Wimee’s Words
Rocks
Season 1 Episode 12 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Wimee writes a story about a magical rock; Wimee and Jim sing about Michigan's state rock.
Wimee sings about a silly rock and Moby tell us about his favorite rock. Wimee and friends write a story about a quest to find a magical rock; Brody shows us some of the rocks he found; Ms. Grace teaches us our key story words in Spanish; Jim orchestrates a large rock, paper, scissors game; and Wimee and Jim show us their Rock Boy songs about Michigan's state rock and stone!
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Wimee’s Words
Rocks
Season 1 Episode 12 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Wimee sings about a silly rock and Moby tell us about his favorite rock. Wimee and friends write a story about a quest to find a magical rock; Brody shows us some of the rocks he found; Ms. Grace teaches us our key story words in Spanish; Jim orchestrates a large rock, paper, scissors game; and Wimee and Jim show us their Rock Boy songs about Michigan's state rock and stone!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(rock music begins) (Wimee screams) - Yeah!
Woo hoo!
(rock music continues) - [Producer] Wimee!
- What, what?
- [Producer] What are you doing?
- I was rocking out.
- [Producer] But why?
- 'Cause it's for the show.
- [Producer] But it's not about rocking, its about rocks.
- Oh.
(record skips) Oh.
Oops.
(Wimee laughs) ♪ Wimee creates all the day through ♪ ♪ And you can do it too It's time to learn, create and play!
With rocks.
Just don't throw them.
That's not a good idea.
Today we've got Brody.
Illustrating our rock story in the Wimage Lab.
Grace is helping to translate our rock words in Language Explorers.
And Jim is helping us rock those words in Jim Time.
It shall will be a rocking time!
On today's Wimee's Words!
(crowd applauds) So let's get rolling with this opening song.
Have you ever heard, "Found a Peanut"?
Instead of "Found a Peanut", "Find a Rock".
(Wimee Chuckles) Now, here's what I need from you though, once I get rolling with the song.
The first thing I need you to share with me is a word that describes something.
Also known as adjectives.
But a word that describes something.
And I'll give you the next two.
'Cause we've got three things we're asking for.
(Wimee Chuckles) The second thing we need is, share with us something that you like to do.
What do you like to do?
Play?
Swim?
You know?
And then the last thing, just simply share with us a thing.
(Wimee Chuckles) That's a lot of stuff to remember.
So first thing was, something that describes something.
Here we go.
♪ Found a rock ♪ Found a rock ♪ Found a rock just now ♪ Just now I found a rock ♪ Found a rock just now (Wimee laughs) If you know this song, typically it's, "Found a peanut", "Its rotten.
They eat it."
What?
Oh man.
But I'm gonna look now for a word that describes something, and we're gonna use that word to describe the rock.
(Wimee laughs) It was silly.
Ready?
♪ The rock was silly ♪ The rock was silly ♪ The rock was silly just now ♪ Just now the rock was silly ♪ The rock was silly just now (Wimee Chuckles) Now, randomly something you like to do!
Because the silly rock and I, that's what we're gonna do.
What could it be?
Something you like to do.
Watch stuff.
Okay.
Ready?
Here we go.
♪ The silly rock watches stuff ♪ The silly rock watches stuff ♪ The silly rock watches stuff just now ♪ ♪ Just now the silly rock watches stuff ♪ ♪ The silly rock watches stuff just now ♪ (Wimee laughs) We're gonna finish up.
This could go on forever.
That's kind of what's fun.
We love doing that with songs.
They just can go on, and on, and on.
But okay, last thing.
Tell us the thing, the silly rock and I are watching stuff.
Maybe we're watching Wimee's Words!
(Wimee laughs) Wait, can I watch Wimee's Words while I...
I can watch the replay.
Okay.
So the last thing, tell us a thing.
Anything at all!
And we'll see how, oh, couch, couch.
That works perfectly.
(Wimee laughs) 'Cause we're sitting on the couch.
♪ We were watching on the couch ♪ ♪ Watching on the couch ♪ We were watching on the couch just now ♪ ♪ Just know we were watching on the couch ♪ ♪ The silly rock and I were watching stuff on the couch ♪ (Wimee laughs) Now.
