- Hi everybody.

My name is Zach and welcome to Camp TV.

Are you ready for some summer fun?

Me too.

Now, as your head counselor I will be introducing you to all sorts of cool activities, arts, crafts, games, math and science as well as some of my favorite books, nature and theater.

I will be here to take you from one activity to the next.

So follow me on Camp TV.

[upbeat music] - [Announcer] This program was made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a private corporation funded by the American people.

Additional funding was provided by the Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney Fund and the Pine Tree Foundation of New York.

[instrumental music] ♪ Camp TV its time for us to start ♪ ♪ From cooney animal encounters ♪ ♪ To summer reading and the arts ♪ ♪ No matter what the weather ♪ ♪ We'll explore it all together ♪ ♪ It's a place for you and me ♪ ♪ It's Camp TV ♪ - Hi, and welcome to another great day here on Camp TV.

I'm Zach, your Head Camp Counselor.

What is there something in my teeth?

[upbeat music] Something on my face?

Oh boy, I can hear my mom now.

"Zach, you is your napkin?"

No anything.

Oh, it's probably my new haircuts.

I know, my barber used a number eight clipper when I explicitly asked for a number two.

[upbeat music] Nope, all good there.

Well, I guess we'll just get started with our first activity then.

Oh, and before I forget, today is Inside Out Day on Camp TV, see you in a few.

A little buddy told me it's time to go wild.

- Hello friends welcome to the Memphis Zoo here in the City of Memphis Tennessee.

My name is Chelsea and I'm an animal interpreter here at the zoo.

As an animal interpreter, I spend part of my time taking care of our ambassador animals and the other part sharing the stories of our animals with you all.

Now, today, we're going to be learning all about prehensile tail porcupine.

- Prehensile tail porcupines are found in South America and force of places like Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina.

They are what we call an arboreal animal which means they live or spend most of their lives in trees.

Prehensile tail porcupines have their very own adaptations for surviving nighttime in the trees.

Prehensile means that they can use their tail as an extra limb, like a hand or an arm which really helps when you were living your life high up off the ground.

prehensile tail porcupines can use their tails to balance to help them reach and even hang upside down.

They're herbivores, which means they eat only plants such as tree bark, leaves, fruits and vegetables.

To help them eat these things, they have special teeth since they are rodents just like rats and mice.

They have front teeth called incisors that grow their entire lives.

Not only do these teeth help them eat, but eating things like bark off the trees can help them file down those teeth.

So they don't get too long.

Nocturnal animals usually don't have great eyesight.

So they rely more on their sense of smell to communicate.

Prehensile tail porcupines will use a special scent they produced to mark their territory to let other animals know that this is their home and to stay away.

They can also use this special scent to communicate or talk to their family.

Porcupines are also covered in quills which are just specialized hairs.

If they feel threatened or afraid they can raise those quills up.

This not only gives the protection but it gives the look that they're bigger and scarier to any predator that would try to attack them.

The ends of the quills have barbs.

So if a predator was to attack the quills with stick in the predator and pull out of the porcupine this doesn't hurt the porcupine and the quills will grow back.

Just like our hair.

This is Willa.

She's an 18 year old prehensile tail porcupine.

Now that's pretty old for this kind of porcupine but even older animals can make great ambassadors for their species.

Now Willa just joined our ambassador team this year.

So not only has she had to learn how to be comfortable with us, but we've had to learn how to be comfortable with her.

Now having her favorite treats around really helps.

Every day Willa has training sessions with her trainers to learn behaviors, to help with her care, and also to help her do programs just like this.

Simple actions you take can make the world a better place for not only animals like Willa but animals all over the world.

One big thing we can do to help is reduce the amount of trash that we produce.

For example, we can buy fruit that doesn't come wrapped in plastic or toys that come in less packaging.

You can also use reusable products like reusable shopping bags and reusable water bottles.

All these actions mean less trash that ends up in nature.

And remember the most important thing you can do to help wildlife is to spread the word.

Your voice is the most powerful tool that you have.

On behalf of myself, Willa and the rest of us here at the Memphis Zoo.

