KLRN strives to provide valuable educational content to every family in our viewing area, from great drama, world-class music, in-depth news, fascinating "how-to" programs and, best of all — non-violent educational programs for your children.
During these times of uncertainty KLRN is adapting and creating new educational resources in an easy to follow format. We aim to provide the educational content and resources that support every family in our community.
During these daily blog posts, you will find that we will feature two PBS Kids programs and provide accompanying educational activities that will help extend the learning into your home. In addition to that we have added a new 4 PM time slot that aims at providing some content for older school age students. You will find resources tied to each of these programs aired daily with lessons from our PBS LearningMedia site.
We hope that this will provide your family a way to enjoy the PBS shows you love and extend the learning into your home.
All the best,
KLRN’s Education Team
Sesame Street
Friday at 10 AM
Rosita, Abby, and Telly play hospital and pretend to be a doctor, nurse, and x-ray technician. Chris pretends to be their patient and they help heal his funny bone. After viewing the PBS program, try these fun activities:
Explore Feelings
When kids express tough emotions, let them know that grown-ups have big feelings, too. You can help kids think of ways to work with them (take deep breaths, hug it out), but let them know it’s also good to name those feelings and just feel them for a while. Explain that sometimes big emotions can make us feel like we’ll explode, but feelings can change, and we’re strong enough to feel all of them.
Read books about feelings. Sesame Street has new e-book available for free check out the new Caring site with tons of resources.
Infants: Read books about feelings with your baby -babies love to look at pictures of faces — they know that is where they will learn the most about the world. They are primed to want to study faces.
Toddlers: Toddler Activity Use the Feeling Faces print out as a tool to help children label and express their feelings. You can also draw your own feelings faces on index cards or paper and label the names of the feelings for your child.
Preschool Activity: when children are worried or angry, they need a parent’s help finding the words or actions to show their feelings. They may act out because don’t know how else to express themselves. Check out the Think, Breathe, Do app laugh and learn together as you help a Sesame Street monster friend calm down and solve everyday challenges. Try teaching kids this three-step strategy to teach problem-solving, self-control, planning, and persistence. It works for grown-ups, too! Grown-ups can boost the confidence of little ones, working together to create this “I Can” flower.
Odd Squad
Friday at 2:00 PM
Mid-Day in the Garden of Good and Odd: When things in town get covered in jam, the agents turn to Odd Todd for help. Curriculum: Solving codes using patterns and addition.
Failure to Lunch: When the agents go to lunch, they struggle to relax and ignore the oddness. Curriculum: Measurement.
Fun activities
Create and Crack Codes for Pattern Practice: Spotting tricky patterns and cracking secret codes is the only way to solve some of the oddest cases that land at Odd Squad Headquarters, and now it’s training time for agents everywhere. Only with careful practice can agents hone their pattern-sleuthing skills to put things right every time — and potentially become a Patternista like their fearless leader, Ms. O. Download the activity here.
Odd Squad Game: Use your Math skills to solve multiple cases online in this game Cases!
For more Odd Squad articles, activities, games and more go here.
American Masters: Ursula K. Le Guin
Friday at 4 PM
Explore the remarkable life and legacy of late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin whose groundbreaking work, including "The Left Hand of Darkness," transformed American literature by bringing science fiction into the literary mainstream.For
For Grades 3-5
In this Cyberchase video clip, Digit and Matt have misplaced their timer that they use to cook. They realize that they can use the hands of a clock to measure time passing. This clip can be used in addition to the lesson plan and worksheet to reinforce students' timekeeping skills.
For Grades 6-12
Pushing Boundaries: Science Fiction and Feminism: Ursula K. Le Guin
By redefining the parameters of science fiction, Le Guin herself had to rethink the role of women in the genre. In addition to discussion questions and vocabulary, support materials also ask students to think about how changing the perspective in a story can alter our understanding of the main characters and the central conflict.
We hope you enjoyed some of these activities. If you follow KLRN on your facebook account please be sure to share your activities and use the #KLRNeducates and #KLRNLearnatHome tags.
Tune in tomorrow for more learning fun with your favorite PBS Kids programs.
Keep an eye out for upcoming events on KLRN’s event page such as:
- How to Use Learning Media at Home for Teachers & Parents
- Healthy Kids Activity Ideas to Incorporate at Home
- NEW Play & Learn at Home Virtual Group funded by United Way of San Antonio
Parent Resources:
- NEW Sesame Street Page for resources for parents and amazing activities for children. Tons of activities and free digital Sesame Street books!. Sesame Street Caring for Each Other.
- United Way of San Antoniovarious resources.
- Temporary emergency childcare assistance (up to 3 weeks) will be provided for licensed and registered childcare center or licensed/registered home care. Info here.