- Ah!

Oh My!

Whew!

It's really hard to see in here today.

This fog is as thick as pea soup.

Mm... Soup.

(upbeat music) ♪ Wimee creates all the day through ♪ ♪ And you can do it too ♪ ♪ Think of words and of rhymes ♪ ♪ Make Wimages ♪ ♪ Please do ♪ ♪ (scatting) ♪ - [Voiceover] It's time for Wimee's Words!

(audience cheers) - Friends!

Let's get rolling with today's opening song.

Share with us your favorite soup.

Chicken noodle hot, chicken noodle cold, chicken noodle in the pot, nine days old.

You know, I've always wondered with this song, nine days old?

Seriously?

But they say peas porridge hot, peas por- I should've started with that one.

'Cause some of you might say chicken noodle soup.

Okay, but do you know this song?

Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot, nine days old.

So friends, share with us.

Let's go back to Cailynn, find out what her favorite soup is.

What's one of your favorite soups?

- My favorite is chicken noodle soup.

- Yeah!

That's what I was just singing!

I gotcha, I got you.

Great, I'll sing it again.

Chicken noodle hot, chicken noodle cold, chicken noodle in the pot, nine days old.

I might change it to one day old, because I just don't know how I feel about that nine day old thing.

Hey Joe!

What's your favorite soup?

Let's check with Miss Stephanie.

We know both Cailynn and Miss Stephanie like soup for the sake of soup.

What's your favorite soup?

- I like so many soups, but I think I'll have to go with butternut squash soup as my favorite.

- Whoa, cool!

- Okay, I'll see if I can get all this in.

Butternut squash hot, butternut squash cold, butternut squash in the pot, one day old.

Whew!

Got it.

(Wimee chuckles) That was kind of tricky.

Okay, tomato soup hot, tomato soup cold, tomato soup in the pot, one day old.

Wait a minute, tomato soup cold.

I think they call it- What did they call it?

Gaspacho?

I think it's Gaspacho.

Ooh, potato cheese soup.

Potato cheese hot, potato cheese cold, potato cheese in the pot, two days old.

(Wimee chuckles) Yeah, see, that was two days- I made it two days old, because if we had the soup, then it was one more day.

I'll do this one three days old.

I think three days is a good ballpark number.

Minestrone!

That's fun to say.

Minestrone.

Minestrone hot, minestrone cold, minestrone in the pot, four days old.

Uh-oh... Three is really a good rule of thumb, four, but then nine?

Seriously?

I guess you could freeze it.

Yeah, or it depends on the soup.

I guess if there's like, dairy in it or not maybe makes a difference?

I don't know, I don't know.

Friends, let's go see what Moby's got to say today.

(upbeat music interlude) - I was reading earlier today that soup is one of the most popular foods in the world!

Yeah.

In the United States alone, we eat more than 10 billion bowls of soup each year.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Most soups are healthy, easy to make, and delicious.

Mm.

The most popular soup in the United States is... chicken noodle.

Hm.

I'm not sure how I feel about that, but I do like vegetable soup!

What kind of soup do you like?

(upbeat music interlude) - Chicken noodle?

That is popular.

Ooh, yes, soup and grill cheese!

They do go together pretty well.

That's classic.

Ooh and rice, yeah.

You know, I was thinking about Moby, and what kind of soup do you like?

Minestrone, you got me thinking, I think there's no meat in Minestrone, right?

Technically?

Let me check with Steph.

Hey Steph, is there any meat in Minestrone soup?

- There's not.

There are beans and vegetables.

- Beans.

That's what it is.

That's what makes vegetable and min- Vegetable soup versus minestrone is the beans.

- I believe so, yeah.

- I bet Moby would like that soup.

Okay.

- I think so.

Thanks.

Thanks, Ms. Stephanie.

Okay, friends!

It's time for today's.... 1, 2, three sentence story.

We're gonna write a story in three sentences.

In the first sentence, we set the scene.

In the second sentence, there is a problem.

Boo-hoo-hoo.

But in the third sentence, there is a solution.

Ha-ha.

I like getting fancy at the end.

Friends, share with us a person, place, or thing to start today's story and for the second word and the third word.

Let's go to Cailynn today for today's first word in the story.

