- Grand Rapids, Lansing, Detroit, then head north-- Oh, hi friends!

(laughing) Man, I'm planning my trip with my trusty map here.

Maps are great!

They tell us where everything is, and the best way to go!

I love my map.

(chuckling) I'd be lost without it.

(laughing) I'd be lost without it.

(laughing) ♪ Wimee creates all the day through ♪ ♪ And you can do it too We are on the hunt for a perfect place to laugh, learn and create!

We got the perfect tool to find it.

Maps!

Today, Brody is mapping out his illustrations in the Wimage Lab!

Brad is translating words from places far away, in Language Explorers!

And, Miss Andrea, is showing us how to make our own maps, and sharing her favorite map book in today's Check Out This Book!

We are following the map to an amazing episode.

So join us on our trip in today's Wimee's Words!

(applause) ♪ Over the river and through the woods ♪ ♪ To grandmother's house we go ♪ The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh ♪ ♪ Through white and drifted snow ♪ (laughing) Tell us a place you would like to travel to.

We'll go over the river and through the woods, where we gonna go?

Let's see.

I'm in Grand Rapids, Michigan, we travel all over Kent County, so I'll say... ♪ Over the river and through the woods ♪ ♪ To all over Kent County we go ♪ ♪ The bookmobile knows the way ♪ To carry the books ♪ Through the white and drifted snow ♪ (laughing) I think the winter's free and clear now, but you never know!

But that bookmobile does go.

Grand Rapids Public Library, they's got a bookmobile, and Muskegon, and man, bookmobiles and on the road traveling, looking around like, "Hey friends!

Good to see you!".

So tell us a place you like to travel to.

Maybe it's somewhere in Kent County, maybe it's somewhere across the state.

The library!

♪ Over the river and through the woods ♪ ♪ To the library we go (laughing) Indeed!

Gettin' some books.

Books about rivers!

Books about lakes!

Books about all kinds of things.

Where else could we go, friends?

We can go over the river and through the woods to... Friends house!

Okay, ready?

♪ Over the river and through the woods ♪ ♪ To my friend's house we go ♪ We're gonna hang out and read some books ♪ ♪ That we got at the library today, hey!

♪ (laughing) See what I did?

I combined library with, um... Oh!

South Dakota!

Let's do it, ready?

♪ Over the river and through the woods ♪ ♪ To South Dakota we go Now, should we go by horse?

Or bookmobile?

Let's see, let's take a boat.

Can we take a boat?

You think the river... Could we connect in a river, and go... Maybe we could leave through Lake-- maybe we start in Lake Michigan, go up around, can we take like a river through Canada?

And then kinda go back down?

Not sure.

Maybe.

Friends, thanks for your ideas.

Keep singing that, okay?

Let's see, what do we think Moby is gonna say today?

(upbeat music) - Did you know that people who make maps, are called cartographers?

Yeah!

I just read about it.

Anybody can draw a map of a place.

You could even draw a map of your bedroom on a napkin!

(laughing) But cartographers are trained in how to make really detailed maps of lots of places.

Hm.

I think I'm gonna go make a map of my backyard.

Awesome!

(upbeat music) - All right, so.

Let's get rolling for today's ♪ Three sentence story Beginning, middle, end.

(laughing) Friends!

Let's get rolling with today's story.

Tell us a person, place or thing!

We love nouns.

That works the best.

In the first sentence I will set the scene!

In the second sentence there will be a problem!

And in the third sentence, what do we have?

Solution.

(laughing) Oh, ducks!

They're in the water.

Ponds most, in particular, right?

I don't know, statistically?

Where do ducks live the most?

I don't think they go into the ocean.

That would be hard-- well maybe they do!

I gotta research this, okay.

Ducks.

Okay, I got an idea.

Early last Spring, a little duck decided to fly to the middle of the ocean.

(laughing) I think we see the challenge already!

Should I say the problem already?

I think do.

Specifically, oh, the sun.

Hm.

Okay, I got it.

Early last Spring, a duck decided to swim to the middle of the ocean.

The sun began to set, and the little ducky felt scared!

(wailing) How do we help the little ducky?

In the middle of the ocean.

How long would it take, by the way, to go all the way to the middle of the o-- I guess it depends where you started.

