(marker scratch)
- Hi, it's Mo Willems here on our third Thank You Thursday,
on the third Thursday in May, having another Thank-O-Rama.
I am an author, and an illustrator,
and I'm also a thanker.
I like to thank people and things
for making my life easier and better,
even when it's kind of difficult.
Like, I'm really thankful today that I have this table,
and I have these pens, because I get to make drawings,
and you know sometimes when I'm having a hard day,
it's really great just to be by myself
with my pens and just make some drawings.
So, today we're going to say a very special thanks
to a very special group of people.
I don't know who it's going to be.
So, let's go
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to the Thank-O-Rama spinner.
Yep, there it is.
Look at all those different people we can thank.
Now it's time to spin the spinner.
Remember I need your help to spin the spinner.
And when I say three when I say three, two, one,
you're going to yell, spin!
Ready, here we go, three, two, one, spin!
Wow, look at that spinner, it's spinning,
it's spinning, it's spinning, it's spinning, and it stopped.
Oh, look where it stopped...
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Scientists.
Boy, I am really appreciative
of all the work that Scientists are doing
to try and find ways to make people healthier,
but also to find ways for us to behave,
so that we don't make more people sick.
The Scientists have been working every single day,
really, really hard and I think it's time
for us to thank them with a big thank you poster.
So, oh before we, we're going to press pause,
because we're going to do a couple drawings,
make sure you have some big paper,
and some pens, or crayons, or pencils.
It doesn't matter what kind, any crayon,
any marker, it's all good, okay, you got it?
Oh and maybe some scissors later,
and maybe someone to be a scissor
helper, cutter person, yeah, okay.
Play, all right.
As I was saying, I want to make a poster for Scientists
to thank them for all the things that they do.
This is pretty big piece of paper,
I can put this in my window. Scientists.
Whew. S.
That's a tricky thing to make a thank you drawing out of.
And I want to draw some Scientists.
Let me see, what am I going to do?
Oh, I have an idea. I like to make my Scientists,
my characters, birds. This is going to be a scientist bird.
And on one wing
it's holding up a test tube,
testing a formula, bubbles are coming up.
And on the other,
it's on a birdie computer.
There's the monitor down there,
and it's doing some scientific research.
Oh, that's a pretty good bird,
sitting there, little bird legs, bird feet.
There we go, that is our Scientist.
Make sure that people understand
what that S with the bird is,
so I'm going to write it. Be very explicit.
Thank
you
Scientists.
I had to put it up here because
I didn't have space down there. Thank you Scientists.
Let me write my name.
So people know that I did it, you can write your names,
so people know that you've made yours.
Let's see, I got my date stamp.
There it is, May 21.
Look at mine, ha?
That's an S, but it's really a scientist bird
that says thank you Scientists. That's what it does, ha?
Can I see yours? Why don't you hold yours up?
Oh, yeah. Oh, I like that.
I like how some of you did something similar.
And some of you just did something totally different.
That's both really, really cool.
Well, I'll save that and I'll stick that up on my window.
You know that I'm a thanker.
But the question is, am I a singer?
No, I'm not a very good singer.
But I'm going to sing anyway because I am so thankful
that I'm willing to sing poorly.
We're going to do a song that is written by my composer
and friend Debbie Wicks La Puma. Say hi, Debbie.
(snap)
- Hey, good to se ya.
(snap)
- And Debbie wrote the music to this song.
Also wrote the music to
"Elephant & Piggie's We Are in a Play!"
Which is a musical that we wrote about Elephant and Piggie.
All right, before we sing our song,
let's think of a good instrument that I can play at the end.
A little solo, oh, and if I think about Elephant and Piggie,
there's a book called "Listen to My Trumpet."
Let's make a trumpet.
Trumpet is just a bunch of shapes and letters
put together in the right order.
So, I have my piece of paper sideways, like this.
Let's see what I got. I'm going to start with a really
squished out letter O, like that on this end of the paper.
And then, I'm going to make kind of like two lines,
kind of like a letter V, there.
Troooop. Roooop.
Two lines like that, and kind of of a squishy letter U.
Oh, letter U. Oh, I'm going to make another one,
smaller squishy letter U.
Now I talk about myself three times,
I. I. I. And they're lower case I's.
All right. And the letter O,
and maybe another little O in there. Look at that.
That kind of looks like a trumpet.
All right. Grabbing my scissors,
and I'm not a very good cutter-utter-er,
but that's okay, I'm just going to do a quick one.
You don't have to cut it out. Or, you can it out real quick.
Or, you can press pause and take your time.
Or, you can ask an official cutter in your family,
maybe there's somebody where you're staying right now,
who's really good at cutting things.
Say hey, I drew this trumpet,
let's do some cutting.
All right, so this is going to be for my solo.
I'm going to put these pieces of paper here,
because I may need them later.
The other week, I had some scratch paper,
and I turned it into this sign that says singer.
Not a singer.
All right. Here we go, I've got my trumpet.
And I've got my friend, Battery,
who's going to help me sing. All right, are you ready?
- [Battery] Battery hi.
- Hi, Battery. All right.
Let's do this all together and thank some Scientists.
(piano music)
♪ I'll thank you, thank you, Scientists. ♪
♪ I'll thank you for what you do. ♪
♪ I'll thank you, thank you, Scientists. ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
♪ Now, low. ♪
♪ I'll thank you, thank you, Scientists. ♪
♪ I'll thank you for what you do, I will. ♪
♪ I'll thank you, thank you, Scientists ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
♪ Come on, everybody! ♪
♪Thank the Scientists! ♪
♪ Thank them for what they do! ♪
♪ Thank the Scientists! ♪
♪ Thank them... you! ♪
♪ A little trumpet. ♪
(trumpet solo)
(music stops)
There we go, thank you for thanking Scientists.
And we'll see you next week
on the fourth Thank You Thursday.
It's Mo Willems saying bye-bye.
(upbeat music)
♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪
♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪
♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪
♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪
♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this. ♪
♪ We'll thank you for all you do. ♪
♪ We'll thank you all who made this ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