- [Spokeswoman] Ready to learn?

- [Both] Hi!

- [Spokeswoman] It's time to share a story, read and write.

- Let's read it back.

- [Spokeswoman] Discover science, sing, play, and so much more.

- Cupcake!

- Very good.

- [Spokeswoman] Stay tuned for lessons and activities.

- We're gonna start making some words.

Isn't that fun?

[gentle music] Funding for this program was provided by The JPB Foundation.

- Hello, my name is Miss Althea.

I'm a children's librarian from the Muhlenburg branch of the New York Public Library.

So are you guys ready to start with a song?

All right.

♪ Bread and butter ♪ Marmalade and jam ♪ Let's see hello as loudly as we can ♪ ♪ Hello ♪ Bread and butter ♪ Marmalade and jam ♪ Let's say hello as quiet as we can ♪ ♪ Hello ♪ Bread and butter ♪ Marmalade and jam ♪ Let's say hello as quickly as we can ♪ ♪ Hello ♪ Bread and butter ♪ Marmalade and jam ♪ Let's say hello as slowly as we can ♪ ♪ Hello ♪ Bread and butter ♪ Marmalade and jam ♪ Let's say hello as high as we can ♪ ♪ Hello ♪ Bread and butter ♪ Marmalade and jam ♪ Let's say hello as lowly as we can ♪ ♪ Hello Nice job, everyone.

You see, I like that song because it has a lot of repetition.

Repetition in songs is really important for kids, because it helps them understands the patterns that are in language, and that's really, really helpful for when it's time for them to start learning how to read.

So we are going to go into another song which also has a lot of repetition.

You guys ready?

Are you ready?

♪ Five little monkeys swinging on a tree ♪ ♪ Teasing Mr. Alligator ♪ You can't catch me ♪ You can't catch me ♪ Along comes Mr. Alligator quiet as can be ♪ ♪ And snaps that monkey right out of that tree ♪ ♪ Four little monkeys swinging on a tree ♪ ♪ Teasing Mr. Alligator ♪ You can't catch me ♪ You can't catch me ♪ Along comes Mr. Alligator quiet as can be ♪ ♪ And snaps that monkey right out of that tree ♪ ♪ Three little monkeys swinging on a tree ♪ ♪ Teasing Mr. Alligator ♪ You can't catch me ♪ You can't catch me ♪ Along comes Mr. Alligator quiet as can be ♪ ♪ And snaps that monkey right out of that tree ♪ ♪ Two little monkeys swinging on a tree ♪ ♪ Teasing Mr. Alligator ♪ You can't catch me ♪ You can't catch me ♪ Along comes Mr. Alligator quiet as can be ♪ ♪ And snaps that monkey right out of that tree ♪ ♪ One little monkey swinging on a tree ♪ ♪ Teasing Mr. Alligator ♪ You can't catch me ♪ You can't catch me ♪ Along comes Mr. Alligator quiet as can be ♪ ♪ And snaps that monkey right out of that tree ♪ How many monkeys left?

Zero monkeys!

Nice job, everyone.

Give yourselves a round of applause.

Woo!

All right, so we are gonna start with our very first book.

"If you Plant a Seed", by Kadir Nelson.

Now this book is one of my favorites, because it has such beautiful pictures, and I hope you will enjoy it.

If you plant a tomato seed, a carrot seed, and a cabbage seed, in time, with love and care...

I wonder what's gonna happen to those seeds.

What do you think?

Tomato, carrots, and cabbage plants will grow.

What do you think these birds want?

Can I tell you a secret?

This is my favorite picture in the whole book.

If you plant a seed of selfishness, in a very short time, it will grow, and grow, and grow!

Oh, what's going on here?

What are they doing?

What are the animals doing?

Into a heap of trouble.

What happened to all the food?

How do you think rabbit feels about this?

Let's look at rabbit, how do you think he feels?

But if you plant a seed of kindness, in almost no time at all... Where are those birds going?

The fruits of kindness... Oh, what are they doing?

What's that they're dropping?

Can you see?

What is that?

Will grow, and grow, and grow!

