- Yeah, and then I told Siblee, "That sounds like a great idea!"

Oh, oh!

(Wimee chuckles) Hi friends!

I was just talking to my plant.

They say that talking to your plants can help them grow!

I have a feeling this plant is gonna grow really tall 'cause I love using my words and I really love plants.

(bright upbeat music) ♪ Wimee creates all the day through ♪ ♪ And you can do it too ♪ ♪ Think of words and of rhymes ♪ ♪ Make Wimee, just please do ♪ (singer scatting) - [Child] It's time for Wimee's Words!

(kids cheering) (Wimee scatting) - Hey friends!

I'm glad you're here.

Hey, let's get rollin' like we like to do with an opening question.

Jim's on the show today.

Yeah, hey Jim, what - I started to say, "what," but it says, "Do you have any plants inside your home?"

- and specifically if you do, what plants?

- Well, you know, I kinda sorta have a couple plants in my home.

They aren't plants yet though.

I have a little teeny planter that has seeds to grow a cactus.

- Nice.

- But they haven't really started sprouting yet.

So maybe.

And I actually have another plant, actually, which I have here.

And same thing: there's seeds in there but it hasn't really started sprouting yet.

So I will hopefully soon have a couple of plants inside my home.

- I like it.

It's so cool how somethin' can start so teensy-teensy and then it grows!

- And it is fun that you're, you know, you have to help take care of it.

It's kind of a fun responsibility and then you see the efforts bloom before your eyes.

- Bloom, exactly!

Awesome.

Thanks, Jim!

We'll see you soon on the show.

- Bye!

Alright, I've got that same question for Cailynn: Do you have any plants inside your home?

- I do but these plants are all fake.

The ones in the background right here?

- Gotcha.

- All these ones are fake, (Wimee laughs) but we have an aloe plant downstairs that made multiple of them.

So it made it and then it made a seed and then it started growing another one in the same pot.

So we had to take that one out, put it in a different pot, and then it made another one to put in a different pot.

But it's actually been here for four years now?

(Wimee gasps) It's been here a really long time.

- That is so cool how plants, how they do that.

They're amazing and aloe - that's like good, helps keep things moisturized, right, aloe?

What comes from the plant?

- Mhm.

- Yeah, yeah.

So cool!

Thanks Cailynn!

We'll see you soon on the show.

Okay, friends.

Share with me a number between one and 10!

Okay?

Let's get rollin' with this song.

I'm gonna go to Cailynn for the first number.

Cailynn!

Any number between one and 10.

- Two.

- Two!

Alright, perfect.

Here we go.

(Wimee clears throat) ♪ The plants grow growing ♪ ♪ Two by two ♪ (ascending sliding) ♪ Hurrah, hurrah ♪ ♪ The plants grow growing two by two ♪ ♪ Hurrah, hurrah ♪ ♪ The plants grow growing two by two ♪ ♪ The little one started to sneeze ♪ (descending sliding) Ah!

Oh, that's what a plant sounds like when it sneezes.

Hmm.

(Wimee sputters) (Wimee laughs) I don't know what that was.

(ascending sliding) ♪ And they all keep growing out of the ground ♪ ♪ Because of the rain ♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom ♪ (descending sliding) Alright, friends.

We need some more numbers!

Jim, what number do you think?

- How 'bout the number five?

- Five, right in the middle!

Fun, five.

Now I gotta come up with a rhyme for five.

Okay, okay.

♪ The plants are growing ♪ (ascending sliding) ♪ Five by five ♪ ♪ Hurrah, hurrah ♪ ♪ The plants are growing five by five ♪ ♪ Hurrah, hurrah ♪ ♪ The plants are growing five by five ♪ (descending sliding) Hmm I gotta rhyme with five.

♪ The plants are growing five by five ♪ ♪ The little flower took a dive ♪ (Wimee laughs) Imagine a little flower jumpin' on a diving board goin', "Wee!

Psh."

(water splashing) ♪ And they all keep growing ♪ (ascending sliding) ♪ Out of the ground ♪ ♪ Because of the rain ♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom ♪ (descending sliding) ♪ The plants go growing four by four ♪ ♪ Hurrah, hurrah ♪ (ascending sliding) ♪ The plants are growing four by four ♪ ♪ Hurrah, hurrah ♪ ♪ The plants are growing four by four ♪ ♪ I think they'll probably ♪ ♪ Grow some more ♪ (inflating balloon) ♪ And they all keep growing out of the ground ♪ ♪ Because of the rain ♪ (ascending sliding tone) ♪ Boom, boom, boom ♪ (voice reverberating) (Wimee sings like a drum) (voice reverberating) (Wimee laughs) I got VSE with the drum in there.

