Dear Friends,

This month, we celebrate Earth Month. On KLRN, you can always find an excellent variety of outstanding programs both on-air and online. Check out these wonderful programs on KLRN this month: 

KLRN's digital series Terra Verde highlights efforts of conservation and sustainability in South Central Texas. This area is the fastest growing region of the United States. Terra Verde looks at people, companies and communities doing what they can to protect our unique and beautiful environment. If you are an educator, we invite you to explore engaging, state standards-aligned teaching resources that can be used at school and at home in our training session, Teaching Conservation and Sustainability with Terra Verde. Videos and access related support materials are also available for free on Terra Verde on PBS LearningMedia. 

• Lyla in the Loop (7am - weekdays on 9.1)
• Rosie’s Rules (8:30 am - weekdays on 9.1)
• Elinor Wonders Why (11am - weekdays on 9.1)
• Alma’s Way (11:30 am - weekdays on 9.1)

Simplify Learning with FREE Environmental Educator Resources! The best way to Take Care of Texas is by learning about how we affect the natural environment of our state on a personal and community level. By educating yourself and others about Air, Water, and Waste topics, you are becoming a more environmentally conscious Texan! Gear up for Earth Month with FREE classroom activities. It's our way of celebrating and promoting environmental awareness in education. Did you know we have 100s of teacher resources? Many materials are available in English & Spanish, as well as available for download or to be shipped directly to you. 

Sign Up and Explore our Earth Day resources. 

Please see the KLRN Schedule for details on these and even more great shows for the whole family!

FREE EDUCATOR TRAININGS IN APRIL: 

We invite you to join us for our April educator sessions which, as always, are free of charge and offer continuing education credit.

Tuesday, 04/08 from 6pm-8pm: KLRN Educator Session: The Healthy Kids Project: Learning Spaces with special guest Cara Magrane: Join KLRN for a Healthy Kids Project session focused on learning spaces.  This session is geared toward early childhood and elementary educators, but all are welcome to attend. Thank you to the San Antonio Medical Foundation for supporting this event. 2 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of the session and accompanying post survey. 

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83899706066?pwd=qYA3Jaca6IgKDO4kIcv6XwJZEBc94j.1

Meeting ID: 838 9970 6066

Passcode: 894116

Tuesday, 04/15 from 6-7pm: KLRN Educator Session: Superpowers with PBS LearningMedia: Join KLRN to celebrate Autism Awareness Month and to share teaching resources from PBS LearningMedia. This session is open to educators of all grade levels. Thank you to CPS Energy for supporting this event. 1 hour of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of the session and accompanying post survey.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87331123386?pwd=ey87BnNoGTEvGVfjycM1HzHsLCa1Yb.1

Meeting ID: 873 3112 3386

Passcode: 816688

Thursday, 04/17 from 6-7pm: KLRN Educator Session: The Power of Reading with PBS Resources: Join KLRN for a session where we will discuss sparking children’s joy for reading from a young age to lay the foundation for success in school. This helps boost their vocabulary, oral language, and comprehension, but also their ability to identify words, letter-sound recognition, and print awareness. This session is geared toward early childhood educators, but all are welcome to attend. Thank you to CPS Energy for supporting this training. 1 hour of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of the session and accompanying post survey.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/uWETLQ4uQ3WO0hxHVTrY9A

Meeting ID: 844 0258 7059

Passcode: 327967

Please visit https://www.klrn.org/events/ to learn more and to register for any (or all!) of these sessions. Thank you to the San Antonio Medical Foundation and CPS Energy for generously supporting KLRN’s Educator Sessions. 

PBS LEARNINGMEDIA RESOURCES:

On PBS LearningMedia, you can find thousands of high-quality educational resources for all grade levels for free! Setting up an account is easy to do (and completely free!) Visit https://klrn.pbslearningmedia.org/ to sign up today to get access to any of thousands of state standards-aligned educational resources for free! Here is a short video tutorial that explains how in a few quick steps, you can create an account and create class rosters, too. Some highlighted PBS LearningMedia collections and resources we recommend this month are: 

Lyla in the Loop (Grades K-2) Lyla in the Loop is a PBS KIDS animated series for kids ages 4-8. The show stars Lyla, a dynamic 7-year-old girl, her close-knit family, fantastical blue sidekick Stu, and a host of relatable and quirky characters living in her city community, who together spotlight creative problem-solving and critical thinking skills while working collaboratively with others. In every adventure, Lyla collaborates with family and friends to help others in her community while introducing the audience to foundational computational thinking concepts. The series supports a wide range of learners, modeling creative expression and flexible step-by-step approaches to problem-solving.

Rosie's Rules (Grades PreK-2) Rosie’s Rules is a new PBS KIDS® animated comedy series for preschoolers starring 5-year-old Rosie Fuentes, a Mexican-American girl just beginning to learn about the wow-mazing world. Rosie’s Rules aims to teach children concrete social studies lessons about how a community works, helping them develop an awareness of themselves as individuals and as part of a broader society. Like many children across the country, Rosie is part of a blended, multicultural family; Papá is from Mexico City and Mom is from rural Wisconsin. Rosie has a little brother, Iggy, and an older sister, Crystal, who is Mom’s child from her first marriage. The Fuentes family lives together in suburban Texas with their cat (and Rosie’s partner-in-crime), Gatita. Rosie is bilingual in English and Spanish and loves to celebrate her multicultural identity. Throughout the series, she joyfully introduces viewers to the art, traditions and foods of the Southwest, Midwest and Mexico.

Elinor Wonders Why (Grades PreK-2) Be curious with Elinor and her friends, Ari and Olive, in the PBS KIDS series Elinor Wonders Why. In this show, Elinor, an observant and curious bunny rabbit, Ari, a funny and imaginative bat, and Olive, a perceptive and warm elephant, follow their natural curiosity and seek out answers using their science inquiry skills. Find an array of resources—including interactive lessons, playlists, viewing guides, and printable activities—to encourage your students to ask questions, make observations, and bask in the wonderment of nature’s amazing answers!

Alma's Way (Grades PreK-2) Alma’s Way follows 6-year-old Alma Rivera, a proud, confident Puerto Rican girl who lives in the Bronx with her family among a diverse group of close-knit friends and community members. In every episode, Alma’s Way aims to model self-awareness, self-advocacy, social awareness, cultural competency and responsible decision-making—encouraging kids to generate and value their own ideas and questions. Alma’s Way celebrates and explores the thinking process—Alma’s “way” is to think things through! As she shares her observations and feelings and works through challenges, she speaks directly to young viewers, offering them a window into her everyday life.

KLRN’s The Healthy Kids Project (Grades PreK-2): The Healthy Kids Project uses song, movement, and animation in ten engaging lessons that support healthy choices and attitudes--teaching not only successful actions (limiting refined sugar, choosing water as a beverage, choosing fresh foods over processed foods), but also successful strategies (valuing the body, not letting past mistakes impede future success, taking one step at a time toward a goal, helping others to make good choices.) Each lesson contains a 60-second video and is accompanied by an overview, lesson plan and student activity. It’s a turnkey kit for teachers to impart critical life lessons about health, without taking time away from core subjects.

As always, at the bottom of this post, you will find a list of links of organizations, both local and nationally, that provide mental health resources. Please know that you are important and you make the world a nicer place. Thank you for being you. Reach out to us anytime at education@klrn.org.

With appreciation,

KLRN Education Team