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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" ♪ What's up?

Hello!

Are you ready for an exceptional day?

Today is one of my favorites.

I wouldn't want it any other way.

It's fun to do indoors or in out, in sunshine or if it's gray.

It's rhyme time on "Camp TV."

Ready to play?

No matter what we're doing, rhyming is a must.

This might take some getting used to, but together we will adjust.

Ooh!

It's time for activity number one.

I'll see you when you're back.

I'm off to prepare for today's Zach Challenge!

We will see how many cups I can stack.

Jump, dance, play.

It's time to get active.

Let's move!

[ Tapping ] Hi, everyone.

My name is Patrick Ferreri, and I'm a dancer, actor, theatre maker and a teaching artist at the New Victory Theater.

Today, we're in my home in Brooklyn where we're going to learn to make our own tap shoes and then learn a few basic tap steps.

Let's dive in.

To get started, we'll have to gather our supplies.

We'll need a pair of shoes, some loose change, tape, and a pair of scissors.

I chose these shoes here because they had a nice, hard, flat surface.

We're going to use the bottoms of our feet or the bottom of our shoes, the soles of our shoes, to be making our sounds today, so you want to make sure you have something hard.

Now, I have a pair of store-bought tap shoes over here that we can use for reference.

If we flip over the bottom of our shoes, we'll notice there are two metal plates -- on a good toe and one at the heel.

We're going to use our coins to mimic these plates.

So to get started, we'll measure up some tape for ourselves.

You want to flip over your shoe and find the widest part of your shoe or the ball of your shoe.

Now, the ball of your shoe holds the ball of your foot.

And the ball of the foot is what's going to be used to make our tap sounds today.

So we grab our tape.

Now, here I have packaging tape.

You're welcome to use any kind of tape you want.

I like packaging tape because it's a little wider, which means I won't have to use as much of it.

It is also pretty sturdy.

Since we're going to be brushing and striking our foot against the ground, you want to make sure you use a tape that's not going to tear too easily.

So you take your tape, stretch it again over the widest part of your shoe, and then from there, leaving a little bit of overhang, we're gonna take your scissors and cut a piece.

Now... set it off to the side so it's easy to pick up later.

I've already precut about six pieces of tape.

I recommend cutting six or seven pieces, as will use about three to four pieces for the ball of our foot and another three pieces for the heel.

Once your tape's ready, you can dump out your change...

The fun part.

...and now we get to make a pattern.

If we go back to our shoe, you'll notice the top toe tap is almost like a rounded pyramid, meaning it starts wider at the bottom and then tapers its way up to the toe.

We're going to do that same thing on our shoe.

You want to start with your widest coins.

Now, all of my quarters are being saved for laundry, so I'm going to start with some nickels.

I'm just going to stretch it nickels in a straight line right across the widest part of my shoe, sort of rounding up to the edge.

Once I get to the edge, I keep my pattern going -- oop, runaway nickel -- coming up the edges.

You want to build it all the way up to the toe.

From there, we'll take our tape.

And again, starting at the bottom... we want to stretch the tape across and then flip those two little edges.

We'll build our way all the way up the shoe, all the way up towards the top of the shoe.

When you get to the toe, you can leave a little bit of the tape hanging over because we're going to add one coin on the top.

If we go back to our shoes, this metal plate is quite thick, right?

So when we dig our toe into the ground, we also get a sound.

Since there are a lot thinner, we'll have to mimic this by taking one coin and placing it right in front, right at big toe so you can make that dig down.

You'll take your last piece of tape, stretch it across that coin, up over the shoe, and then wrap it down around.

From there, just give another little press, making sure all the coins are in place the tape is nice and sticky on your shoe, and, voilà, you've got one shoe ready to go.

Next, we need to tackle the heel.

If we take a look at our store-bought shoes, the heel is like a rounded rectangle, or almost like a big wide horseshoe shape.

We'll also notice the heels lift a little bit.

So you notice that the heel sort of arcs out and then come down towards the metal tap.

Now, since my shoes that I'm using are flat, we're going to mimic that by moving the tap a little bit forward so it's not quite at the back of the shoe.

It's a little bit in front.

You can measure with your finger.

About a finger width is good.

Or just eyeball it, a little about a half inch.

So just like we did at the toe, you want to start with your wider coins first, making the straight line all the way across.

We'll do the same thing with our tape.

Take our last strips of tape starting at the widest part, going over and building back to the heel.

