(upbeat music)
- Hello friends, welcome to Circle Time.
I'm so happy to see all of you.
I am Caroline from the
Khan Academy Kids Team
and I am here today with my friend Sophie.
Hi Sophie!
- Hi Caroline, hi friends.
I am so excited to learn about
one of my favorite places
to go outside today.
You wanna tell us what
we're reading about today
on Circle Time, Caroline?
- Mm-hm, we're gonna ready
a story about some friends
who are in the ocean.
- Oh I love the ocean!
That's why I'm here with the water
and the sun and oh, I hope
we see some beautiful sand.
Let's get into it!
- We are gonna read the book
"Hold On" by Cynthia Platt.
"The ocean was the perfect
place for Seahorse to live.
"He was happiest among the
heavy rocks and strong coral.
"It was his favorite place
"to watch kelp dance in the current."
Look at Seahorse, he looks pretty happy.
- Mm-hm, lots of nice colors
and Seahorse is swimming around.
- "Seahorse's best friend,
Jellyfish, floated around
"without a care in the world.
"You should try floating,
she told Seahorse,
"It's relaxing.
"But Seahorse thought
floating around looked scary."
You see where Seahorse's tail is?
- Looks like it's holding
on to one of the sea plants
in the bottom of the seabed
so that Seahorse doesn't have
to float around everywhere like Jellyfish.
Seahorse can just stay there.
I think Seahorse is a little bit scared.
- Mm-hm, I think so.
"So Seahorse held on tight
to whatever he could.
"He'd cling to the rocks, the coral,
"and even the kep sometimes.
"It felt safer to hold on to something."
Can you see which one is the coral?
Do you know what the coral is?
- Oh, I think it's that
pretty pinky, reddy thing
that has pointy bits in the middle picture
of what Seahorse.
- Yes, this one.
That is the coral.
"One day, a bad storm came.
"Seahorse was anxious.
"He wasn't taking any chances.
"He wrapped himself around
a sturdy piece of kelp
"and held on tight."
Do you know what anxious means?
- Well, if I look at
how Seahorse is looking,
Seahorse looks scared and
worried and a bit stressed out.
- Mm-hm, I think he's
worried about floating away.
"Seahorse was safe but he could
see that Jellyfish was not.
"The rough seas were carrying her away.
"Jelly might float away
and never come back."
How do the friends look now?
- They look a little bit sad.
Maybe they'll get pulled apart
by the rough seas.
- "As Seahorse watched
his friend struggle,
"he made a decision.
"No matter how scary it was,
he had to help Jellyfish.
"He breathed deeply through his gills."
Should we all take a deep breath?
And let's find out what he does.
"And let go of the coral!
"Hold on, he cried, I'm coming!
"At first, he worried the
current would carry him away too.
"He'd never been so
scared in his while life
"but he grabbed hold of
Jellyfish's tentacles
"and held on tight."
So it seemed like Seahorse did something
that he was afraid of doing.
What did he do?
- Well, it seems like
he was very, very brave
and he left his little
safe spot with the kelp
and joined Jellyfish.
- Mm-hm, to help Jellyfish, his friend.
- Oh to help, Jellyfish.
Yes, that's important.
- Yeah.
"Together, they wrapped
themselves around the strong coral
"and held on.
"The storm swirled around them
"but they were safe and sound."
- Hm, they still don't
look very happy though.
Jellyfish still looks a little
bit scared hanging on there.
- I think it was probably a
very strong current in the water
so it probably was a bit scary.
- Yeah, you do have to be
careful in the ocean, don't you?
- Mm-hm.
"Finally, the sea was calm again.
"That was scary, Jellyfish said.
"Thank you for saving me.
"Seahorse felt brave for doing that.
"If he could let go during the storm,
"maybe he could do it now too.
"Seahorse looked at
Jellyfish floating around
"in the current.
"It didn't look so scary anymore.
"I'd like to try floating with you,
"Seahorse told his friend.
"Great, hold on, she said!
"Together, they floated
and danced around the sea."
So friends, did you like that story?
- I liked it a lot because
it was about friends.
It was about being brave.
And helping your friends
and it was all set in one of
my favorite places, the ocean.
- Mm-hm, Seahorse was so brave
and did something that he
was very afraid of doing.
Okay friends, do you wanna
do some activities now?
- Yeah!
- So, this question asks,
"How did Seahorse feel about floating
"at the beginning of the story?"
Was Seahorse excited or terrified?
- I think Seahorse was
terrified at the beginning.
- Mm-hm, let's try that.
- [Announcer] Terrified.
(bell dings)
That's right!
Terrified means scared.
Seahorse didn't feel
safe floating at first.
- Now, how did Seahorse
feel about floating
at the end of the story?
- [Announcer] Excited.
- Or!
- [Announcer] Terrified?
- Excited.
- [Announcer] Excited.
- Let's do that one.
(bell dings.
- [Announcer] Awesome!
- And now, one more question,
was Jellyfish scared
of floating after the storm?
- I don't think so.
Once it was calm.
- Mm-hm, let's try.
- During the storm,
while that was happening,
Jellyfish looked very unhappy.
- Mm-hm, but after the
storm I think it was calm,
let's try this.
I don't think Jellyfish was scared.
- [Announcer] No.
(bell dings)
Cool beans!
