Milya: Hello and welcome. It's the start of a new day in Alphabet Village, a day of learning, fun and games. I'm learning to speak Ukrainian by observing the activities in Alphabet Village. We have many friends here eager to teach us Ukrainian words. This key unlocks all the doors to learning. Boomchyk Borovyk is in there. Let's watch as he begins his day. Boomchyk: Good morning children. Welcome! I've slept all night and now I am ready to sing and play. But first, I must eat breakfast, brush my teeth and wash up. Now I am ready to get going. Milya: Boomchyk is ready to stretch before he sets out for the day. get up and follow along. Boomchyk: We have lots of adventures planned for today. Are you ready? Did you say Yes, you're ready? Or no, you're not ready? You're ready? Great! First, let us stretch. Perhaps to some music. Song: Head, shoulders, knees and toes. Head, shoulders, knees and toes. Eyes, ears, lips nose. Arms, legs, forehead, tail. Head, shoulders, knees and toes. Head, shoulders, knees and toes. Eyes, ears, lips nose. Arms, legs, forehead, tail. Head, shoulders, knees and toes. Boomchyk: We've stretched and now we're ready for our morning exercises. You know that you need to exercise to have a healthy body. To have healthy minds, we need to exercise them too. Today, we'll exercise our bodies and minds at the same time. Let's jump and count. Milya: Now that we've stretched, we're ready to exercise. Boomchyk will show us how to exercise our bodies and our minds at the same time. he'll count in Ukrainian as we exercise. Come on! Jump up and join in. Song: One, two, three, we are jumping jacks. Four and five, we like to skip and jump. Six, seven, eight, hip, hip, hop. Nine and ten and back to the beginning. Boomchyk: Whew! Time to rest. I have one towel. Now, I have two towels. And now three. And four. And five. Enough towels! But I always enjoy counting. We can count all sorts of things. Milya: Here's another opportunity to count. Boomchyk just found a closk. Let's count the numbers on the clock with boomchyk in Ukrainian. Children: one, two three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Boomchyk: Now, look at the clock. There are all sorts of numbers on the face of the clock. A clock tels us the time. And when we tell time, there is a special way to say the numbers. Seven o'clock, time to rise. Eight o'clock, time for breakfast. Nine o'clock, I read a story. Ten o'clock, I clean up my toys. Eleven o'clock, time to exercise. Twelve o'clock, come on! Let's play a game. Maksym: Boomchyk is getting ready to play a game. we want to go to Alphabet Village, too. Children: Boomchyk, boomchyk, ra, ta, ta Wonderful learning awaits. Tri, lee, lya, lya, foo, foo zooch Appear magical key! Maksym: Games? Did somebody say games? Boomchyk: Yes, we were just playing a counting game. Now we're going to play games that will teach us more Ukrainian words. Natalka: Can we play with you? Boomchyk: Certainly! The more the merrier. Yurko: Sometimes big kids don't want to play with us. That makes us little kids sad. Boomchyk: Older children should remember that they were little once too. Song: It simply doesn't matter, if we are big or small. It simply doesn't matter, we play one and all. Some are giants, others are dwarfs. It simply doens't matter, we're all the same. We're all the same. We're all the same. Boomchyk: Yes, we all like to play together. Games are fun and educational. Natalka: I like to learn. Boomchyk: Yurko, what do you like to do? Yurko: I like to draw, with lots of colors. but I don't always remember the names of all the colors. Milya: Hooray! We're going to play another game. Boomchyk will name a color and the children will name something of that color. Boomchyk: I know a game that will help us learn the colors. I'll name a color and you name something that is that color. ready? Children: Ready. Boomchyk: I'm thinking about black. Maksym: The screen is black as the night. Boomchyk: I'm thinking about blue. Natalka: The sky and ocean. Boomchyk: I'm thinking about white. Yurko: The clouds, fluffy as snow. Boomchyk: I'm thinking green. Maksym: Frogs, grass and leaves. Boomchyk: I'm thinking brown. Yurko: The bark of trees. Boomchyk: I'm thinking yellow. Maksym: The sun in the sky. Boomchyk: I'm thinking red. Natalka: A red bird, a cardinal. Boomchyk: I'm thinking orange. Yurko: A pumpkin fell on the ground. Boomchyk: And what is