Just like we gave a little extra coin for the toe tap, we can do the same thing here and take one bigger coin and place it at the back heel so we can do some heel taps as well.

Again, you'll have to secure that tap, stretch the edges, and then fold it down, pressing through all the spaces to make sure those coins stay nice and in place.

Now, I already did one shoe, so I've got my second shoe ready to go, and I'm ready to stand up and start learning those moves.

Now that our shoes are ready, it's time to put them on, stand up and learn our moves.

We're going to start with our toe taps and heel digs.

All we're going to do is bring our feet next to one another with a little bit of space between them.

Make sure you line your toes front and your heels back so that when you bend your knees, they slide right over your toes.

From here, all we're going to do is rock our way back and forth.

Now, you notice just by shifting my weight you start to hear a little bit of a sound.

Right now, though, the sound of my tape crinkling is a little louder than my taps, so let's fix that.

To fix that, you keep your weight back in your heels, flex your toes strong and off the ground, and tap them down with a little bit of force.

[ Tapping ] Hear how crisper that sound is?

And once you get the hang of that, you can alternate... [ Tapping ] ...nice little toe taps.

We can up the ante a little bit by adding a balance -- shifting our way onto one foot and flexing our leg off the ground.

So, a quick... [ Tapping ] ...tap.

A little quick... [ Tapping ] ...quick tap on the ground.

That will let you start to play... [ Tapping quickly ] ...with a little bit more speed.

You can also play with the size of the tap, right?

So, you can tap all the way around, making little circles with your toes.

You can alternate.

[ Tapping ] You can tap.

Nice.

Now from there, let's do the same thing, but with our heels.

Now we're going to call this a heel dig.

So as we rock our weight onto our toes, lift our heels, really dig them into the ground.

Lift up, dig down.

Lift up, dig down.

You can stay nice and low.

You can lift your body up, take it down, lift it up, take it down.

The options are endless.

We can even try it on one leg, lifting up, take it down, take it down, take it down.

Lifting up, little speed, little fun.

Yeah?

Once you have those under your belt, practice them as much as you need, and then you can play with how you want to put them together.

You can alternate.

[ Tapping ] You can draw little patterns.

[ Tapping ] There's as many options as there are ideas in your head.

So go ahead.

Don't be afraid.

Play around.

Have fun with it.

Tap is as much about showcasing your personality as it is about showing you proficiency with the moves.

Have fun with that.

Enjoy your new tap shoes.

I can't wait to see you come up with.

[ Tapping ] ♪♪ Oh, hey, welcome back to Rhyme Day.

Wasn't that last segment cool?

Certainly looked like a lot more fun than what I've been up to.

Seems I've misplaced the cups for today's... Zach Challenge!

You know, the ones I want to stack?

So I'm left with no other option.

Cleaning is the only plan of attack.

Welcome to my clothes lot.

Am I good at hanging and folding?

Certainly not.

[ Cat meows ] Ooh!

Hey, Trixie.

You scared me.

I didn't see you there.

[ Trixie meows ] Nope.

Totally get it.

Go off, get some air.

♪♪ Okay.

It's time for your next activity.

Go on.

It's only fair.

I'm the one who made this mess, so me?

Not going anywhere.

Music, dance, magic and more.

Step right up to Center Stage.

Hi, everyone.

My name is Yakir, and I'm the associate music director of NDI.

This is Jasmine, and Jasmine is a doumbek.

The doumbek is the most common drum of the Middle East, and doumbeks come in many many different shapes and form.

This happens to be Jasmine's dress, and I think it's beautiful -- so much so that sometimes I could dress like her.

Let's go over the sounds that Jasmine can make.

Most drums have a low sound and a high sound.

Jasmine's low sound sounds like this.

[ Deep beat ] It's low and at lingers a little bit.

And we call that sound a Doum.

[ Deep beat ] Doum.

Then there are two high sounds.

They're like twin brother and sister.

One with the right hand.

[ High-pitch beat ] That's called a Tek.

And one with the left hand that's called a Ka.

[ High-pitch beat ] They should sound exactly the same.

[ High-pitch beating ] You can't even tell the difference.

♪♪ But they are very different from the Doum.

[ Deep beating ] [ High-pitched beating ] Low... [ Deep beat ] ...and high.

[ High-pitched beating ] There is an additional sound -- one of my favorite.

That one's called a pa. Really, pa is the highest sound that the drum can make.

