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Somebody come and play....
Apr. 2nd, 2004 09:18 amIn New York, the local PBS station is showing a 35-anniversary tribute to Sesame Street on Sunday night at 8 pm. I plan to watch it. I was in kindergarten when it started. My brother was just a year old. I had been a Mr. Rogers/Captain Kangaroo/Kulla, Fran, and Ollie fan so my parents thought that we might enjoy this new show. It was my introduction to the Muppets for which I will always be grateful. The “commercials” were for letters and numbers. There were jokes for the adults that the kids don’t get until they are adults. The early ones had some of Jim Henson’s stop motion animation and experimental film work. We think that Sesame helped all my siblings learn to read early along with my parents and later me reading to them a lot. Reading to your kids and having your kids watch you read at an early age is so important. If they see that reading is a normal activity in the household, they are more likely to do so.
Peter and I were singing “Put Down the Ducky” the other day. There is a newish album with 35 years of music from Sesame Street. I use it sometimes to distract Caroline when I feed her. “C is for Cookie”, ‘I love Trash”, “People in your Neighborhood”, “Somebody come and play” and “Sing a Song” are songs that if you started them at a sing along, others would jump in with the lyrics.
Then there is “Monsterpiece Theater” with Allister Cookie. I think that is one of my favorite continuing segments along with ‘The Muppet News Flash”. Did I mention I love the Muppets with a passion of a 1000 Suns? Adding the Muppets to the mix was a stroke of genius that has not been matched.
From Sesame Street we went to the Electric Company, in which you can see some of Morgan Freeman’s early work, to Zoom (ubdubs anyone?) to 3-2-1 Contact, a great follow-up to Mr. Wizard. Public Television has done a lot of good and the cream of the crop is still a quiet (sometimes) little Street called Sesame Street.
Peter and I were singing “Put Down the Ducky” the other day. There is a newish album with 35 years of music from Sesame Street. I use it sometimes to distract Caroline when I feed her. “C is for Cookie”, ‘I love Trash”, “People in your Neighborhood”, “Somebody come and play” and “Sing a Song” are songs that if you started them at a sing along, others would jump in with the lyrics.
Then there is “Monsterpiece Theater” with Allister Cookie. I think that is one of my favorite continuing segments along with ‘The Muppet News Flash”. Did I mention I love the Muppets with a passion of a 1000 Suns? Adding the Muppets to the mix was a stroke of genius that has not been matched.
From Sesame Street we went to the Electric Company, in which you can see some of Morgan Freeman’s early work, to Zoom (ubdubs anyone?) to 3-2-1 Contact, a great follow-up to Mr. Wizard. Public Television has done a lot of good and the cream of the crop is still a quiet (sometimes) little Street called Sesame Street.