Alright, friends.

Let's go find out what Moby's gonna tell us today.

(jazzy upbeat music) - Today I learned that all plants are living things.

Yeah, just like us!

Grass, trees, bushes, flowers - they're all plants.

Yeah, their leaves are like solar panels that help the plants collect and make energy from the sun!

Roots are like the plants' feet!

Yeah, they help the plant stay in the ground and collect water and minerals from the soil.

There are more than 300,000 kinds of plants on earth!

Whoa!

Look around!

What kind of plants do you see?

(jazzy upbeat music) - Oh, 300,000 different types of plants?

Ho, I had no idea, Moby.

Fun, amazing.

Okay, friends.

It's time for today's (guitar strumming) ♪ 1, 2, 3 sentence story.

♪ Friends, let's come up with a story in three sentences.

In the first sentence we set the scene.

In the second sentence, there is a problem.

♪ Burm burm burm burm ♪ In the third sentence, though, we have a solution!

(Wimee laughs) That's right!

A very short story.

So, think of a noun - a person, place, or thing - as we get rollin' with the first sentence.

Let's go to Cailynn for the very first word.

Any word at all, Cailynn.

What do you think?

- I'm thinking, 'chicken.'

- Chicken!

(Wimee laughs) - Chicken, alright, good good good go.

Okay, here we go.

(Wimee clears throat) It's gonna be about Moby.

Okay, Moby.

Moby, the world's greatest chicken, was standing out in the garden thinking of what to do on a fine summer morning.

But oh no!

A problem: oh, rain cloud.

Now, this is interesting.

I like this because it's a problem maybe for Moby and I, but I think the rain is like, "Woohoo!

This is not a problem."

Wait a minute, too much rain...maybe.

Okay, here we go, here we go.

(Wimee clears throat) Moby, the world's greatest chicken, was outside in the garden, wondering what to do on a fine summer morning.

Moby looked up in the sky and a rain cloud began to rain... Would be somethin' silly that the rain brings, instead of just raindrops.

We see the rain, but mixed into the rain is... Hmm, I'm gonna let Cailynn decide.

Hey Cailynn!

What do you think would be silly to rain down on the rainstorm?

(chicken clucking) - Hmm...cotton-candy rain.

- Cotton-candy rain!

(Wimee laughs) That's perfect, okay.

So it's rainin' cotton candy!

Oh no!

The flowers, the plants!

Plants don't know what to do with cotton-candy rain!

How do we solve this problem, friends?

We need a solution.

Oh, "birthday present."

Got it, okay.

(Wimee laughs) Okay.

Moby, the world's greatest chicken, was out in the garden, wondering what to do on a fine summer morning.

Moby looked up in the sky and realized it was raining cotton candy!

It's a good thing Moby recently had a birthday present.

That was a... Hmm...somethin' funny, silly, that would stop the - what could absorb the cotton candy?

Turn the cotton - we could harvest the cotton candy.

Maybe the birthday present... Oo it looks like I've got an idea there.

(Wimee laughs) Okay, Wimee, what's the idea?

- [Wimage-Board Wimee] I think the idea is that the birthday pres- - Wait, wait, Wimee?

- [Wimage-Board Wimee] Yeah.

- Oh, wait a minute.

A Wimage Board can talk to me?

- [Wimage-Board Wimee] Oh yeah, I'm Wimby-Board Wimee.

(Wimee laughs) - Wait, you don't sound quite like me.

- [Wimage-Board Wimee] I know, I'm a Wimage-Board Wimee.

(Wimee laughs) - Okay, okay, Wimage-Board Wimee, how do we solve - what is the birthday present?

- [Wimage-Board Wimee] The birthday present was a flashlight.

- The flashlight's gonna help harvest the cotton candy?

- [Wimage-Board Wimee] Yes, its solar radiant technology of umin-lescent.

- Uma-what?

- [Wimage-Board Wimee] I don't know how to say that word.

(Wimee laughs) Yeah, fancy.

