 It's time. It's time for the curious giraffe show. Sit back and relax. We'll sing chat and laugh. I'm the curious giraffe show. I am so glad that all of you could be here and we have a big crew today. So I've asked Eli if he will help Jeanette. She's very curious. Find out who's who on the curious crew today. What is your name? Maddie. Hi Maddie. What's your name? Lauren. Hi Lauren. Hi Emily. What's your name? Angela. Hi Angela. What's your name? Ro. Hi Ro. Hi Eli. What's your name Calvin? Hi Calvin. What's your name? Dorothy. Hi Dorothy. Hi everybody. What's your name? Timothy. Hi Timothy. Hi everybody. What's your name? Tim. Hi Tim. I already did that. Yes. And now we really know each other's names. And I want to give a special welcome to our brand new friend Angela. And I met Angela and her mother this weekend and learned that they are here from China for a year. And her mother has been teaching at Amherst at the University of Massachusetts. So we are so happy she can be with us for this show and the next show. Yes Maddie. That's where you live. And you live in Amherst. Or you live in Schutzberg. You live in Massachusetts. Yes. That's what you do. Yes. How many here live in Massachusetts? Yeah. Yeah. And you do right now. Yeah. Yes. Right. And now we're going to learn what today's show is about. Here we go. Durath looked over at Pelican and said why was I born to walk? Why were you born to fly? Pelican just shrugged and gave a high five. Hey we all share one big sky. Oh yeah. Share one big sky. Share one big sky. Give the world a big high five. We're different and we know it and we all get along. Cause we can all share and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. Here's today's topic. Durath looked at Tim and Eggman and said it's exciting that you're here to explore X-Day with us. Tim said when I think of X I think of bugs. Oh yeah. Share one big sky. Share one big sky. Give the world a big high five. Yeah. We're different and we know it but we all get along. Cause we can all share and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. Think of X. You think of bugs. Wait a minute. When you think of X what do any of you think of? What do you think of Angela? Multiply. Multiply. The X is a multiplying sign. That's a great answer. What do you think of Emily? Xylophone. Xylophone starts with X. Anybody else? I think of the alphabet. And the alphabet? Great. I think of space. And what makes you think of space with letter X? I have no idea. I wonder if it's because one of the new letters is X. Because one of the new rocket chips is called the space X? Oh yes. There's the space X. That's probably it. Never heard of that. There's some part of you that just pick that up. Maddie. Exercise. Exercise is a word that starts with EX. That's right. Many words start with EX. So Tim, I was so excited. It's one of those words. When you gave me your idea. I know that children, what makes you think of bugs when you think of letter X? Well, it may be think of the word exoskeleton. Everybody try that. Exoskeleton. What is that? And that is a whole bunch of the animal kingdom that instead of having bones inside them like we do and a lot of animals like dogs, cats and frogs and all kinds of animals that have bones inside them. Lions. They have like lions too. They have their bone as a hard covering that kind of is like a container. Like insects, they have a hard shell and then that contains what's inside them. Or crabs and lobsters and clams. So some shellfish and they're called mollusks. So we learned a new word exoskeleton. Exoskeleton. And I invited Tim because I also know he's a great storyteller and he brought some songs. So. I'm going to take this off. No, let's leave that on for right now. Did you want to show us some of the bug samples or exoskeleton samples? Ghosts and exoskeletons. What do? Ghosts. Ghosts? They're very skeletons I guess. Skeletons because there's not anything on the inside so it's on the outside. That's an interesting idea. This is a monarch butterfly. You can pass that around. No, it was, but it's not anymore. What happened with it? I don't know. They just have a short life. That's a dragonfly. That's a dragonfly. Oh yeah, the wings. Should I show my puppets? Sure. This is a finger puppet of a monarch. Yeah, you want them to hold that? Sure. Okay, you can have a turn. What else? We have another dragonfly, but it's been packed with other puppets. So its wings have seen taste when they're stuck out more. But this one you can look at more closely than the one. Yeah, that's a beautiful artistic butterfly. And we have a red ant. So ants have exoskeletons. Wow, I never thought about that. Isn't that one cool? And then we have what we call a ladybug, which is also called a ladybird beetle. So a ladybug is a kind of beetle. Yes. All