- (grunts) Oh, man, I have sand in my ears.

Man, I really like going to the beach, but I always seem to bring the beach home with me.

Well, I guess I picked a good day to bring the beach home because today's show, it's all about sand... (playful music begins) ♪ Wimee creates all the day through ♪ ♪ And you can do it too ♪ ♪ Think of words and of rhymes ♪ ♪ Make images, please do ♪ ♪ Do, Do... ♪ - [Kids] It's time for Wimee's Words.

(kids cheering and clapping) - Hey friends, I am glad you are here!

We've got Miss Stephanie with us to go right away to a question.

Hi, Miss Stephanie!

- Hi, Wimee!

Hi, friends.

- (chuckles) I got a question.

Do you like to walk on the sand?

- I do.

I do.

I like to take off my shoes and my socks, and walk right along the edge where the water hits the sand, and sometimes the sand has little bubbles in it, and I like to walk right on that part.

- (chuckles) I love it.

Thanks Miss Stephanie!

We'll see you in a little bit.

Same question for Kayleen, do you like to walk on sand?

- Definitely, I like how it feels against my toes.

- Aw...Squish, squish, squish.

(chuckles) I love it Kayleen, we'll see you in a little bit later on the show throughout the show.

Friends at home, how do you feel about walking on the sand?

Well, share with me please, something that you do at the beach.

Ready?

♪ The kids at the beach build sand castles ♪ ♪ Sand castles, sand castles ♪ ♪ The kids at the beach build sand castles ♪ ♪ Sands all around ♪ (Wimme chuckles) All the sand you can just be like... (makes mimic sounds) Share with us something you like to do at the beach.

Let's go to Kayleen.

Kayleen, what is something, anything at all, that you like to do at the beach?

- I like to go swimming, I like to build sand castles, and I like to play with volleyballs.

- Whoa!

I love it!

All three things.

I'll see if I can get...

Okay, wait, let me get it.

Play volleyball, build sand castles, and what was the first one?

- And I like to go swimming - Go swimming, okay.

♪ The kids at the beach go swimming ♪ ♪ Build sand castles and play volleyball ♪ ♪ The kids at the beach they build sand castles ♪ ♪ Sands all around ♪ (chuckles) Swimming, volleyball, be careful with the volleyball that is like... (makes mimic sound) Oh, no...

The sand castle!

♪ The kids at the beach they lay in the sun ♪ ♪ Lay in the sun, lay in the sun ♪ ♪ The kids at the beach they lay in the sun ♪ ♪ Then they go jump in the water ♪ (water splashes) (laughs) Anyways, friends, let's go find out what Moby is gonna tell us today.

(playful upbeat music) - (laughs) Hi friends.

I was just reading that sand could be made up, pretty much just about of anything.

Yeah, and what makes sand, sand, is really mostly about its size.

A grain of sand is a tiny tiny bit of rock, mineral, or other matter that has been worn down, usually by the wind or water, eventually, to the size of a grain of sand.

Because it's so small, it's very easy for sand to travel great distances from where it first began.

If you were a grain of sand, where would you like to go?

I think I would like to go all the way around to the other side.

(playful upbeat music continues) - Oh, imagine going all the way around halfway around the earth, and then continuing all the way back around.

(chuckles) I wonder how much sand there is in the world.

But like Moby was saying, sand can be made of all different things.

It would take a while to figure that out.

Well, friends, its time for today's... 1, 2, Three Sentence Story.

Let's write a story, friends.

And the sentences of the three sentences...

Wait, I just said the sentences of the sentences?

You know what I mean.

I'll say this, in the first sentence, we set the scene.

In the second sentence, there is a problem.

Then, in the third sentence, there is a solution... Whoa!

Let's go to Kayleen for the first noun.

A person place or thing... Kayleen, any word at all?

What word you thinking?

- Water bottles.

- Water bottles!

(chuckles) I love it.

