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Broadcast Schedule PARENTING COUNTS RESOURCES A.M. HELP PARENTS 6:00 Between the Lions The resource-rich PARENTING 6:30 Maya & Miguel COUNTS project provides caregivers 7:00 Arthur and parents a variety of multi-level 7:30 Martha Speaks resources. Professional development 8:00 Curious George workshops presented by AETN provide a hands-on 8:30 Sid the Science Kid opportunity to explore and use the videos, lesson plans, 9:00 Super WHY! episode content and parent workshop formats. Once child 9:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog care providers are trained using the materials, they are able to 10:00 Sesame Street conduct effective parent workshops and provide useful 11:00 Dragon Tales handouts to parents and other caregivers. 11:30 WordWorld P.M. PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS 12:00 Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood CAN ASK THE EXPERTS 12:30 Big Comfy Couch The PBS online Expert Q&A gives 1:00 Reading Rainbow parents and caregivers the opportunity to 1:30 Between the Lions ask an expert in the field of early childhood 2:00 Caillou development for advice. The service includes information 2:30 Curious George about the expert, provides related links and gives information 3:00 Martha Speaks about other experts. Recent subjects include preparing 3:30 Wordgirl children for school, Internet safety and links to appropriate 4:00 Fetch with Ruff Ruffman PBS parent guides. The format is easy and friendly. To ask 4:30 Cyberchase the experts, visit http://www.pbs.org/parents/issuesadvice.
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PROGRAMS AND FOCUS AREAS
PROGRAM TIME AGE FOCUS MON.-FRI. Arthur 7:00 a.m. 6-9 years Reading, writing, social skills Between The Lions 6:00 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. 4-7 years Reading Big Comfy Couch 12:30 p.m. PreK Cognitive, social, emotional and physical development Caillou 2:00 p.m. 3-6 years Social skills Clifford Big Red Dog 9:30 a.m. 4-7 years Social skills Curious George 8:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m. 3-5 years Science, engineering, math Cyberchase 4:30 p.m. 8-12 years Math Dragon Tales 11:00 a.m. 2-7 years Social skills Fetch with Ruff 4:00 p.m. 6-10 years Social skills, problem solving Ruffman It’s A Big, Big World 10 a.m. 3-6 years Life science, geography Martha Speaks 7:30 a.m. & 3:00 p.m. 4-7 years Reading Maya & Miguel 6:30 a.m. 6-11 years Spanish language, social skills Mr. Rogers noon 3-5 years Social skills, self-esteem Reading Rainbow 1:00 p.m. 4-8 years Reading Sesame Street 10:00 a.m. 2-4 years Reading, math, social skills Sid the Science Kid 8:30 a.m. 3-6 years Science Super WHY! 9:00 a.m. 6-8 years Reading Word Girl 3:30 p.m. 6-8 years Reading Word World 11:30 a.m. 6-8 years Reading
USING PBS PROGRAMS IN THE CLASSROOM Teachers and parents can find a wealth of information related to each PBS KIDS program at the program's companion Web site on pbskids.org, where information such as educational goals, character listings, co-viewing tips and much more can be found. There are general ideas on how to use a particular program in the classroom. Explore the information and articles to find out how PBS KIDS can play an important role in your classroom curriculum. PARENT GUIDES COVER A WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS PBS parent guides cover a wide range of topics relevant to parents’ needs. Topics include: • Child Development • Raising Boys • Children and Media • Reading and • Creativity Language • Early Math • Talking with Kids • Going to School • Birthday Parties
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READ TOGETHER R Ready, set, read – get PARENTS – START YOUR comfortable OWN FAMILY BOOK CLUB Encourage your child to read E A Ask and listen as your child • Name your family book shares the story club and decide what D Don’t forget to praise every chance you get you want to accomplish – learn new things, share adventures – whatever is right for your family, and T Teach as you go – read signs, labels, everyday things remember to include the younger children when you can. O Offer to let your child pick the book • Choose a special place for reading in your G Get books at the right age home – each person will probably want their level own place. E Enjoy your time together • Select a family time to read together if the T Try facial expressions and children are younger, separately if the voices that tell the story children are older and reading on their own. H Help your child dare to read a • Select a book and allow everyone to read at word his or her own pace. E Explain as you go • Get the family together to discuss the book R Read, read, read! after everyone has had a chance to read it. PLAY TIME • Use open-ended discussion questions: P Put building blocks with toys o How do you feel after reading the L Let children explore new book? activities o What parts of the book did you enjoy A Allow children to grow and or dislike? exercise o What would you have done if you Y You can join the fun had been the main character? o What was your favorite part? T Try out the games yourself o Would you have done something different if you were the main I Instill a sense of wonder as children learn new things character? M Make time for play E Enjoy the moment with your READING NOW FOR child SUCCESS TOMORROW MEAL TIME M Make meals together as a If you and your children are family going to learn to read, get ready for a E Eat simple, healthy meals wonderful adventure. You will learn the power together of reading and the doors it can open in your A Allow yourself time to enjoy life. You will be able to know the “secret the meal information” readers know. You will unlock the Let children share in the L mystery of signs. It will be a brand new world conversation for you and your family. S Set the stage for a relaxed meal
