03x03 - The Dragon Dance / Teacher Harriet's Birthday

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03x03 - The Dragon Dance / Teacher Harriet's Birthday

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- Hi, neighbor! At school today,
we're going to work together
to make a...

dancing dragon! And then,
I need your help to make a...

birthday surprise
for Teacher Harriet!

I'll be right back!

♪♪ It's a beautiful day
in the neighborhood ♪

♪ A beautiful day
for a neighbor ♪

♪ Would you be mine?
Could you be mine? ♪

♪ Won't you be my neighbor? ♪

- ♪ It's Daniel Tiger's
Neighborhood ♪

♪ A land of make-believe ♪

♪ Won't you ride
along with me? ♪

- ♪ Ride along ♪

- ♪ It's Daniel Tiger's
Neighborhood ♪

♪ So much to do,
so much to see ♪

♪ Won't you ride
along with me? ♪

- ♪ Ride along ♪

- ♪ I've got lots of friends
for you to meet ♪

♪ In this Land of Make-Believe ♪

♪ A friendly face
on every street ♪

♪ Just waiting to greet you ♪
♪ It's a beautiful day
in the neighborhood ♪

♪ A beautiful day
for a neighbor ♪

♪ In Daniel Tiger's
Neighborhood ♪♪

- Hi, neighbor!
It's me, Daniel Tiger.

Like my picture? It's me!

And I'm at school!

Come with me to the art area.

♪ Doo doo doo doo doo ♪
Hello, Prince Wednesday!

- Hello, hello,
Daniel Tiger!

And a royal hello
to you, neighbor!

- Come to the rug
for circle time.

- Oh, here I come!
- Ooh, here I come!

(laughing)

- Wow! Look at all
of this art stuff!

Ribbons, and feathers...

- Hoo-hoo-hoo!
- ...and stickers too!

- We're going to make
a special art project.

- A special art project?
Grr-ific!

- We're going to use all
of these art materials
to make...

a dancing dragon!
- (Daniel): A dragon!

- (O): Nifty-galifty!
- (Katerina): Wowza!

- But... but, Teacher Harriet,
that dragon's so big!

- We are going to work together
to make a BIG dragon!

♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- We're going to make a big
dragon by doing it together!

- Everyone will get a part
of the dragon to decorate.
You can use...

crayons, ribbons,
or these colorful shapes!

- Oooh!

- Then we'll put all the pieces
together to make our big dragon.

- Ohhhh.
- Woooow!
- Royally grand!

- So, Daniel, will you work
on the dragon's head?
- OK.

I'm the dragon's head!

- Who wants to make the body?
- Me, me, me!

I would love love love love love
love LOVE to do the body!

- OK, Miss Elaina, here you go.

- Whoa. That is one
looooooong body!

- O, will you please work
on the dragon arms?

- Oh, boy, hoo-hoo!
Owls are excellent

with wings. I mean arms.

- And, Prince Wednesday,
will you do the legs?

- Legs! So our dragon can stomp!
Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp!

- Oh, oh, can I do
the ribbon tail, meow-meow?

- Why, sure, Katerina.
Here you go, tail and ribbons.

- Weeeeee. Pret-ty!

- OK, everyone!
Let's get to work!

- Woo-hoo!
- ♪ La la la la, doo doo dooo ♪

- Royally great!

- Katerina, can you pass me
the purple crayon, please?

And the yellow, and green,
and blue, and red, and brown!

- That's a lot of colors!

- What can I say?
I LOVE colors, toots.

- Weee!

- ♪ Triangles, triangles,
in a row ♪

Hoo-hoo-hoo.

- Hmm, legs have sparkly,
scaly feet!

STOMP! STOMP!
STOMP! Ha! Ha!

- I have to put on
the dragon's eyes,

and the dragon's nose,
and the dragon's mouth!

And I want
to decorate the dragon
with these colored stickers.

Will you help me make eyes?

Hmm, where are two big
white circles?

