01x03 - Angelina's Gift for Ms. Mimi/Angelina's Oldest Friend

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- ♪ She's a dancing star

♪ She loves to twirl all day

♪ She's gonna go far

♪ That's the angelina way

♪ Follow your dreams wherever they take you ♪

♪ You can succeed

♪ Don't let anything shake you ♪

♪ Angelina

♪ Ballerina

♪ The little star with big dreams ♪

♪ Angelina

♪ Ballerina

♪ La, la, la-la

♪ La, la, la-la

♪ La, la, la-la

- I'm angelina ballerina.

I'm making a very important list

While my sister polly is pretending to go to school,

Just like me.

- Look, mum.

I'm angelina,

And this is my pretend book bag.

- That's nice, polly.

Oops.

I mean, angelina.

- Mum, do you have some paper and a pencil?

- Here, use these.

- Thanks, polly.

- You mean, "thank you, angelina."

[Doorbell rings]

I'll get it. I'll get it.

- What's all the excitement about?

- It's ms. Mimi's birthday, dad.

Both: hi, polly.

- Come on in.

- Ms. Mimi's at school grading papers on saturdays,

Isn't she?

- Mm-hmm, until : ,

And then she walks right past the lunchtime theater.

That's where the surprise will be.

- Hurry, everybody's here.

Both: hello, mrs. Mouseling.

- Hi.

Both: hello, children.

- Now I will be polly again.

- Oh, good.

I missed polly.

- But this is still my pretend book bag.

- Lovely.

Would you mind taking some muffins

In to angelina's friends, please?

- [Giggles]

Your muffins are so yummy.

- I made a list of what we need for the party.

- Does your list say we need a present?

- Of course.

- If we put all our money together,

We can buy something really, really nice.

- Uh, is it okay if I stay here

While you go shopping?

I'm composing a song.

- Pom-cosing?

- [Chuckles] composing.

Creating a song.

I'm writing the music.

[Soft guitar music]

♪

- I like it.

- Thanks, but it's only the beginning.

I still need to write the lyrics.

- Lyrir-ir-rics?

- Lyrics are the words to a song,

Like icing on a cake.

- [Gasps] speaking of cakes,

Did you put birthday cake on the list?

- Of course.

Mum said she'll bake one.

[Cheering]

- Whee! Yeah!

Marco, don't you want to jump up and down

And make squeaky noises too?

- Thanks. I'll pass.

- Okay, maybe we can help you

After we get ms. Mimi her present.

- I can contribute.

- Thanks, marco.

Bye, mum.

- Be careful, girls. It's a very blustery day.

- Oh, I hope those incredible slippers

I saw at twinkle toes are still there.

- Oh, they're so amazing.

- Ms. Mimi's going to love them.

- She sure will.

- [Gasps]

This is the most wonderful present ever.

Thank you.

- It was angelina's idea.

All: angelina! Angelina! Angelina! Angelina!

- Angelina.

- Huh? What?

- The lady in twinkle toes

Said the slippers are made of satin

And somebody sewed them by hand,

But we don't have enough money.

- But we need to get ms. Mimi a great present

To show her how much we love her.

- We need a present,

And we don't have much time left.

- Oh, wait!

Those ballet slippers were made by hand.

- And all of us have hands.

- We would just need some satin.

- Oh, mum has satin in her sewing basket.

All: we can make the slippers ourselves.

Yay!

- [Whistling]

- Isn't that marco's song?

- It is.

It keeps popping into my head too.

[Giggling]

- Mum, where's the thread and ribbons?

- In the sewing cupboard.

- And how long before ms. Mimi's party?

- An hour and a half.

- Oh, yes.

[Giggling]

[Soft guitar strumming]

- I love your song, marco.

You're a wonderful composer.

- Oh, thanks, mrs. Mouseling.

- Um, maybe we should make a tutu instead?

Both: a tutu?

- Angelina, I forgot.

Mum wanted you to know, the cake's all done.

- Ms. Mimi's cake.

- Oh, I hope it's really big.