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USING MOVIES IN THE CLASSROOM… PRINTABLE LETTERS MAYBE! TO PARENTS This site provides an archive of Teachers like to use movies in the classroom for a variety of 27 printable parent reasons: as a reward; to entertain the children; to bring children letters covering and parents together to enjoy themselves; to provide a relief of subjects as diverse as stress for children and adults; and many other reasons that parent/teacher seem so worthy. Many of these teachers have never thought conferences, reading about whether they had the right to do this. and writing tips to use A new awareness of copyright regulations is causing with children, fun teachers to ask if it is permissible for them to use movies with activities, health and safety tips and their own students. The answer to that question is a resounding TV tips. All letters include English – MAYBE! If your agency has copyright use agreements with and Spanish versions. the holders of the copyright for that film, you Visit probably have rights to use the program in the http://www.pbs.org/teachers/earlychil classroom, but be sure to check with your dhood/connecting/printablearchive- administrator. Just because you have always pdf.html. done something, or it seems so harmless, or you want to help children have fun, does not SO YOU HAVE TO WRITE necessarily mean you have the right to do it. A GRANT… Perhaps you have heard that schools have Perhaps you have watched as exemptions from copyright restrictions. In some circumstances others struggled writing a grant for they do under the “Face-to-Face Teaching Exemption,” but the that additional funding so requirements are stringent and all of the following requirements desperately needed to continue or must be met: expand a service. You may have • A teacher or instructor must be present. even congratulated yourself for being • The showing must take place in a classroom setting with able to avoid the whole process. But only the enrolled students attending. that was then and this is now, • The movie is used as an essential part of the core, current and you are suddenly curriculum being taught. The instructor should be able to faced with the need to show how the use of the motion picture contributes to the write a grant yourself, overall required course study and syllabus. You should be and you don’t have able to prove this. any idea where to • The movie being used is a legitimate copy, not taped from a start! There’s help. legitimate copy or taped from TV. “Show Me the Money: If you have questions, there are some excellent resources Tiips & Resources for Successfull available. One is the USA Movie Licensing “Frequently Asked Grant Wriitiing” wiillll llead you through Questions” site at http://www.movlic.com/k12/faqs.html. Another the grant wriitiing (and seekiing) excellent resource is the PBS Teachers “Copyright & Fair Use” process. The guiide iis avaiillablle at http://www.pbs.org/teachers/copyright/. The American Library onlliine at Association (ALA) Library Fact Sheet Number 7 “Video and hhttp://www.educationworld.com/a_cuttp://www.educationworld.com/a_cu Copyright” includes lots of useful information, and is located at rrr/profdev/profdev039.shtmlr/profdev/profdev039.shtml. http://www.ala.org/ala/alalibrary/libraryfactsheet/alalibraryfactshe et7.cfm.
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Arthur imaginative activities that lead to important http://pbskidsgo.org/arthur lessons in caring, sharing and cooperating with others. Arthur follows the adventures and Clifford the Big Red Dog misadventures of 8-year-old Arthur Read (an http://pbskids.org/clifford aardvark), his little sister D.W. and his friends and family. Each of the episodes consists of two Clifford, his human Emily stories that focus on themes central to children's Elizabeth and his dog pals lives. Cleo and T-Bone introduce The characters on Arthur grapple with the children to gentle lessons same issues that many children in the audience about being part of a face: maintaining friendships, working things out community, acceptance and resolving with siblings, dealing with fears and doing the differences. Clifford's "every dog" kindness has right thing. The show can serve as a springboard made him and his book series enormously for family conversations that invite kids to talk popular with parents and kids for almost 40 about similar situations in their lives. years.
