(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.

This week we're learning all about kindergarten.

Have you heard someone tell you, now that you're done with pre-K and TK, you're going to be going to kindergarten.

And have you felt a little scared about that?

Oh, I know how you feel.

I get scared sometimes too, but you don't have to worry because kindergarten is a fun place where you'll sing songs, read books and do projects just like we do here in our classroom room at PBS.

So let's start our learning off with a song.

This is a hello song and it involves bread and butter which I love and marmalade and jam, which are also favorites.

And it includes a rhythm.

We're gonna tap like this and clap, tap and clap, tap and clap.

Are you ready to sing our hello song?

Here we go.

♪ Bread and butter marmalade and jam ♪ ♪ Let's say hello as quiet as we can.

♪ Ready?

Hello.

Did you even hear it?

(chuckles) Another one, now we're gonna do it super loud.

I'm getting my ears ready.

I know it's gonna hurt, you're gonna be so loud.

♪ Bread and butter marmalade and jam ♪ ♪ Let's say hello as loud as we can ♪ Hello.

Well, that was really loud.

Now let's try it slow like a snail.

♪ Bread and butter marmalade and jam ♪ ♪ Let's say hello as slow as we can.

♪ Here we go.

Stretch it out, start hearing in here really stretched.

Hel-lo.

Oh, that was a very slow hello.

Now we're gonna do it super fast, like ninja fast.

You're not even gonna be able to hear the word.

♪ Bread and butter marmalade and jam ♪ ♪ Let's say hello as fast as we can ♪ Here we go.

Hello.

That was pretty quick, right?

♪ Bread and butter marmalade and jam ♪ ♪ Let's say hello as high as we can ♪ Hello.

Last one, ♪ Bread and butter marmalade and jam ♪ ♪ Let's say hello as hello as low as we can ♪ Hello.

We're so low, it's way down there.

I hope that you enjoyed that hello song and sing and clapping with me.

Now it's time to read our story.

Now, I always like to preview the vocabulary before we read.

Usually I would have pictures and hand movements to go with it.

So let's see our three words that we're going to need to learn in order to hear our story and understand it.

See, the first one is tardy.

That's a big deal when you go to traditional school.

Being tardy means you are late.

You are not on time.

And can I tell you something?

Miss Lara's always tardy.

I know.

I need to work on that.

The next word is actually two words and this is also a big deal in the classroom.

It's pay attention and you might hear your teacher say, "Class you need to pay attention."

But what does that even mean?

It means you need to focus your attention on something and you need to forget and ignore about all other things.

Now in early learning, we have a trick, we say we use our attentiscopes and our attentiscopes are just our hands like this and we put 'em to our eyes and we focus on one thing and our fingers kind of block out everything else.

So when someone tells you, "Pay attention," just use your attentiscope to focus.

Our last word is a fun one.

What you're gonna love about school is recess.

Who doesn't love to go outside and play?

And that's exactly what a recess is.

It's a break.

So you get to run and you might even get to go on a big slide.

That would be a lot of fun, wouldn't it?

So those are the three things that we're gonna learn about and see in our story.

Now, this story has a very famous, very funny character.

You might have read about him before.

Do you recognize who it is?

It's David.

That's right.

He has a very funny book called "No, David!"

that I'll show you in our project place.

But in this story, "David Goes to School."

Here he is.

Do you think he's gonna have a good time or a not so good time.

He's throwing a paper plane so I'm thinking not so good.

This is a short book by David Shannon.

That's the author.

That means he wrote the words.

But what I love about it is looking at the details in the picture.

So let's read the story of David going to school.

Here he is.

Who could this person be?

Look, she has her arms crossed.

I think she's behind or in front of a desk.

I think that might be the teacher and I can tell by her body language that she is not too happy.

I hope she's not a mean teacher.

I've heard about those.

Here it is.

David's teacher always said, "No David!