- Well, it's pretty,

But I think it needs to be bigger.

- A lot bigger.

- We need a humongous cake

To go with our special birthday present.

- Vici, help me make more cake.

- I'll help! I'll help!

- You can help me make the tutu.

- I can?

Whoa!

- Add some more muffins.

Smush them in.

Can you please put a few more muffins in, vici?

Thanks.

And we'll need a lot of icing.

- Coming up.

- [Laughs]

- Ha. Hey.

The scissors kind of got out of control.

- [Gasps]

Uh-oh.

[Gasps]

- Oopsie.

- Ah.

- [Gasps]

Oh!

Oooh.

- Well, at least the slippers and the tutu will be nice.

- Whoa.

- Oh, no.

What happened to the cake?

- What happened to the slipper?

- We cut it by mistake.

- Oh.

What about the tutu?

- Uh, it came out even worse.

- Uh-oh.

And we have to leave for the party in ten minutes.

- Um, I'll try and fix the slipper.

- I can help with the cake.

- I can lick the spoon.

- And we can do dance to my song while we work, polly.

[Whistling]

♪

- ♪ We love you

♪ Yes, we do

♪ Oh, we love you

- Huh. Wow, angelina.

Those lyrics are great for the song I'm composing.

- Somehow your music reminded me of ms. Mimi.

[Gasps]

Uh-oh. Ms. Mimi.

There's still so much to do.

Cake, gifts, decorations--

We've go to put up balloons.

- There isn't even one balloon,

Not anywhere in this whole school.

- Well, I think we did a pretty good job

Using daisies as decorations.

- Ms. Mimi does like flowers.

- [Gasps] look.

The cake is here.

- Whoa.

Whoa.

Ooh.

Oh!

Whoa!

Ugh.

Ah.

- Angelina!

Angelina, I ran out of fabric to fix the slipper,

And now we don't even have a present.

[Both gasp]

- Uh-oh.

Ahh...

[Sneezes]

Oh, no.

[Groans]

All: [gasp]

- Uh-oh.

[Wind blows]

- No gift,

No decorations,

No cake.

Not a very good birthday party.

[Sniffles]

We can't have a birthday party without a cake.

- We could use my muffin as a cake.

- Thanks, polly.

Polly, what else is in that bag?

- Lots of stuff.

It's my school bag.

[Soft guitar music]

♪

- Oh, my.

Isn't that beautiful?

Is someone having a party?

- Well...

All: surprise!

Both: it's a birthday party for you.

- [Gasps] oh!

- Here's your card.

- We drew it ourselves.

- [Gasps]

- And here's your cake,

Sort of.

- Um, there aren't any real presents.

We kind of messed up.

- Wait a minute.

Maybe there is a present after all.

[Whispering]

We couldn't buy you anything,

But we do have something for you.

[Upbeat guitar music]

♪

All: ♪ let's sing a song

♪ On this your happy birthday ♪

♪ Won't take too long

♪ Just one thing that we want to say ♪

♪ We love you

♪ Yes, we do

♪ Oh, we love you

- Oh, that song is the most wonderful gift in the world.

All: what gift?

- Gifts don't have to be things you buy at a store.

- Gifts can be songs or dances.

- Mm. - Mm.

To be really good,

All a gift needs is to have lots of love in it.

- ♪ We'd like to bring - ♪ we'd like to bring

- ♪ A very special gift to you

♪ And when we sing - ♪ and when we sing

- ♪ Each and every word is true ♪

♪ We love you

♪ Yes, we do

♪ Oh, we love you

[Laughter]

- Now it's time to meet camembert's shining stars.

- My name is lindsay, and when I was three,

I started taking ballet.

- My name is avery,

And I study at the american ballet theater school.

- When I was little,

My grandma gave me a package of three books

And a little angelina ballerina doll,

And I really liked the books.

- My sister's a dancer, so I went on an audition,

And I just really liked it.

- When you tie your pointe shoes,

You have to cross the ribbons

And make sure you tie a tight knot

On the inside of your foot.

Our teacher just choreographed a piece.

