Monthly Archives: April 2017

PBS Kids VIP, Television

PBS KIDS + Austism Awareness Month

Autism SeeAmazingApril is Autism Month. PBS KIDS will be airing special shows featuring autistic characters throughout the month. PBS will also have some great online resources for parents and teachers to learn more.

The full list of Autism-focused episodes airing in April can be found below.

The PBS Parents website has articles from doctors, disability experts and special education teachers on everything from identifying autism to educational needs, creating inclusive environments for autistic children and more.

Lastly, PBS Learning Media has great teacher resources and activities for children with autism that can be found here.

NEW EPISODES, SPECIALS & PROGRAMMING EVENTS
Autism Awareness Month
PBS KIDS airs episodes featuring characters with Autism during National Autism Awareness Month. Includes a premiere episode of SESAME STREET featuring a new muppet character, Julia, who has autism.
4/10 Sesame Street “Meet Julia” **NEW**
4/10 Dinosaur Train “Junior Conductors Academy”
4/10 Arthur “When Carl Met George/D.W. Swims with the Fishes”
4/11 Arthur “Pets and Pests/Go Fly a Kite”
4/12 Arthur “Carl’s Concerto/Too Much of a Good Thing”
4/13 Arthur “He Said, He Said/Bunny Trouble” Continue reading PBS KIDS + Austism Awareness Month →

Family, Music, Photo-A-Day, Vlog

He Earned His Orange Belt

Belt Graduation
Photo-A-Day #4372

Today was Andrew’s graduation to the orange belt in Karate. He’s been taking Karate since August. This was his first big graduation. The last graduation was held at the karate studio and was a smaller event. Today there were many more kids and families at the graduation ceremony. There were demonstrations from the higher ranking kids and what they could do was pretty incredible.

In this ceremony Allison did the parent part. I like how they do this. One parent sits with the child and gives them their belt. The child gives the parent a small ribbon the color of their new rank in a symbol that earning the rank requires a team and not just a single child. After the child receives a rank or stripe or anything new they go to their parents and give them hugs and thank them for helping them with their achievement.

With Mom

Andrew is now going to be one of the highest ranking kids in the group of white, yellow and orange belts. Sensei took him aside the other day and told him that he will be moving up and when he does he will have to be a leader and an example to the younger kids. I think that this is going to be really good for him.

Tonight we were having dinner, Andrew and Eva had been watching Go Noodle during the day and they learned about beatboxing. Because of that we had some silly moments and I was able to pull an April Fool’s joke on Eva. I talk about it in today’s video.