Wimee’s Words
Shapes
Season 1 Episode 8 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Wimee sings a silly, shapely song!
Wimee sings a silly, shapely song; Moby tells about the shapes he saw in nature; Wimee and friends write a story about a flying dragon, a baby, and a rock; Brody and Wimee have fun with shapes together; Ms. Grace translates the key story words into Spanish; Jim sings a guessing game shape song; and our friends McKenna and Mr. Blue show us how to draw shapes and find shapes in nature!
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Wimee’s Words
Shapes
Season 1 Episode 8 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Wimee sings a silly, shapely song; Moby tells about the shapes he saw in nature; Wimee and friends write a story about a flying dragon, a baby, and a rock; Brody and Wimee have fun with shapes together; Ms. Grace translates the key story words into Spanish; Jim sings a guessing game shape song; and our friends McKenna and Mr. Blue show us how to draw shapes and find shapes in nature!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Okay, did you hear the one about the circle?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah.
- Oh, yeah, that one gets around.
Okay, okay, okay.
Did you hear about the circle who went to school for a really long time?
(chuckles) Yeah, he has 360 degrees.
(laughs) Oh man oh, oh but honestly, I really don't like to joke about circles.
There's really no point.
(kids laughing) (laughs) I'm here all day and the entire episode.
(audience applauds) ♪ Wimee creates all the day through ♪ ♪ And you can do it too Circles, triangles and squares.
Oh my, get ready to laugh, learn, and create with shapes.
And we have a great line up guest; Brody is illustrating in the Wimage Lab.
Grace is translating with Language Explorers, and Jim is forming a perfectly shape theme song for us in Jim Time.
This episode is shaping up to be anything but square, and today is Wimee's Words.
(audience clapping) (foreboding music) So what I need from you is a shape.
Ready?
My circle fish, scrubs a circle dish.
- Circle, circle.
Hmm, okay, so just pick any shape, and I'm gonna come up with a little rhyme to go along with it.
So what are your favorite shapes?
We got, you know, we got the standard shapes of course.
Maybe you got a fancy one.
I'll do my best.
Okay, circle, I love it, ready?
Let's see, how about, I'm gonna change it up a little, I'm gonna say a circle moth scares up a circle sloth.
- Circle, circle.
- What?
A trapezoid.
(laughs) I love it.
Yes, you got me going right up my toes right from the top.
Okay, so let's see trapezoid.
I'm gonna say, a trapezoid bee draws a trapezoid tree.
- Trapezoid, trapezoid.
Where is it coming from?
Square, I love it.
Okay, let's do this, let me think of an animal.
I'm gonna do frog.
A square frog saws a square log.
- Square, square.
- I'm just not quite sure.
Ooh, heart, I love this.
This is so fun.
This is shaping up to be a great episode.
(laughs) See what I did there?
Shaping up to be a great episode.
Okay, heart.
Let's wrap up with heart.
Okay, let's see, I think I'll say, hmm, how about let's go with guilt.
Okay, a heart goat tows a heart boat - Heart, heart.
- Friends, let's check in to see what Moby's got today.
(Upbeat music) - There are so many shapes in nature.
I saw some circles outside today.
The sun, dandelions, rocks, a bird nest.
I wonder what other shapes I could find.
Hm, maybe triangles, or stars.
Hmm, I wonder what shapes you could find.
Are there other circles that you've seen in nature?
(Upbeat music) - Oh, there are shapes everywhere.
Look around me it's about nature, and in here on my desk I got, well, I got a circle on this plant vase here.
The globe that's round that says a sphere when it's 3D, right?
Oh man, 2D and 3D shapes.
You've got a square here, rectangles.
Man, okay, okay, I got some of those shapes on me.
They're everywhere.
Okay, let's see friends, it's time for today's Three Sentence Story.
And the three words come from, you.
(laughs) They do, they do.
So let's get rolling in our first sentence.
I'll set the scene.
Share with me a noun, a person, a place, or a thing.
In the second sentence there is a problem.
But friends, don't worry because in the third sentence there is a solution.
Yeah, that was a dramatic way to sing the solution.
Oh, dragon.
Okay, we're off and rolling.
The first word is dragon.
Let's see.
I'll go classic.
Once upon a time, A dragon flew through the sky above the mountains.
Yeah, I can picture it now.
The mountains, the dragon.
