(bright acoustic guitar music) - Hello, little learners.

Welcome back to our TK classroom.

My name is Mrs. Lara and I am going to be your teacher today.

And I'm so excited to be with you this morning.

I hope that you're excited to be here at PBS School with me.

Now, I would love for you to introduce yourself like we do every time we're together.

So when I put my hand to my ear, make sure you tell me your name nice and loud.

I'm gonna try to catch your special letter and build it for us.

Ready?

I heard so many names.

Hello!

Let's see if I caught your special letter and put it on my board here.

Now, remember, when we start our letters, we start at the top.

And I always like to use a little happy face to remind me.

I might give him a little tickle to make him smile.

For today's letter, we need a big curve.

Now, this makes a letter, but we're not done yet, so don't start guessing.

We also need a little line.

I'm gonna put it right on top.

Can you guess what it is now?

And then another little line.

What letter have I made?

A G. That's right.

And the G makes a special sound.

It says guh, guh.

Can you say it with me?

♪ The G says guh ♪ ♪ The G says guh ♪ ♪ Every letter makes a sound ♪ ♪ The G says guh ♪ And G is the special sound of the thing that we're studying this week, garden.

Can you tell?

I had some bees buzzing around me because I have a flower in my head.

And we're gonna be studying all about gardens all this week, and I brought some special books to share.

Today is day three of our study, so I'm gonna put one more magnet here at the bottom.

So one on top, two at the bottom, and one and two together make three.

Now, before we get going with learning our definitions and getting to our book, let's start off by stretching and singing a song!

This song is to the tune of "The Muffin Man."

It's a different one than I shared yesterday, and in this song, you have to be a tiny little seed.

So get ready to curl up like a tiny little seed and then you have to start growing into a flower, so get ready to put your arms up.

Okay, here we go.

♪ Curl up like a tiny seed ♪ ♪ A tiny seed, a tiny seed ♪ ♪ Curl up like a tiny seed ♪ ♪ Warm sun is what you need ♪ That's right, because seeds need sun to grow.

♪ Now you can start growing ♪ ♪ Start growing, start growing ♪ ♪ Now you can start growing ♪ ♪ Drink the rain and start to rise ♪ So if you're at home, you can start to rise up like you're sprouting from the Earth.

♪ Stretch up tall ♪ ♪ Arms open wide ♪ ♪ Arms open wide, arms open wide ♪ ♪ Stretch up tall ♪ ♪ Arms open wide ♪ ♪ Now a flower's starting to bloom ♪ Look at all my beautiful flowers out there.

You had sun, you had water, you had big, rich, beautiful dirt and that's how I want you to grow tall into a flower.

Now, we have a special book today that I wanna share.

It's in our box right here, but before we read, we have to learn a few words that are gonna help us understand the book that we're reading.

So let's look at our definitions behind this wonderful door.

So here are our words from our book.

The first word we're gonna learn is through.

Through.

Now, through has a special sound at the beginning.

It's the, the, the.

Through.

And it means moving in one side and out the other side.

The character in the book we're gonna read goes in through an apple and out the other side.

So now you know that's through.

The second word we're gonna read or need is week.

A week, you might've heard, is a seven-day cycle or a pattern that's used in calendars.

Now, have you heard this song?

♪ Days of the week ♪ ♪ There's Monday and there's Tuesday ♪ ♪ There's Wednesday and there's Thursday ♪ ♪ There's Friday and there's Saturday ♪ ♪ And then there's Sunday ♪ ♪ Days of the week ♪ That's right, that's a whole week and we're gonna need to know that word for our story.

The next work is a chrysalis.

Now, I wonder if this word is in our story.

I may have to explain this one to you once we get there.

The chrysalis is the hard part outside of a butterfly pupa.

So when it forms, it's turning into a butterfly, it forms this hard outer shell.

So that gave us some clues about what our book is about, didn't it?

It's about a creature that's gonna go through something, it's gonna form a hard outer shell, and our whole book is gonna take place over a week, or seven days.

So let's see what book we have in our box.

Here's our box.

It's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle, and we've read Eric Carle's texts before.

So let's see the story of this caterpillar.

Now, you'll remember about Eric Carle is he's famous for his collages using painted paper and we see that here in the dots in the book.

Let's read our story.

Now, I love to read, but I love to sing, so you're gonna hear me sing the story instead.

In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf.