Thank you so much for hanging out with us and remember with a closer look, the ordinary can become extraordinary.

Bye friends.

- [Zach] Jump dance, play.

It's time to get active, let's move.

- When we hear the word strong, we usually think of being physically strong, like the Hulk, but strength isn't just physical, it's also mental.

For instance, if you're good at math that is a strength or if you're funny, that is another strength.

Or if you're honest and caring, that is also a strength.

You have your own strengths and it's important to embrace them because that is what makes you special.

So now I want you to stand up.

Now you're gonna step your feet apart like this.

Good, take one foot and turn it out to the side, like this.

Okay, you're gonna bend this knee a lot.

This leg should be straight like this.

When you're ready, reach your arms all the way out to the side and keep your palms facing down.

Now let's just hold this here.

Now, take a breath in and let it out.

This pose is called warrior two and warrior two is a power pose because it's strengthening our legs and our ankles but it's also making us feel strong and powerful on the inside.

Breathing through your nose out through your mouth.

One more time breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Do you feel your inner power?

Keep holding this post, you got this.

Take a breath in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Good one more time take a breath in through your nose and out through your mouth.

You are a warrior.

Now I want you to come back to center and drop your arms.

Good so we just said warrior two on one side and now we wanna do it on the other side.

Turn your foot out to the side, like this, Again bend your knee.

And I want you to look at your other leg, is it straight?

Okay, when you're ready to get your arms to the side.

Now let's just hold this pose for a little bit.

Breath in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Okay bend this knee a little bit more, you got this.

Take a breath in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Do you feel like a warrior?

One more breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Feel your inner strength and your inner power and just keep practicing.

Whenever you start to compare yourself to others.

Remember you have strengths that are unique and special to you.

And whenever you need to remind yourself of your inner strength, just get up and do warrior two pose and own your power.

- [Zach] Music, dance, magic and more step right up to center stage.

[instrumental music] [sings in foreign language] - Hi musical explorers.

I am Bongi.

- And I am Tshidi.

- Today I'm gonna teach you a song which I wrote.

And this song is about a relationship between humans and nature.

The name of the song is Inqola.

So you notice that in the title Inqola there is a clicking sound.

That is a letter Q which goes like [clicks] can you try that with me?

Very good, but let me show you a trick.

How you get the letter Q is you actually put your tongue on the roof of your mouth and then you snap it really hard.

[clicks] Try that with me.

[clicks] Let me hear Tshidi say.

[Tshidi clicks] - Aha great job.

Now the next letter is C, which is [Cha, cha, acha] now how you do that is this.

You put your tongue, the tip of your tongue behind your teeth, and then you just kind of pull it back.

[clicking sound] Can we try that.

[clicking sound] Great job.

And the last time that you have is the letter X in this one you also put your tongue under roof of your mouth.

But this time you put it flat, which is, [clicking sound effect] can we try that?

[clicking sound] Great job.

And now we're gonna learn the lyrics to the chorus.

This is in a form of a chant, which is what we use a lot in our music to support the melody and the message of the song.

It goes like... [sings in foreign language] - Now Bongi is gonna do the melody you sing with me.

[sing in foreign language] - Nice.

- Nice, now we're gonna sing the whole song join in on the chorus.

[sings in foreign language] ♪ Sitting in the morning looking at the ocean ♪ ♪ And the sun rising from the horizon ♪ ♪ Our people never understood ♪ ♪ The power of the nature ♪ ♪ The meaning behind it ♪ [sings in foreign language] - Great job.

- Thank you great job.

Thank you so much for joining in, in a song with us today.

I hope you had fun learning.

[speaks in foreign language] - Bye.

- What did you think of that last activity?

Pretty great if you asked me and speaking of great who's ready for Zach challenge bam.

Being that today is Inside Out Day on Camp TV.

My mission is to get every tissue inside this box out all in under 30 seconds.

My other mission to not waste these perfectly good tissues.

Once the fun is done.

I pledge a clean hands and a clean table that whatever I take out of this box will be returned to the box and reused.

Ready, steady.

[beep sound] Ah they are stuck.

[mumbles] Nailed it.

[laughs] Whoa that was tough, but so am I.

