WEBVTT 00:30.000 --> 00:37.000 . 00:37.000 --> 00:44.000 . 00:44.000 --> 00:49.000 . 00:49.000 --> 00:50.000 . 00:50.000 --> 00:51.000 . 00:51.000 --> 00:52.000 . 00:52.000 --> 00:53.000 . 00:53.000 --> 00:54.000 . 00:54.000 --> 00:55.000 . 00:55.000 --> 00:56.000 . 00:56.000 --> 00:57.000 . 00:57.000 --> 00:58.000 . 00:58.000 --> 00:59.000 . 00:59.000 --> 00:59.500 . 00:59.500 --> 01:01.500 . 01:01.500 --> 01:02.500 . 01:02.500 --> 01:03.500 . 01:03.500 --> 01:06.500 . 01:06.500 --> 01:10.500 . 01:10.500 --> 01:15.500 . 01:15.500 --> 01:18.500 . 01:18.500 --> 01:21.500 . 01:21.500 --> 01:26.500 . 01:26.500 --> 01:28.500 . 01:28.500 --> 01:32.500 This there. It's a bird, isn't it? 01:32.500 --> 01:34.500 Is it a duck? 01:34.500 --> 01:37.500 Certainly no, it's not a duck. What is it? 01:37.500 --> 01:41.500 It's a goose, but do you know that this is a particular goose? 01:41.500 --> 01:44.500 Look at it again. Do you know what goose it is? 01:44.500 --> 01:50.500 Good look. You see her shawl and her apron and her bonnet? 01:50.500 --> 01:54.500 Yes, this is no ordinary goose at all. It's mother goose. 01:54.500 --> 01:58.500 And did you notice what books Kathy and Tuffy are looking at? 01:58.500 --> 02:01.500 They're looking at mother goose books. 02:01.500 --> 02:07.500 Do you know that no one knows exactly why we think of mother goose as a goose? 02:07.500 --> 02:11.500 In fact, not everyone does think of mother goose as a goose. 02:11.500 --> 02:16.500 There are some people who imagine that mother goose was an old woman 02:16.500 --> 02:22.500 who rode on the back of a goose. And those people who think that that's what mother goose was 02:22.500 --> 02:26.500 imagine that she looked something like this. 02:26.500 --> 02:30.500 You see the old woman riding on the back of a goose? 02:30.500 --> 02:35.500 The man who first wrote mother goose stories and had them put in a book 02:35.500 --> 02:41.500 imagined that mother goose looked like this. 02:41.500 --> 02:45.500 Now these are children that she's telling stories to. 02:45.500 --> 02:48.500 Do those children look as children do today? 02:48.500 --> 02:53.500 They look more like grown-ups, don't they? Children long ago dressed like that. 02:53.500 --> 03:00.500 There are some people who think that the first mother goose was really a queen whose name was Berta. 03:00.500 --> 03:05.500 Berta was called the goose footed queen because she was born with a badly misshapen foot. 03:05.500 --> 03:08.500 Her foot looked almost like a goose's foot. 03:08.500 --> 03:12.500 And the king was very much ashamed of his handicapped queen, 03:12.500 --> 03:16.500 which was a very wrong way for a king or for anyone to feel, wasn't it? 03:16.500 --> 03:22.500 But the queen knew this and so she spent a great deal of time out in the palace grounds with geese 03:22.500 --> 03:25.500 and with children and telling stories to children. 03:25.500 --> 03:29.500 And the people who think that queen Berta was the first mother goose, 03:29.500 --> 03:34.500 was the mother, real mother goose, imagine that she looked like this. 03:34.500 --> 03:39.500 You see her there with her crown and the children around? 03:39.500 --> 03:44.500 Then there are other people who think that mother goose was really a goose girl 03:44.500 --> 03:49.500 Years ago in villages they would have a girl who would, they would hire to tend the geese 03:49.500 --> 03:51.500 so that they didn't get away. 03:51.500 --> 03:56.500 And she had lots of time on her hands because this wasn't a particularly difficult job, 03:56.500 --> 04:00.500 so she did have time to read stories and tell stories to children. 04:00.500 --> 04:07.500 And people who think that that's the real mother goose, imagine that mother goose looks something like this. 04:07.500 --> 04:17.500 How many Americans think that the real mother goose was born in Boston, Massachusetts over 200 years ago? 04:17.500 --> 04:21.500 Now whether or not this story is true, it's an interesting story. 04:21.500 --> 04:29.500 And some day, if you go to Boston, Massachusetts, you might like to go to the place to see where Elizabeth Goose was buried. 04:29.500 --> 04:33.500 Let me tell you the story about the American mother goose. 