That's a great thing to have at the beach, water bottles.

Okay, I was on my way to the beach with my water bottles filled up.

That's right, I had multiple water bottles, 'cause you gotta stay hydrated!

Ooh, okay.

Oh, no, there's gotta be a problem at the beach!

Ooh, Brock is suggesting the word "Firetruck".

There's a problem.

The word "Firetruck" will be in the second sentence.

Here we go.

I was on my way to the beach with my water bottles filled up.

As I got there, fire trucks were going, (mimics fire siren) because a dolphin was... What was the dolphin doing?

The dolphin was having trouble swimming.

We need to help the dolphin!

The dolphin is struggling!

Somebody call the fire truck.

The ambulance is maybe on the way, everybody's gonna help rescue the dolphin!

How do we help the dolphin, friends?

We need a word.

"Ninja".

(laughs) Brody's got the solution, a ninja.

(exhales) Okay, here we go, from the top.

I was on my way to the beach with my water bottles filled up.

I heard a... (mimics fire siren) because fire trucks were on their way to rescue a dolphin that was drowning.

Right from the fire truck jumped a ninja firefighter, who went... (mimics fire fighting) and pulled that dolphin right up to the shore.

Whoa!

(laughs) Ninja firefighters.

Firefighters, without even being ninjas, they are ninjas, like by default because of how amazing they are!

Ooh, an octopus.

There is an octopus and a warthog in this story as well.

Ooh, Wimage Board.

Great job.

Let's get the octopus, the walrus, all the details you want to add.

We'll check back with you, Wimage Board.

Great job on getting that going, and we'll see if you add more throughout the show.

(chuckles) Well, guess what, friends?

It's time for today's Language Explorers.

(bright upbeat music) - Sand in Spanish, is arena.

Arena.

- In French, sand is sable.

Sable.

- In Swahili, sand is mchanga.

Mchanga.

- In ASL or American Sign Language, sand is signed like this...

Sand.

- In German, sand is Sand.

Sand.

- Sand in Haitian Creole, is sab.

Sab.

- Did you notice, friends, that in German, the word sand was spelled the same, both in English and in German, but in German, it's pronounced... Zand.

(chuckles) That is so cool!

Hey, I wonder if my name is pronounced differently in different parts of the world.

I don't know.

Maybe.

Well, friends, guess what?

My friend, Nancy from "FitKids360" is here!

It's time for My Friends!

(upbeat music) - Hi, Nancy!

- Hi, Wimee.

Hi, friends.

- Whoa, what do you have with you?

- I have a lot of sand of different colors, all sorts of colors.

And I've assigned them a little emotions.

(Wimee gasps) So all of these, - Okay.

- Are about emotions.

So for example, my green sand, because it's my favorite color, means happy.

- [Wimee] Yay!

- Yeah, while my purple sand means loved.

- [Wimee] Aw... - So, I wanna show you guys, something that we do in our classes, which is try to say our feelings, our emotions, without using words.

(Wimee gasps) We use sand.

- Cool.

- So, I'll show you.

It's really easy.

- Okay.

- So, for example, today, I ate a lunch that my mom packed for me, so I felt loved.

So in my feelings bottle that I'm gonna fill with sand, I'm gonna fill it with a lot of purple sand, or a lot of love.

- [Wimee] Love!

I love it.

- Yeah.

This is a little bit hard, but go ahead.

It goes all in there.

So as I'm thinking about my day, emotions are really important.

You go and you feel all sorts of things, right?

By the end of the day, you've felt a whole lot of emotions.

- [Wimee] Yeah.

- So, I also felt a little bit sad today, just because I like winter, and there's no snow on the ground.

So, I'm gonna add a little bit of blue sand to show... Oops, maybe that's a lot of blue sand.

- [Wimee] You really miss the snow, don't you?

- I do.

I love it.

(both chuckling) So I just keep adding, we do this in class.

- Okay.

