♪ 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 Mrs. Lara.

Can you tell me your name?

I'm so excited you made it through the week with me.

Today is Friday.

That means you're gonna get the whole weekend off of school to play and to enjoy your day, although I think you'll miss me and your teachers like I'm gonna miss you, right?

Uh-huh.

Okay, let's get started with a Good Morning song with our friend, The Farm Pig.

Are you ready to sing?

Here we go.

♪ Good morning ♪ ♪ Good morning ♪ ♪ It's a sunshine kind of day ♪ ♪ Come join Mrs. 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 all long ♪ ♪ Yes come on friends ♪ ♪ For some learning and some play ♪ Let me put our friend the, Farm Pig away and we'll walk through our plan for the day.

Ooh, I made a rhyme day, play.

They both say A.

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

This week I've been teaching you how to journal.

I introduced that a strategy last week and today I'm continuing it with our feelings.

And then we're gonna do our weekly investigation.

Today's Friday.

We're gonna do a science STEM challenge.

Guess what happened to all the animals on Mrs. Wishy-Washy's farm escaped.

Oh, she's so distraught.

We need to build a fence to help her keep the animals in place so they can be washed.

So we gonna do that together in our activity place and then we'll end our day with a Goodbye song and a goodbye squeeze or smooch by Mrs. Laura.

Does that sound like a good plan?

Okay, if you have your pen, pencil, markers, crayons handy and a piece of paper, let's journal our feelings today.

So, yesterday I had something happened to me.

Guess what?

I was walking down the street and I happened to step in some mud, in some dirt.

And I was wearing my brand new socks and it made me so... That's right.

Sad, I could cry.

So that's what I wanna journal about.

Now brings me back to my book, Mrs. Wishy-Washy.

In that book the animals love the mud, didn't they?

But what happens when you don't wanna step in mud and you do accidentally?

That's when you get sad.

So I'm gonna make a sad face.

Do you ever feel sad?

Yeah, we all feel sad sometimes.

Maybe the movie that we wanted to watch isn't playing, or maybe when we go outside and we wanted to play, it's raining.

So there's my sad face.

Looks like an upside down rainbow.

I'm gonna make some tears coming down and I'm gonna draw my hair.

Let's see.

Well, I'm gonna give myself some bangs and some hair like this.

I'm on a shorter hair.

I am so sad.

I might even draw my socks down here and I'm gonna draw them all dirty with mud.

I might even draw an arrow like this and write the word mud, right here so people know why I'm sad.

So will you help me write that word?

Okay, here we go.

Mmm Mud.

Mmm M Middle sound.

Uh, Uh.

U and ending sound Da, Da, Da, D D for mud.

I'm sad because I stepped on the mud.

Not like the animals in the story that we're so excited.

Now when I'm feeling sad there's a couple of things I like to do.

Of course, I like to take my belly breaths.

But it's always fun to learn new ways to kind of release that sadness and feel calm again.

That's what Mrs. McCarthy tries to teach us.

And we're going to watch a video of Mrs. McCarthy teaching us a new breathing technique right now.

Let's watch together.

- Hi boys and girls.

Welcome to Mrs. McCarthy's Mindful Minute.

I'm so glad you could join me today.

Today, I'm going to share with you a breathing technique called Kleinberg breath.

And we will do a balance pose called The Bird.

Let's begin with the flying bird breath.

Stand up nice and tall.

And imagine you are a beautiful strong bird with colorful wings.

Open up your wings, and breathe in slowly.

Lift your wings up.

Palms come up, touching above your head.

Exhale slowly as you breathe out through your lips, inhale through your nose and imagine you are lifting up into the clouds flying high above the earth.

(inhales) (exhales) Let's try that one more time.

Lift your wings up.

Inhale as you do, exhale as we lower down returning from our flight.

Now, let's do a Bird pose.

This Bird pose helps to improve your balance and your posture, posture.

First, stand on one leg.

Place the ankle of your lifted leg next to your knee.

Hold your wings up.

Try to balance on that one leg.

Let's take in three deep breaths.

(inhales) (inhales, exhales) (inhales, exhales) Go ahead and lower your wings.

Now we're going to do that on the other side balancing on the other leg.

Place your ankle to your knee on the other side, lift up your wings.

