I came home from the PBS Annual Meeting with a bunch of fun things for the family but some of the items I kept for myself. Two of the items were little bean bag type characters from Sesame Street. I kept them because they are my two favorite characters: Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster. Two aspects of my overall personality that could use a little work. For one thing there has never been a cookie safe around me and like Cookie Monster I need to learn a little more self restraint. Cookie is going to work on that in the upcoming season of Sesame Street so I should probably watch that with Andrew. The other aspect is that I can tend to be grouchy and keep things all bottled up in my own personal trashcan. I haven’t seen Oscar sent to anger management classes or anything yet but I think that both of us could stand to be a little less grouchy.
Day three of the conference began with a breakfast sponsored by the new PBS Kids show called Peg + Cat. We got to see a bunch of cute clips from the show and learned more about the show from creators Bill Aronson and Jennifer Oxley. Peg + Cat is a show about a young girl who solves her really big problems with Math. It is wonderful to see a show that tackles math with a female lead character. Peg is adorable and Cat is very funny with some great one liners and even one “word-ers”. At our tables we each received a book that contained part of the story from the first episode. The clips we saw focused on how 100 is a very big number and Peg + Cat had to gather up 100 escaped chickens on a farm before they could enjoy some juicy and gooey pie. You will notice a whole bunch of math related things in the show from the clouds shaped like infinity symbols to division and multiplication symbols on the armor when Peg + Cat pretend to be knights. The whole show takes place on graph paper too where Peg can write out the problems to help get to a solution. Continue reading Goodbye Miami and all my PBS Friends.→