right. Great. Okay. So you can, when you've had each had a chance to see it, set it in the middle, and Tim has a story for us. This is a story from Brazil. And I've never heard this story. A long time ago, beetle was a plain gray color. A beetle felt that was normal, but one day beetle was creeping along the ground and parrot, up in the tree, saw beetle. Parrot had gold head feathers and a green body. That's the color of parrot's feathers were. And she said, where are you going? And beetle said, I'm going on a long journey. Suddenly, rat showed up and said, you're going on a long journey. You're going to take forever like that. Look at that. You're so slow. Look at me. I can run around. Oh, rings around you. Oh, you're so slow. And look at you. You're just a plain gray color. Boring. As a matter of fact, look, you don't have brown fur like me. You don't have gold fur with black spots like the jaguar. You don't have yellow and gold and green feathers like parrot up there. You're just a plain gray, ugly color. If I look like you, I just hide in the bushes. Go away. I don't want to look at you. Well, parrot didn't like what he heard. So he said, well, I have an idea. Let's have a race between rat and beetle. And to the winner, I'll give a new coat of whatever color the winner wants. And rat said, win easy. I can run very well on my four strong legs. But look at beetle. She just crawls along on those six stick she calls legs. Well, parrot said, well, run along the riverbank to that tree around the curve and go as fast as you can. And the one that gets there, the first gets the new colors. On your mark, get set, go. Well, rat was off like a shot. And his legs were going so fast that there were a blur and he looked over his shoulder and he didn't see beetle anywhere. And he said, I left that beetle in her dust. You know, I can take it easy. I don't have to run that fast. She's probably creeping along out of sight, but it'll take forever for her to get there. I'm going to think about what colors I'm going to ask parrot for. I like my brown fur coat really well, but maybe I'll ask for decorations like a green stripe down my back and three red dots. No, no, I'll ask for a gold stripe and three blue dots. That's it. Oh, here, I'll go to the tree big finish. Here we go. Was beetle. And beetle asked rat, what took you so long, my friend? Rat said, how did a plain, slow creature like you get here ahead of me? Running as fast as I could at some places. And beetle said, I flew. No, you could fly. You cheated. Parrot had come to the tree and Parrot said, No, beetle didn't cheat. I said that each should try and go as fast as they could. Now, beetle doesn't boast about her wings. She keeps them modestly tucked under her wing covers and she only uses them when she needed. But she needed them this time and she won fair and square. Maybe this will teach you, rat, not to judge others just how they look on the outside. Some of the strangest or plainest looking creatures may have powers that we ourselves lack. Well, rat wasn't happy and he went grumbling away. But as for beetle, she asked for a coat that was as green as the forest with gold dots that was yellow as the sun. And those are the colors that she wears to this day. Thank you. What a great story. Thank you. I have a few things to show you too. In my mystery box, because Tim told me his idea and just like Tim, I said, I wonder if I can find an exoskeleton, even though I never knew that word even until he gave us this idea. So I wondered and I looked up about it and it said sometimes shells are exoskeletons. Well, they are. That the soft part of the animal is on the inside and the outside shell protects it. So just like last time, pass those around. There you go. There you go. There will be more. And I'm going to get ready to... Well, and let's... I guess I'll tell my story. We're going to take turns, okay? Sure. All right. Because share one big sky is sharing ideas too and when we have a visitor. So I'm going to ask you if you would turn two pages on the song chart and let's see if we get to grandmother tree. Yes. Okay. Actually, turn back one page. Nope. Turn forward one page. I think you... Oops. There we go. It's magic. All those pages. There is grandmother tree. She is a real tree that lives in Leverett, Massachusetts. What? Leverett, Massachusetts? Yes. I used to live there. And I used to teach there. And this song is a true story of how the children in Leverett saved grandmother tree. Now turn the page and as you study the shells you can listen to the story and enjoy. Okay. You can unwrap that. That's an especially fragile one. Okay. Oh, there is something. I have never... That's the string. Okay. Did you want to say? No, I was just wondering if you knew what the name of that particular kind of shell was. That's an angel wing