(gentle music) (wind swooshing) - Whoa, that's amazing!

I love paper airplanes.

That's so fun.

Oh man, I like them more than actual airplanes.

You know why?

I can never get past the metal detectors.

(Wimee laughing) (upbeat music) ♪ Wimee creates all the day through ♪ ♪ And you can do it too - We are setting our sights high to paper airplane, and there's plenty of passengers on the list.

Brody will pilot the Wimage Lab!

Brad will translate in Language Explorers!

Bridget will show us different paper airplanes!

And all three jump aboard and play a new game together with me.

It's a new show that is going up, up and away on this episode of, "Wimee's Words!"

(audience clapping) Okay ready?

You know the song row, row, row your boat, right?

How about this?

♪ Fly, fly, fly your plane, all across the sky ♪ ♪ Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily ♪ ♪ I really like to fly I just rhymed fly with fly.

I didn't plan that, what rhymes with fly?

Sky across the sky, fly, oh my.

That'll work too.

All right, tell us where would you like to fly?

For example.

♪ Fly, fly, fly your plane all the way to Hawaii ♪ ♪ Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily ♪ What rhymes with Hawaii?

Hawaii?

♪ We're flying across the sky-a-wee.

♪ (Wimee laughing) Sky-a-wee with Hawaii, Florida.

Okay.

♪ Fly, fly, fly your plane all the way to Florida ♪ ♪ Merrily.

merrily, merrily, merrily ♪ ♪ Life is but a... Another tricky one.

What rhymes with Florida?

Bill Byorta.

(Wimee laughing) That's a friend of mine.

Okay, oh, Ohio!

♪ Fly, fly, fly your plane all the way to Ohio ♪ ♪ Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily ♪ ♪ Oh my, oh my, oh my-oh I got that one fast.

Ohio, oh my-oh.

Oh, Disney World!

♪ Fly, fly, fly your plane all the way to Disney World ♪ ♪ Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily ♪ ♪ Life is but a Smith-ney curled ♪ (Wimee laughing) Oh, Guam.

My brain paused for a minute.

Guam, that's what it is.

Okay.

♪ Fly, fly, fly your plane all the way to Guam ♪ ♪ Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily ♪ ♪ Bring along your Mom (Wimee laughing) That was my favorite one.

I love that.

Well, thanks friends!

Thanks for helping us out with that first song!

And now a message from Moby.

(upbeat music) - Paper airplanes, they're amazing!

They're made out of paper, but they fly!

How does that work?

There's no propeller, there's no engines.

And if it's wide or long or short or thick paper or light paper.

What makes it go farther or faster or loopty-doops?

Have you seen those paper airplanes?

They go, whoosh.

And some of them are like zoom, zoom, fast!

What kind of paper airplanes do you like to build?

(upbeat music) - All right, so what we do next is, three sentence story!

Beginning, middle, end.

And the three words come from you.

Yes, they do!

So, we're gonna write a story.

In the first sentence, I set the scene.

In the second sentence, there is a problem!

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

♪ Do do do do do ♪ Solution That's my favorite part.

Oh, indeed, the solution.

So, we set the scene.

And the first word.

The first word could be a silly word.

It could be a common word.

It could be, me!

I love it.

It's as unique as you, as Joe, as all of us.

Me!

There's no me but me!

And there's no you but you!

Oh, that could be the start of a poem, I think.

Okay, me.

First word, me.

Okay, here we go.

I was thinking to myself, I like the me I see.

(laughing) This is kind of poetic.

I was thinking to myself, I like the me I see.

Oh, no, a problem.

Oh man, bed time.

All right, I got it.

I was thinking to myself, I like the me I see.

All day long, I was having a great time, but then came bedtime.

Oh man.

How do we solve this problem?

Roller skate!

(laughing) Roller skate.

Okay, okay, okay, got it.

I was thinking to myself, I like the me I see.

I was having a lovely day all day long, but then came bedtime.

But then I remembered, tomorrow, I get to roller skate and fly a paper airplane to Holland!

(laughing) So, I'm going to roller skate with a paper airplane above me.

(engine hums) That's pretty fun.

All right, we've got a story!

We got a rough draft.

It's time to go to Brody in the Grandville Wimage Lab to see what he's got going for today's Wimage Lab.

Hi Brody!

- Hi Wimee, catch!

- Whoa!

I got it!

- You got it!

Good!

- That is the coolest thing I've ever seen.

That's a pretty dramatic statement, ever seen.

But it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

How did I catch that and sent it back?

- I don't know.

- Man.