How do you think rabbit feels now?

How do you think he feels?

Why does he feel that way?

And they are very, very sweet.

The end.

As I said, that is one of my favorite stories.

All right, and my grownups, it's important for you to share your favorite stories with your children.

Because when kids see that you're excited about reading, they get excited about reading.

So we're gonna move on to another song and I think this song is the best song ever.

Are you guys ready?

Are you ready?

All right.

♪ Zoom, zoom, zoom ♪ We're going to the moon ♪ Zoom, zoom, zoom ♪ We're going to the moon ♪ If you wanna take a trip ♪ Climb aboard my rocket ship ♪ Zoom, zoom, zoom ♪ We're going to the moon ♪ In five, four, three, two, one ♪ ♪ Blast off Nice job, everyone, give yourself a round of applause.

Woo!

Excellent.

I hope you have a wonderful day, bye!

- Hi, movers and shakers.

This is Violet, and I'm here again with my friend, Jeremy.

And he's gonna help us sing a song.

First, I wanna shout out one of our friends, Journey, who helps us read stories sometimes.

She requested this song because she wanted us to spread some joy and positivity during these challenging times.

- Thank you, Violet, once again for having me come on and share a song with you about feeling good.

I have a question for you.

What do you do when you're having a bad day?

- Hmm, I like to laugh or play games with my friends, I even like to sing and dance with them too.

- Nice, that's so funny, because I love those same things too.

I love hanging out and singing with my friends, it always makes me so happy.

In fact, I have a song that I think you would love and I think most of you would know.

If you do, feel free to sing along, move your hands, dance in your seat, or jump up and down and dance and sing along with us.

It's called, "Can't Stop the Feeling".

♪ I got this feeling inside my bones ♪ ♪ It goes electric wavy when I turn it on ♪ ♪ And if you want it inside your soul ♪ ♪ Just open up your heart, let music take control ♪ ♪ I got that sunshine in my pocket ♪ ♪ Got that good soul in my feet ♪ ♪ I feel that hot blood in my body when it drops ♪ ♪ I can't take my eyes up off it ♪ ♪ Moving so phenomenally ♪ Room on lock, the way we rock it, so don't stop ♪ ♪ And under the lights when everything goes ♪ ♪ No where to hide when I'm getting real close ♪ ♪ When we move, well you already know ♪ ♪ So just imagine, just imagine, just imagine ♪ ♪ Nothing I can see but you ♪ When you dance, dance, dance ♪ Feeling good, creeping up on you ♪ ♪ So just dance, dance, dance ♪ All the things I shouldn't do ♪ ♪ But you dance, dance, dance ♪ Ain't nobody leaving soon, so keep dancing ♪ ♪ I can't stop the feeling ♪ So just dance, dance, dance ♪ I can't stop the feeling ♪ So just dance, dance, dance ♪ Come on - Thanks, everyone.

Thanks, Jeremy.

Hope you all had fun dancing.

[cheerful music] - Hi, there.

I didn't see you.

I was just about to enjoy my snack.

I'm having an apple today.

Oh, forgive me, let me introduce myself.

My name is Miss Nicole.

And today, we're going to be learning about the short A sound.

That's why I was having an apple.

A, apple, ah.

So we're going to be doing a few different things today.

First, we're going to listen to some words to hear that short A sound, ah.

Then we're going to be blending sounds of different letters, including that short A sound to make words.

One syllable words.

And finally, we're going to be able to read or decode words that have the short A sound in them.

All right, are you guys ready to learn?

Let's go.

For this part, we're going to be listening to word pairs.

I'm going to say two words and I want you to listen to hear if it has a short A sound in it.

I'll show you.

I'm gonna do the first one for us, all right?

My two words are cap, cape.

I'm listening for the short A sound, ah.

Cap, cape.

Cap has short A, ah.

Cap.

All right, your turn.

I'm gonna say the two words, you repeat them at home.

Then, I want you to tell me the word that has the short A sound, and make the short A sound, ah.

Okay?

Sam, Same.

Sam, ah.

Next one.

Ate, At.