The dragon is flying high in the sky.
Oh my.
(laughs) I put a little rhyme in there.
Okay, so in the second sentence though here comes the problem.
What word will it be?
A baby.
(laughs) Baby is the problem.
Okay, here we go.
Once upon a time, a dragon was flying high in the sky above the mountains.
Looking far down into the valley, the dragon spied a baby in danger.
(gasps) How do we help this baby?
But wait a minute, typically, the dragon is the villain in a story, but not this story friends.
In this story that dragon is our hero, and the dragon has to go rescue the baby.
The baby's in trouble, what do we do, how do we help the baby?
Ooh, rock indeed.
Okay, the dragon is going to save the day with a rock.
Here we go.
Once upon a time, a dragon was flying high in the sky above the mountains.
The dragon looked down in the valley below and saw a baby who needed help.
The dragon swiftly scooped down, scooped up a rock, scooped up the baby on that rock, and flew back up into the sky, landing the baby and the rock on, where did it land?
Hmm, I'm still working on that part.
I like this though.
It's like a little, it's like the baby's on a little flying saucer or it's like a magic carpet ride, like in Aladdin where they're like, woo!
On the rock.
Maybe this rock has special powers.
I think we got more details to add to this.
Yeah, maybe there's a nest somewhere.
Ooh, is it a human baby?
Is it a dragon baby?
Is it an owl baby?
Is it a squirrel baby?
Oh, who knows?
What kind of baby?
Well, we could decide.
Brody in the Wimage Lab could decide with how the wimage shows it.
But yeah, maybe there's a nest.
Something about that rock I think too.
Friends it's time to go to Brody in the Grandville Wimage Lab to see what he's got going for today's wimage.
(laughs) I wonder what kind of baby is it?
Hi Brody.
- Hello Wimee, so did you know that every square is a rectangle but not every rectangle is a square?
- Wait, let me get this right.
It sounds familiar, but every what is a what?
A square.
- Every square is a rectangle, - okay.
- but not every rectangle is a square.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, because a square, it has to have four equal sides, and a rectangle could have four equal sides but it's not required, - Yeah.
- but for a square it is.
- Yep.
- Yeah.
That's awesome.
Isn't that fascinating?
- Mm-hmm.
Look, I have two different shapes.
- [Wimee] Wait, okay, I see one square.
- This one kind of looks like a boot.
- [Wimee] Oh yeah.
- And this one is just a square.
- [Wimee] Yup, four equal sides, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- [Wimee] Yeah.
Hey, that the one that looks like a boot, if you put that back up, spin it just a little bit left.
So we still see the shape that was left, okay now spin it so that I can see the, rotate it, that's the word I'm looking for.
Rotate it.
Oh no, wait, nope, nope, nope, keep it so we, nope, nope, nope.
I gotta think of my word choice better.
Spin it so that, you see where the boot is?
Point at the white block.
Yeah, put the white one in the red one on top.
Oh no, no, oh man!
I'm getting all mixed up with what I'm saying.
Just rotate it, spin it.
What do you think, Grace?
- Tilt it.
- Oh, tilt.
That's the word.
- Yeah.
Put it on the side on the top.
- Wait a minute, I'll turn my head upside down, then I'll get it.
(laughs) Thanks Grace.
Great, nope, nope, no, keep tilting it.
Rotate, other way.
Okay, now put it on your head, and then put it in your ear, and yeah, right there.
That's it, we got it.
Okay, it looks like a heart.
(laughs) (Brody laughs) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I should have just said that.
(laughs) Ah, words are funny, aren't they?
Yeah, there it is, that's what I was thinking.
Do you see it?
Does it kind of look like a pointy heart?
Yeah, okay.
You don't have to put it in your ear.
I'm glad you didn't really do that.
You were like, "What?
My ear."
Okay, okay, let's see what she got for today's Wimage Lab, Brody.
- [Wimee] Whoa!
- So there's two of you hiking on the mountain.
- [Wimee] Cool.
- With the dragon flying over the mountains with the rock and the baby.
- It's a human baby.
(laughs) I love it.
The picture tells us, and yeah, I love it.
Okay, so we got it all in there.
Let's think of what else we could add.
Friends, if you have any ideas to add something in the background, in the foreground, other characters on the mountain.
Ooh, a taco.
(laughs) Dragons love tacos.
Ooh, and then we have a suggestion for fireball.