Any word at all, Cailynn.

What do you think?

- Cotton candy.

- Cotton candy, ha-ha.

Okay, friends.

I love it.

And we're gonna start off today's story with cotton candy.

Alright.

Moby called me up yesterday and said, "Let's have cotton candy soup for dinner tonight."

(Wimee laughs) I love it.

Actually, I have no idea what cotton candy soup is, but man, oh man, I can't wait to find out!

Great job, Wimage Board.

It's coming together with the illustration and the design of today's story.

So friends, we need a second word.

Chalk.

Oh no!

Chalk is gonna cause trouble today, okay.

Moby called me up the other day and said, "Let's have cotton candy soup for dinner."

My grandma, who was writing on the chalkboard, said, "You can't have cotton candy soup for dinner."

(Wimee laughs) Yeah, that's a problem.

I guess Grandma was shuttin' this one down.

No cotton candy soup.

Okay, so.

Grandma says no cotton candy soup.

She's even writing it on a chalkboard.

I guess she really wanted to make sure we knew, but we need to solve this problem.

Now, here's the tricky part.

Do we solve this problem by actually figuring out how to get cotton candy soup?

Or, do we listen to Grandma and find out...

This is a tricky story, friends.

We either need to... Hm.

You see what I'm saying?

I gotta respect Grandma, but we gotta solve this problem.

Alright, let's see- I'll just see what happens, friends.

Moby called me up the other day and said, "Let's have cotton candy soup for dinner."

Grandma though, started right away writing on the chalkboard: No cotton candy soup!

Just then, the children in the neighborhood came over and said, "Let's have Minestrone instead!"

And Grandma said, "Okay, you can have a little bit of cotton candy soup for dessert."

(Wimee laughs) I think we figured it out, friends.

We decided not to have cotton candy soup.

So it didn't really solve the problem.

But I guess sometimes, you just gotta understand that you just gotta accept the way it goes, right?

And then grandma surprised us with cotton candy soup for dessert!

(Wimee chuckles) I think we did it, friends.

I think we figured out that story.

Thanks Wimage Board!

We'll check back with ya later and see what you come up to add with the children, the cotton candy dessert soup!

I wonder what flavor.

Hm.

Anyways.

Anyways, friends.

It's time for today's Language Explorers!

(plane jet whooshes) We're gonna find out how to say some words in American Sign Language from Ms. Stephanie.

Welcome back!

- Thank you!

Alright, the first word is... soup.

- Soup!

- So, you take one hand, and it kind of looks like a bowl.

And your other hand, you have two fingers together like this.

Soup.

Soup.

So you put the fingers up to your mouth, like you're scooping soup.

You got it.

- Thanks.

- The next word is bowl that I wanted to teach you.

- Yeah, I got a bowl.

- Yeah, you do.

Bowl.

- [Wimee] Okay.

- Like this, take your two hands and you cup them together, like a bowl shape.

That's bowl.

- Got it.

- Okay and now this one, I thought I would teach you how to say spoon.

- Ooh, got that too.

- It is basically the same as soup, except instead of going all the way up to your mouth, you just go up a little bit.

This is spoon.

- [Wimee] Okay.

- Spoon.

So...

I think- What do you think about having Cailynn join us- - Yeah.

Yeah.

and see what she thinks, if she can do that with us.

Alright, Cailynn, are you ready?

Okay.

Let's say soup.

Soup.

You got it.

Alright.

Bowl.

Bowl.

Nice.

And then spoon.

Spoon.

Excellent.

Yay!

- Oh!

Oh, kitty, kitty.

What do you call that?

Like video-bombed by a kitty?

- I think so, yes.

- I think the kitty wants some soup.

- I think she does.

She get jumped right up onto the table.

- Is there soup here?

What's going on?

- If there was, she would start to stick her little paw in it and eat it.

- Aw.

Man, that's what- Then the cat might know sign language for spoon and soup.

- Perhaps.

- No, no.

I'm stretching it there.

(Wimee laughs) - A little bit.

Okay.

Well thanks, Ms. Stephanie, for today's Language Explorers!

Whew.

Guess what, friends?

Our friend Nancy from Fit Kids 360 is here today for Wimee's Friends!

