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Programming and Science Projects that Promote Learning
Have your kids started school back up this week or last week? Did you have tears of sadness or a little bit of joy that you have some free time on your hands? I think I had a little of both. I enjoy the summer break with my daughter and love to head off to the beach or movies any time during the week. But as I work out of the home, finding a balance can be quite challenging. As parents, we do our best to prevent too much of a summer slide – the loss of certain skills in math and reading that can happen over the summer, but there is…
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Revolutionary PBS Kids Super Vision App Launches on Apple Watch
REVOLUTIONARY PBS KIDS SUPER VISION APP LAUNCHES ON APPLE WATCH Free app gives parents the “super power” to remotely manage kids’ screen time on pbskids.org by setting a simple timer on Apple Watch PBS KIDS Super Vision, the number-one children’s educational media brand’s revolutionary app for parents, is now available for Apple Watch. The free app gives parents the “super power” to easily engage with their kids’ digital media time wherever they are – in the kitchen, at work or on the go. With PBS KIDS Super Vision for Apple Watch, parents can limit their children’s screen time on pbskids.org by setting a simple Play Timer on Apple Watch.…
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PBS Kids Digital Series OH NOAH! Celebrating “El Dia de los Ninos”
The PBS KIDS digital series OH NOAH! (pbskids.org/noah) is expanding with new bilingual content this month! Geared to kids ages 4-7, OH NOAH! features the comic misadventures of Noah, a young boy staying with his grandmother in a community where almost no one else speaks English. As he tries to learn Spanish and makes new friends, misunderstandings land him in wacky predicaments, but he always manages to rebound and cheerfully learn from his mistakes. New animated videos and games are launching on April 30 (a day to honor and celebrate children known as “El Día de los Niños”). New content will include: “Making a Splash,” a new 11-minute video: On…
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PBS Kids presents Free WordWorld “Appisodes”
PBS KIDS has announced its first “appisodes” app: WordWorld Tales! PBS KIDS’ Emmy Award-winning television series WordWorld presents WordWorld Tales: your destination for exclusive WordWorld Appisodes. WordWorld Tales includes a library of exclusive, touchable story tales that focus on early literacy skills. As children explore, discover, collect and create different parts of each appisode, they create their own learning adventures. This library of exclusive touchable story tales focuses on early literacy skills as children watch words in each story come to life! As children explore, discover, collect and create different parts of each appisode, they create their own learning adventures. I really like that it is so…
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“ODD SQUAD SAVES THE WORLD” SPECIAL JANUARY 19th
PBS KIDS TO DEBUT ONE-HOUR “ODD SQUAD SAVES THE WORLD” SPECIAL THIS JANUARY Young agents use math and problem-solving skills to save the day in all-new multiplatform event On Monday, January 19, PBS KIDS will premiere a one-hour special from its newest media property, ODD SQUAD, a live-action series designed to help kids 5-8 build math and collaboration skills. In “Odd Squad Saves the World,” kid agents tackle high-stakes cases and work together to overcome obstacles and save the day. Clips and full segments from “Odd Squad Saves the World” will also be available on pbskids.org, the PBS KIDS Video App and PBS KIDS on Roku, Apple…
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New Live-Action Series Odd Squad Premieres 11/26 on PBS Kids
Last April at the PBS annual meeting in San Francisco, I heard about a new PBS Kids series ODD SQUAD that is designed to help kids ages 5-8 years old build math skills. Coming from a student who was deathly afraid of math growing up – I am absolutlely thrilled that PBS Kids has created this series that shows that math can be fun! You see, the show follows two young government agents, Olive and Otto, who use math skills and collaboration to investigate weird and unusual phenomena. ODD SQUAD will premiere today, Wednesday, November 26, 2014, on PBS KIDS with a special one-hour broadcast of two back-to-back episodes, along with integrated digital and offline…