For Jasmine, the way to make a pa is to take one hand and to cup it a little bit.

Then you place it on the skin of the drum or the head of the drum with one hand... and then you play the high sound with the left hand.

[ High-pitched tap ] Much higher than before.

You can also make it sound like Jasmine is drinking water.

Listen to this.

[ Fast-paced tapping ] One more drop, Jasmine.

[ High-pitched tap ] [ Chuckles ] That's cool.

And the way you play a doumbek is you mix all those sounds, You make the Doum... [ Deep beating ] [ High-pitched beat ] ...the Tek and the Ka, and the Pop.

Like this!

[ Drumming ] ♪♪ ♪♪ Very cool.

Jasmine and I are gonna take a class where we're going to learn how to articulate the sound of the doumbek on your body, and that way we can play music together.

In order to make the Doum, the lowest sound Jasmine can make, we take a right hand, and we go like this, right here.

Doum.

Try it with me.

Doum.

You say it with your voice, and you do it with your body right here on your belly button.

And this is sort of a low sound that our body can make.

To make it two high sounds, one with your right hand and one with the left hand, Tek and Ka, we just alternate between left and right right before our knees, like so.

Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka.

Try it with me.

Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka.

Let's try a little exercise.

I'm gonna go first, then you try it with me.

It goes like this.

Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek.

Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek.

Try it with me.

Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek.

One more.

Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek.

Excellent.

Now, let's add two Doums in a row.

We'll do Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek.

Try it with me.

Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek.

One more time.

Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek.

You're getting it.

Doum is here.

Tek is here.

Ka is here.

Now, remember the Pop -- the really high sound?

We do it like this... [ Snaps fingers ] ...as a snap with our fingers and our elbow is straight and we're looking at our hand.

Also, one important thing is that if you can't snap... [ Snaps fingers ] ...don't worry about it.

Just say "pop" like this.

Pop.

And hold that.

Now, let's try combining the Doum, Tek, and Ka with the Pop.

I'll go first.

It's gonna go like this, and I'll do it very slow.

Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Pop.

So, I did Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka three times in a row, and the last time I did Doum, Doum, Pop.

I just took out the Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka and replaced it with a Pop.

Let's try it together.

One, two.

Here we go.

Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Pop.

Again.

Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Pop.

One last time.

Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Pop.

And hold it for 5, 4, 3...702, minus 17.

Ocho.

[ Chuckles ] Okay.

Relax.

Now, let's try this.

You're going to do the same thing we just did.

Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Pop.

But I am going to play it with Jasmine.

On Jasmine, it sounds like this.

[ Drumming ] ♪♪ Ready to try it together?

Here we go.

You do the Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Pop, but Jasmine's gonna play along.

One, two, here we go.

[ Drumming ] Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Pop.

One more.

Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Pop.

Let's get faster.

Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Pop.

One more.

Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Pop.

Super fast.

Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Pop.

Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Tek, Ka, Tek, Ka, Doum, Doum, Pop.

Whew!

Hey, look!

I finally found them.

The Zach Challenge can finally begin.

Let's see how many cups I can stack.

Please set the clock for 10 seconds flat.

♪♪ [ Beeping ] ♪♪ [ Beeping ] Yes!

[ Chuckles ] Okay.

Your next activity is up.

And when you get back, let's see how many cups I can stack before my pile goes out of whack.

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

Hi, friends, and welcome to the Memphis Zoo.

My name is Jenny, and I am joined today by two very special friends, Rey and Aggie, the Nigerian dwarf goats.

♪♪ Goats, like our pet dogs and cats, are a very special kind of animal called domesticated animals.

This means that they've lived alongside people for a long, long time and they've changed over time to better get along with people.

♪♪ Domesticated animals are different from wild animals.

Unlike domesticated animals, wild animals belong in the wild or in places like zoos that have resources and people who can take care of them properly.

Goats are herbivores, meaning they only eat plants.

And two of their very favorite types of food are grass and leaves.

Leaves and grass are very tough foods, which means they take a lot of digesting.

In fact, goats spend their whole lives in the process of digestion.

♪♪ Like cows and sheep, goats have stomachs with four compartments to help with this nonstop digesting.

♪♪ Goats have lived alongside people since 7000 BC.

That's over 9,000 years ago.

♪♪ Because goats eat so much grass and so many leaves, they can be really useful to people -- almost like living lawnmowers.

♪♪ They can also help people by producing milk.

Have you ever tried goat milk?

