(acoustic guitar music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and the games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (acoustic guitar music) (upbeat 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 today.

Today is Thursday, which means we're gonna have a lot more fun.

We have our friend here, Leo the letter loving lobster, that's gonna lead us in our good morning song.

So here we go!

♪ Good morning ♪ ♪ Good morning ♪ ♪ It's a sunshine kind of day ♪ ♪ Come join Miss Lara ♪ ♪ For some learning and some play ♪ ♪ Will we sing us 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, Leo, time for you to go away.

And we'll go through our plan.

So we always start off with an emotional check-in.

That's when you say how you're feeling, and we talk about another feeling that may come up with the focus skill, this week, it's sharing.

So I'm feeling really happy today.

How about you?

Are you sleepy?

Are you sad?

Are you joyful, like me?

Remember, it's important to check, not just once when you're with me, but throughout the day, that helps you learn and keeps your brain strong.

After we do our emotional check-in and song about sharing, we're gonna move on to our weekly investigation.

Our focus text is "The Rainbow Fish".

The story about a fish who learns to share its scales and finds true happiness.

If you missed that story, it's in Monday's episode.

So make sure you go back and watch.

And then, we'll end with an activity.

Today, we're gonna play with water and sharks.

And a good bye song.

Does that sound like a good plan?

Okay, so we've been singing all about sharing as part of our emotional check-in to start our day.

So remember the song?

The tune is, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," and it goes like this.

♪ When I share, I let you touch ♪ ♪ Please be careful ♪ ♪ Thank you so much ♪ ♪ When I share, you know it's mine ♪ ♪ And give it back after a time ♪ ♪ When I share, we show and tell ♪ ♪ And play together very well ♪ ♪ When we share, we take turns ♪ ♪ We wait and watch, and watch and learn ♪ ♪ When I share, you play with me ♪ ♪ I play with you and others too ♪ So hopefully, you get to sing that song when you talk about sharing with your family, or read books about sharing.

Speaking of books, I have an activity for us over here.

I'm gonna give you a letter clue that's gonna tell you what we're gonna do.

So remember, all of our letters start at the top, and they're made with big lines, little lines, big curves, and little curves.

So here's your first clue.

I've been teasing you with this letter all week, huh?

It's not a P though.

You add another little curve, and you get what letter?

The letter B, that's right!

B for beginning sounds.

And that's the activity that we're going to do together.

Beginning sounds are the first sounds that you hear in a word, aren't they?

So we're gonna match the beginning sounds today, from the characters and things from our story, "The Rainbow Fish."

So let me review the items that we're going to match.

It's a fish.

We're gonna do scales.

And look, I found rainbow scales.

A star, like the starfish that our fish asked for advice, huh?

And an octopus.

Now, this was the animal that actually gave the advice to share the scales.

And then, the ocean.

Hmm, okay, let's start off with our first one.

Fish.

Fish.

Now what sound does fish start with?

Say it really slow, fish.

Fuh, fuh.

Do you know what letter makes fuh, fuh the sound?

Is it the letter S or the letter F?

That's right!

It's the letter F. ♪ The F says f ♪ ♪ The F says f ♪ ♪ Every letter makes a sound ♪ ♪ The F says f ♪ Next one is scale.

We're looking for the letter that makes the ss sound.

Ss like snake.

Is it the O?

Or is it the S?

Yes!

It's the S!

Let's see, sing again.

♪ The S says s ♪ ♪ The S says s ♪ ♪ Every letter makes a sound ♪ ♪ The S says s ♪ S for scale.

Now, let's do star Now, star, in that beginning it's ss That's right!

Let's see.

It's the one we just did!

The S, isn't it?

S for star.

You're gonna have to share that letter S. How about octopus?

Octopus.

Oh.

Hm.

Let's see, we have two letters left and they're both the same.

So it must be an O.

♪ The O says o ♪ ♪ The O says o ♪ ♪ Every letter makes a sound ♪ ♪ The O says o ♪ O for octopus, the animal that gave the advice at the end.

And we have some more ocean right there.

We're gonna put the letter O here.

And then we've matched all of our beginning sounds.

Now, of course, you know, I like to do a project that's gonna help you remember some more beginning sounds.

So here are the materials that you're going to need.

We're calling this one, a "Shark Attack!

A Beginning Sound Game."

You're going to need a plastic tray, some water, some foam, and some markers.

So let me show you what I've made so we can play our game.

So the first thing I did was I took a tray and I filled it with water like this.

And then I cut out some fish with some foam and then added the letter on them like this.

And then I thought, "Oh, this is gonna be extra fun."

I'm gonna use some tongs but they can't just be any tongs that you used for sud.

They have to be shark tong like this.

