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This is the life!

The air smells so fresh.

There's a warm breeze.

I mean, who could resist taking a moment to kick back and relax?

[ Scraping footsteps ] Would you excuse me for just a second?

Oh, hey!

Thanks, Mr. Crab.

Ahh!

Fruity!

Now, where was I?

Oh, yes!

I was just about to share what day it is on "Camp TV," but I got a little distracted.

I mean, can you blame me?

Look at this place!

White, sandy beaches; aqua blue, crystal clear waters.

You can practically see all the colorful fish from here.

I mean, this place is paradise.

The perfect place to explore or restore.

[ Snoring ] [ Cheeping ] Oh, right!

I'm on it!

Welcome to Tropical Day on "Camp TV."

Have fun exploring while I get back to a little snoring.

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

-If I asked you to think of a green animal, you might think of a chameleon.

Or if I asked you to think of a blue animal, you might say a butterfly or a macaw.

So many animals around the world have adapted to grow different-colored feathers, fur, and scales.

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why these animals have such radiant colors?

What about the animals that are co vered in all kinds of colors, like coral reef fish, for example?

Hundreds of species flashing yellows, purples, oranges, and greens, with different patterns of stripes, spots, and shapes.

♪♪ [ Whimsical tune plays ] Today we're exploring some of the colorful coral reef fish here at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California.

And we're going to have a chat to education specialist Luke and see if he can help us get to the bottom of our colorful question.

-Coral reef fish are so called, in part, because they live in a colorful environment and if you live in a colorful place, you've got to figure out how to either stick out when you want to be seen or camouflage when you don't want to be seen.

So, if you're trying to attract a mate or trying to reproduce, you want to be visible and be seen by the other fish.

If you want to camouflage, you want to hide from predators, you can go nestle into the red or blue or green coral and your red or blue or green color will allow you to blend in.

-This is all starting to make sense now.

Their color allows them to camouflage into the colorful coral and their color helps them to find a mate.

Hang on.

Does that mean that fish can see in color?

Do they see the coral reef the same way that we do?

-Fish can see in color.

Usually, they can see, maybe, a different range of colors than we can.

Some fish can see more colors than we can.

But in order to be able to see all the different signals they're sending to each other with all the flashy, exciting colors they have, they do have to be able to see in color.

-Well, there you have it -- turns out these jewels of the sea aren't just beautiful to look at.

They're very well-adapted to living that colorful, radiant coral reef lifestyle.

-Take a breath.

Take a moment.

It's time for... -Hey, friends, I'm YoYo.

Let's get up and go.

And today we're going to do some breathing at the beach.

Come do it with me.

So, this breathing activity is called surfing the waves and it helps me just calm down.

Just as if you were on top of a surfboard, waiting for the waves to come in, you kind of have to just relax and take it easy and go with the flow, and that's what we're going to do now.

So, let's, first, pretend that you are on a surfboard.

Awesome!

Yeah, get into that pose.

Bend your knees.

Stretch your arm out.

Nice!

Try to surf those waves.

Whoa!

Nice!

Awesome!

[ Laughs ] Cool.

Awesome!

Let's try it to the other side.

Take a big, deep breath in.

Bend that front knee and stretch.

Whoo!

We're riding a wave!

Yeah!

Good work.

Okay, friends.

Now, wherever you are, I want you to take your hand out, just like this.

We have five waves that we're going to be surfing.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Five waves.

And we're going to use this, which is our surfboard, to go up the waves.

Now, take your hand out and we're going to take a big, deep breath in to go up the wave and a breath out [ Exhales ] to go down.

Ready?

Deep breath in... and surf the wave down... Good!

Surf the wave up... ...and surf the wave down... Nice!

Surf the wave up and breathe in through your nose... ...and breathe out... Do it again.

Breathe in... ...and breathe out... We have one wave left.

Ready?

Breathe in... ...and surf it down... And that's how we do our surf breath.

Hope you guys have a great day.

Keep flowing, stay calm, and I'll see you next time.

Bye, everyone.

-Arts and crafts?

Yes, please!

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -Welcome back to Tropical Day on "Camp TV."

Whew!

It sure is hot here.

But that's the tropics for ya.

The tropics refers to the area of the Earth that's located closest to the equator.

And the equator is the part of the world that gets the most direct heat from the sun.

[ Reggae plays ] Because the sunlight is so strong, The tropics are generally warm all year round and they can be found in parts of...

Some parts are wetter, like the rain forest of Brazil; and some parts are drier, like the Sahara Desert of Africa.

When you say something is tropical, it means it's... And one of my favorite things to eat from the tropics is tropical fruit, which gives me an idea.