See you after next few activities.

[upbeat music] Arts and crafts?

Yes, please, let's get artsy.

- If you wanted to make a concert grand harp it might take you a year, but we can do a pretty good job with a box and some rubber bands.

This is one that's already completed And I have a regular box here.

And another file folder box here.

You can use either one.

If you find a shoe box, the smaller the better you can decorate it any way you want.

And then get a bunch of rubber bands.

If you can find ones of different sizes that'll be the most fun to make different sounds.

So you do wanna make sure you have a grownup helping you.

You don't wanna get your face too close, just in case these do break and you just stretch it over the box.

Make sure you like the wave sounds.

That's pretty good.

I'm gonna use a blue one next.

That's pretty similar.

So I'm gonna try to find a smaller one.

That'll stretch even more and maybe make a higher sound.

That's pretty good.

So this is pretty done.

That's a good heart rate there.

And now if you have a file folder at home you can make a different kind of harp.

Maybe might need bigger rubber bands for this one.

The more you stretch them, as long as they don't break the more tension there will be.

And the pitch of the rubber band will change.

Good that's two different sounds and see what this thick one sounds like.

Pretty good another big one.

Sometimes you need to adjust a little bit.

That's pretty nice, dah, dah, dah.

And I think we need one more, that one's going to be too small.

So using another blue one.

So you can either pluck or do your glissando.

- [Zach] Curiosity and wonder let's discover together it's science wow.

Gravity is a force that keeps everything on earth from floating away.

Gravity is why you land on the ground when you jump and why things fall when you drop them.

The following video was recorded on a special airplane flight where it feels like there is no gravity.

After the song the makers of the video will explain how they did it.

[upbeat music] ♪ Upside down and inside out ♪ ♪ And you can feel it ♪ ♪ Upside down and inside out ♪ ♪ And you can feel it, feel it ♪ ♪ Don't know where your eyes are ♪ ♪ But they're not doin' what you said ♪ ♪ Don't know where your mind is baby ♪ ♪ But you're better off without it ♪ ♪ Inside down and upside out ♪ ♪ And you can feel it ♪ ♪ Don't stop ♪ ♪ Can't stop ♪ ♪ It's like an airplane goin' down ♪ ♪ I wish I had said the things you thought that I had said ♪ ♪ Gravity's just a habit ♪ ♪ That you're really sure you can't break ♪ ♪ So when you met the new you ♪ ♪ Were you scared ♪ ♪ Were you cold ♪ ♪ Were you kind ♪ ♪ Yeah when you met the new you ♪ ♪ Did someone die inside ♪ ♪ Don't stop ♪ ♪ Can't stop ♪ ♪ It's like a freight train ♪ ♪ Don't stop ♪ ♪ Can't stop ♪ ♪ It's like an airplane goin' down ♪ ♪ Don't know where your eyes are ♪ ♪ But they're not doin' what you said ♪ ♪ Don't know where your mind is baby ♪ ♪ But you're better off without it ♪ ♪ Looks like it's time to decide ♪ ♪ Are you here ♪ ♪ Are you now ♪ ♪ Is this it ♪ ♪ All of those selves that you tried ♪ ♪ Wasn't one of 'em good enough ♪ ♪ 'Cause you're upside down and inside out ♪ ♪ And you can feel it ♪ ♪ Inside down and upside out ♪ ♪ And you can feel it, feel it ♪ ♪ Don't stop ♪ ♪ Can't stop ♪ ♪ It's like a freight train ♪ ♪ Don't stop ♪ ♪ Can't stop ♪ ♪ Until you feel it goin' down ♪ ♪ I wish I had said the things you thought that I had said ♪ ♪ Gravity's just a habit ♪ ♪ That you're really sure you can't break ♪ ♪ Upside down and inside out ♪ ♪ And you can feel it ♪ ♪ Don't stop ♪ ♪ Can't stop ♪ ♪ Until you feel it goin' down ♪ ♪ Upside down and inside out ♪ ♪ And you can feel it ♪ ♪ Don't stop ♪ ♪ Can't stop ♪ ♪ Until you feel it goin' down ♪ - To make a zero gravity video for Upside Down & Inside Out we flew in a plane that basically goes like this.