shell. Oh. That's an angel wing. It actually looks like a fish's fin. And you... It really does look like a fin. You thought that too? Yeah. Yeah? It looks like a butterfly wing too. Yeah. Okay. So here's a true story and listen for where the bugs come in. I don't know if you'll catch it. And here we go. On our school playground on one side you'll see our very own guardian grandmother tree. She stood long before the old black top was paved and here's the true story of how she was saved. Grandmother was just like all pines in this place except that on one side she has a kind face and down near the ground there's a great resting place. A stone is ingrown in her trunk near the base. On hot sunny days children played in her shade. Around her white trunk fairy houses are made while she watches over the new trail beyond right next to our wetland and small cat hole pond. And so set the scene where we played every day. It's how we expected it always to stay till one clear blue morning we all were dismayed, had been sprayed. Now what could this mean? Tell us what could this be? Oh why have they painted our grandmother tree? We trembled and cried and our hearts filled with dread. Why was she crossed out? Would our friends be dead? Oh no! We met with the principal, found out the facts why grandmother tree had been marked for the ex. He said that her branches had grown much too tall. If the wind got too strong they could fall on us all. Could they save the top part and leave us the rest? Would they slow down and think before taking the best? He said he acknowledged their show of concern but we should just go now that we've had our with songs and listened to them. And just hold it up for us because the back part has the word. With cards and with songs, here we go. With cards and with songs and with trembling tears we offered our grandmother tree our sad tears we offered her water we offered her hugs we kissed her off bark bid farewell to her bugs they held off the cutting until school was out when she was cut down would not be about dreaded that big empty space but wonder of wonders we saw her kind face we stepped back and studied her branches up high grandma had her hair cut way up in the sky the kids hugged their teacher who hugged them right back and grandmother winked at that whole happy pack grandmother still winked at that whole happy pack So she had an X on her and in that case the X meant she was marked to be cut down but what happened? That they loved her and couldn't they figure out a way to save her and still keep the playground safe and so they didn't cut her down and where did you hear about bugs? bid farewell to her bugs Yes, yes, Emily, that was perfect that's exactly right because little bugs live everywhere you have another song about bugs? I do and I have an instrument that not many people may have seen it's a little tangles up here in the guitar strap we're going to need you to flip back one two pages two pages two words so Tim just made up this version of a song yes, real that looks like an arrow I mean a bow it looks like a bow, Tom it does, it's called a mouth bow and it might have started out let me move this back a little bit it might have started out as a bow and arrow type bow asangela I was about to demonstrate that's how maybe somebody found out a bow and arrow bow could be a music bow and that's by using it just by itself you just get a kind of sound but if you use your mouth you know how you can make different sounds if you change the shape of your mouth well you do that with the string sounds kind of like a bug, doesn't it? so that's what I'm going to do with this song and you can echo along after I sing, I'll sing one part and you echo it after me and then another part and then you echo it after me too sure, go for it so we get to share the song water strider water strider water strider water strider how do you stay afloat? how do you stay afloat? well my feet have little hairs of trap air my feet have little hairs of trap air so I don't need a boat so I don't need a boat so I don't need a boat so I don't need a boat caterpillar caterpillar caterpillar caterpillar don't you hate to creep and crawl don't you hate to creep and crawl well I'll be a butterfly some fine day I'll be a butterfly some fine day so I don't mind at all so I don't mind at all So I don't mind at all. Little Cricket. Little Cricket. What makes you chirp so sweet? What makes you chirp so sweet? I rub my wings together to play my song. I rub my wings together to play my song. My true love for to meet. My true love for to meet. My true love for to meet. My true love for to meet. Grasshopper. Grasshopper. Grasshopper. What makes you hop so high? What makes you hop so high? I've got springs in my hind legs. I've got springs in my hind legs. So I can jump up toward the sky. So I