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- Hi, friends!

- [Narrator] It's time to share a story, read and write.

- Let's take it from the beginning.

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♪ Hello, friends ♪ - [Narrator] Play, and so much more!

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- [Narrator] Stay tuned for lessons and activities.

- And the keyword is?

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[bright music] - Hi!

- Hi!

- My name is Shana.

I have my special guest here with me today.

What's your name?

Tell everyone.

- Emery Kilforest.

- Yes!

And we have another friend today!

Who's this?

- Raptor.

[Shana roars] - Raptor!

And one more friend.

Who's this guy?

- Triceratops.

- Yes!

And these guys are going to join us!

[both roar] Today, Emery and I have a book we wanna share with you.

Just like his favorite animal, this book is about dinosaurs.

So this title is called "Dinosaur Rap."

It is written by John Foster.

It's illustrated by Debbie Harter.

[bright music] Come on everybody, shake a claw.

Let me hear you bellow.

Let me hear you roar!

Let me see you jump and thump and tap.

Come and join in.

Do the dinosaur rap!

Here's a saltopus strutting, swaying to the beat, hopping and bopping and tapping his feet.

Tap your feet.

There's a huge shonisaurus jumping like a whale, flapping her flippers and lashing her tail.

Flap your flippers!

Come on everybody shake a claw!

Let me hear you bellow!

Let me hear you roar!

Let me see you jump and thump and tap.

Come and join in!

Do the- - Dinosaur rap!

- [Shana] There's a twisting twirling, apatosauras encouraging everyone to join the chorus.

Let's twist.

There is a stegosaurus prancing along swishing his tail as he joins the song.

Swish your tail!

[dinosaur toys rattle] Swish your tail.

Come on everybody shake a claw.

Let me hear you bellow.

Let me hear you roar.

Let me see you jump and thump and tap.

Come and join in.

Do the- - Dinosaur rap!

- [Shana] There's a triceratops who stamps and stomps as he rocks and rolls through his prehistoric swamps.

Now stomp!

There's a pteranodon swooping and diving, laughing at the dinosaurs jumping and jiving.

Everybody swoop!

There's a Tyrannosaurus rex giving mighty roars, stamping to the beat as he clicks his claws.

Click your claws and roar!

Come on everybody shake a claw.

Let me hear you bellow.

Let me hear you roar.

Let me see you jump and thump and tap.

Come and join in, do the- - Dinosaur rap!

- [Shana] There are dinosaurs here.

There are dinosaurs there.

There are dinosaurs dancing everywhere!

So swing your tails and shake your claws.

Wrap around the planet with the dinosaurs!

- Go.

- The end.

Come on everybody and join me as we make a dinosaur mask today.

So I'm gonna show you some quick, easy materials that you can just grab around the house.

First is a paper plate.

That's right, a paper plate.

If you have a color paper plate, that's just as good.

Okay, so we have a paper plate.

You're also going to need a marker because this is going to help you draw the shapes that we're going to cut out, which means you're going to need scissors.

So of course ask a trusted adult to help you cut.

Safety first!

And we're going to use some paint.

I picked green today.

You can pick and use whatever colors you have at home.

Since we're using paint, we will need paint brushes to spread the paint across our shapes and the paper plate.

So make sure you have some water so you are able to clean your brushes.

Also, if you want to protect the surface that you're working on, you can use a tablecloth like I am using here or anything that you have in the house, 'cause things might get a little messy.

Now the last thing you're going to need is tape.

This will help you put all the pieces together for your dinosaur mask.

All right, let's get started.

So you're gonna take your plate that you have here and your scissors, and you're gonna cut it in half.

So when you cut it in half, you're gonna have two pieces that look like this, right?

'Cause that was once the plate.

Good job!

So now you're gonna take one half and put it to the side and you're gonna take your marker.

And on the plate that you're holding, you're gonna draw two circles and a squiggly line across the edge.

Now ask a trusted adult to help you of course, because you're gonna cut that squiggly line off.

So when you cut across that, this comes off.

That's scrap.

And when you cut this out, it now looks like this.

Those are holes for your eyes on the mask.

And this edge is now starting to look like a dinosaur.

All right, So remember that other half we had right here?

You're gonna draw three shapes.

You're gonna draw two rounded triangles.

Like so.

And then you're gonna draw another rounded, horn-like shape like so.

