- Beans, tomatoes, potatoes, corn.

Oh, hi, I was just thinking of things that I want to plant on my farm.

Speaking of farms, why should you never tell a secret on a farm?

Because the potatoes have eyes and the corn have ears!

(Wimee laughs) ♪ Wimee creates all the day through ♪ ♪ And you can do it, too - It's another day of learning, creating, and fun all around farms!

We've got the perfect seeds for a bountiful harvest.

On today's show, Brock produces the illustrations in the Wimage lab.

We flock to Miss Holly for some translations in Language Explorers.

Ms. Kelaine tells us all about a different type of farm in Tech Talk.

And Ms. Karen, she uses carrots to show us a new type of counting in today's Mathematical Moment.

With your help, we hope to grow a wonderful show on today's Wimee's Words!

(people clapping) Woo-hoo, I got some tomatoes and some peppers.

Mmm-mmm, there's all kinds of farms, but let's get rolling with this, Grandpa's farm.

♪ Down on grandpa's farm there is a big, huge pig ♪ ♪ Down on grandpa's farm, there is a big, huge pig ♪ ♪ The pig, he makes a sound like this ♪ ♪ Oink, oink ♪ The pig, he makes a sound like this ♪ ♪ Oink, oink ♪ Oh, we're on our way, we're on our way ♪ ♪ On our way to grandpa's farm Who's got some words that can get things rolling?

Two describing words.

Describe things, an adjective.

We've got some examples.

Pink, tall, fluffy, sticky.

Think of any describing word.

It could be silly.

It could be logical, round, and hot.

All right, I'm gonna go with- What's a good animal on the farm?

How about cow?

♪ Down on grandpa's farm there is a round, hot cow ♪ ♪ Down on grandpa's farm there is a round, hot cow ♪ ♪ That cow, he makes a sound like this ♪ ♪ Moo!

♪ The sound, he makes a sound like this ♪ ♪ Moo!

♪ Oh, we're on our way, we're on our way ♪ ♪ On our way to grandpa's farm.

♪ Ooh, funny and helpful.

Let's see.

A funny, helpful rooster.

♪ Down on grandpa's farm there is a funny, helpful rooster ♪ ♪ Down on grandpa's farm there is a funny, helpful rooster ♪ ♪ The rooster, he makes a sound like this ♪ ♪ Cock-a-doodle-doo!

♪ The rooster, he makes us sound like this ♪ ♪ Cock-a-doodle-doo!

♪ We're on our way, we're on our way ♪ ♪ On our way to grandpa's farm Ooh, tall and silly.

You know what?

Let's put a silly animal on the farm, too.

Silly animal.

How about a, um- Or you tell me, friends.

Who's got a silly- One of the silliest animals we could put on the farm.

We can make up, like a Dr. Seuss book.

They make up the animals, maybe a tall and silly... Giggabaloo?

I wonder what that is.

Or a Frogamasaurus?

Should we do it?

A Frogamasaurus.

♪ Oh, down on grandpa's farm there is ♪ ♪ A tall and silly Frogamasaurus ♪ ♪ Down on grandpa's farm there is ♪ ♪ A tall and silly Frogamasaurus ♪ ♪ The Frogamasaurus, he makes a sound like this ♪ ♪ Ribitlololaows!

♪ The Frogamasaurus, he makes us sound like this ♪ ♪ Ribitlololaows!

♪ Oh, we're on our way, we're on our way ♪ ♪ On our way to grandpa's farm Tall and cold.

I'm gonna, this will be silly.

Ooh, a goat.

Let's do a tall, cold goat.

All right, here we go.

♪ Oh, down on grandpa's farm there is a tall, cold goat ♪ ♪ Down on grandpa's farm there is a tall, cold goat ♪ ♪ The goat, he makes us sound like this ♪ ♪ Baaaaaaa!

Wait, was that a sheep or goat?

Goat's more of a "bleaaaa."

♪ The goat, he makes us sound like this ♪ ♪ Bleaaaaaa!

♪ Oh, we're on our way, we're on a way ♪ ♪ On our way to grandpa's farm (Wimee laughs) Thanks friends for helping with that song.

Let's go see what Moby has got for today.

(upbeat music) - I was just reading about farms.

Did you know that there are more than 2 million farms in the United States?

Yeah, but 80 years ago, there were close to 7 million.

Hmm, I wonder why there are so many less farms than there used to be.

Oh, I was also reading that there are 50,000 farms in Michigan.

Yeah, and vegetables are grown on more than 3000 of them.

What kind of vegetables do you like?

Mmm, vegetables.

(upbeat music) - I love tomatoes and peppers and I put cilantro and onions and chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop.

Making, what am I making?

Salsa!

Oh, good stuff, man.

All right, it's time for today's three sentence story.

Beginning, middle, end.

