♪ 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 today.

Today is Thursday.

It's another fun day of learning ahead of us.

So, let's sing our "Good Morning" song and get started with the help of our chef puppet.

A chef like the Little Red Hen, our book this week.

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 brains strong?

♪ ♪ Like super strong ♪ ♪ So come along ♪ ♪ Yes, come on friends ♪ ♪ For some learning and some play ♪ Now, we have a lot to do today.

Let's go through our visual schedule and see what we have going on.

So we're gonna do our "Feelings Song" to the tune of "Old MacDonald Has A Farm."

Hopefully by now you are singing along with me, about Old MacDonald and his hen that kinda bit his toe, do you remember?

And then, we are going to do our weekly investigation.

This week, we're learning all about the book "The Little Red Hen" and about her baking bread and the cat and the dog and the mouse, not helping her prepare the bread at all.

Now if you missed the story, go back to Monday's episode where we have it, and then you can review so that you can do the activities with us.

And then we'll end our day with a big squeeze from Ms. Lara, and a "Goodbye Song" if we have time.

Does that sound like a good plan?

All right!

So, let's sing our "Feelings Song" Let's see, do you remember Old MacDonald?

The first feeling he had was sad, so he did: Waa, waa, waa.

Ready to sing with me?

Here we go!

♪ Old MacDonald felt so sad, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ His hen ran off and he felt bad, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ With a waa-waa here, and a waa-waa there ♪ ♪ Here a waa, there a waa, everywhere a waa-waa ♪ ♪ Old MacDonald felt so sad, E-I-E-I-O ♪ And then he felt happy again, didn't he?

♪ Old MacDonald felt happy again, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ When through the fence, in walked his hen ♪ ♪ E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ With a woo-hoo here, and a woo-hoo there ♪ ♪ Here a woo, there a woo, everywhere a woo-hoo ♪ ♪ Old Macdonald felt happy again, E-I-E-I-O ♪ And then what happened?

The hen's back, but what did the hen do?

Do you remember?

That's right!

The hen bit his toe!

So let's sing that part.

Then, ♪ Old MacDonald he got mad, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ The hen bit his toe, and it hurt real bad ♪ ♪ E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ With a stomp, stomp here, and a stomp, stomp there ♪ ♪ Here a stomp, there a stomp, everywhere a stomp-stomp ♪ ♪ Old MacDonald he got mad, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ And this is how our story ends, E-I-E-I-O ♪ ♪ Chicken wings for dinner, bring a friend ♪ ♪ E-I-E-I-O ♪ That's a fun song, huh!

Except the chicken wings part, I don't think the hen liked that very much.

Okay, so now I'm going to show you a letter that's gonna give you a clue about what's on our board.

Are you ready?

Let's stand up here.

Now you're getting so good at recognizing letters.

Remember, they're just made up of lines and curves.

Now, this can be a tricky letter for some people.

It starts off with a little curve, and then has another little curve, and it kind of looks like it sounds, "S" Snake.

That's how I like to remember it, S. S, for story and sequence.

We're gonna review the story sequence of "The Little Red Hen", and then we're gonna do some journal writing.

Okay so, let's go to our board here.

The sequence of the story is what happens in the story, in order.

So, do you remember one of the characters was the Little Red Hen, and the Little Red Hen saw a seed.

And she asked the cat, the mouse, and the dog for some help, but what did they say?

They said, "Not I!"

That's right!

They would not help her.

That poor Little Red Hen had to do it all herself.

And then what else did she get after the seed?

She got some wheat.

Now, most people not know that flour that you use to bake cakes actually comes from wheat.

And then what did the cat, the mouse, and the dog say?

"Not I!"

They did not help her.

Sad face.

And then she turned that wheat into what?

Remember, she took it to a place called a flour mill.

Now, milling something means turning it into very, very small pieces or particles, very finely ground.

So she's gonna put the flour and she said, "Who will help me ground the flour?"

And the cat and the mouse and the dog said, "Not I!"

They did not help her.

But, when it came time for eating the delicious bread, she said, "Who will help me eat this bread?"

she said, "Who will help me eat this bread?"

And what did the cat and the mouse and the dog say?

"Oh, I'll help you!

I'll help you eat the bread!"

But what do you think the Little Red Hen said?

"No!

I'm going to do it all myself, just like I did the other tasks."

So, they didn't eat the bread.

Now, in another version of the story, they actually learned their lesson and decided that when the Little Red Hen needed help, they would help this time because they wanted the bread.