At.

Good.

Okay, next one, ready?

Hate, hat.

Hat, ah.

Am, aim.

Which one has the short A sound?

Am.

Okay, mat, mate.

Mat.

All right, last one.

Aim, ad.

Ad, ah.

Great work.

Let's first review some letters and sounds.

The letters and sounds that we're going to be using today to build one syllable decodable words using the letter A.

A, alligator, ah.

C, cow, cuh.

D, duck, duh.

N, narwhal, N. P, pig, puh.

All right, now we're ready.

So what we're going to do now is I'm going to say a word, and then I'm going to show you how to build the letters together, and then we're going to blend the sounds in order to read the word.

Okay, my first word is pan.

I like to fry chicken in a pan.

You say it.

Pan.

Good.

Watch as I build the word now.

Puh, puh.

Ah.

Puh ah, good, N. Puh ah N. P an, pan.

Good.

Pan.

All right, now let's make another word that begins with the same sound.

Puh, do you remember the letter?

Good, P. But this time the word is pad.

Say the word.

Pad.

Good.

I write my notes on a notepad.

Okay.

Puh, ah, pa. Do you know which letter comes next?

Tell me when to stop.

Good.

Duh.

Pa duh, pad.

Nice work.

Let's do one more.

I know you can do it.

The word is can.

Say the word.

Can.

All right, let's think about the sounds we hear.

Cuh ah N. All right, cuh.

Cuh, ah.

Now we blend them together.

Ca N, can.

You know which letter it is, right?

Go ahead and point.

Got it.

It's the letter N. Can.

Good.

Can.

Can.

You can do it.

And you did.

Excellent work.

Okay, now that we did all that amazing work with our letters, blending the sounds to create one syllable short A words, now we're going to use that knowledge to read some short A words.

And for this part, I have my favorite assistant, Daniel.

All right, so let's look at line one, okay?

Daniel, I'll point and then I want you to help me read these short A words, okay?

You guys can read along with us at home.

Here we go.

- [Both] An.

Pam.

Am.

Pat.

Pan.

- Good.

Notice this letter P has a capital P. The reason for that is this is a person's name.

Is there another word, Daniel, that begins with the same letter on this line?

- Pan and pat.

- Very good.

Pan, pat, begin with the same letter as Pam.

Good work.

All right, now can you find a word that rhymes, sounds the same at the end as an?

Say that, an.

And find another one that ends like.

- This one and this one, 'cause am, there's one N then there's another N. - Hmm, well this is which letter?

What letter is this.

- An, I mean, N. - Good.

N. Which other word ends with an N?

Which other word ends with an N?

- [Daniel] This one.

- Good.

So this is the word that rhymes with an.

An, pan.

You say it.

- An, pan.

And pan has a N in it and an N. - That's right.

- But if you added a P there it would say pan.

- That's right and that's why they rhyme.

All right, let's look at line two.

All right, read these with us again.

More short A words.

Ready, here we go.

- [Both] Can.

Nap.

Cat.

Dan.

Cap.

- Good.

Can you find this time the words that end with the puh sound?

Look at line two, which ones end with the puh?

- This one and this one.

- Good, let's read those words.

Nap.

Nap.

Nap.

Good.

Do it with me for the next one, ready?

- [Both] Cap.

Cap.

Cap.

Cap.

- And there's A N in that one and this one and this one, but if you added a C there, it would say can.

- Right, we can make so many words when we know our letters and sounds.

Excellent work.

Let's keep going.

All right, now we're on line three.

Ready?

- [Both] Mat, sat, bat, at, can.

- Which one doesn't belong?

- This one.

Mat, sat, bat, at, can.

This one and this one.

- Okay, well how come this one doesn't belong there?

'Cause if you be sitting on a bat.

And can would be on a bat.

That'd be weird.

- Well, I'm just looking at the words.

Let's look at how all these words end, ready?

Mat.

- Oh yeah, I see all the words, A T, A T, A T, but this one is A N. - Did you see that too?

- I didn't.

- Until you looked at it again.

It's important to look at all the parts of the words.

Good work.

