 Hi there. Welcome back. Welcome back, everybody. I'm so ready for this show. You are? Well, what are you ready for? I'm ready to sing, and I'm ready to listen, and I'm ready to figure things out. Yes. Oh, she is ready. And George looks ready, too. He's looking. Eyes are paying attention and his ears. He's leaning just so he can see really well. All right. And I know you're ready, too. So let's start when we sing together. All right. When we sing together, I feel so much better. It's easy and simple to do. When we sing together, the day just gets better. I love making music to figure things out fiction. Will it be true or make believe? We're going to find out. So let's sing the curious giraffe song. Find out. Here we go. We have a different book today. But it's by the same author that we've heard before. Here's the wonderful cover. Doodle bugs. There's a drawing of the doodle bug. Doodle. And it's by Corinne DeMas and Artemis Rohrig and illustrated by Ellen Shea. They had a different illustrator last time, but they all have really cool pictures. So, you know, Jeanette was asking about fact or fiction or true or make believe. We're going to figure out when we read this book. Let's see. Doodle bugs doodle. Got their crayons and paper out ready to doodle. And we see children going out exploring outside. A ladybug and some ants. Do dragonflies breathe fire? Beautiful pictures of dragonflies. No, but they have a long tooth jaw and a flap at the front of their mouth that can shoot forward and catch their prey. Do water boatmen wear life jackets? No, but they carry an air bubble under their wings and use the oxygen when they swim underwater. Do horseflies gallop? No, but they are the fastest flying insect on earth and can zoom much faster than a galloping horse. Do fireflies roast marshmallows? But some of them blink their yellow or red light on their abdomens to attract mates. Different species flash different patterns. Do stink bugs take baths? No, they like to be stinky because that discourages predators from eating them. The smell comes from glands in their abdomens. Do yellow jackets wear yellow jackets? But their bright coloring warns other animals they are venomous. Birds beware. Book lice have library cards that they sometimes eat the paste used to hold the book bindings together. They also eat algae and lichen on trees. Do doodle bugs doodle? Yes, doodle bugs, the larva of ant lions, leave spiraling winding trails in the sand that look like doodles. Can you see their drawings in the sand? There was finally a yes at the back of the book. They have scientific pictures instead of drawings and scientific facts. So this book is fact. It's true. So we learned a lot in this book. And that last question made me think about doodling. So I'm going to use the book like a little art desk. And I'm going to doodle. And I love the curls and doodles that they showed. So here goes. I'm going to draw a doodly doodly doodly do. I'm going to draw a spiral because that's one of my favorite shapes. There. Dorothy's doodles. I like to put the name of the artist on the paper. I'm putting Dorothy's doodles. What was really cool in the book, it said that these doodle bugs doodle in the sand. So I went outside and I gathered a little sand and a container, a leftover container, was in my recycle bin and I pulled it out and I went outside and I gathered some sand. But this is our project. Then I got some glue and a paintbrush. You can do this just with a stick or a q-tip if you don't have a paintbrush. But I'm going to paint glue onto my doodle. Dip again. You have to be patient. Get more glue and follow the doodle. I did a big fancy doodle so I have to actually be very patient to get enough glue on to make the sand painting that I'm hoping to make. I hope this works because if it does, I think it might be fun for you to try at home. Almost done. One more loop. Okay. I'm going to put the top back on. It doesn't spill and now I'm going to take the sand, take a little bit in my fingers and sprinkle it. Okay, I'm going to just sprinkle it over my drawing, my doodle. This came from outside so some of the bits and pieces have unusual things in it. I assume you're going to collect a little bit of dirt or sand from outside. Wherever you live, you might have a few twigs and things too that you didn't really want. Okay, so you sprinkle sand over your doodle where you painted the glue. Then you take the whole paper and you make it like a funnel and pour off the extra and see how my doodle shows up? So you can make sand doodles too. It's fun. Reading books gives us ideas. So I have a song about the little sandpiper. Sand makes me think about sandpipers and I was at the beach once and I saw these little sandpipers, thin, thin little long beaks and they dipped that thin, thin little beak very much like the end of this toothbrush, just along the toothbrush, paintbrush, dipped in the water and all these little rings went out from that one point where it touched and it really inspired me. So I wrote this song and the chorus repeats itself so you can sing along. Little sandpiper, a creature that lives water or in the water and it's hermit crab. Hermit crab was hiding, hiding in his shell. Hermit crab was worried that the day would not go well. What a puppy from his home, instead of going- Search about hermit crabs hiding in his shell. Really surprising because this big shell, this is a great big granddaddy hermit crab hiding. He can be protected just like that. He can be camouflaged in the light and dark shadows of the water but when he needs to move about and get food he can come out and crawl around. He has shared many shells with other crabs as he grew bigger and bigger. So I wanted to show you that I collected some shells that hermit crabs might have used. Here's a small one that's a little bit bigger and that's even bigger. I think what good protection their shells give them. Like in the song, there's a time to stay safe and stay inside and then there's a time to come out and see the world. So I have a wonderful song about that that was written by Andrea Green and it's called Get Outta Your Shell. It's an echo song so I'll sing a line, you sing a line. It's the same and we can all sing it together. Get out of your shell. Get out of your shell. Don't hide inside. Don't hide inside. Get out of your shell. Get out of your shell. Crack open wide. Crack open. You should do, should do. Don't be shy. Do stretch in. Really truly inspire us. They're totally fascinating for curious humans and curious giraffes. Aren't we glad we have such an interesting and diverse world? Yes. Oh yes. I want to get outside and see more of it. Here I'm going to go next but I'm so happy you all came to be with us today and I'm so happy for all the interesting books that have been written. Fact and fiction. True and make believe. They all open our minds and our hearts to get out of our shells and try something new. Okay, it's time to sing our song. I want to leave. I'm happy for you to leave. Keep singing. Keep looking up questions and never give up. Keep. Thanks Jenette. Thanks George. Bye bye. We'll see you next time. Get out of your shell. Get out of your shell. Don't hide inside. Don't hide inside. Get out of your shell. Get out of your shell.