So, in our first sentence we set the scene, in the second sentence, there is a problem, but in the third sentence, our solution.

That's fun to say.

Our solution.

So let's see where today's story takes us.

Is it going to be a mystery?

An action?

A fairy tale.

Ooh, group home.

I love it, Joe.

So we'll have the word officially be home.

And I like the details, group home.

Excellent, okay.

So let's see... Joe and I were hanging out at his group home, talking about Frogamasauruses.

I love it.

I'm hanging out with Joe and we're talking about Frogamasauruses in the group home.

I love it.

Then, oh no, oh no!

There's a problem.

Oh!

Chicken.

Joe, have you ever had troubles with chickens?

Let's see.

Okay, okay.

Joe and I were hanging out in his group home, talking about Frogamasauruses.

Out of nowhere, a chicken ran in through the front door.

Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble!

Do chickens say that?

Those are turkeys.

No, they go, "cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck!"

And they ate our lunch.

No!

Can you believe it?

The chicken got in the house, group home, ate our lunch.

What do we do, Joe?

Friends, help us out.

You know what?

The chicken was just hungry.

You know, I guess I understand.

Maybe we forgot to do our chores and get the chickens fed out on the farm.

Maybe that's the way your chickens are just like, "Hey!"

Yeah.

I was thinking of that.

I keep wanting to talk like a turkey, but I don't know.

Do turkeys say that?

"Gobble, gobble, gobble."

Or do they say, "cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck."

Friends, we need a solution.

Book, ah-ha.

Our solution is in book.

Okay.

Joe and I were hanging out in his group home, talking about Frogamasauruses.

Suddenly, a chicken ran in through the front door and went, "Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck," and ate our lunch.

Quickly, I got out lots of books and buttered it with cheese and hummus and tomato and lettuce and made us all book sandwiches.

The end.

Book sandwiches to the rescue.

And we shared with the chicken the next day.

Hmm.

This may cause some trouble for our library in the group home.

We might have to think this through.

Well, we may have traded one problem for another.

All right, well, we're gonna go to Brock in the Grandville Wimage lab for our words home, chicken, book.

What do you think, Brock?

What have you got for us today?

Welcome.

- Wimee, what is your favorite vegetable?

- Ooh, my favorite vegetable?

I think tomato.

Sometimes I like to say tomato.

Tomato, tomato.

Do you have a favorite vegetable?

- Corn.

Corn on the cob.

- Do you like it fresh?

Like, where you gotta take the husk off and steam it and put some butter on it?

- Hmm, I actually don't know.

I like it pretty much always.

- Can't go wrong with corn, right?

- Yeah, it's good.

Well, you wanna see the Wimage?

- Yeah, what you got?

Oh, there's the farm.

There's the, oh, look it!

We're eating butter samples.

There's Joe and I.

There's that chicken, that rascal.

I like it.

Do chickens say "gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble," or do they say "cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck?"

- They say, "cluck, cluck, cluck."

- And turkeys say "gobble, gobble, gobble," right?

- Yeah.

- Okay, thank you.

That's what I thought.

But thank you for verifying.

So friends, let's add some more ideas to this.

What do you think, Brock?

You have any ideas to add, friends?

Share some ideas.

We could have more animals.

- Yeah, you wanna add a cow?

- Oh, a cow.

Nice.

- Cow.

- Man, I wonder if the cow, like the chicken, is gonna come and try to eat our lunch.

Ooh, grandma.

We can put grandma in there, too.

- Cool.

Now I'm just going to flip it, and there.

There's the cow.

- [Wimee] Ooh, there's the cow.

Look at that.

The cow and the chicken.

They're both looking at Joe and I, like, we can try one of those books sandwiches.

Do you think that would taste good?

The book sandwich?

- Probably not.

- Yeah, not too sure.

I think I just kind of solved one problem and created a new problem.

All right, so friends, any ideas?

More to add.

We had a cow, we have grandma.

Let's add one more thing.

And then Brock, if you wanna work on it during the show, we'll check in with you to see other things you add.

Maybe some other things on the farm, like grandpa, we had the Frogamasaurus.

That might be more tricky.

- Yeah, that might be yeah.

More animals.

- Cool.

- Cool.

All right.

We'll check back with you, Brock.

Thanks for today's Wimage!

Friends, for today's Language Explorers, we're gonna find out from Holly how to say today's words in Mandarin Chinese.

Hi, Ms Holly!

- Hi, Wimee, how are you today?

Hi, everybody!

So are we ready for today's words?

- Yes, what do we have for home?

- So the first word, home, is- (Holly speaks Mandarin) So, actually this character is really interesting because it looks like it's a roof, and then this character underneath means pig.

And so, in Chinese history, way back then, they used to keep the pigs under the house.

- [Wimee] That's awesome.

- Yeah, and then- (Holly speaks Mandarin) Oh, that went fast.