Nigerian dwarf goats can produce up to three to four pounds of milk in one day.

While goats can be really great pets, they're not very easy to care for.

Goats are constantly eating, so they need a constant supply of grass or grass hay to stay full and healthy.

They're also very active, so they'll need a lot of space to roam around and play.

♪♪ Goats are also very smart and very good at jumping, so they are excellent escape artists.

Of course, there are other great pets or domesticated animals that you can keep -- like cats, dogs or rabbits.

These animals do all have very different care requirements, so if you want to keep one as a pet, you'll need to do a lot of research.

Wild animals, on the other hand, do not make good pets.

You should always leave wild animals alone when you see them.

But this doesn't mean that you can't help wildlife.

As it turns out, there are a lot of things you can do from home that will really help wildlife out.

If you use less plastic and recycle the plastic that you do use, there's a much smaller chance the plastic will end up in the homes of animals.

Using less electricity also helps to preserve wild places.

People often ask us, "Do goats actually eat everything?"

You may have heard goats will eat anything, but that's not true.

Because they are very curious, they might take a bite of something they shouldn't, but they will very quickly realize when they've eaten something dirty or distasteful and they will spit it out.

♪♪ Thanks so much for watching and joining me here at the Memphis Zoo.

Bye, friends!

♪♪ [ Birds chirping ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Zach: You took the words right out of my mouth.

Write On.

Hey, guys.

My name is Ugo, and I am a teaching artist with the New Victory Theater.

We are here in my apartment in Inwood, Manhattan.

And today we are going to focus on writing plays.

So, one way to start writing a play is to come up with a character.

So for this activity, we are going to create a character by using random, everyday objects that we have lying around at home.

All you need is a paper, something to write with -- a pen or pencil, whatever -- and a random object that you have.

I am going to go with...

I'm going to go with this hand.

So, make sure that the object that you have is something that you can hold, something that you can move around, and something that you can play with safely.

Go your object?

Great.

First thing we're going to do is we're going to give our object a name.

I'm looking at this hand, and I think that your name is... Hansel.

Great.

If you're having trouble thinking of a name for your object, feel free to hold it, look at it, inspect it, move it around.

Let the name come to you.

Once you have a name for your object, you're going to write it down as if that object is saying it.

For example, it'll sound like, "Hi, my name is... fill in the blank."

So for me it'll be, "Hi, my name is Hansel."

Once you have that written down, we're going to give our object an age.

Hansel, how old are you?

I think... Hansel is... three years old.

Three and a half years old.

Once you have an age for your object, you can write that down as "I am blank years old."

And the next thing we're going to do we're going to give our object a hobby, something that it likes to do, something that it does for fun.

It can be anything.

Let your imagination run wild.

Hansel, tell me, what do you like to do?

I think Hansel really loves... cooking.

So, Hansel is three and a half year old, and he really likes cooking.

You're going to write the hobby part down as, "I really like," and then fill in the blank.

You can also write it as, "My interests are," fill in the blank or "My hobbies are," fill in the blank.

The next step that you're going to do is continue adding more traits.

Here's some suggestion questions you can ask your object, like where is it from?

Does it have any best friends?

What are its hopes and its dreams?

What is it afraid of?

Go out with it, have fun.

And there it is.

We have just created a character out of a random, everyday object.

Feel free to do this with as many items that you like.

And who knows, maybe all these characters might end up in the same story that you end up writing.

What?

What was that?

You want to be... You want to be in your own story?

Okay, well, what's your name?

Sandra?

Okay, great.

Sandra.

Where are you from, Sandra?

I said where are you from?

Where are you from?

Texas?

Oh, right on.

Take care, guys.

♪♪ Hey ho!

Not bad, eh?

Thanks for that "way to go."

It took time and effort, but that's okay.

I had lots of fun making it.

Wouldn't want it any other way.

Go ahead and take a look around.

I made it just for you.

Now let's get you to your next activity.

[ Cups clattering ] ♪♪ Oops!

Yikes.

That's disappointing, but practice makes perfect.

Time for a cup rejoining, although bigger, badder, taller than it was before.

And look, we managed to rhyme the whole time.

But who's keeping score?

Arts and crafts?

Yes, please!

Let's Get Artsy.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Camp TV ♪ ♪ It's time for us to part ♪ ♪ 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" ♪ This program was made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

Additional funding was provided by Joan Ganz Cooney.

Content provided by these institutions.

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