♪ 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 ♪ (cheerful 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 Wednesday and it's another day of learning around our book, "This Is the Nest That Robin Built" so let's get started with our morning with our feathered friend, a bird, singing our good morning song.

Ready?

It goes like this.

♪ 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 brains strong ♪ Like super strong.

♪ So come along ♪ Yes, come on, friends.

♪ For some learning and some play ♪ So let me put my bird friend back in his nest.

Hm, brain, I wonder how big our bird's brain is.

Do you think you can investigate for me?

Okay, so let's go through our plan for the day.

We're doing our emotional check in and we're talking about disagreements.

That's when you and another person or a group of people don't see things the same way, and you might actually fight about it.

Now, today we're going to provide you with a few solutions like talking about it, maybe calming your emotions down so you can thing through what a good solution is, but really we hope that this opens a conversation so you can talk about what to do with disagreements in your family.

Next, we're going to move on to our weekly investigation.

Today we're gonna focus on beginning sounds, and we're gonna use the characters in our book to label beginning sounds and we're even gonna feed some birds some worms.

Ugh, I'm not looking forward to that.

And then we're gonna end our time together with a song and smooch, mwah!

So let's get started.

All right.

For our song or poem today, you're gonna need your birds.

Remember, these birds love to fight, so get your birds out and they're gonna have their beaks, and it goes like this.

Two little birds sitting in a tree.

Two little birds who couldn't agree.

When one said up, the other said down.

When one would smile, the other would frown.

When one said hot, the other one said cold.

When one said young, the other said old.

When one said right, the other said wrong.

When one said short, the other said long.

Two little birds sitting in a tree, two little birds, will they ever agree?

Now if you ever feel yourself kind of getting very angry about a disagreement, you can use some belly breaths to calm down.

That means you take your hands and kind of interlock them like this, put them on your belly, and start breathing and counting to 10 or even saying our poem about the two little birds will give you enough time to kind of think through things.

Okay, now it's time to move to our activity.

Let me give you a clue about what we're going to do.

Now, we're going to build a letter, and that's going to give us our clue.

Remember, letters are lines and curves, so I have a line here, a curve here, and another curve here.

What letter have I made?

The letter B.

B for bird, but also B for beginning sounds.

So let's learn about some beginning sounds together.

Let me stand up here.

So remember in our book "This Is the Nest That Robin Built" we had a bunch of characters that gave the robin different things to make their nest.

We had a squirrel, a dog, a horse, a pig, a mouse, and a rabbit, and they each contributed or gave something.

Now, we're going to try to match the beginning sounds with each.

Now remember, beginning sounds are the first sounds that you hear in a word.

That's your special letter, too.

Like my beginning sound, Lara, is L. That's my special letter.

Now let's think about squirrel.

Squirrel.

What's the beginning sound for squirrel?

What letter makes the sss sound?

Yes, it's an S, S says sss, like snake and S for squirrel.

How about pig?

Pig, puh.

What letter makes the puh sound?

Hm.

Is it P?

Yes, it's pig.

P for pig.

Oh, here's one, dog.

Dog, duh, duh.

What letter makes the duh sound?

Duh, duh.

I'll give you some options.

Is it D that makes the duh sound, or is it mm, M, that makes the duh sound?

That's right, it's D. D for dog.

We're gonna put it right there.

How about mouse?

Ooh, I think I'm holding it.

Mouse.

It's an M. M makes the mm sound, like you've eaten something yummy.

M for mouse.

How about horse?

Horse, horse.

Ooh, that's an H, isn't it?

H for huh, huh, horse.

And the last one, of course, is rabbit.

R, rabbit, that's right.

I hope that you continue to practice your beginning sounds, and tomorrow I have a little quiz that you'll try to see if you learned them.

Okay, now we're going to move on to our project place, because I have a fun activity that you can use to practice learning your beginning sounds at home.

So here are the materials that you'll need.

You will need some cups, materials from around your house, and what I mean by that is, you're gonna want a little basket or a plate, and you're gonna want to gather some materials that start with special letters.

So for me, I used B, S, and T, so I gathered materials that started with those letters, and then to make this activity like I'm going to do it, you're going to need some cooked noodles, but you can always use yarn, and that's going to be our worms that we're going to feed to the different birds.

And you can use markers or anything else you'd like.

Okay, so let's get started.