Which continent were you on, when you started going over-- which ocean?

Hm, that all depends.

That's getting more into nonfiction.

So hat.

Oh!

Okay, here we go.

Early last Spring, a duck swam to the middle of the ocean.

The sun began to set, and the little ducky felt scared!

The duck looked into the horizon, and saw a boat carrying lots of big hats, so that the duck could... be prepared for tomorrow.

(laughing) Yeah 'cause, I'm not sure if-- I was thinking of the sun, getting the sun in the duck's eyes, but the sun was going down, so I don't know if the sun, I don't know if the hat was gonna help the...

I think it's more so the boat.

The boat that came helped the duck.

And it happened to bring hats, so that-- that's kinda where chapter two comes in.

The duck wears a hat!

And gets to the other side of the ocean.

♪ Bum bum bum (laughing) Let's go to the Grandville Wimage Lab, and find out-- I wonder if the duck's already wearing the hat?

Or not?

Hi Brody!

- Hi Wimee.

(laughing) - Is the duck wearing a hat, or no?

- Yeah.

- Yeah!

Oh, prepared for tomorrow.

Look at all those globes!

Wow.

That's cool.

- Yeah.

Oh, Wimee.

- Yeah?

- Do you remember how in the opening song, it was, "It's a small world"?

- Yeah.

What??

- I... Have a very small world.

- That's a little-- (laughing) That's even smaller than this one, yeah.

Man oh man, that's awesome.

♪ It's a very small-- we should say like, ♪ It's a very small world ♪ It's a teeny tiny world (laughing) That's funny.

So what have you got for today's Wimage?

- So, I have... the sun is setting, with the map in the background, with the duck in the boat, wearing the hat.

(laughing) - I love it!

That's such a cool map.

I love the design.

And what do you think, Brody?

Should we add another word or two?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, let's see if our friends have an idea.

I'm wondering if maybe... We got, let's see, a sailboat.

What else could be in the ocean here?

Fish?

Shark?

- Yeah!

- Okay, you choose.

- Fish.

Wimee, which fish do you want?

- Oh, let's see.

Oh, I see it.

It's a yellow fish, there's a-- Oh!

Nice.

Oh, that one kinda looks like a shark.

Let's go back to the other one, just before that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Put him right in the ocean.

Or we could put lots of shark in each ocean.

(laughing) Yeah.

Well tell you what!

If you wanna duplicate the sharks, put 'em in the different oceans, and then we'll check back with you to see.

And if you wanna add any other sea creatures too.

(laughing) 'Cause that little ducky really would appreciate now, that boat and that hat.

Is there a hat fish?

Is that a thing?

Sun fish, cat fish, hat fish?

I don't know.

I think I digress.

All right, friends!

It's time to find out how to say today's words in Swahili.

It's time for a Language Explorers!

And today, Mr. Brad is with us!

Hi Mr. Brad!

- Hi Wimee!

(laughing) - Now you grew up on the other side of the ocean from where we live right now.

Right?

Have you been to other continents or oceans that you've traveled through?

- So I've been on the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and what is the fourth ocean?

- Oh, I gotta think.

Pacific, Atlantic, um.. Oh man, um...

I gotta check my globe here.

- Indian, I've been on that, but I don't know what the fourth one is.

I'm not sure I've been on the fourth ocean.

- Let's ask our friends at home!

Friends, if you could help remind us, which ocean we're missing.

(laughing) So, what have you got for today's words?

- Okay!

So, the first word I wanna show you is "maps".

Which is "ramani".

- Ramani.

- And I'm gonna tell you a quick story in Swahili about maps.

- Oh yes!

- And then I'll translate it.

(laughing) - I love it!

(Brad speaking in Swahili) - So what I just told you, was is I don't like to think of myself as an old man, but maybe I am an old man, because I prefer to use maps made out of paper that I can look at, rather than maps on my cellphone.

So I don't know what that says about me.

- No, I can relate-- oh, Arctic Ocean!

Danny, thank you.

The Arctic Ocean, yes.

Yeah, no, there's something cool about just a hand printed map, right?

- Yeah.

- I love it, I love it.

Thank you for sharing that with us!

And the first word.

- So here's the next word.

"Ducks", "bata".

- Bata.

