 It's time. It's time. For what? For what? Everybody, and Megan, could you hold up Jeanette? She's our chatty friend. George is our quiet friend. And Jeanette will find out who's who on the curious crew today. What's your name? Milo. Hi Milo. What's your name? Maeve. Hi Maeve. What's your name? Maddie. Hi Maddie. What's your name? Aurora. Hi Aurora. What's your name? Carla. Hi Carla. What's your name? Dona. Hi Dona. What's your name? Megan. Hi Megan. Hi Megan. What's your name? Dorothy. Hi Dorothy. Phillip. Hi Phillip. Okay, so now we're going to sing the curious giraffe song and find out what, learn a little more about Phillip. Let's find out. Here we go. Giraffe looked over at an eagle and said, Why was I born to walk? Why were you born to fly? Eagle 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 but we all belong. Cause we can all share and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. Giraffe looked over at the visitor and said, I wonder how he's feeling. Would he like to be my friend? The visitor smiled and said, Let the fun begin underneath this 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 but we all belong. Cause we can all share and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. So this is my friend Phillip Alexander. I met him through a wonderful group called the Children's Music Network. So Phillip, you brought us some music and ideas today and we're happy to get to know you. Well Dorothy, thank you so much for inviting me to be here with this wonderful group of friends and speaking of friends, our first song is about friends because I know that we're doing a theme and our theme is the letter F. And the best, one of the best words with Faceful friends. That's right, friends is one of the best words that starts with F because we all know that when you are hanging out with friends you are probably having, what, starts with an F. Yes, probably having fun. So I'm just going to write that really big here because that is the most important, most important thing that we want to remember about friends is to be nice to our friends and have fun with them. Yeah, exactly. So let's sing a song about friendship and it's called the more we get together the happier we'll be. And we'll start with the sign language. Alright, I'll try it with you. Oh the more we get together together together oh the more we get together the happier we'll be because your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends and the more we get together the happier we'll be. Let's try it in this key here and I'll play the guitar and see if you can do the sign language. Ready? Oh the more we get together together together oh the more we get together the happier we'll be because your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends and the more we get together the happier we'll be. Do you think you can remember all the words and the signs? Let's find out. I'll play the harmonica while you sing it. One, two, three. I'd like to sing a song about one of the founding fathers. Those were the people who helped get our country started and organized. There is a founding father whose last name starts with F. Anyone know who it was? His first name was Ben. Benjamin. Franklin. Franklin. That's right. So let me just write his name in here. That was really good that you guessed that. A lot of people know George Washington. Not everyone knows that Franklin came from Boston. That's right. And when he was a kid his family was working really hard. He had to stop school and go to work in his father's candle factory when he was 10 years old. He didn't like it because it was really hot and stinky in the candle factory. That's why he quit and became a printer. And eventually he learned how to do so many things. It was amazing. He was an inventor, a writer, a leader. And that's what the song is all about. I'm going to give you three ways that you can be part of this song. The first thing is when I say he flew a kite with a key attached please put your kite up like that way up high as you can and put a key on the kite. And when I say lightning struck and he got zapped let's do it. That was pretty good but let's make it really loud. Excellent. And the second thing is when I say who your answer to that question is always Franklin of course. So let's try that. Who? Franklin of course. And the last one is when I say he wouldn't wear the wig I used to wear those funny white curly wigs when I say he wouldn't wear the wig when they did the silly dance we're all going to jump up and do a silly dance. Okay, that comes at the end. And here's your part you can sing. La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la printer, inventor, diplomat to so many things that Ben Franklin could do. Kites, he flew a kite with a key attached lightning struck and he got zapped La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la