Super Why!
Super Why is a new show on PBS for ages 3-6. It is helping kids to learn to read, alphabet skills, word families, spelling, comprehension, and vocabulary. Super Why is the first original program Out from the Blue Enterprises as an innovator in interactive children’s entertainment. The creator Angela C. Santomero is also a co creator of Blue’s Clues.
Each episode is 24 minutes long in 3d magical world hidden behinds bookshelves. You then meet 4 best friends who star in each episode. You have Red from little Red Riding Hood, Pig from the Three Little Pigs, Princess from Princess and the Pea and Whyatt the curious little brother from Jack and the Beanstalk. Whyatt discovers he has a magical power of flying inside books from find the answers to his questions. Each of the characters are re-imagined as an everyday kid: Red rides roller blades; Pig drives a trike; Princess loves tea parties and dress-up; and Whyatt is the group's natural leader.
Each episode starts with a problem the kids can relate too (example that Jill from Jack and Jill was not being nice to Jack.) Then Whyatt calls all his friends to meet in the clubhouse where they then turn into their super-heros. Pig turns into Alpha Pig with Alphabet power. Red turns into Wonder Red with Word Power. Princess turns into Princess Presto with Spelling Power and Whyatt turns into Super Why with Reading Power. Each adventure they pick a story that is similar to a problem that one of the 4 characters are having. Once the Super characters are inside the book they read the story and find super letters that at then end of the story tells a message. Which helps the children on identifying each different letter, how to read and understand the stories at to work at a team.
At the end of episode all of the characters fly back to the clubhouse and they go over what just happened and what they learned, saying the alphabet with Pig and rhyming letters with Red or spelling with Princess. While Whyatt reads the story out loud. They go over the super letters they have found in the stories and find out that the super letters spelled. If the esposide was that Wolf from the 3 Little Pigs was mean they find out why he was mean, it was because the Wolf had no friends and he did not know how to act. So they will change the story around a little so that the Wolf is nice to the 3 Little Pigs and they can all be friends.
I have a 2 year old he loves this show. We were watching it and some of the Super Letters came on the screen and he knew2 out of the 4 letters he said them before Whyatt read them out loud I was so impressed, that he is learning so much about letters and reading.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Wonder Pets
Wonder Pets
Wonder Pets is an animated children’s television show for preschoolers. It was first debuted in March 2006.
Wonder Pets is about 3 classroom pets Linny a guinea pig, Ming Ming a duckling and Tuck a turtle that travel around the globe saving animals. These 3 pets do not have real super powers like any preschooler. They work as a team to save the animals in trouble. Each episode encourages teamwork, empathy, problem-solving skills, and an appreciation of music and humor.
About the Wonder Pets Characters
Linny the Guinea Pig she is the most educated out of the three. She often provides different zoological and geographical information to the other Wonder Pets. She is the one to remind the other Wonder Pets about team work and other values like sharing and empathy. Linny’s catch phrase is “this calls for some celery”, she says this at the end of each show after the save the animal and bring the animal back to it’s parents.
Ming-Ming the duckling, unlike the other Wonder Pets, she is able to fly. She can also speak "bird", allowing her to talk to other birds that the Wonder pets encounter. Ming-Ming also believes that her great grandfather was an eagle. Ming-Ming also likes to try to take on doing things herself, when she finally realizes that she can not do it alone, Linny has to reminder her about teamwork when they all can help each other.
Tuck the turtle who is very down to earth who sometimes disagress with Ming-Ming. As a superhero he wears a white french sailors hat and swimming shoes and a red cape. Tuck is the most empathic one out of the three he usually gives the rescued animal a hug whiling keeping them company while Linny and Ming-Ming get their plan together.
Each eposide follows the same pattenerd. The children are leaving the classroom saying goodbye to the animals and then you hear the telephone ring( a tin can full of pencils). The classroom is usually decorated in the children’s artwork for the animal that they are going to save. When the three superhero’s hear the phone ringing they all get out of their cages and answer the phone. While singing the “The phone is ringing”. When they answer the phone on the other end is the animal that needs to be saved. The 3 superheros jump in a box full of fabric and they get their superhero costumes on and then head over to the toy area where they have to assemble their flyboat (which is a frisbee on the bottom and somes wheels and they fly off to where they need to go to save the animal. All working together as a team. When they reach the animal they have to try a couple of times to save the animal the first time they usually fail then they all have to put their heads together and think of a new solution. They are singing “What’s gonna work Teamwork while they are putting their new plan in affect. Once the animal is saves the animals Mother and Father come and say Thank you to the Wonder Pets and then the Wonder Pets head off the in Flyboat back to their classroom when they all have a snack of celery.
Wonder Pets is an animated children’s television show for preschoolers. It was first debuted in March 2006.
Wonder Pets is about 3 classroom pets Linny a guinea pig, Ming Ming a duckling and Tuck a turtle that travel around the globe saving animals. These 3 pets do not have real super powers like any preschooler. They work as a team to save the animals in trouble. Each episode encourages teamwork, empathy, problem-solving skills, and an appreciation of music and humor.