Now, you finish the song.
What's gonna happen when you jump off the couch?
And write the rest of it.
Sing along.
That's, "Found a Peanut," now known as, "Found a Rock".
I wonder what rocks favorite things to watch are?
Well, let's go check in with our friend, Moby.
(upbeat music begins) (Moby beatboxes) - I was just thinking about rocks.
Yeah.
I like to go exploring with my friends and find lots of different kinds of rocks.
There's so many.
Shapes, sizes and colors.
Yeah.
One of my favorites, it's called Lake Superior Agate.
Yeah.
It's a rock that has many different layers of red, orange and yellow.
I think they're really cool.
Do you have a favorite rock?
(Moby beatboxes) (upbeat music plays) (Wimee beatboxes) - Thanks Moby.
Friends it's time for, ♪ Three Sentence Story Beginning, middle, end.
Let's write a story together!
In the first sentence we set the scene.
In the second sentence there is a problem.
But in the third sentence comes the solution.
We gotta make a little song someday that's, you know, all about that.
So the first word.
Now we love nouns.
Person, place or thing.
Let's see where our story starts.
It may be a silly story.
It may be a story about a mountain.
In fact today, it's about a mountain.
Here we go.
Ooh.
Hmm.
Okay.
I... No, I want to bring a friend.
Moby.
Moby and I were climbing up a mountain, in search of...
I'm thinking.
What were we in search of?
We were in search of, fresh air?
No, that's...
In search of a magical ro... Oh, pizza!
Okay.
Yeah, I was.
How about this?
I think I'm gonna use pizza for the problem.
I'm gonna use pizza for the problem.
Because I was gonna say we were in search of a magical rock.
(Wimee chuckles) Then pizza's the problem.
Okay.
So here we go.
Moby and I were climbing up a mountain, in search of a magical rock.
We thought we saw what we were looking for, but it turns out it was just a crusty old pizza.
(Wimee laughs) That's kind of silly.
It's like a fossilized pizza.
Maybe somebody tripped and their pizza fell out of their lunch bag.
And I thought it was a magical rock, but it turned out it was just dried up pizza.
How do we solve this problem, friends?
We're trying to find a magical rock.
Race car!
(Wimee laughs) Okay, good.
All right.
Moby and I were climbing up a mountain, in search of a magical rock.
We thought we found one when it turned out to simply be a dried up slice of pizza.
I called my grandma and she raced up the mountain in her race car, and helped us find the rock.
(Wimee laughs) Called for help.
That's how we solved it.
Our solution is grandma drove a race car up the mountain and we continued our search.
I think we got a story.
What do you think friends?
It's got the beginning.
It's got the middle.
There was a problem.
We couldn't find the rock.
The solution was grandma's race car.
(Wimee imitates race car driving) (Wimee imitates race car coming to a screeching halt) We should do like, a race car song.
Hmm.
Well hey, let's go to Brody and the Grandville Wimage Lab!
To see what he's got going for today's Wimage.
Hi Brody!
- Hi Wimee.
(Wimee chuckles) Hi Wimee.
Hi friends.
I was just looking at this cool rock.
It's called Honeycomb, Honeycomb Coral.
- [Wimee] That is such a cool name.
And it looks like a honeycomb.
It looks like it's got little spots, and man.
Wow!
Where did you find that rock, or get that rock?
- It was at Traverse City.
- [Wimee] Oh!
I love going up north to Traverse City.
Wow.
Do you have any other rocks?
- Yeah.
I also have two translucent rocks.
Keep it up to light.
You can see light through it.
- [Wimee] Wow.
Those are so cool.
I wonder how they get that way.
- Well, I know that some rocks, like this one, are from erosion.
- [Wimee] Oh wow.
Yeah.
'Cause right, the water and the time, it changes the characteristics.
Man.
That's so cool.
So up in Traverse City, Michigan is where you found all of those?
- Yeah.
- [Wimee] Nice.
Ooh.
Look at that.