04:33.500 --> 04:41.500 Elizabeth Goose, Elizabeth was her first name, Goose was her last name, was a grandmother who had seven grandchildren. 04:41.500 --> 04:45.500 And she loved to sing songs to her grandchildren. 04:45.500 --> 04:51.500 In fact, she spent the better part of every single day singing songs to the grandchildren. 04:51.500 --> 04:55.500 Now the children's father, Thomas Fleet, was his name. 04:55.500 --> 04:58.500 Just didn't like this at all, he couldn't get his work done. 04:58.500 --> 05:03.500 When every tried to think or concentrate here was grandmother goose singing songs. 05:03.500 --> 05:07.500 And he vowed he was going to get even with her. Did you know what he did? 05:07.500 --> 05:13.500 He wrote down all of these songs that grandmother goose had sung to the children, and he put them in a book. 05:13.500 --> 05:18.500 And on the cover of that book, he didn't put a picture of grandmother goose. 05:18.500 --> 05:26.500 Instead, he put a picture of a goose with its mouth wide open, and the title of the book was mother goose's melodies. 05:26.500 --> 05:31.500 And he printed several of these books and put them in his window, shop window. 05:31.500 --> 05:35.500 And when people came by, they laughed. Do you know why? 05:35.500 --> 05:39.500 Because they knew that Thomas Fleet was making fun of the children's grandmother. 05:39.500 --> 05:44.500 And they knew that she sang a lot and that this made him angry. 05:44.500 --> 05:49.500 Now if this story is true, it really was a cruel trick to play on a grandmother, wasn't it? 05:49.500 --> 05:54.500 Now none of the books that Thomas Fleet was supposed to have written can be found, 05:54.500 --> 06:03.500 but perhaps this is the way the cover of that book looked with a real goose with its mouth wide open. 06:03.500 --> 06:11.500 So you can see there are very many ideas of what mother goose really looked like and who she really was. 06:11.500 --> 06:16.500 And we probably will never know exactly which one of these is true. 06:16.500 --> 06:24.500 But one thing we do know is that people all over the world know mother goose and know many mother goose stories. 06:24.500 --> 06:26.500 There are many mother goose books. 06:26.500 --> 06:37.500 I wonder though, if any of you have ever seen a mother goose book like this, this is called the immense book of mother goose. 06:37.500 --> 06:39.500 What does immense mean? 06:39.500 --> 06:43.500 Do you think that we could say that a skyscraper is an immense building? 06:43.500 --> 06:48.500 Or do you think that we could say an elephant is an immense animal? 06:48.500 --> 06:49.500 What does immense mean? 06:49.500 --> 06:51.500 Large, big, yes. 06:51.500 --> 06:54.500 So is this an immense book of mother goose? 06:54.500 --> 06:57.500 I think that's a very good name for it. 06:57.500 --> 07:01.500 Now what do you think we're going to find in the immense book of mother goose? 07:01.500 --> 07:07.500 Well one thing I know because it's such a large book, it would take us several days to read all of it. 07:07.500 --> 07:10.500 So we're just going to have to sample from it today. 07:10.500 --> 07:14.500 Should we open it and see what we're going to find in the immense book of mother goose? 07:21.500 --> 07:24.500 You look at this picture and listen to the melody. 07:24.500 --> 07:35.500 Well you come into my parlor, send the spider to the fly. 07:35.500 --> 07:41.500 It is the prettiest parlor that ever you did fly. 07:41.500 --> 07:44.500 So songs are a part of mother goose aren't they? 07:44.500 --> 07:48.500 And the name of this song is the spider and the fly. 07:48.500 --> 07:53.500 Do you think that's all that's going to be in the immense mother goose book just songs? 07:53.500 --> 07:56.500 Should we open it and turn another page and see? 08:02.500 --> 08:04.500 Do you see anything familiar here? 08:04.500 --> 08:07.500 Look at it carefully. 