Each of these humps is called a parabola and on each parabola, what you feel is 20 seconds of double gravity.

While the plane is throwing you into the air, then you feel weightless for about 27 seconds.

So you go up over the top and kind of sail back towards the ground.

Then at the bottom of the plane catches you again.

And you feel 20 more seconds of double gravity - After all maneuver has done, you've lost a lot of altitude.

So it takes about four or five minutes for the plane to gear back up, to do it all over again.

- So the important thing to get from all of this is that in a plane like this, the maximum amount of weightlessness you can get at any one stretch is about 27 seconds.

'Cause if you try to do more than that you're going to hit the ground.

- Problem is our song is over three minutes long and we wanted the whole video to be weightless.

And we also wanted it to all be a single routine.

We didn't wanna just like slap together a bunch of crew moments.

So here's the plan we came up with.

We cut up the song into eight chunks each of which is short enough to fit into a single period of weightlessness.

And then we'd perform them all in order.

And then later cut out those long four or five minute waiting periods between the zero gravity segments.

So the resulting video actually feels like a long single sequence of weightlessness.

With this idea in mind we went to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center outside of Moscow for a week of tests to see if our scheme could work.

- Here are some of the stuff we learned that week.

One, the timing of all of this is very, very delicate.

The most reliable system we could come up with with this.

When we were about five seconds away from zero gravity the pilot would signal our cosmonaut trainer and the cosmonaut trainer would signal the audio playback guy Roman and Roman would start sort of a count off to the correct section of the song.

And then we would sit perfectly still and no would move until we heard the music.

When the music started, we would launch into the correct section of our routine.

But corresponded with that part of the music - [Tim] Two weightlessness is not like a light switch.

- The gravity kind of fades in and out especially at the beginning of each parabola.

So sometimes you feel weightless before everything is floating around in the air.

- Because we were tying to sit perfectly still between different parts of the routine.

This meant trying to stay in your seat.

Even after gravity has gone.

Three most people's response to weightlessness is just to start swimming - It take some time to train your body not to flail around kicking and paddling.

When you're in the air is not the same as kicking and paddling in water.

You just look panicked.

- Four, weightlessness actually, it looks a lot like slow motion.

- And when you think about it, that makes sense 'cause what tells you something's in slow mo is sort of the way things hang in the air, of course in zero gravity, things really are hanging in the air.

That meant that for us, a big challenge in the choreography was to create some contrast and to create some impact because otherwise everything just sort of looked slow and drifty all the time.

- The tests taught us a lot, and the good news was that our basic scheme seems like it was going to be really possible.

- We tried a lot of different timings and a lot of different systems.

And we eventually came up with a way to fairly reliably know that we could get the music to stop and start right around the time gravity was coming and going and therefore get a single take video that felt right really seamless.

- Each take took about 40 minutes.

In the beginning of the video, you can see that we're actually in double gravity.

And then there are eight scenes of weightlessness each taking place on their own parabola.

If you watch the video carefully, you can actually see where each of these scenes starts and stops by noticing the moments that gravity has come back for a second.

Here, they are.

[upbeat music] - So for those of you keeping really close track.

You might notice that those sections are not 27 seconds apart they're 21 seconds apart.

- The song itself moves in musical sections that are 21 seconds.

Each verse of the song is 21 seconds.

Each round of the course is 21 seconds.

- The we made the 21 seconds of song match the 27 seconds of zero gravity was we slowed the playback of the song down about 28.5%.

Here's what we looked like in real time.

- Guys don't stop lets move two, three four.

♪ Don't stop ♪ ♪ Can't stop ♪ ♪ It's like an airplane goin' down ♪ ♪ Don't stop ♪ ♪ Can't stop ♪ ♪ It's like an airplane goin' down ♪ ♪ I wish I had said the things you thought that I had said ♪ ♪ Gravity's just a habit ♪ ♪ That you're really sure you can't break ♪ - And then when it was done we sped the whole thing back up which also combated the kind of drifty floaty slow-mo effect that everything in zero G. - I mean it is truly unbelievable that everything just came together.

