[birds chirping] [doorbell ringing] (children) ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Won't you be my friend?♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Let's say it again.♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Won't you be my friend?♪ ♪Hello!

Hello!♪ ♪Now you are my friend.♪ ♪♪♪ ♪H-E-L-L-O♪ ♪That's a word we all should know.♪ ♪H-E-L-L-O♪ ♪You can say it.♪ ♪Just say hello.♪ ♪♪♪ Hey!

There's Mr. Chuck!

Well, hello, friends.

Hello, Mr. Chuck!

[clapping] Think about all the things you can do with your...

When you brush your teeth you use your hands to squeeze the toothpaste and to hold the toothbrush.

When you eat you use your hands to hold the fork or the spoon.

When you play you use your hands to catch a ball and to throw it back.

Think about it today and see just how many things you do with your hands.

(children) Hmmmm.

♪♪♪ Oh I know it!

Hands!

H-A-N-D-S.

Hands!

♪♪♪ Have you ever stopped to think about how great your hands are?

You can do so many things with your hands.

But what goes together to make up your hand?

This big flat part here in the middle, it's called the palm of your hand.

And of course you have fingers.

How many fingers?

Let's count them.

That's right.

Five fingers.

Oh this one...

This one here is very important.

It's your thumb.

Thumbs, they're great.

They help you do lots of things like grab hold of something.

Like the monkey bars.

Thumbs are helpful when you pick up a coin, or turn a doorknob.

In fact, the whole hand works together in wonderful ways.

What else can you do with your hands?

Let's see.

You can button your clothes.

That's something you can do with your hands.

♪♪♪ Sometimes it's not easy to do.

You have to practice.

♪♪♪ Can you tie your shoes?

♪♪♪ Very good.

♪♪♪ Can you zip up the zipper on your coat?

♪♪♪ How about putting your coat on this way?

♪♪♪ Pretty neat, huh?

My hands make me very happy.

How about you?

Say, if you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.

♪♪♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it♪ ♪then your face will surely show it.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it, snap your fingers.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it, snap your fingers.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it♪ ♪then your face will surely show it.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it, snap your fingers.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it, tap your knees.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it, tap your knees.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it♪ ♪then your face will surely show it.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it tap your knees.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it, wiggle your nose.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it, wiggle your nose.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it,♪ ♪then your face will surely show it.♪ ♪If you're happy and you know it, wiggle your nose.♪ ♪♪♪ (girl) Today we're finger painting.

First you put your fingers in the paint and then you put them on the paper.

And swirl them all around.

It's a good way to use your hands.

♪♪♪ Ooh.

♪♪♪ Oooh!

This is a painting of my hands.

I put my hands in the paint, then I put my hand on the paper and now the paper looks like my hand.

When you finger paint your hands get really messy.

♪♪♪ [clapping] When you are done painting you have to wash your hands.

♪♪♪ You have to use soap and water.

♪♪♪ Scrub your hands really good.

♪♪♪ Get all the paint off.

♪♪♪ Then you turn off the water and dry your hands.

♪♪♪ Now my hands are clean.

Friends, look closely at your finger.

Do you see little ridges that loop around the tip of your finger?

That's your fingerprint.

And no one else in the world has a finger print just like yours or mine.

Everyone has a different fingerprint.

If you have an ink pad and a piece of paper you can use them to look at your fingerprint.

Just press your finger in the ink and on the paper like this.

Let me show you something you can do with your finger prints.

You can make a little drawing on them.

First you make a fingerprint with the ink like I did.

Then you use a fine point pen and draw around the print like this.

♪♪♪ These little drawings make nice cards for your parents or grandparents and since your finger is one of a kind, your card will be one of a kind, too.

It's a fingerprint drawing.

Blue ♪♪♪ Red ♪♪♪ Purple ♪♪♪ Yellow.

♪♪♪ Red.

♪♪♪ Orange.

♪♪♪ (man) That's a very good sign.

[jungle noises] It's time for... (Mr. Chuck) Look up there.

Do you know what animal that is?

It's a Colabus monkey.

Colabus monkeys come from Africa and they live up in the trees.

Living in a tree is a safe place for this monkey to be.

They can find food like leaves to eat and they can move around in the trees better than most other animals.

