♪ 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 Ms. Lara, can you tell me your name?

I'm so grateful that you made it back this morning, this Friday morning, the end of our week.

Where we'll end our week discussing Jack and the beanstalk, our focus text.

But first, let's say good morning with our friend, Chompers.

Are you ready to sing?

Here we go.

♪ Good morning, good morning.

♪ ♪ It's a sunshine kind of day ♪ ♪ Come join, Ms. 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 ♪ Now Chompers, you've been reminding us all week to brush our teeth.

Look at your pearly whites.

Ooh.

Yes, you're really showing them off, aren't you?

Did you brush your teeth this morning?

Don't forget to sing your ABC song when you brush your teeth to make sure that you've brushed them for the right amount of time and you learn your letters too.

So let's put Chompers away and go through our plan for the day.

Way, day, we both say aye, can't help but rhyme.

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

So we've been singing our fee, fie, fo song or rhyme and we've been trying to guess how I'm feeling.

So we're gonna continue to do that today.

Then we've been working on Jack and the beanstalk.

Now today we have a special activity.

We're gonna do a science activity called the golden egg drop, where we're going to have to create a mechanism, a container or something that's gonna keep our eggs safe as it flies from the beanstalk, way up high, down onto the ground.

Let's see if we can do it.

And of course, we'll end our day with either our goodbye song or a goodbye wave.

Are you ready to get started?

Okay.

Get your stompers out.

Now remember I made these stompers with some cardboard.

You can also use your grown-up shoes or anything else you have to really stomp like the giant in our story.

Here it goes.

It goes like this, ♪ Fee, fie, fo, fum ♪ ♪ I have strong feelings and here is one ♪ ♪ I have a smile and bright eyes too ♪ ♪ Feeling this way is so good for you ♪ How am I feeling?

A smile, bright eyes.

Happy.

That's right.

Joyous, incredibly cheery.

So when you're feeling that way, it's almost contagious isn't it?

You make everyone around you happy.

All right.

We're gonna move on to a video and I'm gonna give you a letter clue about what's on that video.

I'll tell you right now, it's gonna make you happy.

So I need a big line and a little curve, what letter have I made?

The letter P, that's right.

P is for present.

Now I didn't go buy you a present.

Present also means right now.

And Ms. McCarthy always helps us focus on the right now with a mindful minute.

So let's watch that together.

- Hi boys and girls.

Welcome to Mrs. McCarthy's minute.

I'm so glad that you could be here today.

Let's first begin by finding a space for yourself.

You can either sit down on the ground with your legs crossed, sitting up tall and straight, or you can sit in a chair like me with your legs hanging over and your hands in your lap.

Imagine you have a bubble around you.

So you are in your own special place.

Take a moment to wiggle and fidget.

So you will happy spending time being still and relaxed.

Just like all good things in life, we get good when we practice and relaxing and being still takes practice.

The more you do it the easier it gets.

Now, let's notice our breathing.

Let's slow our breathing down.

Feel the in breath in through your nose (inhaling) and the out breath through your lips.

(exhaling) In (inhaling) and out (exhaling).

You can close your eyes while you do this.

With your breath going in (inhaling) and out (exhaling).

While you are breathing and relaxing, imagine you were in a field of grass, looking at a beautiful, tall mountain.

You see wild flowers, trees, birds.

You feel the cool wind and sun warming your body.

Notice your breath going in and your breath that goes out.

Breathe in, breathe out, relax your body.

That was very good boys and girls.

I hope you enjoyed today's mindful minute.

I'll see you next time.

Bye-bye.

- Thank you Mrs. McCarthy.

Now remember it's important to check-in on how you're feeling not just once, but throughout the day.

Now it's time to think like a scientist.

Do you remember what scientists do?

They explore the world around them using their five senses.

They see, hear, taste, touch, and smell.

Now, a scientist always starts by asking a question.

Then they make a hypothesis which is just a fancy word for guess.

We take a guess.

Then we're gonna do an experiment, record our observations and answer the question.