There they are!

Oooh! Sticky stickers!

One eye, and... two eyes!

Where are two small
black circles?

There they are!

OK, let's give the dragon stars.

Hmm, where are two stars
that I can use?

There are the two stars!

Oooh! Let's use
the small triangles
for the dragon's teeth.

So, will you help me find
the small triangles?
Where are they?

Oh, here they are!

Now you have
a big mouth, dragon.

Ha! Ha! So you can ROAR! Ha! Ha!

- Look how pretty!

All done, Teacher Harriet!
- Me too!

- Me three!
- Me four!
- Great job, everyone!

Now let's put
our dragon together!

- Yeah!
- Yeah, yeah, yeah!

- Not me! I'm not ready yet!

Let's add lots and lots of dots
to the dragon's head!

- Can we make
our dragon dance now?

♪ Doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo ♪

- ♪ Dance-y dance-y dance-y,
stomp stomp stomp! ♪

- Yes, but first we have to work
together to make the dragon.

So, let's see.

We have the body,

and the arms, and the legs,
and the tail with ribbons.

- Almost time
to make the dragon dance!

- Almost there, almost time.
♪ Dance-y dance-y, stomp
stomp stomp! ♪

- So much fun!

- Huh?
- Hey.

- Hoo-hoo! The dragon...
has no head!

- (children): Uh-oh.

- We... we can't have
a no-headed dragon!
Hoo-hoo, no!

(Daniel humming)

- Daniel Tiger!
- Yeah?

- We need your part,
Daniel, meow-meow.

- A dragon needs, needs,
needs a head!

- Daniel is still working
on the head, class.

- I have SO much more to do!
- You do?

- Yes! I want to put
on these red dots,

and these yellow dots,
and these green dots,
and these blue dots.

- Whoa, that's a lot a lot
a lot of dots, toots!

- I know.
- Daniel, if you can't
finish the dragon head alone,

perhaps you could work together
with your friends to finish it.

- Hmm... OK.
Will you all help me?

- Yes, meow-meow.

- I'll do the blue dots.
- I'll do the red dots.

- I'll do
the green dots.

- I'll do
the yellow dots, toots.

- That's the spirit!

- (all): ♪ If you can't do it
alone, work together ♪

♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- Done! And look at all
the dots! Thanks, friends.

OK, Mr. Dragon,
here's your head!

We did it!
We all worked together,
and now the dragon is done!

Now we can make our dragon
DANCE!

- Here I come,
the dancing dragon.

Dance-y, dance-y,
stomp, stomp, stomp! Ta-da!

- Hey, wouldn't it be grr-ific
if our dragon could dance
and sing by itself?

Want to make believe with me?

Let's make believe
we meet a dancing dragon!

♪♪♪

- ♪♪ Hello, I'm dancing dragon ♪

♪ I come from far away ♪

♪ Let's all do the dragon dance,
I'll show you the way ♪

♪ First we clap like this ♪

♪ Then wiggle back and forth
with me ♪

♪ Then we stomp
our dragon feet ♪

♪ And again we clap ♪

♪ And wiggle if you please ♪

♪ And stomp your dragon feet ♪

♪ Now that you know
the dragon way ♪

♪ You can dance the day away ♪♪

- Wasn't that grr-ific?

- Now let's glue the head
to the rest of the dragon.

- OK!
- Hoo-hoo!

- Yeah!
- OK, everyone,

lets lift up our dragon.
- I can do it by myself.

(grunting with effort)
Wh-Whoa! Wa... Whoa!

Ha, ha, ha.
I guess I can't do this
by myself. Hey, anyone?

- Don't worry, toots.
We know what to do

if you can't lift that dragon
by yourself: work together!

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- OK, on the count of three,
we'll lift it up together!

- Count with us!

- (all): One, two, three!

- It worked!

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- And now, let's make
the dragon dance!

- You can dance with us!