This heat is making me really thirsty and, while water is always the perfect go-to drink, I'm thinking something a little more fruity, a little more frosty, and a little more festive might be fun.

Do you remember Mr. Crab, who brought me my fruity drink earlier?

Well, he was kind enough to share his tropical smoothie recipe with me.

Should we give it a try?

A tropical smoothie can be made up of all the different kinds of fruits you might find in the tropics, like coconut, mango, passion fruit, or pineapple.

But you can really use whatever kinds of fruits you like.

You can even use vegetables, like carrots or celery.

For this smoothie, I'm going to use one ripe banana.

2 cups of frozen mango chunks.

Whoa!

1/2 cup of pineapple juice.

Got to make sure we get this 1/2 right.

There we go.

1/2 cup of orange juice.

♪♪ And 12 ounces of vanilla yogurt.

Some measurements can be found written on the package.

Like this one.

[ Ding! ]

This container has 6 ounces.

I wasn't able to find a 12-ounce container, so, I bought two 6-ounce containers because... ♪♪ Next, with the help of an adult, blend all your ingredients until it's smooth...ie!

Oh, and don't forget to put the lid on and close it tight.

[ Whirring ] ♪♪ [ Whirring stops ] ♪♪ Looks so yummy!

Now, we're going to add a little decoration.

So, we've got our straw here.

Boop!

We've got our tropical umbrella.

♪♪ Now, that's tropical paradise in a glass.

Music, dance, magic, and more.

Step right up to... -Hi, I'm Curt, a New Victory teaching artist and a puppeteer.

Some puppets can be small, like finger puppets and hand puppets.

But puppetry can also be epic and on a huge scale.

Puppets, big or small, can tell the tallest of tales.

There are many forms of puppetry you might want to explore, like shadow puppets.

[ Exhales forcefully ] Or found object puppetry.

[ Mellow jazz plays ] But today we're going to focus on the art form of bunraku puppetry, which originated in Japan and is now seen all over the world, often involving multiple puppeteers working together to create one character.

There are many ways to make a bunraku puppet.

I made one out of paper a few years ago.

This is Suki.

There are three ingredients, as puppeteers, that we can use to bring Suki to life -- breath... First, the breath.

That's how we give life to our puppet.

Imagine that your breath is traveling down your arm, through your hand, into your fingers, and, finally, into your puppet.

You can show the audience how your puppet inhales... ...and exhales -- Ahhh!

The breath is also how you'll let the audience know how your character is feeling.

For example, are they happy and joyful?

[ Inhales sharply ] Ahhh!

[ Inhales sharply ] [ Laughs ] Or nervous and scared?

[ Panting ] Secondly, be super specific about where your puppet is looking.

It's focus.

Practice making your puppet look at specific things, like the ceiling... ...the floor... ...out the window... ...you.

Lastly, and maybe most importantly, we have to ground our puppets in the physics of reality.

There is nothing holding them up, except for us, so, we have to give them a sense of weight and gravity, especially when they move.

Now, this is where having another puppeteer can be very helpful.

This is my friend Mana from the new 42 Youth Corps.

Hi, Mana.

-Hi, Curt.

-Would you be able to help me puppeteer Suki's feet and take them for a walk?

-Sure!

-Great.

We have to lift each leg and place each foot down, in order for the audience to believe in the character and the world that they're living in.

Now that we have the three basic ingredients of puppetry -- breath, focus, and physics -- we can start to discover all the amazing stories that puppets can tell, unlocking our imaginations and taking us to places we wouldn't be able to go on our own.

Like the moon... Or under the ocean...

Finally, it's time to put together all that we've practiced and see what stories unfold.

Ready, Suki?

-Mm-hmm!

Once, there was a person who longed to visit the moon.

[ Tranquil tune plays ] ♪♪ One day, they woke up and discovered they could jump incredibly high.

♪♪ At first, they were scared.

But then they remembered -- the higher you leap, the more you can see.

♪♪ They landed on the surface of the moon and had never felt so at home.

♪♪ So, the next time you look up and see a full moon, know that you could be up there just as soon.

Wow!

Suki took us on quite an adventure today.

What stories could you tell from your community, culture, or family, using puppetry?

We can't wait to see the stories you come up with.

Have fun and we'll see you next time.

Bye!

-Bye!

-Bye, everybody!

-Bye!

Bye!

Bye!

-Curiosity and wonder.

Let's discover together.

-Oh, so I have a sweet experiment for you to try today.

Place 8 ounces of warm water in each of the three glasses and add some food coloring.

Use a measuring spoon and add 2 tablespoons of sugar to the first cup, 4 tablespoons of sugar to the second cup, and 8 tablespoons of sugar to the third cup.

