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♪♪ ♪ Camp TV ♪ ♪ It's time for us to start ♪ ♪ From furry animal encounters ♪ ♪ To some reading and the arts ♪ ♪ No matter what the weather ♪ ♪ We'll explore it all together ♪ ♪ It's a place for you and me ♪ ♪ It's "Camp TV" ♪♪ Oh, hi, there.

And welcome to It's Not Really Valentine's Day Day here at "Camp TV."

I'm just putting the finishing touches on a card I'm making for an amazing friend.

So you're probably thinking, "Mia, didn't Valentine's Day already pass?"

Well, yes, technically it did.

But in my book, any excuse to celebrate love and friendship is a good day.

And today is a good day.

There are all kinds of ways to express love.

You can tell someone or show them through your actions.

Things like spending time together, helping someone, giving a hug, or even playing a game together.

From family members to family pets, favorite books to fantastic friends, today, I invite you to express gratitude and compassion for the people, places, and things that you love.

As for me, I am starting with you.

So on this very special day of It's Not Really Valentine's Day Day on "Camp TV," I ask you, will you be my valentine?

Give it a think.

And I'll see you after your first few activities.

Zach: A little birdie told me it's time to go wild.

Olivia: Mammals are incredibly diverse and complex animals.

They range in size, shape, color, and even distribution.

Sometimes it's hard to believe that these mammals look so different, but they have so much in common.

I mean, the largest animal on earth, a blue whale, is a mammal, and so is a tiny little pygmy possum.

And so are we, humans.

But what makes a mammal a mammal?

Well, a few mammalian characteristics come to mind.

All mammals have hair or fur.

We nurse our young with milk.

We are warm-blooded, and our young are born live -- well, most of the time.

Which brings us to today's wild wonder.

This one comes from Daniel, a patient at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego.

And Daniel would like to know...

Boy: Do mammals lay eggs?

Olivia: That may seem like an odd question, considering the mammals that we listed earlier, and mammals like you and I certainly don't lay eggs.

But there is another group of mammals, known as the monotremes, that definitely do lay eggs.

There are two types of monotremes -- the platypus, which is endemic to Australia, and the echidna, which is also found in Australia and New Guinea.

This handsome little boy here is Shaw.

Now, he has all the qualities of a mammal.

He's got hair.

You can look closely.

He's warm-blooded.

And as a baby, he would have nursed milk from his mother.

But there's one key difference -- He hatched out of an egg.

Female echidnas lay one egg at a time.

Then after 10 days, the egg hatches, and the baby echidna, also known as a puggle, emerges blind and hairless.

The puggle will then nurse from its mother's pouch for about three months until it gets too spiky.

Mum will then build a burrow for her baby and continue to provide it with milk until it's big enough and strong enough to survive on its own.

Thank you for that question, Daniel.

Now, monotremes are incredibly unique, and while we're different in so many ways, as a fellow mammal, we have a lot in common.

Zach: Music, dance, magic, and more.

Step right up to Center Stage.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Listen, baby ♪ ♪ Ain't no mountain high ♪ ♪ Ain't no valley low ♪ ♪ Ain't no river wide enough, baby ♪ ♪ If you need me, call me, no matter where you are ♪ ♪ No matter how far ♪ ♪ Don't worry, baby ♪ ♪ Just call my name, I'll be there in a hurry ♪ ♪ You don't have to worry ♪ ♪ 'Cause, baby, there ain't no mountain high enough ♪ ♪ Ain't no valley low enough ♪ ♪ Ain't no river wide enough ♪ ♪ To keep me from getting to you, baby ♪ ♪ Remember, the day I set you free ♪ ♪ I told you you could always count on me, darling ♪ ♪ And from that day on ♪ ♪ I made a vow ♪ ♪ I'll be there when you want me ♪ ♪ Someway, somehow ♪ ♪ Don't you know that there ain't no mountain high enough ♪ ♪ High enough ♪ ♪ Ain't no valley low enough ♪ ♪ Ain't no river wide enough ♪ ♪ To keep me from getting to you, baby?

♪ ♪ Mm, oh, no, darling ♪ ♪ No wind ♪ ♪ No wind ♪ ♪ No rain ♪ ♪ No rain ♪ ♪ No winters cold ♪ ♪ Can stop me, baby ♪ ♪ 'Cause you are my goal ♪ ♪ You're my goal ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ My love is alive ♪ ♪ Way down in my heart ♪ ♪ Although we are miles apart ♪ ♪ If you ever need a helping hand ♪ ♪ I'll be there on the double ♪ ♪ Just as fast as I can ♪ ♪ Don't you know that there ain't no mountain high enough ♪ ♪ High enough ♪ ♪ Ain't no valley low enough ♪ ♪ Low enough ♪ ♪ Ain't no river wide enough ♪ ♪ Wide enough ♪ ♪ To keep me from getting to you, baby?