My friends!

(rock music riff) - Hi Wimee!

Hi guys!

My name is Nancy from Fit Kids 360, and today, I wanna show you a really cool game that we play in our classes.

So real quick, Fit Kids 360.

We talk about nutrition.

We talk about exercise, really good things to make a healthier you and have a healthier life.

And we talk about that with both kids and parents.

And this is one of the things that we use to show everyone how to think about food.

So there are five main food groups, and we can see them right behind me in our MyPlate.

Fruits, vegetables, protein, grains, and dairy.

And we need to be eating all of this.

But, it's good to think about what exactly we are eating.

So, for example, right in front of me, I have some cards, and they represent some food.

So, let's see... Hm.

Chicken, right?

So when we're eating chicken, it's good to think about what is this giving me?

So chicken is a really, really good source of protein.

So now that you know, when you eat chicken, you know, hey, I'm getting my protein.

Let's see, what else.

I have some grapes, and grapes are a... Do you know it?

Fruit, that's right.

So grapes are really sweet, really good source of natural sugar.

What else, let's see.

We have some oatmeal, and oatmeal goes in... the grain group.

We also have a pumpkin.

Now, pumpkin, I usually think Halloween, right?

But pumpkins are really, really tasty vegetables as well.

Same goes for the next card I have, which is peas.

And I like to remind myself by thinking, hey, this is green and this is green.

Vegetable.

What else?

Let's see.

I have some rice.

Now, rice is a type of... grain.

Just like oatmeal.

They even look a little bit alike, just a little bit.

I also have a banana.

Banana, really sweet as well, really yummy, and it's a fruit.

So I'm gonna put it right here.

Are you guessing some of these?

Now, I also have... yogurt.

And I can start to put that in my dairy category right up there.

Awesome.

And so I don't leave it alone, I also have some cheese.

It has holes in it, so I know it's Swiss cheese.

And I'm gonna put that right up here, because it is also a source of dairy.

Now, lastly, I have my tricky guy, which is tofu.

If you guys have ever seen tofu, it looks like blocks, almost like cheese.

But, it's actually a source of... protein.

It comes from plants, Ta-da!

(bells chime) Here's MyPlate.

So, did you guys enjoy this?

Did you know some of them?

We love to talk about this stuff, because it teaches people what they're eating.

Now, now that you've seen MyPlate, and now that you know what these are, I hope that next time you see something, like your glass of milk, you think, "Hm.

Where does this go?"

Right up there.

See you next time, Wimee.

(rock music riff) - Thanks Nancy!

That was so cool, so cool.

You know, it got me thinking about soup and the ingredients in soup.

I wanna bring Ms. Stephanie and Cailynn on, and I'm gonna quiz them.

Okay, so thinking of bowl of soup- I'll go to Cailynn first.

What are some vegetables that you might find in a bowl of soup?

- You might find some carrots.

- Oh, carrots, perfect.

Okay, Ms Stephanie, what is a grain you might find in a soup?

- Rice.

- Yes.

That was- Yes, yes.

Okay, let's see.

Protein.

Cailynn, what protein might be in a soup?

- Chicken.

- Chicken!

Okay, and then there was dairy.

Ms. Stephanie, what kind of dairy might be in soup?

- Cheese.

- Cheese.

Okay, okay.

Now for either of you, fruit?

- Tomato.

- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah!

That's right, tomato is a fruit!

Thanks, Ms. Stephanie.

Thanks, Cailynn.

Oh, man.

Soup, it could technically- I wonder if we could get all five?

Did we get 'em all?

Dairy... Yeah, we got 'em all.

Yeah, we did.

Man, oh man.

Well anyways, let's keep the show going, friends!

Let's see Siblee's got for today's joke.

(kids cheer) - What do ducks put in their soup?

- [Wimee] Hm, I don't know.

- Quackers!

(Siblee laughs) (kids cheer) - Alright, friends.

Take a deep breath.

Breathe in.

Hold it.

One, two, three, four.

Let it loose.

It's time for today's slowing down.

(soothing guitar music) Okay, okay.

Let's see, what's next?

We've got our book talk!

It's time for Check Out This Book.

(upbeat music) - Hi Wimee, hi everyone!