- [Wimage-Board Wimee] It's a fancy science word for turned-the-cotton-candy-into-tomatoes.

(Wimee laughs) - It's a flashlight that turns cotton-candy rain into tomatoes!

Whew, friends.

We learned a lot of things today.

We learned that the Wimee-Wimage-Board has a talking Wimee.

- [Wimage-Board Wimee] Yes, it does.

(Wimee laughs) It doesn't sound like me, but it's also that Moby got a birthday present that was a flashlight that turns cotton-candy rain into tomatoes.

Oo, maybe make some salsa.

Okay, (Wimee laughs) thanks Wimage-Board!

We'll check in with you later (Wimee laughs) to see what else he might add.

What else can that flashlight do?

Hmm.

Alright, friends!

It's time for today's Language Explorers.

(flamenco guitar and bongo music) - In Spanish, "plants" is "plantas."

"Plantas."

- In French, "plant" is "plante."

"Plante."

- In American Sign Language, "plant" is signed "plant."

"Plant."

- In Swahili, "plant" is "mmea."

"Mmea."

- In German, "plant" is "pflanze."

"Pflanze."

- "Plant," in Haitian Creole, is "plant."

"Plant."

(flamenco guitar and bongo music fades) - Ah, I love it.

Friends, right now, right now is the time - the time that we like to say.

It's... Jim Time!

(hard rock music) - I don't know what you're talking about.

I was - sorry, I was just talkin' to my plant.

It's not workin' so far.

You said talkin' your plants helps 'em grow but - It takes time.

- can you just take - yeah, alright, it takes time?

- Yup.

- Maybe I need to do more talking or just be patient, I guess.

- Well both, patient and just, you know, throughout the day - Alright.

- just nice brief conversation.

- Alright, I have a very complicated task for our viewers.

- Whoa.

(Jim laughs) - I need some rhymes with numbers between one and 10.

So we're gonna make number rhymes.

So I'm thinkin' for viewers right now, I'm gonna ask you to come up with a rhyme for the numbers: one and six.

I need something that rhymes with "one," and something that rhymes with "six."

So if the viewers can give us that, that would be awesome.

Right, Wimee, I'm gonna ask you right now to give me a rhyme for the numbers two and seven.

So what is something that rhymes with "two?"

A word that rhymes with "two."

- Two...I'm gonna go with...

I think, well I'm gonna brainstorm.

"Blue," "shoe," "you..." Do you want nouns or verbs or does it matter?

- You know what?

I'm gonna go with "blue," "shoe," and "you."

- Oh!

- I took 'em all.

Alright, now how 'bout "seven?"

Can you come up with a rhyme for "seven?"

- Seven...oh, "Kevin!"

(Wimee laughs) - "Kevin!"

Alright, we'll go with "Kevin."

- Yeah, we'll go with that.

- Alright, and now, I need - look, I think I've got our "one" and our "six."

We have "sun" and "sticks" - both good ones.

- One... - Alright, so I'm gonna write down "sun" and "sticks."

Alright, now, viewers, I need...

I need three and eight; a rhyme for "three" and a rhyme for "eight."

- Okay.

- I told you this is gonna be complicated.

It's gonna be great though.

- I'm trackin'.

- Okay, Cailynn?

- I'm with ya.

- I need you to help me come up with a rhyme for the word "four."

- "More?"

- "More," alright, I like "more."

- "S'more?"

- And then I need you to help me come up with rhyme for... let's see, "10."

- "Zen" or "hen."

- A "den" or a "hen?"

- Mhm.

- Alright, we'll make it "den-hen."

We'll do both.

Alright, that sounds good.

Alright, thanks, Cailynn.

Alright, so let me see what else we've got here.

We had seven.

Look, we had a "seven-Kevin."

- Oh!

Nice.

- Oo, we got a "two-woo!"

I like that.

- Woo!

- Two-woo!

- Two-woo!

- We got a "nine-spine."

That's good; I need a nine still.

A "nine-spine."

- "Nine-spine."

That's a fine word.

- Let's see, a three..."three-bee."

I like that: a "bee."

Alright and a "tree" for three.

- Three.

Alright, I'm gonna add "tree" to our list there too.

And we also got a "late" for eight.

That's good: "late."

- It's never too late!

- Okay, I think I got everything!

Oh, you know what I don't have?

I don't have five.

- What?

- Yeah, somehow in all that, I missed five.

