Hey there! Today, we’re going on a fun adventure with our friends, Zach and Lily. They’re going to help build a bridge so their friends, the Zerbies, can cross from one rock to another. Let’s see what happens!
Zach and Lily are excited to help build the bridge. But first, they need to find sticks that are just the right size. They look around and find some sticks, but oh no! The sticks are too short! They need longer sticks to make the bridge strong and safe.
How will they know the right length for the sticks? Zach has a great idea! They can use Zerbies to measure. They find out that the sticks need to be as long as four Zerbies. Now they know exactly what to look for!
With their new plan, Zach and Lily search for sticks that are four Zerbies long. They find some and bring them back to their friends. Hooray! The sticks are just the right size, and now they can finish building the bridge.
It’s time to test the bridge! Zach drives over it while Lily goes underneath. It works perfectly! Everyone is so happy that they can now cross safely from one rock to another.
After building the bridge, Zach and Lily discover a new fountain in Zerby Town. It’s a place where Zerbies can relax and watch the water. But guess what? Zerbies love to play, so they splash around in the fountain too!
Mika, the mechanic, wants to make sure the fountain is safe and peaceful. She builds a wall around it, but the Zerbies find a way to play anyway. Mika learns that Zerbies love to have fun, and sometimes it’s okay to let them play.
In the end, Zach, Lily, and their friends learn that working together and trying again can help solve problems. They also learn that having fun and being safe is important too. What a great adventure!
Thanks for joining us on this exciting journey. Remember, you can always try again and have fun while learning new things!
Stick Measuring Adventure: Gather some sticks or use building blocks at home. Ask the children to measure the length of the sticks using a toy car or a small toy figure, just like Zach and Lily used Zerbies. Encourage them to find sticks that are four toy cars long. Discuss why it’s important to have the right size for building a strong bridge.
Bridge Building Challenge: Provide children with materials like popsicle sticks, straws, or LEGO bricks. Challenge them to build their own bridge that can hold a small toy car. Once built, test the bridge by driving a toy car over it. Ask them what changes they might make to improve their bridge.
Observation Walk: Take the children on a short walk around the school or home. Ask them to look for things that are used to measure or build, like rulers, measuring tapes, or construction sites. Encourage them to think about how these tools help in building and measuring, just like Zach and Lily used Zerbies to measure the sticks.
Here’s a sanitized version of the transcript, removing any inappropriate language and ensuring clarity:
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[Music] Race day!
Come on, Lily, this way! Where are we going?
Zach, we’re building something fun! Hi, Mika! Hi, Strut! What are you doing?
We’re building a bridge now so Zerbies can cross from this rock to that rock while other Zerbies drive underneath.
Wow, can I try?
It’s not finished, Zach. It’s too narrow. I think you need some more sticks.
That bridge is too narrow, that’s what they were trying to say, Zach.
Oh, it was?
Come on, let me help you out. We have to stop construction until we can get more sticks of the right length.
Oh, you need more sticks? We could get sticks!
Alright, we need more sticks that’ll fit between these rocks. Yes, they should all be the same size.
Okay, we’ll come back with more sticks in no time. Come on, Lily! Ready?
And then I fell off the bridge.
Yeah, you saw that though, right?
Yeah, I did!
Yeah, it was funny!
Hey, here’s a stick!
Oh yeah, I think that’s the right size. Let’s find some more the same size as this one.
Uh, okay.
Ready, set… same size, same size!
Oh, I see one! Is it the same size?
Yep!
Maybe one more each?
That sounds good, and then we’ll take them back.
Yeah, okay, Strut! We got more sticks, and we made sure they were all the same length.
Uh-oh, what?
I think those sticks are too short.
What? No, they’re not! They’re the perfect size! Here, here, I’ll show you!
Yeah, okay, just let me turn around. Hold on… and there!
See? They fit right in between!
No, you see, we need longer sticks. They have to sit on top of that rock and then stretch all the way across to sit on top of that rock.
Yeah, we need sticks that are at least this long.
Oh, let me try mine! I think mine might be a little bit long.
No, we made them all the same size, remember?
Oh, those sticks are just too short. Looks like we have to try again, Lily.
Yeah, oh, we’ll just get longer sticks!
Yeah, okay, we’re gonna go get longer sticks!