So there's our tiny little leg and there's our moon and it has a face on it, doesn't it?

How do you think that moon is feeling?

On Sunday morning, the warm sun came up and pop!

Out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.

There he is, saying, "I'm so hungry!"

And there's the sun.

I bet he's gonna go looking for some food.

What kind of food is he gonna find?

Let's see.

Yup.

He started to look for some food, and on Monday... ♪ He ate one apple ♪ ♪ On Monday, he ate one apple ♪ ♪ On Monday, he ate one apple ♪ ♪ That's what the caterpillar did ♪ But he was still hungry!

And you can help me say that part.

You can say still hungry.

Look.

He's going through the apple.

See the hole?

Then it was Tuesday.

♪ And on Tuesday, he ate two pears ♪ ♪ On Tuesday, he ate two pears ♪ ♪ On Tuesday, he ate two pears ♪ ♪ That's what the caterpillar did ♪ But he was still hungry!

That's right.

So then we move on to Wednesday.

He ate through one, two, three plums.

♪ So on Wednesday, he ate three plums ♪ ♪ On Wednesday, he ate three plums ♪ ♪ On Wednesday, he ate three plums ♪ ♪ That's what the caterpillar did ♪ But he was still hungry!

Oh my gosh.

Look it, he's eating more fruit.

One, two, three, four strawberries.

So on Thursday, he ate through four strawberries, but he was still hungry.

So then came Friday and the week is almost over.

He ate through one, two, three, four, five oranges, but he was still hungry!

So what is he going to eat next?

I'm scared to show you because he's gonna eat foods that are not so good for him.

Let's see.

Do you see all the food he ate?

He was so super hungry that he ate a piece of chocolate cake, one ice cream, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon.

But do you think he was done eating?

He was.

He had a stomachache.

So the next day was Sunday again and the caterpillar ate through, remember, that's one of our words, it means to go from one side to the other, he ate through one big, green leaf, and then after that, he felt much better.

Now, if you could look really closely, if you have the book in front of you, you would see that his face is a little upset.

I think his stomach isn't feeling good.

Now, he wasn't hungry anyone.

Look at him!

He's a big, fat, huge caterpillar.

He was gigantic!

So he built a small house called a cocoon.

Now here's where Eric Carle gets in trouble because people say that he made a mistake and called it a cocoon when it's really a chrysalis and lots of boys and girls write to him and tell him, you made a mistake.

The caterpillar stayed inside more than two weeks.

Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out, and what did he become?

What do caterpillars become?

Look at that.

A big, beautiful, colorful butterfly!

Look, it's flying away.

How beautiful is that butterfly?

But it took a lot of work for that butterfly to become a butterfly, didn't it?

Had to eat a lot of things.

And it takes a lot of work for you to become good readers, too.

You have to practice and try.

So one of the things that we try to learn together is beginning sounds or taking apart the sounds in words.

And what we're going to do today in our Project Place is we're gonna make a hungry caterpillar fruit salad because that is delicious.

It comes from a garden and it makes us feel super strong and good.

And I have my ingredients right here, but guess what?

All of my beginning sounds have been taken away.

Maybe the caterpillar ate those, too.

Do you think you can help me put them back on?

Okay, let's see.

The very first fruit that we have here are kiwis.

If you've ever seen a kiwi, it's a tiny little fruit.

Kuh-kuh-kiwi.

What is the beginning sound there?

Let's see.

I have it right here.

Kiwi, kuh-kuh.

That's right, it's a K. So let's write our K sound right here.

It's the letter K. It has a big line down, let's make that big line, a little line across and a little line across.

The next fruit we have is a puh-puh-pear.

Puh-puh.

What letter makes the puh-puh sound?

Can you make it in the air?

Floop!

Bloop!

Big line, little curve, a P. That's right.

And here is my pear.

So I'm gonna write my P. Starting at the top, I'm gonna go down and a little curve.

Pear.

And we have another fruit here.

It's a sss-strawberry.

Sss.

What letter makes the sss sound like sss-snake?

An S, that's right.

So let's write our S next to our strawberry.

It's a little curve and another little curve there.

This one's a hard one for boys and girls.

It takes a lot of practice.

And then I have a big, ginormous fruit here.

It is called a cantaloupe.

I'm gonna try to get it here while holding my marker.

Look at this.

It's heavy, too.

That means it's delicious.

Cuh-cuh-cantaloupe.

