 It's time. It's time. For what? For the sit back and relax so we'll sing chat. We have a crew for the new season and Doné has volunteered to use Jeanette, giraffe, to introduce everybody. What's your name? Doné. Everybody say hi Doné. Hi Doné. What's your name? Milo. Hi Milo. What's your name? Emily. Hi Emily. What's your name? Lauren. Hi Lauren. Hi Megan. What's your name? My name's Dorothy. Hi Dorothy. And I will take Jeanette now and just remind, let's do a reminder for those who haven't seen the show or haven't seen it in a long time. So my name's Jeanette. Hi Jeanette. And his name's George. Hi George. George is very quiet but he likes to be part of things. He watches with his eyes and ears and he has a long neck that he can see far and wonder about many things. I talk a lot. I have sometimes trouble stopping talking so I can learn more but I have big ears and eyes and we're both friends even though we're different. It's fun to have different friends, isn't it? So I like the show because I get to meet kids from all over the valley that none of you live where I live but I get to know you. So we have a theme song for the Curious Giraffe show and we're going to teach it now and let's practice the sign language one more time. The chorus goes share one big sky so you make your hand like a table some for others some for yourself. 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 still get along because we can all share and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. Alright, would anyone like to have Jeanette sing a little bit? We'll take turns. Thank you, Doné. You've got to do the introductions. Megan, you'll help her sing the song and here we go. So you have the eagle. Doné, you help him fly. Giraffe looked over at eagle and said, Why was I born to walk? 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. Yeah, we're different and we can all care. We're different but we all belong. Very nice. You did a good job. Here's the new verse. Giraffe looked over at the animal. I think we're all so awesome. Every kind is so unique. The animals agreed with a bark and purr and squeak. I'll share one big sky. Oh, yeah. Share one big sky share one big sky a big high five. We're different but we all nice singing. Welcome back. So today's show is about awesome animals. Now what animals do you think are awesome? Dona? Rhinos. Rhinos. Why do you think rhinos are awesome? Because they have big horns. They do. That's very unique. And Milo? So many different animals. It's hard to pick. I understand that answer. What ideas, Lauren? Koalas. Why do you think they're awesome? Because they're so cute. A lot of people really love koalas. Horses because they run fast. You like how they run? I got horses. And you have horses. Aren't you lucky? And Emily, you didn't have a special idea? Not yet. Not yet. So do you think a pig is awesome? That's not one people usually name. Usually people will name really cute animals or fast animals. But not usually pigs. But I read in the newspaper about an awesome pig that was so brave that it jumped out of a truck and was so impressed that it was so brave that they said, we will take care of you and you can live forever on our farm. So that's what this story song is about. Tra la la, I'm freeway the high flying pig and Milo is going to use our stuffed piggy bank to be freeway the high flying pig on his next song. Okay, so let's sing up. He's a happy pig, right? Tra la la, I'm freeway the high flying pig we were up to the market but I did a quick jig with a flip of my fill. The day started out sunny it started out well was like any other for us. They pulled up a truck and they packed we were shoulder to shoulder in a big bumpy mound. My fear gave me courage to upside down. Can you make him upset? Yes, but pick himself up. Tra la la, we were up to the market but I did a quick jig cause a pig can get hurt making high flying jumps but I'd been well protected so I stood up and brushed off fancy free just like that now I've been I eat well and sleep well and show off my charm so if you're ever stuck where you don't want to be just speak up and leap up and get yourself tra la la but I did a awesome story and it's true very cool so Emily I'm going to ask you to open George's facts pocket because even though most people don't think about pigs being awesome I did some research and found out some awesome information can you open it and read some of it in a loud clear voice well you decide go along read as much as you want in a loud clear voice. groups of pigs are called swine herd dove drove pigs or hogs male pigs are called boars the females are the females are called sows or sows that's a tricky word sows and the young pigs are called piglets pigs are intelligent animals and can be easily trained much better than dogs a piglet can respond to a name in two weeks time pigs have an excellent sense of smell with which they can detect food that is buried underground at a depth of five feet okay wait I want you to see how deep five feet is I'm about five feet three inches so about from my nose to this platform that's how deep a pig can smell food under there isn't that great yeah okay go ahead contrary to the very popular belief pigs are cleaner than most animals pigs are excellent swimmers pigs have four toes on each foot but walk using only the middle two how about that everybody hold up just your four fingers and put them together like they're your foot and now can you just put down two and that's how pigs walk on their two even though they have four toes very interesting fact another awesome fact go ahead a sow can give birth to a litter that usually contains seven to twelve piglets the largest little litter recorded is one let me see that I think that's a surprise I think that might be the smallest let me see the largest oh they put a comment a funny place okay I'm gonna the largest litter recorded is only once did this ever happen which contained 37 piglets one mother had 37 piglets okay and now you can read the last fact right there the largest pig in record in recorded history was a pole in China hog named big bill who weighed an astounding two thousand five hundred fifty two pounds it was five feet tall and nine feet long that is one awesome pig and you are one awesome reader thank you I was just gonna let you rest after a while but you did fine alright well I want to to show you what's in our mystery box next because well I'm gonna tell you and sing to you about two special animals in my life but while I'm doing that I thought you if you want to could be making out of clay it can be an imaginary animal or real animal but you just