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Issue 3 Your Monthly Viewing Guide March 2001

A hurricane has come to Sesame Street! After the hurricane has passed through, Big Bird discovers that the wind and the rain have destroyed his nest. Big Bird goes through many feelings about losing his home. He feels sad, angry and upset. His friends do their best to comfort him.

Snuffy helps Big Bird remember that even though some things have changed because of the hurricane, a lot of things are still the same, like all the great friends that Big Bird has on Sesame Street. He is also reminded that the fun everyday routines that they have always done, like saying the alphabet, are still going to happen. Even though Big Bird is sad, he realizes how lucky he is to have great friends help him through this tough time and offer to help him rebuild his nest.

Big Bird is faced with a very difficult change in his life. He has lost the home that he has always known. He goes through feelings of sadness, shock and disappointment. We all deal with change and disappointment in our lives and what we realize, along with Big Bird, is that having friends to support us through times of change and sharing how you’re feeling with others is helpful. Big Bird and his friends deal with their emotions in different ways like using music and art to express how they are feeling.

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Theme: Facing changes and dealing with emotions

ACTIVITIES Talk about change Talk to your children about how Big Bird was feeling and how they feel when they are faced with a change in their life. For example, changes that your child may be facing could be starting preschool or expecting a new brother or sister. List some things that your child has adapted to, like sleeping in a bed rather then a crib or trying new foods, and celebrate it.

Paint how you feel Encourage children to draw and paint pictures of how they feel about the new experiences they have or about things that may seem scary. This will help them to express and talk about their feelings about things going on in their lives. So, get out some crayons or paint and some paper and have fun. Talk about the pictures together.

Act it out Talk about the different things that you may hear or see during a storm or hurricane. Imitate the different sounds by clapping like thunder, or blowing like the wind or tapping like the rain. Put on some music and act out a storm by being the wind or the rain.