(laughing) I love it.

- Okay, the next word is "hat", which is "kofia".

Kofia.

- Kofia.

- And then the next word, was the third word "boat"?

- Hat!

But I made it-- it was about a boat bringing the hat.

So you could translate either one, really.

- Okay, so then the next word we'll do is "boat".

- Okay.

- Which is "chombo".

- Chombo.

- Chombo.

- Chombo.

Nice, I love it!

Well awesome!

Thanks for trans-- I like the word "kofia".

Did I say that right?

- Yes you did!

It is a fun word to say.

- Yeah!

Kofia.

(laughing) Awesome.

Do ducks like to drink kofia?

(laughing) - That's another thing... What's it called, a learning trick.

Not pneumonic, what do they call that?

But anyway, a learning trick, for people who know the words "Sophia", you just change the "S" to a "K", and you'll be saying the word in Swahili for hat!

"Sophia", "Kofia".

(laughing) - "Kofia", "Sophia", that could be a cool poem or book, I think.

- Yeah, it could.

(laughing) - Love it.

- You could say that Sophia wears a kofia!

(laughing) - We gotta work on this.

I love it.

Well Mr. Brad, thanks so much for translating today's words into Swahili!

See you later in the show!

(laughing) Friends, it's time to check in with Andrea for today's Exploring.

(upbeat music) (laughing) Hi Miss Andrea!

- Hi Wimee, how are you?

(laughing) I'd like to have kofia with Sophia!

(laughing) - Sounds pretty good to me.

- Yeah.

Whatcha got?

- I love today's theme.

I love maps so much.

I love books that start with maps, I like movies that start with maps.

I love books about maps.

- Oh!

- And I have a few of those here.

- I went and checked the shelves at the Grand Rapids Library and found lots of fun books about maps.

And these are some of my favorites.

It shows how to map things that are close to you.

So you can map your room, or map your house.

- [Wimee] Cool!

- Or map your neighborhood.

And of course, we got these at the Grand Rapids Library, but I bet you would find books like this at any library you went into.

(laughing) - Love it.

- I thought for today's project, we could map our house or our bedroom.

(gasping) - Sounds cool!

- Yeah.

This is a fun, easy project, because all you need is paper, right?

And markers or colored pencils, or crayons.

- Nice.

- So I've decided I'm gonna map my house.

And I think I'm just gonna do the first floor of my house.

So, here I go.

To start off, my house is a great big square.

So to start off, here's the outside of my house.

Can you see that?

- [Wimee] Yeah!

I can picture it right now.

- Yeah.

And my house isn't just a great big square, there's some walls inside my house too, right?

So I'm gonna put the walls inside my house.

That's kinda what the first floor of my house looks like on the inside.

- Gotcha.

Is the big room the living room?

- It is!

- Oh, I was right!

- Yeah, right there.

- Cool, okay.

- Let's see, I have to get into my house somehow, right?

- Yeah.

- So I, I did one ahead of time, 'cause as much fun as it is to draw a map of my house, maybe it's not as much fun to watch me do it.

(laughing) So this is my finished project.

Can you see this?

- Whoa!

Yup!

Living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom!

Oh, you got a compass?

- Oh, that's important on a map, isn't it?

This is called the compass rose.

And it shows which way my house points.

So my kitchen and my bedroom downstairs, is on the West side of my house.

And my dining room and my living room are on the east side of my house.

And can you see what else is on my map?

- [Wimee] Let me look, uh... Oh!

I see the key, which tells us more information.

Oh, it tells us where the doors and the windows are!

- That's right!

In order to read a map, you have to know what all of these little things stand for, don't you?

- [Wimee] Yup.

- And it's good to think of a map as like a picture of your house from an airplane's point of view, right?

You're hovering over your house or your neighborhood, and that's what it looks like from up above.

(laughing) - It's like Superman's x-ray vision through the roof.

- It is, absolutely.

(laughing) - Nice.

- So I've got, let's see, orange for windows.

I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight windows on the first floor of my house.

- Cool.

- And I have purple for doors.

And I have, let's see, one outside door, two outside doors, and one inside door.

- Oh.

I see an X!

- An X. Oh yeah!

- Is that where the pirate, is that where the pirate treasure is?

