"Humpty Dumpty," ready?
All: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
couldn't put Humpty together again.
Teacher: Oh, I think there was one that we had about two little birds.
Oh, yeah.
Do you remember what it was?
- Boy: Yeah. - What's it called?
Do you remember?
Yellow-tailed...
Oh, the "Yellow-Bill Duck"?
Okay, you have to stand up for this, please.
Boy: I like to, I like doing it.
Ready?
Shh.
Lorenzo, right where your spot -- you're not moving.
Ready? Let me see your beaks.
Ready?
All: I'm a yellow-bill duck
with a black-feather back.
I waddle, waddle, waddle and I quack, quack, quack.
I dabble for my dinner with a swish, swish, swish.
And I gobble, gobble, gobble all I wish, wish, wish.
By Jack Prelutsky.
Teacher: Jack Prelutsky wrote that --
what's that thing called he wrote, do you remember?
A poem.
He writes poetry; he's a poet.
Now, as long as you're up,
let's do "Spiders" right now, okay?
And magic!
Teensy-tinesy. Ready?
All (in high-pitched voices): The itsy-bitsy spider
went up the water spout.
Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain,
and the itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.
Teacher (in normal voice): And magic!
Regular size.
Find your spiders.
Not yet. Ready?
All: The itsy-bitsy spider
climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain,
and the itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.
And magic!
Tarantulas.
Teacher: Look fierce.
"Fierce" means you're kind of scary-looking, grrrr.
Ready?
All (in low growls): The great big tarantula
climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain and washed the tarantula out.
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain,
and the great big tarantula climbed up the spout again.
Teacher: And magic!
[ trills ]
Thank you.
Now, shh.
"Rumpitty Tum" will be the last poem that we do,
and then I have a story for you.
Now, to do "Rumpitty Tum" --
Are you ready?
To do "Rumpitty" -- no, you can sit down,
but you do need to have your drums ready to go,
so I need to see your hands ready to go.
I want to stand up like this.
I need you to sit down. Ready?
Stay seated, Lorenzo. Ready?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
All: Rumpitty, tumpitty, rumpitty tum,
Buntington Bunny is beating the drum.
He doesn't look up and he doesn't look down,
all through the rumpitty, tumpitty town.
He twitches his nose as he tramps through the street,
stomping his rumpitty, tumpitty feet.
Rumpitty, tumpitty, rumpitty tum,
Buntington Bunny is beating the drum.
Oh, remember that ends the same way it stops.
We always keep trying to keep it going and going.
By Jack Prelutsky, that's exactly right.
Hands to yourself, Jason.
[ clears throat ]
"How the Chipmunk Got His Stripes."
I know that book!
Don't tell if you know how he got it, don't tell.
David, shh.
We're not doing those books. We're doing the Little Critter.
You know what, we finished up
our Little Critter books yesterday.
We'll do that one later, okay?
And today we're going to do "How the Chipmunk Got His..."
- Boy: Stripes. - Stripes.
David, I need you to sit down.
My brother read that because he got it from the library.
Yeah, this is a grand book,
and you guys are going to need to help me on part of it.
You're going to hear what the bear says
and what the chipmunk says,
and you're going to have to help me, okay?
Are you ready?
"How the Chipmunk Got His Stripes."
What kind of animal do you suppose that is?
- Children: A bear. - A bear.
Raise your hand if you can tell me
how you know it might be a bear.
That is a bear.
Shh, raise your hand if you can tell me
how you know that might be a bear. Randy.
Because he has big claws.
Teacher: Big claws.
Where would you find claws, on his nose?
- Children: No. - No?
Where would you find claws, Christian?
On his fingers.
On the ends of his fingers.
Would claws be soft?
No.
No, what would they feel like?
They would be on his feet.
Would they be soft and smooth or sharp and pointy?
- Boy: Sharp and pointy. - Sharp and pointy.
I wouldn't want to shake hands with claws.
- I would. - I would.
That would be a little scary.
Ooh, he's got more claws coming.
Eyes this way, Jason.
Shh, ready?
"One autumn day a long time ago, Bear was out walking.