So glad to see you all today.

I am gonna talk to you about this bright red book called "Growing Vegetable Soup."

Written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

In this book, we meet a child and their father.

And before they make vegetable soup, the book starts way back at the beginning, and they are getting out their garden tools to plant all of the seeds to grow the vegetables that they're gonna need for their vegetable soup.

So we get to see them through a whole growing season and all the hard work they put into making this vegetable soup.

In the end, we get to see them harvest all of the vegetables, chop them up, and cook them to make delicious soup.

If you're somewhere cold right now and it's wintertime where you are, soup might sound really tasty and warm for you.

If you live somewhere warm, soup is still fabulous.

So in the end, there's a special treat.

The recipe that they use in this book, you can make yourself.

So maybe you didn't grow all the vegetables, but you can enjoy their journey, and then maybe try the soup yourself at the end.

Happy reading friends.

Bye!

(upbeat music) - Oh, that looks so cool!

Growing vegetable soup!

Alright, friends.

We're gonna play a game.

It's a game we call Number Crunching.

(fast music) ♪ 1, 2, 3, 4 ♪ ♪ 5, 6, 7 ♪ ♪ 8, 9, 10 ♪ (music stops) - Okay, okay, okay.

Here we go.

This is how it works, friends.

You know, Ms. Stephanie and Cailynn, but friends at home, we are gonna pick a number in our brain between one and 10.

Then we go around and we either say "higher" or "lower" or "that's it"!

Okay, so, I've got a number in my head, Ms. Stephanie, between one and 10.

What do you think it is?

- Six.

- Lower.

- Three.

- Higher.

- Five.

- You got it!

Five!

Right in the middle.

(Wimee laughs) Your turn.

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

Okay, I'm ready.

- 10.

- Lower.

- One.

- Higher.

- Six.

- Higher.

- Seven.

- Higher.

- Nine.

- Lower.

- Oh!

It's gotta be eight!

Ding, ding, da-ding ding!

- Yay!

- It is, it was eight.

- Okay.

Okay, I go again.

I got it.

I'm picking a number between one and 10.

- Four - Lower.

- One.

- It is one!

(Wimee laughs) You got it, Cailynn.

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

- 10.

- Lower.

- Seven.

- Higher.

- Ooh, it's eight or nine, it's eight or nine.

I'm gonna go with eight.

- Higher.

- Nine.

- It's nine!

- Yes, it's nine!

- Nine!

Steph, you got it.

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

- Six?

- Lower.

- Four.

- Lower.

- Two.

- Yes!

- Oh, it's two!

Great job, friends, playing number crunching!

Friends at home, you can play that game anytime.

Good stuff, good stuff.

Alright, friends.

Oh, I even done this in a while, I'm excited.

We're gonna play a game here where I need your help to give me the ideas.

We're gonna write a song together for... soup!

Take a look at this, there.

Wimee's song about soup.

So here's the questions.

The soup that I'm making there, what's in it?

Do tell me, it could be anything.

We'll do a few.

So a bunch of people, share with us what could be in the soup.

Share with us what it could taste like.

Oh yeah!

Soup, soup, soup, I love soup too.

Okay, and then share with us whose recipe are we making?

This is all gonna be silly.

Whose recipe are we making?

Now...

There might be a secret ingredient in this soup.

And, separately from soup, what's your favorite food?

Okay.

Okay, chicken.

So there's chicken in the soup.

Friends, keep posting ideas.

We need lots of ideas.

Post the comments, the thoughts.

Chicken's in it.

Oh, Joseph!

It's Joseph's recipe.

Ha-ha.

Okay, I got that.

Joseph's recipe, there's chicken, there's tomatoes.

Let's bring in Ms. Stephanie and see if she wants to add anything specifically.

We know this is Joe's recipe.

Ms Stephanie, what do you want to add to it?

Anything specific?

- Well... what if we add a little twist of lemon?

- Oh, lemon, fun.

Okay, lemon, that'll give a little zip.

We got carrots.

Ooh.

Grimmie's veggie soup.

Ha-ha!

I like it.

That's fun to say.

Secret ingredient is love!

Okay, I gotta remember all this.

Secret- Oh, look at that!

Oh man!