- There were so many variables so many unknowns, so many challenges.

- Basically I'm still saying big sighs of relief that it happened.

- Welcome back to Inside Out Day on Camp TV.

Have you ever heard someone being described as wearing their heart on their sleeve?

It's when you make what you're feeling on the inside clear to people on the outside.

Now, some days I find it's really easy to express how I'm feeling and other times not so much.

All I know is when I share how I'm feeling with others a good friend, or a trusted adult, I often feel better.

But sometimes I would rather let someone else do the talking for me and that someone or something is this.

Say hello to my mini moody meats, you can make one too.

Here's how.

Find two paper cups, a marker, scissors, or crafting knife.

Heads up please ask an adult for help when it comes to the cutting part.

First draw a simple design of your face on one of the paper cups.

Then with the help of an adult carefully cut out the middle section.

Next place, the second cup into the first and draw a mood.

Feel free to draw any sort of expression you'd like happy, silly, angry, sad.

Just make sure to rotate the paper cup until a new blank space appears for drawing the next mood.

And there it is a mini moody meats.

I know I'll miss our campers too but there'll be back right after the next few activities.

[upbeat music] - [Announcer] Lets get cooking.

- Hi, I'm Sam with America's test kitchen kids.

I'm 12 years old and we're gonna be learning how to measure liquid ingredients.

So I'm making a New York chocolate egg cream.

When measuring liquid ingredients we have to measure accurately.

One time I was making a pasta recipe and I didn't measure accurately the flour.

And I had to go back and like take it out.

So it was very annoying.

So we have to make sure we measure accurately.

Now we're gonna start measuring.

You're gonna have to measure seltzer and milk was a liquid measure but let's start by measuring the chocolate syrup.

You wanna measure two tablespoons of this right into a glass or a tap.

Make sure that you're filling it all the way up to the top of the measuring so that you get all the chocolate source.

And don't forget, they have to put two.

We're gonna be adding a third, a cup of whole milk.

So we're gonna use this liquid measuring cup.

And do you wanna pour your whole milk in and it's important to squat down.

So you can see how much you get in set your eyes level with the line of the third cup.

And you wanna pour it right on top of your chocolate sauce.

And then you wanna mix it up really well.

So that it's just a chocolate milk and there are no more streaks of chocolate in it.

So now lets measure our seltzer.

You wanna put it out to the two thirds cup line you wanna squat down set your eyes even with the line so that you get the perfect amount.

Perfect, once you have that, you wanna pour it into your chocolate milk mixture and you can stir it this time with a pretzel rod.

And then the bubbles are gonna start forming at the top and you wanna serve it right after you mix it this way it will taste the best.

[slow upbeat music] Tastes very good.

And if you bite the pretzel, you got a very nice salty and sweet together.

So that's how you make a New York chocolate ice cream.

Today we learned how to measure liquid ingredients.

Thank you for watching bye.

- [Zach] Music, dance, magic and more, step right up to center stage.

- Hey everyone, I'm Sarah.

A Teaching Artist at the New Victory Theater.

I'm here in the Brooklyn location of the New Vic aka my living room.

And this is exciting.

There is a live audience here.

This arts breaks combines magic and clowning and challenges you to create ridiculous magic tricks.

Whichever one can see are really magic.

I'm gonna be spoofing three different magic effects.

Spoof means to imitate or pretend to do in a funny way.

And effects are types of tricks.

Let's do it.

Did you know, I can predict the future.

I predict that 1.5 seconds from now, I will dump this bucket of socks on my head Magic.

[claps] Can you think of a ridiculous way to make a prediction?

I will now move this roll of duct tape from one side of the table to the other, not with my hands but with the power of my mind.

Magic.

Can you think of a ridiculous way to move things with your mind?

I can make things appear out of nowhere.

Magic.

Can you think of a ridiculous way to make things appear?

Let's review, I spoofed these three effects.

Making predictions, moving things with your mind, and making things appear.

Here are a few other classic effects.

You can create ridiculous versions of making things disappear, magically putting things back together, making things change places and making things float.

Speaking of which I love attaining right now.

