[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, friend!

Hello, Mr. Chuck!

Hello, friends.

It's good to see you again.

Have you ever wished that you could fly?

I know I have.

Can you think of some things that fly?

How about airplanes?

[airplane flying] Or butterflies?

Or birds?

[birds chirping] I remember when I was your age.

I used to watch birds fly and I wished that I could, too, but you know people can't fly.

Our bodies are not made to fly.

We can only use our imagination and pretend to fly.

Hey, let's pretend we're birds.

Sure we can pretend to be anything we want.

Let's pretend our arms are wings.

Spread your wings and let's go.

But first please remember that we're just pretending.

People can't fly except in airplanes and things like that so when you're pretending to fly don't try jumping off anything.

You can get hurt that way.

Okay let's spread our wings and take off.

♪♪♪ Oh we'll get started by flapping our wings really fast.

Here we go.

Which way do we need to go?

Up?

I think you're right.

Okay up we go.

♪♪♪ Let's flap our wings fast.

♪♪♪ We can also flap slow.

♪♪♪ We can pretend to go way up high.

Come on.

Oh yes.

♪♪♪ We can go down low.

Let's try.

Yes.

That's flying low.

Back up again.

Oh here we go.

Here we go.

♪♪♪ Let's fly around in a circle.

♪♪♪ Hey let's fly in a straight line.

♪♪♪ Now let's slow down.

Let's go slow... slower...slower... we're about to land.

Stop.

That was fun.

(children) Hmmmm.

♪♪♪ Wings!

W-I-N-G-S Wings!

♪♪♪ (female #1) Let's count.

(female #1) Six colorful feathers.

(Mr. Chuck) Look at me.

I'm a butterfly.

Can you tell?

I have beautiful butterfly wings.

You know you could pretend to be a butterfly, too.

All you need is to have an adult pin a scarf or a towel to your collar, like this... and to your sleeve, like this... and you're a butterfly.

Yes.

I think butterflies are just about my favorite bugs.

They're so pretty and colorful and I like the way they flutter from flower to flower across my yard.

But you know what?

Butterflies don't begin life as butterflies.

Do you know what they do start out as?

♪♪♪ Caterpillars.

♪♪♪ And do you know what caterpillars like to do?

♪♪♪ They like to eat and eat and eat.

When they've eaten enough they stop and something begins to happen.

♪♪♪ The caterpillar sheds it's skin.

Oh, it has to work hard to get out of its skin.

When the skin is off it looks like this.

This is called a chrysalis.

The chrysalis will be the caterpillar's home for a while.

Now watch.

♪♪♪ Something amazing is going to happen.

♪♪♪ The chrysalis is opening.

♪♪♪ And out comes a butterfly.

But the butterfly isn't ready to fly just yet.

First its wings have to dry.

Soon though, after they're dry the butterfly will spread its wings and fly.

♪♪♪ (boy #1) I like butterflies.

♪♪♪ (boy #1) Oooh - nice white dots, brown - woah!

♪♪♪ (boy #1) This one has white stripes and black.

♪♪♪ (boy #1) This one is pretty.

(girl #1) This is my favorite.

♪♪♪ (boy #1) This one's at a flower flapping its wings.

♪♪♪ (girl #1) One flied away.

♪♪♪ (boy #1) Oooh!

Look at that one.

♪♪♪ (boy #1) That's a good one.

♪♪♪ Friends, can you think of something else that flies?

[bees buzzing] How about insects?

You know, bugs.

[bugs buzzing] ♪♪♪ I like ladybugs, don't you?

Here's a fun counting game you can make with a little help from a grownup.

First take a paper plate and paint the center red.

Let the paint dry completely and cut out the circle on the bottom of the plate.

You may need a grownup's help for this.

This is what it will look like.

Remember paint, then cut.

It will be a lot less messy.

Then cut a smaller half circle out of black construction paper, and glue the half circle to the back of the red circle, like this.

Then cut a thin black line out of a piece of construction paper and glue it down the middle of the red circle so it looks like this.

You can even use a marker and draw it on if you like.

If you want you can make antenna and legs out of black construction paper as well.

Now if you want this game to last a long time, have an adult take it somewhere and get it laminated.

That means covered in plastic.

It doesn't cost very much but it will make your ladybug a lot stronger.

You'll also need to cut some black dots out of construction paper or you can use buttons if you like.

I've made...

But you could make as many as you want.

These are about the size of a quarter.

Finally you'll need some cards with numbers on them.

I've got... How do you play?

Well, you take the dots and a grownup takes the cards and shuffles them and picks out one and shows it to you.

Then you tell what number it is and put that many dots on the ladybug.

Let's try it.