We don't really know what the name is,

But, yeah--but it's fun.

[Upbeat classical music]

♪

We have pointe shoes made of plaster and glue.

And at first, it hurts a little bit,

But your feet get a lot stronger,

And it's--you have, like, padding,

Like a toe pad underneath your pointe shoes.

It feels good.

- When I do an entrechat six, it's a challenge,

But I work hard at strengthening my legs,

And it makes it easier.

- This is the first time I've danced with a partner,

So it's challenging, but it's a great experience.

- She's a really good partner.

- It's really fun to learn and get to know

The different ways of balancing on your pointe shoe,

And it just feels amazing.

- I really like dancing.

I hope to inspire other people to dance.

- I'm angelina ballerina,

And I'm a new student at camembert academy.

In some ways, my school is like any other school.

- So, if six ladybugs are sitting on three leaves,

How many ladybugs are left

If two are scared off by a cricket?

- Ooh, I know.

But in other ways,

Camembert is very, very different.

All: pirouette left.

Pirouette right.

Tap your toes with all your might.

[Tapping]

Crouch like a cricket.

Ready, steady, hop.

Camembert kids never stop.

Chirp-chirp.

Chirp-chirp.

Chirp-chirp.

Chirp-chirp.

- [Laughs]

- What's going on?

Why is everyone acting like a cricket?

- Uh-oh.

Angelina said "cricket."

[Laughter]

All: pirouette left.

Pirouette right.

- Come on, angelina.

Join in.

- What do I do?

- Follow me.

All: tap your toes with all your might.

[Tapping]

Crouch like a cricket.

Ready, steady, hop.

Camembert kids never stop.

- That's the way, angelina.

Now you've got it.

Very good.

[Laughter]

- Then all of a sudden,

Everyone was hopping all over the room like--

- Please, don't say you-know-what.

- But it was so much fun,

Like a silly dance.

- Yeah, but, it wasn't dancing to a song.

It's marching to a rhythm.

All: one, two, three, four.

Watch us march across the floor.

- Ha.

[Laughter]

It's called the camembert cheer.

It's a really old tradition

That only camembert kids know about.

- Like the school handshake.

- [Laughing]

Oh, I love camembert academy:

The cheers and handshakes,

The teachers and dance classes.

This school is almost perfect.

All: almost?

- What's missing?

- Alice. [Sighs]

She's my oldest friend.

We've been friends for as long as I can remember.

- She must be so amazing.

- She's amazing, all right.

[Upbeat pop music]

♪

♪ I wanna tell you about a girl ♪

♪ But there's so much to say

♪ I know that when she's around ♪

♪ The fun's not far away

♪ Always singing and has a smile ♪

♪ She's my best friend

♪ I've known her for quite a while ♪

♪ On her I can depend

♪ My friend is smart and funny ♪

♪ My friend is sweet as honey ♪

♪ I'm glad I've got a friend so true ♪

♪ She finds adventures round each corner ♪

♪ One more reason I adore her ♪

♪ And once you know her

♪ You'll be glad you do

♪ Very glad you do

♪ So glad you do

♪

♪ When you sing about my friend ♪

♪ The whole day through

- Wow, when can we meet her?

- Um, you could come over on saturday,

And I'll introduce you.

- You mean a playdate with alice?

- It will be great.

You'll love her.

[Doorbell rings] she's here!

- Angelina.

- Alice.

- Mm.

[Both giggling]

[Laughter]

- Everybody, this is my oldest friend, alice.

Alice, this is gracie.

- Hello.

- This is vici.

- Hm-mm, welcome.

- And, of course, marco.

- Hello.

[Both giggle]

- Hi, everybody.

So what are we playing?

- You can pick something.

- Oh, okay.

Um, how about--

- I know.

Let's play school.

Both: yes!

- Hmm, okay.

- We'll be the students, and you can be the teacher.

[Clanking]

- Schooltime.

- Um, alice?

I mean, teacher.

At our school,

The bell doesn't go "clang-clang-clang."

It goes, "ting-ta-ting-ting-ting".