Look at the stripes.
Wow.
That's so cool.
- And this one.
This one.
- [Wimee] Ooh.
That looks soft and smooth.
- It is.
And this one.
- [Wimee] Oh.
That one's really flat, right?
If you put it sideways.
That'd be good for skipping, right?
On the water.
I love it.
Awesome.
Thanks for sharing those.
So what have you got for today's Wimage?
(Wimee chuckles) Tell us what we see?
- Moby and you, finding a stale pizza.
With the other Wimee, is sitting and eating some peanuts.
(Wimee laughs) - [Wimee] Found a peanut.
- [Brody] With Grandma, driving over to, driving over to pick you guys up.
- [Wimee] Yeah.
She's coming to help find the most magical rock.
I love driving with grandma and her race car.
She's like, "Vroom!"
"Slow down Grandma!
Slow down!"
(Wimee laughs) So what else could we add to the Wimage, Brody?
Maybe more things on the mountain?
Friends at home, if you have ideas, let us know.
Maybe someone else is in the car with grandma?
Maybe there's things up, that we see along the way?
Ooh!
A lake!
Yeah.
- [Brody] A lake.
- [Wimee] Nice.
I wonder it could be lake Michigan?
Lake Huron.
Lake Superior.
Lake Ontario or Lake Erie.
Which one?
- All right.
I just did a lake.
- [Wimee] Nice.
Hey, up in the upper peninsula, we do have some mountains.
Maybe it's suddenly- - [Brody] What color do you want it?
- [Wimee] Oh.
Let's go with the blue.
- [Brody] Good.
- [Wimee] Go for the realistic approach.
Nice.
So which lake do you think that is?
There in the...
I guess if it's up in the upper peninsula, it's probably Lake Superior.
Up north.
- [Brody] Yeah.
- [Wimee] Yeah.
Nice.
Oh, I love it!
Brody!
Great job working on the Wimage.
If you want to keep adding and changing stuff, we'll check back with you later.
Well friends, we get to find out today, how does say today's words in Spanish.
It's time for Language Explorers.
And Grace is here with us today.
Hi Grace!
- [Grace] Hello everyone out there!
Hello Wimee.
How are you?
- Oh, good.
I'm thinking I want to go swimming in the lakes now.
Can you imagine right now, taking a swim?
And the... (Wimee imitates splashing sound) - That sounds very satisfying.
Yeah.
- Hey, so what have you got for today's words?
- All right.
So, today's words, you might recognize it in Spanish.
A mountain is a montaña.
I will cross that montaña.
The next word is probably even more familiar.
Pizza, is pizza!
- [Wimee] Pizza!
- In Spanish because pizza is Italian.
So we have a lot of immigrants where I'm from, from Peru.
There were a lot of Italian immigrants coming into our country.
And so it's very normal to have, you know, Italian sounding words.
And we share the Latin, the romance languages.
- [Wimee] Gotcha.
- Yeah.
Quiero pizza.
- [Wimee] Yeah.
And the last one is race car.
- Coche de carreras.
- [Wimee] Whoa, cool.
- Coche de carreras.
Sometimes people think of car and say, "Carro".
But in this case, it's a little bit more formal 'cause not everybody jumps into a race car.
- [Wimee] That's true.
- So coche is another version of car in Spanish.
"De", and that's, "Of".
Carrera, is a race.
You might go on a carrera to do running, whatever kind of carrera.
But this is the car for racing.
- [Wimee] Love it!
- Race car.
Coche de carreras.
- I love it!
Have you ever been in a race car?
- Ooh, only in my imagination.
(Wimee and Grace laugh) And it was great.
It was a great ride.
(Wimee laughs) - I love it.
Well Grace, thanks so much for today's words in Spanish.
Well see you- - [Grace] Thank you.
- Later in the show.
Friends.
Right now it is, Jim Time.
(upbeat rock music plays) - [Wimee] Hi Jim.
- [Jim] So we were gonna have a tournament today.
We're gonna play rock, scissors, paper.
And best of all, when we have this tournament, the final winner on our team is gonna actually play against one of our friends at home.
