(bright music) - Hello, little learners.

Welcome back to our wonderful TK classroom.

My name is Mrs. Lara, and I'd love to hear your name.

So when I put my hand to my ear, say it as loud as you can wherever you are.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

Ooh, I wonder if I caught your special letter.

Let me grab my magnet board and see if we can build a letter together.

So, today I'm going to use a big line.

Of course, I'm starting my letters at the top and then I'm gonna use a little line.

Can you guess what it is?

And another little line.

I've made the letter K. Is that your special letter?

Remember, the K has a special sound.

Goes like this.

♪ The case says K ♪ ♪ The K says K ♪ ♪ Every letter makes the sound ♪ ♪ The K says K ♪ Now, can you guess what we're going to be learning about this week?

Give you a clue.

It's on my head, flowers, gardening.

Have you noticed that it's very beautiful outside and there's things that are blooming all around us?

I thought I'd share with you some special books about gardening all this week.

So today is day one of the five days that we're going to be together learning about gardens.

So before we begin, I want to teach you a very nice and fun song that you'll get to sing with me all week long.

And it's about my week in the garden.

And it starts like this.

Are you ready?

Okay, get your singing voice on.

It goes.

♪ I went to the garden and dug up the ground ♪ ♪ Dug up the ground, dug up the ground ♪ ♪ I went to the garden and dug up the ground ♪ ♪ On Sunday in the morning ♪ I had a very busy Sunday morning, but my Monday was even busier because guess what I did?

♪ I went to the garden and raked the soil fine ♪ ♪ Raked the soil fine ♪ ♪ Raked the soil fine ♪ ♪ I went into the garden and raked the soil fine ♪ ♪ On Monday in the morning ♪ I must wake up very early because on Tuesday I had another busy day.

And guess what I did?

I sowed my seeds.

Now, you might think of sewing like this that you do with a needle and a thread, but actually to sow your seeds is to put them in the ground.

So you can make this motion right here.

Put the seeds in the ground.

♪ I went to the garden and sowed all my seeds ♪ ♪ Sowed all my seeds, sowed all my seeds ♪ ♪ I went to the garden and sowed all my seeds ♪ ♪ On Tuesday in the morning ♪ What else is left to do?

Hmm.

Well, you have to water the ground, right?

So we have to do that.

♪ I went to the garden and watered the ground ♪ ♪ Watered the ground, watered the ground ♪ ♪ I went to my garden and watered the ground ♪ ♪ On Wednesday in the morning ♪ We'll do one more day and then I'll share the rest of my week with you tomorrow.

So now we're on Thursday and you'll never guess what I found in my garden.

It was cats.

That's right.

And I had to scare them away.

So, ♪ I went to the garden and scared off the cats (meaws) ♪ ♪ Scared off the cats (meaws) ♪ ♪ Scared off the cats (meaws) ♪ ♪ I went to my garden and scared off the cats (meaws) ♪ ♪ On Thursday in the morning ♪ Now you'll have to come back tomorrow to see what I did Friday, Saturday and the special surprise I saw when I went and checked my garden on Sunday.

But right now, I want us to look behind door number one because we have some vocabulary words that we're going to need to put in our brain so that we can figure out the story that I'm going to share with you.

And it's a good one.

It's one of my favorites.

So let's look behind the door.

Let's see.

There are three words that we're going to need to learn.

The first one is special letter M, mumble.

Can you say mumble with me?

Mumble.

That's right.

It means to say something very quietly almost so other people can't hear you say it.

The second word is glare.

Glare is kind of a scary thing because when someone glares at you, they look right at you in a mean way like this.

Can you glare at the camera?

Ooh, I see all your glares.

I got scared.

And then the third word is special letter D. It's drifted.

It means to walk slowly and without direction.

That means you don't know where you're going.

So those three words are in our book that I'm gonna share with you right now.

Now we've read this book before, but I love it so much.

I thought let's read it again.

It's called "The Bad Seed," and it's written by Jory John and illustrated by Pete Oswald.

And look, we have a special guest.

It's the Bad Seed himself.

When I read the book, he may come up and say somethings.

So let's open up the book and see if we love this story.

I have a feeling we will.

