♪ 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 ♪ (bright 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 today.

Today is Thursday.

We're gonna do some more fun learning around our book, "This is the Nest that Robin Built."

So I have a bird friend that's gonna help me sing our good morning song.

So let's sing that together.

Are you ready?

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 ♪ Let's put our feathered friend back in his nest.

I wonder if he's gonna lay some eggs.

That would be fun, right?

Now, let's check our plan.

So, we always start our day with an emotional check-in.

Today, we're going to do a poem or a song about two little birds that disagree.

That means that they don't see things the same way.

Now, you might have a problem with that in your household where you have a cousin, or a big brother or sister, or a friend, that, oh, you guys just do not get along.

So singing songs like this might give you some time to take belly breaths and calm down and realize that it's perfectly normal not to see things the exact same way all the time.

And then we're gonna move on to our weekly investigation.

Today, we're actually gonna practice our beginning sounds in a video, and I'm gonna show you how to make a board game.

We can rhyme, learn our sight words.

Really, use it for all kinds of things.

So I'm excited to do that with you.

Then we'll end our time together with a goodbye smooch (lips smack) and a goodbye hug, depending on time.

All right, let's get started with our song.

Remember, we need our two birds.

Get your beaks out.

Here we go.

♪ Two little birds sitting in a tree ♪ ♪ Two little birds who couldn't agree ♪ ♪ One said up ♪ ♪ And the other said down ♪ ♪ One would smile ♪ ♪ And the other would frown ♪ ♪ When one said hot ♪ ♪ The other said cold ♪ ♪ When one said young ♪ ♪ The other said old ♪ ♪ When one said it's 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, remember, it's important to take some time to process how you're feeling when you have a disagreement.

Take your belly breaths, calm down.

Think through how you're reacting.

All right, boys and girls, let's shift gears.

And I'm gonna give you a letter clue.

It's gonna tell you about the video we're gonna watch next.

So remember, letters have big lines, little lines, big curves, little curves.

What will I use today?

What letter have I made?

The letter L. I couldn't help but make my special letter.

L for Laura, but also, L for letters.

And in this next video, we're gonna practice our beginning sounds.

Just like we did yesterday.

Let's watch together.

- [Presenter] All right, boys and girls, let's get ready to play a beginning sound game.

Ready?

Here we go.

This is a bird.

(bird chirping) Can you help me find the missing beginning sound for bird?

(clock ticking) (computer chime) Is it R?

The R makes the rrr sound.

Let's try it.

Rird.

(computer buzzes) That doesn't sound right.

How about B?

(computer chimes) Ba-erd, bird.

Yes, bird starts with B.

(computer chimes) Let's try another one.

Here is a squirrel.

What letter do you think squirrel starts with?

(clock ticking) (computer chimes) Does squirrel began with the letter O?

Hmm, let's try it.

O-qua-rrel, Oquirrel.

(computer buzzes) No, that sounds silly.

(computer chimes) Does it start with the letter S?

Remember, the letter S makes the sss sound like a snake.

Ss-quirrel.

Squirrel.

(computer chimes) (kids cheering) Yes, squirrel starts with S. Okay, last one.

This is a dog.

(dog barks) What letter does dogs start with?

(clock ticking) (computer chimes) Does it start with O?

O makes the ooo sound.

Let's see.

Log.

(computer buzzes) No, that's something different.

(computer chimes) How about the letter D?

D-o-g. Dog.

(computer chimes) Yes.

Dog begins with D. Let's play a bonus round.

Ready?

- [Electronic Voice] Bonus Round.

- [Presenter] Get your pointer finger ready.

I want you to point to something in your house that starts with the letter T. Do you have something inside your mouth that starts with T?

I saw a tiger in a tunnel playing the tambourine next to a toaster on top of a table.

Whew!

That was a tongue twister.

(tambourine playing) - Hi, boys and girls.

I hope that you practiced your beginning sounds like we did yesterday.

Now, today, I'm gonna show you an activity that you can use to practice beginning sounds, or rhyming, or sight words, or anything like that.

So let me show you the materials that you'll need.

You'll actually need some recycled materials, a cereal box, paper, scissors, glue markers, a bottle cap.

And this is gonna be your marker for your game piece.

And optional, you can use dice.

Now, I have this dice I brought where every thing's a dollar, but you don't actually have to use dice.

You can use a little pieces of paper with numbers and just put them in a cup and pull them out.

And this is what the game board is gonna look like after.

Just like that.

Alright, I'll show you how to make it.

