- (hums) Where-- I don't know.

(sighs) I've looked everywhere but I can't find my keys.

Hey, Siblee, have you seen 'em?

- No, I don't see any keys.

I don't have a desk or anywhere to put them either.

Sorry.

- Oh, that's okay.

Hmm.

Hey, Moby, have you seen my keys?

- Keys?

No, no, I don't see any keys with me.

- Hmm.

Well, I guess I'll just-- (laughs) Well, hey, friends!

I found 'em.

Hey friends, let do a show about keys!

(upbeat music) ♪ Wimee creates all the day through ♪ ♪ And you can do it too ♪ ♪ Think of words and of rhymes ♪ ♪ And make Wimages, please do ♪ (woman vocalizing) - [Child] It's time for "Wimee's Words"!

(children cheering) - Friends, I'm so glad you're here!

Hey, I got a question for Jim.

ScribbleJim and Sparky backstage on the show today.

Hey, guys!

Question.

What color is the key to your home?

- Well, you know, actually I have this really cool pink key.

- Whoa!

- It's kinda unusual but it makes it easy to go, "Oh, what key is my home key?"

It's pink, so it stands out pretty well.

And Sparky, actually, he's got a pretty fun one.

His has got a little kitty cat on it.

- (laughs) That is super fun!

Thanks, guys, we'll see you later on the show!

Hey, Brody's with us today as well.

Let's go to him, same question.

What color is the key to your house?

- So I don't have a key to my house.

So we have a code on our door that we have to put in to unlock it, so it's finger-colored.

- Oh!

(laughs) Did you just see what happened Brody?

(laughs) I'm just gonna let that fall and that arm's just gonna stay right there for a while.

(laughs) Oh, the trials and tribulations of being a puppet, Brody!

You ever have stuff like that happen to you?

No, that's cool.

I'll see if I can get that taken care of later, but thanks for the heads up!

That's fascinating, man, no key at all!

That's a valid answer.

All right, thanks, Brody.

We'll see you later on the show!

Whew, all right, let's see, friends.

Where were we?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Share with me something you can open.

♪ Wimee had a little key, little key, little key ♪ ♪ Wimee had a little key ♪ ♪ I wonder what it opens ♪ (laughs) This is pretend.

I'm pretending that I've got a little key!

And you tell me what could it open?

I'll find out.

In fact, let's go right to Brody.

Share with me anything at all something that opens.

- A cabinet?

- Perfect!

Here we go.

♪ It opened up a cabinet cabinet, cabinet ♪ ♪ It opened up a cabinet ♪ ♪ I wonder what's inside ♪ Hmm.

What could be, oh, a microwave.

A microwave, here we go.

♪ Inside there was a microwave, microwave, microwave ♪ ♪ Inside there was a microwave ♪ ♪ I wonder what's inside ♪ (gasps) Let's open up the microwave!

What, friends, could be inside the microwave?

(laughs) This is silly.

A treasure chest, I love it.

Here we go.

♪ Inside was a treasure chest, ♪ ♪ Treasure chest, treasure chest ♪ ♪ Inside was a treasure chest ♪ ♪ I wonder what's inside ♪ Okay, we went from the key that I found to open the cabinet, that opened up a microwave, and inside the microwave was a treasure chest.

Let's see, friends.

What could be inside the treasure chest?

I wonder how far we could go with this.

A book!

♪ Inside there was a little book, little book, little book ♪ ♪ Inside there was a little book ♪ ♪ I wonder what's inside ♪ Friends, open up the book.

Oh, a car!

(laughs) ♪ Inside there was a little car, little car, little car ♪ ♪ Inside there was a little car ♪ ♪ I wonder how to start it ♪ (laughs) With a key!

Unless it's one of those fancy push-the-button kinda cars that you don't need a key.

Man, this show might be irrelevant someday.

I don't know, I don't know.

Hey friends, let's go find out what Moby's gonna say today!

(upbeat music) - I've noticed that keys come in all different colors and shapes.

Yeah, some keys are silver, some are gold, some keys are bright colors.

Ah, some keys are round on the top, some are square and some have a fancy design.

Ho, ho!

Yeah, I've noticed that some keys have letters or numbers on them and that most keys have a hole on the top.

Yeah, keys are pretty neat.

What do you notice when you look at keys?

(upbeat dance music) - (hums) Thanks for helping me out, Siblee!

- [Siblee] You're welcome!

- Okay, back in action.

Friends, it's time for today's One, two, "Three Sentence Story"!

Let's write a story in three sentences!

In the first sentence, we set the scene.

In the second sentence, there is a problem!

But don't you worry, friends, because in the third sentence, there is a solution.

(laughs) Indeed, friends!

