ClassX Video Lessons Grade Grade 2 Learn ‘Alike and Different’ and Ms. Lauren | 20 MINS | Day 5 | Pre-K Singing & Fun
Hi there! How are you today? I’m so happy to see you! Guess what? It’s Wednesday, which means we’re halfway through the week. We have lots of fun things to do today! We’ll watch videos about festivals from all over the world, learn a cool fact, have a music lesson with Mr. Dan, and even take a break to move around. Plus, there’s a special mystery activity just for you! Are you excited? Yay! Me too!
This week, we’ve been talking about things that are alike and different. “Alike” means things are the same or similar, and “different” means they are not the same. Let’s play a game! I’ll show you a picture of me from yesterday. Can you tell me if I look the same or different? Look at my shirt. Is it the same or different from yesterday? That’s right, it’s different! How about my hair? It looks kind of the same. And my smile? It’s the same because I’m smiling now too. Great job!
We’re going on a field trip! Have you ever been on one? A field trip is when you go with your class to learn something new. We’re going to learn about festivals! Festivals are special celebrations that people have all over the world. They come from the Latin word for a day to feast and have fun. There are many kinds of festivals, like harvest festivals, where people celebrate the food they have grown.
In the US, there’s Thanksgiving, where people eat turkey and pumpkin pie. In Korea, there’s Chuseok, where families make rice cakes. In West Africa, people celebrate the harvest of yams. But not all festivals are about food! Some are about remembering loved ones. In China, there’s Ching Ming, where families visit the graves of their ancestors. In Latin America, there’s Día de los Muertos, where people celebrate and remember their loved ones.
Let’s talk about New Year celebrations! In Thailand, people have water fights to wash away the old year. In China, they have fireworks and dragon dances. Different cultures celebrate the New Year at different times of the year. Isn’t that interesting?
Have you ever seen snowflakes? They are tiny ice crystals that form in the air when it’s cold. Did you know that no two snowflakes are the same? They are all unique and beautiful, just like people!
Now it’s time for our music lesson! Mr. Dan is going to teach us a chant about community helpers. Today, we’ll learn about firefighters. Ready? Let’s go!
“Firefighters work hard and fast, helping forest fires not last. When you smell smoke with your nose, they’ll put out flames using a hose.”
Great job! Tomorrow, we’ll learn even more about community helpers. Have fun!
Do you celebrate any special holidays with your family? In my family, we celebrate Thanksgiving and eat a special meal together. It’s so fun to get together with family and friends! Each family has their own special way of celebrating. What does your family do?
Let’s do a freeze dance! Are you ready to move it? Let’s go!
Wow, you sure know how to dance! Now, let’s take a moment to calm down. Close your eyes and imagine a snowflake falling in front of you. Can you see it? Feel the cool breeze and the snow around you. Do you feel calmer now? I do too!
Now, let’s learn about water with Professor Hester! Water can be a liquid, solid, or gas. When it’s cold, it becomes ice or snow. When it’s hot, it turns into steam. Isn’t that amazing?
Are you ready for the mystery activity? It’s a search and explore music video! Let’s sing along and have fun!
Today was so much fun! We learned about festivals, snowflakes, and water. What was your favorite part? Mine was learning about different cultures. Maybe you can ask your family about the special ways they celebrate. Will you do that? Great!
I had a wonderful time today, and I hope you did too! Remember, the more you learn, the more you’ll love learning! Goodbye, and see you tomorrow!
Festival Matching Game: Create a set of cards with pictures and names of different festivals from around the world, such as Thanksgiving, Chuseok, and Día de los Muertos. Mix them up and challenge yourself to match each picture with its correct name. Once you’ve matched them, try to remember one special thing about each festival. Can you think of a festival you celebrate with your family? Share it with a friend!
Snowflake Craft: Let’s make our own unique snowflakes! Take a piece of white paper and fold it several times. Use scissors to carefully cut shapes along the edges. When you unfold the paper, you’ll have a beautiful snowflake! Remember, just like real snowflakes, each one you make will be different. Hang your snowflake in your room and think about how special it is that no two snowflakes are alike.
Water Experiment: Explore the different states of water at home! With the help of an adult, fill an ice tray with water and place it in the freezer. Check back in a few hours to see how the liquid water has turned into solid ice. Then, take a small pot of water and heat it on the stove until it becomes steam. Talk about how water can change from one form to another. Can you think of other times you’ve seen water change like this?