- "Five..." - I'm just gonna come up with five.

I'm gonna say "live."

- Oh!

- "Live."

- This show is live right now.

- It is live, right?

- Yeah.

- It's good.

Live TV, you can't beat it.

- Woo!

Alright, so here we go.

I'm gonna get my guitar; let's see what we have.

This is called - - I can't even imagine what's gonna happen here.

There's so many words, Jim!

- Counting Flowers.

Thanks for your help, friends.

Alright, here we go.

(guitar strumming) ♪ Our one flower is a sunflower ♪ Well that works good.

♪ Our two flower is a blue-shoe-you flower ♪ - [Wimee] Oo!

♪ Our three flower is a bee-tree flower.

♪ I like that one.

♪ Our four flower is a more flower ♪ ♪ Our five flower is a live flower ♪ ♪ Our six flower is a stick flower ♪ (guitar changes keys) I'm gunna change the key, just to shake it up.

♪ Our seven flower is a Kevin flower ♪ - Kevin!

♪ Our eight flower is a late flower ♪ - [Wimee] Never too late!

♪ Our nine flower is a spine flour ♪ That was a cool.

♪ Our 10 flour is a hen-den flower ♪ ♪ We're countin' flowers, we're countin' flowers ♪ ♪ We're countin' flowers, we're countin' flowers ♪ (guitar strumming) Nice, that was fun!

- That was super fun.

- Thanks for your help!

Everybody, thank you for your help.

- It was so fun to imagine in my brain what these look like.

- I know, right?

And you can do that at home.

Right now, you can make a rhyme of your own for every one of the flowers and yeah it's kinda fun to come up with your new fun flowers.

- Man, I love it, Jim!

Thanks Jim!

- Thanks.

Thanks for your help!

♪ Fun time, it's always fun with Jim Time ♪ We should have a follow-up song that's, you know, at the start it's, "Jim Time!"

and then ♪ Duh duh duh duh duh ♪ it's got the little song.

We should then have a little outro that says, ♪ You've had a great time on Jim Time ♪ What do you think Jim?

♪ You've had great time on Jim Time ♪ - Oh!

Jazz-hands too!

- Yeah, we can come up with somethin'.

- Okay, okay, we'll work on it.

I like it, I like it, I like it.

Hey friends, let's go find out what Siblee's got for today's joke.

(kids cheering) - What do you call a plant that runs on electricity?

- I don't know.

What do you call a plant that runs on electricity?

- A power plant!

(Siblee laughs) (kids cheering) (Wimee laughs) - That's fun.

Friends, I invite you to take a deep breath.

Breathe in.

(Wimee inhales) Hold it.

And let it out.

(Wimee exhales) It's time for Slowing Down.

(soft acoustic guitar) (bright guitar strum) Breathe in.

(Wimee inhales) Hold it.

And let it out.

(Wimee exhales) We've got today's Check Out This Book brought to us by Hugh Martin Robinson II.

Let's check out this book.

(rock drumming) (upbeat rock music) (book closing) - I grabbed this book, "The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver" because, you know, he was a black scientist.

I love science and I love bein' able to talk to the kids about nature.

George Washington Carver was a big proponent of nature.

He made over 300 different uses for the peanut.

The kids were very interested and they learned a lot today.

It was a fantastic book and this was a fantastic opportunity for me able to talk to them about literacy.

I appreciate being here.

The pleasure was all mine.

(upbeat rock music) - Whoa, 300 uses for the peanut?

I gotta go check out that book and learn more!

Wow, whew.

Alright, friends.

Right now, we're gonna play a game.

The game is called Number Crunching.

(upbeat swing music) ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven ♪ ♪ Eight, nine, 10 ♪ (nuts crunching) Alright, alright.

Let's get goin' right into the game!

Here's how it works.

Jim, Cailynn - we'll pick a number (Cailynn sneezes) between one and 10 and then we have to figure out what the number is.

I'll go first.

I'm going to...

Okay, I've got my number.

Jim, are you ready?

- Yep.

(jazz scatting) - What do you think?

- Is it a seven?

- Lower.

- Five.

- You got it; it is five!

Cailynn got it!

Da-ding ding ding!

(bell chiming) - Nice!

- Okay, Jim, your turn!

- Okay, I'm thinking of a number between one and 10.

(upbeat jazz music) - Six.

- It is lower.

- One.

