- Hmm.

I was just thinking about green.

Actually, I'm still thinking.

Yeah.

What?

Whoa, that was amazing, don't you think so, Oliver?

Oh yeah, let's do a show about green.

♪ winning creates throughout each day ♪ ♪ And use words to sing and play ♪ ♪ You can do the same things too ♪ ♪ Go make things that are from you ♪ - [Narrator] It's time for "Wimee's Words" - I'm so glad you're here.

Right now, we are live on TV, on WGVU.

Our show is designed for you to play along with us on many of the things that we will be doing.

And some of you are registered at our custom made play at home interface.

So you'll notice that there will be viewer ideas brought in during part of the show in real time.

Ho, ho, ho.

When they registered, they were given an animal and a color to represent them.

So all of us, that's right, all of us will play together, and some of the ideas will come to us directly right through the show.

Our show is better because of our collaboration.

Okay, let's get going.

Question of the week.

Jim's with us as always.

So I'm gonna go to Jim and ask him a question.

What is your favorite shade of green?

- Hi, Wimee, hi, friends.

I would say my favorite shade of green is sea foam green, which is this color right here.

And my guitar is actually sea foam green too.

It's like a light minty green.

- It's a very pleasant shade of green.

In fact- - It is, right?

- I see it, I see the sea foam green.

(Wimee laughing) Oliver likes it too.

Okay, friends... Ooh, Blue Dog, kelly green.

I wonder how that shaded green got the name.

Emerald green.

Emerald, two Emerald Cities.

Emerald greens, that makes me think of Emerald City.

Forest green.

What do you think?

I got a little tangle.

It's hard word being a puppet Puppeteer.

Kale green.

What do you think?

Yeah, kale green.

He is caliber greens.

Forest green.

Can you imagine going through the forest right now?

Imagine.

Hot jade.

There are so many shades of green.

Oh, yeah, right, you gotta think about it sometimes and be like, "Hmm."

Emerald, that's three.

Jim, was that three emeralds?

Are you keeping track?

Dark green.

- I wasn't keeping track.

- Enchanted forest.

That sounds amazing.

Aqua.

I've not thought of all these shades.

Emerald four.

Yes, teal, oh, of course.

Oh, teal bear.

Of course, teal Bear says teal, of course.

Man, I love it, thanks friends.

Okay, will you please share with us a food that is green?

Okay, for example, I'll say greens, green peas.

♪ Little green peas yum, yum, yum ♪ ♪ Little green peas, yum, yum, yum ♪ ♪ Little green peas upon my plate, plate, plate ♪ ♪ I could eat a stack, stack, stack, stack ♪ ♪ What an awesome snack, snack, snack, snack ♪ ♪ Little green peas upon my plate, yum, yum ♪ Bye Oliver.

He flew away.

Collard greens, okay.

♪ Little collared greens, yum, yum, yum ♪ ♪ Little collared greens, yum, yum, yum ♪ ♪ Little collared greens upon my plate, plate, plate ♪ ♪ I could eat a stack, stack, stack, stack ♪ ♪ What an awesome snack, snack, snack, snack ♪ ♪ Little collared greens upon my plate, yum, yum ♪ Oh, pickles.

Okay, sing along with me if you like.

♪ Little pickles, yum, yum, yum ♪ ♪ Little green pickles, yum, yum, yum ♪ ♪ Little green pickles upon my plate, plate, plate ♪ ♪ I could eat a stack, stack, stack, stack ♪ ♪ What an awesome snack snack, snack, snack, snack ♪ ♪ Little green pickles upon my plate, yum, yum ♪ Broccoli.

Hey, Jim.

- Yes.

- Do you wanna take broccoli?

- Absolutely.

- I'm gonna hand it it over to you.

- [Jim] All right.

♪ Little green broccoli, yum, yum, yum ♪ ♪ Little green broccoli, yum, yum, yum ♪ ♪ Little green broccoli on my plate, plate, plate ♪ ♪ I could eat a stack, stack, stack, stack ♪ ♪ What an awesome snack, snack, snack, snack ♪ ♪ Little green broccoli on my plate, yum, yum ♪ - Oh, man, Jim, you rocked it.

I don't know if everybody knows at home, Jim, you're like the musical director, keeping us musicality going.