Yeah, we’ll be back soon. Come on, Zach!
Good luck, sir!
Hey, Zach, are you coming?
Yeah, carry me, Lily!
Okay! Hey, are you okay?
Okay, come on, it’s this way!
Oh, I saw a really long stick around here!
Really? I don’t see it.
Oh, here it is! Take a look at this one, Zach!
That is definitely longer! How are we gonna get it back to Zerby Town?
I can carry it!
Really?
I don’t know, Lily. Are you sure you don’t need help?
Nope, I can do it all by myself! Watch!
Wow, Lily, you’re doing it! I can carry it all the way back to Zerby Town!
Okay, let me know if you need any help.
No, I don’t need help! I’m super strong!
You’re doing great, Lily!
Hi, Strut!
Here’s a super long stick! Where do you want it?
Good job, Lily! Line it up with that one and we’ll see if it’s the right length.
Oh great, just pulling up here. Just line these ends up.
That’s right!
Okay, that side’s lined up. Is it much longer, Zach?
Uh, yeah, it’s longer!
Well, a lot longer!
Yeah, like way longer!
Oh, and I carried it all the way here!
I think we’re gonna have to try again, but how are we gonna know how to get the right length of stick? We don’t have anything to measure it with.
Hmm… I know! Why don’t we use me?
What do you mean, Zach?
Here, I’ll show you!
Okay, okay, watch this!
Okay, so that’s one Zerby, and that’s two Zerbies, and then three Zerbies…
Oh, look! It’s perfect! It’s exactly four Zerbies long!
Oh, so now we know how long a stick we need!
Yeah, four Zerbies long! Come on, let’s go find more sticks!
Come on, Lily!
I need help!
Nope, no, I’m good! I’m good!
Come on!
[Music]
Let’s check the other side of these trees. There’s always sticks over here.
Oh, here’s one!
Oh yeah, this is a good one! Do you think it’s long enough?
Well, you know what you should do?
What?
You should measure it!
Oh right, I’ll measure it!
Okay, okay, stand aside! Measuring Zerby coming through!
Okay, okay, backing up, backing up… there! How’s that?
Am I at the back?
Yeah, you’re at the back!
Okay, that’s one!
Yep, that’s one!
And then, uh, right there!
Yep, that’s two!
Okay, one more… um, right about, uh, there!
Yep, that’s three!
Okay, and then, oh, right to the end… and then there!
Hey, that’s four!
Hey, Lily! We found the perfect sized stick!
Yeah, sure!
Now we just need to measure some more!
Yeah, as long as they’re the same size as this stick, they’ll all be the right length!
Okay, let’s go find some more!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Okay, I’ll go that way, and then you go that way!
Yeah, yeah, okay, let’s go!
Yeah!
Hey, we both went the same way, Lily!
Oh, almost there!
Yeah, almost there, Zach!
These sticks are heavy!
You’re doing great!
Hey, we have some sticks, and they’re all the right length!
Yeah, we measured them perfectly!
Great work, Zerbies!
And I carried them all this time!
Uh-oh, that one fell over!
Oh, Zach!
They all fell over now!
Uh, you can fix that, right, Strut?
Yes, I can fix it!
All done! What do you think, Zerbies?
I think you did a really good job on this!
Yeah, I’m gonna try it!
Okay, let me just get turned around here.
I don’t know if it’s wide enough, Zach.
Yeah, it looks good!
Look at me!
Yeah, it works great!
Well, it looks like it works!
Yeah, I go back, I go forth! Just remember to keep going straight, Zach!
Yeah, watch out, Zach!
Hey, Lily! Go underneath the bridge while I go over the bridge!
I’ll go under the bridge!
[Music]
And you’re over!
I can’t see where you are!
Whoa!
Hey, Lily, did you see me on the right?
That was really funny!
Push me over! Push me over! Go try it!
Whoa! Look at this open space here! Well, I can’t wait to race!
Here comes!
Hey, what’s going on? I think I’m stuck!
Oh, okay, maybe I’ll reverse.
Well, that’s not working!
Forward!
[Music]
Oh, I think forward’s working!
Yeah, I almost got stuck there!
Oh, hey, I’m gonna take a closer look at that log over there!
Yeah, wait a minute! Hey, wait! Whoa! Oh, I can’t stop! What’s going on?