READ A Place For Ben by Jeanne Titherington Jessica by Kevin Henkes

Don’t forget to check us out online Go to: www.sesamestreet.com www.pbskids.org/dragontales SESAME STREET FAMILY TIPS March 2001 3959 3970 Oscar has to part with some of his trash in order to make room Telly and Zoe lose part of their pinwheel, so they think back over for his elephant Fluffy to take ballroom dance lessons. Oscar all the places where they were playing in order to find it. finds that it is very hard to part with his trash. Tip: Read Tip: Talk about how you find things when you lose them. Jamaica’s Find by Juanita Havill. Letter and Number: T, 9. Letter and Number: D, 12. 3960 3971 The Sesame Street gang surprises Linda on her birthday by Stinky wishes he could be big and his Fairy Godplant arrives and learning to sign the happy birthday song. Tip: Practice signing makes his wish come true. Stinky realizes that it is better to be the happy birthday song and share any other signs that you may his regular size. Tip: Imagine what it would be like if the Fairy know with each other. Letter and Number: H, 6. Godplant made you very big for one day. Make up a story about all the things that you would do. Letter and Number: P, 0. 3961 3972 Ernie, Elmo, Big Bird, and Snuffy all start their own bands and Mumford waves his new magic wand and makes all the “S’s” on they eventually decide to join together to form one big band. Sesame Street disappear. With the help of some clues, they Tip: Have fun using things around the house to make music or discover where all the “S’s” have gone. Tip: Name words that put on some music and have a marching band and clap along. begin with the letter “S”. Letter and Number: S, 16. Letter and Number: Q, 4. 3962 3973 Elmo sees Baby Bear making a collage and decides to create a Big Bird and Snuffy pretend to be the characters in the story Little special one of his own using materials he collects from all his Red Ringing Hood and perform it for their friends. Tip: Tell the friends on Sesame Street. Tip: Create your own collage from story of Little Red Riding Hood in your own words. materials that you find around the house. Letter and Number: E, 17. Letter and Number: B, 2. 3963 3974 Rosita wants to be a Grouchketeer, but she has to prove to Everyone is too busy to play hide-and-seek with Zoe so she Oscar that she can be grouchy, so she works all day at acting makes a wish for the Jacket Fairy to come back so she can play like a grouch. Tip: Do you ever feel like Oscar the Grouch? with her jacket. Tip: Talk about how Zoe felt. What do you do when you feel grouchy? Letter and Number: Z, 20. Letter and Number: I, 12. 3964 3975 Elmo wants to play mini-golf with Prarie Dawn, but she has a list Baby Bear wants to draw a picture of Telly holding the letter “T”. of things she has to do before she can play, so Elmo tries to help Baby Bear and Telly end up drawing pictures of each other. her with all the things on her list. Tip: See what you can do to Tip: Have fun drawing pictures of each other. help someone with what they have to do today. Letter and Number: T, 11. Letter and Number: K, 17. 3965 3976 Lulu and Elmo spend the day pretending that they are at the A hurricane is coming to Sesame Street and everyone takes part beach. They imagine the cold water, and the waves, and the in preparing for the storm. They all listen to the wind and watch seagulls and have a great day pretending. Tip: Read Down by the rain from inside. Tip: Talk about all the different things that the Bay by Raffi. Letter and Number: W, 1. happen when it rains outside. Letter and Number: X, 8. 3966 3977 Papa Bear spends the day helping Baby Bear learn to roller Big Bird is shocked and very sad when he learns that his nest skate. Papa Bear sings a song to encourage Baby Bear to keep was blown away during the hurricane, but he feels lucky to have trying and practicing. Tip: Talk about something that you such good friends to help him through this difficult time. Tip: learned to do that took practice. Letter and Number: H, 13. Talk about how Big Bird must be feeling. Have you ever felt that way? What would you tell Big Bird? Letter and Number: G, 12. 3967 3978 Ernie needs to meet Bert at his Pigeon Lover’s Club meeting, so Big Bird remembers all the good times he had at his nest before it Ernie teaches Gordon about being a good Duckie-sitter. Tip: got destroyed by the hurricane. Even though he feels sad and Talk about things that you like to do when you have a baby-sitter angry he still has his memories. Tip: Share memories of or when some one else is taking care of you. something that has happened in your life. Looking at Letter and Number: R, 6. photographs together is a great way to remember. Letter and Number: N, 5. 3968 3979 With help from her friends, Rosita draws pictures of everyone on Everyone helps Big Bird rebuild his nest since it had been Sesame Street. Tip: Draw a picture of some of the people that destroyed in the hurricane. He calls Granny Bird to ask her for you love. Letter and Number: J, 14. nest building advice. Tip: Read A House is a House For Me by Mary Ann Hoberman. Letter and Number: K, 9. 