About the Wonder Pets Characters
Linny the Guinea Pig she is the most educated out of the three. She often provides different zoological and geographical information to the other Wonder Pets. She is the one to remind the other Wonder Pets about team work and other values like sharing and empathy. Linny’s catch phrase is “this calls for some celery”, she says this at the end of each show after the save the animal and bring the animal back to it’s parents.
Ming-Ming the duckling, unlike the other Wonder Pets, she is able to fly. She can also speak "bird", allowing her to talk to other birds that the Wonder pets encounter. Ming-Ming also believes that her great grandfather was an eagle. Ming-Ming also likes to try to take on doing things herself, when she finally realizes that she can not do it alone, Linny has to reminder her about teamwork when they all can help each other.
Tuck the turtle who is very down to earth who sometimes disagress with Ming-Ming. As a superhero he wears a white french sailors hat and swimming shoes and a red cape. Tuck is the most empathic one out of the three he usually gives the rescued animal a hug whiling keeping them company while Linny and Ming-Ming get their plan together.
Each eposide follows the same pattenerd. The children are leaving the classroom saying goodbye to the animals and then you hear the telephone ring( a tin can full of pencils). The classroom is usually decorated in the children’s artwork for the animal that they are going to save. When the three superhero’s hear the phone ringing they all get out of their cages and answer the phone. While singing the “The phone is ringing”. When they answer the phone on the other end is the animal that needs to be saved. The 3 superheros jump in a box full of fabric and they get their superhero costumes on and then head over to the toy area where they have to assemble their flyboat (which is a frisbee on the bottom and somes wheels and they fly off to where they need to go to save the animal. All working together as a team. When they reach the animal they have to try a couple of times to save the animal the first time they usually fail then they all have to put their heads together and think of a new solution. They are singing “What’s gonna work Teamwork while they are putting their new plan in affect. Once the animal is saves the animals Mother and Father come and say Thank you to the Wonder Pets and then the Wonder Pets head off the in Flyboat back to their classroom when they all have a snack of celery.
WordWorld
WordWorld
PBS has done it again with another great television show for preschoolers, it is Worldword. Worldword is show where the characters bodies are made up of the letters that spell their word they are. It teaches preschoolers how to spell from sounding out the words and what the letters look like. The Wordfriends are characters first and words second. The show is about the Wordfriends that go on a crazy adventure and face challengers on there way and the only way to resolved the problem is to build words. The word is build letter by letters and they sing a great song” It’s time to build a word”. Once the word is built it morphs and comes alive into the thing that it is. Building words reinforces preschoolers’ pre reading concepts that letters and their sounds make words and that all words have meanings and power.
Here are the characters: Sheep is very shy but loves to play pretend. She likes to play detective, princess, super hero or anything to help out her friends.
Frog is very smart and an expert with words who has crazy inventions which sometimes don’t work.
Then there is Frog’s neighbor Duck, who is a very good friend and silly. He is also like your preschooler who is still learning about his letters and social skills and Frog usually helps him out of trouble.
Pig who is a great chef and very silly too, he lives for them moment and his best friend is ant.
Ant who is very hard working and full of energy, he also keeps Pig is check. He runs the studio where Pig has his own cooking show.
Dog is a word friend who is always ready to play and build words.
Bear is the adventures one she is up for anything. She likes to play basketball or painting. She is always up for something new.
While watching Worldword my 2 years has not started repeating the letters the characters are building. It is really wondering seeing him learn and grow each day. I know that he does not realize that he is actually in the early steps of reading and understand that each letters has a different sound and they spell all different words, words that he already knows and uses.
PBS has done it again with another great television show for preschoolers, it is Worldword. Worldword is show where the characters bodies are made up of the letters that spell their word they are. It teaches preschoolers how to spell from sounding out the words and what the letters look like. The Wordfriends are characters first and words second. The show is about the Wordfriends that go on a crazy adventure and face challengers on there way and the only way to resolved the problem is to build words. The word is build letter by letters and they sing a great song” It’s time to build a word”. Once the word is built it morphs and comes alive into the thing that it is. Building words reinforces preschoolers’ pre reading concepts that letters and their sounds make words and that all words have meanings and power.
Here are the characters: Sheep is very shy but loves to play pretend. She likes to play detective, princess, super hero or anything to help out her friends.
Frog is very smart and an expert with words who has crazy inventions which sometimes don’t work.
Then there is Frog’s neighbor Duck, who is a very good friend and silly. He is also like your preschooler who is still learning about his letters and social skills and Frog usually helps him out of trouble.
Pig who is a great chef and very silly too, he lives for them moment and his best friend is ant.
Ant who is very hard working and full of energy, he also keeps Pig is check. He runs the studio where Pig has his own cooking show.
Dog is a word friend who is always ready to play and build words.
Bear is the adventures one she is up for anything. She likes to play basketball or painting. She is always up for something new.
While watching Worldword my 2 years has not started repeating the letters the characters are building. It is really wondering seeing him learn and grow each day. I know that he does not realize that he is actually in the early steps of reading and understand that each letters has a different sound and they spell all different words, words that he already knows and uses.
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