 Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do Welcome to the Curious Strat Show for Curious Kids of all Ages, where there's always a song and no question is wrong. All right, so I think you might have caught on, but every time we sing this first song, the last verse will introduce the topic of the day. So let's start with the eagle, right, thank you. Here we go. A giraffe looked over at eagle and said, why was I born to walk? Why were you born to fly? The eagle just shrugged, and gave a high five. Yeah, we all share one big sky, 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 share. We're different but we all belong. Giraffe looked over at zebra and said, why do I have spots? Why do you have stripes? Zebra just shrugged and said, we're coming all right. But we all share one big sky, 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 share. We're different but we all belong. Giraffe looked over at jaguar and said, why am I so tall? Why are you so fast? Zebra just shrugged and said, it's all a blast. And we all share one big sky, 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. Giraffe looked over at turtle and said, why do I live in the open? Why do you live in a shell? Turtle just shrugged and said, they won't soon as well. But we all share one big sky, 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. Alright, so that last verse said, why do I live in the open? Why do you live in a shell? So what do you think our new topic will be today? Aurelia. Homes. Homes, where we live? And what's the same and what's different? Now, I have a beautiful turtle today that I'm going to share with you. But for real, this turtle has been well loved. And yes, one eye is gone. But we love our turtle just the way it is, just like we love our families and even our homes. Sometimes maybe something's not quite right, but we're still glad to have them. So, I guess we'll start turtle around this way. And so, times, we have more than one home. So, I'm going to just ask you to think about one of the homes that you have known well and lived in. Choose and have you always lived in that home? Let's think for a minute and then let's have your thoughts. What's the definition of like home? I mean, it's like a house, but is it like a place that you hang out all the time? Or is it like just somewhere where you just apparently live? Or is it just someone you just go to a place and you like it? And then you come back sometimes, like what is home? Awesome. Awesome. Okay, let's talk together. What is home? You want to respond, Monet. Most likely a place you feel safe in. Oh, I like that. You feel nice and comfortable and you aren't stiff. Right. Right. You aren't stiff there. You're comfortable there. What else about your home? Well, it's also a place where you live and you can go to after you're like, it's say, if you were out and then you can also go back to it. It's like a place you can always go to. Yes. Yes. All right. So, your homes now, have you always lived in the same home? No. Really? Would you like to tell us about some of the homes you've lived? I've lived in a lot of homes. Yes, a lot. Me too. I've had a lot of homes too. Go ahead. Tell us about it. So, I have two homes now. I have my dad's house and my mom's. And I moved a lot with my mom. Yeah. I don't know. And we're moving again. So, this will be our eighth time. Wow. Wow. So, I just want you to know that my children and I also, my children went back and forth to their dad's home and my home and we moved a lot of times too. So, I really know what it's like and I hope you enjoy your next home. All right. My new home was the one I was born at. It was the one you were born at. It had a huge backyard and it was awesome. You love the yard. And our neighbors who are still my friends, we used to run around the whole entire house down in the basement and out and then across the yard and back in the front yard and then back in the front door. Sounds like a long way. More name. Well, me, Max and Xavier, we moved once because we lived in our house and we were like babies and stuff. We had moved at three years old because the house was too small. So, we had to move to a bigger one. Right. And so, I've been living at the house I currently live in since I was three. Oh, great. Great. But you did. Your family needed to move because you needed more space. Yeah. That's a good reason for moving. Maya and then you. Well, I think I moved when I was a baby, I think I moved, I think I moved three times, but when I was a baby, I think I moved to Northampton on all of the street and then after that, I moved to the house I'm living in now, which I love the best. Great. It's nice to love your home. Yes, Max. Because baseline definitions, one of my versions of home I'm not trying to be funny would be GameStop. Because you spend a lot of time there. Yeah. And you feel comfortable there. Sometimes, yeah. And I have a lot of fun. So I'm like, definitely I should have moved. So that feels home-like to you. I can go with that. Maya, did you want to say something about your home? I moved one time. Okay. I moved from all the way from Philadelphia to here. That's a big move. Philadelphia is in this. And I moved when I was like, I moved when I was two and a half. Two and a half. Do you remember moving? Yes. Wow. I've always been curious when our memories start. Sorry. All right. So I have invited someone who works very hard to help people to have a home. Some of us who have always had a home, we take it for kind of for granted. But many of us, including my own family, could use a little help in figuring out how to have a home so their kids can feel safe and secure and have a good place to come home to. So I have invited Megan McDonough from the Pioneer Nally Habitat for Humanity. Megan. Hi, Dorothy. Thank you so much for coming. We are so glad you can be here. Now, Megan's job is as the executive director. So she is the person that people come to to learn more and more about it. So that's why I called and invited her. So I'm going to let her have my seat and she's going to share with you. And if you have any questions, now is the time to ask them. Thanks, Dorothy. Okay. Thanks, everybody, for taking the time to learn