So get ready at home, to play rock, papers, scissors.
Now, if you don't know how to play the game, it's really fun.
Because you can play it anywhere, at any time 'cause all you need to do is have your hands, and you're gonna yell out, "Rock!"
Which is a fist, making a rock.
Scissors.
You make like scissors.
Chop, chop, chop, chop.
Or paper.
You just have flat hand and say, "Paper".
So we're gonna choose.
Rock, scissors, paper and then we're gonna say, "Rock," "Scissors" or "Paper" as we throw out our choice.
Now here's how it works.
Rock beats scissors, because it can smash the scissors.
But paper beats rock because the paper can cover the rock.
- Yup.
Got it.
- And now as scissors.
Scissors can cut the paper.
So scissors would beat paper, but scissors are gonna get hit by the rock, so they would loose to rock.
And then with paper, if you're playing paper, paper loses to scissors 'cause again, it's gonna cut it up.
But it beats rock 'cause it can cover up the rock.
- Got it.
I love this game.
- All right.
So first round is you and I, Wimee.
- All right.
- And I brought my rock guitar too.
(Wimee laughs with excitement) So we could do that too.
(Jim strums guitar) I really don't think we're gonna have to play with it though.
All right.
So what we're gonna do is, we're gonna say, "Rock, scissors, paper, go!"
And then on, "Go", we're gonna say and throw out, either our rock, our scissors or our paper.
Are you ready?
Round one.
- [Wimee] I'm ready.
Okay.
- All right.
Here we go.
- Okay.
- All right.
- [Wimee] Okay.
- [Both] Rock, paper, scissors, go!
- [Jim] Scissors!
- [Wimee] Paper!
(Jim laughs triumphantly) - [Wimee] Ah!
You got me, Jim!
You got me.
You got me.
(Jim and Wimee laugh) Okay, awesome.
Who's up next?
- [Jim] We're talking on our next challenger.
It's Brody.
Brody, are you ready?
All right, here we go.
- [Jim & Brody] Rock, paper, scissors, go!
- [Jim] I got paper.
Oh, sorry.
I didn't say it.
- [Brody] Scissors.
- Oh, scissors.
You beat me!
I'm out.
All right.
So Brody you're taking on Grace.
All right Grace, are you ready?
- [Grace] I am ready.
- [Jim] Here we go!
Rock, paper, scissors, go!
(Grace laughs) - [Grace] No!
- [Jim] Brody keeps winning with the scissors.
I think you got some going on here.
All right.
Michael, are you ready?
- [Michael] I'm ready.
- [Jim] All right, here we go.
Rock, paper, scissors, go!
- [Brody] Paper!
- [Michael] Rock!
- [Jim] Ooh!
Paper beats rock!
Brody is going, you're going so great.
All right.
Are we ready to take on our... Like, you're the finalist, I guess.
So we're ready to take on an audience member.
Are you ready at home?
At home right now, type in to us, either rock, paper or scissors.
Brody, are you ready?
This is for all the marbles.
This is the championship round.
Here we go.
Rock, paper, scissors, go!
Oh!
Rock beats the scissors!
Brody, I'm so sorry.
You were so close to having it there 'till the end.
(Jim strums guitar) - [Wimee] Woo!
Oh man!
That was fun.
- [Wimee] That was tense.
- [Jim] That was fun.
That was a good round.
- [Jim] It got tense.
I know.
But Brody was on a roll there.
- [Wimee] I know!
I know.
Man.
I can't wait to do this again.
I'm gonna do this later today.
- [Jim] Sounds like a good idea.
- Yeah.
Great job, Brody.
You were flying through... Hey.
Hey Jim.
You know what?
Before you go.
We've got some bonus songs for today's Jim Time.
Because you, years ago, made some music to, "A Curious Glimpse of Michigan", book and CD.
And do you remember the, "Rock Boy" songs that you made?
- I do.
Yeah.
My band ScribbleMonster did that.
(Wimee laughs) - It was so good!
It was so good.
So we're gonna play, but actually we'll play the first one.
We'll just play it.