Is that a word?

- Sure, we'll go with it.

- Kale.

Okay, I've got this one.

♪ Little green kale, yum, yum, yum ♪ ♪ Little green kale, yum, yum, yum ♪ ♪ Little green green kale up on my plate, plate, plate ♪ ♪ I could eat a stack, stack, stack, stack ♪ ♪ What an awesome snack, snack, snack, snack ♪ ♪ Little green kale on my plate, yum, yum ♪ Spinach, okay.

Now, by the way, this is tricky.

If you're singing at home with us, you gotta say, stack, stack, stack, stack, four times.

And then snack, snack, snack, snack four times.

That's the tricky part.

Okay, spinach.

This will be the last one.

Are you ready?

Sing along with me at home, ready?

Pink Ostrich says spinach.

Here we go.

Take a deep breath, get ready, and... ♪ Little green spinach, yum, yum, yum ♪ ♪ Little green spinach, yum, yum, yum ♪ ♪ Little green spinach on my plate, plate, plate ♪ ♪ I could eat a stack, stack, stack, stack ♪ ♪ What an awesome snack, snack, snack, snack ♪ ♪ Little green spinach on my plate, yum, yum ♪ Mister Grumfry, do you like it?

- Yum, yum.

- He does, he does.

Thank you, Mister Grumfry.

Man, now that you know the song, go share it, go sing it to someone you love.

Okay, Moby, I wonder what Moby's got for us today.

(upbeat music) - If there was a color that had superpowers, it might be the color green.

Yeah.

I just learned that the human eye can see more shades of green than any other color.

Yeah.

That's also the reason why green is the easiest color for our eyes to see.

A green light on a traffic light, for example, is the most visible color for us to see in the light of day or the dark of night.

What things do you see that are green?

(upbeat music) - Oh, it never occurred to me that the green light on the stoplight is green because it's so much easier to see than other colors.

Jim, did you know that?

- I did not know that.

It is pretty interesting though, that there's so many different shades of green.

- So much thought goes into planning out this world, I tell you.

Well, friends, it's time for today's one, two, three sentence story, beginning, middle, end.

And the three words come from you.

That's right, we're gonna write a story in three sentences.

In the first sentence, I'll set the scene.

In the second sentence, there's a problem.

But don't worry, friends, in the third sentence, there is a solution.

So friends at home with the play at home interface, or as you're watching, think of a person, place, or thing.

Purple Frog says turtle.

Yes, today's story, we'll have a turtle.

Okay.

Far out on a quiet pond, a turtle sat and wondered.

I like this.

I can just picture the pond, the turtle.

The turtle is wondering.

Oh man, look, there's the turtle.

Here comes the pond.

Okay.

But oh no, friends, the problem's about to begin.

What's it gonna be?

Our turtle is having taco trouble.

Green Owl.

That's perfect.

Green Owl on today's show.

Green Owl, taco, okay.

Far out...

Wait, how did I start it?

Do you remember, Jim?

It was like, out on a pond, do you recall?

- [Jim] It was pondering by the pond.

- Pondering by the pond, that's a great detail, great revision.

Okay, I'll put that in there, okay.

Far out on a quiet pond, a turtle was pondering the...

Okay, taco.

Sadly the turtle forgot to bring tacos for lunch.

The turtle had planned to go out to the pond to ponder, to wonder, to think, but sadly, forgot the tacos.

There it goes.

Oh no, the taco is back home.

Friends, how does this turtle have lunch?

Does it get reunited with a taco?

Does it take a different twist?

I think the problem is the turtle's ready for lunch.

Friends at home, on the play at home interface, it's up to you.

What will the third word be to solve today's problem?

Horse.

Blue Dog, okay, horse.

Okay, Jim, I'm thinking, of course, the horse... (Wimee laughing) I just rhymed, the horse and course.

I'm thinking the horse could just bring the taco, but that would be the first thought.

What are some other possibilities?

Let's brainstorm.

- [Jim] Maybe the horse, it actually works in a restaurant and prepares the tacos.

Doesn't just bring them, but actually makes the tacos.

- Are you saying there's a taco restaurant at the pond right there, just so it happens?

- [Jim] Well, no, I think he also does delivery.