As he was walking, he started to brag.
'I'm Bear, I'm the biggest, yes, I am.
I'm Bear, I'm the strongest of all the animals, yes, I am.
I'm Bear, I'm the loudest of all the animals, yes, I am.
I am Bear, I can do anything, yes, I can.'"
He's bragging, isn't he?
"As soon as Bear said these words,
a little voice picked up from way down by his feet.
It was the chipmunk.
He was standing up on his hind legs and he said,
'Can you do anything? Can you really do anything?'"
That was the little brown squirrel,
and he asked it again and again.
He's not the chipmunk yet.
"Well, Bear stood up very tall and he said,
'I'm Bear, I can do anything, yes, I can.'
No, I can't.
Little old brown squirrel --
little brown squirrel down by his feet said,
'Can you tell the sun not to come up tomorrow?'
Bear thought about that and he scratched his head
with his big"...?
- Claws. - Claws.
"And he said, 'Well, I've never tried that before,
but I'm Bear, I can do it, yes, I can.'
So Bear turned to the west and he faced where the sun --
he faced the sun.
It was the time when the sun always went down.
And Bear spoke in a loud voice,
he said, 'Sun, do not come up tomorrow.'"
Do you think it will work?
No.
Maybe. Bear thinks it will work.
"At his words, the sun began to disappear
down behind the hills and it began to get dark.
'See?' said Bear, 'The sun's running away.
He's scared of me.'
'But will the sun come up tomorrow?'
asked the little brown squirrel.
'No,' Bear answered, 'the sun will not come up.'"
What'd Bear say?
All: The sun will not come up.
Teacher: Remember those words, okay?
"Then Bear turned to face east
where the sun always used to come up,
and all night long, Bear and Squirrel sat side by side
and Bear began to say, 'The sun will not come up, hmmph.
The sun will not come up, hmmph.'
And little brown squirrel began to say,
'The sun is going to rise, ooh.
The sun is going to rise, ooh.'"
Does Little Brown Squirrel think the sun is going to come up?
- Yeah. - No.
Yes. Does Bear think the sun will come up?
- No. - No.
"'The sun will not come up, hmmph.'
'The sun is going to rise, ooh.'
All of the animals came to see, and all night long,
all those animals heard, 'The sun will not come up, hmmph.'
'The sun is going to rise, ooh.'
'The sun will not come up, hmmph.'
'The sun is going to rise, ooh.'
Finally, just before dawn,
the time when the sun always used to come up,
'Look,' said Turtle,
'a little bit of red's starting to show.'"
See right there?
"'Yes,' said Owl, 'I believe the sun is going to come up.'
Bear only chanted louder,
'The sun will not come up, hmmph.'
But right next to him sat Little Brown Squirrel,
and he was saying, 'The sun is going to rise, ooh.'"
Boy: The sun is going to rise, ooh.
Just like that, huh, David?
"And the sun came up.
The birds sang their welcome songs,
the bright light of the new day spread over the land,
and everybody was happy except for Bear.
Bear sat there with his head down
and a big frown on his face."
How's Bear feeling right now?
Boy: Mad.
Mad. Show me a mad face.
Mm-hmm.
If you're mad, is the look on your face a scowl or a smile?
Scowl.
A scowl.
The happiest animal, though, was...?
- Squirrel. - Squirrel.
"And Squirrel started to say, 'The sun came up,
the sun came up, the sun came up, woo-hoo!'"
He was happy, wasn't he?
"He was so happy, he forgot what his granny told him.
She said, 'Little Brown Squirrel, it's good to be right,
but when someone else is wrong,
it's not a good idea to tease him.'"
But he still teased.
And Little Brown Squirrel started to tease who?
- The bear. - The bear.
"And he said, 'Bear is foolish, the sun came up.
Bear is silly, the sun came up.
Bear is stupid, the sun came...' whomp.
Bear's big old paw with his long, sharp claws
came down right on top of Little Brown Squirrel."
And he squashed him.
"And Bear said, 'Yeah, I'm silly, I'm foolish,
the sun did come up,
but you will not live to see another day,
because I'm going to eat you, Little Brown Squirrel.'
