[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.