- Oh, it's a delivery, okay.

The horse is the perfect delivery.

Okay, okay, I got it.

Okay, so from the top.

Out on a quiet pond, a turtle was pondering.

He had realized though suddenly, he forgot his tacos for lunch.

As he continued to ponder.. Oh, we need a name for the wagon, the horse wagon, okay.

Basically a horse wandered up with a wagon full of tacos for everybody.

Yay!

Man, I just love tacos.

What do you like to put on tacos, Jim, just curious?

- [Jim] Well, I'm actually fond of chicken tacos.

For sure, lots of cheese.

- Okay, I'm more of a bean kind of robot.

All right, friends, let's see what happens later on the Wimage lab... Oh, there's the tacos going in the wagon.

(Wimee laughing) Oh, that's perfect.

Look at that, it's right there, it's in there.

Oh, let's add more tacos.

We'll come, we'll come.

Oh, there they come.

Oh man, maybe they just fly from the sky.

There's so many possibilities where this could all go, friends.

We'll check back later with the Wimage Lab to see on the Wimage Board, what happens.

Okay, friends.

Whew, I got all excited.

I gotta take a deep breath.

Sometimes I need to do that.

Friends, it's time for today's language explorers.

(upbeat music) - I love spring and summer.

Everything is so green and beautiful.

Today's word is green - In Spanish, green is (speaking foreign language) - In Swahili, green is (speaking foreign language) - Green In Ukrainian is (speaking foreign language) - Green in Arabic is (speaking foreign language) - In American Sign Language, the color green is sign like this.

Green.

- In Haitian Creole, green is (speaking foreign language) (upbeat music) - You know what I noticed there today, friends?

It's amazing how a word in different languages sometimes may have just a few letters or characters and another language they're gonna have so many.

Did you notice that too, Jim?

- [Jim] I did.

(speaking foreign language) That was a lot of letters.

- Yeah, that was cool, that was Swahili.

Yeah.

- Yeah.

- And then Haitian Creole was very short, (speaking foreign language) Yeah, nice- - [Jim] Don't say that around your dog.

(Wimee laughing) - Words are amazing.

Okay, friends, it's time for what we like to call, "We're Going to the Zoo."

♪ We're gonna the zoo with all our friends ♪ ♪ And when we're there, we're gonna see a button bush ♪ - Hey friends, I'm here with Travis at the John Ball Zoo.

Hi Travis.

- Hi Wimee.

- I love Green.

How do you feel about green?

- Oh man, green is my favorite.

My favorite green thing is a plant, just like this little button bush here.

- Button bush, did you say?

Isn't that the most fun name?

Wow, so tell me about a button bush plant.

- So a button bush is a little shrub that is native to Michigan.

And one of the things that makes button bush so special is that birds, bees, and butterflies love to come eat from the flowers of the button bush.

- Wow.

What does it taste like?

- I don't know.

I like to imagine that it tastes kind of sweet and flowery, but I don't think you should eat it, Wimee.

- Okay, that's a good idea.

The butterflies, and who else eats it, did you say?

- Bees and birds sometimes.

- What can people do to help grow and keep things green around the world?

- Yeah, that's a really great question Wimee.

So one of the things that's really important to do for birds and bees and butterflies is to plant native plants, just like this button bush, in your yard or your garden.

And here at the zoo, we have a program called, Habitat Heroes.

And all it takes to be a habitat hero is to make sure that you're planting native plants that are good for the birds and bees and butterflies that live near you.

- So true.

Because how does it, when the birds and the butterflies, don't they pollinate and how...

Explain how that helps us the world better.

- That's right.

So when a butterfly lands on one of these flowers and is drinking the nectar, they'll get some pollen, which is kind of like little dust almost, that the flowers make on their body.

And then it'll fly to another flower and drink some more nectar.

And that pollen will get rubbed off on that other flower.

And that creates seeds, which helps grow even more plants.

- And then just more, it grows and it grows and it comes and it goes and it grows.

- That's right.

The more and more we that, the more and more good homes and food for the native species.

- So here's a tricky one.

Why is this plant green?

- That is a tricky question, and a really good one.

So inside the leaves, way down in here, there's this chemical called chlorophyll.

And chlorophyll is what makes the leaves green.

