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KLRN Educator Resources | February 2024

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Ian Cruz
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promotional image for new PBS KIDS show Lyla in the Loop - a Black family (a mother, father, and four children) smile. Next to them is a blue creature who looks like a cat.
KLRN Education

Dear Friends,

This month, and all year long, let’s learn more and celebrate African American History, love, and respect. On KLRN, you can always find an excellent variety of outstanding programs both on-air and online. This month, on February 5, the new PBS Kids show Lyla in the Loop premieres on air! This funny and engaging new animated series for kids ages 4-8 is about Lyla Loops and her fantastical blue sidekick, Stu, who use creative and strategic problem-solving and critical thinking skills to help their family, friends, and community! From building homemade carnival games to creating a new sandwich for the family restaurant– Lyla, Stu, and the whole Loops crew tackle challenges with equal servings of humor and heart. Learn more about this great new series here!

Check out these awesome programs on KLRN this month:

  • Monday, February 5: Lyla in the Loop
  • Friday, February 9 at 8pm: Gospel Live! Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 
  • Monday, February 12 at 8pm: Gospel (Part 1)
  • Tuesday, February 13 at 8pm: Gospel (Part 2)


Also enjoy favorites like Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Sesame Street, and Work It Out Wombats! See the KLRN Schedule for details.

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

  • Thursday, 02/08 from 6pm-7pm (virtual): KLRN Educator Session: African American History Teaching Resources with PBS Learning Media
  • Saturday, 02/10 from 9am-12pm (in-person at KLRN): “Active, Healthy, and Strong”: Part 3 of a 3-Part Series, Growing Healthy and Strong Series
  • Tuesday, 02/13 from 6pm-8pm (virtual): KLRN Educator Session: The Healthy Kids Project: Taking Care of Our Hearts
  • Thursday, 02/15 from 6pm-7pm  (virtual): KLRN Educator Session: Learn the Signs - Act Early
     

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 Firstmark Credit Union for generously supporting KLRN’s Educator Sessions. 

We are also excited to tell you about the third annual S.E.E. Your Future Career Day! This event will take place from 1pm-4pm on Saturday, February 24 at the St. Philip's College campus at 1801 Martin Luther King Drive, San Antonio, TX 78203. Everyone is welcome to attend and will have the opportunity to explore various careers in STEAM and the Smart Energy Education (SEE) field, as well as to participate in hands-on learning activities related to STEAM and SEE. Please learn more and register here. 

On PBS Learning Media, 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 the over  30,000 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 Learning Media collections and resources we recommend this month are: 

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (Grades PreK-2) Social-emotional development and academic success are much more related than many people think. We often hear talk about the academic curriculum or the social-emotional approach to early education as if these are two separate things. Research tells us that for children to be successful in school, they must be mentally healthy and they must have good interpersonal skills. Emotional development skills include the ability to regulate behavior, to manage feelings, to feel competent in completing tasks, and confident in trying new things. 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 with catchy, musical strategies that reinforce each theme and that preschoolers and adults will both sing – and use! – together in their daily lives.

Sesame Street (Grades PreK-2) Do you know how to get to Sesame Street? This collection is designed to engage preschoolers in everyday learning by teaching core skills in Math, Literacy, STEM, and Social and Emotional Development. Here you'll find hundreds of videos, games, and printable materials to help you to excite even the youngest learners. Plus, check out more from Sesame Street, including cross-platform educational games spanning wide-ranging curricular topics and STEM educator guides - just browse through this collection page!

Work It Out Wombats (Grades PreK-K) Work It Out Wombats!™, a PBS KIDS® animated series for preschoolers and kindergartners, follows the adventures of a playful trio of marsupial siblings—Malik, Zadie, and Zeke—who live with their grandmother (named Super!) in a fantastical treehouse apartment complex. The Treeborhood is home to a diverse and quirky community of neighbors, who just happen to be wombats, snakes, moose, kangaroos, iguanas, fish, tarsiers, and eagles! With an educational focus on computational thinking, Work It Out Wombats! introduces children to a creative way of thinking that helps them solve problems and complete tasks in more organized ways, using a toolkit of skills from computer science.

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.

Watt Watchers (All Grades): Watt Watchers is a state-sponsored STEM program to help boost energy literacy for K-12 students and help schools save money by saving energy. Through the program, students, teachers, and families will have access to energy saving tips, activities, and lessons. Launched in 1985, Watt Watchers is an updated resource that builds upon the original beloved program and provides a modern look at energy, sustainability and conservation.

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


 

Mental Health Resources

If you or someone you know is hurting or in crisis, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

IDRA SEEN: Intercultural Development Research Association Southern Education Equity Network: https://idraseen.org/