Follow students and sing-along as they travel to school in their bus. On their adventures they learn how to "stop, look, and listen," tell time, and learn their ABC's. In my personal opinion, This is a good video from my childhood. This video was released alongside with its companion video "Who Left The Juice In The Caboose?", Also from 1999. As before, Follow students and sing-along as they travel to school in their bus. On their adventures they learn how to "stop, look, and listen," tell time, and learn their ABC's. This is a good video from my childhood. This video was released alongside with its companion video "Who Left The Juice In The Caboose?", Also from 1999.
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It's too bad that teachers in school nowadays don't show this video anymore, or its companion video "Who Left The Juice In The Caboose".
avi-greene221 October 2017
I remember borrowing a VHS copy of this video when I lived with my family as a kid and my little sister was in Kindergarten. I remember that it was very useful for teaching spectators the importance of paying attention by learning how to "stop, look, and listen", by singing a cute little song about it.
In this short video (which was released straight to VCR, not released as a theatrical short before something), what happens is that there are five anthropomorphic animals: two mice named Jack and Roquefort, a hamster named Bebop, a bunny named Boo Boo (she doesn't have a real name; that's what she goes by) who gets her nickname from the fact that she likes to wear bandages on her body, even though she doesn't really have cuts, and Brie the mouse. They meet their Kindergarten teacher, Mr. Hopsalot, who does not have a first name, on the bus on their way to school, and make a few stops along the way to figure out the answer to the question that is themed around the title of this video. In between each stop, they figure out why the bus stopped by looking and listening for clues on a "Look and Listen" window. They find four different clues each time, where everyone makes a comment to chime in on the activity.
On their first stop, they visit a train station run by Aggie Aster The Station Master, where they sing about telling time, and all the important things everyone does in a day. Then they visit two other places before going to school. Next, they visit Old McDonald's barn, where they visit Mrs. Donkey, Daisy the Calf, and Rip Rat. Together, they teach viewers about letter sounds and sounds of each vowel by singing the traditional folk song everyone knows, except replacing "E-I-E-I-O" with "A-E- I-O-U and sometimes Y". Finally, the gang visits Firefighters C.J. and Edison, and sing a little game song about rhyming words to help the firefighters find their Dalmatian dog Pepper, which kind of incorporates the melody of "Where is Thumbkin", or "Are You Sleeping" in the chorus.
When the students arrive at school, Hopsalot reviews the summary of what the class did on each bus stop. After the end of the video, three live action kids that form a group called "The Bus Stop Boppers" get together and ask the audience if they figured out why the bus stopped, along with teaching everyone how the "Bus Stop Bop" goes (the same dance that is scene in the cartoon video itself). The names of the Bus Stop Boppers are McKenna Flash, Dylan Mori, and Jennifer York who also voices Boo Boo Bunny.
This video, alongside a companion video it was released with "Who Left The Juice In The Caboose" are two amazing videos that are very educational to me, even though I am an adult. What the other video is, is that it is geared to Preschoolers during which a character named Eleanor Elephant (who is also voiced by Jennifer York) rides the train conducted by Frankie the Dog, and finds out someone spilled their juice in the caboose. She receives a passenger list from Frankie, and interviews Casey Cat in the Pizza Palace, Pierre the Bear and Kesha Koala. At the end of that video, there is another live action group of kids called "The Woo Woo Dancers", which features the same cast roster with Jennifer York's sister Madeline, as they act out the dance routine from that episode also. I won't give away any more details on the other Jumpstart episode from Knowledge Adventure, as unfortunately it is not even listed on IMDb.
My main point from giving you guys all the minor details from the summaries of each video is that I'd really like to see more often, that people who work as Kindergarten and Preschool teachers order one of these two videos released in 1999 from a website like Amazon, because although they are both uploaded on YouTube, they don't have as good sound and picture quality on YouTube and Elementary schools don't have access to YouTube. In addition, it costs much more on Amazon to buy these two videos, than to buy other educational products, because sadly these are forgotten videos that can really help kids go a long way in life, which I can definitely rely on for the sake of shaping a newer generation's future.
Just to warn you, too, these are NOT Disney videos, even though they do have a similar quality.
In this short video (which was released straight to VCR, not released as a theatrical short before something), what happens is that there are five anthropomorphic animals: two mice named Jack and Roquefort, a hamster named Bebop, a bunny named Boo Boo (she doesn't have a real name; that's what she goes by) who gets her nickname from the fact that she likes to wear bandages on her body, even though she doesn't really have cuts, and Brie the mouse. They meet their Kindergarten teacher, Mr. Hopsalot, who does not have a first name, on the bus on their way to school, and make a few stops along the way to figure out the answer to the question that is themed around the title of this video. In between each stop, they figure out why the bus stopped by looking and listening for clues on a "Look and Listen" window. They find four different clues each time, where everyone makes a comment to chime in on the activity.
On their first stop, they visit a train station run by Aggie Aster The Station Master, where they sing about telling time, and all the important things everyone does in a day. Then they visit two other places before going to school. Next, they visit Old McDonald's barn, where they visit Mrs. Donkey, Daisy the Calf, and Rip Rat. Together, they teach viewers about letter sounds and sounds of each vowel by singing the traditional folk song everyone knows, except replacing "E-I-E-I-O" with "A-E- I-O-U and sometimes Y". Finally, the gang visits Firefighters C.J. and Edison, and sing a little game song about rhyming words to help the firefighters find their Dalmatian dog Pepper, which kind of incorporates the melody of "Where is Thumbkin", or "Are You Sleeping" in the chorus.
When the students arrive at school, Hopsalot reviews the summary of what the class did on each bus stop. After the end of the video, three live action kids that form a group called "The Bus Stop Boppers" get together and ask the audience if they figured out why the bus stopped, along with teaching everyone how the "Bus Stop Bop" goes (the same dance that is scene in the cartoon video itself). The names of the Bus Stop Boppers are McKenna Flash, Dylan Mori, and Jennifer York who also voices Boo Boo Bunny.
This video, alongside a companion video it was released with "Who Left The Juice In The Caboose" are two amazing videos that are very educational to me, even though I am an adult. What the other video is, is that it is geared to Preschoolers during which a character named Eleanor Elephant (who is also voiced by Jennifer York) rides the train conducted by Frankie the Dog, and finds out someone spilled their juice in the caboose. She receives a passenger list from Frankie, and interviews Casey Cat in the Pizza Palace, Pierre the Bear and Kesha Koala. At the end of that video, there is another live action group of kids called "The Woo Woo Dancers", which features the same cast roster with Jennifer York's sister Madeline, as they act out the dance routine from that episode also. I won't give away any more details on the other Jumpstart episode from Knowledge Adventure, as unfortunately it is not even listed on IMDb.
My main point from giving you guys all the minor details from the summaries of each video is that I'd really like to see more often, that people who work as Kindergarten and Preschool teachers order one of these two videos released in 1999 from a website like Amazon, because although they are both uploaded on YouTube, they don't have as good sound and picture quality on YouTube and Elementary schools don't have access to YouTube. In addition, it costs much more on Amazon to buy these two videos, than to buy other educational products, because sadly these are forgotten videos that can really help kids go a long way in life, which I can definitely rely on for the sake of shaping a newer generation's future.
Just to warn you, too, these are NOT Disney videos, even though they do have a similar quality.
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