

M is for mindful.

Be present every day.

N is for nice words and everything you say.

O is for original.

Always be you.

And P is for persevere until you make it through.

Q is for quiet those bad thoughts.

R is for remember all the greatness that you've got.

S is for strong body and mind.

And T is for talent.

Why not make yours being kind?

U is for unique, special and loved.

V is for victorious.

Always rise above.

W is for worthy and wonderful too.

And X, don't X out those mistakes.

They're what make you, you.

Y is for, yes, we're getting to the end of this rhyme and that's the alphabet.

I'll Z you next time.

That's right.

I'll see you next week.

We're gonna have some more learning adventures.

I hope that you have a wonderful weekend and I hope you have the best weather so you can run and play.

And of course use your five senses and think like a scientist every day.

Don't forget to read lots of books.

Miss Laura sends out big smooch from me to you.

Mwah!

Well, I'll see you next time.

All right, boys and girls have a wonderful, wonderful weekend.

Goodbye.

(bright upbeat music)