I'm not sure why I said that mysteriously.

(laughs) Sounded fun, it sounded dramatic.

The solution.

So let's go to Brody for the very first word.

I don't know the word till now.

What word you thinking of, Brody?

- I'm thinking panda.

- Panda!

(laughs) I love it.

The first word is panda.

All right, here we go, here we go.

(clears throat) It was a lovely day as a panda was swinging in the breeze.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

(laughs) I can just imagine that what that looks like, a panda swingin' in the breeze!

All right, friends, we need a noun.

A person, place or thing.

There's trouble a-brewin'.

Cheese, Grace, thanks for suggesting the word cheese.

Okay, we got problem with cheese, okay.

(clears throat) It was a lovely morning as a panda was swinging in the breeze.

Up in the sky, a spaceship made from cheese was flying down to Earth at the speed of light!

(gasps) Oh, no!

This cheese ship might crash.

How do we save the cheese ship?

The panda's wonderin', the panda's just swingin'.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

A cheese ship is comin'-- Or a spaceship made of cheese.

I decided to call it the cheese ship.

But Addie suggests a lion for the solution!

I love it, here we go.

(clears throat) A panda was swingin' in the breeze, having a lovely time.

Up in the sky, a giant ship made from cheese was flying at the speed of light down to Earth!

A lion thought quickly, jumped up with a giant net and rescued the cheese ship.

Ha-ha, I like that.

The lion was like, "Oh no!

"I shall help you, cheese ship!"

The panda was just like, "Whew!

"Close call!

"Thanks, buddy."

See, sometimes, you know, it takes a community, takes a village to save a cheese ship.

(chuckles) I don't know.

I'm just, you know, thinking out loud.

Okay, friends, guess what?

Brody's backstage, we've been chatting with him already.

He's working on today's Wimage.

What have you got so far, Brody?

- So I have the panda in the breeze with the lion throwing the net so it can save the rocket ship.

- Technically, the cheese ship.

I got you, Brody.

- Cheese ship.

- It's a cheese rocket ship.

I like that detail you added.

Or is it a rocket cheese ship?

Cheese rocket ship or rocket cheese ship?

- Whatever your imagination wants.

- (laughs) Thanks, Brody!

I like the way you're flexible.

You're laid back.

Yeah, we gotta discuss.

Friends at home, if you have a suggestion, a cheese rocket ship or a rocket cheese ship.

What's got a better flow?

I don't know, if you wanna share with us, friends.

Well, Brody, well, you keep adding some stuff and we'll check back with you later on the Wimage in the show?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, oh, a rainbow has been suggested.

(laughs) Oh, man, more ideas, rainbows, toothbrush.

Maybe that's in case the cheese... Maybe the cheese kinda splattered through the net and got in her teeth-- - Maybe the cheese got stuck in your teeth.

- Yeah.

(laughs) All right, Brody, we'll check back with you later.

Awesome, awesome, awesome.

Well, friends, it's time for today's "Language Explorers".

(relaxing guitar music) - Key in Spanish is llave.

Llave.

- In French, key is cle.

Cle.

- In Swahili, key is funguo.

Funguo.

- [Woman] In ASL or American Sign Language, key is signed like this.

Key.

Key.

- In German, key is schlussel.

Schlussel.

- Key in Haitian Creole is kle.

Kle.

(relaxing guitar music) - (vocalizing) I just love learning the word of the show in a variety of languages.

Thanks, Language Explorers!

Whew, well, friends, it's that time of the show.

It's that time of the show we like to call "Jim Time".

(upbeat rock music) - So two plus-- - Hey, guys!

- Oh, hi!

You know, Sparky here.

He just had this really good plan.

He's helping me with my addition and my subtraction because it's something I still struggle with.

And you know, Sparky, he's really helpful around the house.

He's always got all these ideas.

And so he had this great idea where we have locks that have answers on them.

Here, I'll show you my lock up close.

That one says two on it.

- Ooh, cool, two.

- This one says one.

And then what Sparky did is he's got this bowl here and then there's different keys.

And each key in the bowl has like a different problem on it.

So for example, this one here, it says, 4 - 2 =, right?

So I go 4 - 2... Do you know what that is, Wimee?

4 - 2.

- Yeah, 4 - 2 is 2.

- 2, okay, so I take the lock that says 2 and then I put the key in it.

If I'm right, it should open up.

Let's see what happens.

It did open up.

I got it right!

Nice job, all right!

So we have that.

All right, let's see if we can do another one here.

Let's see this one says... Oh, wait.

That one says 3 - 1.

3 - 1, that, I'm pretty sure is also 2.

Right?

Let's find out.

3 - 1 is 2.

