NOGGIN HAS SHUT DOWN.

Extend the Learning: Bye-Bye Boo-Boos

Get ready to play pretend with the help of the Bubble Guppies! In this clip the Guppies pretend to be jungle doctors, on an adventure to help sick animals with a few tools in their emergency kit (a band-aid being one of them)!

Extend the Learning: Flying Frisbees!

The PAW Patrol pups, like many other furry friends, really love frisbees. In fact, the PAW Patrol is on a roll when it comes to playing sports. Watch this “All Star Pups” clip and help your child identify all the super spectacular sporting activities the pups take part in.

 Extend the Learning: Box-It Ball

Let’s tell some basketball jokes and see if we can make each other laugh.

Q: Why do basketball players love cookies?

A: Because they can dunk them.

Q: Why are babies good at basketball?

A: Because they’re pro dribblers.

Q: What’s an incredible story about a basketball player called?

A: A tall tale.

Extend the Learning: Box-It Ball

In “Pups Save a Basketball Game” the PAW Patrol pups train and take on a challenging team. This episode is the PAW-fect primer to teaching kids about basketball and super sportsmanship!

Watch the full episode in the Noggin app to see the pups signature moves — Skye’s super skyhook, Rocky’s spin and shoot, and Marshall’s “famous” Dalmatian dunk! What’s your signature slam dunk move?

There are heroes all around us — from the doctors, EMTs, and nurses who keep people healthy to the firefighters who protect us from fire to the parents and grandparents who keep kids happy and safe! Let’s make up a story about why a member of our family is our hero.

Materials:

Paper and pencils/crayons/markers

Set up (help explain this activity to your child):

1. There are heroes everywhere, from our teachers to our doctors to our parents!

2. Let’s write and illustrate a story about a member of our family who is a hero to us.

3. What did he or she do that was brave, strong, and heroic? Let’s write it down together and then draw a picture to illustrate.

4. When we’re done, let’s share our story with our hero!

Words to Use:

Illustrate – to draw a picture to go with words

Brave – Not afraid

Heroic – Not afraid to do something

Simplify:

Think of reasons why someone you know is a hero and draw a picture of that person!

Stretch:

Write a story about another hero. Make drawings and illustrate a  book about heroes: one page per hero! The grown-up can help with the writing!

Why:

Writing and illustrating a story about someone who is a hero builds literacy skills and deepens relationships.

Extend The Learning:

Nella the Princess Knight is about a princess who transforms into a knight to fight for what’s right. When a friend is in trouble or justice needs to be served, Nella springs into action. Watch Nella with your preschooler and discuss how people can transform to help others. Ask: what everyday hero would YOU want to transform into?

Watch Now:

We all need a little inspiration! Let’s dance to songs about heroes. What’s YOUR hero pose and hero move?

Materials:

-Music
-Your dancing feet

Set up (help explain this activity to your child):

1. Heroes have special poses and moves that they use to inspire us: Bot has “extendo” arms and legs, Blaze has super speed, Super Rubble is there on the double and is great at digging! What is YOUR hero pose and move?

2. Let’s listen to some music and think about how we might move like a hero. Do we jump in the air? Dance with a cape? Twirl around?

3. First, let’s pose like a hero: legs apart, arms on hips, elbows bent. Hold the pose! Now, show us your moves. Stop the music and pose again! Now dance!

Words to Use:

Inspire – encourage someone to do something

Twirl – to spin around quickly

Cape – a coat without sleeves that you wear around your neck

Simplify:

Stand like a hero, then dance together, holding hands!

Stretch:

Make up a dance with your hero moves. Perform it for your family — or video chat with a grandparent or someone else far away to show off your dance moves.

Why:

Dancing is a great way to exercise your muscles. Plus, thinking up new ways to move your body encourages your hero’s creativity!

Extend The Learning:

-Pup Pup Boogie PAW Patrol

-Get Up and Groove with Bot

Wallykazam! Captain Animal Pt. 1

Wallykazam! Captain Animal Pt. 2

Wallykazam! Captain Animal Pt. 3

Heroes have many different names, like Mighty Troll and Wonder Dragon (from Wallykazam!). Let’s figure out YOUR hero name and create your hero logo!

Materials:

-Paper
-Scissors
-Pencils/crayons/markers
-Printable (optional)

Set up (help explain this activity to your child):

1. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes and have all different names. What is YOUR hero name?

2. Let’s write the letters of the alphabet on a piece of paper. Now, let’s cut each letter out and turn them over and mix them up.

3. Pick 4 – 6 letters. Can you make a funny name out of your letters? Try putting your letters together with another word, like “Super,” “Fast,” “Incredible,” or “Wonder.” What is your new hero name?

4. Now, draw a picture to go with your name. Is your logo a cat, a dragon, a lightning bolt, or something YOU created on your own?

Words to Use:

Logo – a picture that goes with a name

Lightning bolt – the flash you see in the sky during a thunderstorm

Simplify:

Think of a name together! Add a funny word to your own hero name like Static Fuzz Sam or Songbird Sarah!

Stretch:

What special power goes with your name? Can you leap over buildings? Fly through the air? Zap people to make them learn new things? Try making hero names for everyone else in your family!

Why:

Putting letters together helps your young hero learn about words and sounds. Making silly words is a fun way to learn how to read and write!

