Elmo, Zoe, Big Bird, and Grover are excited about their very first sleep-out. But when they hear a noise in the trees and see a large shadow on the tent wall, the sleep-out starts to get a little spooky. In the end, all of the strange noises and shadows can be explained, and the friends say good night after a midnight snack of cookies and milk from Grover’s mom — who is close by in the house the whole time.
Cookie's Nursery Rhyme Video English level: Beginner (Pre-primary) Ages: Under 5 years A 15-minute animated video for pre-primary learners of English. Cookie's Nursery Rhyme Video features animations of 8 traditional nursery rhymes as songs introduced by three friendly characters, a cat, a duck, and a kangaroo.
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The Christmas Cookie Killer
Phyllis Newsom stands a good chance in the Christmas cookie contest with her snowflake-shaped lime sugar cookies. But Mrs. Simmons’ gingerdoodles might give her a run for her money—until she’s found strangled in a pile of cookies. With many on Santa’s naughty suspect list, this case is a cookie Phyllis means to crumble…
Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages
From Santa Claus (after the Dutch folklore saint Sinterklaas) and his sleigh (the pronunciation of the Dutch slee is almost identical) to a dumbhead talking poppycock, the contributions of the Dutch language to American English are indelibly embedded to some of our most vernacular terms and expressions. In Cookies, Coleslaw and Stoops, the renowned linguist Nicoline van der Sijs glosses over 300 Dutch loan words like these that travelled to the New World on board the Henry Hudson’s ship the Halve Maan, which dropped anchor in Manhattan more than 400 years ago.