08:07.500 --> 08:10.500 Do you know the story of Little Red Riding Hood? 08:10.500 --> 08:13.500 Do you think that this is a picture of Little Red Riding Hood? 08:13.500 --> 08:15.500 How can you tell? 08:15.500 --> 08:18.500 There's your basket and there's your foot. 08:18.500 --> 08:21.500 And how, what do you see here? 08:22.500 --> 08:24.500 The wolf. 08:24.500 --> 08:25.500 Yes. 08:25.500 --> 08:30.500 So stories too are a part of mother goose aren't they? 08:30.500 --> 08:32.500 I wonder what else we're going to find in this book. 08:32.500 --> 08:34.500 Should we look? 08:36.500 --> 08:38.500 I think I know what this is. 08:38.500 --> 08:40.500 I think this is a nonsense verse. 08:40.500 --> 08:43.500 You'll listen to it and see if you agree with me. 08:43.500 --> 08:46.500 We're all in the dumps where diamonds are trumped. 08:46.500 --> 08:48.500 The kittens are gone to St. Paul. 08:48.500 --> 08:54.500 The babies are bit, the wounds in a fit, and the houses are built without walls. 08:54.500 --> 08:56.500 Do you think that is a nonsense verse? 08:56.500 --> 08:59.500 Who ever heard of a house without a wall? 08:59.500 --> 09:01.500 Would you like to live in one? 09:01.500 --> 09:05.500 So, nonsense verses are another part of mother goose. 09:05.500 --> 09:08.500 Let's turn the page and see what else we can find in here. 09:12.500 --> 09:16.500 Oh, this is something you've seen before, haven't you? 09:16.500 --> 09:19.500 I imagine all of you have alphabet books. 09:19.500 --> 09:22.500 Say this rhyme with me if you know it. 09:22.500 --> 09:26.500 A, B, C, tumbled down, D. 09:26.500 --> 09:31.500 The cats in the cupboard and cats in me. 09:31.500 --> 09:34.500 Did you know that alphabet verses are part of mother goose? 09:34.500 --> 09:36.500 Yes, they are. 09:36.500 --> 09:40.500 Alright, should we go to the next page and see what we can find? 09:40.500 --> 09:43.500 What do you think this is? 09:43.500 --> 09:45.500 Give you a hint. 09:45.500 --> 09:47.500 You know what these are, don't you? 09:47.500 --> 09:49.500 They are numbers. 09:49.500 --> 09:53.500 Did you think that counting verses were part of mother goose? 09:53.500 --> 09:58.500 Why don't you count along with me and perhaps you even know that's the counting rhyme and you can say it with me? 09:58.500 --> 10:00.500 One, he loves me. 10:00.500 --> 10:03.500 Two, he don't. 10:03.500 --> 10:05.500 Three, he'll have me. 10:05.500 --> 10:07.500 Four, he won't. 10:07.500 --> 10:09.500 Five, he would if he could. 10:09.500 --> 10:12.500 Six, but he can't. 10:12.500 --> 10:15.500 Seven, so he won't. 10:15.500 --> 10:19.500 So, counting rhymes are another part of mother goose. 10:19.500 --> 10:21.500 Should we turn the page? 10:21.500 --> 10:25.500 What else are we going to find? 10:25.500 --> 10:28.500 Oh, look at this baby. 10:28.500 --> 10:30.500 What do you think he's doing? 10:30.500 --> 10:32.500 You've probably guessed his patticaking. 10:32.500 --> 10:36.500 If you're a patticake with babies, I bet you all do. 10:36.500 --> 10:41.500 Another infant amusement that you might do with a baby is one like this. 10:41.500 --> 10:44.500 Do you know Ring the Bell? Watch while I do it. 10:44.500 --> 10:53.500 Ring the Bell, knock at the door, draw the latch, and walk in. 10:53.500 --> 10:56.500 Now, would you like to try to do that infant amusement with yourself? 10:56.500 --> 11:02.500 This is the kind of thing you'll want to play with with a baby, not with other children your own age, but let's try it. 11:02.500 --> 11:10.500 Ring the Bell, knock at the door, draw the latch, walk in. 11:11.500 --> 11:16.500 So, infant amusement are another part of mother goose, aren't they? 11:16.500 --> 11:19.500 Let's see what we have on this page. 11:19.500 --> 11:25.500 Oh, this is a part of mother goose that babies love, and I think most other people do too. 11:25.500 --> 11:28.500 Do you know what it is? It's a lullaby, isn't it? 11:28.500 --> 11:36.500 Why don't you sing this lullaby with me, and can you imagine that you're singing this to a real baby you might even like to rock the baby? 11:36.500 --> 11:38.500 Let's sing it. 11:38.500 --> 11:44.500 Hush up by baby on the tree town, 11:44.500 --> 11:50.500 when the wind blows, the cradle will rock, 11:50.500 --> 11:56.500 when the ball breaks, the cradle will fall, 11:56.500 --> 12:06.500 and down will come baby, cradle and go. 12:06.500 --> 12:09.500 That's a lovely lullaby, isn't it? 12:09.500 --> 12:18.500 What else do you think is part of mother goose? Let's turn the page. 12:18.500 --> 12:21.500 This is a taunt, you listen to it. 12:21.500 --> 12:25.500 Cross patch, draw the latch, sit by the fire and spin, 12:25.500 --> 12:29.500 take a cup and drink it up and call your neighbor in. 12:29.500 --> 12:32.500 And taunts are another part of mother goose. 