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KLRN Learn at Home for Monday, June 1, 2020

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KLRN Learn at Home
KLRN Education

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 uncertain times, KLRN is adapting and creating educational resources in an easy-to-follow format. We aim to provide educational content and resources that support every family in our community.

With these daily blog posts, you will find two PBS Kids programs featured, and accompanying educational activities that will help extend 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

Hero Elementary

Monday, June 1 at 7 AM and 1 PM

If you're a kid with superpowers, you belong at Hero Elementary! It's where young heroes in training can learn how to master their less-than-perfected powers and practice day-saving action. But when their superpowers aren't enough for the job, they can always rely on an additional arsenal of powers: The Superpowers of Science! These kids may be superhuman, but it's science that makes humans truly super.

Infant/Toddler

  • Explore How Block Structures Fall
    Knocking block structures down — although it might annoy older siblings — is one way that two-year-olds investigate pushes and pulls. Help your child build a simple block tower and then invite her to knock it down. How do the blocks fall when you push on the tower hard? What about when you push it gently? Try pushing or pulling a block out from the top, middle or bottom of the tower. What happens? Remind her that it’s only okay to knock down her own towers!
  • Play With Push and Pull Toys
    Lots of toys for two-year-olds are made for pushing and pulling — like dogs to pull by a string, doll strollers to push and toy trains to pull and push along a track. As your child plays, draw her attention to how these toys move as a result of her actions. Whoops! The dog fell over when you pulled it around the corner! or Your doll carriage is stuck in the doorway! How can you push it over the threshold? You can also support her learning about pushes and pulls by joining in her play with ramps, cars and blocks. The car rolled all the way down the ramp! How can you get it to go back up?
  • Squirt, Squeeze and Spray Water
    Even when you are busy in the kitchen, you and your child can investigate pushes and pulls! Set her up at the sink with a basin of warm water, some plastic cups and bottles and kitchen tools she can use to push water, like squeeze bottles and spray bottles. Draw her attention to how the water flows, squirts and sprays as a result of her actions. What happens when you squeeze the bottle hard? What about when you squeeze it gently?

Preschool

  • Which Objects Can Balance?
    Sparks’ Crew notices that ice cream cones are pointy on the bottom. You can’t make an ice cream cone stand up by itself. The cone doesn’t balance. It wobbles and falls down. You and your child can use your Superpowers of Science! Your child can investigate different objects. Your child can predict which kinds of shapes can balance. Then help your child test it out and observe what happens! What shapes balance? What shapes fall down?
  • Push, Slide, Bounce! Make Your Own Mini-Golf Game
    When Sparks’ Crew saves the day at the Super Duper Store, Sara Snap gives the Crew’s raft a strong push. The raft bumps into other objects and bounces off in different directions! You and your child can explore the science how things move with this exciting game. Your child can investigate the strength and direction of pushes. And your child can predict what will happen when an object collides with another object. Celebrate as your child figures out how to reach the finish line!
  • Sparks Crew Coloring Page

Parent Resources

Use the Superpowers of Science to Play and Learn

Odd Squad

Monday, June 1 at 2 PM

Shapely University - Agents compete against rival Odd Squad agents to solve an odd problem. Curriculum: geometry and spatial sense, parallel lines, parallelograms. Slow Day - Otis and Olympia investigate why people in town are stuck in slow motion. Curriculum: data collection and analysis, geometry and spatial skills, understanding maps.

Infant/Toddler

  • DIY: Yarn Snowball
    Combine art and geometry this winter by making DIY Yarn Snowballs!
  • Nature Walk
    Go outside on a nature walk and look for symmetrical things. Use pattern blocks to create symmetrical pictures. Find circles in picture books. Go on a "shape hunt" and find all the rectangles in your home. Look for shapes such as triangles or squares that you have hidden all around a room.

Preschool

  • Play With Your Food! Tangram Puzzle Sandwiches
    Ready to eat some geometry? Here’s a quick way to turn lunchtime into math play!
  • Create Geometric Circle Art
    Can a circle be created from a series of straight lines? The answer is yes! Odd Squad agents frequently use geometry to crack tough cases, but shapes are more than tools for the job. In this activity, your child can make beautiful circle art using a ruler to draw straight lines.

Parent Resources

Breakthrough: Episode 6

Monday, June 1 at 4 PM

Dial in to the fascinating history of the smartphone, from its roots in Morse Code to 2007, when Apple unveiled the first-ever iPhone. Plus, see how the next generation of smartphones will allow us to communicate through them just by thinking.

Grades 6-12

Turn Your Smartphone Into a Science Lab

In this video from Inside Science, see how researchers at the University of Washington turn your smartphone into a microscope.

Grades 6-12

Science Spotlight: How Your Smartphone Knows Where You Are

Quantum physics, Einstein’s theory of relativity and atomic clocks that are accurate to one billionth of a second—all of these are crucial in allowing your smartphone to pinpoint your precise location almost anywhere on Earth. Learn how GPS receivers use trilateration to track your location, even though atmospheric disturbances might occasionally cause accuracy problems.

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.

Parent Resources:

  • PBS KIDS Backgrounds for Your Next Video Chat
  • KLRN is offering NEW PARENT Sessions go to the Events Page to register for these upcoming FREE sessions on Social Emotional Development 5/14, Healthy Kids 5/21 and Energy Conservation in the Home 5/28.
  • For a list of FREE Wi-Fi locations around the community go here.
  • The most recent KLRN Family Newsletter can be foundhere.
  • Welcome to Frontline Child Care! On this site you will find information on child care options for Texas' frontline workers fighting to stop the spread of COVID-19.
  • Find food assistance, help paying bills, and other free or reduced cost programs, including new programs for the COVID-19 pandemic here.
  • New Sesame Street site with Autism resources in English and Spanish. Resources highlight that all children are amazing in their own ways. And, at a time when many families are experiencing unprecedented uncertainty, the resources provide coping strategies for parents of children with autism, supporting them as they adjust to a “for-now” normal while still addressing their children’s unique needs.
  • United Way of San Antonio various 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.
  • Mental Health & Substance Use Resources from Texas Health and Human Services

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