- Magic.

- It was!

The magic of Brody.

What do you call that?

Do you have a stage name?

- Nope.

- Well, I like it.

I like it a lot.

So what have you got for today's Wimage?

- You're flying some paper airplanes with roller skates, and then I put a bed because there was no bedtime.

- Yeah, bedtime.

Yeah, have you ever ridden on a paper airplane?

- No, I've actually never rode on a plane.

- Man, you should build like a giant paper airplane and get a good gust of wind.

Yeah, what do you think about making paper airplanes?

Do you enjoy it?

Wait a minute?

You got more?

Whoa, that one's pretty big!

- Yeah.

- I bet I could fit on that one.

And you could send me somewhere.

- Maybe.

- Maybe.

- You wanna see it fly?

- Oh, sure, of course I do.

- All right.

- Okay.

- Nice indeed!

I like it a lot.

All right, so friends, we could add some words to the Wimage.

You've got the paper airplanes on there, Brody.

We could add something in the background.

What do we see out in nature when the paper airplane is flying through the sky?

Maybe a tree, or a bush, or a bench, or a lake, or a pond.

- What about bananas?

- Oh, I like the way you think!

Bananas, that's a fun word.

- Banana.

- Friends, Brody's using the voice dictation to put the word "banana" into the Wimage.

- Banana.

Wimee, what color do you think it should be?

- I think that looks good, I think we got it right there.

Well Brody, we will see you later in the dance party and the scavenger hunt.

Oh, we got a new game.

I can't wait for the new game.

All right, so friends, it's time to go to Brad for Language Explorers.

Brad's over at KDL and he's gonna translate today's words in Swahili!

Hey, Brad!

- Hey, Wimee!

- Whoa, wait a minute.

Are you over in KDL?

Where are you?

- I'm in a cottage in the woods.

- Whoa.

- Actually, I'm just kidding.

I am at KDL, but I have a really cool background behind me!

- I think I know!

That's where Curi Studio is gonna be for the Summer Wonder, right?

- Yeah, I think it is.

- Oh, go ahead.

- But it looks so convincing, when I came in the room, Wimee, I thought, wow, did I go in a cottage magically?

Like through a time portal?

- I don't know, maybe that is what happened!

We're not a hundred percent sure, right?

But man, Summer Wonder's gonna be so cool.

And Curi is gonna be leading things up at KDL and across GRPL, and Muskegon, and across the states.

All kinds of summer reading programs starting soon.

- So I have a question for you in regards to kicking off summer.

Usually, people say Memorial Day weekend kicks off summer, and because I'm not gonna see you again before Memorial Day weekend, do you have big plans for the weekend maybe?

- Oh, thanks for asking!

You know, I'm gonna kind of keep it simple.

Hang out with just some close family at home, enjoy the sunshine, maybe do some yard work, and of course, celebrate Memorial day and what it means.

And it's coming up soon.

I can't believe it.

The kickoff to summer!

- Yeah, very quick this year I think.

- We're ready, we're ready.

So we've got some words to translate into Swahili.

The first word is, me.

- Okay, so the first word is me.

And it's Mimi, me-me, mimi.

- I like that so much, mimi.

- Yes, mimi.

Okay, the next one is bedtime.

(speaking in foreign language) So the literal translation on that is, the time to sleep.

- It makes sense, bedtime.

- Now this one is really kind of a deriving or using English words to say it in a more Swahili sounding way.

- Okay.

- So roller skates.

(speaking in foreign language) - Nice.

- So it's saying, the skates you use to rollerskate.

- It's amazing?

Who thought of putting little wheels on shoes and boots to go roller skating.

- Yeah, and now you can use the old fashioned roller skates from when you and I were kids, Wimee.

Well, I'm guessing your age, Wimee.

I don't know if you're near my age.

But they also have the inline skates that just have two wheels on them sometimes.

- Yeah, man it's so cool how innovation and thinking.

We can go way back to the start with the wheel, and now here with technology, and everything in between, right?

- That's right.

It's amazing what the human mind and like you said, technology, how it's inventing and creating new things all the time.

- I hear ya.

A day at a time, an adventure and a creation at a time.

Well, thanks Brad for hanging out and teaching us today's words in Swahili.

See you at the dance party.

(upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Friends, it's time to go over to Grand Rapids Public Library for today's Explore and Create!

Hi Bridget!

- Hey, Wimee, how are you doing?

- Oh, good, good, good!

What have you got for us today?

- Today, well, when I heard that we're gonna talk about paper airplanes, I got really excited cause I love paper airplanes.