more about Habitat for Humanity. So we build houses in the community with volunteers. And Dorothy actually has been one of our volunteers before. So I was really excited that she called up for me to come and talk to you guys. The thing that we do that everybody knows the most about is we build houses. So this is a picture of a house that we built up in Turner's Falls and the family that was going to buy this house. So what we do is we raise, we do a lot of fundraising and we get a lot of volunteers to help out and we can make the house as affordable as possible because buying a house can be really expensive. And sometimes people, even if they're hard working and they have a job, they can't always afford to buy a house. And some people live in a house where they have too many people for the home that they're in. So there'll be maybe three kids in a bedroom and it's too crowded. So they want to try and buy a home, but they can't afford it. So one of the things that we do is we try and make it affordable so that someone can buy a house. But we couldn't do it without the community, without a bunch of people volunteering. Do you have a question? Yeah, what type of houses do you build? So we build mostly new houses. And this is a picture of a house that we're going to be building in Amherst. So next year we're going to start building these, this is going to be two homes that are attached down the middle. So it's called a duplex. They're all framed with wood. So we get volunteers with hammers and nails. And then we insulate them really well so that people will have low electric bills and heating bills. A picture of the house before you actually build it. Well, that is pretty cool, isn't it? So there is an architect here in Amherst that used a computer program to make this. So he drew this in a computer. Do you guys, like, I don't know if it's on me or Stingy, but do you guys destroy a land to build the houses? So we always look for places to build houses that will be good places for homes. So we wouldn't want to build a house where there was habitat for an animal. Or we wouldn't want to build a house on some place that was going to take away farmland. We're building this house right here in a place called Hawthorne Farm. But there was an old house here that got torn down. So we're building this new one exactly on the spot where the old house was. So we're not taking away any extra land. And it's right near the university so people will be able to get to the college. They'll be able to go to jobs. There's, you know, buses, people can walk places. So we thought that was a good spot for a house. That's a good question, though. How long does it usually take for you to build a house? It takes us a long time because we don't do it every day. So when a construction company builds a house, they have a whole lot of workers who come, you know, five days a week and are building all day long. We tend to build about three days a week. So like Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays is what we're doing right now at our project in East Hampton. So we think it's going to take us about a year and a half to build that house. Here's a picture of some of the volunteers that are building a house right now in East Hampton. And you'll notice that there's a lot of women in this picture, which is one thing that we try and promote as well, is because there's not as many women who usually do construction. But we think that women should have an opportunity to learn and build as well. So we got most of the people doing the construction on this house are women. Just last week we had this many people there all installing the insulation. So we had about 50 people helping out then one day. Do you need any specific skill to volunteer to help construct the house? So you have to be at least 16 years old to help construct the house because there's labor laws that say children aren't supposed to do dangerous things like construction work. But there aren't any specific skills. We always look for people who have lots of good skills to lead the crews, but then we take people who are unskilled so that they can learn more. When you guys are in high school, we also work with the technical high schools. So the Smith Vocational Technical School, which is over in North Hampton, they're doing all the plumbing for this house. So those kids are going to be helping to build the homes. Do you have a note? You look like you might have a question. All right. Well, if you do. Oh, yes, I do. I forgot it for like two seconds. What do you do to volunteer? Like what do people do when they are volunteering? That's a good question. So what we ask everyone who wants to volunteer is that they go to an orientation and you can sign up on our website. I think that when this show is being produced, they'll put the website up there so everybody who's watching can go to the website. And at the orientation, we tell people how to sign up. So volunteers come and like on this day, they went to the construction site and helped insulate, put the insulation inside the house. But we also have volunteers who do things that aren't at the construction site. We have volunteers who help us raise money. We have volunteers who help us plan for our next project. We have volunteers who help the new homeowners learn how to be a homeowner. So there's a lot of different things people can do. How do you raise money though? What do people do to raise money? Well, Dorothy's got other things to talk about here too, it looks like. I like your questions, everybody. Yeah, you know, Aurelia, I love that we have started the conversation and that you have more questions. And I can show, I can answer some of those and I can put you in touch with Habitat. And that's what Megan has described to us, that on the show there will be the contact information for all people who would like to know how to raise the money and how to be a part of this wonderful, wonderful effort in our community. So thank you, Megan. Yes, thank you, Dorothy, and thank you everybody for your good questions. All right. So, Aurelia, I'm delighted that your mind is going now. That's what's curious. The curious giraffe and now a curious turtle are curious Georgia and