TV Daily Schedules
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12:00 amReading Rainbow[#1601]
The Biggest Test in the Universe
The Biggest Test in the Universe is a story of a boy dreading the "big test" which has become his elementary school's right-of-passage. The pressure to prepare and do well in this test is echoed by host LeVar Burton's daughter Michaela as she practices for an audition, and by the young members of the NYC children's theater group TADA! as they pour their hearts and souls into preparing for a performance. Feature Book: The Biggest Test in the Universe by Nancy Poydar. Review Books: Beverly Billingsly Takes A Bow by Alexander Stadler; Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes; Angelina On Stage by Katharine Holabird
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
12:30 amBetween the Lions[#802]
Mole and the Baby Bird & Owen and Mzee
Lionel and Leona find out why some animals aren't meant to be pets, and how some animals develop surprising friendships.
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
1:00 amClifford's Puppy Days[#114]
The Best Nest/Practice Makes Perfect
* The Best Nest - When Norville's nest disappears, his friends decide to build him a new one, but their bickering and fooling around nearly ruins the plan.
* Practice Makes Perfect - Emily Elizabeth gets discouraged during her art lessons with Mr. Solomon when she thinks Nina's pictures are better than hers. Mr. Solomon finds a unique way to show Emily Elizabeth that nobody starts out as a great artist.
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
1:30 amMartha Speaks[#112]
Martha The Hero Maker/Starstruck Martha
* Martha the Hero Maker - Martha has an idea for a thrilling adventure story, so Truman, T.D., and Helen decide to draw it for her. Much to Martha's dismay, they all add their own special touches, including peanut butter, a ground squirrel, and the Incredible Exo-Skeleton-of-Wow. But when life imitates art, things get a little too exciting! Vocabulary - (E) thrill(ing), hero, villain, astonish, humongous (I) boring, exciting, adventure, incredible, amazing, dull.
* Starstruck Martha - Martha is thrilled when she hears Courageous Collie Carlo is coming to town. But when Martha unexpectedly reveals how uncourageous Carlo really is, she has to help him save his reputation or Carlo's TV career could be history. Vocabulary - (E) ecstatic, embarrass, enthusiastic, eager, reputation (I) fear, excited, glad, upset, fan.
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
2:00 amArthur[#405]
The Blizzard/The Rat Who Came to Dinner
A big blizzard comes to Elwood City, taking out the electricity (and--gasp--television!) and sending residents scrambling for supermarket supplies. Can neighbors find ways to help each other survive through the storm?In the second story, the unthinkable is happening...Arthur' s teacher is moving in! After his roof collapses, Mr. Ratburn stays with the Reads in order to teach and grade Arthur every second of the day! Or so Arthur fears!
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
2:30 amMaya & Miguel[#132]
The Pen-Pal
For school, Miguel is assigned an electronic pen-pal from Puerto Rico. When they start corresponding, Miguel thinks his pen-pal, Roman, has a much more glamorous life than he does. So, with a little prompting from Paco, Miguel slowly starts embellishing the details of his life. Then, to his horror, Roman writes that he is coming to visit. What will Roman think when he discovers how ordinary Miguel's life really is?
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
3:00 amWordGirl[#107]
Super-Grounded/Mouse Army
* Mouse Army: Dr. 2-Brains has created an army of super-smart mice -but they've become too smart! WordGirl must step in and save the city before the mice take over.
* Super-Grounded: Becky is grounded for not cleaning her room; when she sends Captain Huggy Face in WG's place to battle the Butcher, he feels like chopped liver.
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY7 -
3:30 amCyberchase[#113]
Eureeka!
(topic: 2- & 3-D Geometry) - Pursued by Hacker, Digit lands on cybersite Eureeka, where his mission is to find Professor Archimedes - the maker of the encryptor chip, a unique computer chip that can fix Motherboard. But Archimedes is nowhere to be found - only a pile of two-dimensional rods where his chip factory should be. The kids arrive to help, and discover that by linking the two-dimensional rods together into certain geometrical patterns they actually create a surprising three-dimensional shape that leads directly to unraveling the mystery of Archimedes' strange disappearance. The Big Idea: When you follow simple rules to make flat geometrical shapes (two-dimensional), and join them together, you can discover new shapes that, instead of staying flat, rise up to make three-dimensional objects.
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
4:00 amWishbone[#123]
Bark to the Future
Joe learns that his own intellect can never be replaced by modern technology. Meanwhile, Wishbone as The Time Traveler finds that in the year 802,701 the lazy Eloi have allowed their intellect to be replaced by technology in H.G. Well's "The Time Machine."
duration 27:45 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
4:30 amFetch! With Ruff Ruffman[#314]
Arrgh - All Me Eggs Are Cracked
Sammy and Jay go to the Florida Keys to search the ocean floor for a Ruffman family treasure and Harsha and Sam's challenge is to work at a grocery store and compete in a grocery-bagging showdown.