can jump up toward the sky. So I can jump up toward the sky. So I can jump up toward the sky. First, have any of you ever seen someone play a mouth? What do you call that? A mouthbow. A mouthbow. Or it's also called a tunebow. Or a tunebow. That is so fun. That was really, really fun. How do you get your mouth to do that? Well, it's sort of like you're using your mouth as the echo chamber for the strings. So I put it, see across, sort of not in my mouth, but I lay it against my cheek and then sort of put it into the corner of my mouth. So that my mouth, it's called resonating. You're resonating it. And then when you change the shape of your mouth, it's sort of like a... Try that. Try it. Can you hear a change of sound? You can get high sounds and low sounds. That is so cool. That is totally cool. Okay. Tim, if you reach and get the bag that's next to you. Sure. And I'm just going to look carefully in here. I didn't know that he was going to look at that. He wrote a song about a cricket and I was looking around for insects that had an exoskeleton because I learned that. And if it's hard for you to see, you can see I put air holes here and I only caught it today and I'm going to let it go today. But my big brother always loved to look at insects and so he taught me to put air holes in a jar and I could look at things for a little while. So I want you to have a chance to see that cricket and here's an artsy beetle. It's not green but it certainly is gold and this is fun to study too. So this is quite heavy. So be aware when you pass it to your neighbor. Okay. And go ahead and pass it on once you've seen a little bit because we're going to run out of time. I have one last... Oh, let's go ahead to the Sarah Pertle song. Okay. So what would you like to do? I think so. I think so. Dorothy, there's two of them. Yes. Yes. And that's still got a lot of energy. What makes you hop so high? And the grasshopper. So why don't you turn to the last song and we're going to sing a Sarah Pertle song about bugs. She thought a lot about bugs too. She lives in western Massachusetts. Sarah Pertle. Yeah, keep going. The very last one. No, that's a brass, a heavy brass. It's actually a doorstopper made in the shape of a beetle. Okay. So this is Sarah Pertle's song about bugs. Okay. So we'll sing it together and look up here and you can do the hand motions as we go. Go ahead. Okay. Should we have them repeat a line? No, we got to keep going. We're almost done. When you bug you bite bug. Excuse me, wait a minute. We're looking at a song chart and it starts with the words I was happy on my steps. So we're going to start there. Here we go. We'll start there. Okay. I was happy on my steps Playing by the hour That bite bug came up to me Thought I was a flower Get ready Go away you bug You terrible bug Scram, scram, scramly Go away you bug You bite bug Fly back to your family Last night that bug bit my eye When I woke up it was pasted Oh why, oh why Did you bite me on the eye Did you like the way it tasted Get ready Go away you bug You terrible bug Scram, scram, scramly Go away you bug You bite bug Fly back to your family I was itching in my sleep So I wear socks on my fingers I think it should work the other way I'm gonna put socks on their fingers That's a good idea Go away you bug You terrible bug Scram, scram, scramly Go away you bug You bite bug Fly back to your family There's bites all up and down my arm It's getting quite ridiculous Instead of all this bite, bite, bite I wish that you'd just tickle us Go away you bug You terrible bug Scram, scram, scramly Go away you bug You bite bug Fly back to your family We get quiet Go back inside your little house Inside the weeping willow Climb inside your sleeping bag Hide under your pillow Bug you terrible bug Scram, scram, scramly Go away you bug You bite bug Fly back to your family That's words and now We have to say goodbye We've been together We've had a great time Let's stand up and sing our giraffe song Which we're going to teach Tim Alright stand up tall Like a giraffe Oh there's a fly Okay stand up There you said scram, scramly Right? Yeah Okay here we go Okay yeah we join hands Do you want to wear that right now? Is that what you're asking? Here we go Okay look up Stand up tall like a giraffe And we say keep singing Keep looking up Keep asking questions And never give up Here we go Keep singing Keep looking up Keep asking questions And never give up Keep singing Keep looking up Keep asking questions And never give up Water strider Water strider Water strider Water strider How do you stay afloat? How do you stay afloat? Well my feet have little hairs A trap air My feet have little hairs A trap air So I don't need a boat So I don't need a boat So I don't need a boat So I don't need a boat Okay go ahead A gentle breeze Got the jitter bugs