 Duo-du, du-du-du... Welcome to the curious giraffe show, where there's always a song and no question is wrong. So, today we're gonna start with our theme song, and would you Lyla Pulled up, curious giraffe. That's our mascot of the curious giraffe show. And let's start with the song we've been learning. Don't flip it yet, that's okay. Giraffe looked over at 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. Give the world a big high five. Yeah, we're different than we know it, but we all get along. Because we can all share and we can all care. We're different, but we all belong. Zebra. Giraffe looked over at Zebra and said, why do I have stripes? Why do you have stripes? Zebra just shrugged and said, we all have stripes. 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 than we know it, but we all get along. Because we can all share and we can all care. We're different, but we all belong. Jaguar. Giraffe looked over at Jaguar and said, why am I so tall? Why are you so fast? Jaguar just shrugged and said, it's all a blast, 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 than we know it, but we all get along. Because we can all share and we can all care. We're different, but we all belong. And then the people. Giraffe looked over at the people and said, why do some folks have plenty? Why do some not have enough? Couldn't they all just share their stuff like 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 than we know it, but we all get along. Because we can all share and we can all care. We're different, but we all belong. So today's going to have two parts. We're going to have a review and then something new. The review is about this question about why some folks have plenty and some don't have enough. And Aurelia has written an essay and we're going to hear her thoughts about this question. Go ahead. Okay. What people should know is that there are kids around the world that need your help. We should help poor children around the world because they may want books and toys. Their countries may not have enough money or school and most of all, they may not have enough shoes or gloves. One reason that we should help poor children around the world is that they may want books and toys. For example, children may want books and toys so they can be entertained when their friends are gone. Children may want books and toys because they can tell stories without having to memorize them. Children can learn to share with toys. Another example of this is at my school we have a book swap. You donate at least two books, then you can take a book. The leftovers go to kids that don't have any. You could do the same with toys. I asked six people in my class if they ever donated books or toys. I've said no. This makes me think that people don't always think that entertainment and learning is important to poor people so they don't help. I think that everyone should get the privilege to have books and toys. Another reason that we should help poor children around the world is that their countries may not have enough money for schools. For example, children's countries may not have enough money for a school because their families are poor and can't pay for the children to go so it can't run. Children's countries may not have enough money for a school because they had a flood or some other natural disaster and the insurance company can't pay and or they don't have one. Children's countries may not have enough money for a school because families already may not have enough money for clothes. Another example of this is one time in summer camp we had a bake sale to raise money for a school in Guinea in West Africa. We raised over $500 in cash. Remember that you can help countries other than your own. I asked six people in my class if they had raised money for a school. All of them said yes. You can do the same and raise money too. Although we should help poor children around the world because they may want books and toys and because their countries may not be able to pay for a school we should especially help poor children around the world because they might not have enough shoes or clothes. For example, if I have any old clothes I put them into a bag and my mom or dad will take them to a place in Amherst called the Survival Center. The Survival Center is a place where families can get free clothes and other things like homes and food. Another example of this is one time my friend Elias told me that he volunteers at a food bank every week. A food bank can help families get free food if they're poor. The food at the food bank is good enough to help the kids grow stronger. If families go to the food bank they can use the money they do have for clothes. As you can see without the food bank families would have to save even more money for food when they may need it for clothes. Children around the world may not have enough shoes or clothes because there's a big population in their country and not enough shoes or clothes to grow around. Children around the world may not have enough shoes or clothes because their families don't have enough money to buy them. Children around the world may not have enough shoes or clothes because other people that have more money buy more than enough shoes and clothes. As you can see volunteering and donating for organizations that help poor children and families is important because without your and