And then you tell us, maybe a little bit more after we watch it, okay?
- All right.
Sounds good.
- Okay.
Here we go.
♪ One day, Rock Boy found a stone ♪ ♪ And carried it home ♪ "How nice," said Mom ♪ "We'll name him Jack" ♪ And they did ♪ Ever since Rock Boy and Jack ♪ Have been good friends ♪ Petoskey Stone ♪ Since 1965 ♪ Petoskey Stone is our state stone ♪ ♪ One day, Rock Boy found a stone ♪ ♪ And carried it home ♪ "How nice," said Mom ♪ "We'll name him Jack" ♪ And they did ♪ Ever since Rock Boy and Jack ♪ Have been good friends (Wimee laughs) - I love it.
Tell us more about that.
- I love that story.
Well, you know, it's just such a great story about friendship, 'cause here's Rock Boy just wandering around, finds this stone, brings it home and mom says, "Yeah, we can keep it".
He's like, "Mom, Mom, can we keep it?"
She's like, "Of course we can".
And they name it Jack and he's part of the family.
How great is that?
- It is great.
And in that, in particular, that stone is Michigan's state stone, the Petoskey Stone.
- It is.
Right?
And it's an easy one to remember 'cause you go, ♪ Petoskey Stone And you go, "Oh yeah!"
"That's what our state's stone is".
- Yeah.
Yeah, man.
Michigan's got lots of state symbols.
Every state does.
Different symbols in different states and a lot of the concepts overlap.
But now, speaking of state symbols, the state gem of Michigan is the Isle Royal Green Stone.
And there's more to the story.
Let's roll it.
- Yes, there is.
♪ Rock Boy was talking Jack out for a walk ♪ ♪ "Look," he said ♪ And they found Gwen ♪ Their family grew ♪ They were three instead of two ♪ ♪ Now they were Rock Boy, Jack and Gwen ♪ ♪ The Isle Royale Green Stone ♪ Is our state gem ♪ And Gwen's an Isle Royal Green Stone ♪ ♪ Rock Boy was talking Jack out for a walk ♪ ♪ "Look," he said ♪ And they found Gwen ♪ Their family grew ♪ They were three instead of two ♪ ♪ Now they were Rock Boy, Jack and Gwen ♪ - [Wimee] I love it.
- Wow!
Just when you think that story can't get any better, it takes that turn, they add another member to their family.
- [Wimee] I know.
- How great is that?
- I know.
Man.
That's so fun.
That's from, "A Curious Glimpse of Michigan," and it was fun to share.
We had three Jim songs today.
Rock, paper, scissors with a guitar.
I like that guitar.
(Wimee imitates guitar) All right.
Well friends.
Oh, look at that!
Hey Joe!
I love that.
KDL does rock.
(Wimee laughs) Awesome.
Well Jim, we'll see you later at the scavenger hunt and the dance party.
(Wimee laughs) Friends.
Let's see what Siblee's got for today's Laughing with Siblee.
(children shout in excitement) - What is the Rock's favorite way to travel?
On a rocket ship.
(children shout in excitement) - All right, friends.
Let's check back with Brody and see, while we also find out other words that start with R. Post 'em in the comments.
What words starts with R?
And we'll see what Brody's got as an update to the Wimage.
- Who's that little friend on your left?
- Where?
Did you see somebody?
You did?
- Mm hmm.
- Oh, I don't see.
I'll keep looking though.
Oh, thanks Joe.
We love having fun.
So any updates for the Wimage?
Ooh.
- I changed Moby to a chicken.
I added, a race car.
I put in rock, scissors and paper.
- [Wimee] Nice.
- And then there's two of you eating cookies.
(Wimee laughs gleefully) - I love eating cookies.
Man, that's so fun.
I love how you put lots of stuff from the show.
Rock, paper, scissors.
That can be like a cool logo for the game that you just made right there.
And man, cookies.
Mm.
All right, so Brody, I think we're getting ready now for the Find It Fast pretty soon, but let's keep finding out from our friends at home.
Maybe some other words that start with R. Ooh, run.
- Rock.
- [Wimee] Rocks!