Sorry.

- [Wimee] That was cool.

It was like a- (Holly speaks Mandarin) - Chicken.

I have a little chicken that I got as a gift from one of my friends in China.

- [Wimee] I love it.

- So this is for my Chinese Zodiac year.

I'm actually year of the chicken.

- [Wimee] Nice, I love that character.

It looks like a face of a chicken, too.

- Doesn't it?

(Holly speaks Mandarin) I just realized all of these are high tones.

So then, the last one is book.

(Holly speaks Mandarin) It sounds like shoe.

Like, a shoe on your foot, but different kind of shoe.

- It does sound similar.

You're right.

Yeah, man, that one, I really like that one.

Shoe.

I gotta remember that one.

We should maybe put that into- Yeah, I love it.

- Hi, Megan.

- Hi, Megan!

Thanks for watching the show.

Thanks for hanging out.

Well, thank you, Miss Holly.

We will see you at the dance party.

Words, stories, tomatoes, peppers, and farms.

Wait 'til you see what Kelaine has got for today's Tech Talk.

(phone rings) (electricity buzzes) - Hi, Kelaine.

- Hi, Wimee.

Hi friends.

Good to see you out there.

Well, so farms also has something in tech.

I don't know how many people have ever heard of a, how many of y'all out there have ever heard of a server farm.

They're also called data storage farms and there's called cloud service farms.

So they all mean the same thing.

It's one big, huge building that has a ton of computers in it.

Thousands and thousands of computers in it.

- Thousands?

- Thousands, yeah, and specifically servers.

And servers are what helps the brain in your computer store things and also process it to get it moving faster.

And so I'm gonna show you here really quickly.

So this is just one grouping of data center maps that show these server farms all over the world.

And then, if you go in a little bit more, you can see there's all over, there's multiple ones in each country.

And a lot of, see, server farms produce a lot of energy.

They're really, really, really hot.

So you'll generally see them on the east coast a lot or in places where they can keep them cooler.

But you're welcome to check out and see if there's a server map near you if you go to datacentermap.com, and then to show ya, that's what the inside of one of these server farms look like.

- [Wimee] Whoa!

- [Kelaine] Yeah, so each of those things is not just a computer, it's a server, which can host tons of, it's into, I should actually look, maybe somebody wants to do that and get back with us and find out how much storage a server farm has.

- There's even kind of like how the rows of corn are planted, these computers are planted in that same kind of design.

- Yeah, that's a good point.

Exactly.

It's just like rows of corn going all the way as far as the eye can see - Awesome.

Well, Ms. Kelaine, thanks so much for sharing that with us today.

- Good to see everybody.

- So cool.

Well, Siblee's gonna share with us, what do you think?

I always wonder what is Siblee gonna say for us today?

His jokes, he's silly.

Let's hand it over to Siblee.

(children cheering) - What is the quietest animal on the farm?

The sheep.

Shh.

The sheep is sleeping.

Shh.

(Siblee laughs) (children cheering) - Guess what, friends?

Gabe is here for a special report on the marshmallow farm?

(gentle music) - Hi, my name is Gabriel and I live in a marshmallow farm.

(gentle music) Just kidding!

I live in a hay farm.

What is a hay farm, you ask?

Here to answer that question is a hay farmer, Mr. Paul Elzinga.

- Hello.

- Mr. Paul, what is a hay farm?

- A hay farm is a facility where we grow hay for animals, for animal consumption, and we sell food to all the farmers, all the dairy farmers, and we (indistinct) the hay and use the hay to make milk and meat, and we also sell some horse (indistinct) for horses, and that's about it.

- Why do you wrap the bales?

- We wrap the bales to preserve them.

Some of the hay I do is baled wet, or moist.

The wrap keeps the oxygen out so the hay, it preserves it.

It's the same idea as people canning food.

It preserves, it's a preserving method.

- What is the most fun slash difficult part of being a hay farmer?

- Oh, being a hay farmer is a lot of fun.

You get to work outside.

You get to work with equipment.

Hay equipment, and the difficult part is dealing with the weather when you either get too much rain or not enough rain.

Pests eating your hay, like bugs eating your hay.

But there's more good things than bad things to being a hay farmer.

- Living in a farm is a lot of fun, especially because there's so much space.

We can look around and explore and have a lot of fun playing tag and hide and seek.

Thank you for watching.

I hope you learned something new today.

Bye bye!

- All right, friends.

We love books, we love math, we love libraries, and we got it all right now with Ms. Karen from Muskegon Area District Library for today's Mathematical Moment.

(upbeat music) - [Wimee] Hi, Karen.

- Hi, Wimee, how are you today?

- I'm starting to get hungry from thinking of the tomatoes and the farm, and that server, I'm still just amazed with the rows and rows of servers.

- I know, that was pretty cool.

I've never seen anything like that.

