0:00:05 > 0:00:09Hello! Come on, everybody, take a seat.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13Wow!
0:00:13 > 0:00:14Woo!
0:00:14 > 0:00:15BOTH: Hello!
0:00:15 > 0:00:16- BOTH:- Hello!
0:00:18 > 0:00:22Wiggle your fingers and cross your feet.
0:00:25 > 0:00:26Are you ready?
0:00:26 > 0:00:31One, two, three, watch me.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35Four, five, six, I've got some tricks.
0:00:37 > 0:00:42Seven, eight, nine, it's almost time.
0:00:42 > 0:00:4310!
0:00:43 > 0:00:46ALL: Magic hands!
0:00:46 > 0:00:49# Just look at my magic
0:00:49 > 0:00:51# My magic hands
0:00:51 > 0:00:54# Make your fingers super-duper. #
0:00:54 > 0:00:55Magic Hands!
0:01:00 > 0:01:02- BOTH:- Hello!
0:01:02 > 0:01:03My name is...
0:01:07 > 0:01:09And my name is...
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Look at what my hands can do!
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Oh, look, it's an owl.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27Isn't it beautiful?
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Owls are very clever birds.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31If I was going to be an animal,
0:01:31 > 0:01:33I think I'd like to be an owl.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37I'd live in a tree,
0:01:37 > 0:01:39and I'd sleep during the day,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43and go out at night
0:01:43 > 0:01:45to look for dinner.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51But if you were an owl,
0:01:51 > 0:01:54you'd eat worms and spiders
0:01:54 > 0:01:58and lizards and frogs and mice.
0:01:58 > 0:01:59Yuk!
0:02:01 > 0:02:02Not this owl.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04I'd still eat hamburgers.
0:02:07 > 0:02:08If you were an animal,
0:02:08 > 0:02:11- what animal would you be?- Hmm...
0:02:11 > 0:02:12That's a hard question.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14I'll tell you later.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16This reminds me of a poem.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19It's by Mary Hunter Austin
0:02:19 > 0:02:21and it's called Rathers.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Are you ready?
0:02:41 > 0:02:46I know very well what I'd rather be,
0:02:46 > 0:02:49if I didn't always have to be me.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52I'd rather be an owl...
0:02:55 > 0:02:59..a downy feathered owl...
0:02:59 > 0:03:03a wink-ity, blink-ity, yellow-eyed owl...
0:03:05 > 0:03:08..in a hole in a hollow tree.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14I'd take my dinner in chipmunk town...
0:03:19 > 0:03:22..and wouldn't I gobble the field mice down...
0:03:28 > 0:03:33..if I were a wink-ity, blink-ity owl...
0:03:33 > 0:03:35and I didn't always have to be me?
0:03:41 > 0:03:45I know very well what I'd like to do,
0:03:45 > 0:03:48if I didn't have to do what I do.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50I'd go and be a woodpecker...
0:03:53 > 0:03:57..a rap-ity, tap-ity, red-headed woodpecker...
0:04:02 > 0:04:04..in the top of a tall old tree.
0:04:08 > 0:04:09And I'd never take a look
0:04:09 > 0:04:11at a lesson or a book...
0:04:16 > 0:04:19..and I'd scold like a pirate on the sea...
0:04:24 > 0:04:27..if I only had to do what I like to do,
0:04:27 > 0:04:30and didn't always have to be me!
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Or else I'd be an antelope...
0:04:41 > 0:04:44..a prong-horned antelope,
0:04:44 > 0:04:46with lots of other antelope...
0:04:50 > 0:04:52..skimming like a cloud
0:04:52 > 0:04:54on a wire-grass plain...
0:04:56 > 0:04:59..a bounding, bouncing antelope.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04You'd never get me back to my desk again!
0:05:12 > 0:05:13Or I might be a puma...
0:05:16 > 0:05:19..a singe-coloured puma,
0:05:19 > 0:05:21a slinking sly-footed puma...
0:05:23 > 0:05:25..as fierce as fierce could be...
0:05:27 > 0:05:30..and I'd wait by the waterholes
0:05:30 > 0:05:32where antelope drink...
0:05:34 > 0:05:39..in the cool of the morning, and I do not think...
0:05:39 > 0:05:42that ever any antelope could get away from me!
0:05:50 > 0:05:54But if I were a hunter...
0:05:55 > 0:05:58..I'd like to be a hunter...
0:05:58 > 0:06:01I'd have a bow made of juniper wood
0:06:01 > 0:06:04from a lightning-blasted tree...
0:06:05 > 0:06:08..and I'd creep, and I'd creep,
0:06:08 > 0:06:11on that puma asleep,
0:06:15 > 0:06:18a flint-tipped arrow,
0:06:18 > 0:06:20an eagle-feathered arrow...
0:06:25 > 0:06:28..for a puma kills calves
0:06:28 > 0:06:30and a puma kills sheep,
0:06:30 > 0:06:35and he'd never eat any more antelope
0:06:35 > 0:06:38if he once met up with me!
0:06:49 > 0:06:52That was a lot of fun.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54I'm trying to decide
0:06:54 > 0:06:56if I still want to be an owl,
0:06:56 > 0:07:00or if I'd rather be a puma.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01What would you be,
0:07:01 > 0:07:04if you could be any animal in the world?
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Would you be a lion or a tiger,
0:07:09 > 0:07:11or maybe a walrus,
0:07:11 > 0:07:13or a beautiful robin?
0:07:13 > 0:07:18I think I would definitely be a bird of some kind.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21That reminds me of another poem
0:07:21 > 0:07:24by Mary Hunter Austin.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26It's a very short poem
0:07:26 > 0:07:30called The Sandhill Crane.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31Are you ready?
0:07:50 > 0:07:54Whenever the days are cool and clear
0:07:54 > 0:07:56the sandhill crane goes walking...
0:07:59 > 0:08:04..across the field by the flashing weir,
0:08:04 > 0:08:07slowly, solemnly stalking.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12The little frogs in the tules hear...
0:08:19 > 0:08:22..and jump for their lives if he comes near.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27The fishes scuttle away in fear
0:08:27 > 0:08:30when the sandhill crane goes walking.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36The field folk know
0:08:36 > 0:08:38if he comes that way
0:08:38 > 0:08:42slowly, solemnly stalking,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44there is danger and death
0:08:44 > 0:08:46in the least delay
0:08:46 > 0:08:49when the sandhill crane goes walking.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51The chipmunks stop
0:08:51 > 0:08:54in the midst of play,
0:08:54 > 0:08:56the gophers hide,
0:08:56 > 0:08:58in their holes, away,
0:09:03 > 0:09:06and, "Hush! Oh, hush!"
0:09:06 > 0:09:09the fieldmice say,
0:09:09 > 0:09:12when the sandhill crane goes walking.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19What unusual birds.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23I love the red mark above their beaks.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26I've never seen one of them before.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30I really like the way they walk.
0:09:30 > 0:09:36They're very funny to watch, aren't they?
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Can you walk like the sandhill crane?
0:09:41 > 0:09:42- Bye-bye!- Bye!
0:09:44 > 0:09:47- BOTH:- Quack, quack, quack...
0:09:50 > 0:09:51ALL: Magic Hands!
0:09:52 > 0:09:54# Just look at my magic
0:09:55 > 0:09:57# My magic hands
0:09:57 > 0:10:01# Make your fingers super-duper. #
0:10:01 > 0:10:02Magic Hands!