Nice.
Quack, quack, quack, quack.
- Then.
- Well, let's see what you got.
Oh man, look at that, look at that.
Wow, that fireball looks amazing and I love the duck.
He like he had a full belly of tacos, and he's back down the mountain.
Awesome.
Well Brody, if you want to add anything else we'll check in with you later to see some updates.
Thanks, Brody.
Friends, today we get to find out how to say today's words in Spanish for today's Language Explorers.
Grace is here to join us.
Hi Grace.
- Hello - [Wimee] Hey, we got shapes today, (laughs) and then in our story some fun words.
What have you got for us today?
- Yes, I forgot how much I love shapes.
One of the words that even reminds me of the shape when I saw Brody's wimage, I was like oh, yeah, you can do a shape of the dragon.
It looks kind of like a, what is one of those triangles.
Anyway, my mind is giving me all these images, 'cause of shapes now.
- Yeah.
Yeah, you notice triangles are the basic shape of the wing, right?
- Yeah, exactly.
I love that, yeah.
I did an origami dragon one time.
That's why I was thinking about that.
- Oh yeah!
- That was awesome.
- Yeah, love it.
- Yeah, so a dragon in Spanish is dragón.
You see that little tick mark above the O, everyone?
- [Wimee] Yeah.
- Dragón.
Do you want to say that with me?
- [Wimee] Yeah, ready?
Here we go.
Dragón.
- Dragón.
- Dragón - [Wimee] Dragón.
- Yeah, yeah.
Have fun with that word today, friends.
Just say dragón, dragón.
- Dragón.
- I love un dragón.
- [Wimee] Nice, oh bebé.
- Yeah, I love these words today, they have all the accents.
- Accents.
- The accents are so fun for me.
I already have fun with talking in Spanish, but accents make it give you permission to have all the fun.
So baby is bebé.
- [Wimee] Bebé.
- Oh, bebé.
Quelendo bebé.
(laughs) You almost kinda want to do this when you say that word.
Bebé, such a little bebé.
A cute bebé.
- [Wimee] Oh, how, how would you say baby dragon?
Would it be dragón bebé?
- Un bebé dragón.
Un dragón bebé.
Now I'm getting myself a little confused.
I wanna say bebé dragón.
- Oh, you're right, 'cause I'm thinking of the adjective, but that's not an adjective for bebé that they're both nouns, right?
In Spanish too, - Yeah, yeah.
- are they both nouns?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, so I got it mixed up then, right?
- Yeah.
I was out in the sun too much today.
I didn't think too quickly on that, but yeah, thanks for helping me, Wimee.
- [Wimee] We're a team.
- Yes un bebé dragón.
Wow, that would be the cutest thing ever.
(both laughing) - Right.
- The cutest bebé dragón.
And the last word we have in Spanish here for you today, everyone is roca.
La roc is rock, but you know, how there's kind of different sizes of rocks.
You know, friends, have you been on a walk in the park, and you see kind of like bigger, bigger, like rocks the size of your head almost, or your hand, and then you see tiny little stones, and that's more of the la piedra.
- [Wimee] Like a pebble?
- More like a stone, - Stone.
- like yeah, it could be a pebble.
It can be something, you know, like a Flint rock, you know, we have Petoskey stones, all that kind of stuff, that would be more piedra.
- Gotcha.
- Yeah.
So let's probably not use this too much, but I want to bring it in just in case of people had heard that word.
Sometimes it's used interchangeably, but mostly you want to say rock, roca.
- Roca.
- Roca.
- I love it, I love it.
Thank you, Grace.
- Don't come at me.
Yeah, don't come at anybody with la roca unless you wanna play with it.
- Yeah, that's true.
You can play fun games like with rocks and counting and- - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, hey, real quick, do you have a favorite shape?
- I was just thinking that, and I really do love circles.
I do love circles so much, because I like to color a lot, and so I love coloring the whole circle, or something you can divide it and color it.
Well, you can do that with other shapes too, but a circle is so happy to me.
- Yeah.
- And then the sun, or the moon, flowers, yeah.
- I love it, I hear you I hear you.
I love it too.
Thanks so much, Grace.
(laughs) - Thank you, Wimee.
Thanks friends.
See you another day.
- Bye bye.
(laughs) Shapes, shapes, shapes.
Guess what, friends?
It is time for Jim Time.
