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Elmo In The Sky Instructional VideoElmo In The Sky Instructional Video
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Elmo In The Sky

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Elmo asks the sun about things he finds in the sky. Miss Sun describes herself then the moon comes up and describes himself too. Dorothy the fish imagines Elmo dancing on the moon. Elmo sits on a rainbow and the moon explains what a constellation is.

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Concepts

rainbows, clouds, stars, the moon, the sky, the sun

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Dance, clouds, moon, rainbow, star, sun, sky, sunglasses, science

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