I'd like to thank the audience for being here, and I'd like to thank you for watching, see you later.

Magic.

- [Zach] Ready for some math but counts, count on.

- Hello, everyone.

I'm Meghan from GrowingGreat And today we're going to be doing the seed sleuths activity.

So let's take a look at what fruits we have in store.

So first I have my cantaloupe melon.

Then I have an apple and I have an avocado.

And then I have some strawberries.

Now all of these fruits have seeds, but my cantaloupe, my apple and my avocado have something more in common.

And that's that their seeds are on the inside.

Now let's take a closer look at this strawberry and see if its seeds are on the inside or if they're somewhere else.

[upbeat music] So we took a look at the seeds of the strawberry which are actually on the outside.

Did you notice anything else about those seeds?

Like the color or the shape or the size of the seeds?

I noticed that the seeds are very small and that's why I used a magnifying glass to get a closer look.

Now we're going to open up our other three fruits to take a closer look at their seeds.

But before we do that, I want you to make a prediction or a hypothesis as to how many seeds we'll find in each one.

So first let's start with the avocado.

Think about it.

How many seeds do you think you'll find inside the avocado?

I think we're going to find one seed inside.

Now I'm going to write down my predictions so that we can keep track of them.

How many seeds do you think will be inside the apple?

I'm going to guess five seeds.

[upbeat music] How many seeds do you think we'll find inside this cantaloupe.

I'm gonna guess 20 seeds.

Okay now we're ready to cut these open and take a closer look inside.

I cut our avocado into two pieces and when we take a look inside, we can see one seed or its pit.

So each piece of this avocado is one half and together they make one whole avocado.

Next I have our apple which I cut in two, three pieces or thirds.

Okay let's take a closer look at how many apples seeds we have And here I have one apple seed.

And here I have a second apple seed.

So my Apple was cut into thirds.

So to put it back together again, I'll take one third, two thirds and three thirds.

And now I have my full apple.

Now my cantaloupe melon I cut into one, two, three, four pieces.

Now let's take a closer look at the seeds inside our cantaloupe.

Each quarter of our cantaloupe has a lot of seeds.

What else do you notice about the inside of the cantaloupe?

Wow, his cantaloupe has a lot of seeds.

So I guess time to start counting.

One, two, three, 12, 13, 20, 21.

Oh man this might take me a while.

Do you remember what my prediction was for cantaloupe seeds?

Let's take a look.

So if I look back at where I made my predictions I predicted there would be 20 seeds in the cantaloupe.

Well, we've already counted 21 seeds and look how many we still have left.

So do you think there were more or less seeds than I predicted in the cantaloupe?

Definitely more seeds.

It's time for drum roll, please.

[hits the table] food fractions.

Let's take a look.

So here I can see we have four fourths, four quarters.

Now, if I wanted to make half a cantaloupe how many quarters would I use?

Well, let's try it.

One quarter and two quarters.

And there I have a half cantaloupe.

Okay, so here we have our two half cantaloupes.

Now we know for all the avocado that two halves equal one whole but how many quarters are there in one whole?

Let's test it out.

So we have one quarter and two quarters, three quarters.

and four quarters.

So four quarters equals one whole.

Ooh, now that we've conquered some fractions with our cantaloupe, I think it's time for a little reward, tasting.

That is absolutely delicious.

Thanks for joining me on this seed slipping adventure today.

I hope you had fun I know I did.

Now the next time you're eating a fruit or vegetable in your kitchen be sure to use your five senses to observe how it looks, smells, feels, sounds, and tastes.

Also be sure to observe how many seeds you find inside your fruits and what those seats look like.

Now stay safe and I'll see you next time.

- Welcome back to Inside Out Day on Camp TV.

Anyone else feeling like they could use a snack?

Me too.

Let's make a sandwich.

First I'm going to cut some tomato using a trick my mom showed me once.

Please do not try this at home without an adult helping you put the tomato between two plates and carefully slide a knife between the two plates away from you.

[upbeat music] Next spread a little mayonnaise on each slice of bread.

If you don't like mayonnaise, you can always use a little butter or nothing at all.