- Great, and we have this coloring page
that we have in Khan Academy Kids
so you can use these different colors
to color the different
parts of the coloring page.
- Whoa!
- We have some fish,
and we have some coral,
it looks like, and some kelp.
- Wow, and you're making
it all different colors?
- Yeah, looks like it
and are these stingrays maybe?
- Yep, stingrays.
- And some bubbles.
- They're very flat and slinky.
- Yeah.
- There are two stingrays and three fish.
And look at all the coral.
- Yeah.
Wow, well it'll take a
long time to color this
so maybe today I won't finish it here
but if you want to try it,
you can use it in Khan Academy Kids.
- Yeah.
Wow, look at this book!
- So today we have a second book!
This one is about coral
reefs under the ocean
and it is a Blastoff! Reader
by our friends at Bellwether.
"The coral reef biome.
"Coral reefs are among the
world's most colorful biomes.
"Many beautiful plants
and animals live there.
"Tube-shaped animals
"called coral polyps
build up reefs over time.
"They grow hard skeletons and attach
"to those of dead corals."
So these are like the corals
that we saw in the story.
- Beautiful colors.
- So many colors.
Can you find the bright fish on the page?
- Ooh, yes, I saw it right away.
I think it's the big yellow fish
and then if you look very closely,
there are a lot of smaller,
yellow, kind of orange fish.
- So many fish.
And the climate.
"Tropical coral reefs have a warm climate.
"The sun shines through the
clear, shallow saltwater.
"Water temperatures usually stay
"between 65 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit."
So that's a little bit cooler
than your typical bathwater.
- So it's like getting into the bath
when it's gone a little bit cold?
- Mm-hm.
Man, there's a lotta fish in there.
"Too much wind and rain
can move rocks and mud
"into shallow reefs.
"The clear water becomes cloudy.
"Then, less sunlight reaches reef plants
"and this can affect the
whole coral reef food chain."
- Uh-oh, it looks like that coral had gone
a little bit brown.
- Mm-hm.
Yeah I think, remember in the other story,
when it was windy, maybe
that's when it can get
a little bit muddy in the water too.
- Oh, I see, yeah.
Hm.
- "Meadows of sea grass often
form around coral reefs.
"They provide animals with food to eat
"and nurseries for babies."
So there's a green sea turtle here.
"Near some reefs, mangroves grow.
"These trees have special roots.
"They are able to
separate water from salt."
- Ooh, that's clever because most trees,
most plants even, they
don't like salty water.
They just like plain water
and this is a special tree, a mangrove,
and it grows in the ocean water
and it just (slurps) sips up all the water
and then make sure that it
only gets the fresh water
and doesn't eat all the salt water.
Amazing.
- Interesting.
So the animals.
"Coral reefs are full
of strange creatures.
"Colorful bodies let many
blend in with the reefs.
"This helps them hunt or hide.
"Flat animals move through tight spaces.
"Pointed ones protect
themselves or poke their food.
"Other animals have
suction cups to stay put!"
So which one is the flat animal here?
The stingray or the sea urchin?
- Oh, I think it's the stingray.
- [Announcer] Great work.
- Because it goes along the
bottom of the sea floor.
- Mm-hm, and which one is the pointed one?
- Oh, the sea urchin, that's very spiky!
You have to be careful with that one!
- [Announcer] You found
the sea urchin, ouch!
So spiky!
(women giggling)
- "Many reef animals need
one another to survive.
"Some offer safe places to
live, others share their food.
"Some fish and shrimp are cleaners.
"They remove dead skin and
parasites from larger animals."
- Wow.
- So here are some questions.
What temperature are coral reefs?
Are they?
- [Announcer] Warm, freezing, hot, cold.
- Which do you think it is?
- Hm, maybe they're warm.
- Let's try that one.
- [Announcer] Warm.
(bell dings)
Keep up the good work.
- Oh yeah, we guessed right
- Good work!
And which animals do we
see near the coral reefs?
- Definitely the starfish,
the yellow starfish.
- [Announcer] Starfish.
- And the pinky-purple seahorse.
- [Announcer] Seahorse!
- Whoops.
- [Announcer] Seahorse.
(bell dings)
- And the pink fish.
- [Announcer] Fish, yes.
- But not the lady beetle and not the cat
and not the moose.
- Yeah, I don't think a
moose would be in the ocean.
- No, probably not.
I think we have a friend
who has some things
that are in the ocean.
Do you think it's time
for a special show and tell, Caroline?
- We have a very special
show and tell today.
Asher, our friend has things to show us.
- A couple things that I wanna share.
I wanna share you this shiny thing
and this shiny thing and this shiny thing
and the sea glass and
this and this and this.
- [Camerawoman] What are they?
- They're rocks.
My favorite one.
- [Camerawoman] Rocks,
and what else do you have?
- Lemme tell you what
my favorite ones are.
This one, no, no, this one,
and this one and this one
and this one and this one
and this one and this one.
- Thank you Asher.
It looks like he has some
seashells from the ocean.
What else did you see, friends?
- Some sea rocks that maybe
are on the bottom of the ocean.
Thank you Asher.
- Thanks so much.
And now friends it's time
for us to say goodbye
but we've had such a
great time today reading
and talking to you today
and we will see you next time.
Goodbye for now from Caroline, Sophie,
and the Khan Academy Kids Team, bye bye.
- Bye friends.