♪ ♪ Ain't no mountain high enough ♪ ♪ Ain't no valley low enough ♪ ♪ Ain't no river wide enough ♪ ♪ To keep me from getting to you, baby ♪ Zach: Mmm.

Let's Get Cooking.

Hi.

Welcome to Cooking with Courtney.

I'm Courtney.

And today we are going to be making mochi -- a delicious Japanese treat for any time of the year.

Let's get cooking.

Be sure to wash your hands for at least 20 seconds with soap and water before and after handling food.

To make today's strawberry filling, you're going to need 3 tablespoons of strawberry jam, five fresh, small strawberries.

Make sure they're diced.

And last, but not least, 1 cup of delicious whipped cream.

Then mix the filling together.

Awesome.

Now it's time to chill this in the fridge until we're ready to use it.

It's time to make the mochi wrapper.

But first, allow me to introduce you to our star ingredient -- glutinous rice flour.

Rice flour is another creative way to use rice, which is a food staple for over half of the world's population.

First, let's add 1 1/2 cups of glutinous rice flour into the bowl.

Next, let's add 1/4 cup of sugar.

And finally, add 1 cup of water.

Now we're going to carefully mix it all together and then pop it into the microwave for one minute.

♪♪ Now we're just going to repeat the process.

We're going to mix it up a bit more and then put it back in the microwave for another minute.

♪♪ Now we're going to stir for a third time.

This is the stage where you can add in any food coloring if you want to.

I'm going to add in pink for strawberries.

♪♪ Ahh.

Finished.

♪♪ Now I'm dusting my clean workspace with some cornstarch, and then I'm going to put my mochi onto it.

You can see that the cornstarch is here so that the mochi doesn't stick to the workspace.

Now I'm going to roll this mochi out into a log and cut it into 12 small pieces.

I'm using a pastry cutter.

But you can use a knife or whatever you have at home.

One, two.

Now comes the time to roll them up and flatten them into little pancakes, ready for stuffing.

There's one.

And our last one.

To make the finished mochi, all you need is a regular spoon.

You're going to spoon a little bit of our mochi filling and put it into the mochi wrapper.

Just like that.

Now you're going to take the mochi wrapper and stretch it, and you're going to pinch the top together, sort of like you're making a dumpling.

It might spill out a little bit over the sides.

But that's okay.

And once you pinch the top together, just like that, voilà, our first mochi.

♪♪ We did it!

We made mochi.

And now we get to taste the fruits of our labor.

Mmm.

You can store your mochi in the fridge for a few days... if they last that long.

I'll see you next time.

Bye.

Hey, Co-counselor Mia, ready to rock?

Ready to roll.

Arts and crafts?

Yes, please.

Let's Get Artsy.

Hi, and welcome back to It's Not Really Valentine's Day Day here at "Camp TV."

While you were at your activities, I got to thinking about how much I love being here at camp with you.

So I was thinking we could make something to remember the good times we have together.

How about we make this guy?

Naturally, it's only fitting for our raccoon to be made of hearts.

Care to join me?

You will need gray, black, and white paper; scissors; a pencil; glue; and some googly eyes.

First, we'll cut a big heart out of the gray paper to make the face.

I have a trick for making hearts, which is to fold the paper in half, draw half a heart along the seam, and then cut along that line.

♪♪ And just like that... we have a heart.

So that's the face for the raccoon.

Then you'll cut two white hearts, and you'll glue them to the face facing outwards with the points almost touching.

This is for the outsides of the eyes.

You know how raccoons have those white lines on the outsides of their eyes?

Then you'll take slightly smaller black hearts and glue those on top of the white hearts.

♪♪ Like... this.

Now it's time to make the ears.

You're gonna take smaller gray hearts and glue them upside down, up where the ears should be.

And we'll just do that with the second gray heart.

Now, to make those look even more raccoon-like, we'll glue smaller black hearts on top of the gray ones.

Now we've got some ears, and now we just need a little nose.

So I'm gonna take my tiniest black heart and put it right down there.

And last, but not least, get two googly eyes and glue them onto the face.