- The pirate treasure is.

(laughing) Can you read the key?

- Oh!

It says the meeting spot.

- The meeting spot.

Yeah!

Like if your family had an emergency, and had to meet outside, it's a good idea to have a place picked out already, right?

- That's a great idea.

- So we have a great big tree in the front yard that we would meet out at.

- I love it!

- So yeah, that's the first floor.

I decided maybe the kids wanna start with their bedrooms.

It could be their first step to becoming a cartographer later in life, right?

- Yeah!

- Just like Moby said!

- Yeah!

Moby did!

- Here's the bedroom, my key looks a little bit different, because I decided to include the furniture on this one.

- Whoa.

- So you could start with your bedroom, and then expand to your house, and then expand to your whole neighborhood.

- [Wimee] Whoa, what if you map the whole world?

- There are maps of the whole world.

Just imagine, how much work has to go into mapping the whole world!

Wow!

- That is a lot of work.

- Yeah!

Start small!

Just start with your bedroom!

- I love it!

Well Miss Andrea, thanks so much for showing us that, and I know I'm gonna work on that.

And I bet our friends at home are gonna do some cool maps!

(laughing) We'll see you soon!

Friends!

Let's see what Siblee's got for today's Laughing with Siblee!

(cheering) - Why was the cat laying on the globe?

Because he wanted to take a cat map!

(laughing) (cheering) (laughing) - There's no cat laying on this globe, takin' a cat map.

(laughing) Oh man, we love books!

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

(upbeat music) (laughing) Welcome back, Miss Andrea!

What book you got today?

- Today I have a book called "Mapping Penny's World".

- Cool!

- Can you guess what this dog's name is?

- Um... Penny!

- That's right!

This is Penny.

(laughing) Penny is a Boston Terrier, and her friend Lisa, is a little girl who's in school and learning about maps, and they get an assignment to map their bedrooms, just like we were talking about.

- Yeah!

- And she mapped her room, and there was a bed, and the aquarium, and the toy chest, and of course, Penny's bed.

(laughing) And it was so much fun, she decided to map her house, and then her neighborhood, and then she decided to map Penny's route to her favorite dog friend's house.

And then they decided to map Penny's favorite things, that included a duck pond, and the place where the squirrels hang out, and the place where all her dog friends hang out.

And then they started to map even more and more and more, and then, you'll never guess.

What the map at the end of this book maps.

It's really big!

- Oh.

Oh man, maps um... Um...

I don't even know!

It could be anything!

- You'll have to read the book to find out.

(laughing) - Man, I will do it!

You cooked me there!

Oh man, I gotta find out.

I love it!

It's just like what you just showed us how to do!

- Exactly.

- Yeah, and there's really a duck in there?

'Cause our duck was in the ocean in our story today.

- Yup!

There's more than one duck in here.

(laughing) - I love it.

Awesome, thanks Miss Andrea!

I will surely check that book out at the library!

(laughing) Man!

Man, I'm just having so much fun.

Words, stories, songs, ideas!

(laughing) Man.

Hey friends, right now, let's see what Michael's up to.

It's time for today's Minute with Michael.

(upbeat music) (laughing) Hey Michael!

- Hey Wimee, hey friends!

What a great show.

I love maps as well.

- They're pretty cool.

- Yeah, yeah.

So I was born in Haiti, which is an island in the West Indies.

And so came to the U.S. when I was five, joined the military, was a Navy Seabea, so I've traveled the world.

- Yeah!

Amen.

- So I love maps, I love meeting different people in different cultures.

And that's one thing, friends, especially our kids who are watching out there, maps can help us meet so many new, different people, new languages, new cultures.

So I have a question for you, Wimee, and for friends who are watching.

- Okay.

- If there was one place you can go, where would that be?

- Um... - You first, Wimee.

And then we'll give our friends who are watching the opportunity to send us their suggestions.

- All right, so friends, think where you would like to travel.

There's so many places I would wanna go.

I'd love to see the Grand Canyon.

I'd love to see the Great Wall in China, and the history behind that!

I'd love to go to... Zimbabwe, 'cause I think it sounds cool.

The name of that country in Africa.

I'd wanna go to the Netherlands!

- Oh!

- I wanna go to Paris, France!

