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Zoom 503, Bibbs Heller, WGBH-TV, Boston. Major funding for Zoom is provided by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by public television stations. Additional support is provided by unrestricted general program grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Ford Foundation. Come on and zoom, there's room for all We're gonna sing and dance and have our ball Everybody's having fun, everybody's number one Everybody's writing the show So why don't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom

Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom I'm Chris I'm Jennifer I'm Ron. I'm Macario. I'm Karen. I'm the bell. I'm Nell. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you We need you So won't you zoom, zoom, zoom, ma-zoom Come on and zoom, ma-zoom, ma-zoom I'm gonna give it a try We're gonna reach for the sky You can help us survive Hey, come on and zoom

Come on and zoom, zoom Come on and zoom Come on and zoom, zoom We're going to have a pillowcase race. It's a game sent in by Karen Whitezo from Whiting, Indiana. She wrote, divide up into two equal teams. Have a starting line and a finish line. Each team gets both a pillow and a pillowcase. Place the pillow at the finish line. At the signal, the first person on each team dashes down to the finish line carrying the pillowcase. He puts the pillowcase on the pillow and then takes it off. Then he runs back and gives the pillowcase to the next person in line. Have fun, good luck, and may the best team win. All right, team. Two by one? Two by one? Are you ready?

No. I'm ready. Go! Go! Come on, Mark! Run, you know. Oh, run, come on. Oh, run. Oh, boy, oh, boy. All right, Karen, that's your name. Oh, my God. Come on, Ron. Take it off. Come on. Take it off. Run back. Go, Karen. Put the bell in the middle. Go, Karen. Come on, come on. Come on, Karen. Come on. Come on. All right, quick. Now, no, I'll have our own thing. Do it. Run. Take it off. Rip it out! Come on! Take it out! Take it out! Come on now! Come on, Chris! Come on, Chris! Come on now, Chris! Come on now, Chris! Go! Come on, Chris! You can do it! All right, Chris! All right! All right, all right now, all right! Oh, my God, she's shaking!

Hurry it up! Shake it! Shake it! Come on! Hurry up! Shake it! All right, come on! Hurry up! Take it off! Take it off! Just throw it all away! You gotta put the pillow on the oven right now! Go! We won! Oh, my God. Skateboarding is getting to be a fad in New York because if you kids buy skateboards then all my friends have skateboards. When you're running a skateboard, falling down is part of skateboarding and this is another one to add to my collection.

I use my skateboard to join races and to get around it. Once they try it, they see how fun it is and how it feels to do it. I saw a lot of kids riding skateboards, and then I said, like, why can't I do it? I know, you never did. That's right. Because you think you're going to lose. It'll be funny if Cecilia beat you, Phillip. A few races, you're against you, and this zooms down past. Usually, we just ride around in our skateboards for fun, but once in a while, there's tournaments in Central Park. Is it really fast?

Yeah, that's what people are doing. You do 40. You never got a funeral? It's so slanty. When you go down, I'll put you set up. I've got a funeral. There's a turn, a sharp turn, if you don't make it. Over the fence, right? I'm sorry, man. All right, guys, let's go. Let's go to the park. You guys ready? Yeah. Are you ready? Yeah. All right, let's go to the park now. okay you guys let's go let's get together now what we want to do is everybody would come over to cecilia and john and sign up we're gonna do the slalom first okay 141. wait a second When you're doing slalom, you gotta be careful of tipping, going too fast, because you might

tip over and hit the buckets, and all the time you hit a bucket, you lose time. On your mark, get set, go! Go! Go! Go! if you fall down don't worry about it don't say oh I can't do it and quit just keep on trying and you'll be able to deal with me soon I like best in skateboarders like when I ride and the hair is like my hair is flying from the wind when I go down a hill it feels like freedom

This is a Zoom bulletin, a view from you that demands to be heard. Today's view comes from Missouri, and here with the story is Karen. Karen? Thank you, Chris. Lisa Tremblin of St. Louis, Missouri, has warning for all kids. She writes, Dear Zoom, My mother always said skateboarding in the city is too dangerous. But I didn't think so until one day, three weeks ago, when I was skateboarding down the sidewalk on our block.