purple? Children: Purple? Purple. Purple. You're purple. Boomchyk: Yes I'm purple. Milya: It's time to follow Natalka, Maksym and Yurko to class. hey, I wonder where Boomchyk went. Natalka: I'm ready to learn. Let's go to class. Children: Boomchyk, boomchyk, ra, ta, ta Wonderful learning awaits. Tri, lee, lya, lya, foo, foo zooch Appear magical key! Milya: Pani Vera has an adventure planned, a treasure hunt. She will read riddles from a secret note she's received. We must look for clues to help us figure out the riddles and to find the treasure chest. Pani Vera: Come here children. I'll tell you a secret. I've just learned of a secret hiding place for Ukrainian words. Will you help me find this treasure? Children: Yes, Yes. Natalka: What do we need to do to find this treasure? Pani Vera: Well, I've gotten a message for the keeper of Ukrainian words that we should look for a place where there is a large wheel, a long slide and colored animals that go up and down and round and round. Do you know of such a place? Maksym: A carnival! Pani Vera: Right. That's where we'll find our treasure chest. Get ready to go. The note says to look for a boy with a picture of the Ukrainian flag on his shirt. Do you know the colors of the Ukrainian flag? Natalka: Blue and yellow. Pani Vera: Excellent. Natalka: I see the boy. He has a blue balloon. Pani Vera: This boy will help us figure out the first riddle. I fly without wings, I carry passengers and deliver supplies. I'm not a jet but a ... Maksym: Balloon! A blue ballon. Yurko: No, no. It's a bird. Pani Vera: Maksym, Yurko, those are good guesses, but a balloon doesn't carry passengers and a bird has wings. Look, the boy sat in a helicopter. Here's the next riddle. I rock gently on the water. Sit in me, pick up an oar. We will glide. Natalka: A boat! Pani Vera: Next riddle. My wagons are made of steel and iron. I travel on rails all over the world. Maksym: I hear a whistle. It must be a train. Pani Vera: Right. A train. Last riddle. Long tail, skinny legs, I often say (neighing sound.) Yurko: A horse neighs like that. Pani Vera: How are these objects related? Maksym: We can use each of them to get from one place to another. Natalka: They're forms of transportation. Pani Vera: We figured out all of the riddles. Here are our treasures. There is a helicopter, boat, train and horse in the treasure chest. Maksym: I like the train. Pani Vera: You get the train. Natalka: I'd like the horse, please. Pani Vera: Play with the horse. Yurko: I'd like the horse but I'll readily play with the boat. Pani Vera: Play with the boat. Boomchyk: Exactly what I need. Milya: So that's where Boomchyk was hiding. Where's he going now? Hmmmm. Oh, I see why he's in such a hurry. It's lunch time. Boomchyk must be hungry. I wonder what he'll eat for lunch. Boomchyk: I like to eat a variety of foods, something new each day. Song: On Monday, borsch. Peas on Tuesday. On Wednesday, cabbage. Eat my friends. On Thursday, pyrohy. These are our favorites. For a change on Friday, we'll have kasha. For a change on Friday, we'll have kasha. On Staurday, eggs, that the chicked laid. On Sunday, we'll cook meat. Let's eat. On Sunday, we'll cook meat. Let's eat. Boomchyk: What are you're favorite foods? Natalka: I like noodles. Yurko: I like cabbage rolls. Maksym: My favorites are sausages. Boomchyk: My favorite food is eggs. I like them boiled and I like them fried. But most of all, I like pysanky. Maksym: Pysanky aren't for eating. Yurko: Pysanky are art. You look at them. Maksym: I'd like to learn to make pysanky. Natalka: Me too. Let's find Pani Samycia. She makes beautiful pysanky. Yurko: But how will we find her? Natalka: The magical key will open the door to her home and her art. Children: Boomchyk, boomchyk, ra, ta, ta Wonderful learning awaits. Tri, lee, lya, lya, foo, foo zooch Appear magical key! Pani Vera Samycia: Welcome children. I'm Vera Samycia. Today I'll teach you how to make pysanky. Please come into my home. In the beginning, I always start with a prayer. Lord God, help me. First we pick out an egg that's white. And what we use are kistky. That is the name of the writing instrument. And we use wax, too. We use dye. What I'm doing now is drawing on the pysanka with a pencil at first. The the wax, you take the kistka, electric or regular and everything you want to stay white you must color it with the wax. Then you place the pysanka in yellow dye, the