And it also is really important because it allows plants just like this one, to get energy from the sun.

It comes down into the plants, and you know that chlorophyll allows plants to process that in a process called photosynthesis.

It helps them make food.

And that's what lets plants grow.

So the reason plants are green is because they need to be able to use the sun to grow.

- Well Travis, thank you so much for helping me learn about this plant, the butter- - Button bush.

- Button, button.

That's a tongue twister.

- It is a tongue twister - Butter button.

Say it real fast with me, ready?

Butter button.

- Butter button.

- Butter button.

- Button button.

Butter button bush.

- Oh, did I say butter button?

- Oh my goodness, Wimee.

- What is it again?

- Button bush.

- Button bush, button bush, button bush, button bush.

- Wimee?

- Yeah.

- Do you want to take this plant home with you so you can remember what a button bush is and make good habitat for butterflies?

- That would be amazing.

Yes, I will plant it in my backyard.

- Awesome.

Well, now you're a Habitat Hero, Wimee.

- You too can be a Habitat Hero.

♪ We're going the zoo with all our friends ♪ ♪ And we're gonna see a button bush ♪ - Button bush, button bush, button bush, button bush.

They got mixed up.

Jim, can you try it, it's tricky?

- [Jim] Button bush, button bush, button bush.

I like Habitat Hero!

- Did you have your cup?

I don't have my cup.

This is so fun, you make that sound.

Yeah, habitat hero, that's so cool.

And to do that, it just means you're helping to plant and keep the earth filled with good plants and stuff.

That's cool, I love it.

And by the way, chlorophyll, that was so cool to see a close up.

Okay, I'm sorry friends.

I'm just still soaking it all up.

Maybe I'm absorbing the sun ray of information.

(Wimee laughing) Hey friends, let's go find out what jokes Siblee's gonna share today.

- So why don't bears wear green socks?

- [Audience member] Why don't bears wear green socks?

- Because they always have bare feet.

(laughing) I tricked you, I tricked you.

That was not very nice of me, I'm sorry, I feel badly now.

- It's time now for slowing down.

(tranquil music) Friends, it's time to play a game.

We're gonna play Make a Rhyme.

(upbeat music) What words can you think of that rhyme with green?

Are you ready?

Go.

Let's see, okay, green.

I like to think of the alphabet.

A, B, C, T, F, J, B.

You got a word?

What rhymes with green?

Seen!

I jumped away to the letter S, seen.

I've seen some things that are green.

Jim, have you thought of any words?

- [Jim] I mean, bean is pretty keen.

- Keen, look at these words coming in.

That's right.

Now, they end with the no sound, right?

Teen, lean, bean, keen, mean, seen, machine, that's got two syllables.

These so far have one teen, lean, keen, one sound.

What if there's two syllables that would...

Foreseen.

Oh, and by the way, friends, if you see a word on there that you wanna make it larger, type it again.

Oh, nice, nice.

Okay, let's see.

Seen.

Keen.

Sometimes I like to make up a poem too with what I see.

What have I seen?

Oh, lean, okay.

Seen.

There's Machine.

The but of all these words go into a machine, a green machine.

Put all the words in the green machine, and we get seen, bean, lean, keen.

Oh, they keep moving around.

What about two letters in the start, like clean, C-L?

Look.

Clean.

Can someone type clean and we'll see it on a play at home interface.

Oh, Dean, like the dean of students, or that could be somebody's name.

Clean, thanks friends, thanks for typing clean.

(Wimee laughing) Okay, I do gotta clean up around here sometimes.

(Wimee laughing) Friends, thanks for helping out with Make a Rhyme.

Friends, you can play a game like this anytime.

Pick a word, come up with rhymes.

You can play a song for the timer.

You could set a timer.

You decide, yeah.

Well friends, I just love books.

And I'm gonna see what book we get to learn about today.

- [Director] Cut.

- Can we take five?

I really need to check out this book.

(upbeat music) - I am excited to tell you about the book, "Green is a Chili Pepper."

It's a book of colors.

Now, this book has the colors in English and in Spanish.

The rhythm to when you read the text goes like, (vocalizing rhythm) It's just got this cadence to it.

And the colors are so vibrant in the characters, the life, the personality, the culture.

