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Get Sudsy
With 7 Socks
Sing a
Scrubbing Song
June/July 2011
Rub-aDub!
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Dip a Toe Into
Tub Time
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JUNE/JULY 2011
Use bath time to teach your child about hygiene—and
letters, numbers, and science! As you talk about getting
clean, soap and bubbles can be your teaching tools. Squirt
a letter on his hand with foaming soap or draw a shape in
the tub with bubbles. Your child may enjoy getting clean
as much as he enjoys getting dirty!
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All Children Are Scientists! This year on SESAME STREET,
Elmo and friends engage in scientific investigation as they play!
With the help of the Sesame Street friends (and some celebrity guests!),
this special science initiative empowers preschoolers to answer questions
by observing, asking, investigating, and reporting. While Elmo forms a
hypothesis and Little Red Riding Hood observes and compares, children will
discover that there is no limit to what their brains can do. To jump-start the
learning, click here to view “scien-terrific” Playlists on sesamestreet.org!
Join Abby and friends in an all-new
SESAME STREET segment,
Abby’s Flying Fairy School! Each segment
models preschoolers working together to
solve problems using critical thinking skills.
Together, Abby and her friends learn that it
takes rhyming, twinkle thinking, and a
helping hand (or wand) from viewers at
home to resolve dilemmas.
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In this issue...
pages
4–5 Sing in the Shower!
Getting clean is something to sing about.
Take it from Big Bird, Ernie, Bert, Elmo,
and Zoe.
pages
8–9 7 Soapy Socks
In this sudsy poem, your child learns
about pairs, odd numbers, and laundry.
10–12 Elmo’s World of
Washing Elmo shows how cars,
pages
houses, elephants, and your Sesame
Street friends get clean.
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Clean, Green, and Mean
Rub-a-dub-dub, one grouch gets a scrub—
a grouchy part of his daily routine!
With Elmo and soapsuds and bubbles galore,
you can help Oscar get clean.
Imagine your finger is a scrub brush or a bar of soap.
Rub Oscar’s fur and pretend to help Elmo wash him!
POEM BY KAMA EINHORN • ILLUSTRATION BY TOM LEIGH
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Sing in the Shower!
Sing along with Big Bird to the tune of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.” Then make up your own scrub-a-dub song or dance!
Scrub, scrub, scrub-a-dub.
My feathers need a wash.
Bright and nice and squeaky clean!
Scrub-a-dub-a-dub!
POEM BY KAMA EINHORN
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Reading
Corner
Bath time is better with a
buddy.
Have You Seen Duck?
by Janet A. Holmes
and Jonathan Bentley
(Cartwheel Books)
Scrub, scrub, scrub-a-dub.
Ernie’s in the tub.
Rubber Duckie likes the suds.
Scrub-a-dub-a-dub!
Scrub, scrub, scrub-a-dub.
A shower starts Bert’s day.
That’s his favorite way to wash.
Scrub-a-dub-a-dub!
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Scrub, scrub, scrub-a-dub.
Elmo’s at the sink.
He washes his hands before he eats.
Scrub-a-dub-a-dub!
Scrub, scrub, scrub-a-dub.
Zoe’s washing’s done!
She’s warm and clean and cuddled up.
SNUG-A-SNUG-A-SNUG!
WATCH
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sing the Rubber Duckie
song with Ernie.
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Twiddlebugs
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Practice writing more T’s and t’s.
Tub Time!
Mom turns on the water.
We test it with our toes.
She tickles both our tummies,
puts suds right on my nose!
I think I’ll tow the tugboat,
while you wash all ten toes.
We’ll dry ourselves with towels—
that’s how our tub time goes!
Read the words in the blue labels.
They all begin with the same sound,
like the first sound in the word tub.
What other words begin with the t sound?
toucan
tube of toothpaste
toothbrush
trash can
T cookie is too
tasty!
T
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Sesame Family Activity Show your child how to become an expert washer!
Kids should wash their hands before meals, after using the toilet, after
coughing or sneezing, or any time they are dirty. Remind your child to scrub for as long as it takes to sing or recite the whole alphabet!
