(cheerful piano music)
♪ You are the best you ♪
♪ The world will see ♪
♪ Come along now and share you with me ♪
♪ Let's learn something new and share feelings too ♪
♪ 'Cause these are the things to do to be the best you ♪
(cheerful piano music)
- Well hi, Possum.
Hello, friends.
- Oh, hi, Auntie Lena.
- Are you looking for something, Possum?
(Possum sighs) - Yeah, my lucky pencil.
I can't find it anywhere.
- Oh! Well what does it look like?
- It's a blue pencil with sparkly yellow stars all over it.
- Hmm. Well I don't see it around here.
Did you check inside your tree?
- Yeah, Mama Possum helped me look
but we couldn't find it at all.
- Oh, well maybe you dropped it at school.
- Oh yeah. Oh, that means it's lost forever.
- Oh, I'm sorry, Possum. Why was it your lucky pencil?
- Oh, it was a gift from Grandma Possum to remind me
that I'm a shining star student.
And last week I used it and
got a good grade on my spelling test.
- Well, I'm sure that's also because
you studied hard and practiced.
- I did, but the pencil helped me feel less nervous and
now it's gone and I have another spelling test
and what am I gonna do?
- Oh, Possum. I can tell you're getting upset
so let's slow down for a moment.
Take a deep breath in. (Possum inhales deeply)
Now, a deep breath out. (Possum exhales deeply)
Tell me, what are you feeling?
- Well, I feel mad that I lost my pencil and
worried that I won't find it again.
- Hmm, well, I understand.
It is difficult to lose things that are special.
I've lost a lot of things over the years.
- Really? - Mm-hmm.
It's something that happens to people all the time.
But when I can't find something, I tell myself
♪ "If you lose something, that's okay, ♪
♪ Lost things may be found someday." ♪
- That sounds like a song! (Auntie Lena laughing)
- You know, it does.
Music helps me when I feel frustrated, mad, or worried.
- Oh. Well, can we make music with our friends, Auntie Lena?
- Of course.
Let's go to the Wing Luke Museum with Mr.Chris and listen.
(magical chime)
- Hi, friends. - Hi, friends.
Hi, my name is Mr. Chris.
I'm here today with my friend Danya.
You wanna say hello, Danya?
- Hi.
- So we're here today at the Wing Luke Museum.
And so, today we're gonna be talking about, you know
those moments where we feel out of control, you know
and what are some ways that we can use music
to kind of calm us down.
We have some instruments here today.
The first instrument that I have is
an instrument that I always like to play.
It's my instrument from Veracruz, Mexico.
It's called the jarana. I'll go ahead and play a sound.
(Mr. Chris strums jarana)
It's very, very fun.
And Danya today is playing an instrument
from a country in Southeast Asia called the se.
Oh, the country's Burma but
the instrument itself is called the se.
Danya, would you like to demonstrate how it sounds?
(se dings)
Yeah, what do you think about that sound?
I love that sound, so calming.
- I like that sound too.
- It's pretty cool, right? So it's very calming.
But I also like to go outside into nature
to calm me down. Because, you know,
when things feel outta control,
I feel like nature is always there for me.
I feel like I can go outside.
I can look at the flowers. I can touch a tree.
Do you like to get outside? Do you like to get in nature?
- Yes.
- How does it make you feel when you're outside in nature?
- It makes me feel really happy.
- Really happy, right.
Do you ever like to walk barefoot in the grass?
- Yeah, I like to do that all the time.
- [Mr. Chris] That's one of my favorites.
So today we're gonna be singing a song from Veracruz,
Mexico that talks about nature, okay.
It's called "Aguanieve" and so,
"aguanieve" in Spanish, it is "sleet."
So it's not quite rain, it's not quite snow
it's right in the middle, it's sleet. So aguanieve.
So we're gonna learn some words
in Spanish today, because it talks about nature
it talks about natural themes.
So the first word we're gonna learn is "arboles."
Can you say that word for me? Arboles.
- Arboles.
- So arboles means trees. So arboles, okay.
The second word we're gonna learn is montañas.
- Montañas. - Montañas, yeah.
So do you remember what montañas means?
- I think it means mountains. - That's right.
We also have another couple words.