3969 3980 Baby Natasha looks like she may be getting ready to stand up by The final twig has been added to Big Bird’s nest and it is finally herself and Big Bird, Humphrey and Maria try to help but they finished. The Big Bad Wolf comes to test the strength of the new realize that she needs to do this by herself. Tip: Read Baby nest by trying to blow it down but Big Bird’s new home is com- Says by John Steptoe. Letter and Number: U, 11. plete. Tip: Draw a picture of Big Bird’s new nest. Letter and Number: U, 19. DRAGON TALES FAMILY TIPS March 2001 124 Prepare According to Instructions 135 Bad Share Day Quetzal sends the gang on a trip to see the dancing crystals in Cassie is playing with her new magic crayon. When everyone Crystal Cave. He gives them instructions for things that they wants a turn, Cassie ends up not having any time to use it. must collect along the way. Tip: Do the hokey pokey and have Tip: Have the children react to Cassie’s problem and reflect on the children follow the instructions. similar situations they have had. 125 Frog Prints 136 Ord Sees the Light Max meets Hoppy, a little uni-croaker frog, and decides to take Max’s reunion with Hoppy is cut short when Hoppy hops off into a him home for a pet. Quetzal explains to Max that is not possible. cave. Max and Emmy want to follow him but Ord remembers his Tip: Talk about why Quetzal told Max he couldn’t take Hoppy fear of the dark. Tip: Name three things that you do to make the home. dark less scary. 126 The Big Cake Mix-Up 137 Lights, Cameras, Dragons! The kids and dragons want to make a dragon berry carrot cake, Emmy’s directing “The Great Dragon Mouse Mystery”, but she but when they split up to find ingredients they all come back with leaves Max out because he is not a dragon. Tip: Talk about the same thing –eggs. Tip: Make a snack together, giving your how Emmy made Max feel when she left him out. child certain jobs that will allow her to help you. 127 My Way or Snow Way 138 Bully For You The gang meets Chilly, a snowman who is searching for his pet Spike, the new dragon on the block, acts like a bully and Cassie snow puppy. Wheezie has a good idea but has some trouble tries to find a way to deal with him. Tip: Ask your child what convincing her friends that it will work. Tip: Read The Snowy advice they would give to Cassie. Day by Ezra Jack Keats. 128 A True Blue Friend 139 Much Ado About Nodlings The gang needs help getting finger paint off their skin, so Quetzal Max ignores Cassie’s warnings to watch out for Nodlings in the gives them step-by-step instructions that must be followed grass and accidentally breaks their wagon. Tip: Pretend that exactly to remove the paint. Tip: Look through books or you are a Nodling and talk about why Max should help fix what magazines and ask your child to find something blue or he has broken. something green. 129 Under the Weather 140 Over and Over Why is it snowing, raining, and hailing in Dragon Land all at the Max is having a hard time getting across the monkey bars at same time? To find out the kids and the dragons visit school, so Emmy suggests that he practice in Dragon Land. Pollynimbus, the cloud maker and discover that the weather Tip: Share something that you learned to do by practicing and making machines are having problems. Tip: On a calendar not giving up. draw a picture of what the weather is like for that day. 130 My Emmy or Bust 102 To Kingdom Come Max goes to Dragon Land by himself and gets to ride in an Sharing can be hard, especially when Ord’s favorite dragon berry underwater submarine to help a sea dragon find her missing cupcakes are involved. But Ord finds that when you share with sister, but he misses Emmy. Tip: Talk about the people that you someone, sometimes they share with you. Tip: Make a snack love and name some things that you love about them. together and have fun sharing it. 131 Max and the Magic Carpet 103 Knot a Problem Ord is planning a big picnic for his friends, but all Max wants to One of the ponies from the merry-go-round has wandered off! do is play with an old flying carpet of Quetzal’s. Tip: Talk about Max finds her but must remember how to tie a knot to save the how Ord felt. day. Tip: Use the rhyme “Over and under it’s easy to do. Reach through the hole and pull it through” to help your child practice tying his shoelaces. 132 Baby Troubles 104 Calling Dr. Zak The kids and dragons are trying to put Cassie’s little sister KiKi to Zak steps on a Spineypine and gets a thorn in his foot. He’s sleep and find out that this is not such an easy task. afraid to go to the doctor so everybody pretends they’re doctors Tip: Encourage the children to list the things that they do before to make it less scary. Tip: Talk about times you have visited the they go to bed. doctor. 133 Small Time 105 Pigment of Your Imagination While waiting for their friends in Dragon Land, Max and Emmy Everybody is painting ceramics and they run out of paint, so chase their kickball into a patch of shrinking violet flowers which Quetzal draws them a map to get some more colors. When the causes the kids to shrink! Tip: Encourage your child to recreate map shatters they must cooperate to put the map back together. the story and think of different ways to solve the problem. Tip: Have fun doing a puzzle together and identify the colors in the puzzle. 134 Wild Time 106 Snow Dragons The dragons are hard at work finishing their projects for the Max, Ord, and Quetzal head to Snowy Summit but Ord and Max Dragon Scale Festival, but Max has a bad case of the sillies and wander off and find themselves alone. Tip: Discuss with your causes some accidents. Tip: What advice would you give to child things he can do if he gets lost. Max?