Okay, let's try it.

Here we go.

We got it right again!

Woohoo, all right, Sparky, we're on a roll.

Let's see, we'll do one more.

- Okay.

- Ooh, okay.

This one says 1 + 2.

That one is four, I think.

Let's find out.

- Wait.

- What, it's not opening.

- One... - Brody's got it.

- 3, all right, Brody, let's try 3.

All right, let's see, 3... 3... You're right, it opened up!

And it was pretty fun, I always like locks and keys.

I think they're kind of fun and fascinating.

And this is just kind of a fun way to learn.

But you know, we got some other examples of things you can do because you don't have to just use the same thing.

You can reuse the locks all the time.

This one Sparky was helping me out with letter sounds so, he had little pictures then on the card.

So then we'd say, okay, well, what letter does that start with, right?

So we had our letter sounds.

He did one for coins where there's a penny and a nickel and a dime and a quarter so I was learning like what the value of each coin is.

And then we did another one just to match letters so we would have lowercase and uppercase letters.

But really, anything that you wanna learn.

You could do rhyming sounds or really, it's up to your imagination, colors, shapes, all kinds of things.

And it's fun to do it with the lock.

And then if you're right, whoo!

Lock opens up, it's pretty cool.

- That is an awesome idea!

- Yeah, it was a good one, Sparky.

I'm telling you!

He doesn't get enough credit.

He's such a hard worker.

He's very clever, he's always got these great ideas.

So that was a good one, Sparky, nice job.

And I appreciate the help.

He's always helpin' out.

- Well, Jim, Sparky, thank you so much for today!

- We'll see you later!

- I like keepin' the dramatic pause, for today!

- I think it's great!

Also, too though, but I liked how you did that earlier.

You had something that was very quiet.

So like you'd be, for today's Jim Time.

- Jim Time.

(laughs) I love it, bye, guys!

Man, that's so cool!

So cool, that's a great idea.

Friends at home, try to do that or in the classroom or ask your teacher, say, "Hey, we got an idea from Sparky!

"We wanna match up ideas with locks and keys."

All right, friends.

Siblee has been excited about today's "Laughing With Siblee".

(children cheering) - What kind of keys taste the best?

- [Wimee] Hmm, I don't know.

- Cook-keys!

(laughs) Cook-keys!

(children cheering) - (chuckles) He's been walkin' around the studio all day, he's goin', "Cook-key!

"Cook-key!"

(laughs) - [Siblee] I know, I just think it's a funny one.

- (laughs) It is a funny one.

Okay, they're always funny, Siblee.

I love your work.

- [Siblee] Oh, thank you.

- Okay, friends, I invite you to take a deep breath.

Breathe in.

(inhales loudly) Hold it.

One, two, three, four, let it out.

(exhales softly) It's time for today's "Slowing Down".

(calm guitar music) Take another deep breath, breathe in.

(inhales softly) Hold it.

And let it loose.

(exhales softly) We love books!

It's time for today's "Check Out This Book".

(upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Ms. Basya with the Los Angeles Public Library and for today's key theme, I've got Peggy Rathmann's "Good Night Gorilla", published by GP Putnam's Sons.

This is an oldie, but a goodie.

I love it.

It's a classic bedtime story about a zookeeper with his zoo, a gorilla, and a colorful set of keys.

Well, it's bedtime at the zoo.

And the zookeeper's job is to make sure that all the animals are safe and sound for the night.

He quietly tiptoes to each of the animal's cages with his flashlight and says goodnight to them.

The zookeeper starts with the gorilla in the red cage, making sure he's all right and then tiptoes on to the next animal.

But what the zookeeper doesn't know is is that when he passed by the gorilla's cage, the gorilla slipped off his keyring from his belt.

The keyring is a special circular ring that holds lots of keys all at once, and the zookeeper's keys opens all the cages in the zoo.

Each cage is a different color with a matching key.

So a green key unlocks and opens the green cage.

Now that the gorilla has all the keys, he can open all the cages of the zoo of all the other animals and guess what?

He does!

Read along as the gorilla with the keys, and a growing parade of animals, quietly escape their cages and gently follow their beloved zookeeper.

Watch as the zookeeper says goodnight and then walks to his own house for his own bedtime but he has no idea what's going on behind him.

(chuckles) How will all the animals get to sleep if they're out of their cages?

Will the zookeeper ever notice all the mischief that the gorilla has gotten everyone into?

Will he get his keys back?

Check out this adorably funny book from your local library to find out.

(upbeat music) - (laughs) I love the thought of an animal parade.

Friends, we're gonna play a game.

Play along with us as you watch.

It's time for "Make a Rhyme"!

(light happy music) Alrighty, let's get right into it!

