(marker scratching)
(stamp clicking)
- Hello!
It's Mo Willems.
Author, illustrator, and thanker.
Today is May 28th.
It is the final Thursday in May,
and therefore the final Thank You Thursdays.
This is just something that we do in the month of May.
I am so appreciative that you have been here all month
and that you have been thanking, and drawing, and singing,
and all kinds of stuff.
It is pretty exciting stuff for me.
So, let's see who we're going to thank today.
There's so many different types of people that we can thank.
So, let's go to the Thank-O-Rama spinner.
(finger snaps)
Oh, yeah, look at that.
Lots of interesting and good people to thank.
All right, in order to figure out who to thank today
we have to spin the spinner,
and the way to spin the spinner is
when I count down from three you yell
usually spin, but let's do something else today.
You yell...
turnip!
All right, ready?
Three, two, one...
Turnip!
(spinner clicking)
Oh it's going, it's spinning, it's spinning.
It's spinning a little bit more
and now it's stopped and where did it stop?
Wow.
(fingers snapping)
Teachers.
Teachers are amazing!
It has not been easy to be a Teacher this year
and Teachers are reaching out and doing whatever they can.
They are improvising, finding new ways to help teach things.
I am very appreciative of Teachers.
I had a bunch of Teachers
who were really important to me when I was younger,
who got me really excited about history,
and got me excited about writing, and all kinds of things--
even animation!
So, I'm going to make sure that I make a good drawing,
good poster to stick in my window for Teachers.
So again, let's pause if we don't have markers.
Any kind of markers or pencils, it doesn't matter.
And later we have some scissors.
And then also if you don't have it
a big piece of paper, right.
Okay.
I'll go get that.
And play!
Okay, here we go.
Got my big piece of paper.
Let's see, Teachers.
That's that a letter T.
That's a little bit easier maybe.
Last week was Scientists, whew that was tricky.
All right, I'm going to do a big line.
And a big line like that.
That's my letter T.
What should I...
Oop...going to put that back in there. I'm excited.
Well.
Oh, I know what I'm going to do.
I always make my characters birds. There we go.
And this is going to be a special bird
that is a Teacher bird,
and it's reading a book.
Actually, it's reading a book with a Piggie in it.
And it's reading a book with an Elephant in it.
It's really enjoying reading that book.
And it's making big sounds.
It's going wow, like that.
And there's one of its legs,
and there's another of its legs.
And it has a tail.
And let's give it a little bit of a fun chest, like that.
Like a robin or so.
All right.
The Teacher reading one of my books.
And then just in case someone sees this drawing
and they're like
what's that bird-like thing doing
reading Elephant and Piggie?
Why is that happening?
We write:
Thank
You
and this time I left room on the bottom
Teachers.
And that fits just perfectly.
Now, write my name
so people know that I drew that.
You can write your name.
I have this fun little date stamp.
28, yup.
Put the date on it.
And now, who I'm thanking this week. See?
It says, Thank You Teachers.
And it's got my name on it, there.
Yeah?
Would you hold yours up?
Let me take a look at yours real quick.
Oh, yes!
I like the different type of Teachers you've made.
That's pretty great
and you've got it big and you wrote your name on it
so now you can stick it in a window.
And Teachers are easier.
Maybe you can show it to your Teacher
when you have class tomorrow.
Well. Great way to thank a Teacher is to thing...
to sing the thing.
The thank you thing
that I wrote the words to
and my friend and composer Debbie Wicks La Puma
wrote the music to.
Say hi, Debbie.
(fingers snapping)
- Hi everyone!
(fingers snapping)
- So, here we go.
Before I sing the Thank You Song
I think I want to have an instrument.
Well.
Debbie Wicks La Puma helped me with the music
for "Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical."
She did not write the music,
but she helped me make the music better
which is what a Teacher does.
A Teacher doesn't do your work or show you what to do.
A Teacher helps you find a way to do it better.
So we want to make sure
we've got a good instrument for the Teacher.
And I think for my solo I'm going to do a bongo.
Bongo.
And that's pretty fun.
So what we're going to do...
we have our piece of paper real tall like this
and we're going to make a tall, skinny number eight.
That skinny number eight.
It's like a number eight that got stuck in an elevator.
It got smushed a little.
I'll put that there.
Now I put it sideways and then I do like a robot letter U
which is just more rectangular.
Another robot letter U.
It's rectangular.
And as long as I've got some other colors
I can put in a W
and I can put in an M for Mo Willems.
But it still looks like a bongo
and that is my bongo drum.
Now I have scissors. You can...
If you're a good scissorer, I'm not a great scissorer,
if you're a good scissorer you can scissor.
Maybe you need a grown-up to help scissoring
or maybe there's somebody else in your house
who's just a great scissorerer.
You can say hey great scissorerer!
I made a bongo so I can say thank you to Teachers
because that's traditional.
Teachers, they love the bongos.
Little known fact.
And can you help me cut it out?
And then maybe that super cutter can do that, right.
I'm going to take these pieces and put them over here.
I'll save them for later.
Because there's going to be a time that I'll want to doodle.
I have my Mo Willems bongos!
I'm ready for my bongo solo.
Let's get my friend Battery out here
to help me sing the song.
Are you guys ready?
We're going to be thanking Teachers.
- Battery, hi.
- Hi, Battery. Nice to see you.
I'm ready to sing.
All right, here we go.
(happy piano music)
♪ I'll thank you, thank you, Teachers. ♪
♪ I'll thank you for what you do. ♪
♪ I'll thank you, thank you, Teachers ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
♪ I'll thank you, thank you, Teachers. ♪
♪ I'll thank you for what you do. ♪
♪ I'll thank you, thank you, Teachers ♪
♪ by singing this song for you! ♪
Come on, everybody!
Sing!
Thank the Teachers. They're so great!
Thank the Teachers!
Get ready. Bongo solo.
(bongo solo)
Oh yeah!
Excellent!
(clapping)
Great work. Great thanking.
Great bongo-ing.
Thank you for spending this month
having a Thank You Thursday with you has been a lot of fun.
Even when things are tough,
there's always someone or something to be appreciative of.
And right now I am appreciative of you.
Thanks.
Bye-bye.
(bongo solo)
(festive piano 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! ♪