- We keep on adding the sands, and then we keep on thinking, how did I feel today, and how can I tell other people how I felt using sand?

Now, after we pour all of our sand, whatever it means, maybe red if you're angry today, or white if you're curious, maybe you learnt something cool at school.

After we do all of that, we have something that looks like this.

- [Wimee] Whoa!

- Very cool.

So all different sorts of colors, and they're all in layers, right?

They're so pretty.

Perfect.

- [Wimee] Whoa.

- But our feelings are usually not perfect, right?

- No.

- No.

By the end of the day, we've felt so many things, that they all get mixed up.

So, to show that, maybe we go like this.

- (gasps) Whoa!

(sand shuffling) - And mix it all up to get ourselves a beautiful rainbow.

- Wow!

- But also, now its hard to say what we were feeling, because it's all mixed up.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, so we need to be careful with our own feelings, right?

We need to make sure we don't shake this up too much, so that things don't become one thing or become another.

If you were happy, try to remember that you were happy, and don't let it become anger or sadness.

So, when you wanna figure somethings out without using your words, maybe you can try drawing or using sand like we do.

- Yeah.

- To show other people how you felt.

- That is so cool!

I'm gonna do this.

Hey guys, we need to get a bunch of sand, and can we do this?

- [Friend] Yeah, we'll do it.

- Okay, we're gonna do this, and I bet friends at home or at school, or wherever, you could do this.

- Yep.

- Well Nancy, thanks so much for sharing this cool idea.

(laughs) Hey, stick around.

(Nancy mumbles) Join us for the dance party later?

- Sure thing.

- (laughs) We'll see you then in the Scavenger Hunt, the Find it Fast, oh, man.

That is such a super cool idea.

That's my friend, Nancy from "FitKids360".

Hey, friends, it's time for Laughing with Siblee.

(laughs) (kids cheering) - What is the best day to go to the beach?

- Hmm...Um, I don't know.

- Sunday!

(laughs) (kids cheering) - Hm, what about Friday, Saturday, Sun... Oh... (laughs) Now I get it.

Sand day.

(chuckles) Okay, friends, I invite you to take a deep breath, breathe in.

(inhales) Hold it 1, 2, 3, 4.

Let it loose.

(exhales) It's time for Slowing Down.

(gentle music) (inhales) Take another deep breath.

(inhales) Hold it.

And let it out.

(exhales) We love books, friends.

It's time for Check Out This Book!

(upbeat music) - Hi, friends.

So good to see you all today.

I'm so glad to share another book with you.

Today, I'm gonna talk to you about "Jules Vs The Ocean", written and illustrated by Jessie Sima, and published by Simon and Schuster books.

In this book, we meet Jules.

Jules, as you can tell, is ready to take on the ocean.

She is going to build the best sand castle.

Is it warm enough to build sand castles where you live right now?

It's not where I live, but I love building sand castles, and I'm kind of dreaming of sand castle weather right now.

I would like to join Jules.

Well, as you might guess, and sometimes might happen to you, the ocean and the water comes in, and keeps ruining Jules' sand castles.

At one point, the water even takes her sand castle bucket.

She just lays down and puts her sad face right in the sand.

Just when she thinks all hope is lost and she's never gonna impress her sister with the most spectacular sand castle, her sister comes and joins her, and together, they work on the most impressive sand castle.

What do you think?

Do you think they build the sandcastle and it stays, and they leave the beach thinking it's just standing there, or does the water take their sandcastle before they head home for the night?

Check out "Jules Vs The Ocean", to see what happens in this very sandy story.

Happy reading, friends.

(upbeat music) - (laughs) I love the title, "Jules Vs The Ocean".

(mimics drum rolls) Friends, guess what?

My friend, Heidi, over at Muskegon Area District Library, is here for today's Explore and Create.

(bright upbeat music) - Hi, Wimee.

Hi, friends.