- So there's A T, if you added an S, there would be sat.

- Right.

- So weird.

- Okay, let's look at line four.

This one's a little bit more challenging, because the endings change a little bit, okay?

- [Both] And, band, ant, past.

- Good.

These have a little bit more of blends at the end of the word.

- Yeah, 'cause they're longer.

This has one, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

- Good.

As words get longer, there's more sounds and work that we have to do.

Okay, now we can use our knowledge of letters, sounds, and words to put it together in sentences.

Let's read the sentences on the bottom.

- [Both] Tab is a tan cat.

- Notice we begin with a capital letter.

- Then we end with this.

- A period.

- And this one, and this one, this one, this one doesn't.

- Right, because those are just lists of words and not a sentence.

Good, let's read the final sentence.

- [Both] Dan sat to tap the mat.

- This one is a sentence.

- This one is a sentence and so is this one.

- But this one, this one, and this one, and this one are not.

- Not sentences.

- Four, and one, and three, and two are not.

- So friends, we did a lot of work today.

We listened to words that had short and long vowel sounds then we used our knowledge of those letters and sounds to build words, and then we were able to read words together.

Thanks for staying and learning with us.

I hope you had fun today, bye.

- I check the labels on my kids' lunchboxes and toys, wanna know why?

- [Woman] The dangers of lead might feel like old news, but it's still a very real threat.

Lead is a dangerous metal that can cause serious learning and behavior problems in children and problems during pregnancy.

People with lead poisoning usually don't look or feel sick.

Lead can be found in old paint and in some products from other countries.

Here are a few things to look out for to protect yourself and your little ones from lead.

Lead paint was banned in New York City, but some buildings may still have lead in the older layers of paint.

If you notice peeling paint in your home, talk to your landlord immediately.

If your landlord doesn't act quickly, report the peeling paint to 311.

Health remedies, foods, spices, pottery, cosmetics, toys, and jewelry from certain countries may contain lead.

Use with caution.

If the paint on a toy cracks, throw it out.

It's not worth risking exposing your child to lead.

Safe lunchboxes are labeled lead free.

Be sure to check for this label before you buy your little one a lunchbox.

Remind your doctor to test your one or two year old for lead poisoning.

Lead your family away from lead.

[cheerful music] - Hello, friends, and welcome to math time.

My name is Rachel, and I'm so glad you're here today.

Today we're gonna be talking about measurement.

Can you say that word?

Measurement.

We're joined today by my daughter, Eva.

- Hi, I'm so excited to learn with you today.

- Eva, what's measurement?

- Well, measurement is the amount of units whatever they are in what you're measuring.

For example, the amount of inches in a foot or the amount of ounces in one pound.

- So you're saying that measurement is the number of units in whatever you're measuring?

- That is exactly correct.

- Time for our first measurement activity.

I'm gonna show you three photos of different objects and your job is to find the one where the objects are arranged from longest to shortest.

Again, from longest to shortest.

Did you say the shoes?

If you did, you were correct.

The shoes are arranged from the longest, to the one in the middle, to the shortest.

But what about the cups?

How are they arranged?

Take a moment to look at the photo and decide.

How are the cups arranged?

Here we have my daughter Mya joining us today.

- Hi guys, I hope you have fun with your math today.

- [Rachel] Mya, can you tell us how those cups are arranged?

- They're from shortest to tallest.

- [Rachel] And how do you know?

- Because one cup is really small, like this, and the other cup is really big, like this.

- But what if I wanted to know exactly how long this pencil was?

Or how long this crayon was?

Could I do that?

Could I say how much length this pencil has?

Or how much length this crayon has?

How could we do that?

How long is this pencil?

Can you see that it's 19 centimeters long?

Go ahead, point to that 19 centimeters.

How about this crayon?

How long is the crayon, you think?

Is it also 19 centimeters?

Eva, did I measure the crayon correctly?

- No, you didn't.

You have to line up the end point with the zero.

- Oh, so if I move the crayon to the zero, then I can see that it's almost nine centimeters.

Just about nine centimeters, not 19.