So I took a cereal box just like this.

And you kind of have to look around and find this, the little lips or lids here.

You're actually gonna wanna cut those off.

So I did that by going around and just kind of cutting them off.

Now, you can do a lot with the cereal box.

One of the things that my family doesn't like is as soon as we get cereal, I take the little bag out and start using the cereal box for projects or activities.

I do the same thing with napkin rolls.

So pretty soon when you start using your imagination, you'll start to look forward to that.

So once you cut the little lip, and it's kind of like that, you kind of wanna see how the box is constructed.

So, ooh, I noticed that it's glued on one side here and here.

And you're gonna wanna start taking it apart just like they put it together.

So kind of peel it up there.

And I notice, Ooh, it has a flap that's glued.

I'm just gonna peel it up there.

And this is the easiest way I found is just to think about how they put it together.

Ooh, you see.

I get some nice cardboard.

This is gonna be our gameboard piece.

And now you can see a big rectangle like I have here, and you're gonna wanna cut around that rectangle.

So I'm gonna take my scissors, use my helper hand and cut around until I have a gameboard here.

Here we go.

Just cutting all the pieces that I'm not going to use.

All around, all around, all around, just like that.

One more big cut.

(scissors cutting) Using cardboard to cut is also really good for developing fine motor skills because unlike paper, it's a little bit thicker, so it causes some resistance, and you actually build your finger muscles better that way.

Okay, so here's our board.

The next thing we're gonna need is to create a pathway just like I have here using different colored squares.

Now, that's if you wanna make it fancy.

If you don't have color paper or don't wanna use color paper, you can just draw them on, of course.

So I have some paper here.

I have orange, and I have yellow.

And of course, I'm gonna use my little stacking method to make some squares or rectangles.

So there's my orange and yellow.

(scissors cutting) Orange and yellow.

Ooh, I'm making a pattern, aren't I?

Orange and yellow.

And just like with everything, we focus more on literacy here.

But you can embed your math skills.

This can be part of the activity that your children do.

Make a pattern with some paper.

I'm using glue.

And I'm gonna lay down my pieces now.

So I have yellow and orange.

Here we go.

And I'll do a couple more.

And what comes next?

Yellow.

Some more glue.

And orange.

Don't forget to get the corners.

and don't squeeze the glue too hard 'cause then you get globs.

And I tell you, those globs are really hard to get off your skin.

If you get them on your skin, you have to peel them off.

All right, so you can start to see how I'm making my board game here.

I made a pattern, yellow, orange, yellow, orange, yellow.

And the next thing I'm gonna do is think about what skills I want to work on.

Now you can make this kind of erasable by using a pencil but because I want you at home to be able to see it, you can actually put some beginning sounds.

So I'm gonna use my marker here, and I'm just going to put some of my letters.

B-E-S-T Like this.

And you could even draw some arrows like I did on here to show where the game goes.

Now, you can make up any kind of rules that you want.

You can say, oh, you land on it, and you have to say something that starts with that letter.

If your child's not there yet, you can use it for letter identification.

You can use it for letter sounds.

What I did is I wanted to show you how you might use it for rhyming.

So I put a bunch of words here that are easily rhymed with.

So cat, mat, play, bed, top, and I added some fun by putting a star, which can mean you get another turn, and the sad face, which means you have to go back to the beginning.

Of course, the first one to the end is the winner.

So let's play around using a bottle cap as my little game piece.

I'll put it down here.

Here's my dice.

I'm gonna roll it.

I hope I get lucky.

(cardboard dice dropping) Ooh, I got this number.

It's the number one.

So I'm gonna go one over, and I'm gonna land on dog.

So since I made one about rhyming, it's producing a rhyme, dog, fog, dog fog.

They both say OG.

So I get to stay there.

If not, I'll need help thinking of a rhyme.

Okay, let's do it one more time.

Oh, I hope I don't get the sad face.

(cardboard dice drops) And of course I do, but I'm already at the beginning.

So I guess it was a good time to get it.

Ooh, a star.

That means I get to go again.

And I got a one again.

So then you kind of keep going and try to think of something else that rhymes with dog.

So I did dog.

Hmm, log that's right.

And you can see how you can do that and keep going and going until you get to the end.

So you're bringing in math skills because you doing number identification.

You're doing one-to-one correspondence because the child only has to move that number of pieces.

I hope that you try this at home, boys and girls.

Come back tomorrow Oh, we're gonna make a bird feeder.

Goodbye.

(bright guitar 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.

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