Okay, now you're gonna cut them out.

Okay?

So when you cut them out, you have now your three shapes.

One, two, three.

Okay?

Here comes the fun part, painting!

Now you're gonna pick one of your colors to paint your mask.

I'm gonna pick green.

So I have green here, and I just carefully spread that green paint across my whole mask.

Okay.

I wanna make sure to cover up all the white, so it looks super cool.

[bright music] All right, now that my mask is almost done green, painting it green, I'm gonna start getting ready to paint the other pieces that I had cut out.

Okay?

So I going to put my lovely green mask to the side.

Let's clean our brushes.

Give it a nice swirl in the water.

And now the two rounded triangle shapes, we're gonna go ahead and paint those yellow.

If you don't have yellow, again, you can use whatever color you have at home.

I'm gonna use yellow.

So I dip my brush and I paint my triangles.

And now for the last shape.

That last shape, you want to paint brown.

Okay?

And so you can now use the extra piece of paper plate to cut another rounded triangle out.

Once you have all of your cutouts, you are now going to paint them.

If you don't have paint at home, it's okay.

You can use colored construction paper, markers, or crayons or simply just use different color plates.

So what we decided to do was paint our rounded triangles, all three of them yellow.

We took our fourth and final shape and painted it brown.

And then the bigger half of the paper plate where we made two circle cutouts, which are for your eyes, we painted it green.

It's now time to put all of the pieces together to make your dinosaur mask.

So you can use tape like we had mentioned earlier.

And if you don't have that at home, it's okay.

You can also use glue or any type of adhesive that you have.

Of course, ask a trusted adult at home to help you.

All right, so let's see what our finished product looks like.

[bright music] Thanks for joining!

Bye!

[bright music] ♪ L E A R N ♪ ♪ L E A R N ♪ ♪ L E A R N ♪ ♪ I love to learn ♪ ♪ Woo ♪ [children cheer] - Hi friends!

It's Isabel and welcome to my Learning Corner.

Today we're gonna be learning about two vowel teams that say A!

A I, that says A and A Y that says A.

Are you ready to learn with me?

[children cheer] Great!

Let's get started!

Today I'd like us to get started with a phonemic awareness activity.

Phonemic awareness activities call for you to listen to all the sounds you hear in words.

And today I'm gonna say a word, you are going to repeat the word, and then we're going to break the word up into all the sounds we hear.

So first I'd like you to stand up.

That's right.

Stand up and break some words in parts with me.

The first word I'd like us to try is wait.

Can you say that word?

Great.

Let's break wait up into its parts.

W A T. Good job!

you're ready to break some words up with me!

We call that segmenting.

Alright, the next word is clay.

Ca L Ay!

Clay!

Good job!

The next word is brain.

B R Ay N. Excellent!

Last word, train.

Choo, choo, choo, choo, choo!

T Rr, that's tricky.

A, N. Excellent job!

Now you're ready to build some words with me.

[children cheer] I love building words with you.

Today we're gonna learn a little bit more about the vowel team's, AI and AY that both say A.

There's a couple of important things you need to keep in mind.

AI can only be found at the beginning and the middle of a word.

AY is only found at the end of a word.

Vowel teams are two vowels or a vowel and a consonant that work together to make a sound.

So let's see how these two vowel teams work in a word.

I'm gonna start with the word paid.

Can you say that word?

P Ai D. Paid.

Pa. Ai, da.

Hmm.

What should go in the middle of this word?

AI or AY?

Well, AY can only be used or found at the the end of a word.

Is this the end of a word?

[children boo] No, it is not.

So I have to use AI to make that A sound in the word paid.

Paid.

Let's make another word.

Do you know what this word says?

[children cheer] You do!

Let's sound it out together.

Wa A T. Wait, what's that word?

Wait!

Great job!

Let's build another word!

Pa L A. Pl A.

What's that word?

Play!

This is great!

This is so much fun!

Let's try one more word.

Do you know that word already?

I know a lot of you already do.

St, st A.

Stay!

Stay with me and play!

Great job.

Now we're ready to read some words together.

Today we are going to be reading 1, 2, 3, 4 lines of words, and then we're going to read a sentence with our target vowel teams in them.

Remember, before you read each line, let's take a moment to think about what we notice about the words in the column.

So let's look at the first row.

What's the same in all of the words?

