(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 ♪ (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 excited that you made it back again for another week of learning.

I have another friend to share with you today.

This is my butterfly friend.

And my butterfly friend is gonna help us sing our greeting song.

Are you ready?

♪ Good morning ♪ ♪ Good morning ♪ ♪ It's a sunshine kind of day ♪ ♪ Come join Miss Lara for some learning and some play ♪ ♪ Will we sing a song ♪ ♪ Of course we will ♪ ♪ Make our brain strong ♪ ♪ Like super strong ♪ ♪ So come along ♪ ♪ Yes, come on friends ♪ ♪ For some learning and some play ♪ Just let me put my butterfly down, and we'll go through our Visual Schedule.

So we're gonna start with an emotional check-in.

So this week, I have a whole new song for you about feelings.

And I think you're gonna like this one, it involves a shark, hmm.

And then, we're gonna do our weekly investigation.

Now last week, we learned about Eric Carle's book, "The Hungry Caterpillar".

And this week, we're gonna continue with Eric Carle, and learn about another one of his books, "The Tiny Seed".

We're gonna learn about the plant cycle.

And of course, there's some science and some activities.

After we do that, we're gonna end our day with a goodbye song or a goodbye wave if time runs out.

Are you ready for a new feelings song?

Okay, let me get my shark out.

So, I know, you must have heard by now the song, "Baby Shark".

It goes: ♪ Baby shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo ♪ ♪ Baby shark ♪ Except this time, he's gonna be a feelings shark.

Okay, are you ready?

He's gonna feel different things.

Here we go.

♪ Feelings shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Feelings shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Feelings shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Feelings shark ♪ ♪ Feels so sad, doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Feels so sad, doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Oh, so bad, doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Feels so sad ♪ ♪ Feels happy again, doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Oh, so happy, doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Gonna smile, doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Do a dance ♪ ♪ Now he's silly, doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Oh, so silly, doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Make a face, doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Make a face ♪ That's my feelings song.

So I'll bring out my shark puppet again tomorrow, and we'll sing that song again.

Now remember, with the emotional check-in, you don't just want to check in once, you want to check in on your feelings throughout the day.

And don't forget to check in on those around you like your grandparents, aunt, or uncle, even your pets, they have feelings too.

Hey, now you know, I have something behind my board that I want (bell chimes) to share with you.

So let me give you my letter clue, clue here.

I'm gonna stand up and make our letter.

All right, here we go.

I'm going to use a big line.

And when we make our letters, we start our letters at the top, and we make a big line down.

Then I'm gonna make a little line, and I'm gonna put it right at the top here.

I'll give you another clue.

This letter, makes a person's special letter.

Now remember, your special letter is the first letter of your name.

So that could be a letter too.

That's the letter F, but not the letter we're looking for.

Here's the letter we're looking for, it's the letter E, that's right.

E for Eric, Eric Carle.

Remember we studied him?

Let's review who he was.

So Eric Carle was an author and an illustrator.

And we talked about how an author is the person who writes the words in the story.

So he wrote over 70 books.

But the cool thing about him is he was also an illustrator.

That means, he drew the pictures in the books.

And he had a very unique style of art.

So he used what's called collage.

And at the end of this week, we're gonna make some collage art of our own.

So basically, what he did was he prepared his paper without cutting it out first, he used all kinds of methods forks, he'd use tissue paper, and then, he would cut out forms like a flower, and glue it onto another piece of paper.

So remember, he wrote "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", and that's one of his most popular books.

He was born here in the United States.

Now remember, this is a map of where we live, The United States.

You live in the City of Fresno.

That's right, in the state of California.

He was born in New York in 1929, and then moved to Germany with his family.

Now, if you watched last week, you know that he did not like living in Germany.

He thought they were too strict there.

And he turned to nature, the trees, gardens to find his peace.

Now, he is also someone I admire, because he made a mistake, and it's printed in a book.

He called a chrysalis a cocoon, which is not scientifically accurate, but it's okay to make mistakes.

He shows us that even if you make a mistake, you can go on to be very successful.

Mistakes are what help us learn.

Now today, I want to share a very special book with you about a tiny seed that goes through the process of finding its home, and finding who it's meant to be.

So let's watch our story together.

(stars twinkling) It's storytime.

(fairy twinkles) "The Tiny Seed", adapted from the book by Eric Carle, and retold by Miss Lara.

It is fall, and the wind blows flower seeds up in the air.