My skateboard hit a lamppost, and I went off the lamppost into the street. I broke my arm, and a car broke the skateboard. So now I'm telling everybody, skateboards and cities don't mix. Skateboards are too dangerous. Back to you, Chris. Thank you, Karen. And that's the way it was with Lisa three weeks ago. What do you think? Write to Zoom, and don't forget your self-addressed stamped envelope. Say the wheels in your mind begin to turn. Ideas in your brain begin to burn. You rhyme up a poem or think up a skit. You whip up a goodie or some other bit. A theme for a rap, riddles or jokes. A dew or a barrel, a song for the folks. Then take your creations firmly in hand and send it to Zoom as soon as you can. To whom?

To Zoom, C-double-O-M-f-three-five-off. Five, six, six, four, two, one, three, four. Send it to Zoom! This is a story sent in by Rabinda Fortin and Linda Chapello, who didn't send their address, the future. It was the year 1999 when tragedy struck. The Earth was crumbling little by little. Scientists predicted in 10 days the Earth would be gone. Each family had a rocket encased an emergency like this to go to Saturn. As each family took off, the Earth crumbled more and more from the force of each rocket. Everyone was safely on Saturn when the Earth blew up. Show picture number one. Oh, wow.

Look at those colors. now that they were all safe it was about time to start rebuilding now Saturn wasn't like earth you could just dream up a building and it would appear after everyone got finished building this is what Saturn looks like show picture number two that's neat chain there were so many buildings popping up all around there was no place to relax so the people built another saturn one saturn for working and one for relaxing and playing this is what the two worlds looked like show picture number three road it was about a mile between the two planets so instead of buses they had rockets going from one place to another the people were kind of glad the earth blew up because they liked saturn much more the people liked saturn very much and here's some proof show

picture number four that's cool i'm gonna get that one and you can bet they all lived happily ever after junior take out the trash oh my watching TV junior take out the trash right now space the final frontier these are the voyages of the starship janitor

her five-minute mission to explore strange new trash cans to seek out new garbage new dumps to boldly throw out what no margin has thrown out before The pig who didn't like mud.

Once upon a time, there lived a pig who didn't like mud. He lived on a farm near a mud pile. Whenever he looked at the pile of mud, he sneezed and coughed. One day, the pig and his family went to the city. He looked at the buildings and said, This is where I belong, in the city. One day, the pig woke up, looked out the window. The city was full of smog. He started to sneeze and wheeze and achoo, sneeze. And then he decided that he liked the mud better than the city. My name is Monee Carton, and I am 12 years old.

My home is New York City, and I spent the summers in the country in Vermont at Indian Brook Camp. I've got peace like a river, peace like a river. I've got peace like a river in my soul. I can't we have morning meaning it's a time when I feel I'm really close to nature and also the people around me in my soul I got joy like a fountain Joy like a fountain I've got joy like a fountain in my soul After morning meeting, we shake hands And when you shake hands with another person You have the feeling that your thoughts

Were mixing with the other person's You have to pass your tip the test in order to go in the canoe by yourself and be safe. It really makes me feel good to learn the things they teach me here because I can go off and do them on my own. And I learned to depend on myself. One, two, three. What we're going to do today is have a blindfold walk. And all the other things we've done so far, we've been exploring our senses, okay? And we've been looking at things and we've been touching things. And this time, what we're going to do is we're going to kind of pretend we're blind, okay? We're going to put everything over our eyes.