Little Brown Squirrel had to think fast.
He thought and he thought, and he said,
'You're right to eat me, Bear.
I was wrong to tease you.
I'd like to apologize before you eat me, though,
but you're holding me down so hard,
I can't say anything at all.'"
Is Squirrel talking right now?
- Boy: No. - Yeah, he is.
So he could say something, couldn't he?
"He said, 'But I can't say anything, I can't even breathe''
If you lift your paw just a little bit,
I'll take a deep breath,
and then I can apologize to you the right way.'"
What is "apologize"?
He's going to say sorry.
Say sorry, okay?
"So Bear says, 'That's a good idea.
I'd like to hear you apologize before I...
- Eat you. - Eat you.'"
"So Bear lifted his paw just a little,
but instead of apologizing, Brown Squirrel ran, zoom,
as fast as he could towards his tunnel,
his hole in the rocks.
His granny was there saying,
'Hurry, hurry, Little Brown Squirrel, hurry, hurry.'"
What is this big blue thing?
The bear.
The bear. Is it a bear?
It's the shadow.
The shadow of the bear.
Is the bear going to just say,
"Okay, goodbye, Little Brown Squirrel?"
No, he's going to eat him.
No, he's not going to eat him.
"But whoomp, Little Brown Squirrel dove for the door,
but Bear was faster than he looked.
He grabbed for Little Brown Squirrel with his big paw,
and his long sharp claws scratched Little Brown Squirrel
from the top of his head to the tip of his...
- Tail. - Tail."
Can you see those marks? What are they called?
Stripes.
Stripes, they're scratches.
The bear scratched him all down his back.
That would hurt, yes.
"But Brown Squirrel got away, and deep down in his burrow
he hid with his grandma.
All through that winter, those scratches on his back healed."
Who's that peeking in?
The bear!
The bear's eyes.
Can the bear get him in his burrow?
No.
No, it's a good thing.
"When spring came again, Brown Squirrel came out of his hole,
and he looked back at himself.
There were long stripes all the way down his back
where Bear had scratched him."
- You can see them right there. - Yeah.
"He was Brown Squirrel no longer.
Now he was Chipmunk, the little striped one.
And that's how Chipmunk got his stripes.
Ever since then, Chipmunk is the first one
to get up every morning,
and he goes to the tippy top of the tallest tree
and he sings, 'The sun came up, the sun came up, ooh.'"
What does he sing?
The sun came up, the sun came up, ooh.
"And Bear is the very last one to get up in the morning.
He doesn't like to hear Chipmunk's song."
He still looks kind of cranky, doesn't he?
- Boy: Yeah. - Yeah.
"He doesn't like to hear Chipmunk's song
because it reminds him that no one, not even Bear,
can do everything."
People can't do everything, they don't know everything.
No, nobody can do everything, can they?
Nobody.
Okay, raise your hand if you can tell me
what lesson do you think the little chipmunk needed to learn?
What did he need to learn? What did he need to learn?
I don't see very many hands in the air.
Would you whisper to somebody sitting close by you?
Yeah, whisper to somebody sitting by you.
What did Chipmunk learn in this story?
Everybody turn to whisper to somebody by you.
[ buzzer sounds ]
What did Chipmunk learn? What did he learn?
Talia?
Not to tease anybody.
Not to tease anybody,
because what happened when he did tease?
What happened when he teased the bear?
Felix? Felix.
He scratched him.
Bear scratched him, huh?
Yeah. Okay.
Let's do one more poem, and then I'm going to send you
to Ms. Mueller, okay?
Muller.
Ms. Muller, yeah.
So we're going to do one more poem,
and I'd say let's do "Bluebirds."
Ready?
I don't know that one.
You don't know "Bluebirds"? Oh, sure you do.
All: Two little bluebirds sitting on a hill,
one named Jack, one named Jill.
Fly away, Jack. Fly away, Jill.
Come back, Jack. Come back, Jill.
You guys did a great job today.
Thank you very much.
We'll read this one first tomorrow, okay?
Special.
"The School Play."
Yeah.