- Hi friends, my name is Darlene Thomas and I am so excited to read the story for you today.

The title of today's book is called "How to Wake Up Piggy".

Written by Pingjoing Xu and illustrated by Ying Huang.

After the story, I'll show you how you can pretend that you're helping the author to write another page in the story and act at a scene.

So if you're ready, let's get started.

"Piggy has fallen asleep.

"He has sound asleep, snoring loudly.

"Snoring and snoring.

"The loud snorers wake up all his little friends.

"The little puppy brings a bell and shakes it.

"Tinkle, tinkle.

"The little bunnies grab their gongs and bang them.

"Clang, clang.

"The little hedgehogs hold their horns and blow them.

"Hoot, hoot, hoot.

"The little moles dance and beat their drums.

"Rub-a-dub, rub-a-dub."

"The little frogs open their mouths and croak."

"Ribbit, ribbit.

"Rub-a-dub, rub-a-dub.

"Hoot, hoot, hoot.

"Clang, clang.

"Tinkle, tinkle.

"Ribbit, ribbit.

"But Piggy keeps snoring and snoring.

"How will his friends wake him up?

"Just then, the little ladybug flies over.

"She whispers something into Piggy's ear.

"Dinner is ready.

"Piggy turns over and rubs his belly.

"Is dinner ready?

"So if Piggy falls asleep again "and snores and snores and snores... "how will you wake him up?"

Wow, all of the characters in the book tried so hard to wake Piggy up, but it wasn't easy.

They were trying to get him to use one of his five senses.

Do you know what our five senses are?

Let's go over them together.

We use our eyes for our sense of sight, our nose for our sense of smell, our tongue for our sense of taste, our ears for our sense of hearing, and our hands for our sense of touch.

What sense do you think the characters were trying to get Piggy to use?

Did you say his sense of hearing?

You're correct.

Now at the end of the story, the author asks how would you wake Piggy up?

I'm going show you how you could pretend play being Piggy or someone trying to wake him up and see if you can get him to use his sense of hearing.

Before I get started showing you how you can act out a scene from the story, you can choose to either act out being the snoring Piggy by using your body, or you can create a stick puppet.

And I'll quickly show you how.

All you'll need to create your Piggy puppet is a sheet of drawing paper, a crayon or marker.

In my case, I'm using a marker.

And you'll need to just cut out two circles for his body and two triangles for his ears.

I'm gonna use the cover of my tin.

And make one large circle.

And another circle for his body.

[chill music] Here we go.

You can get a trusted adult to also help you.

Next I'm gonna just make two triangles for his ears.

And we know that pigs have two ears.

I'm gonna draw one and two.

Next I'm going to get a crayon and I'm going to color them in.

Okay, friends, I'm all done coloring in my two circles and two triangles.

It's okay if you go outside the lights a little bit because either you or a trusted adult is going to cut them out.

I'm going to tape these together and add some details like two eyes and nose and a mouth, and I'll be back to show you my Piggy puppet.

I am all done.

I cut out the two large circles for the Piggy's body and the two triangles for his ears.

And then when I was all done, I added some details and taped it to a colored pencil for my stick puppet.

You can do the same at home.

Now if you're playing the character that's trying to wake up Piggy, you're going to have to get a little creative about what items you're going to use to make a lot of noise.

Let's see which items I found around my house that I'm going to use to wake up Piggy.

I gathered some items around the house that I thought would make some noise, so that Piggy can hear it and wake up.

I found these two metal hangers and when you bang them together, they make a chiming noise.

I wonder if that can wake Piggy up.

I also found a tin of some beads that I use in a crafts.

And when I shake it... [beads rattling] It sounds like maracas.

I wonder if that would wake Piggy up.

Well, now I'm gonna show you how I would pretend that I was helping the author to write another page in the story.

Listen carefully, because you are gonna get a turn to try it.

Ms. Darlene grabs two hangers and bangs them.

[hangers clanging] But Piggy kept on snoring and snoring.

Ms. Darlene grabbed a tin of beads and shook them.

[beads rattling] But Piggy kept on snoring and snoring.

Did you get it?

Did you wanna try?

Now it's your turn.

You can find some items around the house or you can use parts of your body to make noise.

What parts of the body would you try?

You can clap your hands.

[hands clapping] You can scream with your voice.

Ah!

Or you can whisper like the ladybug in the story.

Whatever you try, have fun doing it.

Grab a friend, a family member, or trusted adult and take turns pretending to be Piggy or someone trying to wake up Piggy.

Use your body or find items around the house that make noise and have fun using your sense of hearing.

Enjoy, goodbye.