And, you know, the blind people have a much greater awareness of things around them because they're missing one sense. And that's what we want you to do. We want you to use your hearing, and we want you to taste and smell. In natural science, we really need to explore. ...and, like, feel how it feels. I mean, get used to feeling things with your feet, because the people who are blindfolded, that's what your eyes are going to be. When you're blindfolded, it's sometimes fun and then sometimes scary. The reason it's scary is because you don't know where you are, you don't know what happens to you. but the reason it's foot also is that you don't depend on your eyes, you depend on the rest of your senses. Where are you going? Ooh. Moss. Oh, it's a... A flower. A pine. No? Ew. Fungus?

All right. That's with an M. M? Mm-hmm. This one looks like fungus. It's kind of fungus. Mushroom. Right. It's kind of like a baby fungus. Sometimes I go off in the woods at camp and just to be by myself and explore. When I first came to camp, I was pretty surprised because it was really a different scenery than in the city. New York City is really a rushy place. People are in a hurry to do a lot of things and you just have to keep up with everything that changes. One of the beautiful things I like about the city is the lights. At night, you see all these big lights, and it looks so beautiful, it looks like a light bright.

It's like you just take all the light bulbs and you stick them into a big board. at times I think camp and city are similar because it's what the people make it the different cultures and the different experiences people had it just makes the camp and all the city a nice place to be I feel close to some of the people here at camp they can be counselors they can be campers they can be black or white I think what makes a camp very interesting is the different people that come into it and when you put those cultures together it makes the camp really special we spend a lot of time at camp maybe taking little walks talking about different personalities or different

night style. It was more exciting and more things to it. One of the best things about camp is my friends because if people are nice they make the place nice. Where do you think you're going to live when you grow up? Are you going to live in the city? Are you going to live near the city? Are you going to live in the country? I don't know but let's see. Here's a poem called Mother Nature. You make water flow, you make trees grow, you bring birth to a farm, so why can't you mow the line? That was good. It was like a riddle. If a farmer raises 12 acres in dry weather, what does he raise in wet? Where the house?

12 acres. Plants. 24. Plants? 24 acres. An umbrella. Sent in by Raylene Fountain, Boone, Colorado. Here's a poem sent in by Tina Knight of Charleston, Indiana. Winter is wind, winter is snows. Winter is when I blow my nose. winter winter is pneumonia and when i tried to phone you your mom says you're practicing a play oh i have a bad cold i say my nose is all runny my feet are so smelly so i stay home from school and eat peanut butter and jelly here's a bridal sent in by diana hute of north chile new york why did humpty dumpty have a great fall he was still fat he sat on the wall Nope. He slipped. Nope. To make up for a rotten summer. This is a poem sent in by Teresa Buccarati, C for New York.

Fall. Red, yellow, green, brown, all the leaves fall over the town. Red, yellow, green, and white, all the birds will be out of sight. That's a good one. That's the colors of the leaves. This is a poem sent to me by Lori Miller of Kakeke, Illinois. Snowball. I had a little snowball. It was round and white. I made it out of paper so I could keep it overnight. Oh, that was a good poem. Great poem. I like that. Here's a poem sent to me by Debbie Sheridan from Oswego, New York. It's called World. Okay. The world is full of funny things, like love, laughter, and wedding rings. Sometimes the world is dull, like a seagull flying all by himself. Other times it goes by smooth and can ease the pain when it rains. The world is good weather, unless we destroy it together.

That's good. I like the last one. Soon it's gonna rain. I can feel it. Soon it's gonna rain! I can tell. Soon it's gonna rain. What are we gonna do? Soon it's gonna rain. I can feel it. Soon it's gonna rain. I can tell. How soon it's gonna rain, what are we gonna do? I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughing at clouds so dark and so gray. The sun's in my heart, it's a beautiful, beautiful day.

Let the stormy clouds chase All the blues from the place Come on with the rain I have a smile on my face I walk down the lane With a hippy-hoppy-hopper refrain I'm singing, just singing in the rain Here comes the sun Here comes the sun And I say It's all right Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun And I say, it's all right Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Sun, sun, sun, here it comes Let the sun shine Let the sun shine in Let the sun shine in Let the sun shine Let the sunshine in the sunshine is ... ...

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from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Ford Foundation. Thank you.