Return to KOTB Home Page Brenda and Melody are looking for a place to eat their lunch when Mel spots some empty seats at Jimmy Randolph's table and suggests they eat with him. Brenda, thinking Jimmy's behavior is too strange, refuses. Melody sits with Jimmy and tries to strike up a friendly conversation. Jimmy talks with Mel but his behavior is inappropriate. He kicks his chair, plays with his lunch box and makes graphic animal noises. Mel ignores this behavior and invites him to work on a book report with her. Jimmy is excited until he realizes he has to go to the mental health care center. His behavior becomes less aggressive as he explains about the center and his counselor. (Jimmy, Melody, Brenda)
Brenda tells Mark about Jimmy Randolph, a new student who is coming to their class. She finds out that Jimmy receives rewards for appropriate behavior when he goes to his resource room. She talks to both Mark and Jimmy about this practice and learns more about Jimmy's emotional problems and what both his resource teacher and regular class teacher are doing to help him solve them. (Jimmy, Brenda, Mark)
Jimmy has taken items that belong to other children. He uses these things as gifts to present to kids. When he's found out, Brenda and Renaldo try to figure out his strange behavior. (Jimmy, Renaldo, Brenda, Melody, Mark)
Ellen Jane Peterson arrives at Jimmy's classroom. She is about to teach the class the fine points of caring for cats, dogs and birds. She notices Jimmy's special chart. Ellen Jane thinks that his chart represents things that Jimmy has done wrong and must do over again. Jimmy explains that his chart allows the class to find those things that Jimmy does well. (Jimmy, Ellen Jane)
NOTE: After each script the children ask questions directly to the puppets and the puppet characters themselves answer their questions.
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