- Hello friends, welcome to Circle Time.
I am Caroline from the
Khan Academy Kids team.
And I'm here today with my friend Sophie.
Hi Sophie.
- Hi Caroline.
Hi friends.
I am so excited to be here
today for Circle Time.
And I have no idea what we're
going to be doing today.
Caroline, what have you got planned?
- We have two books.
One book is a fiction book,
and one book is a nonfiction book.
Do you know what those terms mean?
- Hm.
Right, so one is about real life.
That's the nonfiction, it's not made up.
It's all about the real animals
or the real things that
happen out in the world.
Real people, real stories.
And the other one are those
great kinds of stories
that we write ourselves or someone writes.
We make them up, they're stories.
- So we'll start with
the fiction book first.
It's a story about three friends,
and it's called "Face to Face."
Face to Face, by Cynthia Platt.
Raccoon met up with
Possum and Owl every night
to play together.
Looks like they are good friends.
And they even wrote BFF
on their photograph.
Anybody know what that stands for?
- I think it stands for
best friends forever.
- Those are really good friends.
It was always easy to tell
exactly what Possum was thinking.
When he was happy, he looked really happy.
When he was sad, he looked really sad.
But sometimes Owl was
harder to figure out.
Can you look at Owl in these pictures?
Is it hard to tell what Owl's feeling?
- Yeah, it is a little bit,
because some of the ways
we can tell with Possum,
is Possum's eyes sometimes
look really happy.
Sometimes looks sad, and
Possum's mouth helps us.
But with Owl, Owl's eyes don't
really change all that much.
And I cannot really see Owl's
mouth, I guess it's a beak.
I can't really see a smile or a frown,
it's just a little bit hard
to know how Owl is feeling.
- One night Raccoon
thought Owl looked grumpy.
"Are you okay?" Raccoon asked him.
"Yes. I was just thinking
about the nice flight I took
with my mom earlier."
Owl replied.
"It was amazing."
"Oh..." Raccoon said.
The next night Owl still looked upset.
"Is everything all right?" Raccoon asked.
"Do you want to take
some deep breaths with me
"to calm down?"
"Calm down?" Owl replied.
"But I feel great."
And when Raccoon got a new camera,
Owl seemed a little jealous.
"You can borrow it if you'd
like," Raccoon offered.
But Owl wasn't feeling
jealous, he was feeling sleepy.
What does jealous mean friends?
Do you know?
- Well, one of our friends said,
it's a feeling like you want something
that somebody else has.
You really, really want that thing.
So maybe it's like Raccoon's camera,
or maybe your friend gets to go somewhere
and you feel jealous,
or maybe your friends
family has a really nice car
and you feel jealous.
You want that thing.
- I see, yeah.
But here, I guess Owl
wasn't feeling jealous,
he was just sleepy.
- Yeah, that would be really hard
if your friends couldn't
tell how you really felt.
- How was Raccoon supposed
to tell what Owl was thinking
when his face never gave anything away.
"Possum, you always seem to understand
what Owl's thinking" Raccoon said.
"But he always looks exactly
the same, how do you do it?"
"His face doesn't change," Possum replied.
"But other things do."
"When Owl's hungry, he
scrunches up his shoulders,"
Possum continues.
"What about when he's
happy?" Raccoon asked.
"Then he spreads his wings
wide," Possum tells him
"Wow," said Raccoon.
"Now I think I understand.
"Thank you."
The next night Raccoon saw that Owl
had his shoulders scrunched up.
He knew exactly what to do.
"Would you like to share
my snack?" Raccoon asked.
"I was just thinking about
getting food" said Owl.
"That would be wonderful."
So friends, that was a good story.
So what do you think you
can do if you can't tell
how your friend is feeling?
- Well, I think like Raccoon and Possum,
you can look for other
ways to figure it out.
Maybe it's not by looking
at your friend's face.
Maybe it is how their
body is or what they say.
Maybe you could ask your
friend how they're feeling,
check in with your friend.
If you're not sure how they're feeling.
There's some ideas.
- Yeah, those are good ideas.
And I think everybody is
a little bit different.
So sometimes it takes some time
to really understand a friend.
- Yeah, it doesn't come right away.
And it's nice that Raccoon and Possum,
they were trying to be really good friends
and figure out how they
could understand Owl better.
That's really nice.
- Yes it is.
So since that story was a fiction story
about some friends and an Owl,
let's read a nonfiction
book now about baby owls.
All right.
This is a picture of an
owl with the letter O,
'cause the word owl
starts with the letter O.
Let's trace it.