I can’t stop!
What? Oh, I can’t stop!
Help, Zach!
Axel, what’s going on?
That has never happened before!
Axel, wait up! Axel, I can’t stop! I don’t know what’s wrong!
You can’t stop? Tell me what happened!
I don’t know! I was racing, and then I got stuck, and then I got unstuck, and now I can’t stop!
You gotta help me, Dad!
Uh-oh!
Oh, Mika will know what to do! She’s a mechanic! She can fix you!
Are you sure I should drive through Zerby Town?
What’s the only way to catch Mika?
Okay, let’s go!
Look out, Zerby Town! Full speed racer coming through!
Oh, sorry!
Oh wow!
Oh, oh, Zach!
Okay, I’m here, Zach! What do we do now?
Don’t worry! We’ll think of something!
I don’t know what I’m gonna do!
You gotta help me!
Actually, you passed Mika!
I don’t know how to stop!
Um, what’s going on, Zach?
Axel’s going full speed and he can’t stop!
I tried my brakes and everything!
Well, I need to take a closer look at him in order to fix him!
Drive over this way, Axel!
Okay, here I come!
Whoa!
He’s going too fast! I can’t see what’s wrong!
Now what do we do?
Don’t worry, Axel! We’ll try again!
Okay, but hurry up! We just need to stop him somehow!
Uh, maybe Strut can hook onto him!
Oh, good idea, Zach!
What are we doing?
Go to the construction site, Axel!
Okay!
See you later, Strut! See you later, Rex!
Yeah, Strut, help me!
What was that?
Axel, drive around in circles until Strut can hook onto you!
Oh, okay! I’ll just turn around in here!
Okay, oh gosh! I’ll be right back!
Oh, this is exciting! Are you racing?
No, Axel can’t stop, and Mika can’t look under his hood because he’s going too fast!
Oh no!
Can you catch him and hold him in place?
I can sure try!
Come this way, past Strut, Axel!
Alright, here we go! One, two, three! Drive over the hook, Axel!
Okay, here I come!
Ah, I missed it! It didn’t work!
Try again!
Again! One more time, Axel!
[Music]
He’s not stopping!
Yes, he’s really pulling! Can you see what’s wrong, Mika?
No, I can’t! He’s spinning around too much!
Don’t worry, Axel! We’ll try again!
We need a way for Axel to stop moving even if his wheels are spinning!
What about that gravel?
The gravel?
Yeah! Maybe he’ll get stuck in it!
Oh, good idea!
What are we doing?
I’m going to unhook you, and you’re going to drive into that gravel!
Alright!
Now that… uh, didn’t work!
No, it didn’t work!
We just need to try again! What should we do?
[Music]
Well, getting him stuck so his wheels spin is a good plan! Maybe we should try something else!
Like what?
Uh, how about that pile of dirt?
Oh, that’s a good idea!
Head for the pile of dirt!
It went over here!
You should get stuck if you hit it!
Okay, here we go!
Huh, that didn’t work either!
No, it didn’t!
No, it didn’t!
We just need to try again!
Well, I hope you come up with something soon!
I’m going over this way!
[Music]
It’s no good! He’s just too fast!
I know! What are we gonna do?
I’m not sure yet, but we just gotta keep trying until we can think of something!
Uh-oh!
Look at this! It’s a patch of mud! Mud is hard to drive through!
Oh yeah, it is hard to drive through! Much harder than gravel or dirt!
Let’s see if we can get him to drive through this mud pit!
I know! I’ve been stuck in mud plenty of times!
Okay, Axel!
Axel, what am I doing?
Okay, you gotta go into the mud pit, Axel!
What was that?
Into the mud! Where you gotta go into the mud pit! Turn left! Turn left!
Okay, here I go!
Hey, it’s working!
Ah! Stop moving! My wheels are still spinning! I think it might come out any second!
Okay, let me have a look!
Oh, I see the problem!
Oh, you do? Can you fix it?
Hold on, let me just see if I can grab it!
Oh, hurry! I think it might be coming out of the box!
Hold on… and there!
Hey, my wheel stopped spinning!
Well, what was it?
It was a stick!
A stick?
I don’t get it!
It was stuck in your undercarriage! You must have jammed down your accelerator! That’s why you couldn’t stop!