Between the Lions http://pbskids.org/lions Curious George http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge
Curious George, based on the Between the Lions is funded in part by a children's classic created by Ready To Learn cooperative agreement with the Margret and H.A. Rey in 1941, U.S. Department of Education through PBS. uses George's insatiable curiosity as a way of Theo, Cleo, Lionel and Leona - a family of lions - acquainting preschoolers with key concepts in run a magical library where characters pop out of math, science and engineering. books, vowels sing and words take on a life of their own. The series combines puppetry, animation and live action to help young children Cyberchase learn to read. http://pbskidsgo.org/cyberchase Between the Lions gives young viewers a chance to have meaningful and manageable Cyberchase is an animated adventure series reading experiences by using key words in about a team of kids on exciting missions in simple, decodable, connected text onscreen. The cyberspace. To thwart the evil villain, the heroes program also reinforces high-frequency "sight" have to use brain power and math skills. As they words to help children become more comfortable travel to fantastical cyber-sites, the kids learn that with reading. math is fun, math is about problem-solving, and boy, does it come in handy! Each episode of Cyberchase emphasizes one Big Comfy Couch "big math idea," revealed through several http://www.bigcomfycouch scenarios. The format helps viewers develop an .us/ understanding of the concept through various approaches to the same idea. Children learn through games, stories and other Page 5 of 8 Dragon Tales Martha Speaks http://pbskids.org/dragontales http://pbskids.org/martha/ What happens when Dragon Tales is an animated fantasy- Martha the dog eats adventure series about six-year-old Emmy and alphabet soup and it her four-year-old brother Max who are gives her the power of transported to Dragon Land. They're joined by speech? This special their friend Enrique who uses his Spanish dog experiences special language skills and quick wit to help them out of adventures. Based on jams. The kids meet dragon friends Ord, Cassie, the best-selling books Zak and Wheezie (a two-headed dragon) and by Susan Meddaugh, the program is designed to their teacher Quetzal. They all work together to bridge vocabulary gaps common to many young overcome obstacles, face fears and learn new children. strategies for dealing with challenges.
Fetch with Ruff Ruffman Maya & Miguel http://pbskidsgo.org/fetch http://pbskidsgo.org/mayaandmiguel
Part game show, part reality TV, and part Maya & Miguel chronicles the adventures, and spoof, FETCH! features real kids, real sometimes misadventures, of 10-year-old challenges, real science, and an unreal, siblings Maya and Miguel Santos, and features animated dog host named Ruff Ruffman. their family, relatives and a richly diverse Funded in large part by the National Science neighborhood of friends. Foundation, the series focuses on real world Each episode focuses on a particular set of science, following six young contestants as they vocabulary words, which are repeated throughout pursue questions, conduct experiments, and the show. In addition, Maya & Miguel fosters a actively investigate the world around them. The positive attitude toward knowing and learning program’s primary science themes are animals, more than one language. air and space and invention. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood It’s a Big, Big World http://pbskids.org/rogers http://pbskids.org/bigbigworld Award-winning host Fred Rogers visits It's a Big, Big World takes children into the neighbors and places to help children learn about rainforest, high atop the World Tree, home to a the world around them. He talks with young diverse group of animal characters. There they'll viewers about their feelings as accompany Snook, an energetic giant tree sloth, they deal with the challenges and his pals – including Smooch and Winslow, and joys of growing and rambunctious marmoset siblings, Madge, an learning. These themes are ancient she-turtle with the map of the world on reinforced in the Neighborhood her back, and many others – on adventures and of Make-Believe, where puppets investigations of the world around them. and humans work together to solve problems and help each other. The program's guiding principle is that science Mister Rogers' Neighborhood gives children isn't a bunch of facts, it's a process of discovery. the tools to learn. It helps them have a healthy Kids learn that there is a lot that they can curiosity about their world, to look and listen discover about science, animals, geography, and carefully, to develop self-control, to deal with their the big, big world around them. feelings, to get along with others, to be imaginative and creative, and to feel good about who they are and what they can become.
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Reading Rainbow, hosted by LeVar Burton, builds lasting friendships between children and This series uses comedy to promote books. Each episode pairs the dramatic narration exploration, discovery and science readiness of a book with engaging field trips and up-close among preschoolers. Sid starts each episode adventures – sparking interest in reading and with a new question (“Why are my shoes learning for young viewers. Having an interest in shrinking?” “Why do bananas get mushy?”) and books, reading, the world and learning is key to embarks on a fun-filled day of finding answers success in school. Reading Rainbow motivates with the help of family and friends. children to read, introduces them to new experiences, teaches respect for others and Super WHY! helps them develop a positive self-concept. It http://pbskids.org/superwhy/parentsteachers/inde also reinforces the fundamentals of literacy/ x.html organizing information and using descriptive
language. Super WHY! encourages and inspires children to develop a love of reading through fun, Sesame Street interactive reading adventures that are based on http://pbskids.org/sesame proven learning techniques. It is the first superhero property that helps children learn to read through interactive fairytale adventures. Sesame Street is funded in part by a Ready To Learn WordGirl cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department http://pbskids.org/wordgirl of Education through PBS. Sesame Street, the recipient of 85 Emmys, engages children with its The Amazing Colossal Adventures of unique blend of excitement, humor and WordGirl follows the everyday life and superhero compassion. Sesame Street helps children learn adventures of WordGirl as she fights crime and and grow in a constantly changing, continually enriches vocabulary usage. challenging environment. Sesame Street is built around a Word World comprehensive, whole child curriculum created http://pbskids.org/wordworld/parentsandteachers/ by in-house child psychologists and educators. index.html Every segment, every song, and every story is designed to educate young viewers about a Word World is a children's television specific lesson – and every year the curriculum production where words are the stars of the focus changes to address the current educational show. Children watch letters morph into words needs of children. that become beloved characters.
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Professional Development = The Way to Success
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