others' help poor kids and adults would struggle even more. Aurelia, thank you for putting all of your ideas down and sharing them and helping all of us think more about this question. And I just want to share from my personal experience that times in my life I have had very limited resources and been helped by places like the Amherst Survival Center and at times in my life I have had more than enough and I've been able to share with those who had less. So it's always good to know we're all in this together. All right, thank you Aurelia. All right, so that was our review part. Now we're going to do a new topic. Monet has had something on her mind. Would you tell us what it is? I had a question or a topic about maybe something new and it was about is beauty only skin deep? Interesting question. Do you want to share what you think about that? I don't think it is only skin deep because if it was then maybe a lot of people would be mean and cruel to other people and that's not really what you want to do. People were beautiful inside. They'd be nice, kind and caring and they'd share and give to other people who have less things than they have. Beauty on the inside can come out in ways of taking care of others. Lots of ways to be beautiful, not just on the outside. So we do have a new verse about that question. Burnett, please. All right. So to start us off on this new topic we're going to sing a new one. Giraffe looked over at peacock and said, why are you so pretty? Why am I so plain? Peacock said, real beauty's in your heart and brain and it shines right through your eyes. Oh, yeah. It shines through your eyes. It shines through your eyes. Give the world a big high five. Yeah, we're different and we know but we still get along because we can all share and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. So as I thought about how to think about this topic I asked some friends and a friend of mine has written a song called What If We All Met in the Dark and so you couldn't decide anything about the person by just looking at them. You had to try a little harder. So I'd like to teach this. Well, yeah, I'll teach this song and then we'll think a little bit about if you met someone without being able to see them how would you get to know them? So that's going to be the question. It goes like this. This song was written by my friend Patricia Shee. What if we all met in and found out each other by what's in our hearts not by color or size or the shape of the If we all met in the dark couldn't see how would we get to know each other? Another question is not everybody can see blind people they can make friends as easily as we can. How do they do it? Talking to the people, I don't know. Okay. This is very hard. None of us have done this before. How about if I close my eyes and I'll pretend unless someone else wants to? Anybody else? Monet, you want to give it a try? To speak up what comes to mind just imagine you came into this room and let's all close our eyes for a minute and see if we can get to know each other a little bit. Okay, go ahead, Monet. In 2012, I go to school at CHCS My favorite color is sky blue I love to swim, read, wrestle and tennis. Does anybody else here have anything in common with Monet? What would you like to tell us so Monet can get to know you? You. Okay. I like swimming and reading. Swimming and reading, okay. And maybe color sky blue as well. Alright. Anybody else? Okay, speak up. I'm 12. My favorite color is like rainbow. I like tennis. I like game designing. Making my own games is pretty fun. I like school. I like all the subjects. And I think that's about it. Okay. Anybody else? Yes, speak up. Well, I like school and math and I like to read and swim and my favorite color is like a peach color. Okay. So let's open our eyes now and relax. I learned more with my eyes closed just in these few minutes than I've known about you even though we've been together a few times. So thank you for that exercise and speaking of exercise let's get up and move a little bit so be careful of my guitar. Step forward. We're going to do our exercise song although this time I thought let's exercise our arms first and then when we turn we'll do our legs this way and our whole body this way. Okay. So let's see. Exercise your body Exercise your mind Learn about the world around it Exercise kind Now legs. Exercise your body Exercise your mind Learn about the world around it Exercise kind Exercise your body Exercise your mind Learn about the world around it Exercise kind Yeah. All right. Thank you. Okay. So I did bring the mystery box. Keep you curious I have a folk tale, a story from another part of the world where they celebrate Ramadan which is a time for a month in the morning before sunrise they have a little bit to eat and drink and then they go the entire day until sunset before they eat and drink again because they are using that as a special time to think about forgiving others how to get along better being generous those kind of ideas and I really respect that because I think, wow can you imagine if everybody in our country did that for a whole month? Yes. My friend told me about that because she's Muslim and I am during the season of one I couldn't think of anything to give up this year so I decided every Friday I would stop eating for till breakfast till we ate or something or like sometimes a tiny little snack