(inhales) (exhales) Two more breaths.

(inhales exhales) (inhales exhales) That was very good boys and girls.

Thank you for joining me today.

Bye, bye.

- Thank you Mrs. McCarthy, I always enjoy those Mindful Minute where I learned new breathing techniques and how to calm down when I'm having strong feelings.

All right.

So, we're in our activity place.

Today, we're gonna think like a scientist.

Now remember, scientists are people who use their five senses to observe the world around them, and ask and answer questions and record their observations.

Now, for our activity today we're going to need the following things.

Lots of, you know Chenille Stems, Popsicle sticks.

I have some Play-Doh, but here's our problem.

Miss Wishy-Washy's farm animals have escaped.

Oh no!

How can we keep them in one place so they can be washed?

So remember, Miss Wishy-Washy likes things to be super clean.

So our first step to think like a scientist is ask a question which is, How can we keep our animals here?

So Miss Wishy-Washy wash them.

And I have some farm animals that I'm going to put here.

If you don't have farm animals, you can just pretend by using blocks or hardboard boxes, anything, use your imagination and think rocks, what could be an animal.

Then we're going to make a hypothesis.

Hypothesis is just a fancy word for saying, we're going to think that we're going to come up with the solution.

We're going to try something out.

So for me, I want to make a fence because I think that making a fence around these animals is going to keep them inside.

And I have Play-Doh from another activity and Popsicle sticks and these are called Chenille Stems or pipe cleaners.

Those are the three things I have.

You might have different things that you might want to use like, glue.

And then I'm going to think and make a plan.

So this Play-Doh feels very sticky to me.

So I think it can hold things up.

Let me try it out and put it right here.

If I put a Popsicle stick in it, will it Oh, Whoa!

wait a whole things up.

So I was thinking about my plan in making a fence.

I think I'm going to use my Play-Doh like this.

Make little balls to hold up my Popsicle sticks.

Let's see what make it all the way around.

I'm going to make, how many will I need?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. oh, maybe I'll make one here even, 12.

Okay.

Now let me put my Popsicle sticks in there.

Whoa!

I think my fence is coming together.

Oh, but I have a problem.

I don't have enough Popsicle sticks.

What's a good solution?

Could I use a pipe cleaner?

Let's try that.

Maybe our fence will be round.

Oh.

But if it's round canter animals, just go through?

Maybe if I do like this and maybe if I, look, I think our animal could just escape like this.

What might I do?

Hmm.

I have to think like a scientist.

I'm making an observation with my eyes that the animals fit through.

Maybe I can make my fence smaller and bring it in more.

Let's see if that will help.

Maybe if I bring in my fence like this I would just create a small enough fence to where they can't get through.

Oh, I don't know.

Now there's this big hole.

What if I made a gate?

Do you think I can make a gate?

Have you ever seen a gate before?

It has kind of like posts and then it has things kind of holding it up.

So that's the fun part about asking a question and trying to figure out a solution, is you may not get the answer right the first time, but then by trying things out like a scientist, you eventually will.

So let's see, oh, my gate is kind of large.

So as you can see I'm kind of just twisting my pipeline there's together but I want you to think, what can you use in your house to make a fence for the farm animals?

Could you use bowls or cups that you might have in your kitchen?

Spoons or forks would be so nice too.

Let's see.

(laughs) I was just thinking, I wonder if it would be fun to just make a big net over them that would keep them in place, huh?

Hmm.

That's not a bad idea.

Let's see, if I have time to make that net.

So let's see, I'll put this here and start to see how it's starting to form a little fence here.

What's not sticking on and put it right there.

I might keep fussing with it as we say goodbye.

And we'll kind of bring it around.

It doesn't have to be pretty.

It has to be functional.

That means it has to work.

Well, actually I think, Oh, I think I made it work here.

I can put a couple more things around.

Oh, Miss Wishy-Washy is going to love helping out these animals.

Do animals naturally liked to be clean?

I don't know.

Okay.

Here's my fence.

I don't think they can escape.

I'll keep putting more pipe cleaners as we sing the Goodbye song.

♪ A B, C, you later.

♪ ♪ D, E, F, G, I'm going to 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.

♪ All right.

My friends we'll see you next week.

When we learn about a whole new book.

See you then goodbye.

(soft 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 every.

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