(jazz scatting) - Higher.

- Two.

- Higher.

- Four.

- (Jim gasps) It is four!

(bell chiming) - Four!

Aha.

- Nice job.

- Your turn, Cailynn.

- I'm thinking of a number between one and 10.

(jazz music continues) - 10.

- Lower.

- Eight.

- Lower.

- One?

- Higher.

- Three.

- Higher.

- Four?

- Higher.

- Six?

- You got it!

- Oh!

- Woo!

(bell chiming) Nice job.

- Alright, well, that was so fun, friends!

Thanks for playin' Number Crunching!

Whew.

Okay, friends, guess what?

This is exciting.

I mean this whole episode - every episode, every show - I just love workin', bein' on this show and being part of this team.

But right now our friends, the Flower Family, made this really awesome video: the song, the music, and what you see.

It's called "Rainbow of Colors."

Let's dive in!

(Wimee whooshes) (majestic string music) (bustling of nature) (majestic string music fades) (busting of nature fades) - Wow, thanks, Flower Family!

That was so cool!

Alright, let's check back with the Wimage Board to see what the update is!

(Wimee laughs) Whoa, whoa.

- Oh, look at the flashlight!

Yes!

Oh, there's a plane.

Woo, look at all the tomatoes!

Woo!

Man, that magic flashlight turned the cotton candy into tomatoes.

And look at that garden!

Look at those plants!

Woohoo!

I love it, Wimage Board!

Great job, as always.

Oh man, I just love - I love to daydream.

Do you love to daydream?

Hmm.

(bright happy music) - [Narrator] Wimee sat down, looked around the room and began to wonder.

He imagined blasting off in a boat to plant a garden for his friend's birthday.

- Oo, that star is so cool!

There are so many amazing things up here.

How close am I to Saturn?

I wonder... (rocket engine blasting) (bright happy music fades) Okay, okay, okay.

Friends, it is time to play Find It Fast.

(intense rock music) (vehicle zooming) Okay, friends!

Can you find something that starts with "P?"

Like a plant.

(happy upbeat music) Can you find something green?

Like, you know, a plant.

And can you find something pretty?

Ah!

Oh man, friends.

Tell us what you find.

And Jim and Cailynn, let us know what you find.

♪ Duh duh duh duh duh ♪ Cailynn, what have you found?

- So for somethin' that starts with a "P," I have a phone.

- Good idea!

- For somethin' that's green, I have this shirt.

- Nice.

- And then for something that's pretty, I have this glass plant.

- Whoa...that's a plant and is glass?

Whoa...that's beautiful.

Wow, thanks for sharing that!

That's so awesome, Cailynn!

Ho ho!

Let's see...what else starts with "P?"

- I found a pie pan.

It has two Ps in it: pie-pan.

- Pie-pan?

- It's green.

- Yeah.

- And it's pretty.

- It is!

- It's even prettier when there's an actual pie in it, (Wimee laughs) but it's still pretty.

- I bet.

That's a trilogy though!

Ding da-ding ding!

Pie-pan - that's a trilogy plus 'cause it was a pie-pan, double P. Man, nice.

I wonder what kind of plants you could use?

Like rhubarb; that's a plant, right?

Rhubarb pie, blueberry?

Wait, are fruits plants?

Hmm...that got me thinkin'.

I think they are, yeah.

Oo, peas!

Peas start with P, they're green, and they could be pretty.

Now you might be like, "No!

No more peas!"

or you could be like, "Woohoo, peas!"

Pants; pants start with "P." They might be green.

In fact there's a cool book called "Green Pants."

(Wimee laughs) And they might be really cool pants that you're like, "Yay!

They are my pretty green pants."

Pretty green pants - that's fun to say.

(Wimee laughs) Friends, thanks for playin' Find It First.

Woo, I tell you, it's been another great episode!

Thanks for being here, friends!

We're gonna wrap up with our dance party.

Cailynn, Jim, (upbeat rock music) let's dance our way out of the Green Plant Episode!

I guess doesn't have to be green, right?

It could be any color.

Yellow, blue, like the Rainbow of Colors!

That video was so cool!

Wait, your seed is dancing.

- Wimee's Words is brought to you by: (guitar strumming) Acrisure, Consumers Credit Union, Meijer, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

And with additional support from these great partners.

(cheerful music) (people applauding) (jazz bass and drums)