Music: Episode 1

smart brakes smart brakes smart brakes smart brakes smart price best friends hmm check check check hey hey I found my camera clothes t-shirt it's going to be so much fun to wear them to the summer camp meeting are you sure this is mine? Oh, I can't wait to be back at Camp Clovis. Camp Clovis. We love you with honor and forever a camper. Our hearts burn brightly and Clovis. Oh, did you remember your flashlight to blink in the dark? Did you remember the insect repellent? Oh look. I'm definitely packing that and the water bottles we need to remember to hydrate ourselves.

Did you remember to bring the salivary? Oh, check, check, check, oh, and what about the marshmallows? Did you remember to schedule Pat's fish babysitter? I'm sure I scheduled it and she'll be there. here tomorrow can't wait to go to camp clovis can't wait to go to campus wait what day is today is today the fifth um yeah oh no I totally forgot about the spelling bee tonight what am I supposed to be one from the judges of the spelling bee celebration the stella what a celebration s-p-e-l-l-a-b-r-a-t-i-o-n spell-a-ration you gotta be kidding we're going to tell clovis t-o-n-i-g tonight cam clovis but i promised them p-r-o-m-i-s-e-d promise can't someone else come? only former spelling bee champions can be judges and i have to keep my promise that you were a spelling bee champion yes champion champion roll the trunk back oh no wait but i want to go to camp clovis too Oh, why can't we do both?

Things, I've really messed things up so much. Oh, we can't be in two places at once, why don't you go without me? oh, it wouldn't be fun without my best friend, come on, let's take two deep breaths and that will help us think better. Hey, I'm curious. If we investigate this challenge, perhaps we could find a solution. Well, when were you supposed to do the spelling bee tonight and when were we supposed to go to Camp Clovis tonight? I have an idea tonight why don't you stay and do the spelling bee tonight and we can go to Camp Clovis tomorrow morning.

That way we would have to make a small compromise. I know we'd miss the docido's square dance. contest and we would have to get up early but we would do both well, that's a great idea Mr. Zoe, oh thank you for being so willing to commit, that sounds like a plan, let's finish talking, oh, hello, look, I'm Rachel, hey , Rachel, I brought her. you are a gift one of my favorites I grew them in my garden and the good thing is that they grow underground so I could only see the top and that's how I knew they were ready to be picked wow chives are also called green onions You know that onions Greens are completely edible from the white stems to the green stems and are great for pancakes.

Yes, the pancakes. Spring onions are a classic and tasty Chinese pancake dish. You should try some. They are delicious. Are you ready to learn? I learn something when I sing today. I have a friend to show you, you have to set it up. I don't remember where I left it. Has it ever happened to you? You can't find a shoe, I can't find your homework, I don't know what to do, I just have to sit down. very quietly and I think I know where it is here it's oh a little cold xylophone it's called a xylophone because it's made of wood ladder and then go down, but I can even slide up, that's something humans can't do, and go down like in the park, I'll show you what they look like when you take them off the xylophone, these are the bars and they're made of wood Brazil and I have to treat the wood very carefully, like when you hold an egg or a kitten or your little brother, I treat them very carefully, to see if it works.

I play them on the carpet, yes, but on the xylophone it sounds better because there's no drums under the bars, there's no little man in there making noises, it's just an empty box. Can you see the box? There's even some dust in there. You can see it? So when the bars are in the empty box, they have room to vibrate and the air inside the box also vibrates and that is what produces the sound. Listen, you can barely hear it. I'm going to put them back, it's just Like our body, we have a trunk like a tree and if you put your hands up here, almost under the arms, and you press, you can feel these bumps that your ribs are trying to see if you can make it more high if you don't. you feel something hard then you're not high enough it's soft down here that's not where your ribs are put your hands up and then breathe deeply yeah so we're putting air in our box so that when we talk or sing and our vocal cords vibrate air brings out the sound just like air brings out the sound of the xylophone I know that song wait, I'm not that good at playing with my left hand can you do it with the xylophone?

Could you please get up? Could you sit on the xylophone? Remember when I was showing you how you can slide down stairs, that's something very few instruments can do and the xylophone is one of them. It's called glissando or gliss for short and when I hear the glissando. It makes me want to move like this you can even move your arms so now let's play a game I'm going to play the xylophone and the xylophone is going to tell you what to do we already know the gliss here it comes walk walk walk walk walk walk walk let's do it again let's walk the xylophone is going to say now the xylophone is going to say march listen carefully because march is a kind of walk right but this time I'm going to play with two sticks at the same time, so let's practice the march a little.

When you march, you raise your knees when you march. You can't be lazy when you march. When you march Okay, ready, here we go. I'm going to march sideways like this. ok ready here is the game let's glissando on tiptoes walk march this time I'm not going to say anything and I'm not going to move even if it's hard for me not to move when I hear the xylophone I'm just going to play and you're going to move ready here we go I want you to be able to see better the xylophone here we go one we go one we go one do my watch says it's time to go we'll play with the xylophone again maybe next time we'll have xylophone paddles goodbye I'm grateful to be able to breathe with happy and free heartbeats despite that there are difficult times around me, I am grateful to be sometimes I like to make a sound with my hands, you can put them wherever you want anywhere.

You don't have to copy me I'm grateful to breathe joyful and free even though there are difficult times around me I'm grateful to be like the birds in the sky Like a dragonfly Like the whispering trees What lives in them lives in Me, I'm grateful for being able to breathe happy and free, even though there are difficult times around me, I am grateful to be. Hey, thank you very much, that class was great. We'd like to share a hat, take your pick. Good thank you. I will do that. that I am grateful to be able to breathe with a heart full of joy and freedom even though there are difficult times around me, I am grateful to be, it was a great class, I learned a lot as always, I hope you have learned a lot too, friends, You already know what time it is. it's time for our awesome rules be kind be grateful make a lot of art stay curious drink water and breathe hey let's go for a walk great idea buddy smart brakes smart brakes smart brakes smart brakes smart price hooks are the hopes there's band practice i almost forgot and what have a good hydrated hand wash, smart breaks are a production of Hope Stone Incorporated.

Funding for Smart Breaks was provided in part by the Keating Family Foundation and was incorporated by the Brown Foundation.