♪ 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 ♪ (upbeat music) - Hello, little learners, welcome back to our learning space.

My name is Ms. Lara, can you tell me your name?

I'm so excited that you made it back this morning.

Let's start our morning off with a song.

Ready?

♪ Good morning, good morning, ♪ ♪ It's a sunshine kind of day ♪ ♪ You're here with Ms. Lara ♪ ♪ For some learning and some play ♪ ♪ Will we sing a song ♪ ♪ Of course we will ♪ ♪ Make our brains strong ♪ ♪ Like super strong ♪ ♪ So come along ♪ ♪ Yes, come on friends ♪ ♪ For some learning and some play ♪ Okay, let me put my puppet away and then we'll go through our schedule for the day.

So we're gonna do our emotional check-in.

So all this week our emotional check-in has been a song based on the tune "Tooty Ta".

When I was in the classroom I used to love singing that song and it's especially fun if you make a little space and you get to dance along with me.

Our weekly investigation is all around Dr. Seuss, it's Read Across America Week, so it's a time when we celebrate reading and sharing books with family and friends and the people around us, and then we're either gonna sing our goodbye song or do a goodbye wave if we have time.

All right, well let's get started with our "Tooty Ta" song.

Now with our song we're gonna focus on three different feelings.

Now feelings are like the weather, they come and go, it can be stormy, it can be sunny, so we're gonna focus on happy, sad, and silly, I always like to end with silly.

Okay, so, remember our "Tooty Ta"?

Let's stand up and do our dance, here we go.

It goes like this.

Happy first.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

Smiles up, eyes bright.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

Smiles up, eyes bright, thumbs up, do a dance.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

Nice, now we're gonna do our sad tooty ta.

Our said tooty ta is gonna go much slower, and we're gonna do a frown, are you ready?

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

Big frown, shoulders down.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

Big frown, shoulders down, some tears, look down.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

Oh, now I'm feeling blue and I see some of you dancing.

Okay, let's pick it up with our silly tooty ta, our silly face with our emoji with the tongue out.

It goes like this.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

Tongue out, knees together.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

That's hard to do.

Act goofy, turn around with your tongue out and knees together, here we go.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

A tooty ta, a tooty ta, a tooty ta ta.

Phew, that's my favorite one, I love to be silly with you.

All right, boys and girls, I'm gonna give you a letter clue now, and it's going to tell you or give you a clue about what's behind my board here.

So for this letter clue, I'm going to use a big line, it's gonna go straight down, a little curve like this, not a P again, and another little curve.

What letter have I made?

That's right the letter B, B for books.

Now the things that you can find in books are letters.

If you open up a book, you're going to find all kinds of letters.

We're gonna talk a little bit about what that means or what you might see in books.

Hello, Dr. Seuss.

All right, so these are letters, so you can see I have Q, A, T, M, R, K, all kinds of letters.

Now, we call the first letter of your name your special letter, so for me my special letter is L for Lara.

So letters are just, they kind of stand alone, they're kind of lonely, they don't have a lot of friends.

But these are words, so you might recognize some of these words right here, because they're in many of the books that you read.

Now words, they love friends.

Words are letters that come together like this, like go and to and like.

Now what you might see in a book is also called a sentence.

Now letters that come together in an order like this with finger spaces in between make sentences, so our sentence says, "I like to read."

Now words, they like their space, so we leave a little space in between each word so they stand alone, and of course one of the things that you might see in a sentence is a period or a question mark, we call that punctuation, which is a very long word that just means the thing that goes at the end of a sentence.

So now that we've learned a little bit about our letters, I'm gonna take you over to our project place and we're gonna make a craft that's gonna help you learn your letters.

We're gonna make egg carton letter matching.

Now for this activity, you're going to need an egg carton, now I used one that I found at the grocery store that was selling those little confetti eggs, you might want to use that one too, a lima bean or something small that you can put in your egg carton to shake around, some food coloring and a marker.

Okay, so let's see.

First thing that you're going to do is you're gonna take an egg carton, so like this one, and you're going to see if it has any holes in it where your lima bean is gonna come out.

So this one does not have any holes.

You might want to cover them with tape though, 'cause when you're doing your shaking, you don't want your lima bean to, woo, fly away, then you won't know what letter it's gonna land on, okay?