- She's right. Like this.

[Tinkling]

- Oh, okay.

Thanks.

[Tinkling] schooltime.

Everybody come to class.

Good morning, class.

All: good morning, ms. Alice.

- Who wants to take attendance?

Gracie?

- Oh, you forgot something.

- Forgot what?

- Why, the silly morning stretch, of course.

- At camembert academy,

The first thing we do every morning

Is stand by our desks and stretch to the sky,

Like this.

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay.

Everybody up and stretch.

- Uh, but then we bend way over and touch our toes.

- Okay, now touch your toes.

- Oh, and then we give our bodies

A big shake-shake-shake.

- [Giggles]

Shaking is fun.

- Uh-oh, ms. Alice.

- Huh?

- Stretch time is over.

- It is?

Okay, then. Let's all take our seats and--

Yes, marco?

- After the stretch,

We always do the school handshake.

- Oh, the school handshake?

Now do we take attendance?

- Why, that's up to you, ms. Alice.

You're the teacher.

- [Sighs] oh.

[Tinkling]

Circle time, class.

- Huh?

Circle time?

Before dance studio?

- At camembert, we usually have circle time after lunch.

- [Sighs]

- Ms. Alice is right.

At our old school,

We had circle time in the morning before snack.

We could do it that way.

- Let's try it. - Well, okay.

- Sounds good.

- Ah.

- Class, today I thought I'd read you my favorite story:

Goldilocks and the three crickets.

All: crickets?

Pirouette left.

Pirouette right.

- Now what are they doing?

- The camembert cheer.

All: tap your toes with all your might.

[Tapping]

- It's not fair.

I was reading my story.

- I know, but--

All: camembert kids never--

- Stop!

It's my turn.

[All gasp]

- This play date is not going well.

Why don't we listen to ms. Alice now?

- Remember, it was my turn.

- Your turn?

- First we played camembert school.

Now we're supposed to be playing chipping cheddar school.

- But we don't know how you do things at your school.

- And I don't know how you do things at camembert.

- That's why we should take turns,

So everyone can have some fun.

- Okay, but who goes first?

- Oh.

- Knock, knock.

Lunchtime.

Are you kids having fun?

- We're mostly not agreeing on what we should play.

- We wanted to play school.

- But some want to play it like my new school,

And some want to play it like my old school.

- Hmm.

Deciding which school to play could be a problem.

What if you all went to a brand-new school?

- Let's make up our own school,

With our own way of doing things.

- Like our very own handshake?

- And school cheer?

- We can make up all sorts of things.

- Let's do it.

[All cheering]

- [Chuckles]

Sounds to me like school is back in session.

[Clinking]

[Melodic clinking]

- Uh-oh, there's the school bell.

You know what that means.

All: handshake time!

[Laughter]

- Let's make up a cheer for our new school.

- We could start with a square dance do-si-do.

All: yes!

- And now let's do an arabesque.

- Now we just have to think of a word.

- Huh?

- You know, like "chirp-chirp."

- Hmm, I've got it.

How about "friends"?

All: yeah.

- Well then, come on.

What are we waiting for?

One, two, three--

All: friends!

[Upbeat pop music]

♪

Square dance.

Arabesque school of friends.

You're the best.

Yay!

[Laughter]

- Hello.

I'm angelina ballerina.

Did you know dance is a wonderful way to exercise?

Just as you warm up before exercise,

You should warm up before dance.

You have to warm your muscles so you won't get hurt.

It's best to warm up by stretching.

You can reach for your toes.

You can reach back.

Stretch that arm, now.

You can even bend backward like a noodle.

And once you're all warmed up, ta-da,

You're ready to dance.

- Hola,marco here.

And this is kenichi ebina from japan.

He's a great hip-hop dancer.

In this dance, kenichi tells a story

About a mannequin that comes to life.

That move is called popping,

And here's an arm wave,

Like an ocean wave moving through him.

And that's locking.

See how fast his arms move?

You can learn hip-hop by watching other dancers

And even music videos.

And then you can make your very own dance style.