No yelling, no pushing, no running in the halls."

No, no, no.

And there's a lot of no sometimes in school and those are rules there that teachers use to keep you safe because imagine if you're running down the hall and you fall.

It's not safe, you can get hurt.

Or if you're yelling, you might not hear important announcements that might keep you safe.

And if you're pushing, well, I don't even wanna think about what would happen if you push somebody.

Bad news.

There's David walking through the door, look at his smile.

It looks like he knows he's done something wrong and he's like, hi-hi, trying to get away with it.

Let's see what the words say.

"David, your tardy!"

Remember, we talked about that word, tardy?

It means you're late.

There's David in the front of the class and what kind of face is he making?

A silly face, there's his tongue, put your tongue back in David.

Oh, that is being silly and interrupting the class.

So guess what the teacher says, "Sit down, David!"

Oh and she says it like, she means it because this line with a dot is an exclamation point.

That means you say something like you really mean it.

(gasps) Look at what David did.

He has gum all over his mouth.

Oh no, he's gonna get it in the books, he's gonna get it in his classmates' hair.

So his teacher says, "Don't chew gum in class!"

Do you think that's a fair rule?

Now there's somebody talking and the teacher wants her to answer the question, but before she can, David blurts out the answer, "Oh, I know the answer" and he does not wait for her to answer.

Is that very polite?

How would you feel if you were this little girl trying to answer a question that David just blurted out.

Not very good.

So the teacher says, "David, raise your hand!"

That means that you tell the teacher you want a turn to talk.

(gasps) He's so naughty.

What are we gonna do with David?

Look, he put paint all over his hand.

He's gonna touch the little girl hair.

Oh, I can't look.

The teacher says, "Keep your hands to yourself!"

He's doing another not so safe thing.

Do you know what it is?

Take a look.

He's standing on a chair.

You definitely don't do that in kindergarten.

You can fall and hurt your chin.

Oh, no.

Here are those two words that we talked about.

His teachers telling him to pay attention.

And the truth is he is paying attention, isn't he?

He is just not paying attention to the teacher or the learning that's happening in the classroom.

He is looking outside.

He's looking at the clouds.

He's seeing a car cloud and a dinosaur cloud.

He needs to focus on his work not on the clouds.

That's for later, David.

There's everybody in line.

They're all lining up to get some delicious spaghetti.

And look, he's just walking up, not waiting his turn and look at the faces of the boys and girls in front of him.

They're like, "He's just ignoring us.

He's just trying to get to the front of the line."

So the teacher says, "Wait, your turn David!"

Oh, no.

They played with their food.

"I don't care who started it!"

And there they're outside, they're taking a little break.

Do you remember what that's called?

Recess, that's right.

Everyone's gone to line up but David is still playing.

That is a not so good choice.

David, recess is over.

Now everyone's trying to read their book and do some studying and what does David decide to do?

He decides to bang on his book.

Bam!

Bam!

Bam!

Bam!

There he is.

"Shh, David!"

Now he needs to go to the bathroom and the teacher says, "Again?"

Because really, when you're in school, you really need to use the restroom when you're outside in recess so you can spend all that time in the classroom learning.

Now look what he's doing.

Instead of drawing on his paper, he's drawn all over his desk.

He drew spaceships and pigs with pigtails and planets.

"That's it, Mister!"

Says his teacher, "You're staying after school!"

"David, have you finished?"

Look, his job was to clean the desk.

"Good job, David!"

And look, he got a gold star from the teacher.

I bet he's feeling very proud.

When you do the right thing, you get lots of praise from the grownups in school.

"Yes, David, you can go home now."

Looks like he's getting ready to play.

So even though the character in our story had a lot of trouble with school, we can learn a lot from him about what not to do and what to do in the end, right?

So I hope you enjoyed this story of David and his adventures in kindergarten.

So right now we're gonna practice a foundational skill that's gonna help you learn to read.