Oh, that must have come from the pile of sticks I got stuck on!
Well, let’s get you out of that mud, Axel!
Uh, you know what? Not just yet! I kind of like staying still!
That’s enough racing for a little while!
Well, good job fixing him, Mika!
Good job for thinking of the mud, Zach! Otherwise, we might never have stopped him!
Yeah, he was going full speed for a long time!
Yeah, you must be really tired, Axel!
Axel?
Jimmy?
He’s asleep!
Yeah, he is!
Alright, we’ll let him take a nap and come back later!
Okay!
Shh!
Okay, leave quietly! Alright, don’t wake me!
[Music]
How’s it coming, Rex?
Almost done!
Yeah, that looks good!
Alright, all the hoses are attached!
I still don’t understand why your new sculpture needs hoses!
You’ll see in a second!
I can’t wait to test it out!
Test it? What do you mean? It’s a sculpture!
What are we testing?
That’s just it! It’s not just a sculpture!
Not a sculpture?
Uh, well, is it a stoplight? A giant robot?
Oh, I hope it’s a giant robot!
Nope! Watch this!
It’s a fountain!
Whoa! See the water? I’ve always wanted to build a fountain for Zerby Town!
Why?
Well, Zerby Town is so busy! I wanted a calm place where Zerbies could have quiet time, just watch the water and relax!
Right!
Hey, get out of my fountain!
Oh, this is your fountain, Mika?
Yeah! We thought it was for everybody!
Well, it is for everybody!
But the fountain isn’t for playing in! It’s for quiet time!
But it’s so fun!
It’s supposed to be a fountain where Zerbies have quiet time and watch from a distance!
Oh, well, you know, Zerbies, we love to play and try new things!
Yeah, and playing in a fountain is fun! I can’t wait to try it again!
Let us know when you turn it back on, yeah?
Please!
Zerbies are Zerbies!
Mika, you can’t stop them from playing in the water!
That’s it!
I have to stop them from playing in the water!
Uh, that’s not what I said! I just need to try again and make it so no Zerbies can drive into the water!
Will you help me?
Uh, okay! But how are you gonna stop them from getting in?
Bricks, Rex! A short wall of bricks all the way around the pool!
Okay, it’s all done!
Now we have a fountain that Zerbies will have to look at and not play in!
Come on, let’s try it out!
Um, I can’t really see the pool from here!
The wall of bricks is in the way!
Well, we can still look up at the fountain! That’s relaxing!
Huh, quiet time!
What was that?
Where’s that coming from?
Rex, there are Zerbies in my fountain!
Uh, how did they get in?
What’s that over there?
Hey, young Zerbies! Get…
What happened to the water?
Zach, Lily, Jake!
Oh hi, Mika! We saw the fountain was working again!
Yeah, splashing in the water is fun!
Yeah, but it’s not as much fun if the fountain isn’t going!
Did you ever stop and enjoy it from a distance?
Uh, no!
Yeah, let’s try!
Okay!
I can’t really get far enough back!
Yeah, it’s kind of hard to see from here!
Hey, how did we get out?
Oh yeah, I never thought of that!
Uh, let’s just try again!
So we need to think of a way…
It’s okay, Zach! I’ll just call Strut!
Good idea, Mika! Using Strut to solve this problem!
Zach, the wall was there so you couldn’t get in, and we couldn’t!
But we’re Zerbies, so we just try again!
Yeah, and we came up with a ramp to get in!
And now we know how to get in and out!
Let us know when you’re turning on the fountain again, Mika! We can’t wait to try it!
Uh, what are you thinking, Mika?
Bricks, Rex!
Many more bricks!
Oh, okay! Mika, now the wall is twice as high!
That’s perfect, Rex! I knew I could figure it out!
Now there’s no way Zerbies are getting into my fountain!
But you can’t see anything! It’s just a big wall!
Yeah, but I know the fountain’s there! I’m imagining what it looks like right now!
Now we can sit here and have quiet time!
Huh, you relaxed?
Uh, I guess, but we’re looking at a wall!
Quiet time!
Oh, sorry!
No, it can’t be!
[Music]
Oh hi, Mika!
Zach, what?
Well, we noticed this wall you built! Good job! But you forgot to include an opening so we can get in!
Yeah, so we tried again