Next, take a couple of leaves of lettuce, wash them, dry them and now it's time to assemble it.

So you put your two pieces of bread together then your lettuce, then your tomato, your cheese and there you have it.

The perfect Inside Out sandwich for the perfect Inside Out Day.

[upbeat music] Arts and crafts?

Yes, please, let's get artsy.

[upbeat music] Jump, dance, play.

It's time to get active, let's move.

- Peace, everyone.

My name is a Adia.

I'm a Teaching Artist with the New Victory Theater.

I'm in a beautiful dance studio in Manhattan.

Today we're going to learn about the Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout musical tradition that was born in the praise houses of coastal Georgia and South Carolina.

The Ring Shout tradition is the foundation of many African-American music forms today.

Like the blues, jazz, hip hop and house music.

Let's get started.

[sings in foreign language] In a traditional Ring Shout, an older person in the community, or an elder sets or calls the song.

We all have to move together to grow.

We all have to move together to grow.

After the elder calls, the community response.

These people are called basers.

Now let's listen to the elder call part and the baser response part that we just heard.

♪ You all have to move together ♪ ♪ To grow ♪ ♪ You all have to move together ♪ ♪ To grow ♪ ♪ You all have to move together ♪ ♪ To grow ♪ ♪ You all have to move together ♪ ♪ To grow ♪ ♪ Valo ♪ ♪ Valo ♪ ♪ Valo ♪ ♪ Valo ♪ Let's start by learning a Ring Shout rhythm.

The Ring Shout rhythm sounds like this one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three.

When African zones became outlawed in South Carolina African people played the rhythm for their Ring Shouts with a broomstick.

♪ We all have to move together ♪ ♪ To grow ♪ ♪ We all have to move together ♪ ♪ To grow ♪ ♪ We all have to move together ♪ ♪ To grow ♪ ♪ We all have to move together ♪ ♪ To grow ♪ Although there is lots of movement and motion in a traditional Ring Shout.

There's not something that we really call dance and the way that most of us know it, right?

There's very specific rules about what you can do with your feet and what you can do with your body.

But for our Rings Shout today, we're gonna do some choreography with our arms.

♪ Grow left, grow right ♪ ♪ Grow up, grow down from seed to tree to sky ♪ ♪ Oh wow one more time ♪ ♪ Grow left, grow right ♪ ♪ Grow up, grow down from seed to tree to sky ♪ ♪ Oh wow ♪ All right, everyone.

Let's see if we can put it all together.

♪ We all have to move together ♪ ♪ To grow ♪ ♪ We all have to move together ♪ ♪ To grow ♪ ♪ We all have to move together ♪ ♪ To grow ♪ ♪ We all have to move together ♪ ♪ To grow ♪ ♪ Valo ♪ ♪ Valo ♪ ♪ Valo ♪ ♪ Valo ♪ ♪ Grow left, grow right ♪ ♪ Grow up, grow down from seed to tree to sky around ♪ ♪ Grow left, grow right ♪ ♪ Grow up, grow down from seed to tree to sky around ♪ [upbeat music] - [Announcer] A little buddy told me it's time to go wild.

[upbeat music] - Over the Australia Outback in the female exhibit we currently have four Joeys, three males, and one female.

Once the female has been bred, she will give birth.

Usually between 29 and 35 days.

It does vary from day to day when they actually give birth.

[upbeat music] Aliyah is our female Joey and we got a weight on her today.

She did increase from last week and we've been keeping a closer eye on her.

As they got older we can start to weigh the Joeys by themselves.

They start to feel a little more comfortable a little more independent as they get older.

So all of our Joey's on exhibit right now, are between 10 and a half months to a little over a year old.

So they're all at the stage where they're fully out of the pouch.

They will still hold on to mom for comfort.

As long as they continue to increase in weight every week everything is good to go.

And from there, we just make sure they keep increasing as until they get fully grown.

[upbeat music] - [Announcer] Daytime or nighttime it's always time for story time.

- Welcome back before you go.

Let's bring the Inside Out one last time and I've got just the thing to do it.

A book about skeletons.

Don't worry it's not as creepy as it sounds.