poor Richard Zalmanac printed the news with jokes and advice that a farmer could use the mail was delivered by a coach and horse the first postmaster was Franklin of course Who was it? La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la writer, statesman, scientist too so many things that Ben Franklin could do he flew a kite with a key attached lightning struck and he got zapped La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la he invented a wood stove to keep his house warm a rod to catch lightning kept it safe in a storm he signed the treaties that ended the wars we're talking about Ben Franklin of course Who did all that stuff? La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la Ben signed his name on that great declaration he helped write the laws that gave birth to our nation they liked him in England and they loved him in France but he would not wear the wig when they did the silly dance get ready it's turkey time irl. Shape in a haircut. Two bits. Great dancing. Oh, let me keep out of this ukulele because you might have noticed in the song that they liked him in England, they loved him in France. Ben Franklin was the ambassador to France. And France is a country that starts with what letter? It starts with F. And what is the capital city of France? Paris. And who knows what is the most famous building in all of Paris? The Eiffel Tower. That's right. So we're gonna sing a song about the Eiffel Tower. Oh, I forgot to tell you. This is a dancing song. Let's stand right up and we're gonna do a little dance. There's a part for you. When I say oolala, try that with me, say oolala. The Eiffel Tower. And when we say the Eiffel Tower, I want you to hold your hands up. Reach up and make an Eiffel Tower with somebody. Okay, or all together. Yes, make an Eiffel Tower. We can do it all together or with the partner. Either way you want, okay? All right. We can try it all together. Here we go. This is your shining hour. Here we go. Oolala, the Eiffel Tower. I have something in my musical picnic basket here that I'm gonna play. And you can pretend to play one of these. It's called a kazoo. Well, while we're traveling, I would like to take you to Mexico because it's one of my favorite places to travel. I love the... I have many friends from Mexico. I love the people. I love the culture. I love the food. I love the music. And the music. Well, we're gonna have a little bit of culture, food, and music right here with a song called Senorita Rita. And, oh, yes, Maddie. Do they have ice cream in Mexico? I think they do. Don't they call it elado, I think? Elado? Ice cream is your favorite food. I like the rainbow kind. Let's find out what your favorite foods are. What's your favorite food? Burritos. Burritos, good. Are we talking Mexican food or just food in general? Any kind of food, really. Salad. And cheese. Sandwiches and cheese. Sushi. I love sushi, too. Good taste. Fish. Fish? Very good. Cheese quesadillas. Cheese quesadillas. We've got a really healthy crew here. Chilato. Chilato, okay. Something we've got to feast. All right. It's so hard to pick. I think I'm going to pick one of my favorites, and that's clementines, when they're cold. I love those. Well, I'm gonna tell you my favorite food is tacos, especially fish tacos. But to make a taco or a quesadilla, someone mentioned quesadillas, we need to make a tortilla. And Senorita Rita makes them by hand, the old-fashioned one. So pretend you have a lump of cornmeal, and we're going to put this down for just a second to show you. We're going to be making a tortilla like this. Milo, can you help us make a tortilla, too? Like this? Okay. While we're making tortillas, please say this after me. Senorita Rita. Senorita Rita. She makes the corn tortillas. She makes the corn tortillas. She lives in a cabana. She lives in a cabana. In her yard, she grows bananas. In her yard, she grows bananas. Yes, cabanas are like a little shack, the roof's right over your head. And bananas have enormous leaves, okay? So there is two more things you need to know. One is, Senor Juan Rivera loves to sing rancheras. We're going to play guitar, pretend you're playing guitar, because he sings Mexican country songs. Those are called rancheras. And we're going to go to a fiesta a little bit later in the song. Anyone know what a fiesta is? A fiesta is a feast. It's a feast or a party. That's right. So we're going to go to a fiesta and we're going to dance. Let's do it. Here we go. Grab your lump of cornmeal. Show me how you make a corn tortilla. Kitchen. That's right. And to start us out, we're going to count to three in Spanish. Senorita Rita. She makes the corn tortillas. She lives in a cabana in her yard. She grows bananas and she sings all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo le. That's right. Every verse, we're