lightest color first. Then take it out after 20 minutes and again you cover up what should stay yellow with the wax, then you put the pysanka in orange dye. Now, we'll do more. You see this takes a long time to finish. The pysanka sits calmly and relaxes and waits for me to write on her some more. Then we take the pysanka out of the red dye and we dry her. And we write over the red and towards the end we put her in the black dye. Once she's in the black dye the job is nearly completed. Then you must take it and clean it of the wax and put on the varnish. And our pysanka is done, varnished like a beautiful lady. Yurko: Those were beautiful pysanky. Maksym: Pani Samycia must be famous for this art. Yurko: Yes. Famous. Hey! Let's go look at pictures of famous Ukrainians. we need the magical key. Children: Boomchyk, boomchyk, ra, ta, ta Wonderful learning awaits. Tri, lee, lya, lya, foo, foo zooch Appear magical key! Milya: The boys have found an album with pictures of famous Ukrainians. That's Myhailo Hrushevsky, historian and president of Ukraine in 1918. Boomchyk: Myhailo Hrushevsky, historian and past president of Ukraine. Milya: Ooooh. That's hockey great Wayne Gretsky, his grandmother was born in Ukraine. Boomchyk: And this is Wayne Gretsky, his grandmother was born in Ukraine. Milya: And that's movie star, Jack Palance. He was in "City Slickers" and many other Hollywood films. Boomchyk: And that's Jack Palance, a well-known Hollywood actor who's starred in many American movies. Milya: Wow! There are lots of famous Ukrainians. Yurko: Someday, I'm going to be a famous painter. Natalka: I'm going to be a famous scholar. Maybe even a historian like Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Maksym: Yeah, Yeah. I'm planning to be famous when I grow up too. But now, we're just kids. And I want to sing. Song: The children went for a stroll in the forest to pick flowers. The forest is silent. Except for the song of the cuckoo. The forest is silent. Except for the song of the cuckoo. Boomchyk: Hey! Yurko, Maksym, Natalka! Maksym: Boomchyk is calling us. Yurko: I wonder what he's planning to do. Milya: I know what we're going to do next. we're going to match things that belong together. Boomchyk: Look children. Can you figure out the matching pairs? Natalka: School and socks don't match. We learn in school and socks are clothing. But, we need books to study. So school and books match. Boomchyk: Maksym, what goes with shoes? Maksym: Well, not the bun. Buns are for eating and shoes are for wearing on your feet. But first we have to put socks on our feet. Socks and shoes are a pair. Natalka: Good job Maksym. Maksym: Thank you. Yurko: Is it my turn now? Boomchyk: Yes, Yurko. What goes with hamburger. Yurko: I definately wouldn't put toothpaste on my hamburger. Toothpaste goes on a toothbrush. So the hamburger and the bun are a pair. Milya: That was a fun game. Oh, it's dinner time and our adventures are almost over for the day. Maksym: What a day! So many adventures. So much learning. Natalka: Oh yes! Today I learned to count. One, two, three, four, five. Ah! It's fun to count. Six, seven, eight, nine, oh! Ten pares fell on the ground. Yurko: And I'm going to remember the names of all the colors and foods now. As soon as I get home, I'll sit down at the dining room table and paint a picture of everything I see. Song: I'll gather my paint brushes and start painting right away. A yellow melon and lemon, yellow cheese and a pink ham. A yellow melon and lemon, yellow cheese and a pink ham. Purple grapes, brown lettuce, white mashed potatoes and green beans. White mashed potatoes and green beans. Blue cornflowers, red beets, black bread and gray smoke, I've used all of my paints. Maksym: You learned the colors and I learned parts of the body. When I play soccer, I'll kick the ball with my feet and redirect it with my head but I'll never touch it with my hands. Milya: It's been an exciting day. Maksym learned the names of the parts of the body. Yurko now knows all of the colors. Natalka learned to count. And me? I've learned a lot of new words in Ukrainian like train and horse. Natalka: It's time for me to go home. Yurko: And for me. Maksym: And for me, too. Boomchyk: Good bye friends! Children: Good bye Boomchyk! Milya: The children are going home and our adventures in Alphabet Village are over for today. but come back soon and we'll play and sing again.