Lloraron. Lloraron means to cry.
Can you try that out? - Lloraron.
- Lloraron, to cry. Yeah. And then, nieve.
- Nieve. - Nieve is snow.
And lluvia, wanna try that out.
- Lluvia. - Lluvia is rain.
So we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna learn those words,
and we're gonna try to speak them as I'm playing, okay?
- Okay. - You wanna try that out?
- Yeah. - [Mr. Chris] Okay.
So I'm gonna say it and then you'll repeat after me, okay?
- Okay. - So I'm gonna start.
(Mr. Chris strums jarana)
I'll start: "Arboles lloran por lluvia."
(se dings) - "Arboles lloran por lluvia."
- "Y montañas por la nieve."
There we go.
Now I'm gonna sing the whole song
and you can join me however you want, okay?
(Mr. Chris strums jarana) (Danya dings se)
♪ Arboles lloran por lluvia ♪
♪ Y montañas por la nieve ♪
♪ Así lloraron mis ojos ♪
♪ Al cantar el aguanieve ♪
How did that make you feel?
- It made me feel really happy.
- Really happy. It's a really happy song, isn't it?
So we played this song, you know, called "Aguanieve,"
and it talks about nature and like we mentioned earlier,
whenever we're feeling out control, you know,
we both like to go into nature, because it's there.
We touch trees, we're in the grass,
and nature helps to calm us down.
You know, 'cause nature is always a constant.
Alright, so we're gonna go ahead
and say "bye" to our friends now,
and we're gonna play as we go out, okay.
So goodbye, friends. - Bye, friends!
(Mr. Chris strums jarana) (Danya dings se)
(magical chime)
- Oh, I like making music with Mr. Chris.
- Me too. Do you feel any better, Possum?
- Mm, yeah, I do but
I still hope I can find my pencil at school tomorrow.
- It's also possible that someone else may find it.
- But how will they know it's mine?
It doesn't have my name on it.
- You could check to see if it's
turned into the school's lost and found.
- But what if it's not? What if they keep my pencil?
- Well, do you have other pencils that you could use?
- Yes, but they're not as lucky.
- Well, maybe your lucky pencil will be found
by someone else, who really needs one.
Maybe they don't have anything to write with
or they could use some luck on their spelling test.
- You mean losing my pencil could help someone else?
- Exactly! - Wow.
- Sometimes lost things can
turn into someone else's treasure.
- I never thought about that.
- And I know a story that shows us
other good things that can happen.
- What's the story Auntie Lena?
- It's called "Lost Things" by Carey Sookocheff.
Let's go to the Tukwila Library and listen with our friends.
(magical chime)
- Hello, friends. - Hello, friends.
We're at the Tukwila Library and my name is Miss Deborah,
and this is my friend... - Matthew.
- And today we have a story to share with you.
This title of this story is "Lost Things"
And the author of the story is Carey Sookocheff.
Now this begins with a picture.
So we're gonna have to look and see what's going to happen.
What do you think? What is this picture telling us?
- So she's walking her dog and he's just holding a stick.
[Matthew] And then the little squirrel's
looking maybe for its acorn.
- [Miss Deborah] Ooh, let's see what happens next.
"Sometimes things are lost."
Oh, look at all the action here.
What you see going on?
- [Matthew] The girl lost her dog,
and the dog lost its stick, and
then the squirrel lost its acorn.
- [Miss Deborah] And look at what else the girl lost.
I think that's her scarf.
She has that around her head and it kind of falls off.
"Once in a while,"
Look here, what happened?
- [Matthew] The bird's just going to take the scarf
and then they're just gonna like
and they're just gonna take it somewhere.
- [Miss Deborah] Let's see where it goes.
"lost things"
And we see the bird. What is he doing now?
- [Matthew] He's taking it and then he's gonna like,
he's like probably gonna go somewhere around this block.
- Well, let's see where he goes.
"Lost things find a new home."
Look at it. What's the new home?
- [Matthew] In a tree.
- [Miss Deborah] In a tree.
And I think something else is gonna be lost.
Can you see? There's a clue here.
There's something else that might turn up being lost.
- [Matthew] The teddy bear.
- [Miss Deborah] The teddy bear. Let's see.