Now to help us remember how to think like a scientist, I have an activity for us.

It's called the golden egg drop.

The materials you'll need are an egg and any materials of your choice, use what you have around your house.

You're also gonna need to stand up or get to a kind of high place for you to drop your egg.

Okay so here is our egg.

Now I want you to think.

Hmm.

What happens when you drop an egg?

Have you ever seen an egg go into a pan?

What happens?

Yes they crack, right?

Eggs have a very soft shell and they need protection if they're to stay intact, if they're gonna be dropped from a high place, so they need to be protected.

So we need to find a way to protect this egg and make something that when I drop it from here down, it's not going to crack.

Okay, are you ready scientists?

Let's figure it out.

So I brought some things that I had at home.

I brought a cup, maybe some fabric.

I thought that maybe soft things would really help.

I brought some scissors, of course, a paper plate.

Ooh, this cottony stuff I had.

Maybe you have that at home too.

Some tape, fabric and saran wrap, all kinds of stuff.

So what I thought I would do is try to make a plan.

Hmm.

What might happen if I use this cup and it can be like a place where I put the egg inside.

Ooh if I put it in and drop it there I think it's just gonna crack in the cup.

So I need something soft, so that when it falls it doesn't break.

What's soft that I have.

Ooh, I could use some fabric.

How about this cottony stuff?

Okay I'll put the cottony stuff in there and then maybe I'll fill it with, ooh I have some of these cotton rounds.

I'll put it all the way around like this and then maybe I'll put my egg in there, cover it with some fabric.

Let's see.

Then I thought, well maybe what I'll do is I'll make like a little handle because I wanna try to use my balloon.

Now, what do you think a balloon might do?

I want you to think.

Now it has air.

I wonder if it'll slow it down.

What else might slow it down?

Let's think.

If I'm gonna put like a little handle here, I think I'll have time to make it so it's like a little basket.

You ever seen a hot air balloon?

That's kind of what I wanna make.

A basket with a balloon and see if that slows it down.

Now of course, I don't have a very high place to drop it from today because I'm here at the studio but you can actually ask your grown-up if you can go to the highest place you can like the top of a staircase or maybe even from your trunk of your car.

All right so here's my balloon, I'm gonna try to blow it up.

(blowing air) Well that didn't work.

That popped.

Let's try another one.

(blowing air) All right here's my balloon.

Sorry about that boys and girls.

I hope that didn't startle you.

Now we're gonna try to tie it up right here.

I'm gonna put it on there.

Nice and tight.

There we go.

Ooh I think I made my basket with my balloon.

Shall I drop it?

All right here we go, Let's see.

I hope it doesn't crack.

One, two, three.

(object dropping) Ooh I heard it fall pretty good.

Now let's get out there.

Let's get it out and see if it cracked.

Look, it didn't crack.

It worked.

Oh I'm so glad.

So we've tried to make this at home.

Remember, use the things around you.

Think, hmm, what can I use that'll make my egg stay like this and drop it from a high place like if you're the giant dropping the golden egg from the beanstalk to Jack.

All right, boys and girls.

Looks like our time together for this week is almost over.

Let's sing our goodbye song.

Are you ready?

♪ A, B, C you later.

♪ ♪ D, E, F, G, I'm gonna miss ya ♪ ♪ 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 friend that I look forward to hearing from every week.

Now boys and girls if you make this or any of the activities that we did, make sure that you send them to the address below.

You'll get one of these fun activity books from our friends at PBS If you send your address too.

All right, we did so much this week.

I look forward to seeing you next week.

We're gonna focus on another book and do some more science, reading, letter play, rhyming, all kinds of things.

So make sure you join me then.

Until then, Ms. Lara is gonna remind you to read, to play and to think like a scientist every day by using your five senses to explore the world around you.

Ask questions, discover.

Okay my friends, big squeeze, a big smooch (kissing) and happy weekend to you.

I hope that you play.

Goodbye my friends have a great weekend.

♪ 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 ♪