So I went to our library's non-fiction section and found a book all about making paper airplanes.

- [Wimee] Oh look at those designs.

- So I found out how to make, this one was called The Dynamic Dart.

It has flown really far.

It flew across the library.

Then, we also made a fun one called The Helicopter The Blimp.

- Whoa!

- And this little beauty right here is called The Stealth.

- I bet it's fast.

- And I even made a very simple paper airplane out of a simple rectangle and folded it over.

- Whoa.

- So this is actually an airplane.

Let me see if I can get it to fly.

- Okay, whoa!

- Whoa, it kinda did.

- It did, it did a loopty-loop.

- There we go!

So, when I was making all these paper airplanes I thought, you know, which one would fly the best?

And that's kind of our activity today.

So at home, you can make paper airplanes and you can follow a book like this one, or you can design your own.

The really cool things sometimes is like figuring out how to make your airplane really aerodynamic or like really sleek so it flies really well.

Like that!

Oh, that didn't fly so well, but it's okay.

And then you can do an experiment to see which one will fly the best?

Which one will fly the farthest?

Which one is the loudest?

Which one is the quietest?

The options are limitless, so.

- Wow, I think the one named Stealth is gonna go the farthest.

That's my theory.

- I'd have to check that out.

Right now, we have a lot of patrons in the library, so I don't wanna risk hitting someone with an airplane 'cause I got really close yesterday.

But maybe when everyone goes home, I might have a minute to test them out.

- You could go out the door and say, "Everybody, paper airplanes, look out!"

- Get away!

- Man, I love it.

And I wonder, could someone create their own design of a paper airplane?

- Absolutely, I think that's the coolest thing.

Like this one right here, I would've never thought that this was an airplane design, but it is!

So maybe you can come up with an airplane design.

Maybe you can find a way to make a circle into an airplane, or an airplane out of a square.

I mean the options are limitless.

- Wow.

- I think it's all about your imagination.

Just testing it out.

- I love it.

I'm gonna look for some paper airplane books.

I'm gonna create some designs and I wonder what the farthest paper airplane ever thrown in the world has been.

How far do you think?

- I don't know, but there is a book at the library where can find that out.

- The World Record book?

- The Guinness Book of World Records.

So you can go down to your own public library and check it out.

- I love it.

So many cool things to do and think.

Thank you, Bridget!

Hey, Friends.

It's time for today's Slowing Down.

(gentle music) I wonder, what would it feel like to fly a paper airplane through the sky.

Over the grass, or to the trees.

You can watch the birds fly with you.

Look up to the clouds.

What would I see if I was a paper airplane flying out in the backyard?

Would I be nervous about when it comes time to land?

Would I love the feel of the breeze?

As I come closer to the ground, I would say, whew-hoo, it's been a great ride.

(gentle music) Right now friends, we're gonna do something that we've never done before!

Sibley, he's also out and about somewhere.

He was in the backyard earlier and he was just like, "I need to enjoy the sunshine."

So I said, "Okay, take the day off, Sibley."

We're gonna do this.

Jim, none other than, Jim from Jim Time said, "You should play the No Laughing game."

So friends, Brody and Bridget.

Oh, I think we lost Brad.

He's off camera now.

I think he's he's hanging out with Curi.

Oh, he's back!

I see him off camera.

He got some coffee.

We didn't tell Brad about this game yet.

So here's how it works, friends.

This is called the No Laughing Game.

Are you ready?

Let's bring in our contestants.

We've got Brad, we've got Brody, and we've got Bridget.

Oh my goodness.

Did you hear that?

Brad, Brody, Bridget.

That's got a fun sound to it.

- The Triple B's.

- Yeah, the Triple B's!

Wimee takes on the Triple B's.

Okay, Triple B's, here's my task for you, my challenge.

Remove all laughter from your face.

No smile, because this is the No Laughing Game.

Beginning now.

(gibberish) (loud yelling) Oh, wait a minute!

Wait a minute.

Beep, beep, beep, beep.

(loud yelling) You three are really good.

All right, let me think.

Knock, knock.

- Who's there?

- Me, oh!

- Wait, did you see what happened to my eyes?

That's hilarious.

Oh, Brody.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

Okay, Brody's the winner!

He was the first to laugh.

Wait a minute, I'm still a little dizzy from this.

Wait, I think I saw Bridgette smile.

Did you smile, Bridget.

Oh, and Brad, we got him!

Oh man.

We gotta get me off camera so I can, oh man, I'm feeling a little dizzy now.