Right here's the seed.

Now he says, "I'm a bad seed."

I really am.

I'm a really, really bad seed.

A bad seed, do, do, do, do, do.

He's also bad.

Do, do, do, do, do.

Makes others mad.

Do, do, do, do, do.

Look at his glare.

Oh, I'm scared.

"Oh yeah, it's true.

The other seeds, they look at me and they say, 'That seed is so bad.'

Look, it hurts my feelings.

When they think I'm not listening, they mumble.

There goes a bad seed.

He's so bad."

Look at the peanut.

He's like, "Oh, that's so bad."

"But I can hear them.

I have good hearing for a seed.

It's true I have really good hearing.

How bad am I?

You really wanna know?

You really wanna know?"

Do we really wanna know?

"Well, I never put things back where they belong."

Look, he's out shopping and he just leaves the cart there even though it's supposed to go there, and he's walking away without a cart.

Bad, bad, bad.

"I'm late to everything."

There's the clock and there's a (indistinct).

Boss Aqua saying, "You're late."

"I tell long jokes with no punchlines."

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Ha ha, I'm not gonna tell you.

"I never ever wash my hands and I never ever wash my feet."

Ooh, he must have really smelly feet.

I hate to be around that bad seed.

"I lie about pointless stuff."

"I wasn't the one who threw the baseball."

This is the seed.

"It was the cat.

Cats love baseball."

I cut in line every time."

Ooh, so those three have been waiting in line to use the restroom and here comes the seed going to the front of the line.

Not a good choice.

"I stare at everybody.

I glare at everybody.

I finish everybody's sentences and I never listen."

Oh, he's in the library where it's supposed to be a quiet place, shhh, but he's playing the drums very loudly.

"And I do lots of other bad things too.

Know why?

Know why?

Because I'm a bad seed."

I truly am bad.

Do, do, do, do, do.

I'm also bad.

Do, do, do, do, do.

Make others mad.

Let's see.

(paper rustling) "I just can't help it.

Sure, I wasn't always this bad.

I was born a humble seed on a simple sunflower in an unremarkable field."

Look, there's the sunflower.

"I had a big family, seeds everywhere.

We found ways of having fun.

We were close."

Oh, I think I see a baby seed and a daddy seed and a mommy seat.

If you get this book, I'll have you look for the artist seed, the musician seed.

(paper rustling) "But then the petals drooped."

And what happens when something you're standing on droops?

Well, you fall down.

(cries) "Our flower drooped, and there go all our family members.

Aah, it's kind of a blur.

I remember a bag."

So they are running from the rake.

Run, run.

And look that bag says sunflower seeds.

Delicious.

(sighs) Delicious.

That's a word you use when you're going to eat something.

I wonder if our bad seed is going to get eaten.

"Then everything went dark.

And then, and then."

No, I can't even turn the page.

I'm scared.

What is going to happen?

"A giant."

Oh, my goodness.

He's eating all of the bad seed's family in one gulp.

I hope he doesn't chew.

There he goes.

"I thought I was a goner.

I thought I was done for I screamed and hollered, ahhhh!

But I was spit out at the last possible second."

Baa, tooo!

Where is our bad seed going to land?

"I flew through the air and landed under the bleachers with a huge thud, thud!"

And look what he landed on.

Do you recognize it?

It's something you chew.

Bubble gum.

That's right.

"When I woke up, it was dark outside and a wad of gum had softened my fall.

I felt okay, but something had changed in me.

I'd become a different seed entirely.

I'd become a bad seed."

Do, do, do, do, do.

I'm also bad.

Do, do, do, do, do.

Gonna make you mad.

(paper rustling) "That's right.

I stopped smiling.

I kept to myself.

I drifted.

I was a friend of nobody and bad to everybody.

I was lost on purpose.

I lived inside a soda can and I didn't care and it suited me."

Oh, how sad?

He's bad now.

Remember he was so carefree with this family.

"But then I even made a big decision recently.

I've decided I don't wanna be a bad seed anymore.

I'm ready to be happy.

And it's hard to be good when you're so used to being bad, but I'm trying.

I'm taking it one day at a time.

Sure, I still forget to listen and I still show up late and I still talk during movies.