(laughing)

- Stomp, stomp, stomp!
- Stomp, stomp, stomp!

- ♪ Dragon, dancing dragon,
oh yeah ♪

- Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!

- ♪♪ Doo doo doo doo doo ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ Let's get together everyone
and lend a helping hand ♪
- ♪ OK! ♪

- ♪ Let's paint this fence,
you you you and you ♪

♪ Grab your brush
and make it blue ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ I could make this fort
all by myself ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

- ♪ And that would be
just fine ♪

- ♪ Just fine! ♪
- ♪ But if we work
together a little bit ♪

- ♪ We'll all play
and have a great time ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ Yeah! ♪
- ♪ Yeah! Woo! ♪

♪ Work together, work together ♪

- ♪ Doo doo doo ♪♪

- And now, let's have
a dancing dragon parade!

- (children): Hooray!

- It's a royally dancing dragon!
(children laughing)

It's a royally dancing dragon!
- It's so pretty!

- It's.. a...
royally dancing dragon!
- Make way for our dragon!

- A royally dancing dragon!
- Look, look at our dragon!

- Yay, yay, yay, yay!

- Look! Look at our dragon!

- Ha! Ha! Have you ever worked
together with someone?

What did you do?

It's was fun working together
today--with you!

Ugga-mugga.

- Hi, my name is Owen, and today

me and my friends are
building a fort.

- I'll cover the whole thing
like this.

And I know how
to make a great fort.

- OK, it's going to be
right here.

You get that side
and I'll get this side.

We just need that to be,
like, our roof of it.

- We could have
a jumpy house too!
- Yeah!

- Hey, Misty,
can you help me?

Let me move my flashlight
so that you can put that there.

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone ♪
- It's a swimming pool!

- Yeah!

- How about we have
a haunted alley?

- Yeah! Let's do that!

- You can go inside.
I'll be out here.

- How about we could have
a drawbridge?

(laughing)

- Here's a gate.
- Oh, yeah! A gate!

Put it right here.

- That way nothing will
run away if we have a gate.

- This is our gate.

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

(laughing)

- I need some help a little bit.
- I'll help you if you want.

- Ow.
- Sorry.
- It's OK.

- So, we're just going
to close the gate

and I'm going
to sleep here.

- Goodnight, guys!
- Goodnight.

Our friends made it really fun
to build a fort.

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

♪ It's better
to work together ♪♪

- Hi, neighbor! Are you ready
to come to school with me?

- Hello, neighbor!
OK, it's time to go.

Ready?
- Yeah!

- In you go.

- Hi, Trolley! Please take us
to school.

(Trolley dings.)

Today is Teacher Harriet's
birthday!

And we're going to surprise her
with a party.

See all our party stuff?
- We packed

streamers and birthday blowers.
- Like this birthday blower!

(honk!)

And Mom is going to help us
surprise Teacher Harriet.

- ♪ We're on our way to school
to surprise Teacher Harriet ♪

♪ Won't you ride
along with me? ♪
- ♪ Ride along ♪

- ♪ Won't you ride along
with me? ♪

(Trolley dings.)
- Thanks, Trolley.

Don't worry, Mom. I'll make sure
Teacher Harriet doesn't see
the birthday bag.

Grr. Shh! Let's go inside.
- In you go.

- Hi, Teacher Harriet!
- Hello!

- Happy Birthday,
Teacher Harriet!

- Why, thank you, Daniel.

- Hello, Teacher Harriet,
and happy birthday to you!

- Oh, thank you.

- Hi, friends!
- Hiya, toots!

- Meow-meow!
- Hi, Daniel.

- It's Teacher Harriet's
birthday today!

- ♪ Birthday birthday birthday,
birthday birthday birthday ♪

- Yeah!
- Shh!

- Look! My mom's here to help us
surprise Teacher Harriet!

(Elaina laughing)
- Surprise!
- Shh!

But not yet, Miss Elaina!