Or you can just draw eyes on if that's easier.

There we go!

How cute is this?!

I'm gonna hang it up in my bedroom.

Zach: Curiosity and wonder.

Let's discover together.

It's Science Wow!

Woman: You can explore shadows outside on a sunny day.

What do you notice about the shadow I'm making with my hand?

♪♪ What do you notice about the shadow I'm making now?

♪♪ Your body can make interesting shadows, but it is also interesting to look around at shadows made by other objects.

You could also try exploring shadows at different times of the day.

If you have chalk, it can be helpful to trace them.

How are these shadows different?

♪♪ You can also explore shadows indoors.

You might use a piece of paper or cardboard as something the shadow falls on.

This we can call a screen.

You can do this activity with a flashlight, lamp, or cellphone flashlight.

If you have more than one of these lights, you can see which one works best for you.

You can choose a variety of objects as your shadow maker, like a toothpick, rolled-up piece of paper, a favorite toy, or even your body.

Try a number of these and see which one gives you the most interesting shadow.

Once you have your shadow maker, choose a light source and find a background.

Then make sure your room is dark enough and turn your light off.

What do you notice about your shadow?

What happens as I move the light?

What happens to the shadow?

♪♪ How can you change your shadow using the same shadow maker?

It can be helpful to draw your shadow setup.

What did you use to make your shadow?

What light did you use?

What kind of background did your shadow fall on?

Once you record how you made your shadow, it can also be helpful to write or draw what you noticed and what you wondered.

♪♪ Zach: Take a breath.

Take a moment.

It's time for Mindful Me.

[ Breathes deeply ] Hi, friends.

It's Ms. B.

Today we're gonna do our toe touches.

I'm so excited to move with you.

First things first.

Let's turn our bodies around and send our legs out in front of us, just like this.

You got it?

Okay.

From here, remember, we like to breathe.

So breathe in.

Send our fingertips up towards the sun.

And then rain our fingertips to our toes, to our ankles, to our shins, or maybe even our knees.

You get to choose because, remember, we're gonna do what feels good in our body.

Okay?

So let's try that together.

We'll do three all in one.

Inhale.

Send those fingertips up towards the sun.

And we breathe our air out and send those fingertips.

Rain down to our toes, our ankles, our shins, or the knees.

Awesome.

Inhale all your air.

Send those fingertips up towards the sun for the second time.

And let's rain them down to our toes, our ankles, our shins, or our knees.

Well, guess what.

We're all done.

I'm gonna turn around so you can see me.

I'm so excited for our next time together.

Until then, I'll see you later, friends.

Bye.

Zach: Ready for some math that counts?

Count On.

Hi.

I'm Jen, an educator at the Intrepid Museum.

When you have a party, you might have a cake something like this for you and your guests.

But when they made cakes for the crew here on the U.S.S.

Intrepid, they looked more like this.

How do we get from a small cake to this?

Well, they had to do something called multiplying.

I'm going to demonstrate multiplying using some instant coffee.

And the crew drank a lot of coffee aboard the Intrepid.

For this recipe, I need to mix 1 cup of water... ...and 1 teaspoon of coffee to make one cup for myself.

But what if I have two friends coming over to join me for coffee?

That means there would be three of us.

So I'm going to have to multiply the recipe three times to get enough coffee.

So in order to do that, I'm going to mix three times the water.

So, one.

Two.

Three.

And then three times the coffee.

One.

Two.

Three.

And now I'll have enough to share with my friends.

Zach: Arts and crafts?

Yes, please.

Let's Get Artsy.

♪♪ Jeff: Hi, and welcome to Sketch with Jeff.

I have my mail here.

I've been looking through the mail because I'm expecting something.

I'm expecting a postcard from my helper, Pencil.

She's been drawing her own postcards and mailing them to me.

Sending a postcard is a great way to keep in touch with someone, especially if you're traveling.

If you're going to a new place or someone is far away, you can send them a postcard.

You can also get really creative.

You can write on it, or you can even draw on the front.

I wonder if there are artists who use traveling as part of their art.

Let's check out the Guggenheim Museum and see what we can find.

This artist is holding up a picture of a sunset taken by a United States soldier in Iraq, and she's holding it up in front of the sunset where she is in the United States.

I love this art.

It shows how connected we are.

Even if we're far away, we're all under the same sun.

It reminds me of postcards and how we are connected when we send something to someone from far away.

All summer, Pencil has been sending me postcards.

She makes them.

She writes a note.

And she sends them in the mail.

I love them.