And that is beginning sounds.

Being able to pull apart the sounds in words.

Now, I pulled some pictures from the story.

We're gonna sound them out and try to take apart that beginning sound and write the letter.

Are you with me?

Okay, here we go.

The first one is gum.

Now, do you remember in the story that David had a big load of gum in his mouth?

That could have gotten everywhere and made a mess.

So let's listen for that beginning sound, g-g, gum.

G, that's right.

The G makes the g sound.

Now to write a G you need a big curve, a little line and another little line.

That's a G for gum.

Let's look at the next one.

It's ball, b-b, ball.

What letter makes the b sound which is at the beginning of ball?

B, that's right.

Now to write a B you're gonna do a big line down, a little curve and a little curve.

Now, if you don't have your writing tools with you, don't worry.

Write it in the air with me as I write.

So that's a B for a ball.

Let's look at the next one.

A paper plane.

That's what he had at the beginning of the story and I was so scared he was gonna throw it at the teacher, oh, no.

P-paper, p-p. What letter makes the p-p sound?

P, that's right.

To make a P it's big line down, little curve up top.

P for paper plane.

Let's do this one.

Crayons, crayons.

c-c-c. What letter makes the c-c sound?

Yes, there's two, there's a K and a C. But the one we're looking for is the one with a big curve, a C. So let's write that together either in the air or on some paper like me.

C. A few more to go.

Spaghetti, s-spaghetti.

What letter makes the s sound?

S, S, that's right.

Air write your S or write it here with me.

Little curve and little curve the other way.

This one is so tricky.

Some people write it, ooh, backwards and that's okay.

Keep practicing.

How about this one, a bucket with bubbles?

That's what David used at the end of the story to wipe up all the desk.

B-bucket, bubbles.

It's a B, that's right.

Big line down, little curve and little curve.

Bucket with bubbles.

The next is a star.

Now we already wrote a s sound.

So what letter was it?

S, that's right.

We need lots of practice with that one.

Letter S, here we go, S. And last one is David himself.

What's David's special letter?

d-d, makes a D sound, that's right.

Big line and big curve, d-d. Look at all of our beginning sounds that we captured.

I hope that you had fun reviewing some beginning sounds with me because now we're gonna go over to the project place and I'm gonna leave you with an activity that'll allow you to review those sounds at home with your family.

So here we go.

This activity, I'm calling Feed David and look, here's David.

So you're gonna need a cereal box, some paper, glue stick, scissors and some cards or some letters that you might have laying around.

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take a card with the letters and we're gonna feed David the letters 'cause he loves to read.

So the first thing you're gonna do is get your cereal box and you're just gonna up the flap in like this so it just looks like one complete box.

Now you'll notice here that I covered it in some blue paper.

So that's my first step.

I'm gonna grab some blue paper.

If you don't have blue, you know what I say, use what you have.

Do not go out and buy anything.

Next, I'm gonna put my box on top and go through and cut out my paper.

It doesn't have to be exact, although exact could be a good measurement activity.

It depends on how much time you have to spend on this activity.

So next, I'm gonna glue it on.

See, I'm just gonna glue my paper on.

So I'm gonna take my glue stick and making sure to get all the edges, I'm gonna apply some glue.

Twist it up.

Not all the way up, no, no, no, because then when you smash it down it'll just break.

Just a little just so it's peeking out and go around, get the glue and then put it on like this.

There we go.

Okay.

See?

Now the next step is to make our David.

So you can see that David's face is a big circle.

It's two curves put together.

So I'm gonna take some white paper and I'm just gonna cut out a big circle.

Now, you can use something else to trace your circle if you want it to be perfect, but I'm just gonna go for it.

So here we go.

I'm gonna make one big curve and then hold it with my thumb and then go around, go around and then make it meet on the other side and whatever your David looks like is okay.

We're just gonna glue him on right there.

Again, just going around the edges.