"Sometimes, lost things...
have to wait to be found."
And where is the lost thing? - [Matthew] Lost and found.
- [Miss Deborah] Lost and found.
And what's this lady doing?
- [Matthew] Writing and drinking coffee.
- [Miss Deborah] Mm-hmm. Let's see what's gonna happen next.
"Other times," uh-oh, something happened here.
- [Matthew] "they aren't missed at all."
- [Miss Deborah] Mm-hmm, and you notice something over here?
- [Matthew] Yeah, the pencil is out like it
got like somebody dropped it or something.
- [Miss Deborah] Right! "But can become,"
Look how they're using the pencil.
- [Matthew] They're using it to hold up the flower.
- [Miss Deborah] Right.
"someone else's treasure." Oh!
And here we have them. Doing what?
- [Matthew] Taking like the like wagon.
- [Miss Deborah] Mm-hmm. Let's see where they're gonna go.
Here we go. Uh-oh!
"And from time to time," - [Matthew] The ball got lost.
- [Miss Deborah] The ball got lost. And here we go.
"Lost things are found...
by the people who need them the most."
What do they mean by that: "who needs them the most?"
Who needs this?
- The girl. - The girl.
Why do you think she needs this?
- Because she lost her dog. - Mm. Let's see.
"Just when they need them."
And the title of that story was "Lost Things."
You know what I noticed about that story?
It was like full circle.
It started with the girl, didn't it?
- Mm-hmm.
- And then it ended with... - The girl.
- Yes.
But what I like about this story is that you can make
up your own story because you told the stories
just by looking at the pictures.
And this story could be told different ways
depending on how you see the pictures.
And that's the story of...
[Together] "Lost Things." - "Lost Things."
- Thank you for joining us.
[Together] Bye, friends. - Bye, friends.
(magical chime)
- Auntie Lena!
Someone lost their pencil in the story just like me!
- That's right! The florist found it
and used it to prop up a flower in the shop.
(Possum laughing)
- I didn't know pencils could help flowers grow.
- Me either.
See, it's fun to imagine what happens to lost things.
You never know where they might end up.
- Well, if someone finds my lucky pencil at school,
maybe it will help them be a "shining star student,"
like Grandma Possum told me.
- I think Grandma Possum would be
very proud of you for saying that.
- But when I get a new pencil,
I'm gonna try my best not to lose it.
- Do you have a pencil case?
- No, I don't.
- Then let's make one with our friends.
Mr. James can show us how at the Wing Luke Museum.
(magical chime)
- Hi, friends. I'm Mr. James,
calling in from the beautiful Wing Luke Museum.
I'm the executive director of your parents'
favorite arts and music festival,
Bumbershoot, happening Labor Day weekend.
Make sure you get your tickets, 'cause kids get in for free.
And running a festival is also hard work.
I lose so many things.
Sometimes my mind, but mostly objects.
This is a pencil case and I'm so excited to
make this pencil case because it'll
help me and you locate where we put our lost pencils.
What we need is: stickers, scissors, of course, pencils.
I don't have a pencil case without pencils.
Glue and some paper.
First thing we're gonna do is grab the paper. Alright!
We're gonna fold this paper into three identical sides.
So we're gonna make it a tri-fold.
Alright, so let's do right here. This looks good.
And then fold this side over to right here.
Oh, that's looking really good. Check this out!
Okay, so first thing we're gonna do is
we're gonna fold this side in, to the crease like this.
Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom.
Alright, do the other side very similarly.
Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom.
It's like making a little paper airplane, but not so.
Alright, so let's glue this stuff together.
Grab your glue and we're gonna do
the corners of your paper like this.
Like this, right? All the way down here.
And fold it, fold it, fold it, and then fold it here.
Boom, boom, boom.
And then we are going to do the same thing here.
Boom, boom. Fold this down. Make sure it's sticks.
Sticky, sticky.
Aha! So we have the outline of our pencil case. Hmm...
We need a little bit of fringe to make it pop, right?
So grab another colored paper like this, right.
And we're going to put this edge of
the pencil case right here, just like that, see?
So you have the pencil case, the piece of paper.
We're just gonna draw an outline
and that's gonna be our fringe and I'll show you how.