- I know. I was just practicing.
- Class,

I have a little work to do
in our school garden,

but Daniel's mom is gonna stay
with you. Be back soon.
(children laughing)

- ♪ Birthday birthday birthday,
birthday birthday birth-- ♪

- Shh!
- OK, let's get our...

(whispering): ...surprise ready
for Teacher Harriet.

I have streamers
to decorate the classroom.

- Meow-meow,
so many colors!

Like a rainbow,
meow-meow!

- Teacher Harriet loves
rainbows! Can we make her
a rainbow with streamers?

- I think that's a lovely idea.

- Good idea, toots!
Everyone, let's make a rainbow!

- Hoo-hoo! I'll take the red.
- Orange, please!

- I want yellow, please,
meow-meow!

- Green for me!
- Blue, blue, blue!
- I'll make a rainbow over here!

Weee! Meow-meow!

- Watch where you twirl,
Katerina.

- Hoo-hoo! Rainbow up!

Hoo-hoo? Rainbow down. Hoo-hoo.

Rainbow up! Hoo-hoo?
Rainbow down. Hoo-hoo.

- Orange rainbow?
Grr! No rainbow!

- Blue, blue, blue, blue!
- Green, green, green!

- Be careful, everyone.

- Mom! Grr! I can't make
a rainbow with only one color.

- Neither can I.
- Hoo-hoo.

- Neither can I.

- And... I-I think
I'm stuck.

Meow-meow.

- Aw, let me help you, toots.
- Twirl!

- Our streamers don't look
like a rainbow.

- We need all the colors
TOGETHER to make a rainbow
for Teacher Harriet's birthday.

See? Together. Hoo-hoo!

- Well, if you want
all the rainbow colors together,

you need to work together.

♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- Let's work together
to make a rainbow.

- But we have to do it before
Teacher Harriet gets back
to surprise her! Hoo-hoo.

(Elaina laughing)
- Surprise!

- Ha! Ha! Not yet, Miss Elaina.
- I know. I was just practicing.

- OK, kids, let's get
these colors in rainbow order!

- OK!
- OK!

- The first color
in the rainbow is... red.

- Who has the red streamers?

- Red! Red! That's me! Hoo-hoo!

- OK, next comes orange.

- Hmm, who has the orange?

Oh! Me!

Orange! Grr!

- Now we need yellow.

- Who has the yellow?

- Yellow, meow-meow!

- Here's the green!

- And blue too!

- OK! Now,
walk together!

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- It looks like a rainbow,
meow-meow!

- It sure does, toots!
- Hoo-hoo, all in rainbow order!

- OK, now, everyone hold your
streamer up so I can tape it.

- Hoo-hoo!
- O, I love this.

(O laughs.)
- Here you go!

- Oh, yes!
- Wow!

- Look at that!
Oh, my!

- That's awesome!

- OK, I got it.

And purple. Done!

There! Rainbow streamers!

- Yay!
- Nifty-galifty!

- Wow! We made
a grr-ific rainbow!

Rainbows have so many colors.

What's your favorite color?

I like everything
about rainbows.

Hey, do you want to make believe
with me?

Let's make believe...
that we're in a rainbow world!

♪♪ I'll slide on this rainbow
up to the top ♪

♪ Then slide right down
and never stop ♪

♪ Red, orange, yellow,
green, and blue ♪

♪ And don't forget purple too ♪

♪ I'll swing this rainbow
side to side ♪

♪ Then swing this rainbow
far and wide ♪

- ♪ Red, orange, yellow,
green, and blue ♪

♪ And don't forget purple too ♪

♪ I'll bounce on this rainbow
up and down ♪

♪ And bounce everywhere
in this rainbow town ♪

♪ Yeah! ♪♪

Wasn't that grr-ific?

Let's work together
to keep decorating for
Teacher Harriet's birthday!

- OK!
- This is fun!

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- Nice working together!
Now, do you want

to make birthday presents
out of clay for Teacher Harriet?

