(guitar music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (guitar music) (upbeat music) - Hello, little learners.

Welcome back to our learning space.

My name is Mrs. Lara.

Can you tell me your name?

I'm so delighted that you made it back today.

I'm also feeling a little bit nervous.

I think it's because it rained outside and I had forgotten my umbrella.

Oh, I hope I don't get soaked.

Should we start our day off with a song?

Okay, let's do that.

♪ Hello, how are you ♪ ♪ Hello, how are you ♪ ♪ Hello, how are you ♪ ♪ Let's meet someone new now ♪ Do you remember someone new?

Yes, it's our snail friend.

Let's get him out.

We learned yesterday that he's actually an incredibly fast talker.

Hello Snail.

Now they call you scaredy snail but are you feeling a little braver?

I am feeling so brave.

Look, I am going to go this way to show you how I'm feeling.

I'm moving so fast now.

Okay.

Oh, you'll get there.

Warp speed.

Yes, you're warped speeding away.

And you wanted to show me that made you brave.

Yes, because I had a goal to go super fast and I accomplished it.

And that made me think that I can do other things just like the girl in your story.

That's true.

There was a little girl in our story who was fearful of thunderstorms, wasn't she?

And at the end of the book, she was feeling much better.

And when you feel better, that translates to all kinds of other things that you do.

Now, let me put you away.

Sometimes you make a mistake or you don't feel that great inside and you need to calm yourself down.

Now I have my wheel of calm here but I also thought I would pull from my basket something that we haven't tried in a while.

So let me see.

I think I'm gonna grab my flowers today.

We'll spin our wheel tomorrow.

I was thinking I haven't smelled the flowers and then I haven't blown the bees away.

That's a good breathing strategy to help you calm down.

Let's try it together.

I'm going to smell my flowers.

Oh, I wish these were real.

And then I'm going to blow all the bees on the flower looking for the pollen.

And then we smell the flowers.

Nice, deep breath.

And I'm gonna blow all the bees away.

Let's try it one more time.

I'm going to smell the flowers, and blow all the bees away.

Okay, that I already feel much, much better.

How are you feeling today?

Let's take a look at our letter board to figure out what letter mirror we're going to use.

Are you ready?

Let's see if you can guess this letter.

For this letter, you're going to need a big line.

Let's put it right down here and you're going to need a little line.

I'm going to put it right at the top like this.

Has that made a letter?

Not yet.

But, if I add another little line here what letter have I made?

That's right, the letter F. Is that your special letter?

Let me put that down.

And I'm going to grab my letter F mirror and we're going to look at our emotional check-in together.

And boys and girls, I think Shy Bunny is waiting to sing with you.

So let's take a look at Shy Bunny's song.

Ready?

Here we go.

Get ready to sing along with me.

And Shy Bunny.

Shy Bunny doesn't like to sing that.

But maybe if we sing with him, he'll sing along too.

♪ If you are angry and you know it say I'm mad ♪ ♪ I'm mad ♪ ♪ If you are angry and you know it say I'm mad ♪ ♪ I'm mad ♪ ♪ If you are angry and you know it ♪ ♪ Then your face will truly show it ♪ ♪ If you are angry and you know it say I'm mad ♪ ♪ If you are scared and you know it say oh no ♪ ♪ Oh no.

♪ ♪ If you are scared and you know it say oh no ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ If you are scared and you know it ♪ ♪ Then your face will truly show it ♪ ♪ If you are scared and you know it say oh no ♪ ♪ Oh no ♪ ♪ If you are happy and you know it clap your hands ♪ (clapping hands) ♪ If you are happy and you know it clap your hands ♪ (clapping hands) ♪ If you are happy and you know it ♪ ♪ Then your face will truly show it ♪ ♪ If you are happy and you know it clap your hands ♪ (clapping hands) (children cheering) Our feelings are so important.

Thank you Shy Bunny.

Boys and girls it's so important for you to check in on how you're feeling through a song or by using your emotional check-in or by looking in the mirror.

Now, today we have a very special friend named Trinity.

See, special letter T for Trinity.

Now Trinity got to go to the snow just like our friend earlier.

And do you see she's wearing a big warm hat and a big comfy warm jacket.

Now, I want you to pay attention to her facial clues.

They're gonna give us an idea for how Trinity is feeling out in the snow.

So, let's see.

Trinity's eyes are kind of squinty and she's smiling wide.

Trinity, you have a beautiful smile.

I want you to think.

Do you think that Trinity is feeling frightened?

Like in this picture where her hands are to her mouth and her eyes are wide?

Or do you think that Trinity is feeling happy where she's smiling wide and her eyes are bright?

Let's see.

Make that face.

Oh, I see a lot of happy faces.

