- ♪ 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.
03x03 - Angelina's Gift for Ms. Mimi / Angelina's Oldest Friend
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British childrens series about Angelina Mouseling, a young mouse who loves dancing ballet, her family, and her classmates.
British childrens series about Angelina Mouseling, a young mouse who loves dancing ballet, her family, and her classmates.