I have my cups here, and I actually taped some cutout birds.

Now, you don't have to be fancy like this.

You can just kind of write the letter right on the cups and draw a little picture of a bird, but you can see that's my bluebird with a B on it, so we're going to feed it a noodle anytime we pull something that starts with that letter.

Then we have another bluebird with the letter T, and this one's gonna get fed when we pull something from our basket that starts with T. And then our last one is S, so of course this one gets a worm when we have items that start with S. Okay, oh, and I have to show you, these are our worms.

And yes, they do feel slimy.

Oof!

Very realistic worms.

Now, if you don't like to play with food, which I completely understand, you can use pieces of yarn.

That works just as well too.

Now let's get started.

First item, beans.

Beans.

What birds is going to get fed, buh buh.

What letter says buh?

It's the B, that's right!

Now let's see, that's this bird.

Okay, I'm gonna pull out a worm.

Ooh, it's sticky, it's slimy.

(kisses) Into the cup it goes, that bird is very full.

Okay, let's do another one.

How about, ooh, what is this?

This is a balloon.

Now, I remember when I blew up a balloon here and it popped.

Oof, that was scary.

I won't blow this one up.

Let's think about the beginning sound for balloon, or the first sound you hear.

Balloon, buh buh buh.

Yes, our B bird is gonna get another worm, here goes.

Ah!

Slimy!

Yum yum yum yum yum.

Okay, let's see, how about this?

Do you see what's in the jar?

These are toothpicks.

Sometimes people use these toothpicks to get things out of their teeth, another T word, right?

So toothpick, you see the T sound?

Okay, let's see, that's a different bird.

T, let's find our T bird.

It's the one right in the middle, here's a special worm.

Ooh, it goes in the T!

Om nom nom nom.

And how about these?

You might recognize these from when you make cookies.

It's sprinkles, and I'll tell you those are my favorite.

Sprinkles, sprinkles.

Sss.

What sound do we hear at the beginning?

Sss, like snake.

Do you remember what letter that is?

Same one as squirrel, it's the letter S, that's right.

So let's put a little worm in our letter S cup.

Mm, delicious.

All right.

Let's do a few more, and then we'll say goodbye.

This is a top, top, top, tuh tuh tuh.

T, that's right, so we're gonna feed the T glass a worm.

And one more after that, ooh.

Do you recognize these?

(tongs clacking) They're tongs, tongs.

Tongs, another T. So parents, what I like to do to make this extra fun is of course add the cooked noodles, then after they're all done you can actually incorporate some math, you can count which one had more.

You can think about, ooh, the S bird is very hungry.

What might we bring from the house that starts with the letter S so we can feed it a worm?

There's lots of different ways that you can make this activity work for your family.

All right, boys and girls, it looks like it's almost time to say goodbye, so we're going to sing our goodbye song and then I'll tell you what we're going to do tomorrow, okay?

So get ready, we're going to sing.

♪ A, B, see you later ♪ ♪ D, E, F, gee I'm gonna miss you ♪ ♪ H, I have to go now ♪ ♪ J, K, bye bye now ♪ ♪ L, M, N, oh I had a good time ♪ ♪ P, Q, are you gonna miss me ♪ ♪ S, T, you are my best friend ♪ ♪ V, W, X, Y, Z ♪ Okay, so let me tell you what we're going to do tomorrow, and maybe I'll have time to finish up this activity.

So tomorrow we're actually gonna make a board game using recycled materials, and we're gonna use that board game to do some rhyming, maybe identify some sight words, and we're gonna get to use dice and little bottle caps to hold our place.

So bring your cereal box, bring your markers, bring your color paper, all kinds of things so that you can make the board game with me tomorrow.

All right, now, so what we're gonna do before I forget is show you the activity books.

If you do end up making this activity, you know I love to see what you do.

So send in your picture and address to these things below, to the address below, and I'll show you what's inside.

There's different math activities and different games that you can do as a family, so I look forward to seeing your letters and your pictures.

Looks like we have just enough time for me to finish up this activity, and then I'll just wave a quick goodbye to you when I run out.

So we had one last thing, a smelly sock, and I can tell you, oof, it is extra smelly, so what bird is gonna get the smelly sock?

Sss, the S, it's this one.

Okay.

All right my friends, we'll see you later.

Goodbye.

(cheerful 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 ♪