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Kindergarten
produced by WHA Television for the Wisconsin School of the Air.
We're going to take a look at what we're going to do next week.
Kindergarten, produced by WHA Television for the Wisconsin School of the Air.
We're going to take your hands and move more.
What are these puppets doing?
They are using gestures.
Movements or actions would tell us something.
You'll watch Taffy and see if you can understand what these actions mean, but she's trying to tell you.
Can you guess what that action means?
It means come here, that's right.
What about this gesture?
It means I don't want to listen.
What does this gesture mean?
Do you think it means hello?
Or maybe it could mean goodbye.
That's one gesture that has more than one meaning.
Now let's see if you can use some gestures.
What gesture would you use to say I don't want to look at it?
Is that what you do? Put your hands over your eyes?
Yes, probably.
And what kind of a gesture would you use to say goodbye?
Might you do that?
Yes.
And what about if you wanted someone to be very quiet?
What kind of a gesture would you use?
That means be quiet, doesn't it?
And what gesture would you use if you were very sick to your stomach, if you had a stomachache?
Might you hold your stomach like Taffy's doing?
I think so.
Have you ever seen people use a gesture like this and they shake their fist?
That usually means they're angry, doesn't it?
And what about when people scratch their hands and they're kind of puzzled?
Seems they're trying to remember, try to think of something with me.
Do you think gestures are important?
Yes, they are. We do a lot of talking with them.
How would you like to learn a gesture song?
First time, I'll just sing it for you.
In other words, then I'll ask you to sing it with me.
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
No.
Yes.
I'm up.
Come here.
Say there.
Sit down.
Get up.
What will I do?
I don't know.
Do you?
All right.
This time, I'll sing just a part of it and ask you to repeat it after you listen to this first part.
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
No.
Yes.
I'm up.
Do you sing that with me?
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
No.
Yes.
I'm up.
Now listen to this next part.
Come here.
Say there.
Sit down.
Get up.
All right.
You sing that.
Come here.
Say there.
Sit down.
Get up.
All right.
You sing that.
Come here.
Say there.
Sit down.
Get up.
Good.
The last part.
Listen to this.
What will I do?
I don't know.
Do you?
You sing that.
What will I do?
I don't know.
Do you?
All right.
This time, let's sing it and add some gestures to it.
Are you ready?
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
No.
Yes.
I'm up.
Come here.
Say there.
Sit down.
Get up.
What will I do?
I don't know.
Do you?
Good.
This time, I'm going to just sing it and not do the gestures.
You do the gestures.
Are you ready?
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
Sit down.
Get up.
What will I do?
I don't know.
Do you?
Good.
This time, I'm going to just sing it and not do the gestures.
No.
Yes.
I'm up.
Come here.
Say there.
Sit down.
Get up.
What will I do?
I don't know.
Do you?
Now, this last time, I'm going to have you sing it and I'm going to do the gestures.
Ready?
Sing.
Do you know what kind of a gesture that is?
That's a gesture of surprise.
And it means that I almost forgot something very important.
Today is the day that we're celebrating the birthdays of all the children who have had birthdays this month of February.
So all of you children who have had birthdays this month come and sit very close in front of the television set.
Come up very quietly.
Remember, this is a very important occasion.
And only the children with birthdays this month.
But before I like your birthday cake and before we sing your song, let's look at our February calendar line and see what else we're celebrating this month.
Someone has a birthday on February 3rd.
I wonder if it's one of you boys who are sitting up very close in front.
And here's another one.
Cake on February 10th.
I think that belongs to one of you girls who are sitting up in front.
On February 12th, we celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
You know who he is, don't you?
One of our presidents.
And everyone knows what we celebrate on February 14th.
Valentine's Day, that's right.
February 21st, we celebrated.
You think it could be one of your teachers' birthdays?
Perhaps.
And on February 22nd, we celebrate George Washington's birthday.
That's right.
We celebrate our first president.
And did you notice there was another cake here on February 18th?
This is a cake of someone that my mother thinks is very important.
It says on it, Mrs. Mark, yes, February I celebrate my birthday too, so this month I get to help blow off the candles.
Oh, Charlie, what are you doing with your hands in the frosting?
Shame on you.
Now, while I like the candles, we will sing your birthday song, and then we'll ask you to stand up.
All the children with birthdays this month, and I'll ask you to blow out the candles.