You want to trace it with me
in the air while I trace it?
- Oh yeah.
- Going around.
- [Ebook Narrator] Super,
you traced the letter O.
- This is the word owl.
O-W-L, should we spell it?
O-W, and L.
- [Ebook Narrator] You
spelled the word owl.
- So we're going to read
the book "Baby Owls."
And this is a blastoff
reader from our friends
at Bellwether Media.
Owlets, baby owls are called owlets.
They hatch from eggs.
Wow, look at their eyes.
They're round.
- They sure are.
- Let's see, should we
count the baby owls?
- [Ebook Narrator] One, two, three.
Great job, you counted three baby owls.
- Life in the nest.
Mom sits on the nest to keep it warm.
Eggs hatch one at a time.
Where are the owlets, can we find them?
- [Ebook Narrator] Awesome.
- Newborn owlets are
covered in fluffy down.
These feathers keeps them warm.
What color is their down, their feathers?
- It looks white to me.
- [Ebook Narrator] White.
That's right.
The newborn owls are white.
- Dad brings food to the nest.
Mom feeds it to the owlets.
The babies compete for the food,
they give loud screeches for attention.
You want to hear the screeches?
(owls screeching)
- [Ebook Narrator] Screech,
screech, baby owls.
Time for a snack.
- Out and about, soon the
baby stretch their legs.
They hop around the nest.
Wow.
The owlets also flap their wings.
They start with shorts flights.
Fledglings stay near the nest.
They still need mom and dad for food.
Soon the owlets can find their own food.
They fly from the nest for good.
Up, up, and away.
That was a fun book about owls.
Were these owls similar to
the owl in the fiction story
about Owl and Possum and Raccoon?
- Well they were the same in the way
that they had those beady
eyes that didn't change much.
And you couldn't really
see whether that beak
was a happy smile or frown.
So I think it would be hard
to tell what those owls
were thinking, just like
Owl in our storybook.
- So now we have a few show
and tells from our friends,
we had a Circle Time where our friends
were drawing pecs robots,
and we received so many
robots from friends
that I'd love to show you.
- Oh, wow.
Let's look at them.
- So this is Olympia and she
did a drawing with two robots.
It looks like those robots
are looking to the side.
- Wow, great job Olympia.
I love all the different colors
that Olympia used on those robots.
- I do too, and also when
she was writing her name,
it looks like he wrote each
letter in a different color.
- Ooh, that's so great.
- And if you look behind her,
it looks like she has
some of Reya's bugs maybe,
and some other drawings.
- Yeah, great job.
- And this was from Ari.
Four more robots from Ari here.
- Wow, I love those robots.
I love how they're all on one page.
And Ari's drawn a line down the middle,
through the center of the page
so that there's almost like
a window with robots in them.
- And that one on the bottom
right has a big mouth.
- Oh yeah, I see.
- Thank you, Ari.
And this is Charlotte.
And she drew two robots here
and it looks like they're holding hands.
- Right.
Yeah.
I like how one of Charlotte's robots seems
to have a star shape on its belly.
And the other one has some
antenna that are going up,
I think very cool, maybe
ears, maybe antenna
from the robot's head.
Great job Charlotte.
- Thank you, Charlotte.
And this is Eleanor.
It looks like Eleanor
also drew two robots.
Thank you so much.
She wrote from Eleanor at the bottom.
- Oh, that's so great.
Eleanor, I really, really love it.
Not just one robot, two robots.
- And we have one more
from Veda, two more robots.
- Wow, Veda.
Well, Veda is very good
at coloring in the lines
and using lots of different colors
and Veda even wrote robot at the top.
And there's a heart shape
on one of Veda's robots,
which I love.
- Thank you so much friends for sending us
your robots through the mail.
We love to see everything
that you've created.
Now, it's almost time
for us to say goodbye,
but do we have ideas of
what we could do today?
- Hm.
Well, we did read a lot about owls,
so maybe we could try to draw
an owl or any other bird.
And we also read a little
bit about how we can try
to understand our friend's feelings.
And so maybe we can
spend some time thinking
about all the feelings that
our friends might feel.
And if we can,
we could talk to a friend
and ask how they are,
maybe over the phone or video.
And we can just check in with that friend.
- Yeah.
I think people really appreciate that.
You know, if you're not
really sure, just asking,
like I could ask my friend Sophie here.
So how are you feeling?
- Yeah, well I'm feeling
really excited and happy
because I'm going to make a
really nice dinner tonight
and I'm excited about that.
- That sounds good.
I will let you go make your dinner.
- Bye for now everyone.
- Bye, see you next time.