My name is Heidi, and I work at the Holton and Montague branches of Muskegon Area District Library.

I'm coming to you today from our Monague Storyville, and not only do we have a yellow submarine, but we also have this beautiful mural of the coast of Lake Michigan.

As you can see, there is a sandy beach all along the coast of this area of Lake Michigan.

Have you ever been to the beach before?

Did you know that sand can be different colors based on what it's made out of?

Our sand here is kind of a tan color, but, I've been to a beach before, where the sand was made out of lava rocks, which made the sand black.

It was pretty cool.

So, the next time that you go to the beach, make sure to look to see what color the sand is.

And while you're there, maybe you could build a sand castle.

It's one of my favorite things to do at the beach.

Did you know that the tallest sand castle ever made was over 69 feet tall?

That's more than three giraffes stacked on top of each other.

Wow!

That's a tall sand castle.

So, giraffes.

They don't live in the sand, do they?

Not many animals do.

A lot of animals can't survive in the sand.

There are some crabs and some beetles and some flies that can live in the sand, but there is one animal that sand is very important to, and that is the sea turtle.

Sea turtles swim to the shore and they crawl across the sand and they lay their eggs in a hole in the sand.

The sand helps to protect the eggs, and then when little baby turtles hatch out of the eggs, they crawl up out of the hole, crawl across the sand again, and then swim away.

So sand's actually the first home for our baby turtles.

So, another place that I love to find sand, is on a sand dune.

Sand dunes are basically just big hills of sand, and they're really important to our ecosystem.

They help to protect our coastline from wind and waves, and we can help protect the dunes by only walking and playing in areas where we're allowed to do that.

So, I hope that you will get to visit a sand dune or a beach sometime very soon.

(upbeat music) - Thanks, Heidi!

Oh, man, Muskegon Area District Library over on the west side of Michigan, right near the beaches.

Man, how much shoreline do we have in Michigan?

I believe they say Michigan's got the highest fresh water coastline in the world.

Aha!

I'm pretty sure.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

Okay, friends, we are gonna play a game... We call it the Alphabet Game.

♪ A B C D E F G ♪ ♪ H I J K L M N O P ♪ ♪ Q R S T U V W X Y Z ♪ ♪ A B C D E F G ♪ ♪ H I J K L M N O P ♪ ♪ Q R S T U V W X Y Z ♪ (Wimee sings) All right, Stephanie!

Miss Stephanie and Kayleen, here we go.

Let's throw up the letters!

(upbeat music) We need to find any words that start with the letters here.

I'll start, then Miss Stephanie, then Kayleen, and we keep going around... B for Beach.

(laughs) - G for Golfer.

- Golfer?

(laughs) Good.

- Hmm...S for Summer.

- Ooh, summer... S for Summer.

I'll say, N for... Night.

- I for Ice-cream.

(Wimee gasps) - L for Left.

- Aw...I love that.

P for Potato!

- Y for Yes!

- Yes!

(laughs) Let's do 'em all again.

- G for Giraffes.

- Giraffes!

Three of 'em!

More than three build the world's largest sand castle.

B for Boat.

- L for Lettuce.

- S is awesome for Spring.

- (gasps) That's true!

Spring, summer, snow.

But spring, summer, snow... What about fall?

Can we get a word for fall?

Yard, right?

The leaves in the yard.

(laughs) Y. I got Y.

- Okay.

N for Net.

You can take your net.

(Wimee mimicking sounds) - Did we miss any on the second one?

- L for Luck.

- Oh, yes!

Did we get 'em all?#^ - I think I.

- Oh, I?

(laughs) Okay, my turn.

I forgot the letter I.

(laughs) Friends, thanks for playing the Alphabet Game...

I love playing this game, it's fun.

So, friends, you can play this game anytime.

Pick letters, throw 'em up in the air, maybe use like a board game of letters, write 'em down on a piece of paper, and go... (mimics sound) You know, you make up your own rules.

