Songs, Silence, Skills and Steps! The Let's Go Club

# The Let's Go Club

Hi, I'm Joanna and these are my friends, Abe,

Lizzie, Craig,

Kirsten and Martin.

This is our club house.

It's where we make stuff.

Meet amazing people.

Learn quick tricks,

super skills... And have a dance.

ALL: We want you to come and join us, too.

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# There's lots to do for me and you

# Everybody can join The Let's Go Club. #

Let's go!

Go!

# Get ready, get set at The Let's Go Club

# Are you ready?

# Let's go at The Let's Go Club

# We've got a lot of things going on

# At The Let's Go Club. #

Let's go!

Today, musical Let's Goers Emily and Davey have a go at songwriting.

We'll be learning a silent super-skill - mime.

I might find it tricky.

We've got some fantastic facts for you all about transport.

Beep-beep!

And make sure you stick around to learn the crisscross cool move,

ready for the club dance.

# Get ready, get set at The Let's Go Club

# Are you ready? Let's go at The Let's Go Club

# We've got a lot of things going on right here

# So come on and have some fun

# We've got a lot of things going on at The Let's Go Club. #

Let's go!

I'm Emily. I'm Davey.

And we both like... TOGETHER: ..to sing!

Today, we're going to write a song of our own.

BOTH: Let's go!

This is Kate, she's written lots of songs,

including this one you might recognise.

# Let's go!

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So Kate's the perfect person to help us write a song of our own.

# Let's go! #

Hello, Davey. Hello, Emily. TOGETHER: Hello, Kate.

What is the first thing you need to do when you write a song?

Well, the very first thing you need is a melody.

What is a melody?

Well, the melody is the bit that you find yourself humming all the time.

It's the tune of the song.

How can we find a melody for our song?

Well, the ideas for a melody can come from anywhere.

You might be inspired by a person or a place that you visit.

I know a really good place that we can go and find some inspiration.

Let's go!

Kate is taking us to a forest.

There are lots of things to see and hear.

Lots of things to inspire our song.

We need to be thinking about melodies, so what can we hear?

Emily? Birds.

So, let's listen to the birds.

BIRDSONG Oh, listen to that bird there.

It went... SHE IMITATES A BIRD

Can you do that? BOTH: Do-do-do-do-do!

We should have a bit of that, couldn't we?

What do you think? That sounds great.

The birds are making high, low and repeated sounds.

So we're going to pull them all together and create our melody.

So, now, we've got to think of some words for our song.

I think I've got some. Have you? OK. Well, these words are called lyrics

so what lyrics can we have for our song?

# The trees are blowing and the birds are singing. #

Brilliant, I love that. What about you, Davey?

# The mud is splashing... # Yup.

# And the ponds are streaming

# The mud is icky, sticky and squishy. #

Oh, yes.

We've been doing a lot of walking today, haven't we? Yeah.

Have you noticed it's like a march so you...? Like this. Yeah.

Can you march like this?

What words do you think we might be able to use, Emily?

Probably woodland walking!

# Woodland walking Woodland walking

# Woodland walking! Woodland walking

# Woodland walking... #

'Back at Kate's studio, we're finding rhythm for our songs.'

Why does our song need a rhythm?

Well, the rhythm is there to drive the song along

and some rhythms can be fast and some rhythms can be slow.

We need to see which one will fit your song the best.

So here's a fast one.

And here's a slower one.

Which one do you think works best? Fast. Do you think so? Yeah.

What do you think? Yeah, we think the fast.

Now we've found the rhythm, can we make the music? Absolutely.

'I'm playing a stirring drum.'

'And I'm playing the tambourine.

'We've made the music for our song.'

'So now it's time to record the lyrics.'

# Woodland walking... #

Yeah.

# Woodland walking! #

Fantastic work -

you guys have written and recorded your own song.

Shall we have a listen? Yes!

# The trees are blowing and the birds are singing

# The mud is splashy and it's squelching and squishing

# Woodland walking! #

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Let's go.

What a catchy song and for more Woodland Walking,

head over to the CBeebies website,

Emily and Davey have made a great video for you guys to check out.

Let's Goers, it's time to welcome our silent super skiller

to the clubhouse, Les Bubb, take it away!