So as you can see with this one, I've taped it up, 'cause this larger one did have holes in it, so I used some tape.

Now the next step in creating this craft is you're going to put letters inside your egg carton.

So you can see here that I picked some letters to put in, and I put them on paper, but you can actually draw right on there with your marker, I just wanted you to be able to see them here.

And another fun thing I did is I put a couple of stars, those are super bonus letter rounds, because what we're gonna do is when our lima bean lands on a letter, we're gonna cross it off here on our board.

Now parents, you can actually put letters that your child is working on learning.

I can tell you from teaching a lot of years that children have trouble with B and D and P and Q, so you can actually mix those letters up and they can identify and cross them off.

If you want to make it more challenging, you can actually not have a cross off board like I do here, you can have your child write the letters, you can do this with numbers, and if they're super advanced, you can even do it with sight words.

So this is a fun game to play to help your child learn wherever they are.

So once you have your egg carton prepared, you've taped up all the holes and you've added your letters and your super bonus star round, you're going to make your lima bean.

Now I knew that this week we were working on Dr. Seuss, so what I did is I took some of these lima beans and actually at my grocery store they weren't labeled lima beans, they were labeled broad beans, but I think they're lima beans, they're these larger beans like this, and you want something kind of large, and I thought they looked like an egg, and since we're working on Dr. Seuss, I dyed them green to make green eggs, and my little letters were pink to make the ham.

So what you're gonna do is put your beans in a tiny Ziploc bag and put a couple of droplets of food coloring in there and then we mix it around, put it on a paper towel to dry overnight, and you have your green egg.

Now here comes the fun part, you're gonna actually put your bean inside your egg carton, seal it up, and we're ready.

And we're gonna shake it.

Shake shake shake!

Shake shake shake!

Shake your egg carton, shake your egg carton.

All right, now we're gonna see which letter it landed on.

Open it up, ooh, I don't know if you can see right there at the very bottom, it landed on the letter O. O, let's see, I'm gonna turn this C into an O, and then you're gonna cross it out like this.

All right, let's keep going, I hope I get the super bonus one.

Here we go.

Here we go!

(egg carton rattling) So the purpose of the game will be to cover your whole board, and this actually keeps kiddos busy for quite a while, if you can imagine.

All right, it looks like we landed on another letter, the letter G, it's uppercase letter G. Do I see that on my board?

Let me see.

G, G, G, you know it has a big curve.

Oh, here's one, do I have any more?

G, G, G. Oh, G, here's a G, right down there.

I think we have time to do it one more time, we'll get it three times.

Shake, shake it above your head, shake it next to you, here we go, all right.

Let's see, it's the letter B.

Let's see, B.

B as in boy, so I'm gonna find my letter B with my little green pen.

Where's a B?

I know a B has a big line and two little curves.

Is that a B?

No, that's an A.

There's a B, I'm gonna cross it out, and oh, here's another B.

Now you'll notice what I did is I put a piece of paper in a picture frame, and that's to allow you to see it, but you can also laminate it or sometimes I buy those page protectors and put pieces of paper there and use a dry erase marker so I can cross it off and then reuse it all over again.

So I hope that you try this activity at home, and if you do, please send me a picture, I'd love to see you trying it out and I will feature it in our show here, and if you send your address along with that picture, you're going to get one of these fun activity books provided by our friends at Valley PBS, so here's the address where you're gonna send that to.

All right, looks like we're just about out of time.

We have time for our goodbye song.

Let me turn this around so you can see the visuals.

One of Ms. Lara's goals is to learn how to actually do the sign language movements.

I haven't gotten there yet, but soon.

Let's sing our song, ready?

♪ A B C you later ♪ ♪ D E F ♪ ♪ G, I'm gonna miss you ♪ ♪ H I have to go now ♪ ♪ J K bye bye now ♪ ♪ L M N O I had a good time ♪ ♪ P Q R you gonna miss me ♪ ♪ S T U are my best friend ♪ ♪ V W X Y Z ♪ And you are, you're my very best friend.

Come back tomorrow, we're gonna make rhyming fish.

One fish, two fish, blue fish, rhyming fish?

I hope to see you then.

All right my friends, Ms. Lara sends you a big squeeze and a big smooch, goodbye!

(upbeat guitar 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 ♪