RAINING ASL

Darlene Thomas reads RAINING by Pingping Xu with illustrations by Graca Lima. The book explores how animals like cats, frogs, mice, and birds shelter in their homes when it rains. Then, using a photo as a reference, Darlene shows how to draw one of her favorite plants.

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CITY FEET ASL

Carlton Ellen reads the picture book City Feet, by Aixa Perez-Prado. The book explores the different kinds of shoes different people wear. After the reading, Carlton prompts viewers to consider what type of shoes are appropriate for varied occasions and environments.

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ALL THAT I AM ASL

Katherine Rodriguez reads ALL THAT I AM by M.H. Clark, illustrated by Laura Carlin. A child reflects on how she is strong like a sea, bold like a tree, and bright like the sun. Then the family creates self-portraits and uses adjectives to describe themselves.

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MY FRIEND EARTH ASL

Carlton Ellen reads MY FRIEND EARTH by Patricia MacLaughlin, illustrated by Francesca Sanna. This picture book explores the seasons and Earth’s landscape. Then Carlton draws a picture of a tree he sees out his window, and prompts children to make observations about the trees they see in their community.

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ONE SUMMER NIGHT ASL

How can baby sea turtle hatchlings make their way to the water on a dark summer night? Join Katherine Rodriquez and Genevieve as they read ONE SUMMER NIGHT by author Tammi Salzano and illustrated by Rob Savegh Jr. Then draw a sea turtle or make one from a paper bowl.

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MY HANDS TELL A STORY ASL

MY HANDS TELL A STORY, by Kelly Starling Lyons with illustrations by Tonya Engel, is about a girl and her grandmother making meaning from the lines on their hands. Each line represents a story from the past. With two young friends, Shana Davis reads the picture book and then creates scented paintings with glue, gelatin power, and paper.

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ONE SUMMER NIGHT

How can baby sea turtle hatchlings make their way to the water on a dark summer night? Join Katherine Rodriquez and Genevieve as they read ONE SUMMER NIGHT by author Tammi Salzano and illustrated by Rob Savegh Jr. Then draw a sea turtle or make one from a paper bowl.

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HOME

Carlton Ellen reads HOME by Lian-En Lin and then draws a picture of his room at home.

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WHERE ANIMALS LIVE

Devon Ritter from the Memphis Zoo explores animal habitats. She explains how the natural resources of the savannah, wetlands, rainforest, desert, tundra, and ocean provide food and shelter for different animals.

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SHELL GAME

Omar Etman and Lily Fincher play a shell game. They demonstrate how to subitize — recognize a number of objects at a glance without counting them.

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DANDAN’S DREAM

Shana Davis and a young friend read DANDAN’s DREAM by Xiaowen Zhu and illustrated by Yanling Gong. During the story, Dandan dreams sending herself by mail to the South Pole. Afterwards Shana and her friend use art supplies to create an imaginative stamp.

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WEATHER SONGS

Arielle Lewis from Education Through Music sing sabout different types of weather — sunny, rainy, cloudy, and stormy. She prompts viewers to clap, tap, and blow to imitate the sound of rain.

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LEARNING NEW THINGS

Brenda Salazar introduces Spanish vocabulary as she discusses the joys and challenges of learning new things. She explores how the Spanish and English alphabets are similar. Then she talks about exercising our brains and the feelings that come along with learning something new.

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THE LITTLE CAR

Maria Begg-Roberson and her son read THE LITTLE CAR by Xu Han. During the reading, they count the number of hills the little car climbs over. Afterwards they show how to construct a little car with recycled paper.

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A RED CABBAGE TEST

What color will red cabbage water turn when mixed with fruit juice? Cassondra Easterling and her children conduct an experiment to explore if a lemon, apple, and tomato are more acidic or basic.

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RAINING

Darlene Thomas reads RAINING by Pingping Xu with illustrations by Graca Lima. The book explores how animals like cats, frogs, mice, and birds shelter in their homes when it rains. Then, using a photo as a reference, Darlene shows how to draw one of her favorite plants.

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A MATH MEMORY GAME

Lily Fincher and Omar Etman show how to play a math memory game. They make two sets of cards depicting something they’ve learned recently on pieces of paper. Then they arrange the cards in a two-row grid with the illustrations face down on a game board and try to make matches quickly.

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DINOSAUR RAP

With a young friend, Shana Davis reads DINOSAUR RAP by John Foster, illustrated by Debbie Harter. In this story, characters dance, sing, and roar along with a dinosaur. Then Shana shows how to make a dinosaur mask with a paper plate.

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HOW ANIMALS LEARN

Jess Nystrom from the Memphis Zoo explains how animals learn through training. This helps them to thrive in their zoo habitats and enables some of them to serve as animal ambassadors.

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STEP UP

Asha John and two friends from the New Victory Theater show how to do a step dancing routine to music from different cultures.

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PERFECT PARTNERS

Maria Begg-Roberson reads PERFECT PARTNERS by Mary Amato, illustrated by Rashin Kheiriyeh. The story is about a cat who makes friends at a painting class. Afterwards Maria and her son make a painting of the cat.