You don't have to get this fancy but it does make it extra fun.

So what I did to make this is I took one of these little foam balls that you find at the place where everything's a dollar.

And I cut it in half, painted it gray, and added some details.

Okay?

So this is our shark.

And we're gonna sing a song to see what letter it's gonna find.

It goes like this.

♪ Mr. Shark doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Mr. Shark doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Is a fish doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ With the letters ♪ ♪ That makes sounds doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Lots of sounds doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ 'Til he's full doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Until he's full ♪ Okay, so what letter is he going to get?

I'm looking for the letter for the shark to eat that starts, that makes the fuh sound.

Fuh for food.

Just like what the shark wants to eat.

Fuh, fuh, fuh.

What letter is that?

Yes.

It's the letter F!

So now we have to go swimming in and you find the letter F. Let's see Mr. Shark.

Ooh, what did it get?

The letter A, that's not the right one.

You can't eat it, sorry.

And dipping in.

Fuh, fuh, fuh.

Oh, you're getting too many letters.

Fuh, fuh, fuh.

(Lara laughs) There it goes.

Ooh.

What letter is this?

The letter F, that's right!

Fuh.

F, okay, you can eat it.

(munching loudly) Still hungry?

All right, let's keep going with our song.

♪ Mr. Shark doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Mr. Shark doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Is a fish doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ With the letters ♪ ♪ That makes sounds doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Lots of sounds doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ 'Til he's full doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Until he's full ♪ Now, we're gonna find the letter that makes the ah, ah sound, like you've gone to the dentist and need to open wide, ah, ah, for apple.

What letter is that?

A that's right!

Let's see.

Are you gonna find the A?

He goes in.

♪ Du du, du du, du du, du du ♪ Oh, he found 2.

Is it this one?

Is that an A?

No Mr. Shark, an A doesn't have curves.

How about this one?

That's a C. That has a curve too.

Okay, let's find another one.

♪ Du du, du du, du du ♪ How about this one?

Is it A for apple?

Yes!

That's the letter A.

Okay, you have to eat that one.

(munching loudly) Okay, let's do a couple more.

I here go our song.

Ready?

♪ Mr. Shark doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Mr. Shark doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Is a fish doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ With the letters ♪ ♪ That makes sounds doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Lots of sounds doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ 'Til he's full doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Until he's full ♪ All right.

Now, Mr. Shark, you get to eat the letter that makes the duh sound.

Duh, duh, duh for dog.

♪ Du du, du du, du du ♪ Do for D. For duh, duh, duh.

Is it the C?

Does dog start with the letter C?

No, that would make it cog.

Hmm.

I don't know.

That's not the right one, Mr. Shark.

You don't get to eat.

♪ Du du, du du, du du, du du ♪ Let's see, he caught one.

Ooh, what did he get?

Is it the B?

Is it buh for a dog?

No, that would make it bog!

Okay.

Hopefully you get to eat.

♪ Du du, du du, du du, du du, du du ♪ Ooh, what did he get?

D. D makes the duh sound.

D is for dog.

Okay, you get to eat it.

(munching loudly) Okay, let's do one last one before we say good bye.

All right, let's sing our song.

♪ Mr. Shark doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Is a fish doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ With the letters doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ That makes sounds ♪ ♪ Lots of sounds doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Until he's full doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Until he's full doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪ ♪ Are you full ♪ Okay.

Let's find the letter that makes the cuh sound.

Cuh for cat.

The beginning sound of cat.

Let's see, what letter is that?

It's the letter C. Let's see if he gets it on his first try.

Ooh.

What letter did he pick up?

The E. No, that makes the eh sound, doesn't it?

That would not be the right one for cat.

Let's put it back.

Oh, let's do this one.

What letter?

The F. No, silly shark.

If I put that in front of cat, it would be fat.

Just like the fish you want to catch, huh?

That's not the right one.

Let's see if he gets it.

It's C. C for cat.

That's the right one.

Well, I hope that you get to try this activity at home with the shark and some water and some letters.

You can take this all kinds of places to rhymey kinds of ways.

Let's sing our good bye song and then I'll give you a good bye smooch.

Are you ready?

♪ 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 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 ♪ I am!

I'm gonna miss you so much.

But hopefully you come back tomorrow because tomorrow we're gonna play with water again.

I'm going to teach you how fish are able to breathe under water and how they're able to go up and down sink and float.

And we're gonna do a science activity with sinking and floating.

So if you wanna participate with me, get a little bowl or a jar with some water and gather five things from around your house that you want to experiment with.

Okay, until then, Miss Lara is gonna send you a big squeeze and a big smooch.

(kisses) I'm gonna remind you to read and to play and to use your imagination every single day.

We'll see you tomorrow.

Good bye.

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