That's right.

I see the AI and all of the words end in "nn" the letter N. So I know that every word is going to end in "ain."

Are you ready to read with me?

You read as loud as you can and I will read quietly with you.

Gain, main, pain, rain.

Great job!

Let's look at the second line.

What do all of those words have in common?

That's right, they all end in AY.

What does AY say again?

A.

That's right!

Let's read these words.

Bay, day, hay, jay.

Great job!

A jay is like a blue bird.

Let's look at this line.

See fail, fair, hail, hair.

It's a pattern!

Are you ready?

Fail, fair.

Hail, hair.

You guys are so good at this!

Let's look at our last line of text.

I see a Y in all of those words!

Tray, stray.

Oh, that's tricky.

Sway.

Say.

Good job!

Are you ready to read the sentence with me?

Send the mail on the train.

Did you know that that's how mail would get across the country?

You did?

You guys are so smart.

Are you ready to write a word with me?

You are?

Great!

Grab a pencil or something to write with and a paper or something to write on and meet me right back here.

[gentle music] Are you ready to write our word of the day?

[children cheer] Great!

The word of the day is chain.

Can you say that word?

Chain.

A chain is a type of necklace you might wear around your neck.

Chain.

Let's say all the sounds we hear in the word.

Ch A Nn.

Now I'd like you to write down the letters that match those sounds.

Go ahead and do that right now.

Oh, you used the right vowel team!

You used the right vowel team!

Did you write this?

Ch A N. AI because it's in the middle of the word.

Great job!

I had so much fun learning with you today.

Do you love to learn as much as I love to learn?

Great.

I'd like you to look for the vowel teams AI and AY in all the words you see this week.

Have a wonderful day friends!

See you soon!

Bye!

[bright music] - Hi, my name is June and I'm here at talk to you about how to do a somersault.

So how to do that is you can tuck in your shirt if you want, but also if you don't, then that's okay.

How to do a somersault, it takes practice, but the way I do it is I put my hand like I'm a pizza man or a pizza woman and I crouch down and I put my hands to the ground and then I roll on this part of my head.

Not on the top of my head, but this part, like this.

And then there.

That's how you do a somersault.

Thank you for watching.

[bright music] - Hey, there friends at home!

Lily and I, we were just talking about all the things we've learned this year.

- Yeah, like we learned that horses and cows sleep standing up.

Can you imagine standing while you sleep?

- I can't!

Sounds so exhausting.

Ooh!

Or like how we learned that strawberries are the only fruit that have their seeds on the outside.

- Yeah!

It's like a bumpy little suit!

I wonder what else we'll learn this year.

- Ooh, I hope we'll learn about how they built those tunnels underwater.

- Oh, every time I ride through a tunnel, I can't believe that people helped make it!

I hope we learn about those ants I see crawling around in the grass.

- Yeah, me too.

Whenever I see them, I always wonder what are they thinking about?

- Yeah.

And I wonder, do they play games like we do?

And do their moms and dads read them stories before bedtime?

- These are really good questions.

Friends at home, is there something that you learned recently?

What's something that you really wanna learn more about?

What's something you've learned that you want to make sure to remember?

- Learning is so fun.

I love the way my brain and body feel when I understand something more.

- Plus learning, it's one way to feel closer to someone else.

Like when me and you, when we learn together, it makes me feel closer to you.

- Oh, it sure does.

I think we're learning all the time.

Where does all this learning go?

How can we make sure to remember what we're learning?

- Well, we could turn it into a game.

Oh, we could play a memory game!

Yeah, yeah, a memory game where we remember the things we've learned!

It's perfect!

- I love memory games.

Okay, I better get my focus ready.

- Before we can play the memory game, we'll have to ready our materials.

We'll need six blank cards of one color and six blank cards of another color.

Make sure that they're the same size and material.

We'll also need a writing utensil and an array board.

But don't worry, we'll tell you what that means a little later on.

First, preparing the cards.

Each player will take three cards of the same color.

On each card, you'll draw an image that represents something you've learned recently that you wanna remember.

Like on this card, I could draw an image of a spin because I recently learned in ballet class to keep my eye on the same spot when I spin to make sure that I don't fall over or get dizzy.

I really want to make sure I remember that.

Lily, what's something you learned recently that you wanna remember?

- I just learned to jump rope.

I can jump five times!