Now to help us remember and process what was in the story, we're actually gonna make Little Red Hen journal entries today.

So here are the materials that you'll need for that.

You'll need: paper, stapler, glue, and pencils and crayons.

Now, journaling is very important when you're here in preschool, because it helps us learn to communicate, or begin to communicate with words and pictures.

Now, I made my journal here, just like this.

I got some paper.

I got some paper here that I printed, and I stapled it together.

So let's make it here.

So let's see, I have a large piece of paper that I'm going to fold in half.

In half means into two equal or the same parts, just like this.

And then, I've got some paper on the internet that was free for journaling.

So, if you don't have the internet or can't print it out, you could just use some regular printer paper or you can get some from your child's school, or if they don't go to school, you can go to the place where everything's a dollar to get some paper.

I don't recommend the paper with the tiny lines.

It's hard for little hands to stay on those lines.

So, once you do that, you can actually staple your journal in place like I did here.

It's fun to use the stapler it looks like little jaws that are clamping things shut.

Now, to make it extra fun, I thought I would decorate my journal.

So I'm going to add some stars just like this.

Maybe I'll add four stars.

Two, three, four stars like this.

And then I was going to write my special letter on my journal.

So let's see.

I'm gonna use some glue and some glitter because I like things to sparkle!

So I'm going to use some glue right here and make my special letter, which is the letter 'L' 'L' for Lara.

And then here comes the fun part: I'm going to add some glitter.

Now, you can make your journal any way you want.

If you were in my classroom, I would give you lots of tools to make your journal super fun so that you wanna write in them.

All right.

Now let's take the glitter off and reveal my letter.

Letter L with some stars, okay.

Now, my first entry is gonna be what I remember about the book, "The Little Red Hen."

Now, when I'm writing, even if I'm learning how to write letters, I can still do some journal writing.

I can draw pictures, because remember boys and girls, words and letters are just a way to communicate your ideas, to show people what you're thinking, and pictures do the same thing.

So if this was my journal page for "The Little Red Hen," I might draw a picture of, oh, I might draw a picture of some wheat because that's what I remembered that it started off with a tiny seed in the ground, and then the wheat grew, didn't it?

Now, no one was helping the Little Red Hen cut the wheat, so I might draw a really sad face a really sad face to show that I remember that no one helped the Little Red Hen cut the wheat.

Just like that.

And then, what else do I remember from the story?

Oh I remember there was a dog in the story and a cat, and a mouse.

So I might draw some of the characters in that story in my journal.

So, to draw a dog, I'm gonna make the head, the nose, the eyes, and of course the whiskers.

The ears, the body, and the four legs.

And of course it has to have a collar because it's a dog.

And then, maybe I'll draw the mouse.

Same thing - a head, a nose, maybe a smile on the mouse, and two giant ears.

Now do you remember the mouse in the story?

It did not like to work hard, but of course it wanted to eat the bread.

And then to finish off my journal entry, I might draw some bread, with the aroma coming out of it, because that is what lured or got the other animals to come.

So, to draw some bread I'm gonna draw maybe a bread like this.

I know that bread has a top like this.

Okay, so I drew my pictures of all the things that I remember.

So if you were doing your journal entry, you would draw your picture on this top part.

Now, you'll notice there are some lines.

So at this stage of writing, you can write some beginning sounds or, if you're ready, you can write some sentences.

So I'm gonna label some beginning sounds that we did together.

So, wheat, wheat.

(says phoneme for w) I'm gonna write w for wheat.

And, (says phoneme for d), dog.

(says phoneme for d), dog.

Just like that.

And, if I'm ready to write a sentence, I might write, I see a mouse.

Mouse.

Just like that.

A simple sentence with a period at the end and spaces in between.

So your journal entry can look like wherever you are in your writing, but it's important that you take some time to process what you're reading each day.

So I hope that you make a journal, and when you read a book, that you take some time to draw and write about it.

Okay, it looks like our time here is coming to an end.

Don't forget to come back tomorrow.

We're actually gonna be baking some bread, like the Little Red Hen.

Okay, until I see you tomorrow!

Ms. Lara sends you a big squeeze, a big smooch, and reminds you to read, and to play, and to use your five senses to think like a scientist every single day.

Okay, well see you tomorrow my friends.

We're gonna bake some bread!

Goodbye!

Have a good day!

(upbeat acoustic guitar) ♪ 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 acoustic guitar)