make your own awesome animal um if you like to does everybody like to work with clay yeah okay do you like to Milo you don't have to it's a choice I do you do okay and I'm gonna move these out so that it's squishy it's sort of squishy and some most people like it but not everyone so I respect that people have different preferences okay so I've made you each a little ball of clay I'm gonna you can start shaving it your own way or I'll give you a quick little demonstration of how I start to make an animal with clay there you go and I would like you to you can hold it in your hand to shape it but then keep it on your tray finished okay there you go alright so you my idea is that I am thinking of an animal with legs my animal's gonna have four legs so I'm gonna pinch one two some animals might have only two legs or no legs or eight legs it's up to you our spiders okay so my animal is going to have four legs and it definitely needs a head so I'm gonna squeeze a really kind of big part for the head can you see my animal starting to take shape okay and my animal is gonna have a tail so pull out a little bit there and a little ear, a little face so I'm gonna go ahead and sing to you about some animals it's either a cat or a dog I think it'll be a cat this time I'm gonna sing my song about Bardsley the cat oh I know two of the cats okay so you all can work on your animals you can go ahead and make one if you want like I said it's a choice how to make a penguin I don't know how you'll have to make it your way I think let's see here's Bardsley the song and there's a line that you get to sing every time and it says and we loved him can you say that and we loved him just like that so put it together and we loved him just like that right so you'll catch on to that I'll sing this and if you know this you can sing it along alright I'll be happy for you too when we met he was so fat like a milk jug when he sat one pudgy Bardsley cat and we loved him and we loved him just like that I had trouble because I forgot to write the chorus here we go Bardsley loved his daily food put him in a real good mood what a cheerful attitude and we loved him just like that and we loved him just like that Bardsley loved his small red tent often that is where he went curled inside he was content our cozy Bardsley cat and we loved him just like that a cuddly cat see we're sad we loved him just like that nice good brother Bardsley cat and we loved him just like that we loved him just like that Bardsley cat and we loved him just like that sometimes when I have a something really special or someone really special I write a song about them to remember them and you remember them? Megan is my granddaughter and so she did know Bardsley when he was alive and somebody and Mary Claire his sister now someone I write songs to remember special things and other people do art like maybe they would make a clay animal and look what somebody made for us and his name is Bruce Ackerson painted these pictures Bardsley is the one in the back his sister Mary Claire is in the front isn't that a nice way to remember special animals? I remember seeing that in your house yes so Dona, are you ready to share yours? tell us about your animal an elephant what a fun idea that is awesome and I made big legs for him but I forgot the tail well you have you can keep working if you want to but a tail on an elephant what size is that? it's very thin isn't it? tricky Milo are you ready to tell us about yours? made a turtle that's what I thought that really does look like a turtle is your turtle the kind that likes to live in the ocean or on the land? Ons, yes, absolutely yeah, because I just copied her animal she was thinking that way too you saw her idea and you liked it so much that's a compliment when somebody imitates it's very nice, it's the way we learn from each other too, absolutely Emily are you ready to tell us not yet you have a little more time Lauren, what are you working on? a horse a horse, you liked Megan's idea about a horse and you're doing an awesome job legs and a tail and a nice horse head and neck big strong neck like horses have and Megan, tell us about yours I made a turtle because I had a snapping turtle you had a snapping turtle that's right that's right it's gone because it climbed out of its tank it climbed out of its tank for a few days we had a live snapping turtle crawling around in our house and did you ever find it? no, so maybe it found its way outside yeah, but luckily it was just a baby so it couldn't snap right, okay very interesting does anybody else want to tell me about animals that you had at your home or that a friend might have had okay, let's take turns Lauren, tell us we had two cats and we had to get rid of them and then we got hermit crabs but mommy thought we weren't taking care of them so we got rid of them they take a lot of care any kind of animal that you decide I'm learning that too because we just got a puppy and it takes a lot of work Jackson especially yeah, his name is Jackson okay, Megan, quickly tell us I've had many, many cats many cats and a dog that you guys love she has a dog named Dookie that we do definitely love okay, Donaie I had two cats we had we had three cats but two of them you know what, died that's the thing about animals that we our pets usually they don't live as long as we do yes, go ahead his name is Taco Taco, I love your name and tonight tonight my detective mission is to is to is to find out where he goes at night time I want to know when you find out, please just tell me next time alright, I am very interested in your detective mission Donaie, I'm going to ask you to sit back a little so you and Milo can both be seen and I think that we will go to this fun song that includes all sorts of different kinds of animals those of you who are finished with your artwork can do the hand motions with me and those of you that are still working can keep working but I hope you'll join in the song over in the meadow in the sand and the sun lived an old mother turtle and her little turtle one there we go, okay so it goes like this so they dug all day in the sand and the sun in the sun over in the meadow lived an old mother fish and her little fishies too swim said the mother we swim said the two and they swam and they rooted all in the tree so we're going to stop at that point and I hope you will as you go back into your world notice the awesome animals some of them are in the sky some are in the trees and some are on the ground or even in the water keep singing keep looking up keep asking questions and never give up keep asking questions and never give up bye