So now I want to send some postcards back to my helper, Pencil.

And I think I'm going to make them at the beach.

I will first make a sketch of this person fishing.

I love looking out.

I got to the beach early.

So that was when this person was fishing near the coast, near the rocks.

And it was just really fun to observe and look at how the waves were coming in as he cast out his line.

So I made a quick sketch and a watercolor painting on the back.

I wrote a note to Pencil.

Then I put her address.

I'm going to put a stamp on it and mail it to her very soon.

I'm also inspired by these sea gull footprints, so hmm.

I think I want to do a different kind of drawing now.

I'll do a cartoony sea gull.

This is a sea gull.

Maybe this is the sea gull who made those footprints.

I love drawing animals.

I love drawing fun animals with personality and character.

And I think Pencil will like this when she gets this in the mail.

I'm adding a little watercolor here, too, just to give a sunset type of feel on the front.

Writing Pencil another note talking about the sea gull footprints.

And I said, "Maybe the sea gull was dancing in the sand.

I wonder how those footprints came to be."

I said, "Keep on sending me postcards, Pencil, and I will do the same."

So these two postcards will go off in the mail.

I'll put a stamp on them and get them into the mailbox.

Hopefully they will reach Pencil very soon.

My challenge for you is for you to make a postcard and send it to someone you know.

You can send it to a family member or a friend, someone who lives far away or close by, and then maybe they can make a postcard and send it back to you.

Make some postcards.

Send them to a friend or family member.

And I hope to see you soon.

Take care.

Bye.

Zach: Daytime or nighttime, it's always time for story time.

Ready for just the right book read by just the right camper?

Without further ado, take it away.

Thanks, Zach.

Hi, everyone.

My name is Eric.

Today I'm going to be reading "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?"

by Carol McCloud.

"All day long, everyone in the whole wide world walks around carrying an invisible bucket.

You can't see it, but it's there.

You have a bucket.

Each member of your family has a bucket.

Your grandparents, friends, and neighbors all have buckets.

Everyone carries an invisible bucket.

Your bucket has one purpose only.

Its purpose is to hold your good thoughts and good feelings about yourself.

You feel happy and good when your bucket is full, and you feel sad and lonely when your bucket is empty.

Other people feel the same way, too.

They're happy when their buckets are full, and they're sad when their buckets are empty.

It's great to have a full bucket, and this is how it works... Other people can fill your bucket, and you can fill theirs.

You can fill your own bucket, too.

So, how do you fill a bucket?

You fill a bucket when you show love to someone, when you say or do something kind, or even when you give someone a smile.

That's being a bucket filler.

A bucket filler is a loving, caring person who says and does nice things to make others feel special.

When you treat others with kindness and respect, you fill their bucket.

But you can also dip into a bucket and take out some good feelings.

You dip into a bucket when you make fun of someone, when you say or do mean things, or even you ignore someone.

That's bucket dipping.

Bullying is bucket dipping.

When you hurt others, you dip into their bucket.

You will dip into your own bucket, too.

Many people who dip have an empty bucket.

They may think they can fill their own bucket by dipping into someone else's... but that will never work.

You'll never fill your own bucket when you dip into someone else's.

But guess what.

When you fill someone's bucket, you fill your own bucket, too!

You feel good when you help others feel good.

All day long, we are either filling up or dipping into each other's buckets by what we say and what we do.

Try to fill a bucket and see what happens.

You love your mom and dad.

Why not tell them you love them?

You can even tell them why.

Your caring words will fill their buckets with joy.

Watch for smiles to light up their faces.

You will feel like smiling, too.

A smile is a good clue that you have filled a bucket.

If you practice, you'll become a great bucket filler.

Just remember that everyone carries an invisible bucket and think of what you can say or do to fill it.

Here are some ideas for you.

You could smile and say 'hi' to the bus driver.

He has a bucket, too.

You could invite the new kid at school to play with you.

You could write a thank-you note to your teacher.

You could tell your grandpa that you like spending time with him.

There are many ways to fill a bucket.

Bucket filling is fun and easy to do.

It doesn't matter how young or old you are.

It doesn't cost money.

It doesn't take much time.

And remember, when you fill someone else's bucket, you fill your bucket, too.

So why not decide to be a bucket filler today and every day?

Just start each day by saying to yourself, 'I'm going to do something to fill someone's bucket today.'

And at the end of each day, ask yourself, 'Did I fill a bucket today?

Yes, I did.'

That's the life of a bucket filler... and that's you."

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