Indeed.
Rainbow.
Nice.
Rainbow, rocks, run.
Run, run, run, run, run, run.
Can you think of any more?
Rain.
Yup.
Red.
That was an awesome Wimage, wasn't it?
Rice.
Grace just said, "Rice," backstage.
Let's bring Grace in.
Grace, you posted Rice on the backstage comments.
Have any other words?
- [Grace] Ridiculous.
(Wimee laughs) - Yeah, sometimes things get a little ridiculous on this show, huh?
Hmm.
Let's see if Michael's- - [Grace] Rampant.
- [Wimee] Ooh, nice.
Nice, nice.
Rampant.
What you got Michael?
- [Michael] I got a bonus.
- [Wimee] Ooh.
- [Michael] Railroad.
- [Wimee] Ah!
Two points.
Railroad.
- [Michael] Ding-ding!
- [Wimee] Rake.
This is great.
We got lots of words.
We got our scavenger hunt to get to too.
In fact, we're kind of a step ahead of ourselves.
Remember.
Rat.
- [Michael] This is really rad.
(Wimee laughs) - [Wimee] Really rad.
Now you're showing off Michael.
(Wimee laughs) We can say it's really, really rad.
(Wimee laughs) Is that allowed?
Hey, well let's get ready for the scavenger hunt then.
We need to find some things... Oh, rock 'n roll!
That's double too.
We gotta find, in fact, more things with R. We're already a step ahead on that.
And we need to find things that are round, and something from earth.
(upbeat music begins) Let's do it.
So we got lots of R's.
Keep the R's coming in.
But also like a rock, find something round.
Not all rocks are round.
Rice.
That comes from the earth and that starts with an R. Ooh, ooh.
Can we get all three?
The rocks are round and come from earth, so that'd be all three.
Oh, I think Jim's got it.
Hey Jim!
What what have you got there, Jim?
- I have a round rock, but it doesn't come from the earth because it's a toy and it's plastic.
- Two out of three.
That's pretty good.
(Wimee laughs) That's pretty good.
Let's see.
What else have you got friends?
- I got water.
- From the earth.
- Bottom of this is round.
- Oh, it's round.
- Yes.
And what else.
- It starts with an R. You've got a lot of R's already.
- I did.
- Yeah, yeah.
(Wimee laughs) All right friends, keep looking.
What else can you find?
Starts with R?
It's round or from earth.
Did you get more of that or all three?
What ye got?
- All right.
So a round tomato.
- Yeah!
- It's red - [Wimee] Red!
- And it's from the earth.
- Yeah!
(Wimee imitates bell ringing) That's a great one.
Man, that looks delicious.
I wanted to eat that.
Let's see, from the earth.
Well, you know what's amazing.
Think about it for a moment.
Everything comes from the earth, right?
It has to!
Because otherwise, how did it get here?
That's pretty deep.
Okay, rock, dirt, cup.
Yup, got it all.
Starts with R, comes from the earth and it's round.
Ooh, rutabaga.
That's a fun word to say.
♪ Rutabaga ♪ Rutabaga Whoa!
- I have a plant that came from the earth.
- Yup!
(Wimee laughs) Sure did.
Man, the bucket it was in, that was a round bucket too.
Rabbit.
Nice job, Joe.
Rabbit.
I love it.
Man, oh man!
Ooh, what you got?
- Okay, I have something that is round.
- Is that a tangerine?
- And it's from the earth.
An orange or an tangerine.
- Orange.
Yeah.
- And something that starts with the letter R, is red.
I have a red marker.
- I see it.
Red marker.
(Wimee laughs) Nice job.
This is so fun.
Collecting things, looking... Friends!
Keep looking for more things.
Put on your own scavenger hunts too, with your friends, with your family.
Good stuff.
Well, hey!
This has been a lot of fun friends.
We had a lot of fun with rocks!
Learning, singing, playing.
It's time for our dance party.
And let's play the music.
Let's bring everybody back as we get ready to dance!
Woo hoo!
Yeah!
(rock 'n roll music begins) Rock 'n roll dance party.
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