So what if I don't have a ruler at home?

How could I measure this crayon?

- Mom, you can use Cheerios!

- [Rachel] You can use Cheerios to measure?

- Yeah!

- [Rachel] How many Cheerios long is this crayon?

Can you figure it out?

Take a moment.

Did you say that it was seven Cheerios long?

If you did, you're correct.

So how cool is that?

We can use Cheerios to measure a crayon.

I wonder if they're other household objects that we could use.

Something we could use to measure perhaps a pencil or a shoe.

Take a moment to look nearby.

Is there something that you could easily and safely grab that we could measure.

Take a moment, I'll wait.

The object that I grabbed to measure was a pencil.

I also have these rods at home.

How many rods long is this pencil?

Take a moment to answer.

Did you say that the pencil is four red rods long?

My daughter Eva said, "Hey Mom, I have four red rods also.

"I don't think this pencil is four red rods long."

Let's take a look.

I can see that she also has four red rods.

It's definitely the same pencil.

What's going on?

Turn and tell someone or just say it to yourself.

How come we both got a measure of four red rods but they look so different?

- Hey, when I measured the pencil, I got four rods also.

- Yeah, I can see she did a dark green, a light green, another dark green, and a white.

That is four rods also.

What's going on here?

So when I measured, I said the pencil was four red rods long, and then Eva said she measured with red rods and that it definitely wasn't four red rods long, and then Mya measured with some green, and a light green, and a white.

She got four rods.

But they looked so different from mine.

What is going on?

What are we doing wrong in our measuring?

Again, stop and think, say it to yourself.

Say it to someone in the room.

What mistakes are we making with measuring?

So here it is with four red rods.

And here's the pencil again with four different red rods.

Did you notice that the size of the first set of red rods is different than the second set?

Do you think that's important when we measure?

And did you notice that when Mya measured she used rods that are all different lengths?

I think we're learning something really important here about measurement.

I think we're learning that it's important we know the unit that we're measuring with and we have some agreement.

Now if I say I'm measuring with a red rod and Eva says she's measuring with a red rod, we need to be careful that we have the same red rod.

And with Mya, I think it's important that she uses rods that are the same size or unit that's the same size for the entire length that she's measuring.

She's starting with dark green, she needs to stick with dark green.

And it makes me think back to our ruler.

I notice that these inches are all the same size.

The zero and one are just as far apart as the one and two, and the two to three, and the three to four.

Are you noticing that?

Is that true on the other side for the centimeters that the space that the numbers take up the distance is the same for each one.

So when we measure, we have to remember to start at the end point, to line the end of our object up with zero.

We also know we need to stick with the same unit for the entire length that we're measuring.

Take a look at this Cheerio unit that I'm using to measure this pencil.

How many Cheerios long is this pencil?

It's 14 Cheerios long.

That number 14, that tells us how long it is.

And the unit it Cheerios.

So now it's your turn, you have that household object, now you can pick something to measure with, some kind of length unit.

If you have a ruler, fabulous.

If you have Cheerios, fabulous.

Other ideas include paper clips, post-its, pennies, anything that you have around.

You just need to remember to line up the end point and use the same unit.

Take a moment now to measure the length of an object on your own.

So after today's lesson, I'd like you take out a piece of paper and write down everything that you understand now about measuring.

What's important to remember?

What ideas are you coming away with about measuring?

And then find your trusted adult and see if you have a ruler, or a tape measurer at home, and measure some household objects.

Be sure to pick safe ones that you have permission to measure and you can write down those measurements on your piece of paper.

You can even make a sketch.

Just remember to write down the number and the unit.

- Hope you had fun today, friends.

- Thank you for measuring with us today, we hope to see you again sometime soon.

- Stay safe, healthy, and happy.

[speaking foreign language] [cheerful music] - Hello, do you have any mail for me today?

- [Child] Here's the mail!

- Oh, I just love getting mail.

- Yeah, and it's a beautiful card.

- Thank you so much.

Oh, hello there, friends.

We were just playing with our pretend town again.

I love playing in our pretend city.

Do you know who else loves playing pretend?

