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
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
Wednesday at 9 AM
Daniel Plays Ball: Daniel, Miss Elaina and Prince Wednesday are at the park with Prince Tuesday. They decide to play a game with a ball. Daniel struggles to catch the ball and gets very frustrated. All of his friends remind him to keep on trying and finally, he succeeds!
O Builds a Tower: In the block corner at school, O the Owl is determined to use all of the blocks to build the tallest tower in the world. After many failed attempts, he is frustrated, but Teacher Harriet and O's friends encourage him to try once again.
After viewing the PBS program, try these fun activities:
Build: Look for items to use around your home to build. You can use your building materials to create patterns, paint with blocks, make letters or use the blocks to measure items, this is called nonstandard measurement. Afterward talk about what you built or created with the blocks.
Infants: When your baby first starts playing with blocks, show her some fun activities, like dropping the blocks into a plastic bowl or container and then pouring them out. She'll also enjoy watching you create a tower of blocks, and then knocking them down herself.
Toddlers: When toddlers are first introduced to blocks, they may learn how to hold on to them, how they feel, how heavy they are, they explore the bright colors, and begin to carry them around. Soon toddlers are learning cause and effect as they are filling and dumping, stacking, knocking down and laying blocks side by side on the floor. Through block play a young child’s expressive and receptive language is being expanded by learning words such as “fill,” “dump,” “pick up,” “stack.”
Preschool Activity: At four and five children’s block play is more experienced, developed, balanced coordinated and organized. Children begin to combine structures to make more complex buildings. They may use block accessories such as people, transportation vehicles, and animals to engage in imaginary/ pretend play. They are learning more complex patterns, classifying, sequencing, counting, fractions and problem solving.
Explore Math and Science in this great PBS Kids article for parents Every Child is an Architect.
Check out Curious George Building Block Coloring Sheet here.
Pinkalicious & Peterrific
Wednesday at 1 PM
Mr. Socko: Peter is missing one of his favorite lucky socks! To help her brother out, Pinkalicious creates a sock puppet with the sock Peter has. Pinkalicious and Peter then work with the puppet, Mr. Socko, to retrace Peter's steps to find its other pair. Curriculum: (Visual Arts) An introduction to creating a puppet through found objects and learning to manipulate (or operate) it to create its character and show emotion.
A Pinkapurrfect Pet: The Pinkertons discover a cat on their front doorstep! Pinkalicious and Peter realize that while taking care of a cat is tough, things can get even hairier when they wake up to find three new kittens.
Puppet Play: Use puppets to act out stories, like Pinkalicious and Peterrific! Keep in mind that the characters don’t have to be “real” puppets – any stuffed animal, doll, sock, or object that you can pretend with will work! If you have some art supplies be creative and make your own puppets.
Help Peter find his way through the maze to the top of his block tower!
For more Fun Pinkalicious articles, activities, games and more go to PBS here.
Wonders of Mexico: Forests of the Maya
Wednesday at 4 PM
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, home to the Maya, is also home to thriving wildlife including monkeys, jaguars and tropical birds.
For Grades 1-4
Learn why rainforests are not only full of life, but also important to life, in this video from PLUM LANDING. Plum describes to her friends on planet Blorb why rainforests are home to so many plants and animals, and how some of the oxygen in the air you breathe might have come from rainforest plants thousands of miles away.
For Grades 5-8
The Mexican Underground: Cenotes
In some places of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, the forest floor has fallen in, leaving holes in the ground called cenotes. Cenotes were considered openings to the underworld by the ancient Mayans. In this video, Jonathan teams up with an expert cave diver to explore these spooky underground rivers and finds some amazing geologic formations. The accompanying lesson looks at the density and salinity of water that interact to form a halocline, and offers an activity to float an object on a halocline.
For Grades 6-12
National Geographic's Quest for the Lost Maya follows a team of archaeologists as they uncover evidence of a forgotten Mayan society in the Yucatán. Buried beneath an ancient pyramid deep in the Yucatán jungle, the team discovers an even more ancient royal palace complex.
They unearth a massive stone acropolis that rises nearly 30 feet above the jungle floor and is crowned with a ceremonial platform the size of four football fields; it could have held thousands of people. And, nearly 300 feet underground, they discover cryptic cave paintings that may be among the oldest Mayan iconography ever discovered in Mexico.
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 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.