- Great.

Here's a card.

Draw something that reminds you of jumping rope.

I recently learned to make an origami bird, so on my second card I'm going to draw a bird.

- That's a fun one, Omar.

I want to learn how to do that.

Hmm?

What about I just learned how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich all on my own.

- That's a great one!

I recently learned that I like spicy food, so I'm going to draw a hot pepper.

- That's a fun one, Omar, because you learned something about yourself.

For my third and final card, I want to draw a square because I learned that a square is a special kind of rectangle.

- Okay, now we each have three cards that symbolizes something that we've learned.

We are on our way to playing the memory game!

But first, we have to make copies of the cards that we've already made.

We have to give each card a matching partner.

To do that, grab the blank cards of a different color from earlier and on each one, draw a copy.

Lily, friends at home, draw your copies.

[bright music] Now we need a board to keep track of our cards.

For this memory game, we use a board called an array board.

Because we have two sets of six cards, six and six, that's 12, I put six spaces on this side and six spaces on this side.

- Great.

Ooh, I see two rows of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Two rows of six cards.

- Yeah!

We can also call this array board a two by six board.

Okay.

Final step and then we can play.

We have to shuffle our cards and then put 'em in place.

Let's shuffle!

[papers rustle] [bright music] Okay, we're ready to play.

- I think I know what to do.

When it's my turn, I'll flip one card from this side and one card from that side and see if they're a match.

- Exactly!

Remember, we're looking for a match.

If the two cards you flip are a match, you get to keep them.

If they're not, flip them back over, but try to remember what you saw.

That's the memory part.

- And then we keep playing taking turns until we found all of the matches.

[bright music] Ballet was so fun last week.

I can't wait to go tonight.

Remember that glissade movement we've been working on?

- Yeah, yeah.

That was that cool slide movement we were learning.

- Yeah.

I really wanna practice it more tonight.

We've been learning so much in ballet.

Hmm.

That makes me think of that memory game that we made last month.

- Oh yes.

Yes!

That memory game.

That memory game for the things that we've learned.

- Yeah, let's add to it.

- That's a good idea.

Okay, how about you add the things you've learned on these cards and I'll add the things I've learned on these cards.

[bright music] - [Lily] You ready to see what I've been learning?

- [Omar] I'm ready.

- Okay, I drew that slide movement for the glissade and a mouth because this year I've really learned that sometimes words can hurt people's feelings, so I wanna remember to be more careful about what I say.

What did you learn, Omar?

- I learned that sometimes the same word can have two meanings, like how a dog goes bark and the outside layer of a tree, also bark!

I also drew a picture of two lines going in different directions because I learned that you don't always have to do the same thing as a friend.

Okay.

Now that we have our new cards, once we've made copies of them, we're gonna need a bigger board!

We're gonna need a bigger array board.

- Mm.

I see two rows for... 10!

10 cards in each row.

- Yeah.

This is a two by 10 array board.

Okay, so now lemme just add our new cards to our old cards, shuffle and we can play!

[bright music] - Omar, that memory game was such a fun way of keeping track of all the things that we're learning.

- It really was!

Friends at home, have you learned something recently?

What have you done to remember it?

Has learning something with a friend ever made you feel closer to them?

- Well, we have ballet later, so we're practicing that glissade movement.

- Friends at home, we gotta slide!

We'll see you later.

[bright music] [gentle music] - My name is Doris, my husband David and I, we have two children, Dalia and Daniel.

- Come on.

- Go for it.

Our hope for our children is that they are happy, confident, and caring so that they can thrive in school and in life.

[children cheer] When I became a mother, it was very important for my children to be able to name and express their feelings so that they can better deal with their emotions.

Remember these?

When my children were very young, we started using picture books as tools to identify emotions within characters.

Sometimes I'll ask some questions to help them begin to identify their feelings for themselves.

I see a sad face.

Is that right?

- Uh huh.

- [Doris] If they can connect to their own feelings, then they can connect to others' feelings.

We make time daily to ask questions and practice listening.

- How was your day, daddy?

- Oh, my day was amazing, Daniel.

- [Doris] And I think it just really shows them how to be a good friend and the importance of thinking of others.

- Congratulations, Dalia!

- [Doris] Tapping into feelings has helped my children with confidence and self-awareness.

At school, they know how to manage feelings as they come up so that they can focus on learning.

