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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

what Ethan’s watching

I’m currently flying solo with Ethan while Jacqui is out with Charis. He’s watching kids’ stuff on ABC and the show on at the moment is one of his (and mine, to be honest) favourites, Bear in the Big Blue House.

The gentle, soft title character of Bear in the Big Blue House is a talking, seven-foot (213 cm) light brown bear who lives in a house and who loves to help children learn. Despite his enormous size, Bear is child-friendly. He addresses the kids at home directly, talking to them as if they were all his close friends. Bear in the Big Blue House was created for the very young, teaching concepts like shapes, gravity, helping, seasons, and even toilet training. Joining the ever-curious Bear are an assortment of woodland creatures—excitable lemur Treelo, headstrong mouse Tutter, peppy otter twins Pip and Pop and imaginative little bear cub Ojo—all of whom help illustrate the day’s lesson. At the end of every episode, Bear goes out on his balcony to talk about what everyone has learned with his friend Luna, the wise moon.

Bear interweaves learning with playtime. After the musical call, “Where oh where oh where is Shadow?”, Bear’s friend Shadow appears. Together with other shadow friends, the girl puts on shadow plays of brief, amusing stories— often with grown-up humor lurking just under the surface.

In other words, quality stuff that is fun for the adults, as well as the kids. Here’s how it opens up…

and here’s how it will finish in about 10 minutes’ time....

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Posted by David Ould on 04/16 at 09:29 AM
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