(gentle music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day, ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play, ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun, ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone.

♪ (playful music) - Hello, little learners.

Welcome back to our learning space.

My name is Miss Lara.

Can you tell me your name?

I'm so grateful that you made it back today.

Let's start off with a song.

Ready?

♪ Hello, how are you?

♪ ♪ Hello, how are you?

♪ ♪ Hello, how are you?

♪ ♪ Let's meet someone new now.

♪ Now, my someone new is Gertrude, the grasshopper.

I have a couple of questions for her this morning.

Hello, Gertrude.

You are so fluffy.

Say hello to the boys and girls.

There you go.

Gertrude, do you ever have to do chores?

Ch-ch-chores?

No, I'm a grasshopper.

That's true.

Well, as humans, we have to do chores and kids sometimes have to do things like clean their room or wash the dishes.

You're lucky you don't have to do any of that.

No, I just worry about eating and staying out of very large puddles.

Well, that's something to worry about if you're a grasshopper, isn't it?

Let me put you down and I'll show you what I worry about.

So I have a little daughter.

Her name is Sophie.

She's in the sixth grade and she has to do chores all the time.

I said, "Sophie, you have to clean the kitchen!"

Did she clean the kitchen?

Look at this picture.

What do you think?

The kitchen is a mess.

Now, how do you think that made me feel?

Do you think that made me feel angry?

Or do you think that made me feel happy?

That's right.

That made me angry.

I needed to remember that Sophie is still learning and sometimes needs help to remember her chores.

Now, anger is a very strong emotion that you feel in your body.

When I'm angry, I like to use things in my toolbox to help me calm down.

Let me grab that.

Now, remember, boys and girls, you can make your own calm down toolkit with things you have around the house.

You can put them in a shoe box and color around them and it can be your special place you go to when you're feeling strong feelings.

So in my calm down toolkit, I have this, little sequins and it helps me when I rub it back and forth, kind of calm down, the texture helps me relax.

I have these funny squishy things that I can kind of move around and it can also help me with my breathing.

And I have this thing called a fidget.

So the fidget helps focus my mind on something other than the anger that I'm feeling and helps me relax too.

So I wanna know now how you're feeling.

So help me make my letter so we can put my letter mirror and check in on how you're feeling.

Are you ready?

First, I'm gonna use a big line to make my letter today.

It's going to go straight down from the top.

Then I'm going to use my little curve.

Here it goes.

It's a P, but wait, then I'm gonna use another little curve to make another letter.

What letter have I made?

That's right, it's a B. I'm gonna grab my letter B mirror.

And I let's see.

I already know how I'm feeling much calmer after my calm down box, but how are you feeling?

Let's sing a song together to find out.

Let's watch.

(playful music) Get ready to sing along with me and Shy Bunny.

Shy Bunny doesn't like to sing but maybe if we sing with him, he'll sing along too.

♪ If happy and you know it, clap your hands ♪ ♪ If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands ♪ ♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪ ♪ Then your face will surely show it ♪ ♪ If you're happy and you know it clap your hands ♪ Hoo, that was fast price.

♪ If you're surprised and you know it, stomp your feet ♪ ♪ If you're surprised and you know it, stomp your feet ♪ ♪ If you're surprised and you know it ♪ ♪ Then your face will surely show it ♪ ♪ If you're surprised and you know it, stomp your feet ♪ ♪ If you're silly and you know it, jump around ♪ ♪ If you're silly and you know it, jump around ♪ ♪ If you're silly and you know it ♪ ♪ Then your face will surely show it ♪ ♪ If you're silly and you know it, jump around ♪ (playful music) (children cheering) Our feelings are so important.

Thank you, Shy Bunny.

Now, remember boys and girls, it is so important for you to check in on how you're feeling not just once, but throughout the day and check in on those around you like your grandparents or your parents too.

Now we have a very special friend who would like to share their picture and story.

This is Teddy, special letter T for Teddy.

See, T, T. Now, Teddy is playing outside, alone on the soccer field.

He is bouncing a ball.

I wonder how Teddy is feeling.

So sometimes you can't see people's faces but you can use the clues around them to think about how they might be feeling.

So how do you feel when you play outside and you get to play something like soccer?

Do you think that would make you feel excited?

If so, make an excited face like this.

Or do you think that would make you feel gloomy?

If you think so, make a gloomy face like this.

Ooh, I see some excited faces.

Yes, I would be excited too.

Now, remember, I want to share your story and picture with all of our friends here.

If you have something you'd like to share, send it to the address below.

And don't forget you get a special bonus.

If you send in your picture and story, you get these fun activity books.

And inside them, they have different activities and color and things that you can do.

All brought to you by our friends here at PBS.