Make up your own games, 'cause the best games are the ones that we make up.

(chuckles) Sorry, okay.

Okay, let's see here.

Let's go check back on the Wimage Board.

Let's see what's been coming together there, Wimage Board.

What you got?

(laughs) Whoa!

(gasps) There's the dolphin!

The dolphin is so happy!

'Cause the firefighter ninja saved the dolphin, and look at that, the sand castle, the warthog, the octopus, there's a turtle, there's a submarine!

Just like over at Muskegon.

Oh, man, lots of water.

(laughs) (Wimee mimics water waves) I love how the warthog is in the sand castle.

(laughs) Great job Wimage Board!

I love it!

Well, friends, it's time for Find it Fast.

(upbeat music) Friends, can you find something that starts with S?

You know, like sand.

Can you find something tan?

A lot of sand is tan.

We learned that sand can be in lots of colors.

And find something tiny.

Can you find something even tinier than a grain of sand?

Whoa!

That'd be tricky.

Miss Stephanie, you find anything?

- I did.

- What you got?

- I did find something tiny, but it's not as tiny as a grain of sand.

- Okay.

- And it starts with an S. (Wimee gasps) You know, there's little tiny hearts there.

They seem pretty small.

- They're cute.

- And then something tan, you might think this is funny, a toilet paper roll.

- (laughs) That is tan.

(Wimee laughing) - Yeah.

- Awesome.

Thanks Miss Stephanie!

Let's see, friends at home.

Keep looking for... Kayleen, what have you found?

- So, this is a seashell, but I would've had those ones that smell like they're in the sand.

So this one is like a pest, it's small, and it has hints of tan.

- Oh... That is so beautiful.

Man, seashells are amazing... Ah, beautiful!

It's like nature's jewelry.

(laughs) Thanks, Kayleen!

Friends, share with us.

What is something you found?

Let's see, snake starts with S, sushi starts with S. Sam, anybody have a friend named Sam?

Find something tan.

Paper bags.

Oh, wait a minute, Stephanie starts with S!

(laughs) I'm gonna find you Stephanie.

Watch this.

Here's our Stephanie... (chuckles) Wait for it, there she is.

(laughs) I found you.

(laughing) All right, friends.

Thanks for playing Find it Fast.

♪ Find it Fast ♪ ♪ Find it Fast ♪ ♪ Find it Fast Fast Fast ♪ ♪ Boom ♪ ♪ Boom ♪ (chuckles) I was a little earlier, last part.

Boom!

I gotta wait for it there.

I gotta wait the last measure, last half beat.

Okay, friends.

This has been another great episode, don't you think?

Oh, you have an idea?

Oh, you do?

Will you share it with us?

Please.

Either post it in the comments, or reach out to us, okay?

Yeah.

(makes singing sounds) Kevin, keep your hand off.

Sorry.

- Okay.

Hello.

Oh my, I'm all disheveled.

- (chuckles) Okay.

You ready?

- Yes!

I think I'm ready.

My sweater is tan.

- (laughs) Mr. Grumfry, you're right.

- Thank you.

- (chuckles) Anything else?

- Um, no.

- Ooh, Steph would bring a book to the island.

- Yes, I think Stephanie would bring a book.

Let's ask her.

- Miss Stephanie, would you also bring a book in that survival kit?

- I absolutely would.

(Wimee laughs) I was debating whether to say book or chopstick.

- Awesome.

- (chuckles) Okay.

Thanks, Mr Grumfry.

- You're welcome.

Goodbye.

- (chuckles) Oh, man, I didn't know Mr. Grumfry was coming.

That's so good.

Come anytime buddy.

- [Mr. Grumfry] Okay.

- Okay.

So, it's time, friends, for the dance party... Dance along with us, it's been so fun!

(upbeat music) Nancy, over at "FitKids360", join the dance party festivity!

Kayleen, oh, yeah!

(cheers) Oh, yeah.

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