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“NICE TO MEET YOU!” VIEW: POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER (101) Kids all over the United States live in diverse places, enjoy Meet Me at the Fair (Knox, Indiana) different activities, and have different families and Monday, October 11, 2004 @ 3:30 p.m. & cultures. Watch the new series POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER Tuesday, October 12, 2004 @ 10 a.m to see how Buster introduces the new friends he meets to his old friends at home. Then, read Everybody Cooks Rice Feed the cows, take out the garbage, clean the house and all and talk about the similarities all children have (like cooking before breakfast?! That’s part of life on the farm for sister rice), and the differences (rice can be prepared in many and brother Lauren and Nathan. However, they show Buster, different ways). Encourage children to think about the there’s more to living on a farm than chores – like riding qualities that make them both the same and unique compared horses, driving tractors, and showing off their pigs at the to other children. Use the “Introduce Yourself” activity to County Fair! encourage kids to make art, write something or introduce themselves aloud to friends and family. While you’re watching… DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
-What do you have in common with these kids?
Web Resources: -What are the differences between you?
-How would you introduce yourself to Lauren and www.pbs.org/teachersource/prek2.htm Nathan? Tell them about your life - Introduce yourself! This month on PBS TeacherSource - From the Start the focus is multiculturalism and diversity. It is important to realize that every child has a diverse life experience – these BUSTER MEETS NEW KIDS, FROM DIFFERENT web activities and resources can help children understand and PLACES, EVERY EPISODE! appreciate the similarities and differences amongst peers. This new series is on weekdays at 10 a.m. & 3:30 p.m. and Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m. Kids can introduce themselves every day!
October 2004 PBS Ready To Learn is supported by a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Education, PR/Award Number R295A00002 Nice To Meet You
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READ: DO: Everybody Cooks Rice Introduce Yourself By Norah Dooley, Peter Thornton (Illustrator) Encourage children to introduce themselves and explain why Carrie is sent to find her younger brother at dinnertime. As they like or do certain things. Give kids ideas by asking a result, she is introduced to a variety of cultures by questions like: encountering the many different ways rice is prepared at • What is your favorite food, the households she visits. Her neighbors are from Barbados, • What is something you like to • What is your favorite Puerto Rico, Vietnam, India, China and Haiti. She discovers • What do you usually do aftergame, school book, or on character? the weekends? Why? that although her family cooks rice Italian style, everybody • What is something you do di part of thedo with day? your Why? family? Why? else cooks rice, but in very different ways! Included, at the After children have generated their own ideas, parents and end of the book, are recipes for the various preparations. caregivers can try a number of things: children can help trace one another on large paperfferent/same and then as use a friend? art/collage materials to illustrate their introduction, they could write a Other Recommended Books: story that describes themselves or they could introduce Everybody Bakes Bread & Everybody Serves Soup themselves aloud to their class, family, friends, or even by Norah Dooley, Peter Thornton (Illustrator) better: to Buster and the friends he meets every afternoon! Houses and Homes by Ann Morris, ALSO INCLUDED: Ken Hayman (Illustrator) My Favorite Thing (According to Alberta) The Sneetches & Other Stories by Dr. Seuss GEORGE SHRINKS Activity: A Postcard To My Friend Olivia by Ian Falconer By sending postcards, children practice expressing and telling stories about themselves, and they also by Emily Jenkins, Anna-Laura Cantone (Illustrator) learn about a central method of communication: mail
delivery and the U.S. Post Office!
October 2004 PBS Ready To Learn is supported by a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Education, PR/Award Number R295A00002 Nice To Meet You
THIRTEEN’S NEW AFTERNOON LINEUP!
On October 11, 2004 from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m, Thirteen/WNET will air the PBS Kids GO! block by premiering two new series, POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER and MAYA & MIGUEL. These shows will join the current, hit series ARTHUR and CYBERCHASE in the PBS KIDS GO! programming block, an afternoon of entertainment and education that will create a home for elementary school kids to return to each weekday afterschool – and again on weekend mornings.
3:30 POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER Arthur’s best friend Buster stars in his own series where he accompanies his airline pilot father as he flies the fictional Latin rock group Los Viajeros on a concert tour of the U.S., with forays into Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Buster stays in touch with his friends back home via a small, hand-held digital camera, sending them frequent video postcards of his travels.
4:00 MAYA & MIGUEL MAYA & MIGUEL presents culture and language learning as fun, relevant and rewarding for all children, with a special emphasis on the Latino population. Lively and colorful, MAYA & MIGUEL chronicles the adventures, and sometimes misadventures, of 10-year-old twins Maya and Miguel Santos and features their family, friends and a richly diverse neighborhood.
4:30 ARTHUR Arthur is an animated series whose goal is to foster an interest in reading and writing, and to encourage positive social skills. Based on the children’s books by Marc Brown, the show chronicles the adventures of Arthur (an eight-year-old aardvark) through engaging, emotional stories that explore issues faced by real kids.
5:00 CYBERCHASE This animated adventure series takes kids (ages 8-11) on a wild ride through cyberspace where they are challenged to use the power of math. It features a team of curious kids – Matt, Inez and Jackie – who outwit and outsmart the bad guys in their adventurous quest to save Cyberspace. Each episode ends with a live-action segment, hosted by young, comedic actors who explore the show’s topic in the real world.
AND, watch PBS KIDS GO! on Sundays from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Visit www.pbskidsgo.org