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Hello everyone! How are you? I’m so glad to see you all again! Today is Wednesday, which means we’re already halfway through the week. We have a lot to do today! We’re going to watch some videos, including one about festivals around the world. We’ll learn a new fast fact, jump into a music lesson with Mr. Dan, and along the way, we’ll take a break to move together. Plus, we have something extra special today—a mystery activity for you! Are you excited? Yay! Good, I am too!
This week, we’ve been talking about things that are alike and different. “Alike” means that something is the same or similar, while “different” means that something is not the same. I have a game we can play! I’m going to show you a picture of me from yesterday. You tell me if I look the same or different. What do you notice? Look at my shirt. Am I wearing the same shirt as yesterday or a different shirt? That’s right, I’m wearing a different shirt! How about my hair? Does it look the same or different? My hair looks kind of the same. Now, how about the expression on my face? I’m smiling in yesterday’s photo, so is it the same or different? That’s right, it’s the same because I’m smiling now. Great job!
I think we’re all going to be smiling soon because we’re going on a field trip! Have you ever taken a field trip? Yes, I see a few of you have! A field trip is a trip that you take with your class to study something up close. We’re going to go on one right now!
Different cultures from around the world have different ways of celebrating based on their values and traditions. We’re talking about festivals! The word “festival” comes from the Latin word meaning a day to feast, be festive, and have fun. There are all kinds of foods celebrated and eaten around the world, especially during harvest festivals. Harvest festivals take place after crops have been gathered from the fields and are ready to be enjoyed.
Speaking of feasting, Thanksgiving in the US is one kind of harvest festival. It traditionally features foods that come from that area, like pumpkin, cranberries, and turkey. In Korea, there’s a Thanksgiving-like celebration called Chuseok, where families traditionally make small rice cakes. In West Africa, people celebrate the harvest of yams, a food that has been grown there for thousands of years.
But harvest festivals aren’t the only kind of celebration! People around the world also celebrate and remember loved ones who’ve passed away. On Ching Ming, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day, families in China traditionally visit the graves of their ancestors, leaving flowers and fruit for them. In parts of Latin America, the Festival of Día de los Muertos combines both activities into days of celebration and tending to graves.
Now, let’s head into the future with another type of festival—New Year celebrations! In Thailand, people believe that water washes away the last year so they can be ready for a new one. They clean their homes and have massive water fights. The Chinese celebrate the New Year with fireworks and dragon dances. These celebrations last for days, and different cultures celebrate at different times of the year.
Want to know more about other festivals around the world? You can always dig deeper! That was amazing! I love learning about different cultures. Even though many festivals are different, there are still some things that are the same or similar. For example, many cultures celebrate the harvest. The food that’s eaten might be a little different, but people like to get together to celebrate and share a meal.
Have you ever been to a festival? Yes? Good! Now think about what you ate there. It’s fun to try all kinds of foods, isn’t it? In some places, the food is harvested in the fall season, just before winter comes. Does it snow where you live? How fun! Where I live, it doesn’t snow, but in colder places, it snows much more.
Our classroom helper has a fast fact about snowflakes! Check it out! Depending on where you live, cold weather may bring you icicles or even snowflakes. Snowflakes form in the air when cold water freezes around a tiny piece of dust. Ice crystals can turn into unique and beautiful shapes, which is why we say no two snowflakes are alike.
Well, that’s all from me! Thanks for that fast fact! Just like people, no two snowflakes are the same. Pretty cool, right? They’re similar because they’re all ice crystals, yet each has a different shape and size.
Since we’ve been talking about things that are alike and different, we’ve been comparing things to each other a lot. The word “compare” means to look closely at things to see what’s the same or different about them. In fact, some things that are the same can become different if things around them change. For example, when it’s cold outside, my cheeks get rosy, and I might shiver a little. When it gets hot outside, I start to sweat. Do those things happen to you too? Yes, most people are the same in that way.
Now it’s time for our music lesson! Mr. Dan will meet you in the music room. That stays the same, but he has a new music lesson for you, so it’ll be a little different. Have fun!
Hi everyone! I’m Mr. Dan, and today we are going to learn even more of our chant about community helpers. We’re going to learn a verse about firefighters. It sounds like this: “Firefighters work hard and fast, helping forest fires not last. When you smell smoke with your nose, they’ll put out flames using a hose.” Just like before, I’m going to say a line, and then you’ll repeat after me!
Those are lots of verses you have learned, and I’m so excited that tomorrow we’re going to add another verse to our chant about community helpers. I hope you have a great rest of your day. Goodbye!