- All right, so have a good day in school.

Okay?

[gentle music] [bright music] - Many other species go through their own versions of metamorphosis.

Oh, hi everyone!

My name is Jessica and I'm the animal interpreter here at the Memphis Zoo and this is Eric, Charming, and Naveen.

Eric, Naveen, and Charming are ambassador animals.

That means they come out to educate people about how amazing toads and other animals are and how important they are to the world.

Eric, Naveen, and Charming don't just help us learn, but they also learn themselves.

There are so many different ways to learn.

Sometimes we learn best by seeing things or by hearing things.

Toads do not learn well by listening to instructions because they don't understand human language the way that we do.

Instead, they have these really big eyes so they learn best by seeing things.

Let's see some of the other ways that our animals learn.

What is learning anyways?

Learning can be when an adult tells you something and you remember it later, like when an adult tells you to hold a cup with two hands so you don't spill it.

Learning is also when you figure out a puzzle by yourself and you know how to do it the same way next time.

Training is a special type of learning that our ambassador animals do with us keepers.

Their training helps them do their job as an ambassador animal.

We keepers teach them to do a behavior and action by giving them a sign, like a point, and once they do that behavior or action, they get a yummy treat.

This behavior is called target.

Training our animals to do behaviors gives them choice and control over their lives.

[gentle music] Let's find out some other reasons why we train our animals.

Just like humans, animals that are around people need to have manners.

Manners like gentleness and patience are very important for ambassador animals to have.

Being able to sit patiently on glove while I talk about what an amazing animal she is allows guests to be able to admire her and not be worried that she's gonna come flying to their hands.

Being able to take food gently from my hand allows her to be able to get all of her yummy treats and allows all my fingers to stay on my hand.

We have to have manners too.

Saying please and thank you when we want something is better than just taking.

Waiting your turn in line instead of pushing your way to the front makes sure everybody gets a turn.

Manners can always be learned.

If you forget your manners, you can always apologize and try again next time.

I love learning new things.

Playing a new game with friends or learning how to do a craft by myself can be so much fun, but it can also be really frustrating.

Frankie, the African crested porcupine, can get frustrated too.

Like my toad friend, Frankie doesn't understand human speech the way we understand it.

If we ask Frankie to do a behavior and he does not understand what we are asking, he can get frustrated.

Frankie has large teeth and sharp quills that can be dangerous if he gets frustrated all the time.

Also, he might not wanna spend time with us and we wanna make sure that he enjoys training with us.

To help Frankie work through his frustrations in a safe and healthy way, we taught him a home behavior.

Frankie can go to his home, this green square, anytime during the training session and he always gets a reward.

Frustrations are normal for everyone.

I get frustrated.

Your teachers get frustrated.

You get frustrated.

Think about a time where you were frustrated.

What did you do?

Did you raise your voice?

Or maybe you threw an object.

Think about what your home behavior could be.

Instead of going to a green square or eating a carrot, maybe you take a deep breath or count to 3.

1, 2, 3.

Next time you get frustrated, try your home behavior.

Feel all your frustrated feelings and then let them go.

Ask a question or ask for help from a trusted adult on whatever it is that is making you frustrated and you'll learn how to do something new.

This is Gilley, one of our laughing kookaburras.

Gilley already knows how to fly.

She's a bird.

We didn't need to teach her that.

But what we did need to teach her is how to fly and come back to us safely.

Gilley was hatched here at the zoo so she doesn't know how to to live in the wild.

She doesn't know how to hunt for bugs, but she can learn that she can fly all she wants, but she needs to come back when we call her.

That way she can go home safe to her house and eat a nice dinner.

Our animals are the same way.

They like to have fun and hang out with us, their favorite people.

Gilley also gets her favorite food, crickets, and she gets to fly and have fun.

You see, these guys are toads.

That means that they are amphibians.

They breathe and drink through their skin, so if I have anything on my hand and it gets onto them, it can make it hard for them to breathe.

So allowing them to be able to make the choice to move around their enclosure when we're trying to take care of them allows them to be safer and for them to have control.

Training them is also like play hunting, so they have a lot of fun with it, getting to hunt for their food.

We saw how we can train birds and porcupines, but how do I train the toads?

I first make sure they feel comfortable.

I turn off the lights because toads are nocturnal.