I do all kinds of other bad stuff.'

So he's not perfect.

That's okay, isn't it?

"But I also say thank you.

And I say please and I smile and I hold doors open for people.

Not always, but sometimes.

And even though I still feel bad, sometimes, sometimes I also feel kind of good.

It's sort of a mix.

And all I can do is keep trying and keep thinking maybe I'm not such a bad seed after all.

'Hey, look, there goes the bad seed,' actually says the pistachio.

'He's not that bad anymore.

I heard that.'"

The end.

(paper rustling) So, what did you think of our story, "The Bad Seed"?

I love this story because it's about second chances.

So even if you make a mistake, you can try again and do better next time.

So, I love reading books to you, but we have to get you to read books to me so we practice our skills, our reading skills like rhyming.

So I have a rhyming game for you here.

Here's our bad seed.

And the bad seed needs to get to the sunflower where his family lives, but he has to go through the maze.

And each one of our boxes has a rhyming word.

And you remember, rhyming words sound the same.

That's right.

Do you think we can do it?

Can we help the bad seed?

All right, let me grab my little basket of numbers.

That's gonna tell us how many boxes to move.

Are you ready?

Okay, here we go.

First one is our number one.

So let's go one box.

Okay, here we are.

First one.

It says shoe.

Can we come up with a rhyming word for shoe?

Let me think.

You shout it out wherever you are.

Shoe, clue.

Shoe, clue.

They both say oe.

Those rhyme, right?

You're closer to the sunflower bad seed.

Let's do another number.

Ooh, what number is this one?

Number four.

Okay, let's hop four spaces.

One, two, three, four.

Okay, you have to avoid those no manners and bad decisions box.

We need to find a word that rhymes with box.

How about fox?

Fox, box.

Do you have another one?

Let's see.

Fox, box.

They both say ox.

That's right.

Oh, you're so close.

You're so close.

I'm so excited.

A number four again.

We're gonna get there.

Let's see.

One, two, three.

Wait.

That wasn't the wait of the sunflower.

Four.

We'll go back up.

Cat, cat.

We landed on the cat.

Now, I want you to think, what is a word that rhymes with cat?

How about something that flies at night and you might be scared of?

Starts with a B.

That's right.

Bat.

Bat, cat.

They both say at.

We're just doing so good with this game.

Last one.

Let's see if it's the last one.

Number three.

Okay, let's see.

One, two, three.

Clock, clock.

What's a word that rhymes with clock?

Ooh, this is a hard one.

Can you help me out at home?

Tell me?

Clock, dock.

Oh, that's right.

You go visit the dock like when you're fishing.

Let's see if it rhymes.

Clock, dock.

They both say ock.

That's right.

Let's do a couple more.

I think we're gonna get there with this one.

Three.

Hey, one, two, three.

No pressure, but we have to find a word that rhymes with sock.

Sock.

I think we just landed on one.

We have to get the seed to the sunflower.

Sock, clock.

That's right.

Sock, clock.

They both say ock.

We got there.

The bad seed is reunited with his family and the sunflower.

Thank you so much, boys and girls for all of your help.

Now I got to thinking, what's a fun science experiment we can do that ties in with the book and our gardening theme.

I think I found one that we can enjoy together that only takes three supply.

Let's go over there.

All right, walk over to the project place.

We only need three items, three supplies.

We're going to make blooming flowers.

Ooh, I'm so excited to share this with you.

So the things you'll need are scissors, paper.

Now, I brought all kinds of different paper.

I brought thin paper, card stock that's heavier paper, regular printer paper.

You can experiment and you you'll see in a minute why having different thicknesses is important.

I also have a tray here with some water.

And of course, you don't have to use a clear one.

I just want you guys to be able to see at home.

So the first thing you're going to do is you're going to take your paper.

I'm gonna use this thin one, and then I'm gonna cut out a square.

Now, a square has four sides that are equal.

If you can't cut out a square on your own, find something square in your house and trace around it.

Okay, now this is kind of fancy.

We're gonna use a folding technique.

We're gonna fold it in half.

That means we're gonna fold it in a way where two sides are the same.

Are you ready?

Fold it in half one time and give it a good crease like this.