going to end with two claps, two claps, two claps, and then a little shimmy. That's right. Here we go. Otra vez. Senorita Rita. She makes the corn tortillas. She lives in a cabana in her yard. She grows bananas and she sings all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo le. Get ready for senor Juan. Let's play our guitars. La guitar. Senor Juan Rivera. He loves to sing rancheras. By day he's selling cocoa. But at night he's dancing loco and he sings all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo le. Ready for a fiesta? Let me hear you say fiesta. One night at a fiesta. Senorita Rita. Into their eyes they gaze as the mariachi plays and they dance all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo le. Who's got some good dance moves they want to show? Good. Get out your hammers. We're going to make a taqueria. Can you show me what that would look like? What's a taqueria? A taqueria is a restaurant. It's a restaurant where they serve tortillas. Uno, dos, tres. They built a taqueria where Rita makes tortillas. They laugh at their old photos. Now they're married with tres hijos. They sing all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo. To go faster, because they're trying to serve tortillas in their restaurant. Gotta make a lot of them, but they're still trying to do it by hand. Can you make your tortilla faster? Yes. Uno, dos, tres. Senorita Rita. She makes the corn tortillas. She lives in a cabana in her yard. She grows bananas and she sings all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo le lo le. I love it. You remembered and you are singing with me too. That was really good. What do you think they can go faster? All right. Uno, dos, tres. Senorita Rita. She makes the corn tortillas. She lives in a cabana in her yard. She grows bananas and she sings all day. La le lo le. La le lo le lo le. Let's shoot me down low and let's jump up as high as we can and yell ole on the count of three. Uno, dos, tres. I love it. Okay. Well, let's sit down and relax a bit because you've been dancing up a storm and I also feel like it would not be right to have a children's music show without at least one song about an animal. Oh, thank you. In fact, Senorita Rita was kind of a love story, right? She falls in love with Senor one. This story is, this song is also a love story. Only involves Mr, can you guess what animal? Starts with an F. Starts with an F. There's a fox. Good guess, but it's not Mr. Fox. Let me give you a clue. I'm going to reach into my musical picnic basket and play something here and maybe you'll be able to guess. Yes. All right girl. It looks like a frog and it sounds like a frog. It's a musical frog. And let's play a little game here called pass the frog. Okay. Let's just keep passing them around because I have enough for each of you to play a frog. Okay. So let's see. Some of them are big like that. Some of them are small and you take the stick out and you just rub it from the back to the front or the front to the back. And once you get it, you can go ahead and start playing it to get used to how it works and how it sounds. Okay. Maddie, that one's for you to play the one in your hand right there. Okay. Oh my goodness. Oh, this one is really cute. This is a little tree frog right there. Okay. And yes, one more frog here. Okay. I'll tell you what, after a few verses, I'll tell you to trade and you can trade with somebody sitting next to you. Okay. Listen to all those frogs. Yeah. Oh, this song is called froggy went a courton. So let me write that in and Mr. Frog loves Miss Mouse. So here we go. Froggy went a courton and he did ride. And when I say mm-hmm, you can say mm-hmm. When I say ribbit, ribbit, you can say ribbit, ribbit, and so on. And you can keep playing the frogs all you want. Froggy went a courton and he did ride. Froggy went a courton and he did ride. Froggy went a courton and he did ride with a sword and a banjo by his side. Can you make a knocking sound with the stick? He rode right to Miss Mouse's door. Knock, knock, knock, knock. Road ride to Miss Mouse's door. Knock, knock, knock, knock. Road ride to Miss Mouse's door where he had been many times before. Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock. Let's trade frogs with someone. Trade frogs with one of your friends. And try to make a ribbit sound again. Ribbit sound with your new frog. Got right down on his bended knee. Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. Got right down on his bended knee. Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. Got right down on his bended knee. And he said, Miss Mouse, will you marry me? Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. What do you think Miss Mouse said? Yes, we have some optimists here. Well, she didn't say yes, but she didn't say no either. Tell you what she said. Kind of like a maybe. Without my uncle, rat's consent. Without my uncle, rat's consent. Without my uncle, rat's consent. I would not marry the president. Uncle rat laughed till he shook his sides. Yes, yes, he said yes. Uncle rat laughed till he shook his sides. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Uncle rat laughed till he shook his sides. To think my niece is going to be a bride. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Well, they decided to get married in the morning and serve a wedding breakfast. But what will the wedding breakfast be? Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. What will the wedding breakfast be? I'd like to find out what you'd like for your wedding breakfast. I heard that Megan said she would like cake. Anybody else would like to tell what you'd like for your wedding breakfast? Sushi? All right, we got cake, we got sushi, we got ice cream, fruit, a lot of fruit, candles, watermelon, dinges, pears, pancakes. What would you like for your wedding breakfast? Okay, so we got sushi, waffles, pancakes, cake. Fruit is a good offer, that's right. Well, that all sounds really good to me, so please say yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Oh yeah, really good. What will the wedding breakfast be? Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, what will the wedding breakfast be? A fried mosquito and some moldy cheese. That sound good to you. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Let me hear that yuck, yuck again. With the yucky taste like that, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. But they did have a cake, but they didn't get to eat it. No. I'll tell you why. The last to arrive was a big black snake. the last to arrive was a big black snake. Last to arrive was a big black snake, he ate a ball of the wedding cake. And then he slithered over to Mr. Frog and Miss Mouse, and he opened his mouth really wide. Oh no, oh no, oh no. They figured it was time to leave on their honeymoon. Can you guess where they went? Oolala, that's your clue. Oolala. A place he's... Yes, they went to Paris, France on their honeymoon. They left right away on their honeymoon. Oolala. Oolala. On their honeymoon. Pants in a silver spoon. Oolala. Oolala. Oolala. Put this story back on the shelf. That's all. That's all. Let's put the story on the shelf. That's all. That's all. Let's put the story back on the shelf. If you want some more you'll have to sing it yourself. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all. Thank you so much for playing the frogs with me and singing the froggy wintercourt and story. And having a fiesta with Senorita Rita making the corn tortillas. And traveling to France and climbing up the 1700 steps of the Eiffel Tower. It was also fun to learn and share a little bit about Benjamin Franklin with you. And you know what? I feel like in this last half an hour we've made friends. And I know I've had a lot of fun. So I hope that you have too. Dorothy, is it time for our closing song? Well, you told me about one other fun idea. That if we keep it to a short one we can fit in a freeze song. A freeze dance. F is for freeze a frog dance. Let's do that. And then the, oh yes. Shall we collect? A party freeze dance. That sounds like a great idea. Okay. But we keep it short and then we sing our goodbye song. Okay. Thank you. Thank you all. Let's do it. Thank you, Milo. Thank you, Benet. It's so I can play the guitar and the harmonica at the same time. All right. How about this? When I play, you know what you have to do. What do you have to do in freeze dance? When the music plays you. And when the music stops you. Free. Okay. Here we go. You can watch it. This time when you freeze, try to do a surprise freeze like that. Oh yeah. That's a good one. Here we go. That was so fun. I enjoyed doing that freeze, watching the freeze dance this time. All right. So Phillip, you can stand up with us. Okay. And Dona, would you like to be next to Phillip? We'll make a line this way. And make a, yeah, Phillip, you move right up there. Okay. Do I need to flip this over? Do we have any? Nope. Just stand right there and join the song. Excellent. We're going to keep singing, keep looking up. Okay. Here, make room for everybody. Here we go. Dona and Maddie can hold hands. Okay. How about Aurora? Will you hold Jeanette and your other hand? And she likes to keep singing the closing song too. Okay. Milo, you want to keep your hands to yourself this time? Fine. Okay. Ready? Keep singing, keep looking up, keep asking questions and never give up. Keep singing, keep looking up, keep asking questions and never give up. Oh my goodness. Thank you for watching. We'll see you next time. Bye-bye. Thank you for watching and thank you for having me on your show. Oh, we're glad you could come, Phillip Alexander from Boston. Thank you for coming.