They sleep during the day and are awake at night, so they like the dark.

I next mist their pool.

Toads need to have wet skin for them to breathe the best that they can.

And I have their favorite food in the entire world: crickets.

This all makes them feel safe and comfortable and ready to learn.

What is helpful for you to learn?

Maybe you like for it to be quiet so you can focus on what you're doing.

Try different styles of learning, like watching, listening, or getting up and moving around to see what works best for you.

No one is instantly good at a new thing.

It takes doing things over and over again.

Sometimes you might fail or not get it just right, but that's okay.

There is no such thing as perfect.

Practice makes confidence.

Enjoying the activity is what is important, not the results.

Since learning how to target, Charming has become so much bolder and more confident.

He chooses to come out and say hi to guests more often because he knows he can say no and we will listen to him.

The toads aren't the only ones who learned something from target training.

I learned so much.

I learned that I need to be more patient.

Person time and toad time is very different and I need to go at their speed.

I also learned that I need to be proud of myself.

Training dogs, porcupines and birds is very impressive, but training a toad, that's also really impressive.

Not very many people do it.

I am so happy and proud that I've been able to give these toads choice and control.

I'm so happy and proud that I was also able to show that toads can learn just like we can.

Friends, look at us!

We've learned it so much today!

Remember that learning should be fun and should always be done in a safe manner.

Feeling frustrated is completely normal and we should feel proud of all of our accomplishments.

And remember, practice makes confidence, not perfection.

Thank you so much for learning with me, Charming and the rest of the animals here at the Memphis Zoo.

Bye!

[bright music] - Hello!

Hola!

My name is Brenda.

I was just on my phone actually watching a video on how to take photos.

I really like to learn about many different things.

What are some ways that you learn?

I learn when I look at videos or also by reading books.

Let's learn about why learning, [speaks Spanish], is fun [speaks Spanish] Here are the Spanish words we will learn.

[speaks Spanish] Learn.

[speaks Spanish] School.

[speaks Spanish] Home.

[speaks Spanish] Please.

[speaks Spanish] Thank you.

Where do you usually go to learn?

We go to school, [speaks Spanish], to learn, [speaks Spanish].

I used to go to school to learn about art.

At home, [speaks Spanish], we can also learn like when we watch videos on the computer.

What about the library?

The library is another place to go to learn.

One of the ways that we can learn just by reading books.

I go to the library sometimes to read books or also read magazines.

There are so many subjects to learn about.

What do you like to learn about?

I usually like to learn about the things that I like.

For example, music, art, history, and animals.

I usually enjoy learning about the things that I like, but should we learn about things that we don't like?

I think yes.

We may get nervous when we try something new and maybe that's why we don't wanna try new things because it's new and different.

It's important that we try something new and with the help of someone you trust, like a friend or a trusted adult or a teacher, you can feel better about trying something new.

Next time you are nervous or afraid to try something new, ask for help.

We usually ask by saying please, [speaks Spanish], and then when that person teaches us something new, we say thank you, [speaks Spanish].

I like learning about new things from others, too.

I like to talk to people and ask them questions.

This is another way to learn, [speaks Spanish].

I know how to speak Spanish, so I sometimes teach new words in Spanish to some of my friends.

It's really fun getting to teach the language that I speak to others.

We learn with music, too.

I remember learning the English alphabet at school with a song.

Let's learn the Spanish alphabet together.

The alphabet in Spanish is actually very similar to the one in English.

Some of the letters even make the same sounds.

Let's try it slowly together and then a little faster.

[pronouncing alphabet in Spanish] Now a little quicker.

[pronouncing alphabet in Spanish] When we learn, we sometimes get frustrated.

Do you get frustrated sometimes when you don't get it the first time?

What do you do?

What I do is I try again and practice.

I have my bass guitar here.

I wanted to learn my favorite songs on this instrument.

First, I had to learn about the parts of the guitar and then I had to learn how to hold it.

I then looked up some songs online and I learned how to play them.

Let me play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

[plays "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" on bass] ♪ ♪ I know I made a few mistakes, but that's okay.

When I get upset and make some mistakes, what I do is I take a break, so I'll put my bass down, and then step away a few minutes or even until the next day.

I had to practice over and over again in order to learn the songs that I wanted to learn.

It took me a while, but I finally know at least five songs.

[speaks Spanish] I learned by practicing and doing it over and over again.