And then you're going to fold it in half one more time.

So then you have a mini-square with your big square.

One more fold.

Don't get confused.

You're gonna make the two sides of the square touch, folding it at a diagonal.

So you kind of get like a triangle like this.

And this is gonna help us make our flower that we're gonna make bloom in the water.

Okay, so the next thing you have to decide is what is your petal shape?

So for me, I want it very round.

And I found that you wanna cut right at the edge, right here at the tip so your petals are nice and long and round.

Ooh, this paper wants to go for a swim.

No, no, no.

Come on this way.

And then this way, cut around, cut around.

All right, let's open it up.

Do you remember making snowflakes?

This is kind of the same thing where you make a snowflake.

Look, I'm gonna show you my flower.

Isn't that nice?

So then what you're going to do, I need to cut this little piece here so it's separated.

Is you're going to take each petal and you're gonna fold it in the middle like this.

Kind of hard to see, but you're just gonna make it go right in the middle.

And of course, a parent can help you out with this step.

And then I'm gonna show you what it does.

We're gonna make our flowers bloom.

It might take just a little while.

So I'm gonna drop it in the water and you're gonna see what it does.

See it's all closed up.

And when you drop it in the water, slowly, slowly, slowly the flower starts opening up.

Look at that.

There it goes.

There it is.

You see it's blooming.

Now, the interesting thing with this experiment is different thicknesses of paper are going to open up different rates.

So I'm gonna do another one just so we can go through the process again.

So remember, step one, cut up your square.

Do you remember the next step?

Fold it in half like this one time.

So it kind of looks like a door.

And then you're going to fold it in half again.

So then it's a mini-square.

Okay, got it?

So remember, I'll do it again.

If you're following along, fold it in half once, then fold it in half again.

Then you have a mini-square that you're gonna fold in the diagonal.

And again, parents can help with this part.

Any family member can.

Then you're going to cut out your petal shape.

Try to get as close to the edge as you can.

And around and around and around.

Here we go.

This is our flower.

Now, what I recommend is you can put stickers right in the center of this so it kind of reveals the sticker as our flower blooms.

Another idea I had was if you're in the classroom trying this experiment, you can actually turn it into a writing activity.

So, write different letters in the middle of the flower, and as they bloom and reveal, have the students write them.

They'll love that.

It's like a hidden surprise.

Okay, next up is we're gonna put the petals and I fold them to middle like this.

All right, it's all closed up.

Then we have to add water to make it bloom.

Ready?

Here we go.

Try to do it here.

Here it goes.

You can see it.

Well, that one's gonna take a little while longer to bloom.

See, the thickness of the paper means it'll bloom really slow or really fast.

Let's see if it does this again.

I think I folded it a little too much.

We'll try again because we're scientists and we keep trying.

Let's see if it'll bloom up.

This one's going slowly, slowly, slowly, but not as fast as this one, right?

So I hope that you try this experiment at home or in the classroom if you're a teacher, see which ones work and which ones don't.

Sometimes card stock does take a little longer.

So try it out.

I hope you enjoy it.

All right, I have a few recommended books that I'm gonna share with you before I leave you today.

The first one is called "Planting a Rainbow."

So you can guess that this is a great book for learning your letters and learning all about gardening.

Who's in here?

That's a Z flower.

It's one of my favorites too.

So this is a classic that you might have read when you were in kindergarten or preschool.

And then I have another book by the same author Lois Ehlert "Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z."

So, if you struggle to get your little ones to eat their fruits and vegetables, you might engage them in a book like this.

Bananas, beets, Brussels sprout, cauliflower.

That's great for learning letters too.

I'm so grateful that you joined me today.

I can't wait to tell you what I do with the rest of my a week with gardening.

And I hope that you come back tomorrow because I found some critters in the garden, live ones, and I'm gonna bring them here so that we can explore them.

I wonder what they are.

I'll give you a clue.

They start with the letter W and they're squiggly like this.

Then I'm gonna show you how to make a puppet of this critter so that you can act out our story for tomorrow, which is "Diary of a Worm."

(sighs) I gave it away.

So I hope you come back then.

Will see you next time.

Goodbye.

(bright music)