(rock music) - Hi Friends.
How's everybody doing today?
- Good.
You got little shapes on your guitar.
(laughs) - I do.
Actually, you know what?
I have many, many shapes.
Actually, here I'm gonna give you a clue to my song that I'm gonna sing.
All the shapes that I'm gonna sing about in my song are on my guitar.
I have squares.
- Yep.
- I have a circle.
I have a lot of rectangles.
- [Wimee] Yep.
- And actually, my pick is kind of like a triangle.
It's not exactly triangle, but it's pretty close.
- Yeah.
- So I'm gonna sing about all those shifts.
You have to guess before I end the verse what shape I'm singing about, but I just gave you all of them, so it's a good clue.
- Yeah, hi Joe.
♪ You won't believe the shape I'm in ♪ ♪ I just don't know where to begin ♪ ♪ I've been spinning round and round ♪ ♪ Sometimes bouncing up and down ♪ ♪ Blowing bubbles on the merry go round ♪ ♪ You won't believe the circle Did you know it's a circle?
- I didn't know it's a circle.
♪ That I'm in - It was a circle.
- Oh, a circle, yeah, yeah.
♪ You won't believe the shape I'm in ♪ ♪ I'm feeling like I don't fit in ♪ ♪ I've got the right angles ♪ I keep things straight ♪ I like the box ♪ But I'm a feather way ♪ You won't believe ♪ The - Wait, I know, I know, I know - Yeah, what is it?
- Well wait, actually it could be one of two, 'cause it had right angles.
It is a square.
Equal sides, square.
♪ It's the square that I've been in ♪ ♪ You won't believe the shape I'm in ♪ ♪ Like all the teeth in the sharks grin ♪ ♪ I have to share this piece of pie ♪ ♪ With only me, myself and I ♪ Our story always has three sides ♪ ♪ You won't believe - I know, I know.
Oh, Brody's got it too.
Brody, what is it?
- Triangle.
- It's the triangle.
♪ That I am in ♪ You won't believe the shape I'm in ♪ ♪ Two sides wide and two sides thin ♪ ♪ I've got the right angles ♪ But I'm no square ♪ My four sides are two equal pairs ♪ - Hmm, what could it be?
- I know, I know it, it's not a square.
Oh, Brody taught us about this.
He said not all what was it, not all squares are rectangles, no, no, no, not all rectangles are squares but all- - Yes.
- But all rectangles are squares Wait, not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles - Did he get it right, Brody?
- All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
- That's right.
- So yoh, in the song it's a rectangle, right?
- It's a rectangle!
- Yay!
♪ You won't the rectangle that I'm in ♪ ♪ You won't believe the shape that I've been in ♪ - Nice job, friends.
- Yeah, that was so fun.
That was nice and bluesy.
That was like a blues song, right?
- Yeah, it was very bluesy.
- Yeah, it was bluesy.
- 'Cause you know, you just won't believe the shape I'm in.
It's just felt kind of bluesy.
(Wimee sings) Hey, so yeah, isn't that an awesome song?
Hey Brody, had a shape, do you think you could write a verse about the shape he said?
What was it?
I forgot.
- I don't even think I could sing the shape that he said.
Let alone sing about it.
- What was the shape again?
- Pentahedron.
- Yeah.
Yeah, pentahedron.
(guitar music) ♪ You won't believe the shape I'm in ♪ ♪ It's a pentahedron - Wait, no, you just gave it away, Jim.
- Oh right, I'll have to keep working on it.
- Oh man, oh man.
Hey Jon, it's our friend, Jon.
Yeah, congrats to Brody.
And Oh, Kylie's liking the song.
I think did you vote?
Kylie, do you think we should keep working together on the pentra?
I keep forgetting the word pence.
- So many shapes.
We can keep coming up with more and more versus, right?
- Yeah, yeah, that's true.
- Okay, I'll see you at today's party.
- All right, it's Jim, yay!
Okay, let's see, friends, guess what?
We've got a really cool mathematical moment.
Do you remember when?
Oh wait, oh, hey, I love what John says that.
Hey Wimee.
(laughs) I did that for you, John, because yeah.
Okay, oh yeah, remember when Moby was talking about looking for shapes in nature.
Check out today's mathematical moment by McKenna and Mr. Blue.
(upbeat music) - Well, hello McKenna, how are you today?
- Good.