It just hollers out color and nature and earth and family and community.

And in the back there's a glossary with words that if you don't know what they are in Spanish and what it means, you can find out.

It's such a fun book about colors and so much more.

You gotta go check out this book, "Green is a Chile Pepper."

(upbeat music) - Oh man, I love the library and I love that book.

I've seen that one.

Oh man, I love the cadence, like Kevin said.

(imitating cadence) It's fun to read.

Thanks, Kevin.

Okay, let's check back with the Wimage Board.

Let's find out what... Whoa, look at the pond.

Look at the turtle.

Look at the taco wagon.

I want to go there and ponder.

It just feels relaxing to be there.

What should we title our story?

Think to yourself right now, tell somebody, write it down.

At the play at home interface, Gold Owl says, "Horse to the rescue."

That's sea turtle.

Turtle taco trouble.

Do you hear the sound?

Alliteration, turtle, taco, trouble.

Turtle, taco, trouble, turtles, tacos.

Pondering lunch.

Rescue by the pond.

The taco dilemma.

That's a fun word, dilemma.

It means like uh-oh, what do we do?

The adventures of the horse and turtle.

Tacos are the best served by the pond.

Oh man, I'm getting so hungry.

Taco wagon explorers.

There's so many possibilities.

Taco adventures.

Man, I'm in.

Friends, thanks for helping out with ideas for titles.

Thanks, Wimage Board.

Great, great job.

Okay friends, we love to play games, and right now we are gonna play a game we call, Find it Fast.

(upbeat music) (car engine rumbling) Okay, friends, one, two, three, can you find all three?

Find something that starts with G. All right, look around wherever you are.

Do you see anything that starts with G?

Look around, do you see something that's green?

And as you continue to look, is there anything that grows?

Maybe you find one, maybe find two, maybe one, two, three, you find all three.

Something might even be green that grows.

That starts with a letter G. Hey Jim, have you found anything?

- I have.

I found my guitar, which actually starts with G. And it's also green too, by the way.

- It's green, it is.

- I have these mini watermelons.

I found three of them.

- Wait, wait, wait.

Wait, what?

I think those are grapes, Jim.

- They are grapes.

(Wimee laughing) - Mini watermelons.

- I found these cacti that actually grew from a seed, so they grow.

- That's so cool.

They do grow and they're green.

How are the grapes by the way, that could go at the taco, maybe the taco wagon- - They're delicious.

Greens, grapes.

- Green grapes.

Okay, here we go.

Grass, cactus, and bamboo.

Yes, I love it.

Three different things.

Grass starts with green.

A cactus is green.

Actually, cactus and green, those could each go either way.

And bamboo grows.

In fact, bamboo's one of the fastest growing things there is, they say.

Green grapes, all three.

Grass, indeed.

That fits all three.

Yes, indeed.

I love to sit laying down in the grass.

Ooh, a geranium.

That's a really beautiful flower.

Nice.

Grub.

Grubs are in the dirt, right?

They kind of go under the ground.

That's a fun word to say, grub.

Ooh, here we go, guitar, just like Jim.

My pants, green pants.

And me, that's right.

Friends, I love this.

Grandma, frog, succulents.

Jim, that's a fancy word for plants, or a little plant?

I think this is a succulent, right?

- [Jim] I think it is a particular kind of plant, it is.

- I think it is.

Man, friends, this is so much fun.

We've had a great, great time playing, hanging out, spending time together.

We're about to get to the dance party, so get warmed up to dance.

But Jim, any observations or thoughts?

I love having us human intelligence, by the way, to work with you.

- [Jim] Well, thanks.

I like being here as a human intelligence.

I thought it was so fun to learn that there are more shades of green than any other color today.

- That is, I forgot about that.

And I think it makes so much sense why a stoplight is green, so that we can see it easilier.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, man.

Well, friends, I'm so glad we spent time together.

I'm glad that we get to do this show.

I'm glad that you're here.

Yahoo!

It's time to dance.

Oh yeah.

Dancing, dancing, thinking about the color green.

Ooh, I got something silly.

What if we dance like a tree?

Now it's windy.

(Wimee laughing) Freeze.

Thanks.

Woo, yeah.

Oh yeah.

(upbeat music)