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MUSICAL LIGHT GAME

David Martinez from Education Through Music sings a welcome song in Portuguese. Introducing the musical terms piano and forte, he prompts viewers to sing loudly and softly using colored lights.

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ANIMALS AND LIGHT

Devon Ritter from the Memphis Zoo explores the relationship animals have to light. She explains how nocturnal animals – like a porcupine – depend on senses other than sight to navigate in the dark. She discusses how animals absorb sunlight for energy, and how sunlight helps create the food animals eat. Devon also introduces bioluminescent animals, like fireflies, that make their own light.

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A RAY OF LIGHT

Katherine Rodriguez models how to paraphrase the non-fiction book A RAY OF LIGHT by Walter Wick so her daughter can understand. They learn about sources of light, observe how light can bend, and explore the color spectrum. Then they watch what happens when they shine a flashlight through cups of colored water.

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COLORED LIGHT PATTERNS

Zoe Kleinmann and a student explore patterns. First they create units of two connected plastic cubes to create an AB pattern. Then they make patterns by shining a flashlight through translucent cups of different colors.

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LONG U

Anna Scretching-Cole explores the long u vowel sound. Long u appears in the middle of words that end in e like cube, tube, or flute.

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Do You Hear Long Vowels in Hero?

LET’S LEARN about the five senses! See how animals use them. Learn Spanish words for sight, sound, touch, smell, hearing. Use touch to identify shapes. Sing about peas and carrots. Do a dance using sight, touch, and hearing. Hear long vowel sounds. Read HOW TO WAKE UP PIGGY. One-hour programs help children ages 3-7 learn in school and at home. Content provided by Flor Bromley, Memphis Zoo.

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LONG VOWELS

Anna Scretching-Cole reviews long vowel a, e, i, o, and u. Then she explores how to blend open syllables to make words like hero and focus.

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BABY ANIMALS

Jo Olson from the Memphis Zoo talks about baby animals. She explains that some babies hatch from eggs, like snakes. Other animals give birth to live babies, like kangaroos. She points out that many baby animals depend on the help of their parents to survive.

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ANIMAL SENSES

Devon Ritter from the Memphis Zoo explores how animals use their senses of touch, hearing, sight, and smell to survive in different environments.

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MATH SENSE

Priya Chandrashaker uses her sense of touch to identify the shapes of objects in a mystery box. Then she uses sight to identify triangles and rectangles.

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HOW TO WAKE UP PIGGY

Darlene Thomas read HOW TO WAKE UP PIGGY by Pingjoing Xu and illustrated by Ying Haung. When Piggy falls asleep, other characters try making different noises to wake him up. After showing how to make a pig stick puppet, Darlene prompts viewers to figure out ways to wake up Piggy.

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E PARTY!

Isabel Simmons has an e party. She demonstrates how an e at the end of a word turns the e in the middle of the word into a long vowel sound. Isabel prompts viewers to practice reading, decoding, and writing words with two e letters like these, theme, and Pete.

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CITY FEET

Carlton Ellen reads the picture book City Feet, by Aixa Perez-Prado. The book explores the different kinds of shoes different people wear. After the reading, Carlton prompts viewers to consider what type of shoes are appropriate for varied occasions and environments.

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Hope Has a Silent “e”!

LET’S LEARN about transformation! Turn water into ice and steam. Mix paint to make new colors. See how magic letter e turns short o into long o. Play a game to change the number of leaves on a tree. Read CITY FEET. One-hour programs help children ages 3-7 learn in school and at home. Content provided by Education Through Music, Studio in a School, Sugar Hill Museum Preschool.

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MAKING BREAD

Cassondra Easterling and her children show how to combine ingredients to make bread dough. After the dough rises, they knead it, bake, and taste the finished loaf.

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SELF-PORTRAITS

Katherine Huala and Belinda Blum from Studio in a School create self-portraits. Using a mirror, they notice the shapes and features of their faces, then draw and paint what they see.

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ALL ABOUT YOU

As she introduces Spanish vocabulary, Brenda Salazar explains why items from her home represent her and make her unique. She encourages youngsters to contemplate what makes them unique, too.

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Perfect Partners

Maria Begg-Roberson reads PERFECT PARTNERS by Mary Amato, illustrated by Rashin Kheiriyeh. The story is about a cat who makes friends at a painting class. Afterwards Maria and her son make a painting of the cat.

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MY HANDS TELL A STORY

MY HANDS TELL A STORY, by Kelly Starling Lyons with illustrations by Tonya Engel, is about a girl and her grandmother making meaning from the lines on their hands. Each line represents a story from the past. With two young friends, Shana Davis reads the picture book and then creates scented paintings with glue, gelatin power, and paper.

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MY HANDS TELL A STORY

MY HANDS TELL A STORY, by Kelly Starling Lyons with illustrations by Tonya Engel, is about a girl and her grandmother making meaning from the lines on their hands. Each line represents a story from the past. With two young friends, Shana Davis reads the picture book and then creates scented paintings with glue, gelatin power, and paper.

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Short e Vowel Sound

Learn about short e with Anna Scretching-Cole. The short e vowel sounds often appear in the middle of words like web and bed. Practice reading and blending letter sounds to make rhyming words with short e sounds.

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