I think you're feeling happy too Trinity.

I bet you loved going to the snow.

Did you have to wear special boots?

Now, boys and girls, if you want to share your story with all of your friends make sure you send in a picture and your story to this address below.

And as a special bonus, our friends at PBS are going to give you a special activity book just for sending in your home address.

So I hope you take advantage of that and I can't wait to hear from you.

All right, let's start our day.

(bell rings) All right, let's look at our visual schedule.

We did our emotional check-in.

We're doing our weekly investigation.

So we're working around the book "Thunder Cake" about a little girl who's scared of thunderstorms.

And in just a minute, I'm gonna ask you what you're scared of.

And then of course we'll sing our goodbye song.

So let's do a quick movement break before we move to our writing, ready?

Oh, I said a word that starts with this letter.

Here we go.

Letter R. R for rise.

Rise like the sun.

Do you ever wake up early enough to where you don't see the sun out yet and then you get to see it rise?

It goes like this.

Starts off dark and then it gets up and gets really bright like that.

So you can start off on the floor and then rise like the sun.

Okay, let's move on to our writing.

Now, for our writing today, we're going to write about things that scare us.

Now, in the book a thunderstorm scared the little girl.

What are some things that scare you?

So, Hmm.

Some things that scare me are spiders.

Oh no.

So I'm gonna make a spider right here, draws it's little legs.

And actually I am only really scared of mean spiders because I know that they help the environment spiders with fangs.

So I'm gonna write the spider special letter which is spider.

Ooh, what else are you scared of?

Oh, I know some kids are scared of vegetables.

What shall we draw?

Are you scared of carrots and peas and having to eat them?

Vegetable, special letter V. Let's do one more thing and then we'll go to our video.

Mm, maybe you're scared of the night.

So let's draw a moon and some stars.

Night, special letter N. Now, feeling scared is an uncomfortable feeling.

We have a "Mindful Minute" with Mrs. McCarthy that's going to show you how to make a rainbow to help you breathe.

Let's watch that together.

♪ I need to slow things down ♪ Let's slow down and follow along as Mrs. McCarthy leads us in a "Mindful Minute".

♪ I need to slow things down ♪ - Hi, boys and girls.

Welcome to Mrs. McCarthy's "Mindful Minute".

I'm so glad you could join me today.

Today, what we're going to do is we're going to make a rainbow to practice our mindful breathing.

You're going to need a paper plate, crayons, glue toilet paper for the streamer, and some child scissors.

First thing you're going to do is you're going to take your plate.

You're gonna fold it in half.

Make a line, open it.

See the line right there.

That's what I'm going to cut on.

Cut your paper plate in half to make two halves of a circle.

You need one half for your rainbow.

Take your crayons.

Color your rainbow.

Here's mine.

You can color your rainbow any way you'd like.

After you're done coloring it, take your toilet paper and go one, two, three.

You're going to need three squares.

Tear on the perforated line.

You're going to do that a second time.

One, two, three, tear on the line again.

You gotta be very gentle.

Then I take it and I fold it in half.

And I'm gonna fold this in half as well.

And I'm going to cut going long ways.

This is cutting my streamers.

The streamers that I'm going to use on my rainbow.

I need three streamers for my rainbow.

What you're going to do is you're going to take three of the streamers that you cut and you're going to glue it on the back.

I've already glued two.

I'm now going to glue my third one.

Glue is sometimes hard to get out.

We know how that works.

Take your streamer, press it onto the glue.

And now you have a rainbow with three streamers.

Now you can practice your breathing.

Remember, when you're doing mindful breathing, you breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth.

So you're going to do that three times because you have three streamers.

Let's practice.

(breathes in and out) Very good.

Boys and girls, I hope that you're able to make a rainbow and practice your mindful breathing.

Remember, do your mindful breathing when you're upset.

It always helps you to calm down.

Thank you for joining me today boys and girls.

I hope to see you next time.

Bye-bye.

♪ Take a big deep breath ♪ ♪ I need to slow things down ♪ - I hope you enjoyed Mrs. McCarthy's "Mindful Minute".

Now, it's time to sing our goodbye song.

We have just enough time.

So let's get that started.

♪ A, B, C you later ♪ ♪ D, E, F, G I'm going to miss you ♪ ♪ H, I, have to go now ♪ ♪ J, K bye-bye now ♪ ♪ L, M, N, O I had a good time ♪ ♪ P, Q, R you gonna miss me ♪ ♪ S, T, U are my best friend ♪ ♪ V, W X, Y, Z ♪ I'm gonna miss you boys and girls.

I hope you come back tomorrow where we're actually going to be making "Thunder Cake".

I can't wait to see you.

Until, then a big smooch, goodbye!

(guitar music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (guitar music)