Here we are Next, we're gonna make his ears.

Look at his ears.

There's such a good part of David.

That's how I recognize him, his ears and his teeth.

Imagine being known for your ears and your teeth.

So I'm gonna fold my paper in half and make a big curve, I'll show you in just a moment and two ears like this.

Next I'm gonna glue 'em down.

One and two.

So there, David is starting to look like David.

Next, he needs a nose.

Look at his nose right here.

It's like a triangle shape and I used orange.

So I'm gonna take my orange paper or whatever it is you have and cut out a triangle like this.

And glue that on.

There's his nose.

Starting to look kind of the same.

And next, I need his hair.

So let me grab some black paper and we'll cut out out some hair.

Now, if you don't have black paper, you can use markers, whatever it is you have.

Now notice how I cut the hair.

I just go down, just similar to how people make grass.

Just make little snippets down the side of the paper and then turn it around and watch, it's gonna rain some hair.

And I like my hair to be all uneven, but if it's too long, you can just give David a little haircut.

There we go.

Gluing on the hair.

Next, I'm gonna show you the tricky part.

You have to make a mouth for David right here in the middle.

See how I made it and it's cut out.

Now, in order to make a mouth, I like to use this little tool.

It's like a little screwdriver, but you can ask a grownup to help you with this part.

They can use a knife or some other scissors that are a little sharper because it's very hard to get your scissors in there and cut through cardboard.

So I just make a little hole, I stick my scissors in and then I go around to make, there we go.

Around and around like this.

And then I make a hole for his mouth.

Like I said, a grownup is gonna have to help you with this part 'cause it's tricky even for me to cut through a layer of paper and a layer of cardboard.

Here we go.

There we are.

Next, you're gonna wanna add eyes.

You can color him in like I did over here and you have a David that is ready to eat some letters.

So what I would do, just because we're coming to the end of our sessions and we should know how to do this is I would take some cards and I would ask our student to write some letters on the cards.

Like I would play a game and say, "Now David wants to eat the letter B. David is hungry for B.

Let's make a B."

I would have them write it here, big line down, little curve, little curve, a B.

Ready David for your B?

But he's still hungry.

David, you're gonna have to eat more things.

You can also, if your past letter identification, you can say a word and have your child write the beginning sound, with help of course.

I might even take a word from the book.

Like think about spaghetti.

Do you remember when David ate spaghetti in the lunchroom, but most of it ended up all over the walls because he had a fight with his friend?

Now, think of that word spaghetti.

What's the beginning sound?

S, that's right.

So then you would write your S just like that and feed it to David.

Let's do one more then I'm gonna show you my book recommendation.

How about, oh, the teacher?

The teacher.

Think about the beginning sound of teacher.

It's t-t, T. So then you'd write that in and then you feed it to David.

You can even make this sound as it goes in.

It's lots of different ways that you can use this activity.

Of course, if you'd like to get a head start with kindergarten, you'd always work on sight words too.

So hope you have a fun time practicing with that.

I'm gonna leave you with a little book recommendation that I have.

This has to be everybody's favorite book whenever I go into a classroom.

It is called "No!

David."

And just like the story of David going to school, in this book, David does a lot of silly things that he's not supposed to at home.

Do you think he just misbehaves at school?

No.

Now look it, I'm gonna show you a few.

He's reaching up for the jar right on the edge of his seat just like he did in our story.

And he gets all dirty, oh no, David.

And there's one part in here that everybody loves.

He's running down the street.

Oh no, where your shorts, David?

Making very loud noises.

Do you think he's gonna get in trouble, especially if he's playing baseball inside?

I think so.

And here he is getting in trouble.

Oh no.

Even shedding a tear.

But just like the story that we read, David learns that no matter what he does, he always is loved.

So I hope that you check out this story.

There are so many other David Shannon books that are great just like this one.

Until next time.

We'll see you later.

Goodbye.

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