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
5:00 amSagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat[#109]
Cat and Mouse/Stinky Tofu
Cat and Mouse
Challenge: Standing up for what one believes in the face of social pressure.
Sagwa and Sheegwa enjoy playing hide and seek with their friends, the mice, until Sagwa is ridiculed by the alley cats for playing with what should be food. Succumbing to their pressure, Sagwa decides that she no longer wants to play with the mice. In the end, Fu-Fu helps her realize that friendship can transcend differences and that Sagwa needs to choose her own friends.Stinky Tofu
Challenge: Recognizing the benefit of direct communication.
Sagwa loves story time with her Grandfather Yeh Yeh. But when the Cook feeds him some 100 year-old Tofu, Yeh Yeh's breath stinks! Sagwa can't stand it, but rather than tell him directly, she avoids him, missing out on his beloved stories. Sagwa soon discovers that direct communication is certainly a better way to solve problems than running away!
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
5:30 amWunderkind Little Amadeus[#117]
Small Pox
Nannerl collapses during a concert at the palace, but no one knows why. When someone mentions smallpox, Devilius pretends to fall ill. Amadeus thinks the amulet Nannerl lost during the concert at the palace will help her regain her health and sneaks into the palace to look for it. Meanwhile, Devilius enjoys the attention he receives from his accomplices Mario and Monti. Does Nannerl really have smallpox? Will the amulet heal her? And will anyone discover Devilius' feigned sickness? The Music: "Violin Sonata in F" K. 376; "Menuett in D Major" K. 94; et al. Additional Content: Monti plays music with various dynamic and timbre to introduce the concept of tempo. Then, Monti explains the three tempi: adagio, andante and allegro, and viewers hear what each sounds like.
duration 28:42 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
6:00 amReading Rainbow[#1605]
Show Way
Show Way traces the lineage of one family's women who began creating quilts with secret maps to freedom during the years of slavery and continued in the generations beyond as a tribute to the past. LeVar Burton and his family discover some items from earlier relatives, and then we meet a grandmother who inspires her grandson, family members and others with her childhood memories of surviving the Holocaust during World War II.
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
6:30 amMaya & Miguel[#150]
Mother's Day
Mother's Day is coming up, and Maya and Miguel have bought their mother the perfect gift: a cat-shaped potholder. Their friends are not impressed with this gift, however... and Maya vows to make something that will help their hard-working mom feel more relaxed and happy. They decide to make a facial mask which consists of a series of highly exotic ingredients, including hummingbird feathers, snakeskin and yak's milk. Maya, Miguel and the gang split up to collect the ingredients, but encounter many difficulties... including some of the ingredients mysteriously disappearing! In the end, Maya and Miguel have failed to bring it all together and go back to the original potholder. Rosa is delighted with the gift. After all, it's the thought that counts. At this, Paco appears with a gift of his own: a facial mask he made with the ingredients he took from Maya and Miguel!
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
7:00 amSagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat[#110]
The Foolish Magistrate's Aching Tooth/Sheegwa And the Blizzard
The Foolish Magistrate's Aching Tooth
Challenge: Identifying fears and determining how to overcome them.
The Foolish Magistrate's aching tooth is disturbing the whole household. He needs a special concoction to help him feel better, but unfortunately, the secret ingredient is the quill of the Crested Porcupine, reputed to be very unfriendly! Sagwa faces her fears, gets a quill, and winds up making a new friend in the Crested Porcupine.Sheegwa and the Blizzard
Challenge: Understanding how conflict arises and is resolved.
One snowy day the kittens are busy inside playing with their new toys. Sagwa monopolizes Sheegwa's new spinning top and gets very bossy. Upset, Sheegwa threatens to run away, leaving Sagwa to search for her in the cold snow. In the end, Sagwa realizes that she needs to treat her sister with more patience and that being a big sister can be hard sometimes, but it also has great rewards.
duration 28:46 CC STEREO DVI TVY -
7:30 amClifford's Puppy Days[#110]
Clifford's Winter Spirit/Flo-Motion
* Clifford's Winter Spirit - Norville is feeling sad and lonely when it seems as though he is the only one without a tradition for celebrating the first snowfall of the year. It's up to Clifford and his friends to find a way to help Norville feel included.
* Flo-Motion - Flo, a super-athlete, tells her friends she'd rather play alone when she discovers she is not very good at a new Bean Bag game. Will Flo be able to put her competitiveness aside?






