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July 2009

Sesame Street: Elmo's Special Cupcakes
Grade Range: PreK
Help young children cope with feelings of sadness when they are separated from a working parent. Use games and stories to help children feel less anxious in such situations.

Sid the Science Kid: My Best Guess
Grade Range: PreK, K-2
Learn why sometimes you have to estimate numbers with this music video. Estimate the number of geese, candies, flowers, stars and other items when there are too many to count.

The Electric Company: Chain Game
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5
Transform words by changing them one sound at a time. Explore phonics and word-building and develop stronger spelling skills.

Programs for your child to watch this summer:

Super Why Right On Read-A-Thon

Kids Reading Activity List, Reading Chart and Reading Success Certificate available on pbskids.org/superwhy
Brookmarks, reading charts and stickers provided at over 4,000 libraries nationwide

Word Girl Summer Road Trip
begins July 13-17 on PBS KIDS GO!, featuring two brand-new episodes premiering on Monday and Tuesday. The week finds our pint-sized superhero facing definition dilemmas in places that are perfect for summer fun -- riding The Coaster at the amusement park, roughing it at a woodland camp site, on a field trip to a candy factory and out on the open road.

PBS Parents: Saving Money on the Road with Kids

Laurel Smith, founder of the website, MomsMinivan.com, is discussing how to save money - and have fun - during family road trips.

MORE CAREER FUN ON THE FETCH WEB SITE

After playing the “Help Wanted” game found in the latest Ruff Guide to Science, check out the career advice Ruff gets from his family on his voice-messaging machine. You’ll hear from characters including Scruff and Grandma Ruffman as they dole out suggestions about interesting science careers that they think would be far more rewarding than his current job on FETCH. To listen, go to the FETCH Website (pbskidsgo.org/fetch) and click on “My Show,” “Audio & Video,” and scroll down to “Voicemail.”

KLRU Family Choice
Each month, KLRU chooses a program for your family (ages 7 and up) to enjoy together.

PEACE: THE HANDRAISED POLAR BEAR

Baby Polar bear

This Family Choice program for July will air on Sunday, July 19th at 4:00 p.m.

On December 2, 1999, a polar bear named Peace was born at Japan's Tobe Zoological Park. After his mother rejected the cub, zookeeper Atsuhiro Takaichi took on the task of "child rearing" and subsequently succeeded in handraising a polar bear for the first time ever in Japan and just the third time in the world. Peace: The Handraised Polar Bear chronicles five years in the life of the young cub and the caring zoo keeper from the critical time after Peace was born to the arrival of summer and the cub's first swimming lesson.