TRACE THE T Find the T in
the bathroom tiles. Use your
finger or a crayon to trace
around the outside of the T.
What other T’s and t’s do you
see in this bathroom?
towel
tile
tree
train
triangle
tap
twin
two
toilet paper
tongue
twin
tugboat
tub
turtle
terrier
toilet
tail
WATCH
Sing along
with a trio of t’s.
POEM BY MARY BURI • ILLUSTRATION BY DAVE CALVER
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7 Soapy Socks
My 7 socks are spinning
in the washing machine.
My 7 soapy, spinning socks
all look squeaky clean.
Let’s match up 7 socks
for my two little feet.
Which sock has got no match?
My pairs are not complete!
Where is the other half
of my favorite pair?
Heyw, what is my left foot
ever going to wear?
POEM BY BETH SHARKEY• ILLUSTRATION: SOCKS,WASHING MACHINE BY MAKIKO AZAKAMI
Practice writing your own 7’s. ODD SOCK
Add this sock
to the washing
machine. Now
how many
socks do you
see?
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Sesame Family Activity Matching games help children
build an understanding of even and odd numbers.
Place a jumble of socks or shoes on the floor and ask
your child to sort them into pairs. What happens when
there’s an uneven number of items such as 5, 7, or 9?
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How much is 10 take
away 3? That’s my
number!
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Lovely Lather
Elmo wants to know how
people and things get clean.
ing
h
s
a
W
of
Hello, Baby!
How do you get
clean?
Sesame Family Activity Everyone has a “baby in the tub” photo.
Together with your child, pull out the photo album. Show him
how he has been having tub time since he was a tiny baby. Talk
about how being a big kid has changed tub time. Can he use the
washcloth to scrub his toes? Can he dry himself off with a towel?
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One of these things is not like the others. . .
Three of Elmo’s friends are getting ready for bath time, but one is not. Point
ILLUSTRATION BY MAGGIE SWANSON
to the friend who is not getting ready to wash. How do you get ready for a bath?
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A Big Job
People use big rags
or sponges to clean
cars.
Now that Elmo knows
how little babies and
monsters get washed,
Elmo wants to know
how BIG things get
washed.
Elephants wash
themselves by
spraying water from
their trunks.
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You can even use
a hose to wash a
house!
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PHOTOS: GIRL WASHING CAR © GLENDA M. POWERS/SHUTTERSTOCK; ELEPHANT © REGIEN
PAASSEN/SHUTTERSTOCK; MAN WASHING HOUSE © BETH VAN TREES/SHUTTERSTOCK
hing
of Was
PLAY
Click here to be
Elmo’s brushing buddy.
Oh, Rubber Duckie.
You quack me up!
Ducks
Ducks’ beaks are called bills. Ducks use
their bills to eat and to clean themselves.
Ducks have wide, webbed feet that
work like paddles to help them swim.
Ducks waddle when they walk. Their
legs are far apart from each other.
Baby ducks are called ducklings. When
ducklings first hatch, they follow their
mothers almost everywhere. Sometimes,
they walk or swim behind their mothers in a
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The Way We Wash
Everyone’s rub-a-dubbing on Sesame Street.
Look at each picture and read about what is going on.
Then point to the picture on the next page that
shows how Oscar cleans up!
Bert and Ernie scrub the
dishes. Oscar cleans the
Grouchy way. Yuck!
Cookie Monster washes
his hands before he
bakes and eats an apple
pie. What are Oscar and
Slimey making? Mud pies!
Elmo and his mommy wash
his blanket so it’s fluffy and
soft. Oscar likes his Grouch
blanket just the way it is.
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page 15.
What are some
ways you help
clean up?
How do
you wash
your body?
ILLUSTRATION BY DONNA REYNOLDS
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Too Many Toys
Ernie has too many toys in the tub!
Count each toy. How many are there all
together? Circle the thing that Ernie must use
to wash himself. Color the picture.
Point to this image in the big picture.
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Baby Zoe loves bubble baths. She likes
to blow the sudsy bubbles around the
tub. Then she likes to Pop them!
Pretend to pop the bubbles. Point to each
one and say, “Pop!”
horizontal
Pop!
Pop!
Pop!
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