12:32.500 --> 12:36.500 A taunt that you might be more familiar with is Georgie Porgy putting in pie, 12:36.500 --> 12:38.500 kissed the girls and made them cry. 12:38.500 --> 12:43.500 That's a taunt too, and it's another part of mother goose. 12:43.500 --> 12:46.500 Well, I wonder what this is. 12:46.500 --> 12:51.500 I think I know, do you? 12:51.500 --> 12:54.500 I think it's a game, should we sing it? 12:54.500 --> 12:59.500 London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down. 12:59.500 --> 13:04.500 London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady. 13:04.500 --> 13:07.500 I like that game, don't you? 13:07.500 --> 13:11.500 So the games are one more part of mother goose. 13:11.500 --> 13:15.500 Do you want me to turn another page and see what else we can find? 13:15.500 --> 13:25.500 I bet you cannot do this, I bet you can't. 13:25.500 --> 13:27.500 Do you know what this is? 13:27.500 --> 13:31.500 This is a tongue twister, you listen to it. 13:31.500 --> 13:35.500 How much wood would a wood chuck chuck of a wood chuck good chuck wood? 13:35.500 --> 13:39.500 He would chuck as much wood as a wood chuck of a wood chuck good chuck wood. 13:39.500 --> 13:40.500 Can you say that? 13:40.500 --> 13:44.500 As fast as I did, it's difficult, it's called a tongue twister. 13:44.500 --> 13:45.500 Will you try it with me? 13:45.500 --> 13:47.500 Alright, here we go. 13:47.500 --> 13:50.500 How much wood would a wood chuck chuck of a wood chuck wood chuck wood? 13:50.500 --> 13:54.500 He would chuck as much wood as a wood chuck chuck of a wood chuck wood chuck wood chuck wood. 13:54.500 --> 13:56.500 Did you do it? 13:56.500 --> 13:57.500 Good. 13:57.500 --> 14:02.500 Alright, and that was our last page in our immense book of mother goose. 14:02.500 --> 14:07.500 So let's close it up. 14:07.500 --> 14:11.500 Did you think that mother goose contained all of these things? 14:11.500 --> 14:12.500 Not probably. 14:12.500 --> 14:17.500 You haven't seen a book like this, but there are many, many other books of mother goose 14:17.500 --> 14:18.500 that you'd like to read. 14:18.500 --> 14:25.500 I wonder if you have any of these in your classroom or at your home? 14:25.500 --> 14:30.500 This is Marguerite D'Angelo's book of nursery and mother goose rhymes. 14:30.500 --> 14:34.500 And this contains many of those that we just saw in the immense mother goose, 14:34.500 --> 14:39.500 Jack and Jill, Mary Heaven, little lamb, many of those. 14:39.500 --> 14:41.500 And here's another one. 14:41.500 --> 14:43.500 Our old nursery rhymes. 14:43.500 --> 14:47.500 And this one is made up of, this is a song book. 14:47.500 --> 14:55.500 And we know we found out that songs are a part of mother goose, didn't we? 14:55.500 --> 15:01.500 This is a lovely mother goose book which is illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke. 15:01.500 --> 15:08.500 And it's called Ring of Roses and has lovely illustrations. 15:08.500 --> 15:13.500 This little book is an old, old book illustrated by Kate Greenaway. 15:13.500 --> 15:17.500 And many of the verses are not exactly the way you know them. 15:17.500 --> 15:20.500 They're changed just a little bit. 15:20.500 --> 15:23.500 Here's one, an interesting one, the pogo stepmother goose. 15:23.500 --> 15:27.500 Did you know they had such a thing? 15:27.500 --> 15:31.500 Remember we found out that stories are a part of mother goose? 15:31.500 --> 15:37.500 And this is the house that Jack built. 15:37.500 --> 15:42.500 This is a lovely one in a pumpkin shell which is illustrated by Joan Englund. 15:42.500 --> 15:47.500 You perhaps have read some other books by Joan Englund. 15:47.500 --> 15:50.500 This is a mother goose book I know that you'd like. 15:50.500 --> 15:53.500 This is mother goose rhiddle rhymes. 15:53.500 --> 15:56.500 And much of it is done in picture writing. 15:56.500 --> 16:01.500 So it's easier for you to read. 16:01.500 --> 16:04.500 And here we have tongue tangler. 