Are you all ready, all of you birthday children?
Sing it up in front.
All right.
Who has a birthday?
Who is a lucky, he or she?
Who is it who can it be?
Stand up and let us see.
All right, birthday boys and birthday girls, blow out your cake.
And you know, when we have a birthday cake, this usually means that we have a birthday guest.
And we better not let any more time go by before we sing our birthday.
Our guest song, our guest will be here before we're ready.
Are you ready?
Arrange your clothing, smooth your hair, sit tall and straight on the floor or chair.
We have a visitor to a claim.
How do you do?
We're very glad you came.
Today our visitor is a dancer, and here she is.
We're very glad you came.
We'reenden-
What a dinner!
F Lucky!
Lightful Dance, Jan.
Children, this is Jan Strader, a dancer from the university.
Jan, we've been talking about gestures,
and we learned a gesture song.
I wonder if we sang it to you if you could add movement to it
and make a gesture dance.
Should we sing it for our children?
All right.
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
No.
Yes.
I'm up.
Up here, stay there, sit down, get up.
What will I do?
I don't know.
Do you?
Now, do you think you could add movement to that
and make a dance?
All right.
We'll sing it for you again.
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
No.
Yes.
I'm up here, come here, stay there, sit down, get up.
What will I do?
I don't know.
Do you see she added movement to our gesture song and had a dance,
didn't she?
Were you able to understand her dance?
Were you able to understand the gestures?
Good.
Now, you watch her and see if you can understand what
she's trying to tell you now.
She was pulling something, wasn't she?
A wagon, perhaps?
And was it heavy?
Yes, I can so.
Do you think the music helped tell her?
Probably it did.
Now, I'm going to ask you to push these heavy wagons
across the floor.
But first of all, you've listened to the music
and I think that'll tell you, it'll help you.
All right, are you all ready?
Stand up and push those heavy wagons across the floor.
Push.
Oh, do you have them over there with it along?
Why are they so heavy?
Are they filled with blocks or rocks or stones or what?
Whatever they are, I think we should unload them.
But now, don't unload them by just tipping over the wagon
and dumping everything over the floor.
You might break something.
We'll take them out one thing at a time.
But before you start, you listen to the music
and it'll help you.
All right, are you ready to unload your wagons?
Everyone began to unload yours.
One thing at a time, no remember.
Oh, finally, do you have them unloaded?
Good.
Now let's pick our wagons back where they belong.
Do you think they're going to be as heavy as they were before?
You listen to the music, I think it'll tell you.
Take your wagons back and everyone sit down.
Jan, would you like to have me help you pull your wagon back?
All right, I'll take the handle.
Did you know you were dancing?
Yes, you were.
That's the kind of dancing that nearly anyone can do in any way
they want.
I think a good name for it is imaginative dance.
You used your imaginations, didn't you?
And you used movement.
And do you know that this is a kind of dance
that anyone can do any way they'd like to?
You can dance by yourself or if you'd like,
you can dance with a friend.
Or you can dance to tell a story or you can just dance
because you want to move this way and that way.
Or you can dance with music or without music.
Or you could even dance indoors or outdoors.
I'm going to pantomime something that I do.
I want you to see if you can guess what it is you watch me.
I will tell you this much, it's something that I do
after the children have gone home from school.
You watch me and see if you can guess what it is.
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Good, you guess what I was doing?
Well, let me tell you. First of all, I erased the blackboard
and then I got some of the children's paper
and I made them all in order and put them on my desk.
And then I was pouring pictures of Jews getting ready for the afternoon children.
Why don't you pantomime what you do on the way home from school
and see if your teacher can guess what it is?
After the broadcast, why don't you do that?
Will you all be doing the same things on the way home?
No, you won't.
And perhaps your teacher would like to pantomime for you what she does.
She perhaps doesn't do the same things I do.
Movements are interesting, aren't they?
The puppets did movements and the dancer did and you did and I did.
And you found out that you could dance just as the dancer did, didn't you?
Were you surprised?
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Of course, you can dance just like anyone else can.
You wave at him if you think he can dance as well as you do.
Goodbye.
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Kindergarten is designed under the supervision of Professor David C. Davis,
University of Wisconsin School of Education.
Your teacher has been Ruth Moore.
Production by W.H.A. Television for the Wisconsin School of the Air.
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