Our friend Miss Sabrina.

I wonder what she's doing today.

Should I give her a call?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, let's do it.

I'm gonna go upstairs right now and give her a call.

Hi friends, now that we're back upstairs, I'm really excited that you're gonna call Miss Sabrina with me.

I think we should call her on the phone.

[phone rings] It's ringing.

I hope she's home.

Oh, hi Miss Sabrina, how are you doing today?

Oh, well I was just playing with my pretend town and we were pretending to say hi to all the different community workers who help us every day.

What are you doing today?

- Oh, hi Miss Heather, I'm doing well, thanks for asking.

I was just about to call you.

I've also been thinking a lot about community helpers.

You see, friends, community helpers are so important in towns and cities, no matter how big or small they are.

Now more than ever in our very own community, community helpers are doing jobs that are so important to helping New York City stay safe and healthy.

We have people who work in stores, who help us buy different products, and we have people who have jobs that helps and protects us.

But it does make me think, who are the community helpers in our city?

And what do they do?

- Wait, Miss Sabrina, I think you're giving us a clue as to what today's lesson might be about.

You said every town has community helpers, and they have jobs that help us.

Friends, do you know what today's lesson might be about?

Wait, what?

Wait, what did I hear?

Did you say that we might be learning about community helpers?

Miss Sabrina, my friends and I, we think we might be learning about community helpers today, is that true?

- That's right, Miss Heather.

Today we're going to be learning more about people in our communities who do really important jobs.

We call these people community helpers.

Let's talk about community helpers.

Here's the definition that's gonna go up on our social studies board, right here.

All right, friends, a community helper is a person who lives and works in our community.

Community helpers do many different things to help us every day.

They provide us with goods.

These are products we can buy in stores, such as food, water, and even homes.

They also provide us with services.

Services are things they do for us.

Such as delivering mail or packages, serving us food, picking up garbage, or tending to us when we're sick.

I wanted to share some community helpers I drew and I wanted to put it on our social studies board right over here.

Miss Sabrina, I'm so excited that we're gonna be learning about community helpers today.

You know, we actually have a couple of community helpers who wanted to stop by and say hello.

Would you like to meet them?

- Hi guys, my name's Officer Sherman, I would for the NYPD in New York City.

As a cop, it's my job to make sure that everyone in the city is being as safe and as happy as possible.

The best part about my job though is when I get to meet new and interesting people like you.

So if you ever see me in the street, make sure to stop me and say hi.

I always like making new friends.

Bye, guys.

- Hello, everyone.

I'm Dr. Bre O'Shay and I'm a pediatrician.

This means I take care of primarily babies and children.

I live in Brooklyn, where I was born and raised, and went to school right here at St. Francis of Assisi Elementary School.

Since I was a little girl, I've always wanted to be like my doctor.

She had a way of making me feel better, especially when I felt down.

Now I'm following in her footsteps and I'm giving back to the community where I grew up.

- Thank you so much, Officer Sherman and Dr. Bre O'Shay for sharing with us all about your career as a police officer and a doctor.

You know, friends, doctors and nurses and nurse's aids and ambulance workers and all the people who work at doctor's offices and hospitals are all very important community helpers who help us stay healthy and they help us get better when we are sick.

But there are so many different kinds of community workers and helpers in our city.

Today we have some friends who would like to help us learn more about all of the important community helpers that we have here in New York City.

Let's hear what they have to share.

- A dentist is a community helper who provides us with a service.

I think this service is important to our community because it helps us keep our teeth healthy.

- A chef is a community helper who provides us with a service.

I think this service is important to our community because they cook meals for the people in the community.

- My mom's a doctor.

A doctor is a community helper who provides us with a service.

I think they service they provide us is helpful because it keeps us healthy.

- A police is a community helper that keeps people safe.

I think that's important because it's there for the community.

- A firefighter is a community helper who provides a service.

I think this service is important to our community because they fight fires and they help in emergencies.

[sirens wailing] - A postal worker is a community helper that provides us with a service.

I think this service is important to our community, because they help us by delivering the mail.