Stir them until all of the sugar's dissolved.

Now, carefully move small amounts of each solution into a new cup.

We've made ourselves a rainbow sugar stack!

Although they all have the same amount of liquid, the amount of sugar in each cup was different.

The blue solution is most dense because there's more sugar added to the same amount of liquid, while the red solution is least dense because there was less sugar added to the same amount of liquid.

Give this sweet experiment a try and remember -- until next time, keep learning full steam ahead.

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

-Hi, my name is Amelia.

I'm seven years old.

I live in California.

I'm a kid expert on horses!

-[ Neighing ] [ Snorts ] [ Hoofbeats ] -I've been riding horses for one year and seven months.

Can I name all different types of horse breeds I know?

So, Indy, he's seven years old, but he's a grownup.

He's a pony.

And he's a chestnut and Appaloosa.

...is known for its brown color and Appaloosa's known for its spots.

Here's a picture of me riding Frisco, see?

Frisco's a paint horse.

I ride him.

A paint horse is kind of like -- It looks like somebody splashed white paint onto its brown coat.

You can't just put a saddle on.

First, you have to put the -- [ Bubble! ]

I forget what the first part is called.

I'll show you what it looks like, here.

So, this is what the first pad looks like, see?

You put it over the horse.

This is what the middle pad looks like.

It's called the half pad.

This is what the saddle looks like.

And these are what you put the girth on.

I love petting Frisco's nose.

It's so soft!

I would say pet it by its shoulders.

Dad, can you be a horse?

So, pretend this is a horse's shoulder.

-[ Snorts ] -Pet it.

So, approach slowly, if you don't know the horse yet, and then, maybe, I would say just say nice words to it and pet it here, like that.

Like this.

-[ Neighs ] Okay, now get out of here.

-[ Neighs ] -Look at me and Dallas.

We're best friends.

So, why be scared of horses, when they're super lovable?

-Ready for some math that counts?

-[ Gasps ] Did somebody say Tropical Day?

Mm!

I heard that it was Tropical Day here and I said, "Listen!

Can I please come talk with my friends today, please?!"

And they said sure.

I was like, "Okay," so here I am.

Hello!

It's me, Miss Christal.

Anyway, when I heard about Tropical Day, it made me think about beautiful colors and patterns and rhythms and I thought, hey, we should do some rhythms today.

Let's give it a try.

You ready?

Can you give me that?

Let me hear that.

One more time!

Nice!

Now, our hands are here.

I'm going to say go pa...st each other's hands and hit the elbow, huh?!

Then open it up.

Oh, wow.

Let's put that all together.

Close it.

Up!

Close it again.

Whoo!

That was nice.

Let's try it again.

OMG, this rhythm is really making me think about rhythms we hear in math.

But one of my favorite ways of counting is counting by 10s because it creates a really cool rhythm...

These rhythms just gave me a great idea for a game!

So, in this game, I'm going to call out how many times you have the number 10.

So, for instance, if I were to say you have a 10 four times and I say, "Well, how much do you really have?"

You would say, "10, 20, 30 -- I have 40!"

Yes, you do, friends!

And then what if I say, "Well, this time, you have six 10s"?

Some of you might have already yelled at me, "60!

Because I heard a six, Miss Christal.

That was the big clue."

Mm-hmm.

You hearing that clue?

So, if I were to say three 10s!

That three is a big clue.

Let the number be a big clue for how many 10s you have.

Okay, so, in the game, instead of me saying "I have 10 eight times," which is going to be kind of hard for me to say while I'm doing my rhythm, I'm just going to say, "10 times 8," which really means the same thing as I have a 10, eight times.

Okay.

It helps with the rhythm.

Are you cool with that?

Cool.

Alright.

Ready?

Here comes the first question.

Ready?

Here we go.

My hands are ready.

Are your hands ready?

Alright, let's do this!

I heard somebody say it.

Cool!

Let's try another one.

Yep.

Let's use those numbers as our clues.

I've got it.

You got it?

I'm getting it.

You getting it?

Here we go.

Somebody said it out there.

What?!

Yep.

You guys are so good.

Oh, my gosh.

Counting by 10s, you got something there and...

I couldn't keep up with you guys!

You're really good.

Really, really good.

Y'all be good, now.

See ya next time!

-Daytime or nighttime, it's always time for storytime.

Ready for just the right book, read by just the right camper?

Without further ado, take it away.

-Hi, I'm Aria and today I'm going to be reading "Milo's Endless Drawing Pad," a story set in Hawaii... "'Here is her curved beak... and her wings... and her long tail.'"

He drew a turtle, a tree, and finally a house.

The end.

Thanks for reading with me.

Bye.

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