- Yes! I'll use the orange clay.
- Blue for me!

- I'll make something
with yellow clay!

- I will use
a royally green clay!

- I'll use the red, meow-meow.
- I'm making a snake-y snake.

- Mine's a... ball.

Splat ball! Ha! Ha!

- Hmm. I'm going to make...
a cake for Teacher Harriet!

- Meow-meow, good idea.
I'm going to make a cake too!

- Hoo-hoo, good idea.
- Grr-ific! I have an idea!

Why don't we make one...
big... rainbow cake

for Teacher Harriet?!
- Meow-meow,

but I only have the red clay,
meow-meow.

I can't make a rainbow cake
with just one color.

- Hmm.
(Daniel gasps.)

I know! We can work together
like we did with the streamers.

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- That's a good idea.

- I'll put my red
for the bottom. Mmm!

- Now orange.

- Here's the yellow clay.

- Green.
- And blu-u-ue!

- Grr-ific!
- It's purr-fect!

- Lookin' good!
- Neat-o!

- Rainbow-licious!
- We did it!

We worked together
to make the rainbow cake!

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- Hoo!
- Great job, guys!

♪♪♪

- ♪♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ When trying to make a cake
or decorate a room ♪

- ♪ Making a fort
or a fun costume ♪

- ♪ It's so much better
when your friends help you ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ Lifting something heavy can
be hard to do alone ♪

- ♪ But you're much stronger
with your friends than
on your own ♪

- ♪ They are there for you
when you need some help ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪♪

- (Teacher): ♪ Doo doo doo ♪
- Do you hear that singing?

I think it's Teacher Harriet!
Teacher Harriet is coming!
We have to hide!

- Here she comes!
- Hide, hide! Go, Katerina!

- Here comes teacher Harriet!
- Shh!

- (whispering): Help us surprise
Teacher Harriet.

When you see her come in,
say, "Surprise!" Ready?

- My goodness!

- Surprise! Happy birthday!

- Surprise! For real!

- Oh, wow!
I am so surprised!

Look at that beautiful rainbow.
I just love rainbows.

- We worked together
to make that rainbow, hoo-hoo!

- Meow-meow and we made you
a present too, meow-meow.

- Oh, my! A rainbow cake?
Out of clay?

Did you all make this?
- We did!

- We worked together!

- What a wonderful present.

Thank you for making
my birthday so special.

- Happy birthday,
Teacher Harriet!

What's a birthday cake
without a candle?

- And now we are going
to sing!

- ♪ Happy grr-ific birthday ♪
- ♪ To Teacher Harriet ♪

♪ Happy happy birthday to you ♪

- Make a rainbow wish.
- Thank you!

- Have you ever worked together
to make something?

What did you make?

We worked together
and made a rainbow
and a cake out of clay!

Teacher Harriet was surprised!
Ugga-mugga!

- ♪♪ It's such a good feeling
to play with family
and friends ♪

♪ It's such a happy feeling
when they lend you a hand ♪

♪ You wake up ready to say ♪
- Hi!

- ♪ "I think I'll make
a snappy new day" ♪

♪ It's such a good feeling ♪

♪ A very good feeling,
a feeling you know ♪

- ♪ That I'll be back ♪

♪ When the day is new ♪

♪ And I'll have more ideas
for you ♪

♪ And you'll have things
you'll want to talk about ♪

♪ I will too ♪♪

Because it's you I like.

(large crowd cheering)

- ♪♪ One, two, three, four! ♪

♪♪♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ When trying to make a cake
or decorate a room ♪

♪ Making a fort
or a fun costume ♪

♪ It's so much better
when your friends help you ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ Lifting something heavy can
be hard to do alone ♪

- But you're much stronger with
your friends than on your own ♪

- ♪ They are there for you
when you need some help ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪

- ♪ If you can't do it alone,
work together ♪

- ♪ It's better
to work together ♪♪

(large crowd cheering)
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