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COCONUTS, BLUEBERRIES & ROBOTS EPISODE

Discovering Coconuts – (c) Sienna Wildfield

Saturday from 9-10am
Aug. 2nd, 2008
WXOJ LP – 103.3 FM – Valley Free Radio
Northampton, MA

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PLAYLIST

• Merv Griffin – “I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts” [More Vintage Children’s Favourites]
• Karl Zero & The Wailers – “Coconut Woman” [Putumayo Caribbean Playground]
• Harry Nilsson – “Coconut” [Harry Nilsson Greatest Hits]
• Gunnar Madsen – “Like Two Coconuts” [Ants in My Pants]
• The Terrible Twos – “Olly Olly Oxen Free” [Jerzy The Giant] Release
• Bette Midler – “Blueberry Pie” [Every Child Deserves a Lifetime]
• Dog on Fleas – “Blueberry Pie” [Hoi Polloi]
• Station ID: Steve Weeks www.steveweeksmusic.com
• Robert McCloskey – [Blueberries for Sal]
• The Sippy Cups – “I Am a Robot” [Electric Storyland]
• Twink – “Coconut Cup” [Ice Cream Truckin’]
• The Hipwaders – “Silly Robot Dance” [The Hipwaders]
• Bzots – “Skree’s Solos” [Powered Up!]
• The Flaming Lips – “Yoshimi Battle the Pink Robots Part 1” [Yoshimi Battle the Pink Robots]
• Johnny Keener – “Elephants Over the Fence” [Robot Parade]
• Recess Monkey – “Sl-Double E-P-Over” [Tabby Road] Release

Piercing a coconut. (c) Sienna Wildfield

Last week while at the River Valley Market, my daughter begged me to buy this coconut (which btw is the fruit of the coconut palm, not a nut). So I did. And when I got home with it, I didn’t have a clue as to what to do with it. Other than taking a hammer to it, I didn’t even know how to open it. We went on-line to YouTube and found some videos by ExpertVillage which taught us how to access and extract the coconut water and how to open it to get out the meat. Click here to see one of the videos we found.

Drinking coconut water. (c) Sienna Wildfield

To extract the coconut water we first poked a hole in the “soft eye” of the coconut and drank it with a straw. That was a big hit! – Later I tried to open the coconut as the experts taught us but, truth be told, after 15 minutes of trying to open it gracefully as they illustrated, I took a hammer to it! We eventually got the coconut meat out and have great plans to make coconut macaroons with it.

This tropical adventure with the coconut inspired our selection of coconut songs for this week’s episode, along with blueberry picking and my daughter’s latest obsession to build a robot (thanks to Wall-E and Moby from BrainPop) inspiring our blueberry and robot songs/story.