Hello friends and welcome to Storytime with The Met. My name is Julie Marie and I'm so excited
to see you today. Please join us every Thursday at 12 o'clock for new stories and activities.
Now, grab a cozy spot and let's get started. We're going to begin with our Storytime song just like
we do at the Museum. Sing along with me. One. Two. Three. Welcome friends, get ready get set.
For Storytime with The Met. Where we love to read and sing and look
at works of art and picture books. We'll use our eyes to look and see. We'll use our ears
to hear stories. Now take a seat and give a shhh. Let's begin with our first book.
Good job, everyone. Today we're going to read, "Going Places" by Peter and Paul Reynolds
Raphael has been waiting all year long for the Going Places contest,
a chance to build a go-cart, race it...and win. When their Teacher announced,
"Who would like the first kit?" Raphael's hand shot up
The rest of the class watched enviously as Raphael walked back to his seat with a kit.
That kit looks really big and really heavy!
Mrs. Chanda assured them, "Don't worry - you'll all be getting one...and
they're all EXACTLY alike."
That's a lot of kits!
The kit came with a set of precise instructions. That made Raphael happy. He was very good
at following directions are you good at following directions.
Raphael hammered, glued, nailed, and assembled his kit. His go-cart looked
just like the one in the directions. He was feeling quite proud.
Raphael wondered how his classmate Maya was doing. She lived next door
He peered over the fence. "Hey, Maya, you haven't even started?!"
Maya didn't respond. She was so intent on watching the bird in front of her, and quickly sketched it,
that she didn't even notice Raphael.
I wonder what's so interesting about that bird.
Then she just put down her pencil and she stared dreamily at the bird.
Raphael shrugged - and let her be
The next morning Raphael checked back in to see how Maya was doing.
"Wow, what is that?" he asked. Maya grinned, "You like it?" Raphael responded slowly,
"Yeeeaah - extremely cool. But, uh, Maya, there's just one problem. That's not a go-cart."
What did Maya make?
Maya smiled. "Who said it had to be a go-cart?" Raphael was confused. The set of instructions
inside the box were for a go-cart. But then again they didn't say it had to be a go-cart.
He looked again at Maya's contraption. After a moment he grinned. "I get it. Hey, Maya,
I really want to win this race. The instructions never said we couldn't team up either!"
Do you think Maya and Raphael will make a good team?
And so they did working late into the evening.
It's so dark! I wonder what they're building.
The next day everyone gathered for the big race. Each go-cart was a perfect replica of the other.
Going Places Contest
I don't see Raphael and Maya here, do you?
Except one. One of the kids laughed. "Looks like you had trouble with the
Going Places instructions. You're going places all right - you're GOING to lose!"
It doesn't sound like a very good friend.
Maya and Raphael didn't even have time to respond
because the announcer's big boomy voice called out, "attention, racers! Start your engines!
4...3...2...1... and the buzzer sounded. "And they're off!"
While all the other go-carts disappeared in a cloud of dust,
Maya just sat there in her motionless vehicle.
Raphael shouted over the roar of engines and cheering crowd. "Maya! what are you waiting for?"
"No worries, Raphael!" Maya answered. "Flaps down, throttle up!"
I wonder what she's waiting for.
And now THEY took off - off into the air!
Look how high they are compared to all of the go-carts!
The other contestants looked up in amazement. Maya and Raphael hovered and then spread past them all.
Before long Maya and Raphael coasted the finish line to the cheer of waiting crowd.
Here's the finish line!
They kept rolling clear across the race ground. Maya slammed their breaks,
and stopped just short of the lake at the edge of the school field. Raphael noticed a startled frog
leap from a lily pad and dive into the water. He raised eyebrow and looked at Maya.
She smiled. "Raphael are you thinking what i'm thinking...?" He just nodded.
Looks like they're going to be going to new places soon.
It looks like they're going to go underwater.
Going Places makes me think of all of the people who dream up really amazing inventions.
Sometimes they build them but sometimes they literally just draw really cool instructions.
In our collection we have this really interesting etching, a print, that was made in England a long
time ago by Robert Seymour. He has three different ways that people could use steam, or really hot
water, that turns into steam to walk, to ride, and to fly. It's a print called, "Locomotion:
Walking by Steam, Riding by Steam, Flying by Steam." Take a really close look at this print.
How did he use steam to create all these different things? What are the different types of equipment
that he imagined up? It looks like the walking are really big boots. They look uncomfortable
maybe made out of metal. The ridding is kind of cool. It's a huge teapot on wheels.
But the flying! Look at those wings! They look kind of like bat wings. Now in the book
Maya wasn't inspired by bats, she was inspired by a bird. She created wings that look like a bird.
Now, what do you have in your house that you could possibly build new inventions?
I looked around my house and i found lots and lots of cardboard. So
I made some wings for this doll here. Now they can move up and down, just like Maya's wings did.
Now, do you think she'd enjoy a good fly around the house?
Take a look and see what you have and see if you can build some wings. Or think about some
other animals that are really interesting to you and what can they do. Like think about the frog
Maya and Raphael saw. The frog jumped into the water. What could you make? Now look at the print,
again. Can you figure out some other animals that you can make walk or ride or fly around your home?
I hope you've come up with something really cool! I can't wait to see you again
next Thursday at 12 o'clock. Bye!