What sound do you hear at the beginning?

Cuh-cuh?

That's right, It could be a K or it could be a C, but it's actually a C for cantaloupe, and that's super easy to write.

It's just a big curve.

Here we go.

Roop!

One last fruit that we're gonna use to make our fruit salad, and that is some guh-grapes.

And that was our special letter today, wasn't it?

Guh-guh-grapes.

What sound do you hear at the beginning?

Guh-guh.

And that letter is G. So we know how to make that.

Let's see.

Big curve, little line, and little line.

I hope that you practice writing beginning sounds at home.

Right now, we have all of our ingredients.

A pear, strawberries, cantaloupe, kiwis, and grapes.

So let's go over to the Project Place and we'll start making our hungry caterpillar fruit salad.

I have my ingredients here, so now I'm gonna walk over to the Project Place and start to get ready.

So, I have my ingredients.

The first thing I'm gonna cut up is my cantaloupe.

Now, I wish I had a garden that grew some cantaloupe.

I had to buy these at the grocery store, but did you know that they come from giant farms where people grow all kinds of fruit?

So let's see.

Let's open up our cantaloupe.

Now, to make this fruit salad, you're gonna need just any fruit that you have in your house.

And then, I brought a butter knife.

A butter knife is a not so sharp knife that you might use to spread your butter on toast.

Because I thought, well, maybe you can try to cut some of these with your family.

So what do you think it's going to look like inside?

Let's take a look.

I'm excited to see.

Here we go.

It's a bright orange color, isn't it?

And it has all of these seeds inside and you can actually plant these seeds and make them into your own cantaloupe garden.

Just kind of put them in some soil, give them sun and some water.

And then it has rind around the edges right here and you'll notice that's green.

So the first thing I'm gonna do, and you're going to wanna do with your cantaloupe, is scoop out the seeds.

Have you ever scooped out seeds from a pumpkin?

It's kind of like the same thing.

I'm using a spoon, but you can also use your fingers if you wanna get messy.

You know I'm a big fan of getting messy.

So this is what it's gonna look like, and sometimes, I like to put ice cream or whipped cream in there and just eat it like that.

Yummy!

But today, you're becoming a fruit salad, so into the chopping block.

Let's see.

I'm gonna cut it up like this and I'm just gonna cut a little bit because the fruit salad is just for me and I might invite a caterpillar friend over.

So here's my piece and I'm gonna start chopping it up.

Now, it can be a little tough to get it with a butter knife, but just keep trying.

Here we go.

There's our first piece.

Make sure you take off all of the rind.

Now, this is very healthy, a fruit salad, because it is sweet, but it has lots of vitamins and minerals and things that are good for your body.

I'm gonna take one more piece.

So if you're at home, try making a fruit salad or rainbow fruit salad.

Wouldn't that be delicious?

Here's my next piece that I'm gonna cut up.

You take it and cut it in half and then take the rind off.

Now, you'll notice in our book, in "The Hungry Caterpillar," when the hungry caterpillar ate all kinds of chocolates and cakes, it got a tummy ache, didn't it?

So now we're gonna give it some delicious fruit salad.

Our recipe called for six strawberries, so here we go.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five.

And how many more do I need?

One, two, three, four, five.

Okay, okay, I hear you screaming from across the screen.

One more.

And that makes six.

How do I know?

I double-check, of course, by counting each one using my finger.

One, two, three, four, five, and six.

Now, this is the part of the strawberry that we eat, the red part.

We don't eat this green part.

That's where it grew.

So I'm gonna cut off the green part with my butter knife.

And I'm gonna move these so you can really see it.

There we go.

And I'm gonna cut it into four pieces.

Let's see.

I might cut it into more, but for now, four pieces like that.

Then I'm gonna cut it in half again.

Remember, half means two parts that are the same.

So there's my strawberries and in goes my first one.

I can't wait to eat this delicious fruit salad.

Here we go.

Four parts.

Now, if you're making this at home with me, I want you to use whatever you have in your refrigerator.

So for me, these are the things I had, but you can actually add tons of other fruits like apples, pineapple would be delicious.

And you can even sweeten it up with a little bit of honey.

We're just gonna keep it natural today.

There goes my strawberries.

Pluck 'em in.

I left those a little larger.

Have you ever noticed when you go to the store that no strawberry's the same shape?

Some are very huge and some are super small.

What's the larges strawberry you've ever seen?

