Dear Friends,

Thank you for joining us! This month, we continue our celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, we learn about World Mental Health Day on October 10, and, as the weather starts to cool a bit, we learn about autumn and butterfly migration, which takes place this time of year. We invite you to explore these wonderful PBS KIDS programs and the accompanying resources on PBS LearningMedia.

• Carl the Collector (7:30 am - weekdays on 9.1)
• Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (8 am - weekdays on 9.1)
• Rosie’s Rules (8:30 am - weekdays on 9.1)
• Sesame Street (9 am - weekdays on 9.1)
• Elinor Wonders Why (11 am - weekdays on 9.1)

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

FREE Environmental Educator Resources

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 here. 

Thirst for Power: Featured FREE Educational Resources for 6th - 12th grade: Explore the connections between water and energy throughout history with these Thirst for Power resources on PBS LearningMedia! This is the story of civilization's quest for abundant water and energy from ancient Roman aqueducts in Europe to modern day massive hydroelectric power stations. Thirst for Power explores our dependence on water for energy as well as hidden vulnerabilities in our modern, water-dependent energy systems.

KLRN Educator Trainings

We invite you to join us for our October virtual sessions which, as always, are free of charge and offer continuing education credit! Here are the sessions we are offering this month:

Awesome Autumn: Teaching Resources with PBS LearningMedia 
Wednesday, 10/15 (from 6 pm - 7 pm) 

Join KLRN for teaching resources all about autumn 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.
 

The Healthy Kids Project: A Heart Healthy Harvest
Wednesday, 10/22 (from 6 pm - 8 pm) 

Join KLRN for teaching resources all about creating a delicious, budget friendly, and heart-healthy feast with resources from The Healthy Kids Project. This session is geared toward early childhood through 2nd grade educators, but all are welcome. 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.
 

Encouraging Curiosity & Compassion in Your Classroom with Carl the Collector
Tuesday, 10/28 (from 6 pm - 7 pm)

Join KLRN for a session on Developing Children’s Emotional Intelligence with the PBS Show Carl the Collector. 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.
 

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: 

• Carl the Collector (Grades PreK-5) Carl the Collector follows the everyday adventures of Carl, a warm-hearted autistic raccoon who loves collecting things. The show focuses on social and emotional learning, emphasizing self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship skills. It also explores self-identity through Carl’s perspective. Carl’s talents – a laser-focus pursuit of his goals, attention to detail, and a distinctive way of looking at and experiencing the world around him – have helped him amass a collection for just about every occasion. Carl has a lot of energy and is logical and precise, yet he often struggles with anxiety in new situations and has difficulty when things don’t go according to plan. Like all of his friends, he is learning that there is no right or wrong way to be himself. Carl and his friends work and play together to discover what makes each of us who we are—and just as importantly, what makes each person unique. The show celebrates and illustrates that, while we all have something in common, we are each unique and have something special to offer.
   
• 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.
   
• 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!
   
• 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!
   
• 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.

Thank you for what you do, and thank you for being you. You are special. In the words of Mister Rogers, “There is only one person in the whole world like you, and people can like you just because you’re you.” Reach out to us anytime at education@klrn.org. 

With appreciation,

KLRN Education Team