Episodes

Episode 801: Ruby Sings the Blues & The Camel Dances
A very loud girl learns to sing, and Leona and a camel discover the joy of dancing.

Key word: loud, dance
Target sound: l, d
New vocabulary: concert, dance, jazz singer, hollered, loud, quiet, quieter, saxophonist, shouted, singing, volume, yelled, applause, arabesques, audience, ballet dancer, camel, critic, dancer, desire, grace, movement, pirouettes, practiced, recital, releves

Episode 802: Mole and the Baby Bird & Owen and Mzee
Lionel and Leona find out why some animals aren't meant to be pets, and how some animals develop surprising friendships.

Key word: fly
Target sound: fl
New vocabulary: feelings and emotions (care, cried, feel, dejected, happy, miserable, sad); animal-related (baby bird, cage, die, feed, food, fluttered, fly, flying, grew, help, mole, nest, pet, wild, wind, wings)
Featured vocabulary: crocodile, hippo, tortoise, turtle
New vocabulary: environment and weather (beach, home, nature park, reef, river, storm, water, wave); friendship (best friend, friends)

Episode 803: Stop That Pickle! & Chicks and Salsa
The Lions and a sandwich chase a runaway pickle in the library, and Cleo's "Book and a Meal" show leads to a lively fiesta.

Key word: garden
Target sound: g (hard)
Featured concept: punctuation (exclamation point, question mark, period, contractions)
New vocabulary: food related (almonds, apple, bake shop, brine, deli, doughnut/donut, food, grape juice, hungry, ice cream cone, jar, pickle, pretzel, raisins, sandwich); actions and movement (caught, chase, collided, fast, rolled, shouted, slowest, stop)
New vocabulary: food (aromas, avocados, beans, chilies, chips, cilantro, dice, garden, garlic, guacamole, lemons, ingredients, nachos, onions, salsa, scallions, peppers, limes, slice, spice, tomatoes); descriptive words (enticing, savory, Southwestern, succulent, sumptuous, spicy)

Episode 804: Are You a Snail? & Wonderful Worms
The Information Hen helps some confused creatures determine whether they are snails or slugs, and a missing pet worm leads to an all-out search in the library.

Key word: worms
Target sound: w
Featured vocabulary: afraid, damp, dangerous, eat, egg, eyes, foxes, grow, hardens, hatch, hide, horns, hungry, poisonous, safe, slide, slimy, slowly, slug, small, snail, stalks, thrushes
New vocabulary: burrows, cool, dark, damp, dig, earthworms, fat, garden, roots, soil, squeeze, tunnel, wiggly, wiggling, worm

Episode 805: Stone Soup & Bee-bim Bop!
Lionel and Leona discover that you can make delicious soup from a stone and enjoy a popular Korean meal called Bee-bim bop.

Key word: soup, bop
Target sound: s, b
New vocabulary: delicious, food, pot, salad, salmon, salsa, salt, satisfied, satsumas, sausage, savory, schnitzel, simmering, slurp, soup, soy sauce, succotash, tasty, bubbling, chop, dinner, eggs, flip, hop, hungry, hurry, kitchen, mix, mop, rice, shop, steaming, supper

Episode 806: Bein' with You This Way & How to Be
Farm animals have a lot to teach Lionel and Leona about the power of writing, and the value of helping.

Key word: you
Target sound: y
New vocabulary: descriptive words (blue, brown, curly, different, fabulous, furry, great, large, long, nice, same, shiny, short, small, straight, terrific, thick, thin); the body (arms, eyes, hair, hands, fingers, nose, skin, toes)
Featured vocabulary: animals (bear, dog, monkey, person, snake, spider, turtle); traits (brave, charming, curious, creative, friendly, patient)
New vocabulary: bask, beg, build, catch, copy, creep, dance, eat, fetch, growl, hibernate, hide, move, slither, swing, wait

Episode 807: No One Told the Aardvark & Sea Horse
Leona pretends to be different animals, and tries the sea horse's trick of camouflage in the library.

Key word: fish
Target sound: f
Featured vocabulary: aardvark, animal, boa constrictor, chimpanzee, crab, elephant, fish, horse, kangaroo, plover, raccoon, snails, snake, termites, whale
New vocabulary: chew, crawl, hurry, swallow, pouches, slow, tongue, zoo, babies, camouflage, coral, coral branch, current, eggs, fish, fins, mate, ocean, pouch, reef, sea, seabed, sea horse, slowly, swims, tail, waves

Episode 808: Elephants Can Paint Too! & Jamaica Louise James
If elephants can really paint, can't Leona's stuffed animal Lovey paint too? A young girl's paintings brighten up a subway station, inspiring Leona to decorate the library with her paintings.

Key word: draw
Target sound: aw
High-frequency sight words: I, me, my, they, we
Featured vocabulary: bathe, drink, elephant, grass, leaves, nose, spray, trunk, water
New vocabulary: bright, brush, color, dab, drag, line, paint, painting, paper, picture, spots, strokes, touch, wiggly lines, yellow, awfully, blot, dab, layer, mayor, pad, plaque, saw (various meanings), smear, smidge, squiggle, steep, subway, surprise, token, worry

Episode 809: Trosclair and the Alligator & The Coyote and the Rabbit
A clever boy tricks a hungry alligator, who gives Lionel and his friend Keri a scare, and a hungry coyote gets tricked by a clever rabbit.

Key word: circle
Target sound: c (soft)
High-frequency sight words: he, she, the
Featured vocabulary: alligator, beehive, bees, cousins, hive, honey, oak tree, rice, swamp, uncle,
New vocabulary: bayou, cypress trees, enormous, gumbo, Louisiana, pirogue, sweet, stung, teeth, tree, turtle eggs, cannon, celery, clever, coyote, fragrance, morsel, relative, trapeze

Episode 810: I Don't Want a Birthday Party & Knuffle Bunny
Leona can't understand why Roodles the Clown doesn't want a birthday party, and Theo, Lionel, and Leona don't want to wash their favorite things.

Key word: rooster, bunny
Target sound: r, -y (ending)
High-frequency sight words: and, she, the, up
New vocabulary: birthday party, clown, crying, happy, opposite, ran, rattled, realized, relatives, room, rooster, round, running, surprised, barrel, comfortable, dawn, dusk, removable, wring

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