I saw one at the store the other day that was almost as big as this one, like bigger.

It was huge.

It looked like four strawberries put together.

A mega strawberry.

I'm gonna add my strawberries and then we'll cut up a little bit more.

There we go.

Can't wait to eat this.

Next, we have our grapes.

This is what I have and these are a bunch of grapes.

Have you ever seen a grape vine?

It'd be really interesting to see a grape vine and see how grapes grow.

There's all kinds of different kinds of grapes, even some called cotton candy grapes.

Yum.

It's like candy, but grapes.

So I'm gonna use 10 of these grapes.

Ready?

One, two, three, four, five, so I have five and I need five more and then we'll count to make sure.

Two, three, four, five.

It's like a 10 frame of grapes.

Ready?

Forgot one strawberry.

You won't be left out, strawberry.

I'll get you in a minute.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

Into the fruit salad you go.

I forgot one strawberry.

Ha ha.

You thought I was gonna spare you.

No luck.

You're getting cut up and eaten with your friends.

(Mrs. Lara giggling) Let's see.

We have another fruit.

This might be a different fruit that you may not know.

It's called a kiwi.

It's kind of fuzzy.

Its texture is very different from other fruits I've tried.

And what color do you think it is in the middle?

Let's see.

It's green and it has these tiny little black seeds, almost smaller than strawberries.

And how you cut this one is you kind of just scoop it out.

It's super juicy and delicious.

My mouth is watering.

I think I'm just gonna use half of a kiwi today.

Now, I actually don't know how kiwis grow.

I've never looked it up.

Can you look it up for me and tell me, please?

How does a kiwi grow?

Is it a bush, is it a tree, is it a vine?

I'm not sure.

Our last fruit that I have is pear.

See, some pears are green like this and some are yellow.

So we're gonna cut open into this green pear.

Look how juicy it was.

I'm just gonna use a little bit here and I'm gonna cut it up into rectangles.

See how soft it is to cut?

There we go.

Now, let's see.

Look at this.

I'm gonna bring my fruit salad right here on top of my cutting board so that you can see what it's looking like.

Look how delicious that is.

Here we go.

I can't wait to eat this!

Should I share?

Okay, I'll share.

I have a little friend here.

Look who it is.

It's our caterpillar from our book!

And he wants to feel better because he's been eating chocolate cake.

So I'm gonna give you a nibble.

Are you ready?

I'm gonna put him right here.

We're gonna take this spoon.

(Mrs. Lara clicking tongue) Do you feel better?

The rest is all mine.

Yummy, yummy, yummy.

So I hope that you try this at home and remember to eat lots of healthy things that come from your garden, like fruits and vegetables, something we'll do tomorrow.

So to finish off our time together, it looks like we'll have just enough time to do our alphabet song, and if I don't get through it, don't worry.

We'll sing it again tomorrow.

So practice your letters and sing with me.

♪ A is for amazing ♪ ♪ That's what you are ♪ ♪ B is for brave ♪ ♪ That'll carry you far ♪ ♪ C is for caring and community ♪ ♪ D is for determined ♪ ♪ Be the best I can be ♪ ♪ E is for empathy ♪ ♪ Caring for all ♪ ♪ F is for friends that'll catch you when you fall ♪ ♪ G is for grateful for everything around ♪ ♪ And H is for hopeful ♪ ♪ There's more good to be found ♪ ♪ I is for imagine all the fun things we can do ♪ ♪ J is for joyful ♪ ♪ How I feel when I'm with you ♪ ♪ K is for kind to people and animals, too ♪ ♪ And L is for love ♪ ♪ Put it in all that you do ♪ ♪ M is for mindful ♪ ♪ Be present everyday ♪ ♪ N is for nice words in everything you say ♪ ♪ O is for original ♪ ♪ Always be you ♪ ♪ And P is for persevere until you make it though ♪ ♪ Q is for quiet those bad thoughts ♪ ♪ R is for remember all the greatness that you've got ♪ ♪ S is for strong body and mind ♪ ♪ And T is for talent ♪ ♪ Why not make yours being kind ♪ ♪ U is for unique ♪ ♪ Special and loved ♪ ♪ V is for victorious ♪ ♪ Always rise above ♪ ♪ W's for worthy and wonderful, too ♪ And there's X, Y, and Z!

We made it.

We'll Z you later, boys and girls.

(bright acoustic guitar music)