Extend The Learning:

Get inspired to play superheroes with Wally and his friends, and learn some SUPER words that start with the letter J. Watch Wallykazam!’s “Captain Animal” and ask your kids, “What super words can you think of that start with the letter J?

Your Hero Name Game:

Parents, cut and fold the printable as shown. Once the name generator is ready, insert both your index fingers and thumbs into the base. Next, have your child select a color and spell out the name of the color as you open and close the hero name generator. Then allow your child to select a number and open and close the hero name generator that many times. Now, have your child pick another number, open the tab and announce your child’s hero name: the mighty word and then your child’s name.

Download Printable

Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher and producer — who created many famous fictional hero characters that we still know and love today. Let’s create our own comic, just like Stan Lee!

Materials:

-Paper
-Pencils/crayons/markers
-Printable (optional)

Set up (help explain this activity to your child):

1. Stan Lee created many of the most famous comic books of all time, usually about the adventures of a hero.

2. Let’s create our own comic book, just like Stan Lee. We can download the printable from Noggin to get us started or create our own.

3. Let’s write the words and create illustrations to tell our own comic story! Who is the hero? What does the hero do? What are the hero’s mighty powers?

Words to Use:

Comic book – a magazine that tells a story, usually about a hero, through pictures and words that are in small boxes

Hero – someone who bravely helps others

Illustration – a picture to go with words

Mighty power– a special strength/something someone can do especially well

Simplify:

Make a comic with one picture showing the hero and the hero’s mighty power. 

Stretch:

Add more details to your comic book — where does your hero live, what does your hero eat, does the hero have a special friend? Make a new comic book about another hero!

Why:

Writing and illustrating a book about heroes helps children learn about sequencing a story.

Extend The Learning:

In Bubble Guppies “Super Guppies,” the Guppies learn about fictional characters and comic books — books that use words and pictures to tell a story. The Guppies become Super Guppies and save the city from Sid Fishy. Watch “Super Guppies” together to inspire your tiny comic book maker to create his/her own action-packed comic strip. 

And, Parents, can you use your super hearing to identify the special guest who voices the villain in this episode?

Stan Lee:

Stan Lee was a comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He was born in New York City in 1922. As a child, Stan wanted to be a writer. He launched his career in comics when he was 17 years old, and he made his comic book debut when he was 19.
“I’ve been the luckiest man in the world because I’ve had friends, and to have the right friends is everything: people you can depend on, people who tell you the truth if you ask something.” — Stan Lee

Comic Book Creator:

The Bubble Guppies are up against a stinky villain who … wait a minute, this comic book is missing its story. Can your super story writer finish this comic adventure? Help your child draw, color, and write his or her own adventure!

Download Printable

In Blues Clues, Blue tests whether objects have the power to float. Let’s do our own experiment to see what things in OUR home have the power to float!

Materials:

-Your bathtub
-Plastic, wood, and metal objects from around home

Set up (help explain this activity to your child):

1. Let’s fill our bathtub with water.

2. Now let’s find 10 things from around home that can get wet. A few ideas: LEGOs, blocks, empty bottles, plastic cups, paper clips, apples….

3. Which ones do you think have the power to float? Let’s predict.
Now let’s do an experiment to test whether our predictions were right! Which ones float and which ones sink?

Words to Use:

Experiment – a test to see if something is true

Prediction – a guess about what will happen

Test – to see if something is true

Float – to stay on top of the water

Sink – to go below the water

Simplify:

Start with 2 objects and predict if they will sink or float.

Stretch:

Test more objects. Does ALL plastic float or sink? What about ALL wood? What about things that are hollow inside? Keep testing!

Why:

Making predictions and then testing them helps your budding scientist learn how to ask questions and find the answers.

Extend The Learning:

Watch this Blue’s Clues learning moment with your child and use your super science skills to predict how each experiment will go. 

Sink or Float with Joe:

Sink or Float with Joe

Posted by NOGGIN on Saturday, March 28, 2020

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The PAW Patrol pups use their super strengths to save the day. What are YOUR super strengths? Let’s practice them!

Materials:

-Something to mark the floor and wall, such as tape or chalk
-Something a little bit heavy, such as a big pillow or a can

Steps:

1.The PAW Patrol pups use their mighty moves and super strengths to save the day. What are OUR mighty moves and super strengths?

2. Let’s go to hero training to practice our strengths.

3. Let’s make a starting line. How far can we jump forward? How high can we jump? How many times can we lift something heavy up and down? Wow! You have mighty moves and super strengths!

4. What other super strengths can we practice? Let’s be super together!

Words to Use:

Strength – the ability to do something

Training – practicing or doing something over and over to get better at it

Starting line – where you begin

Simplify:

Do some easier exercises together! How big can we step? How many times can we lift our arms up and down into the air?

Stretch:

Have a competition! Who can jump the farthest? Who can do the most jumping jacks? Who can do 10 crunches?

Why:

Doing exercises like these grow little heroes’ muscles and keep them super strong!

Extend The Learning:

Rubble, the super pup, wants to save the day his way in “Pups Save a Super Pup.” Watch with your child and talk about how Rubble uses his super strength to help others.

Note to Parents: In this episode, Rubble helps his friends complete their “chores,” and kids learn that big jobs require all paws on deck!

If your kid is inspired to be like super pup Rubble, give them chore challenges like, “How fast can he/she pick up the toys from the floor?” You can thank us later for helping to activate your kid’s super clean-up powers!