- Okay!

- I wanna, I got lots-- - How 'bout this.

Okay you've got a lot of places you wanna go.

Let's bring in Miss Andrea, and let's ask her where she'd like to go.

That she haven't been yet.

- Oh!

Oh, let's find out!

Hey Miss Andrea, where would you like to travel to?

- Oh there are so many places I'd like to go, but I think the first one that came to my mind was Tokyo, Japan.

- Oh!

- Oh.

Nice.

- So cool.

- Awesome.

How 'bout Brody?

Brody, where would you like to go?

- I'd like to go to Hawaii.

- Hawaii!

(laughing) This is what they do, right?

- Oh yeah!

Hang loose.

- Hang loose.

- What's that one word... Not aloha, but... - I forget.

I've not been to Hawaii yet.

Although I'd love to go to Hawaii.

- Yeah.

Mahalo!

Mahalo.

It means thank you.

Mahalo.

- Yes.

Let's bring in the director.

- Oh, Jim, Jim, Jim!

Where would you travel to?

- I don't-- where'd everybody go?

I can't hear you, can you hear me?

- Yeah!

- All right, well you know what, I would like to go... Hm, if I could go anywhere in the world.

I'd like to just go to an island.

Any island, anywhere, I think would be pretty fun.

- We got lots of islands in Michigan.

I think there's like a hundred some islands, right?

- Yes.

How 'bout, we show our friends Wimee's Island?

- Oh!

- The animation where you... - Yeah!

Cupcakes, and... Yeah.

(laughing) - We need to get that on a map.

But before, let's show friends the animation about Wimee's dream.

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

He dreamed of an island filled with butterflies, crayons, and cupcakes.

(singing) ♪ Cupcakes!

♪ Cupcakes and crayons and butterflies!

♪ - Oh boy!

Look at these butterflies!

And oh!

(laughing) Cupcakes!

Mmm.

(clicks tongue) Oh, I love it here!

I should invite everybody to come over!

We could have a cupcake party!

(soft music) Oh man, that was fun.

(laughing) - That was fun.

An island full of cupcakes, butterflies.

So that's one place I'd love to go.

- Yeah.

I think Brody was up for it, and I think we should all go.

Hey let's bring in Brad, but you know what, I think Jim is telling us he's got no audio.

(laughing) - We gotta figure that out.

But let's bring in Brad, 'cause we didn't ask Brad if there was one place he can visit on a map, where that would be.

So let's bring in Brad.

- Hi guys.

- Where would you travel to?

- So a place I would like to go to, where I've never been, is the countries in Asia, of Cambodia and Laos.

They have very ancient temples there, from thousands of years ago.

That are remarkably preserved.

And I think it would be fun to see those in person.

- It would be amazing.

- That would be amazing!

- Yeah.

All right.

- Awesome.

Well what a great show.

Brad, thank you so much.

Wimee, you look awesome, you've got your map.

Can you spin your map, please?

I'd love to see it.

- Oh.

(laughing) - Spin the globe!

- I'm tryin'.

Oh, give me a second.

(laughing) - Oh, there we go.

- I got it!

I got it.

(laughing) - Awesome.

Let's see what Brody got going on.

And he's got a whole bunch of maps behind him.

- Did you add some sharks?

- I added a dolphin with Wimee riding the dolphin.

And I added a octopus.

- [Michael] Oh.

- Whoa, that is so cool!

I love it!

Man, I wanna print that one and really look close.

(laughing) Man, all right!

(laughing) All right, so.

I got word Jim's got the audio back.

Great, Jim!

Yeah!

Should we bring Jim on, let's confirm.

Jim, can you hear me?

Bring you in if you can.

Oh no!

That might have caused the problem last time.

Nevermind, nevermind.

Stay out, stay out.

And we're ready for the dance party, right?

- We are.

(laughing) - Oh!

You know what?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I digress.

Let's do the dance party.

Are you ready?

Let's bring everybody in!

Let's bring in Brad, let's bring in Andrea!

I don't know if Jim can hear us actually.

It's gone again.

Yeah, I just saw the note.

Let me do this.

Tell you what.

I'm gonna push the emergency button.

- Okay.

- And um... (grunts) Got it, okay.

That means, I will bring you the dance party music!

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