Yeah! Yeah! Whoo! Come on, guys. Let's go and meet Les.

You guys go first. Hello. Can you teach us how to mime?

Sure! All it takes is a little bit of practice.

Tell you what, take a balloon from this box. Take a small one.

Now, hold them over your blue circle,

there's a blue circle in front of you.

Now, what we are going to try and do is move your body

whilst holding the balloons still.

How much can you move?

You can move all the way in, you can move all the way out,

you can go to the side. Wow.

The next thing is to put some effort into it.

Now, have one foot behind the other like that

and when you push, you tense your muscles

and your muscles and your face...

Push! And it's the same for pulling.

You tense when you're pulling...

and relax when you're not.

Looking good. Have you got any more tips?

There's one magic tip.

Have one foot behind the other, when you're pushing,

move all your weight onto the front foot

so there's nothing in the back foot. You can lift it up.

Yes! Now you're putting all the effort...

Yes. Look at the effort these guys are making,

fantastic. Excellent! They're pulling too.

When you pull, straighten your arms.

That's it, have all the weight on this foot and none on that one.

Oh, I like this one.

That's it.

Once more. Push, effort, relax.

And pull, effort, relax.

Guess what, guys?

You're now all super skilled mime artists. Take a bow.

Whoo! Ta-da! Well done, well done.

And you guys can have a go too!

Les, can you show me how? Oh, sure.

Oh, guys, can you see what he's doing? Look.

ALL: He's going to the CBeebies website.

You got it, you can go to the CBeebies website

to see more of this super skill

and learn more about the amazing Les Bubb.

All right, guys, shall we have a little look at the send-ins? Yes!

Well, we've got a thumbs up from Les.

Let's see what you've been doing.

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This week, lots of you Let's Goers have tried our squirty chalk.

Max has chalked his name.

Fizzing fun!

Jasmine and Bob have squirted a flower picture.

Petal power.

And Grace has made some pink squirty chalk.

Fizz-tastic!

Let's Goer Ieuan has pet African land snails.

Wow!

And he made this brilliant poster to tell his friends all about them.

This is arty Lottie,

she made gift boxes for her friends to say well done on starting school.

Let's Goer Justin drew this picture of London town.

It looks great!

Chloe is very excited about the Let's Go wristband she's made.

Welcome to the club, Chloe.

And creative Macy made a marvellous memory box

after seeing it on The Let's Go Club.

Beautiful!

Those were super send-ins.

We're now going to have a go at some miming,

so, Lily, why don't you go first?

What do you think she's doing, Jessica? Cycling.

She's cycling, isn't she? That was good guessing. OK, your turn.

Can you guess? What's she doing, Lily?

Playing football. She's playing football.

Oh, and what do you think Les is driving?

BOTH: A bus! Shall we hop on? Yes! All aboard!

Fact fans, today we're finding out all about transport.

Buses moving,

ships cruising,

chuffing trains,

jumbo planes,

walk to places,

speedy skaters,

helicopters hovering

and motor cars motoring.

Strap yourself in and let's get to those facts.

First up, traffic lights were used before cars were even invented.

Let's shed more light on this.

The first traffic light was used outside the Houses of Parliament

in London to tell horse-drawn carriages when to stop and to go.

The only problem was that the light was powered by gas

and eventually...

it exploded!

Wow, that fact just BLEW my mind.

Next, there's a type of mosquito

that lives in the London Underground.

I think we need to dig deeper.

The mosquitoes have set up home in the busy train tunnels

because they like the warm and damp conditions underground.

But mosquitoes aren't the only animals that call the Tube

home sweet home. Mice, foxes and even tortoises

are all deep down neighbours.

It's hard to keep track of all those animals.

All aboard!

Next up, fact number three.

The first explorers to travel by hot-air balloon were a sheep,

a cockerel and a duck.

No, I'm not quackers!

This brave bunch went up, up and away in a balloon test flight

that lasted ten minutes.

A duck was chosen because it was used to flying high,

a cockerel because it couldn't fly away

and a sheep because it was the most like a person.

Now, that's un-BAA-lievable.

And finally, there was once a traffic jam so long

that people were stuck in it for 12 days.