All right, now it's time to go through and see what we have going on today.

Let's bring our bell.

(bell dinging) Here's that visual schedule.

We did our emotional check-in.

We're gonna do our weekly investigation around the book, "The Grouchy Ladybug".

And then it'll be time to sing our goodbye song.

So let's see if I have my movement card here.

Ready to see the letter?

Dah-dah-dah-dah!

A letter B.

We're gonna buzz like a B over 20 tensional message.

You might've been wanting to get your stinger out.

Ready?

Here we go.

(mimicking bees buzzing) All right, we're going to work on rhyming words today.

Rhyming words are words that sound the same and have the same ending.

So remember, yesterday I told you to practice with these words, cat, hat and rat.

Do you notice when I'm saying them that they sound the same?

Rat, cat, hat.

There's a little rhyme you can say to help you remember.

Cat, hat.

They both say at.

Now let's look at some of the characters in our story and try to make rhymes with them.

Let's see.

Ladybug.

Is it gonna be pail or mug that rhymes?

Ladybug, mug, or ladybug, pail?

That's right.

Ladybug, mug.

They both say ug.

Let me put that right next to the ladybug here.

All right, let's do another one.

How about sparrow?

Sparrow, cone?

Sparrow, wheelbarrow?

Which one sounds the same?

That's right.

It's sparrow, wheelbarrow.

They both say arrow.

Let's do one last one.

Get this off here.

Ooh, this one's tricky.

Whale.

Whale, pail or whale, cone.

What words sound the same?

That's right.

Whale, pail.

They both say ale.

So those words sound the same.

Now, boys and girls.

When we watch our video, you're gonna get to practice doing some rhyming words.

Let's see if you can remember what rhyming words are.

Let's watch the video together.

♪ He's tiny and he's flying ♪ ♪ He's got six legs and trying ♪ ♪ Legs has he fitting in his tummy ♪ ♪ my grouchy ladybug, ladybug.

♪ - [Children Together] Rhyme time.

(beatbox) - [Children Together] Rhyme time.

- [Instructor] Time to check our rhyming skills.

What word rhymes with ladybug?

Is it hug or is it lollipop?

Don't forget to check that ending sound.

Yes.

It's hug, hug, lady bug.

They both say, ug.

♪ Listen to the ending.

♪ - [Instructor] Let's rhyme.

One more time.

What word rhymes with Sparrow?

Is it salt or is it arrow?

The answer is arrow.

Sparrow, arrow.

They both say arrow.

♪ Listen to the ending.

♪ Now let's try to find the word that rhymes with whale.

Is it snail or is it watermelon?

(playful music) Yes.

The answer is snail.

Snail, whale.

They both say ale.

♪ Listen to the ending.

♪ Let's play a bonus round, this time, look around your house and find something that rhymes with bear.

(playful music) If you didn't have enough time, hit, pause, or ask a grownup for help.

Let's try another one.

Can you find something in your house that rhymes with the color red?

(playful music) Thank you for playing.

I hope you keep practicing rhyming words.

♪ Rhyme time.

♪ - Hi boys and girls.

Remember, you can read all about the grouchy lady bug and on the Solar app and all about insects too.

Don't forget to check that out.

Now right now, I'd like to sing our grouchy lady bug song.

Before we move on to our visual schedule.

Are you ready?

Cause like this, ♪ I'm a grouchy lady bug.

♪ ♪ Don't talk to me.

♪ ♪ I pretend I'm most tough.

♪ ♪ Fast, tough can be.

♪ ♪ First I find some me fits, but I don't share.

♪ ♪ I'd rather pick a fight and fly out of there.

♪ ♪ I mute many animals and pick up fight ♪ ♪ until a whale gives me enough full fright.

♪ ♪ In the end, I returned to my little leaf.

♪ ♪ Not quite so ground beef.

♪ ♪ What a relief.

♪ I'm so glad we got to share that song.

Let me ring my bell.

It looks like all that we have left is our goodbye song.

Let's sing that together.

Don't forget to sing with me at home.

Here we go.

♪ A B, see you later, ♪ ♪ D E F G. ♪ ♪ I'm gonna miss Ya.

♪ ♪ H I have to go now.

♪ ♪ J K buh-bye now.

♪ ♪ L M and O, I had a good time.

♪ ♪ P Q R are you gonna miss me ♪ ♪ S T U are my best friend ♪ ♪ V W X, Y Z.

♪ And I am.

I'm going to miss you so much.

Can't wait to see you tomorrow.

We're going to do a mindful minute with Ms. McCarthy.

We'll see you tomorrow, boys and girls.

Goodbye.

(gentle music) good morning to, a brand new day, time to learn and games to play.

Learning things is so much fun learning you're good for everyone.