Thank you, post office workers.

- Thank you so much, friends, for helping us learn more about some of the very important community workers that we have here in New York City.

Let's take a minute now to go over some of the different community helpers there are.

- [Girl] Hello there, friends.

Community helpers can be police officers, doctors, dentists, postal workers, chefs, sanitation workers, crossing guards, and firefighters, just to name a few.

- Right now in New York City, you may have heard some adults in your life talk about essential workers.

The word essential just means very important or necessary.

These are the workers whose jobs are some of the most important jobs in our city.

One way that people in New York have been saying thank you so much to our community helpers who are essential workers is by going outside every night at 7:00 p.m. and clapping and cheering and hooting and hollering.

It's become one of my most favorite times of the day.

How about you?

Have you heard any noises outside your window around seven o'clock that sound something like this?

[people cheering] [pots banging] - Thank you, essential workers.

- I wanna thank the health care workers and the essential workers for working around the clock and as hard as they can every single day.

- I wanna thank all the essential workers helping out in New York City, thank you.

- Miss Heather, I always love saying thank you to our community helpers.

Seven o'clock has become my favorite part of the day.

Saying thank you to all the work community helpers do is one way that we can celebrate them and honor their work and let them know we appreciate them for helping to make our city stay safe.

For today's activity, we're going to be creating our very own thank you poster to the community helpers in our city.

For this activity, you're going to need large paper, it can be colored paper, it can be a blank white piece of paper.

You're going to need colored pencils, colored markers, a regular pencil, and eraser, just in case you make an error with your drawings.

You can also use glitter.

You can use magazine cutouts if you really wanna go all out really and decorate your poster.

I'll pause here so you can go ahead and gather all the materials you're going to need to create your very own thank you poster to the community helpers in our city.

Okay, friends, so I went ahead and I got my large piece of paper and I'm using my black marker to go ahead and do all my drawings first.

So for your thank you poster, I like to make a big heart in the middle.

And inside the heart, you're going to write words, thank you, key workers or community helpers.

So I'm gonna write thank you, and you can put community helpers.

And you can put stay safe.

A huge exclamation mark.

And now around the heart, I like to put hugging hands.

So I kind of make them look like mittens.

And I usually do about three to four hugging hands.

And then I'm gonna go to the other side.

Remember, this is optional.

If you don't wanna do hugging hands, that's okay.

You can do more hearts if you want to.

All right, friends, and then you can make some clouds on the edge of your poster.

And inside each cloud, you're going to put, community helpers in our city, the names of them.

So right here you could put medical workers.

You can put farmers.

You can put mail carriers.

Turn this around.

You can put sanitation workers.

There's so many community helpers in our neighborhood and our cities and towns that would be nice to say thank you too.

You can put right here, truck drivers.

You can put grocery workers.

Over here if you take the train of the bus, you can put bus and train operators.

And here is where you can add other things like stickers and magazine cutouts, extra hearts.

You can put stars everywhere if you like.

You can go ahead and start coloring in with your colored markers, crayons, colored pencils, and really make it look fun, inviting.

All right, friends, so I'm gonna stop here, but don't forget to continue working on your thank you poster for community helpers in our city.

Thanks.

Thank you, friends, so much for joining us today, and thank you, Miss Heather, for calling.

It was really fun learning more about community helpers, learning about all the important jobs they do, and also learning ways we can thank them.

Look, I even finished my thank you poster.

But I think I'm going to move it to my window, so all can see how much I really appreciate the community helpers in my community.

- Thank you, Miss Sabrina, so much for joining us today.

And showing us how to make a thank you poster.

And thank you, friends, for taking the time to learn all about our community helpers.

And thank you, to all of the community helpers who are so brave during this time and helping our community.

Well, now it's time for us to say, - [Both] See you later.

- And time for you to finish your thank you poster.

- So my family to yours, we're gonna give a big shout out to all the community helpers and say thank you, community helpers.

- [Dad And Son] Thank you, community helpers.

- Say in Benjamin.

- [Spokeswoman] Funding for this program was provided by The JPB Foundation.

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