Now, that's a hold-up you'd want to STEER clear of.

This bumper-to-bumper gridlock happened in China

because there were too many roadworks and lots of cars

and lorries breaking down.

People who lived nearby helped the stranded drivers

by selling them food and drinks, a do-it-yourself drive-thru!

I wonder if they sold TRAFFIC JAM sandwiches.

Facts!

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Let's Go!

Wow, what fab facts!

Before today's cool move, let's take a look at some of your send-ins.

Adventurous Let's Goer Edward

definitely had a head for heights when he tried out climbing.

Alexa's sunflower also likes to be up high, it's humongous.

Great growing, Alexa.

More green-fingered growing from Iris

who's collecting the seeds from her sunflower, ready to plant next year.

Hannah and Harris celebrated Eid al-Adha in their special clothes.

You two look great.

This is Evie who made this picture using shells and seaweed.

I WHALE-y love it.

Here's Orla trying out some handclapping.

SHE CLAPS You've got rhythm.

Meet musical Let's Goer, Aaron.

He's singing his very own song. # Let's go! #

And here's Yusita, who has made her own microphone.

# The Let's Go Club! # CHILDREN: Let's go!

You know what? Your send-ins make me want to dance.

So I'm going to show you today's cool move - the crisscross!

And here's how you do it. Your first step is

to cross our legs, and our arms,

and lean to one side.

Then we uncross them

and boogie for two beats. Three, four.

Then we cross our legs and arms and lean to the other side

and then uncross them and dance for two beats. Three, four.

Criss...cross, three, four.

Criss...cross, three, four!

If you find you're starting to master this move,

what you can do is, when you criss, and then uncross them, you can turn.

Criss...cross, three, four.

Criss...cross, three, four.

Criss...cross, three, four.

Criss...cross, three, four.

There you have it! To watch the crisscross,

head to The Let's Go Club page on the CBeebies website.

We'll use this cool move in the club dance later on,

so keep on crisscrossing!

Next up, Harriet and her friends become The Found Things music band.

Check out what they did!

# The Let's Go Club! # CHILDREN: Let's go!

I'm Harriet. These are my friends Matilda, Seb, Jake and Hannah.

We really like playing music.

So we've made instruments out of things we found.

If you like music, here's something you can do.

We're going to make a band, but need a few more instruments.

Let's get making!

We're making castanets with buttons and cardboard.

They make a noise like this. CLICKING

I found a hose and a funnel to make a trumpet.

We're using empty water bottles to make maracas with beads and buttons.

RATTLING

This pot will make a great drum.

We can use wooden spoons for drumsticks.

We're The Found Things!

Hit it!

A-one, a-two, a-one, two, three, four!

RHYTHMIC PLAYING

DEEP TRUMPETING

HE HUMS A FANFARE

ALL: Hurrah!

ALL: We're The Found Things!

We like making music, so we did this.

# The Let's Go Club! # CHILDREN: Let's go!

JAUNTY MUSIC PLAYS Do you hear that music?

You know what it's time for! The club dance!

Join in at home, follow us and get your moves on.

And we're showing off this week's supercool dance move -

the crisscross! Isn't that right, Mr Cool?

Hey! Oh, yeah! Am I looking good? Let's go!

Side to side.

Jump!

# Go, go, go! Everybody dance! #

And roll!

# Go, go, go! Everybody dance now! #

Crisscross!

# Go, go, go! Everybody dance! # Come on, guys, come on in! Come on!

Come on! Come on, everyone!

Let's go! Side to side!

CHILDREN: Let's go! # Go, go, go! Everybody dance! #

Jump!

CHILDREN: Let's go! # Go, go, go! Everybody dance now! #

And roll!

CHILDREN: Let's go! # Go, go, go! Everybody dance! #

Crisscross!

# Everybody dance now! #

Oh! If you want the chance to dance, then send us a video!

Just go to the CBeebies website.

Don't forget to listen to this week's Let's Go Radio Club.

Lizzie will take over the microphone

and she'll play the Woodlands Walking song again.

Go to the CBeebies website and click on radio.

And remember, we're the club that never closes.

CHILDREN: Let's go!