in between because it's for how I do it Great. So great. So you took a good idea and practiced it yourself so I'm going to tell you a story that happened in that part of the world Okay. So during Ramadan there was a hard working farmer who had had a little bit to eat in the early morning just before the sun came over the hill and he had been working all day in the fields and his shoes had gotten muddy and his pants had gotten splattered and when he got hot he would rub his hand across his forehead and his face got muddy but he kept working and he felt good inside because the wealthiest person in their village had given a special invitation to everyone to come that night as the sun went down to have a great feast at his house because he felt he had been so blessed to have so much and he was going to share so this farmer watched the sun go down and it was time to go to the great feast so he put away his tools and he said, oh oh I know I'm all muddy but I'll be late and that's disrespectful I'll have to hurry I'll go right there so he got there and knocked and the door was opened oh and he smelled all those good smells and he smiled and the master looked at his dirty face and dirty clothes and he turned and walked away and the farmer felt sad but he went in and no one spoke to him he tried to get some food and he said, I'm not hungry it's not fun to be here so he put his plate down and he went home and he took the time and he thought, well I sure would like to go to that party so I will take out my very best clothes and he did he got out his shiny sparkly special outfit and he went back and he knocked and the master opened the door and said, come in my good friend I'm so happy you could be here come in, come in and when he got to the table people smiled at him and said, you can sit here please make room, make room he's late but we don't care have a seat and they passed him food well he took some nuts and he pushed them up his sleeve and he said, eat coat, eat coat well they thought that was strange but they passed him some of the figs and he took the figs and he pushed them up his sleeve said, eat coat, eat coat and then they passed him some soup and he took his sleeve and he dipped it right in the soup well the owner came rushing over he said, my friend why are you behaving this way and the farmer said, well I realize that it's my coat that you want to have at this party because when I came in my plane in simple work clothes no one welcomed me and no one passed me any food and now I am passed everything but I believe it's the coat that you like so I'm feeding my coat and that's the end of that folk tale so what do you think they hope that people learn when they hear that folk tale? Monet? not to judge people by what they wear yes, yes anybody else? exactly that okay Monet was do you agree that that would be yeah, yeah so I have one last song that my friend Joanie Kalem wrote about this topic because Monet this topic is one that people think about all over the world and my friend Patricia who wrote the first song about what if we met in the dark she lives in Pennsylvania and Joanie I think lives in the Chicago area and that folk tale came from the Middle East so this one it says don't judge a book by its cover don't judge a book by its cover the cover doesn't tell you what's inside to know what's inside you gotta open it and read it with your very own eyes people are like books you don't know who they are till you listen with your don't judge a book by its cover the cover doesn't tell you what's inside to know what's inside you gotta open it and read it with your very own eyes won't tell you what they're like person that's in so don't judge a book by its cover the cover doesn't tell you what's inside to know what's inside so like last time we had little booklets that I gave you to write down when you notice someone caring about someone else or sharing or writing down questions you think of today I have a different kind of gift for you it's to put by any mirror in your home I have spent some time with important sayings to remind us even when we're brushing our hair and trying to look good for the day like here's a good one there is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others and Maya Angelou said it is time for parents to teach young people early on diversity there is beauty and there is strength yes in our school we have this little poster that my it's one of Maya Angelou's sayings and it says be somebody's somebody else's rainbow in their cloud say that again one more time so we all get it be somebody's somebody else's rainbow in their cloud be somebody else's rainbow in their cloud so and also I have an essay about Maya Angelou for each of you so if the viewers at home would like copies of these sayings to put by your mirror or if you would like to see the report on Maya Angelou whose heart is one that we all know is so beautiful so that's it for today so let's thank our audience thank you for coming today and we'll see you next time okay shall we just sing one last time don't judge a book by its cover don't judge a book by its cover the cover doesn't tell you what's inside to know what's inside you got to open it and read it with your very own eye you listen with your ears and look with your heart last time don't judge a book by its cover the cover doesn't tell you what's inside to know what's inside