First, you trace and do here. Great. Alright.
And grab your...
Grab your scissors. Cut right on the line.
Now here's where it gets fun. You're gonna flip this over.
Oh yeah. So it's folding in half, just like that.
Just like that. And then you're gonna cut this way.
(scissors clatter) So we have this.
Now, we are going to glue this little thing
to our pencil case and add here.
Oh, doesn't that pop? Doesn't that color pop?
Now! Now what we need to do is
we're gonna grab that same piece
of paper and let's do the top here.
We're gonna do those same kind of measurements.
So watch as I maybe make this right here, put it right here.
And we're gonna trace again the outline of our pencil case,
just like that and we are going to cut that square.
Boom, boom, boom. Looking good.
I think this is looking really good.
So I'm going to first fold this, make like a little paper,
mini paper airplane, like that. Oh yeah! Okay. Okay.
And we are going to cut our paper airplane just like this.
Cut those wings off. Cut these wings off.
(scissors clatter)
Now we are going to glue these wings here,
and have a little fold over.
I'm so excited because we're building this pencil case
and I won't lose my pencils anymore.
Ooh, look at this pencil case.
This is fantastic. You know what we need though?
A little bit of stickers.
How about we pull out your sticker book
and I'm gonna add... ooh, surfboard on my surfboard.
Maybe one more sticker. How about a...
There you go. Steering wheel for a boat.
Let's add some pencils to this.
What have you ever lost that you
maybe want to put into your pencil case?
I'm gonna put in my favorite red color,
purple or blue, and green. Oh yes.
Now this is a fancy pencil case.
And look like that, we are ready to go.
Thanks, friends, for making this with me
and I hope to see you next time.
I'm Mr. James calling in from the Wing Luke Museum.
Have a great day! (cheery music)
- [Possum] It's time for Movement Minute.
(Possum boings) (cheery music)
- Hello, friends. Welcome to Movement Minute.
I'm Mr. Tyler and today we're gonna
do a yoga position called the Cat-Cow.
So, first, you're gonna get on all fours.
You're gonna put your hands on the ground.
You're gonna arch your back, kinda like a cat
and then bottoms up like a cow. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Alright, we're gonna go back to the cat position.
So we're arch our back and go up. 1, 2, 3, 4.
And we're gonna go back to the cow position.
Bottoms up. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Let's do it one more time. Arch your back up.
1, 2, 3, 4.
Now go back to the cow position. Bottoms up.
1, 2, 3, 4. Alright. Thank you for joining me today.
(magical chime)
- Possum, I'm sorry you lost your lucky pencil
and I hope being together with our friends
helps you feel better.
- Oh, it did Auntie Lena.
- I'm so glad to hear that.
Now you'll always remember:
♪ If you lose something, that's okay ♪
- ♪ Lost things may be found some day ♪
- That's right!
Let me know if you find your pencil at school tomorrow,
but if you don't, I know you'll be A-okay,
and let me know how you do on that spelling test.
- Oh yeah, I need to go study.
- I'm sure you'll do great on it because with,
or without, your lucky pencil,
you're still a "shining star student" in my eyes.
- Oh, thank you, Auntie Lena.
- You are welcome, Possum.
And friends, thank you for taking time
to look, listen, and learn with us today.
Remember, you are the best you that the world will ever see.
- Bye for now. - Bye-bye.
(soft cheerful music)
[Auntie Lena] Please stay tuned after the credits
for Auntie Lena's "Parent tip."
(soft cheerful music continues)
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(soft cheerful music)
- Losing things can be stressful
and frustrating for everyone.
Whether you've lost your keys, jewelry,
or a favorite pencil, like Possum, it's hard to
stop the itch of wondering "now, just where did that go?"
Even for adults, it can be difficult to accept
that something is lost for good.
It's no wonder that children often feel devastated
when they lose something special,
especially if they've never lost anything before.
When your child loses something, let them know
that it's normal to feel upset, help them to calm down by
taking deep breaths or having some quiet time.
Whether that item is found
or turns into someone else's treasure,
it's important for little learners
to practice how to manage their responses
when things happen outside of their control.
They begin to accept that lost things may be found,
and that they have loving, caring adults to help.