- What are you going to tell me about?
- Shapes.
- What do you know about shapes?
- That there is different shapes.
- Oh, how are they different?
- Because they have different corners and edges.
- Oh, yeah I see you made a straight line.
- That's how you make a triangle.
- Okay, how many sides did you use?
- Three.
- Three sides and three quarters, make this triangle.
- Here the square.
- Oh, what's the difference between a triangle and a square?
- Because a triangle has three sides, and a square has four sides.
Ooh, what's special about the sides of a square?
- Because they're all straight.
- And equal, right?
They're all equal.
- Yes.
All right.
Do you think we could find some of these shapes out in nature?
- Yeah, but first let me color my square in.
- All right, we'll go find something and we'll be back.
What did you just find, Mckenna?
- A circle.
- Oh, I see the circle.
There's a couple of them there.
- And I found a cylinder.
- [Blue] Oh, the bird feeder is definitely a cylinder.
- Yeah.
Look at these pretty flowers that I found.
- Oh, what is the bud shape?
- A sphere, the big ones and tiny ones.
A bird's nest.
- What did you find and what shape is it, Mckenna?
- A birds nest and it is a circle?
- Oh, I wonder what other shapes we can find.
- I found a leaf.
I found a oval.
- Oh, all those leafs are little ovals.
- And I even found a long cylinder on this branch.
- Whoa, that's the longest cylinder I've ever seen.
- Yeah with spikes.
You don't wanna touch those spikes.
- It looks like each of those spikes is a cylinder too.
- Yeah, two cylinders and one cylinder.
- What?
- See you next time at math with Mckenna and Mr. Blue.
Bye!
- Bye!
(upbeat music) - Oh man, I love it so much.
Thank you so much, McKenna and Mr. Blue for today's mathematical moment.
Friends, just like McKenna and Mr. Blue did, look for shapes out in nature, and see if you can find objects to build the shapes with.
(laughs) That's so cool.
I love it.
Okay, we're gonna go over this scavenger hunt, friends.
Are you ready?
We gotta be fast, fast, fast.
Find something shaped like a triangle, something shaped like a circle, and something shaped like a square.
Go, go, go, go, go, go, find it fast, find it fast.
Something shaped like a triangle.
Something shaped like a circle.
Something shaped like a square.
What could it be, what could it be?
We found somethings in nature.
Hmm, post in the comments What you find.
Maybe you find a kite that happens to be shaped like a triangle.
Maybe you find a box.
Maybe you find a painting.
Yeah.
Oh, Jim's got it.
- I found an album cover that's round, I mean that's square, but then the album inside is round.
- Nice.
- So I round the circle and square together.
- Well, it sounds like a song.
♪ Circle and square, circle and square ♪ - Circle and square together.
- I love it, I love it.
Friends, what else did you find?
Let us know what you got, Brody.
- I got my iPad is a square.
- Yeah.
- The mountains are triangles and- - Yeah.
I popped up.
I was like, hey, look at me.
- And the sun is the circle.
- All kinds of shapes, all kinds of shapes.
I used to update on the wimage.
We're running tight on time.
You can show us more than the dance party.
Look for triangle shapes, circle shapes, square shapes.
Ooh, draw a picture.
Put it in as many shapes as you can.
Oh a napkin.
I'm gonna guess the napkin is a square.
You can fold in half and it become a triangle.
Oh, a ball, it's round.
Shaped like a circle.
Oh, I like how McKenna was finding things that are 2D and 3D.
The spheres, the cylinders, man, that's a whole nother thing.
Definitely go through all the details of 2D and 3D.
Oh, a ball of yarn, that's round.
A notebook, that's square, and the hands on the clock, yeah, are in a triangle shape.
(laughs) Great job friends, finding it fast.
Triangle cake.
(laughs) It sounds delicious.
Triangle cake.
Well friends, we've had a lot of fun.
I hope you've had fun.
We're gonna get rolling to our dance party.
Brody is gonna show us the update to his wimage.
Just look real quick as we get ready to dance.
Who-hoo, tacos.
It's a taco buffet.
- Yeah, so I changed the mountains, and I added a taco buffet.
- (laughs) I wanna go up that mountain.
(laughs) Friends, let's get ready to dance.
Thanks Brody.
Thanks Jim.
Thanks Grace, and thanks everybody for helping us out.
Singing, creating, looking for shapes.
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