I'm gonna make a rhyme or I'm gonna say the first word and then you guys make the rhyme as we continue all the way in a circle, here we go.

First word for you, Jim and Sparky, key.

- Key.

How about (gasps) bee?

- It rhymes!

(laughs) Your turn.

- Okay.

Ball.

- Fall?

- Nice.

(bell dings) - Yep.

- Let's do snack.

- Ooh, snack.

Shack.

- Ooh, I like shack.

- Yes.

- That's a good rhyme.

- Could I say snack 'cause now it got me hungry all of a sudden, okay.

Okay, snack or shack.

Okay, let's make a rhyme with try.

- Try.

How about fly?

- Yeah.

(laughs) That rhymes!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

- Okay, how about coming up with a rhyme for cheese?

- Ooh.

Cheese.

- Please?

- Please, you're so polite, Brody!

Yeah, that rhymes.

- Let's do hair.

- Ooh, hair.

Hair.

Do you see it?

(Jim laughs) I'm showing you.

- Stare.

- Stare!

(Wimee laughs) Good one, Wimee!

- I love it, I love it!

Woohoo, ooh, ball!

Oh, look at all these rhymes, okay.

Let's do ball.

Jim, guess a rhyme for ball, and then, Brody, you get the next word that we just saw.

- How about small?

- Yeah, yeah!

And then what was the other word?

Do you remember, guys?

It was bye.

- Hi?

- Oh, hi!

Why has that never occurred to me that bye and hi rhyme?

- You learn something new every day!

I did know that, but it's a nice discovery.

It is kind of fun.

- I love it!

- Well, thanks, guys, for playin' "Make a Rhyme"!

- Bye!

- Whoo-hoo-hoo!

- Bye!

- Good stuff, good stuff.

All right, let's see here.

I'm excited to share with you right now, "Explore and Create" with our friend Nikhil.

(upbeat music) - Hi, my name is Nikhil and today we're going to make a key.

So what you need is scissors, a pencil or a marker, aluminum foil, any color construction paper, and some glue.

The finished product, the finished thing, the finished key will look like this.

(upbeat music) There, it's a key.

And now I'll cut it out.

(upbeat music) And there is my key.

The next step will be putting aluminum foil on it to make it shiny.

(upbeat music) So after you're done, you should leave the glue out to dry and then you can have your very own key.

And here are some more keys like these three and like more, there's a lot of different colors and a lot of different designs of keys.

And you don't need to just use my design, you can use as many designs as you want.

Hope you had a fun time enjoying making keys.

Bye!

(upbeat music) - Yahoo!

I love it, Nikhil!

Thanks for showing us that awesome idea to make your very own key!

All right, friends, let's check back with Brody.

Let's see if he has added designs, ideas, possibilities to that Wimage.

Brody, did you make any changes?

Whoa!

- I have the panda holding the key, I changed the net, I put more wind in, and I added a double rainbow.

- [Wimee] A double rainbow!

And I'm brushing my teeth.

- Also, you're brushing your teeth.

- (laughs) I just saw it!

I think it's 'cause some of the cheese went through the net that the lion's holding up there.

(laughs) Brody, that's so awesome!

Great job on today's Wimage.

All right, friends, are you ready to play with us?

"Find It Fast"!

(upbeat rock music) (car engine growls) All right, can you find something that starts with K?

Like key.

Can you find something small?

Like a key.

Can you find something metal?

Like many keys?

All right, friends, what have you found?

Let us know.

We'll check with our friends on the show.

Brody, what have you found?

- Well, I found a key.

It's small, it's metal, and it starts with K. Ding-di-ding-ding ding-ding!

Oh, you got, how many are there?

One, two, three, four?

- Yeah.

- Did I see that correctly?

Yeah, four keys!

So you got a trifecta times four.

(laughs) Let's see, friends, what have you found?

ScribbleJim and Sparky!

What you got?

- Well, you know, we also have found a key.

So we have a key which does get all three.

I have this pick here, which is pretty small.

And I do have my bell.

(bell dings) It's metal.

- It's metal!

Ding, di-ding ding!

(laughs) I love it!

Let us know what else starts with K. Kite?

I guess a tiny metal kite?

I don't know if that would fly very well.

Well, friends, play that game anytime.

Pick a topic, pick a theme, pick a timer, pick a song, pick whatever, and send anybody on their way and see what they find.

Whew, well, friends, it's been another great show!

So glad you spent time with us.

Glad you're here.

Let's get ready for the dance party.

Brody, ScribbleJim, Sparky, friends watching with us!

Yeah!

(upbeat rock music) Oh, spin, spinning.

(laughs) I can't quite get it, that's okay.

Woohoo!

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