(Wimee laughs) Ding, ding, ding, two points for that one.

Okay, so love's the secret ingredient.

It's Joe's recipe.

It tastes like Grimmie's vegetable soup, I'll say.

We got carrots, tomatoes, I think, right?

Okay.

I think I've got enough information other than- I'm gonna go to Cailynn.

Cailynn, what is, anything at all, one of your favorite foods?

- Hm.

Some of my favorite foods are tomatoes!

- Tomatoes, perfect.

Okay, I love it.

Okay.

Here we go, friends.

Here we go.

From the top.

I'm gonna sing a song about soup!

Okay.

♪ This is carrot soup ♪ ♪ It also has tomatoes ♪ ♪ It tastes like Grimmie's vegetable soup ♪ ♪ It's Joe's recipe ♪ ♪ The secret ingredient is love ♪ ♪ But I bet you did not know ♪ ♪ It goes best with tomatoes ♪ ♪ (Wimee scatting) ♪ ♪ That was a song about soup ♪ (Wimee laughing) I think I got it!

I could revise, rearrange some things, but that was fun, friends!

We just made a song about soup.

I love it.

Alright, friends.

Let's go see what the Wimage board has created since we last were visiting.

Hi, Wimage Board!

Let's see what you got here.

Whoa.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!

The dog is trying to get the cotton candy, cotton candy for ah- Whoa, that went from- (Wimee laughs) That went from a little bit of cotton candy soup for dessert to cotton candy for all.

Home sweet home, Grandma changed that note from no cotton candy to that.

And look at the friends, the kids of the neighborhood.

We're having soup and cotton candy dessert for all.

That dog is so happy!

(Wimee laughs) Thanks, Wimage Board!

Great checking back with you.

Great job, indeed.

Whew!

Well, friends.

It's been another awesome show.

Thanks for spending time with us.

Thanks for hanging out.

We're gonna get- Oh, you know what?

Oh, no, no, no, no!

I almost forgot something so important friends.

I got all excited about that dog jumping up and down.

(Wimee laughs) I forgot.

What is it we forgot?

I'll ask Cailynn.

Cailynn, what did we forget to do?

- We forgot to do Find it Fast!

- We did forget to do Find it Fast!

Let's do Find it Fast!

(fast rock music) (airplane jet whooshes) - Okay, friends.

Find something that warms you up.

Like soup.

Find something that smells good.

Like soup.

And, find a bowl.

Ha-ha, that's soup.

Soup goes well in a bowl.

Ms. Stephanie, what did you find?

- I found some hot tea in this mug that keeps my hands warm!

- Oh!

- I also found this wooden bowl.

- Oh.

- And then one of my favorite smells is vanilla extract.

- Whoa!

- Mm, so yummy.

- Let me smell.

- Yeah?

- Oh yeah.

- Okay.

- Whew, great!

I couldn't actually smell it, I was just pretending.

I love it, that's fun.

A blanket, a candle, a bowl!

Ha-ha, friends.

It's so fun playing this game, Find it Fast.

Let's see what smells good?

Candles.

The fall leaves.

Oh, you!

(Wimee laughs) Now, either I smell good, or I can warm up the hearts of those around me.

(Wimee chuckles) I like that joke.

I like that.

Let's see a, grilled cheese sandwich smells good.

Hot chocolate, that could warm you up.

That can smell good.

You could drink it out of a bowl.

Hm.

Good stuff.

Good stuff.

Let's see, let's see... a bowl, I don't- Oh, I got this bowl.

I need to put something in there though.

(Wimee laughs) They put a bowl on my desk, and they didn't give me any soup!

Hey Kevin, is it possible to get some soup later?

- [Kevin] I'll see what I can do.

- Okay, okay, good.

Vegetable soup please.

Okay.

Well, friends, we did it!

We did it all.

This is such a fun show.

I'm glad you were here.

Thanks for hanging out.

Now... it's time for the dance party.

Let's do it, friends!

Let's start to dance!

At home, dance along with us!

Woo-hoo!

Go Ms. Stephanie!

Go Cailynn!

Go Ms. Stephanie!

Go Cailyn!

(Wimee scatting) Ha-ha.

Freeze.

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And with additional support from these great partners.

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