They have very long tails that help them balance when they're leaping from limb to limb.

And they have long black and white hair that makes them hard to see in the shadows.

They also have special hands that help them hold onto the branches, but the Colabus monkey's hands are different from yours.

They don't have thumbs.

They have four fingers.

Look.

But no thumb.

They don't need thumbs.

They can grip and climb better without them.

Sadly, the Colabus money is a vanishing animal.

Oh, that means there are fewer of them today then there used to be.

If you want to learn more about Colabus monkeys, come see them at the zoo or you can check out a book from the library and read more about them.

♪♪♪ Did you know you can make music with your body?

Sure you can.

Let me show you how.

All you need to do is clap your hands.

Sure.

Let me hear you clap.

Snap your fingers.

[snap] Try it.

And finally, tap your knee.

Can you do that?

Okay, here we go.

♪♪♪ ♪Can you clap?♪ ♪It takes two hands.♪ ♪Clap, clap, clap.♪ ♪Clap your hands.♪ [clapping] ♪Can you snap?♪ ♪It sounds like this.♪ ♪Snap, snap, snap.♪ ♪Snap like this.♪ [snapping] Snap, snap, snap.

♪Can you tap?♪ ♪Put your hands on your knees.♪ ♪Tap, tap, tap.♪ ♪Tap your knees.♪ [tapping] ♪Clap, snap, tap.♪ [applause] [drum roll] [cheering] ♪♪♪ (man) ♪I see your face.♪ ♪What a beautiful face.♪ ♪I see your face - it's a lot like mine.♪ ♪I see your face.♪ ♪What a loverly face.♪ ♪I see your face -it's a lot like mine.♪ ♪You have two eyes.♪ ♪And I have two eyes.♪ ♪You have two ears.♪ ♪And I have two ears.♪ [nasally] ♪You've got a nose.♪ ♪And I've got a nose.♪ ♪I see your face -it's a lot like mine.♪ ♪I see your face.♪ ♪What a wonderful face.♪ ♪I see your face - it's a lot like...♪ ♪I see your face - it's a lot like mine.♪ ♪♪♪ Parents see their children start developing hand coordination from the day they're born.

They start moving their arms, then their hands and soon the fingers are moving individually.

After that it seems as though they can handle just about anything.

If you have a young one at home you may have wondered how important motor development is.

Does it have any relation to your child's mental growth?

Well today we're going to hear from Dr. Vanessa Sepulveda, a general pediatrician who has something to say on that subject.

You have this an example of gross motor and fine motor skills in two, three, four five year olds.

These include clapping, skipping, coloring, snapping and playing hand games.

Before children can get to this point it all starts in infancy.

As a reminder, gross motor skills are any movements that require the shoulder to the wrist and fine motor skills from the wrists to the fingers.

As I mentioned this all starts in infancy.

As parents you can recall your children were born with their hands and their fists.

The fists begin to relax by three months of age and this is the first step in the gross development skills.

As time goes on it will become more sophisticated.

By four months of age they are able to rake toys and objects toward them and place them in their mouth.

By six months of age they're able to transfer toys from one hand to the other.

By nine to twelve months of age they have a mature pincer grasp and are able to grab onto cheerios, raisins, and that little bit of lint that the vacuum did not pick up.

As parents we are overjoyed when our children reach these milestones.

As a reminder, we cannot rush the children through milestones.

We can just help them play and practice to refine these skills.

In addition, the ages mentioned, are just general guidelines of when the majority of children will reach this milestone.

Some will reach them a little earlier.

Some will reach them a little bit later.

But the basis for the skills that you saw on the two, three, four and five year olds that lead on to throwing balls, skipping, coloring, hand games and snapping.

If you have any questions about your child's development, please feel free to contact your physician.

You can do lots of fun things with your hands, like playing and working and drawing and eating.

But always remember to wash your hands before you eat anything.

Your hands can do lots of great things, but they also touch a lot of things that are not very clean, so it's important to remember to wash your hands when you come in from playing, after you go to the bathroom, and before you eat anything.

Hands, keep 'em busy and keep 'em clean.

Well that's all we have time for today friends.

It's time for me to say goodbye.

Hey, that's another thing you can do with your hands.

You can wave hello and goodbye.

And right now I've got to say goodbye to you.

So until next time, so long.

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