- Oh, "The Carrot Seed!"

I love that book.

- You love this book?

- I love it, yeah.

- I was reading the other day, "The Carrot Seed" by Ruth Krauss, and it's such a good book because this little boy, he plants a seed, and people aren't sure if it's gonna grow, but he just keeps at it and he grows the seed into carrots.

So it's kind of cool.

It's kind of like, he has his own little mini farm in his backyard, so I love this book.

But I started to think, what if we grew carrots and how would we count them?

And I started to think about skip counting.

Have you ever skipped counted before?

- [Wimee] Yeah, it's like you go kind of in, well, you know what, I kind of think so, but it's been a little bit.

Remind me.

- Well, sometimes people will say, you know, counting by twos or counting by fives.

So you're just counting in kind of a pattern, but you're skipping some of the numbers.

For example, if we decide we're gonna skip count by two, we are gonna start with two and we're gonna count two, and then the next one would be four because we're skip counting two numbers.

Then six.

Then eight.

Then 10.

And then 12.

- [Wimee] Yeah, by twos.

- Yeah, by twos.

Okay, so what if we wanted to skip count by fives?

All right.

So we'd start with five.

And then what would the next number be?

- [Wimee] 10.

- 10, very good.

10 and then 15 and then 20.

And then what would be the next one?

- [Wimee] 25.

- Very good, 25.

You've seen a pattern here.

Five, 10, 15, and then the last one would be 30.

Now, usually when we skip count, we either start with the number we're counting by or we start at zero.

So we might say zero, two, four, six, eight, or zero, five, 10, 15, 20.

But what if we started with a number that didn't really match our pattern?

For example, we can still skip count, but we can skip count with some different numbers.

So let's say we're gonna start with number one.

But we're gonna skip count by twos.

So that's different.

Usually we start with two.

What would our next number be?

- Well, we would add two, right?

So one plus two would be three, three, so three would be next.

- Yup, and then next would be four- - Two more.

Five.

- Five.

And the next one would be... - Seven.

- Seven.

Very good, and then we would have nine, and then we would have 11.

- It all connects.

It all adds up.

- It does.

Math is really just a bunch of patterns.

You just have to find to them.

So this is another way to find a pattern when you're looking at numbers.

- Well, Karen, thank you so much for skip counting with us today, and I'm gonna look for "The Carrot Seed" at the library.

- Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

- Of course!

Okay, friends, while you're thinking about that, I love to dream, I love to wonder.

I've been working on a book called "Wimee's Dreams."

- [Narrator] Wimee sat down, looked around the room, and began to wonder.

He imagined a farm where squirrels were in charge and cows simply sold the produce.

(squirrel chittering) - Get your fresh, sweet watermelons.

They are sweet and juicy!

(Wimee chewing) - Oh, so sweet!

(gentle music) Ah, I love farms.

So many things you can grow on farms.

Little farms, big farms.

I'm really excited about that book.

That's one of the pages from my upcoming book, "Wimee's Dreams."

Hey, let's go check in with Brock at the Grandville Wimage Lab again to see if he's added any updates or changes.

What have you got for us, Brock?

- So I got- - Tell us, tell us what you did.

- So I added a pig next to the buffet.

- I see the buffet!

That looks delicious.

- And then I also added the sun and clouds and some cheese on the book.

- That'll make it taste better, I bet, right?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, that's what it needed.

Well, Brock, great job on updating the Wimage.

I love it.

We will see you a little bit at the dance party.

So friends.

Oh, 34.

That's right.

Counting by seven.

So from 27, counting by another seven, skip count.

34.

Ooh, I wonder if we could go further.

After 34, count by another seven.

34 plus seven.

All right, so friends, we are ready for what we love to call Find it Fast.

So it's our scavenger hunt.

I invite you to find something that starts with F, just like farm.

Then find something that's grown on a farm, and, like carrots, can you find anything orange?

And go!

See what you can find.

(upbeat music) Look around, see what you find, post it in the comments.

What have you got, Brock?

- So I got this little orange tomato, and then this is grown on a farm.

Also I got a fan.

- A fan!

That stars with F. You got them all.

Nice job.

- Thanks.

Sure.

All right, let's see.

Oh, Holly, what have you got?

- This is a fan I painted in China almost four years ago.

- Oh, I love it.

That looks beautiful.

And fan starts with F. Friends, the song's almost done.

What have you found that starts with F, grows on a farm, or is orange like a carrot?

- Yeah, corn!

Corn, that's Brock's favorite vegetable from a farm.

Ooh, there it is.

Frog starts with F, apples grow on a farm, and orange books.

Here's the end of the song.

Boom!

Oh, basketball, that's orange.

I love it.

Well, friends, we are ready for our dance party.

I invite you at home.

Dance along with us.

Karen, Brock, Holly, everybody let's get dancing!

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