What a great lesson! Thanks, Mr. Dan! Since we’ve been talking about things that are alike and different, it got me thinking about all the different cultures and traditions celebrated around the world. In my family, we celebrate Thanksgiving, which is a harvest festival. My whole family gets together, and we eat a special meal. Do you celebrate any special holidays or events? Yes, there are so many different holidays celebrated by people all around the world, and sometimes they bring their special holidays with them wherever they go.
Do you like to get together with your family and friends to share a meal? Yes? Wow, that’s pretty much all of you! I agree; it’s so fun to celebrate together! Each family has their own special way of doing things. It can be anything from eating breakfast every morning to visiting the beach every summer. In your family, is there something special you share together? Yes! In my family, we visit the snow every winter, drink hot chocolate, and make snow angels. It was the perfect day, even if it was freezing!
Oh, that reminds me! For today’s “move it,” we’re going to do a freeze dance! ABCmouse is going to explain what to do, so get ready to release some energy because it’s time to move it over to you!
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Hi! Are you ready to move it? Then let’s go and do the freeze dance!
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Oh wow, you sure know how to move it! See you next time! Bye! Freeze dancing was fun! Sometimes after dancing, I like to take a moment to calm down. Let’s do this together! I’m going to close my eyes and get comfortable wherever you are—standing, sitting, or lying down. Close your eyes. Let’s imagine a little snowflake, like one from the video earlier, slowly falling right in front of you. Are you imagining it? Just watch as it slowly falls to the ground. Just as it lands, you see another snowflake falling, and then another. Soon, the ground around you is covered in snow. Can you feel the nice cool breeze and the snow fluttering all around you? You can open your eyes now. Do you feel calmer? Yes, I feel calmer too! I could almost feel the temperature get colder thinking about snowflakes.
That brings me to our next video with Professor Hester, who’s going to talk about temperature. Temperature tells you when something is hot or cold, and when it changes, things in the natural world can change too. All right, let’s check in with Professor Hester now!
Hi kids! I’m Professor Hester! Welcome to my lab! Here, we use science to learn how the world works. We do that by conducting experiments, or as I call them, Professor Hester’s testers! Hey, that rhymes! The tester for today is the superpower of water! That’s right, plain old water has a superpower—it can change into three different forms.
The first form is water as a liquid. This is the form you know the best! When water is a liquid, you can drink it, take a bath in it, or swim in it. The second form is water as a solid. What happens when water gets really cold? That’s right! After a little time, it freezes! Snow and ice are really just solid water! Isn’t that amazing? When water is solid, you can skate on it, ski on it, build snowmen with it, or even make a work of art with it!
For this next part, I’ll need a little help. This is Jester, my science partner! We’ve seen what happens when water gets very cold, but what happens if water gets very hot? It turns into its third form: water as a gas! This one is a bit trickier to explain, so move in close! Now, when solid water is heated, it melts into liquid water. When liquid water is heated, it turns into gas. You can’t see that gas because it’s invisible, but even if you can’t see the gas, you can hear it! Listen as the gas rushes out of the teapot! That’s right, Jester! It whistles when that hot gas goes outside the teapot. Some of it cools off and turns back into water as a liquid, which we see as steam. Water is everywhere!
Wow! Professor Hester sure knew a lot about the different states of water and how temperature can affect it! Water can look very different depending on the temperature. All right, I know you’ve been waiting a long time to find out what today’s mystery activity is! Are you ready? Ta-da! It’s a search and explore music video with ABC, 123, and me! I hope you’ll sing along! Here we go!
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Today was our lucky day because we got to go on two field trips! Did you like that? Yes? So did I! I don’t know about you, but I learned a lot today! We learned about some of the ways people around the world celebrate their special cultural events and holidays, and that special foods are often a big part of these celebrations. We also learned about the different ways water can change when the temperature gets hotter or colder, and how when it’s very cold, water can even become a snowflake.
We’re all different and special, just like those beautiful snowflakes! What was your favorite part of today? Mine was learning about some of the ways people celebrate their culture. Maybe you could ask your family to tell you about the special ways they like to celebrate your culture. Will you do that? Yes? That’s great! I think they’ll like sharing that with you!
I had such a fun time today, and I hope you did too! Now we have some new activities, puzzles, and games for you to play right after this. It’s time to say goodbye, but I’ll see you again at the same time tomorrow. And as always, remember: the more you learn, the more you’ll love learning! Goodbye!
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