Latest & Greatest :: PBS Kids new show PEG+CAT Airs on 10/7

This past May I attended the PBS annual meeting in Miami as part of their Mom Blogger program.  It was a great experience and it really honed in to the fact that PBS provides such quality programming for our kids!  I grew up watching The Electric Company and Sesame Street and I have felt good about sharing their programs with my daughter.  When she was about two or three, we would sit on the sofa together and watch Big Bird and The Cookie Monster and laugh at their silly antics.  So it was really exciting for me to meet the new character on Sesame Street and talk a bit to Rosita about encouraging a love of reading with our  kids.

Another highlight of the trip was meeting the creative crew behind the new program PEG+CAT that features an adorable little redhead, Peg, who loves math.  A girl who loves math!  YAY!  So glad to see a young girl as the main character who teaches kids about math and makes it quite fun!  The songs are so catchy you will find yourself dancing and singing along with your preschooler and CAT is beyond hysterical.  His dry sense of humor and the person who does the voice-over is spot-on when you image how an aloof cat might sound like. Created by Jennifer Oxley (she is the creative behind Wonder Pets!) and Billy Aronson, PEG+CAT is a top notch children’s education program! Here is a description of the show found on the PBS Kids website:

Peg + Cat is an animated math-based series for children ages 3-5 years old. The show follows the adorable, spirited Peg and her sidekick Cat as they embark on adventures, solve problems together, and learn foundational math concepts and skills.  In each 12 minute episode, Peg and Cat face A REALLY BIG PROBLEM, a messy funny crisis they must somehow solve without totally freaking out!

Along the way, they grapple with all kinds of loony, loopy obstacles, under intense time pressure.  They write out diagrams and charts on the graph paper that comprises their background.  They interact with one another in their own quirky, comical way.  And somehow, they always find a way to solve the math and save the day.

Peg + Cat will inspire preschoolers’ natural curiosity about math and help them develop new skills and strategies for solving problems creatively in their daily lives.  Through engaging characters, whimsical stories, and songs, the show will celebrate the ways in which math plays a role in their world.

By using characters kids relate to and laugh with, and situations they’re thrilled and entertained by, PEG + CAT makes math problems cool.

The show airs today October 7th and make sure to check your local listings!  Episode 101: The Chicken Problem / The Space Creature Problem features Peg and Cat trying to get 100 chickens back in the coop before the farmer sees them out running around.  The Primary Learning Goal is to teach children about size correspondence and to learn about the number 100.  The Peg+Cat series has four learning goals which include broadening children’s understanding of what mathematical thinking involves and present examples of useful strategies to try when they feel “stuck.”  And to teach young children are unaware that math extends beyond counting.  They will learn that math also includes patterns, shapes, homemade measurement tools, and much more.  The illustrations are so wonderful and colorful they just draw you in!

We are SO excited about their new show and love that it features a young girl who demonstrates that math is fun!  To read more about PEG+CAT go to: https://pbskids.org/peg/ And if you have a pirate-loving kid in the household – check out the fun Hungry Pirates game they have online that the kids can play: https://pbskids.org/peg/games/hungry-pirates Plus there is so much more for the kids to enjoy on the website so make sure to check it out!  We love the Healthy Pirate Snack they created as well you can make together here.

I think you and your kids will fall in love with PEG+CAT just like we did!  We have a couple PEG+CAT goodies to hand out that include a PEG+CAT DVD that includes the first two episodes: #101: The Chicken Problem & The Space Creature Problem, and #102: The Messy Room Problem & The Golden Pyramid Problem, and a PEG+CAT notebook, two PBS Kids pencils and a box of Crayons. Enjoy!

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