This summer, PBS KIDS has focused on literacy with 10 weeks of themed programming. SID THE SCIENCE KID “Get Up & Move Week” will kick off on August 6 and feature the following episodes:
“Slide to the Side” – August 6
“Sid’s Super Kick” – August 7
“Get Up & Move” – August 8
“Sid’s Amazing Lungs” – August 9
“Must See TV” – August 10
Watch all week, August 6 – 10, 2012 at 10am.
Did you get a chance to meet Elmo and Ernie on January 19th? These Sesame Street favorites made an appearance at the Meet & Greet hosted by KCPT before the Saturday morning performance of Sesame Street Live. Your local public television station is your source for Elmo, Ernie, Abby and so many more! Look below for your photo and stay tuned in to KCPT for the latest episodes. Post your photos and help all of your Facebook friends to find their way to Sesame Street!
Every week some 95,000 area students bring their studies to life with KCPT’s digital learning services. Our PBS LearningMedia™ is a great resource for students and educators and brings together the best of pubic media digital content from award-winning programs like NOVA, Nature, FRONTLINE, American Experience, and Sid the Science Kid. KCPT acts as the connector between this outstanding innovative digital content service and the educators and students at area schools.
Gary Brock, KCPT’s Director of Education, represented KCPT at the PBS LearningMedia™ Summit at PBS in Arlington Virginia last month. Sarah Hayden, second grade teacher from the Longfellow Elementary School in the Kansas City Public School District accompanied Gary. Sarah will work with KCPT to create workshops throughout the metro to promote the service to other schools.
Another educational initiative of KCPT is Raising Readers. The Martha Speaks Reading Buddies program now includes six high needs elementary schools in the greater Kansas City Metropolitan area. Currently 700 children are involved with the mentoring program. Fourth and fifth graders become Big Buddies and kindergartners and first graders become Little Buddies. During the ten sessions the Big Buddies mentor their Little Buddies by watching special Martha Speaks programs, playing games, writing in journals, and reading books together. The Little Buddies get to take the 10 books home allowing these high needs children to begin building a library and a love of reading.
KCPT hosted an early childhood workshop for area teachers last month. The Family Conservancy trained the teachers in advanced skills to be used to address the high needs children they work with on a daily basis. KCPT hosts four of these workshops each year and has over 40 in attendance at each workshop.
As you can see, KCPT is more than just television. We have a broad reach in the community to help inside and outside of the classroom. Great content plus great teachers plus great training equals life long success!
If you would like more information about our educational services, please visit our website at kcpt.org.
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Get ready for BIG fun when the Pteranodon family decides to take the Dinosaur Train to meet some of the biggest dinosaurs on earth during “Big Big Dinosaur Week,” four all-new episodes premiere Monday – Friday, August 13 – 17, 2012 on PBS KIDS. During their adventure, they meet Allie Alamosaurus, an enormous, long-necked sauropod with huge legs, and Denise Diplodocus, who has a heck of a neck! When they journey through the time tunnel to the Jurassic Period, our adventurers use the mighty whipping tail of Apollo Apatosaurus as a bridge during an action-filled treasure hunt. Finally, they meet up with their old frined Arnie Argentinosaurus, who has grown too big to ride on the Dinosaur Train any more. Tiny and Buddy arrange with Mr. Conductor for Arnie to be the first big dinosaur to ride on the new Dinosaur Train flatbed car!
Watch Monday – Friday, August 13 – 17, 2012 at 11am.
Get your picture with Buddy from Dinosaur Train and take the Dinosaur Train Discovery Tour through Sea Life Aquarium! On the self-guided tour, you’ll learn about the prehistoric ancestors of sharks, crabs and more.
Buddy will be at Sea Life Aquarium on Saturday, January 26th from 10am to 3pm. Tickets for admission to the aquarium are required and can be purchased through Sea Life Aquarium’s website. It is highly recommended that you purchase your tickets online and in advance of January 26th.
Randy Mason sits down with Black & Veatch’s Staffing Program Manager Shelly Arnett to discuss how this Kansas City-based, global engineering, consulting and construction company’s mentoring program is getting area students excited about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). KCPT has partnered with Black & Veatch to start a tutoring program for fifth-grade students at Santa Fe and Dobbs Elementary in the Hickman Mills School District, hoping to inspire the students to pursue careers in science-related fields.
This summer, PBS KIDS is focusing on literacy with 10 weeks of themed programming. This week THE CAT IN THE HAT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT! “Creepy Crawley Week” will kick off on July 30 and feature the following episodes:
“Night Lights/Go Snails Go!” – July 30
“Maps/Termite Towers” – July 31
“Reindeer Games/Along Came a Spider” – August 1
“Secret Super Digger/Pucker Up and Blow” – August 2
“Amazing Eyes/Water Walkers” – August 3
“No one knew better than Fred Rogers how to connect with children,” said Bill Isler, president of The Fred Rogers Company. “And, like Fred, Daniel Tiger will visit preschoolers every day. Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood is an exciting new series with all the right elements to appeal to today’s children and families. It’s well-poised to become a much-loved classic for years to come.”
Recent research proves what Fred Rogers knew all along: social and emotional competencies are the building blocks of doing well in school and in life. To help boost these invaluable skills among preschoolers, each episode of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood consists of two engaging stories that center on a common early learning theme such as dealing with disappointment. One of the key ingredients that sets the new series apart is its groundbreaking use of catchy, musical strategies that reinforce each theme and that preschoolers and parents will both sing – and use! – together in their daily lives. Every story includes an “imagination moment” in which Daniel plays out a preschool fantasy set to music. Then, the day’s strategy is reprised in a full song at the end.
Daniel Tiger talks directly to viewers, warmly drawing them in and making them feel like one of his neighbors. The series’ stories are based on extensive input from a wide range of early learning specialists, formative research with children and the benefit of more than 40 years of the work of Fred Rogers. It all adds up to a powerful tool for parents: an entertaining and thoughtful guide for today’s families that integrates music, interactivity and a research-based curriculum.
Watch weekdays at 10am.
Sure to spark a current of learning, THE ELECTRIC COMPANY is a multi-media literacy campaign charged with reducing the literacy gap between low and middle income families and advancing the idea that ‘reading is cool.’ Weekly episodes debuted nationally in 2009 and Season 3 premiered with all new episodes February 2011 on PBS KIDS GO!, the on-air and online destination designed entirely for early elementary school kids.
THE ELECTRIC COMPANY “Prankster Planet” will kick off on July 9 and feature the following episodes.
Each episode ends with a cliffhanger – offering a direct hand-off from the on-air story to a game that viewers can play online.
“The Limerick Slam” – July 9 (encore presentation on July 13)
“Fromage Here to Eternity” – July 10
“Electric Accompany” – July 11
“A Whole New Francine” – July 12
Watch July 9 – 13, 2012 at 4:30pm.
Calling ALL families! Bring your cameras and come meet your favorite PBS Kids canine characters: Clifford, Martha, and Ruff Ruffman at KCPT’s Bark in the Park on October 6. AND if you are a KCPT Family Member you can attend a special, early Meet & Greet at 9am and get discounted admission to the park. (non-KCPT Family Members attend at 11am) Want to get the added benefits and not a member? Join now!
Learn more about Paradise Park!