It's called "Samira and the Skeletons" written by Camilla Kuhn.

And no one reads it better than my friend Eve.

So Eve take it away.

- Thanks Zach.

Hello and today I'm going to be reading "Samira and the Skeletons" by Camilla Kuhn.

But first I wanted to tell you something my clothes are inside out, that's because "Samira and the Skeletons" is a very inside out book.

Now let's read it.

[upbeat music] Samira thinks it's wonderful being Samira And it's wonderful being at school and it's wonderful being best friends with Frida.

But one day the teacher stands up and says something really horrible.

"Inside our bodies we each have a skeleton" The teacher says "With a skull and ribs and a spine and... "No way," Samira shouts "I do not and neither does Frida."

"Yes you do" the teacher says, "everyone does.

"I have skeleton and Sven has one and Serena and Kenan, "everyone has a skeleton.

"Everyone in the whole world wide.

You do too Samira and Frida," says the teacher.

"Just look at your lovely teeth.

"That's your skeleton peeping out of your mouth.

"Peekaboo it's saying, "Can I have something to chew?"

"Which is perfect because it's time for lunch."

Says the teacher "Enjoy" Its a terrible lunch break.

It's impossible to eat with your mouth full of bones.

And you can't talk either.

One want to sit together.

Frida asks but Samira can't answer Frida and her skeletons sitting somewhere else.

Fine Samira thinks because she doesn't like Frida so much anymore, Skeleton- Frida.

Then its gym class, the teacher shouts a lot.

Run here, run there, jumping and hop around and climb and do a somersault with a body full of bones.

Samira can feel them there and there and there And now and the skeleton copies what she does all the time.

Now, walk in pairs the teacher says and skeleton-Frida come over and wants to be her partner.

But Samira doesn't want to view her.

Mom comes to pick Samira up.

Bony fingers and bony cheeks.

She's not getting a hug.

And Samira walks behind her all the way home "Bad day today Samira?"

Mom asks, "I have a skeleton," Samira says, "so does Frida, "and so do you and so does everyone in the world."

"Is that so?"

Mom says.

"Yuck how horrible" "I don't want one" Samira says "I can understand that" mom says "Get rid of it" Samira says, "Okay", mom says, "Can you do that?

Samira asks, "Sure I can."

Mom says, Mom fetches some tools, a bucket and some bandages and Samira has to lie on the kitchen table.

"but don't, I actually need a skeleton?"

Samira asks.

"Not at all snails don't have a skeleton, "and neither do worms or jellyfish, and they managed just fine, don't they?

"Well, they mostly crawl around on the ground "or float in water, but that's just fine, isn't it?"

Mom says.

"Yes" Samira says.

"Here we go then mom says got her feet first."

Samira says I'll start with the head.

Why there is still no one, two the skeleton jumps off the table.

No, no, no it screams and runs out the doors as fast as you can down the road and all the way to the block where Frida lives.

Frida is sitting in the playground at the end of her street.

Stop me Samira shouts its my skeleton has gone completely nuts mine too for you to shout.

She starts hopping around and running just like Samira hold me tight Samira shouts and you will hold me tight too Frida shouts.

And they hold each other tight and laugh and dance.

Then Samira says.

And now my skeleton wants to jump rope mine too says Frida.

Samira and Frida jump rope in the yard the skeletons join in but they can't be seen they're inside Where they've always been.

Mom has packed the tools That's good Samira thinks Soon it is a new day at school.

And under our skin, we have muscles.

"They are the same as meat," the teacher says.

Exactly like a steak.

Steak, Samira says, yes, or ground beef and you've got too Samira and Frida everyone does.

Everyone in the whole wide world says the teacher.

[upbeat music] ♪ Camp TV its time for us to part ♪ ♪ From cooney animal encounters ♪ ♪ To summer reading and the arts ♪ ♪ No matter what the weather ♪ ♪ We'll explore it all together ♪ ♪ It's a place for you and me ♪ ♪ It's Camp TV ♪ - [Announcer] This program was made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a private corporation funded by the American people.

Additional funding was provided by the Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney Fund and the Pine Tree Foundation of New York.

Content provided by these institutions.

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