1KHO 80: Learning About Nature Through Song | Sara Ernst, Award-Winning Children's Author, Illustrator, & Kindie Musician | The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, S3 E53

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Get ready for a unique episode with award-winning children's author, illustrator, and kindie musician Sara Ernst! All of you with little ones need to know about Sara and the beautiful children's books she's written and illustrated as well as all of the darling music she has recorded to help all of us learn in nature and pique our curiosities. Sara performs two of her enchanting songs in this episode and reminds us of the power of music to help us self-soothe, move, and give us deep feelings. Music is an amazing resource to use throughout childhood. Sara also talks about the process of writing and illustrating children's books, something that is a dream for many. Your kids will love her music!! And with titles like It Comes from a Seed, Constellations, Clouds, Firefly, My Cocoon, and Seasons they will learn things while they listen! Check out Sara and all she has to offer (many free things!) on her website: https://www.wildpicklepress.com/ And on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB2xoeKaNDnhx4apMvljKLg/playlists Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Jenny Yerich, I'm the founder of 1,000
0:05.6	hours outside and I have a very unique and wonderful guest here today. I'm so excited about this episode. Sarah Ernst from Wild Pickle Press
0:15.8	is an award-winning children's author,
0:17.8	an illustrator, and a musician.
0:19.7	Welcome.
0:20.7	Thank you so much for having me on. I am elated.
0:25.0	It's here, this is exciting and you're kicking us off with a song.
0:29.0	So tell us about the song and then can't wait to hear it.
0:32.0	Okay, so just to brief you on this song of every, you even said that you didn't know,
0:38.0	had never heard this and every single performance I've ever done done no one has ever known what it is so I love teaching this this is one of my favorite things to teach in nature and it's called an uthaca and an uthaca, and an Uthaca, for those who have never heard of it, is another name for,
0:58.1	a Prangmantous Egg, or Egg Case, and that is genuinely its name.
1:03.8	So when I first discovered this name years ago,
1:07.3	I thought, first of all, what an incredibly unique name
1:11.0	for an egg case.
1:12.4	And it's so special and unique sounding it needs its own
1:15.5	song and so that's what I did and so I felt like it was such a great way to just
1:20.1	introduce not only a new word in nature
1:23.2	to kids and their grownups,
1:24.8	but that way once they're familiar with it
1:27.1	and they find one out in nature,
1:29.4	then they'll be able to call it by its scientific name.
1:34.0	So this is called Uthaca.
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