The show follows four friends as they use their “literacy superpowers” to stop the “pranksters” from creating chaos with their own word skills. While I think it is wonderful to have so many educational shows focused on very young children, it is nice to know that there is something for the older children. Everything is about having kids know their ABCs and numbers before they get to Kindergarten. I feel like a majority of the educational programs out there are targeted at pre-school age children and/or toddlers. I think it is wonderful that there is a show for older kids that who are having difficulty reading. I am in the Literacy Specialist program and I almost shouted for joy when I read this. In the handout we receive it says, “The Electric Company’s mission is to bridge the literacy gap among 6-9 year old struggling readers”. The show is for children who are a little bit too old for Sesame Street but still might need help with literacy skills. The Electric Company presenter gave us a quick review on how and why PBS brought back the Electric Company. When I asked my parents if I had ever watched it they told me no but they did remember my older brother and older sister watching it. I honestly can’t remember ever hearing about it. I never watched Electric Company when I was a child. Not sure how you feel about Sprout? Check out these reviews! Links to Sprout homepage and homepages of each block on the show! There are many ways that an educator could incorporate Sprout or Sprout materials into their daily routine. The coloring sheets would be something nice to have as part of choice time. I think that would be a great way to calm them down when the class has a little too much energy. The have great songs to use for starting the day and I would use the videos of how to do different yoga poses with my students. I can definitely see myself using this website in my classroom. It is a very user-friendly site and even has sections for parents. There are coloring pages and kids can even make there own cards. You can find all the craft projects, stories, and songs from the show on there. I was really impressed with how well some of the kids were doing the poses because I am horrible at yoga!! I would really like a stuffed version of the star puppet. The kids in the clip shown to us were absolutely adorable. My favorite part is when the kids are doing yoga. I really like the fact that it is a show that keeps children active but does not do it in a way that gives kids lots of energy. My favorite block is the Good Night Show. It is nice to know that the Good Night Show helps to bring the child slowly down from all the running around they have done during the day. Coming from a babysitter’s perspective, there is nothing worse then when you are trying to get a child ready for bed and they are all hyped up because of the show they just watched. There are many different things children and their parents can do and if they don’t like what is on then they can just come back in thirty minutes to see what the next segment is! On the “about” section of the website Sprout states, “we follow the day of a preschooler from breakfast to bedtime, with daytime programming designed to get children moving and active and evening programming to help the family gently unwind at the end of the day”. It is not just all cartoons or singing, or crafts. What I like the most about Sprout is that it has a wide variety of activities for children. According to the Sprout website, “Interaction between parents and preschoolers is an important element in everything we do.” This is evident by the many activities on the show that give parents/guardians ample opportunities to interact with their child. A segment can be a cartoon, making a craft, cooking dance, acting, etc. Each segment in the block lasts for thirty minutes. The blocks are: The Sunny-Side Up Show, The Sprout Sharing Show, The Let’s Go Show, The Good Night Show, and The Musical Morning. The show is a 24-hour show with five main blocks. Sprout is a PBS show that is targeted for children ages two to five as well as their parents/guardians. They did a great job of giving the class a quick overview of what Sprout is, how they got started, what each block consists of, and give a brief showing of each block on Sprout. But listening to Betsy Oliphant and Chika really got me intrigued in the show. Before Saturday ApI had never heard of Sprout.
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