Let's shuffle up a little bit here.

What number is that?

It's a two.

So I put two dots on the ladybug.

How about that.

Let's try it again.

Okay.

Let's take another number.

This is a number four.

So I'll put four dots on the ladybug.

One...two...three...four.

This is a fun way to learn to count, and it's a game you can make yourself.

Try it and have dots and dots of fun.

♪♪♪ I want to be a pilot that flies a two rider jet.

One person sits in the front and the other sits in the back.

Can you think of some ways that airplanes and birds are alike?

Well they both have wings and they both can fly.

How are they different?

Birds are small and very light, but what about airplanes?

Are they light or heavy?

They're very heavy.

You're right.

They're a lot bigger and heavier than the largest birds in all the world.

So how does something as big and as heavy as an airplane get off the ground?

Speed... Wind... And wings.

That's right.

Airplanes have big engines that make them go very fast.

They can take off down the runway faster and faster and faster and the faster they go the more wind rushes over and under their wings and when enough wind is flowing around the wings the pilot can lift off and the plane flies through the air.

Would you like to pretend to be an airplane?

Well we've already been a bird and a butterfly so why not an airplane?

Come on let's go.

We'll just take a short flight, okay?

Now you may have noticed that airplanes don't flap their wings to fly the way birds do.

An airplane's wings stay stiff and straight out to the side.

So let's get our wings in place and start our engines.

[airplane engine] Start down the runway.

We'll go down the runway slowly at first... vrrrrr then faster... vrrrrr and faster... vrrrrr We better turn around here.

We're about to run out of space.

Go back the other way.

And now we're going to go up in the air.

Oh this is nice.

When you look down what do you see?

I see buildings and roads and did you notice all the cars and trucks that are so big when you're on the ground look as small as ants from way up here?

Oh and the clouds.

The clouds look so much closer up here, don't they?

Well they are.

Oh okay.

Let's land our planes.

I see the runway straight ahead.

Take a look.

Do you see straight ahead?

There's a runway.

I'm going down toward the runway right now slowly, slowly.

Let's slow down.

We're going to land.

Now let's taxi up to the gate and don't forget to turn off your engine.

Have you ever flown in an airplane?

It can be so much fun and very exciting.

I like flying in the plane because I can see the clouds and the city when it's dark.

My name Barren Greaves Radison.

That's me flying in a plane and that square is the TV.

That's the TV part.

There's the wings.

I flew to my grandma's in a plane.

(male #1) Was it scary?

Uh-uh.

I could see the clouds.

I was on top of them.

On today's show, we've talked about things with wings, things that fly.

And for our children playing with toy planes and pretending to fly is fun.

But in the real world on a real airplane, it can be very scary.

So what can we as parents do to help our children with idea of flying on a plane?

Today here on Parent's Corner, we have Charlotte Higgins and Janey Englert of Northwest Airlines to help us understand some of the possible fears of flying our children may have and how we can help them overcome them.

Many children have a fear of flying and most of their fears come from things that they don't know.

And we as parents can help them out by telling them some of the things that they need to know before these things happen.

Parents, before you get on the airplane, it's very important that the children understand that they're going to be going down a corridor that's called a jet way before they board the airplane.

A lot of times when they'll go in that jet way, they're afraid.

It's a little dark, they don't understand what it is.

Show them by the window before you go down to the plane that it's just a little building that connects the airplane to the door where they're entering.

There's no reason to be afraid.

There's motion when they're in that jet way.

There's things that they're going to feel when they're going down that corridor that they're not going to understand.

Just tell them.

If you don't understand it yourself, ask a customer service agent before you go on the plane.

They'll explain it to you.

When you get on the airplane, let them touch the jet way and the airplane.

Let them feel that this is something that connects it - that it's okay.

When they get on the airplane itself, there's all kinds of sounds that they're going to be afraid of.

You can help them by telling them about the sounds before they happen.

For example, when you're on the runway, there's a lot of loud noise, there's the engine that's making roaring noises.

These are frightening to a child.

They need to know that it's okay, that it's a normal sound.

Also, when the wheels come down and you're getting ready to land an airplane, that's a loud noise that a child needs to be prepared for before it happens.

It's just communicating with your child.

Let them know what's going to happen before it happens and there will be no reason to be afraid and they're both going to enjoy the trip a lot more.

My how time flies when you're having fun.

And I've had lots of fun today finding out about things that fly.

I hope you'll look around this week and see how many things you can find that fly.

If you'd like to learn more about birds or butterflies, or airplanes, or anything else, why not go to the library and check out some books.

Books about things with wings.

Well, looks like it's time for me to fly, so I'm going to take off.

Until next time, thanks for watching.

So long.

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