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

Welcome back to our learning space.

My name is Ms. Lara.

Can you tell me your name?

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

Now, today is gonna be an exciting day but first we're gonna start off with us song.

Okay.

You ready?

Here we go.

♪ Good morning good morning ♪ ♪ It's a sunshine kind of day ♪ ♪ Come join Ms. Laura ♪ ♪ And we'll learn and then we'll play ♪ ♪ Will we sing a song ♪ ♪ Of course we will ♪ ♪ Make our brain strong ♪ ♪ Super, super strong ♪ ♪ And then we'll come a long ♪ ♪ Yes we'll come along ♪ ♪ And then we'll sing and then we'll play ♪ Al right.

So we have such a fun day like I mentioned, let's go through our visual schedule.

We did our emotional check-in with a feeling superhero cap this week.

So we're gonna continue to do that.

We're doing our weekly investigation.

Now this week, it's a more serious topic.

We're learning about black history month.

Now I've been trying to say that in the time I have here, I can't do justice to all the history and culture that the African-American community has contributed to our country.

But my hope is that this starts a conversation between you and your family.

We have some more activities planned and another fun person to meet.

Then we'll sing our good bye song.

Sound like a good plan?

Okay.

Now, hopefully by now you have something like a cap.

I was gonna tell you, I used a plastic tablecloth to make my cap and put old stickers all over it.

But another thing you can do is take a pillow case and kind of just tie it around your neck, or you can also use a sheet, or an old long sleeve shirt that your family isn't using, those make excellent cakes.

So for now, we're gonna put our cap on and be feeling superheroes.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

Going up, going around, I feel so, fancy, When I put it on it kind of just flows in the air.

Ready for our song?

♪ Feeling super heroes flying through the air ♪ ♪ Looking for some feelings to show people we care ♪ ♪ Let's fly through the air ♪ Who do we see here?

It's Charlie Rose.

Hi Charlie Rose.

Now Charlie Rose, her name actually has a diagraph at the beginning, that means two letters combined together to make a sound.

Her special sound is "ch" CH for Charlie.

Now let's see, Charlie Rose is holding up an art print looks like mango starring night.

Charlie Rose, I bet that you watch Mrs. Reed, right?

You must love art.

And look, she's holding it up and her eyes are bright and she has a little bit of a smile.

What do you think superheroes?

How's Charlie Rose feeling?

Hmm.

I think that she's feeling proud.

How about you?

Huh, Charlie we're gonna feel proud with you.

It's so much fun to enjoy other people's good feelings.

All right.

So I'm going to take my feelings cap off, and I'll fly with it another day, and I'm going to present to you the clue about who our person is this week that we're gonna learn about.

So let's see.

The first letter is a letter S. Now I can tell you, this is not this person's special letter.

The next letter is an E. Now, yesterday, we learned that there are sneaky Es that like to hang out in words.

The next one is an R. Yes.

And then a V. I just like saying that letter V kind of tickles my tongue and my mouth.

And the last one is an E. Now, just like the E from yesterday's word, sneaky E likes to hang out, but doesn't really make a sound.

So I'm going to read the word and I'm gonna do it slowly like a snail and then faster and then faster.

And as soon as you know that word I want you to scream it out to your television.

Are you ready?

Serve.

Serve.

Serve.

Serve.

That's right, serve.

To serve means that you're helpful to somebody else.

And the person that we're going to introduce today is very helpful.

They were the president of the United States.

It's Barack Obama.

Now what makes Barack Obama special isn't just that he was the president of the United States, but he was one of the youngest presidents and the first African-American president, the 44th president actually.

He was born in Hawaii, that also makes him unique.

So remember I talked about how we live in the country United States of America and the city of Fresno.

Well, I'm gonna take one of my gold stars here, and show you where Hawaii is.

Hawaii is actually a set of islands that are separate from this big piece of the United States here.

All the way over here.

And actually in the map they're shown here but they're more like way over here by the Pacific ocean, this way.

He was born in Hawaii in 1961.

He had an African-American father and a European mother meaning that his parents were both black and white.

So he had a mixed heritage and he struggled with that a little bit growing up.

So this is him as a child, he grew up, look at, he loved to play, he was always loving to joke.

He was a pirate in this one.

And actually one of the things that he's known for, is he used to pardon a turkey every year because that's what presidents do.

And he had a family of two daughters, Malia and Sasha and he used to tell really bad dad jokes to make them laugh.

So kids love him for that reason, and also because he has larger ears that he loves to make fun of.