Learning takes time, but it's really fun and because at the end, I got to do something that I really love.

What do you love learning about?

Is there something that you love more than other things?

Learning is easy when you're a kid because your brain is like a sponge.

Here I have a sponge and some water.

Have you ever seen a sponge before?

We use a sponge to wash dishes because it soaks up water.

The sponge is like your brain.

The brain is a part of our body where we do our thinking.

The water represents the information that we learn.

You and other young children have brains that soak up information just like a sponge soaks up water.

That's why it's easier for young children to learn to speak another language, like Spanish.

When I was little, I learned how to speak Spanish because I would practice with my mom all the time.

Thank you mom, [speaks Spanish], for teaching me how to speak Spanish.

With practice, you can learn Spanish as well and many other things, so try something new and learn [speaks Spanish] about everything you can, whether it's a new language or maybe something that you're not too sure that you'll like.

Learning is like exercising your mind.

Just like you need to exercise your body and eat healthy food, you also need to exercise your mind to have a healthy brain.

In order to exercise your mind, you need to learn about many different things like math, science, history.

You exercise your mind to have a strong and healthy brain.

Let's review the Spanish words we learned.

They are [speaks Spanish].

Learn.

[speaks Spanish] School.

[speaks Spanish] Home.

[speaks Spanish] Please and [speaks Spanish].

Thank you.

Thank you all for learning with me.

I hope you have fun trying out new things and learning about so many things.

I hope that you look up some videos in Spanish and learn a little bit more about that language.

Thank you [speaks Spanish] and bye [speaks Spanish].

[bright music] [Asha stomps and claps hands] - Music and stepping.

[Asha stomps and claps hands] Hi friends, I'm Asha, and today we're gonna practice stepping to music from different cultures.

Stepping is using the body to make beats and rhythms or music.

By clapping, [claps hands] stomping, [stomps feet] or tapping various parts of the body.

[taps hands] You can step to an original beat or any song.

Stepping is usually done as a team.

As steppers, we practice combinations so that we can step in unison and rhythm together.

I'm gonna show you two combinations and then we're gonna put them together.

Please wear proper footwear such as sneakers and boots so that you can protect your ankles and your feet.

Let's get started.

Now we're gonna learn our first combination.

You're gonna take your right leg and stomp, [stomps foot] then clap [claps hands] and take your right hand and hit your left thigh.

[hand slaps] Let's put that together.

Stomp, clap, hit.

Now you're going to take that left leg that was up and stomp [stomps foot] clap [claps hands] and take your left hand and hit your right thigh.

[hand slaps] Let's put that together.

Stomp, clap, hit.

Now we're gonna put the two together.

[Asha stomps and claps] And that's our first combination.

Our second combination is a little bit like our first, so we're gonna start with that same right foot stomp [stomps foot] clap, [claps hands] and you're gonna take your right hand and hit your left shoulder, so let's try that together.

Stomp, clap, hit, Now you're gonna take your left foot and stomp.

[stomps foot] Clap [claps hands] and hit your right shoulder with your left hand.

[hand slaps] Let's try that.

Stomp, clap, hit.

Let's put it together.

[Asha stomps and claps] That's our second combination.

Now we're gonna combine our two combinations to make a phrase.

It's important after every phrase to have an ending like this.

[stomps feet] Check it out!

[Asha stomps and claps] Now that we have our steps, let's choose a beat and see how our steps fit into the beat.

Choose a song that's native to your culture.

My family is from Trinidad and Tobago and I'm choosing a Soca song.

[upbeat music] [Asha stomps and claps] ♪ ♪ Now, gather some friends and start a step team.

These are my friends, Jennifer and Eliana from the New 42 Youth Corp. - Hi!

- Hi!

- You can pick a different song and see how your stepping changes to the beat.

Jennifer, Eliana, can you think of some songs from your culture that you can step to?

- My family's from Ecuador, so I decided to choose a Latin swing that I really relate to.

- And my family is half Mexican, so I chose a Cumbia.

- Awesome!

Let's give it a try!

[upbeat music] [all stomp and clap] Keep practicing!

Have fun!

See you next time!

Bye!

[upbeat music] ♪ 1, 2, 3, 4 ♪ ♪ ♪ [bright music] - [Narrator] Funding for this program was provided by the JPB Foundation.

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