curious George. Oh, I didn't realize we created a curious George. Okay. I just figured that out. Yes. Okay, now I'd like you to try a song about Habitat that was written, the first verse was written by a man who he and his wife were part of the volunteers and support team at Habitat and he wrote the first verse. I liked it so much that I added more verses. So we're going to sing Habitat Hits, the nail on the head. There's always going to be those three beats. So get your hammers ready and let's begin. Habitat Hits, the nail on the head. Hand rain home, what the golden rule said. Do unto others as you have them do. Habitat Hits, the nail on the head. Habitat Sauce, the line on the board. Making a home someone can afford. Do unto a Habitat Sauce. The line on the board. Habitat builds, the walls all around. Making them strong and making them sound. Do unto a, the walls all around. Habitat puts the roof over. It's a home that you own. Do unto a Habitat Hits. You build your own home. So that says a lot, but it sings my joy of knowing how neighbors can help neighbors in all kinds of ways. Now it's time for our exercise stretch. Let's put the animals to rest here for a minute. Okay, good. All right, everybody stand up and stretch. All right, good. Okay, let's start with our legs. Let's bend down low. Exercise your body. Exercise your body. And exercise your mind. Learn exercise kind. Very nice, have a seat. Okay. Now, today's mystery box has a story in it, as usual. But it's a little bit different. It's a story that grows. How many of you have ever heard the story, the house that Jack built? No? When I was growing up, that was in... But we're going to do the house that Habitat built. And we're going to create the story together. So, I'm going to just start with... Oh, I have to do a page to help. Okay, I'm going to ask, when I hand you part of the story, if you hold it so that it can be seen, okay? And just hold it still, and you'll know what to do with it, okay? Ready? This is the house that Habitat built. And you all say it after me. This is the house that Habitat built. This is the mother who worked on her house that Habitat built. Ready? This is the mother who worked on the house that Habitat built. And this is the house that Habitat built. Hold it up there so it's easy to see. Okay? Ready? This is the team who supported the mother. Everybody? This is the team who supported the mother. This is the mother who worked on the house. This is the house that Habitat built. Alright, good. Interesting, we had a question about the land. This is the land that was given to the team who supported the mother who worked on the house that Habitat built. Alright, good. Now, I was thinking lumber, and I was thinking this could be like the kitchen or nails, lumber and nails, great. These are the materials that were brought to the land, the land that was given to the team who supported the mother who built the house that Habitat built. Okay, this is harder than I thought, but we're doing alright. Okay, now, these are the businesses. These are different businesses, business names in our Pioneer Valley. These are the businesses who supplied the materials that were brought to the land that was given to the team who supported the mother who worked on her house, the house that Habitat built. Okay, and who are we up to? Okay, we'll come back this way. Alright, these are the volunteers who worked with the materials that the businesses supplied. How did I do that? These are the volunteers. That's okay. Grownups make mistakes too. That's one of my best things as a teacher is saying. It's okay to make mistakes. Did you figure it out, Mia? How should it go? Okay, go ahead. These are the volunteers. These are the volunteers that the businesses support. Alright, I'm going to go a little quicker now. Okay, these are the volunteers that were glad for the businesses who gave the materials for the land and that the team used to support the mother who worked on the house that Habitat built. Okay, and I'm going to do the last few. I'll just hold them. Okay, I'll do the extras. You guys hold yours clearly. Okay, this is the contractor who trained the volunteers who were glad for the businesses that contributed the materials for the land and the team who supported the mother who worked on the house that Habitat built. Okay, and these are the donations that helped the contractor to ask the businesses for the materials to bring to the land to give... Oh, this is hard. I hope the kids at home can follow this. Alright, this is the donations that the contractor used to train the volunteers to thank the businesses who provided the materials for the land and the team who supported the mother who built the house that Habitat built. And the very last part of the story is these are the kids who get to live in the house that Habitat built. Alright. Wow, we have to... That's for Dorothy to write any new ideas with. That actually can go with our other giraffe friends. We can put everything together on the land. Let's do it on the land. Go ahead, put them things together. So this is... It should be right there. Nothing. Alright, there you go. Put the house there. I'm going to put the house here. Alright, so we're going to have to finish up but a house becomes a home when there's love there. Everybody, sit back please. Why don't you put your pieces there. And we're going to have our last song. Don't you go find a house. Don't put the money drop again. The money's important. Okay, it's all important. Every piece of that is important. Very nice. So once there's a house, it becomes a home when the family moves in and the love is there. So let's sing this last song. It's like tucking this new family into their home. Ready? Home is where the heart is Where I lay me down It's the place I know the best It's the place I feel most settled Sates that sound in my... Where I lie and lay Let's just hum a little. Thank you for joining us today and considering all the curious things they are to learn about our own homes and about other homes. So everybody, let's say goodbye. Bye. Join us for the Curious Giraffe Show for Curious Kids of All Ages. It's the place I learn forgiveness It's the place acceptance Even all...