So, like I said, he was the 44th president of the United States.

There's lots of things that have been done to honor him.

He was on the cover of magazines, he's written books, but one way that we can honor President Barack Obama, is by serving, serving our community and serving our country and doing what's best for everyone around us.

So we're gonna go over to our project lab and I'm gonna show you a symbol of that.

So today in our project lab, we're gonna make a torn paper, American flag.

Now we've been talking about symbols.

Symbols are something that are used to represent something else.

Just like a heart represents love, our flag represents our country the United States of America.

So this is what our flag is gonna look like in the end.

And I thought it would be really fun to make it with some torn paper.

So let's do that.

Do you know the colors of our flag?

Colors of a flag are red, white, and blue.

So what we're gonna do first, is get our red, white, and blue paper, glue and any stars of our choice to make our project.

Here's our white paper.

And we're gonna take our red paper like this, and we're actually gonna tear it.

Now, I am not very good at tearing.

Strips that look the same size.

Look, one side is large and one side is small, but that's okay, in the end, it's gonna look great.

Your activities and projects, never have to be perfect.

In fact some people say that perfect is boring.

Ms. Lara makes mistakes all the time.

It's what makes me me.

Look, here's another piece.

So, I'm gonna tear.

Now the American flag is a of our country, it's also a symbol of service.

So you might see people in uniform like people in the army, they love our flag because it shows that they're doing things for other people.

Another not so perfect strip.

Maybe I'll make one more.

Now parents, another quick tip is, tearing paper really helps two things, one, it helps calm children down when they're angry, so you can try having them tear paper, and it also involves a lot of calm, a lot of functioning with the brain, so you have to coordinate visual perception and then coordinate your arms and fingers to do this.

So it's actually quite a complex task for a four year old.

So after I do that, I'm gonna take my glue, and I'm gonna glue my strips of red down.

So remember my song, ♪ Dot dot not a lot.

♪ Don't glob.

We don't wanna glob monsters of glue.

What happens when we put globs of glue down is things get messy and messy is fine, but then it takes forever to dry, and then you can't go on to next steps.

So you want to just put a little bit I just put a little snake of glue, you can try that too.

I'm gonna do a wiggly line of glue, just down middle there.

Oh, look at my imperfect stripe, it's gonna be my favorite one, you watch.

Right down there.

Isn't it funny when the glue makes noises?

All right.

So here I have my pattern look, red, white, red white.

Almost looks like an American flag.

We're just missing the little blue rectangle on the top.

Now I have a piece of blue paper, now rectangle has four sides.

Two sides are longer than the other.

So I can just cut some paper here, and down the side here and put it right on the edge there.

Now as a project with your family, you can look up what the American flag means.

Why are there red stripes?

Why is there this blue rectangle on the corner?

And why are there stars on the flag?

So for me, here's my flag so far.

I'm gonna use a little sequence to make stars.

If you don't have sequence, that's okay you can use anything.

You can even draw your stars.

Put them on there, put some dots.

How many stars are there?

That can be another fun thing to investigate.

You can look at books, and nowadays you can just search everything on the internet.

Can't you?

All right.

So I'm just gonna put a few stars on mine, not quite as many as there are on the regular flag, put them on there, one more, getting stuck to my fingers, I'm gonna have glue fingers.

Okay.

So here's my flag that I made really quickly.

And now to make this a very special symbol of service and to tie it into black history month, you can actually take a coloring page.

I printed out a picture of Kamala Harris, and maybe you might've heard, she's our first African-American vice president.

And I could actually glue it right down here.

And my sample, I put a picture of President Barack Obama on there, you can put on your other favorite presidents or you can even draw a picture of yourself using a crayon.

All right, boys and girls.

So I want you to think when you go, when you go out and you're doing projects with your family, what can I do to help my community just like Barack Obama did?

All right.

So it's time to say goodbye.

Let's quickly sing our goodbye song.

Are you ready?

♪ A, B, C you later ♪ ♪ D E F G I'm gonna miss y'all.

♪ ♪ H I have to go now ♪ ♪ J K bye bye-bye now ♪ ♪ L M N O I had a good time ♪ ♪ P Q R you gonna miss me ♪ ♪ S T you are my best friend ♪ ♪ V W X Y Z you are you're my best friend ♪ Remember boys and girls be a symbol for love and kindness today, and I hope that you join me tomorrow where we're gonna meet another person, and do another project.

Until then, we'll see you next time.

Goodbye friends.

(slow 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 ♪