Well thanks for playing, No Laughing!

(Wimee laughing) Okay, I think I'm ready.

Is there a puppet wrangler on set?

What do you call those people who help?

All right, let's put Jim on camera.

He's running the show backstage.

Jim, did you see what just happened?

This was your idea.

- I love it.

I also like the whole idea of a puppet wrangler too.

- Yeah!

- We don't have one yet.

You should definitely put one on the payroll.

- Yeah, because then they can help with my clothes.

Okay, I'll just make sure I think of other techniques.

I have an idea!

Let me show it again.

Did it help?

- No.

- Any better?

- You look great.

- Thanks, okay, I'm good now.

Okay, back to work.

What's next?

Oh, it's time for Check Out This Book!

(upbeat music) Hey Bridget, take it away with Check Out This Book.

I'm gonna go see if someone can help me.

- All right, sounds good.

So, today's book is called, "Little Plane Learns to Write", by Steven Savage.

I really enjoy this book.

It's all about this little plane who was in flight school.

Get it?

And he is learning how to write his letters in the sky.

So he's really great at arks.

He's really great at straight lines.

But the loopty-loops, they give him a hard time.

So, will Little Plane actually learn to write?

So this is a great story about perseverance and doing your best.

So, come to your local library and check it out.

- I love it.

Okay, my eyes are a little better.

I'm still working on it.

Well Bridget, I will definitely... Can you help, Bridget?

You can't, you're at Grand Rapids Public Library.

Is anybody in the room here?

- I can give you directions, but that's about it.

- I can't quite get it, but that's okay.

Well, Bridget, I will definitely check out that book.

Thanks for letting us know about it.

- Yeah, the illustrations are wonderful.

- It looks fun.

- It is.

- Yeah, I saw most of it, I was trying to, okay.

Let's see, it's time to check in with Brody to see if he's added anything to today's Wimage.

Hey, Brody!

Any updates on the Wimage today?

- Yeah.

- Whoa.

- So I added me on a plane.

- [Wimee] I love it!

- There's a bunch of stars because it's bedtime, and I added one more rollerskate.

- I love it, I look like I'm really moving along with that paper airplane on those roller skates.

- Yeah.

- I love it, thanks Brody!

Woo-wee!

Man, oh man, friends.

It is time for today's Find it Fast!

Here's the Scavenger Hunt friends.

We need you to find something that starts with A.

A for airplane.

Find something that flies like a paper airplane, and find something light, you know, like a paper airplane.

And, go!

(upbeat music) See if you can find these things where you're at.

Can you find something that starts with A?

Apple starts with A.

What you got, Brody?

- My last name starts with A.

- Ah, yes!

- This is really light, and it flies like a paper airplane.

- You got them both!

I love it.

Friends, keep looking for something that flies like Brody had a teeny little airplane, it was light.

Something that starts with A, his last name!

He starts with A.

All right, maybe you find a bug that flies.

Depends on the bug.

Maybe look out the window and see what's flying in the sky!

Maybe a ball, a ball could fly.

Something light, a feather.

Oh what you got, Brad?

- Okay, so I have something here that has an A in it because it's at an angle.

- Oh an angle, I love it!

- It's also gonna fly.

Well, kind of.

There we go!

- And it's light, you got all three!

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

- Yep, yep.

- He got three points for that one.

Oh, the song's almost done friends.

Have you found anything that starts with A?

Post in the comments, let us know!

Something that flies, and something light.

Oh, a duck!

I love ducks, Joe.

You told us about your love for ducks earlier, I love it!

Air fits all three requirements.

Oh my goodness.

Air starts with A, and flies, and it's light.

Oh, a t-shirt is light, indeed, indeed.

Apple, it starts with A, butterfly flies, and a feather is light.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

Thanks, friends for Finding it Fast.

Whoa, that was fun.

I just love doing these scavenger hunts.

Friends, thanks for hanging out with us.

Thanks for being here.

We are gonna wrap up our airplane show.

I'm gonna take a little nap later and see if I can get my eyes figured out exactly here.

And so I think it's time for, what is it?

The dance party!

We're gonna bring all our friends in.

We're gonna get ready to dance!

And, go!

Let's bring them in!

Brody, Bridget, Brad!

Oh, look at little Wimee.

Oh, Bridget's getting fancy.

How is she doing that?

(all laughing) Oh, little me's doing the disco.

- [Narrator] Wimee's Words is brought to you by PNC Grow Up Great, Funterra by Smart, Meijer, and with additional support from these great partners.

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