One seed is smaller than the rest.

I wonder if it will be able to keep up?

One of the seeds flies higher than the others.

It flies so high up that it gets burned by the sun.

But the tiny seed keeps flying with the other seeds.

One seed lands on an icy mountain, the snow doesn't melt, so the seed doesn't grow.

All the other seeds fly on.

Next, the seeds fly over the ocean.

One seed falls into the water and drowns.

Another seed gets caught in the desert, it's so hot and dry, it cannot grow.

But where is the little seed?

There's the little seed, flying lower and slower than the others.

Finally, the wind stops, and the seeds fall gently to the ground.

A hungry bird eats one seed.

Now it is winter, snow covers the ground, a hungry mouse eats one seed.

The mouse doesn't eat the tiny seed, because it's too small to be seen.

Now it is spring, the sun is shining and rain is falling, and tiny plants sprout from the earth.

Flowers begin to bloom, but the tiny seed is still a small sprout.

Look, it's a hand, it's coming to pick the pretty flower.

The little seed is lucky it wasn't a flower yet.

It is summer, now the tiny plant from the tiny seed is all alone, but it keeps growing and growing and doesn't stop.

The sun shines, it rains, and it turns into a beautiful flower, a flower taller than anyone has ever seen.

It's a giant flower.

Now it is autumn again, and new seeds begin to swirl in the wind.

Where do you think these seeds will end up?

The end.

(playful music) Boys and girls, I hope that you enjoyed that story.

And remember, you can always check out the Sora app to read more books about plants, or books even by Eric Carle.

So now we're in our project place, and we're actually gonna make something that's gonna help us be scientists.

Now, do you remember what scientists do?

Yes, they ask questions about the world around them.

And they use their five senses to figure them out.

So here are our materials: We'll need cardboard.

Scissors.

Paintmarkers.

Crayons.

It's actually your choice.

So we can make a magnifying glass, two ways.

We can make a pretend one, like I did, that's super sparkly like this, out of a cereal box, like this, I can show you how to do that.

And I also wanna show you how to make a real magnifying glass, using an empty two liter bottle and some water.

So let's quickly make a pretend one that you can use to hunt for flowers, and do your investigations.

I'm gonna be doing a lot of that this week.

So the first thing you're gonna do is draw a magnifying glass shape.

So that means, you're gonna draw some sort of handle, because you want to be able to hold it.

And you're gonna make a circle on top, like this, with another circle in the middle.

You can make it as large or as small as you'd like.

And then, you're going to take your scissors, thumb on top, fingers on the bottom.

Use your helper hand, cut in front of you, and cut out that shape.

Now, I won't show you the whole thing because of time.

But you'll get something that looks like this.

Now I added paper, and of course, I added some jewels to make it sparkly.

But you can add stickers, or just leave it plain, color, anything you'd like for that magnifying glass.

And then go search the world around you.

We're gonna do some flower investigations where we're gonna use that.

I also wanted to show you that you can make a real magnifying glass, using an empty two liter bottle.

So what you would do, you may need parents' help for this, is cut out, draw a circle like this, and then, take something sharp like scissors, and just like when we're cutting out the middle of things, you're gonna poke a hole and cut around until you get something that looks like this.

So it looks like a little plastic bowl.

And you could see plastic bowl like this.

And then, when you put a little bit of water in there, something happens.

Hmm, I wonder what it could be?

You're not gonna be able to see it, but I want you to try this yourself.

When you put it over some text or over something, it enlarges it.

It makes it huge.

So it can be a real-life magnifying glass.

Makes the pictures look funny too.

Okay, so I hope that you get that ready for tomorrow when we do our flower investigation.

Looks like it's time to say goodbye.

We have just enough time for our goodbye song, really quickly.

Ready?

♪ A, B, C you later ♪ ♪ G, E, F, Gee, I'm gonna miss ya ♪ ♪ H, I have to go now ♪ ♪ J, K, bye-bye now ♪ ♪ L, M, N, Oh, 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 I am gonna miss you, but I hope that you come back tomorrow.

We're gonna do some flower investigations.

Woo.

Sounds fun, huh?

Okay, until then, Ms. Lara sends you a big squeeze and a big smooch, (mimics kissing) and reminds you to read and to play, and to use your imagination every single day.

And to come back tomorrow with your magnifying glass.

Real, pretend, plastic with water, anything that you have.

So we can dissect some flowers and take a closer look together.

Until then my friends, 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 ♪