16:04.500 --> 16:07.500 And just like how much wood would a wood chuck chuck? 16:07.500 --> 16:10.500 We call them tongue twisters but it's the same thing. 16:10.500 --> 16:14.500 Do you remember that we said that children, people all over the world like mother goose? 16:14.500 --> 16:18.500 Here's nursery friends from France. 16:18.500 --> 16:20.500 And here's a mother goose. 16:20.500 --> 16:21.500 What is this one? 16:21.500 --> 16:26.500 ABC we said this was part of mother goose didn't we? 16:26.500 --> 16:32.500 And here are stories written by Perot who is the first person to put mother goose stories 16:32.500 --> 16:35.500 into book form for children. 16:35.500 --> 16:40.500 And here are some little books that you can buy for a penny mother goose friends. 16:40.500 --> 16:43.500 And here's one I think that you children are familiar with. 16:43.500 --> 16:45.500 A tall book of mother goose. 16:45.500 --> 16:51.500 Now with all of these many mother goose books and there are many many more that we don't have here, 16:51.500 --> 16:56.500 I wonder do you imagine that everyone who has illustrated drawn pictures in these books 16:56.500 --> 17:00.500 imagines that the mother goose characters look exactly alike? 17:00.500 --> 17:05.500 Do you think Humpty Dumpty for example looks the same in every single one of these books? 17:05.500 --> 17:13.500 I wonder do you think Humpty Dumpty looks like this? 17:13.500 --> 17:22.500 Or do you imagine that Humpty Dumpty looks more like that? 17:22.500 --> 17:26.500 Do you like this picture of Humpty Dumpty better? 17:26.500 --> 17:29.500 Is that how you think he looks? 17:29.500 --> 17:35.500 Or do you imagine Humpty Dumpty is looking like that? 17:35.500 --> 17:38.500 Well now we have found out something haven't we? 17:38.500 --> 17:44.500 That not everyone pictures Humpty Dumpty or the other mother goose characters is looking the same way. 17:44.500 --> 17:50.500 You know I think you might like to all color or paint a picture of Humpty Dumpty 17:50.500 --> 17:54.500 the way you think he looks as you imagine him. 17:54.500 --> 18:00.500 I wonder how many different of ideas of Humpty Dumpty you'll get from your group. 18:00.500 --> 18:04.500 Alright we found that out that the illustrations are different haven't we? 18:04.500 --> 18:06.500 And what else have we found out? 18:06.500 --> 18:10.500 We have found out that mother goose contains many many things. 18:10.500 --> 18:13.500 There are many categories in mother goose aren't they? 18:13.500 --> 18:15.500 Can you name some of them quickly? 18:15.500 --> 18:20.500 There were tongue twisters and riddles and songs and lullabies and stories. 18:21.500 --> 18:27.500 There were many categories weren't there many more than probably were even in our immense mother goose book. 18:27.500 --> 18:31.500 And then we found out something else about mother goose. 18:31.500 --> 18:32.500 What was it? 18:32.500 --> 18:37.500 We found out that no one knows exactly who the real mother goose was 18:37.500 --> 18:41.500 and no one knows exactly what the real mother goose looks like. 18:41.500 --> 18:46.500 So what you'll have to do is just decide which one of these versions 18:46.500 --> 18:51.500 which one of these ideas you want to believe and then you believe that one. 18:51.500 --> 18:56.500 Just as I'm going to have to decide which one of the versions I want to believe and that's the one I'll believe 18:56.500 --> 18:59.500 because even adults like mother goose. 18:59.500 --> 19:06.500 Now we've learned a great deal about mother goose we've talked a lot about mother goose today 19:06.500 --> 19:09.500 and there's one more thing I want you to think about. 19:09.500 --> 19:13.500 I wonder do you think that there's a father goose? 19:13.500 --> 19:18.500 And if you do, do you think he's a little bit like mother goose? 19:18.500 --> 19:20.500 Goodbye mother goose. 19:44.500 --> 19:51.500 Kindergarten is designed under the supervision of Professor David C. Davis, 19:51.500 --> 19:54.500 University of Wisconsin School of Education. 19:54.500 --> 19:57.500 Your teacher has been Ruth Mark. 19:59.500 --> 20:04.500 Production by WHA Television for the Wisconsin School of the Air.