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Learning at Home | Week of 5/10 – 5/14

Take advantage of this week’s Learning at Home broadcast schedule – great for students engaged in hybrid or distance instruction, and families looking to spend some extra, quality time together!

After watching these fascinating programs, explore the PBS LearningMedia and web resources to learn more.

Highlight of the Week

Artbound | The Art of Basketweaving
Friday, May 14, 2 PM

Native American basketry has long been viewed as a community craft, yet the artistic quality and value of these baskets are on par with other fine art. Now Native peoples across the country are revitalizing basketry traditions and the country looks to California as a leader in basket weaving revitalization.

Learning at Home
Week of 5/10 – 5/14

Monday, May 10

12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Hear the Long “u” in Unique?

“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Learn about plants and shapes, read “All the Ways to Be Smart,” blend/decode long u, e.

1 PM: American Masters | Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir

An intimate portrait of the groundbreaking writer that interweaves archival imagery, including home movies and personal photographs, animation and original interviews to tell the inspiring story of Tan’s life and career.

Tuesday, May 11

12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Find the Long “e” in Here?

“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Make bouncing bubbles, play “traffic jam,” sing traveling music, read “How a Seed Grows,” practice long u and e sounds in words.

1 PM: Ancient Skies⎪Gods and Monsters

With breathtaking CGI, beautiful landscape footage and some of the world’s most important astronomical artifacts, Ancient Skies looks at the cosmos through the eyes of our ancestors, charting our changing views of the cosmos throughout history. In this episode we explore the origins of our relationship with the skies. From our earliest ancestors we discover how we used the skies to navigate and tell time, and how we gave religious significance to the things we saw in it. We finish on the cusp of a revolution that gave birth to modern science.

2 PM: Stories in Thread

Stories in Thread focuses on Hmong Pa Dau or Story Cloths. The traditionally hand-made textiles are integral to what it means to be Hmong in America. Despite this significance of Pa Dau to identity and cultural survival, the art form is disappearing. The perspective of the elder generation, the fighters and refugees from Laos, is expressed in their own Hmong language and their fear of cultural loss is immediate and painful. The story of Hmong Pa Dau is the story of identity change and perseverance, it is an exploration of the refugee and immigrant experience, and also a commentary on contemporary minority issues in America.

2:30 PM: Nobody Dies: A Film About a Musician, Her Mom, and Vietnam

San Fransisco-based indie singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen journeys to Vietnam for the first time and brings her mother ⎯ who hasn’t been back since the fall of Saigon. The trip causes Thao to reflect on her upbringing in the United States, her extended family in Vietnam, all the while unraveling like a love letter to her mom.

Wednesday, May 12

12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Hear the Soft “g” in Page?

“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Make a heart map, explore rhythm/beat, identify solid figures, read “Book Fiesta,” read words with soft g.

1 PM: Ancient Skies⎪Finding the Center

Episode two of this landmark series delves further into our ancient understanding of the skies above. After exploring the mysterious creatures living at the edge of the world, we follow the story of our earth as it takes shape and a place in the cosmos in the minds of great astronomers and scientists including Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo.

2 PM: Human: The World Within⎪Pulse

Explore the incredible universe inside each and every one of us. An examination of diverse personal stories from around the world reveals how our lives, passions and goals are powered by the amazing systems that define our biology as a species. In this episode, dive into the world of an ice climber, a bus driver, a woman in labor and a senior dance club to show how the human heart and the circulatory system power our physical and emotional lives and create the pulsing rhythm of our world.

Thursday, May 13

12 PM: Let’s Learn – Map Rhymes With Clap!

“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Learn about animal homes, sing forte and piano, read “The Favorite Book,” rhyme and review long u and e sounds in words.

1 PM: Ancient Skies⎪Our Place in the Universe

In Episode 3, Our Place in the Universe, we complete the puzzle of our ancient skies, collecting the missing pieces required for an accurate model of our universe. We break through the spheres that defined our skies for millennia, abandon the long-held idea of circular orbits, discover new neighbors in our solar system, and begin to comprehend the enormity of our ever-growing universe.

2 PM: Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World – Part 3

This revealing series follows Greta Thunberg as she steps from behind the podium and onto the front lines. Over the course of the three episodes, Greta explores the science as she travels to extraordinary locations across the globe, meeting leading climate scientists, witnessing first hand the consequences of climate change and confronting the complexity of what is required to make change happen.

Friday, May 14

12 PM: Let’s Learn – Can You Hear the Long “e” in Cheer?

“Let’s Learn” helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning. Learn how animals have fun, create sets of objects that have the same number, read “Fire! Fuego! Brave Bomberos,” blend/decode long e sounds in words.

1 PM: Articulate⎪Christian Scott Adjuah, Tommy Pico, Ron Nagle, Sidney Hutter

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah is leading the charge into jazz’s next chapter. Tommy Pico designed his epic poetry for a thoroughly modern medium. Ron Nagle’s hit songs and ceramics are born of dedication to harmony and craft. Sidney Hutter’s plate glass creations have pushed the boundaries of his medium.

1:30 PM: Poetry in America: This is Just to Say

Written in the form of an apology note stuck to a refrigerator door, “This is Just to Say” is a plum of a poem – one that has caused as much disagreement among readers as between any ordinary husband and wife. Is the poem merely the apology it claims to be? Is it an apology at all? Join actor John Hodgman, poet and physician Rafael Campo, poet Jane Hirshfield, and a chorus of couples as they consider what may or may not lie beneath the surface of William Carlos Williams’s brief tribute to marital relations – and the savor of plums.

2 PM: Artbound | The Art of Basketweaving

Native American basketry has long been viewed as a community craft, yet the artistic quality and value of these baskets are on par with other fine art. Now Native peoples across the country are revitalizing basketry traditions and the country looks to California as a leader in basket weaving revitalization.

Learning at Home on Mountain Lake PBS is supported by:
Adirondack Foundation
With additional support by:
North Country Behavioral Medicine
Stafford, Owens, Piller, Murnane, Kelleher & Trombley, PLLC