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Engage your kids when you’re on the road with music, podcasts, and downloadable games and books. Plus, Noggin’s expert advisor Dr. Jenny Radesky shares a few tips for family travel this summer.

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Engage your kids when you’re on the road with music, podcasts, and downloadable games and books.

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Expert Tips with Dr. Jenny Radesky

Hello Families!

As our kids wrap up this unprecedented school year and we parents yearn for a break, let’s talk about summer travel: How can we come out of summer trips feeling re-energized and centered? How will our kids handle venturing out of their comfort zones of home?

We all may be rusty at this, so here are a few ideas for making summer family travel fun, manageable, and a vacation we all deserve.

Take care of yourselves, and safe travels!

Jenny Radesky, MD

Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
University of Michigan Medical School

Researcher on digital media, kids, and families

Mom of Two (ages 11 and 7)

Read Dr. Radesky’s summer travel tips!

Listen to Music

Celebrate Our Difference

Big Heart Beats

This song is a celebration of all the things that make us different — and a recognition that it’s the things that make us different that make us special. Watch the music video and read more from the artists here.

Accordion Content
  • Appreciating Diversity
  • Identity and Belonging

How You Feel

Big Heart Beats

Lliam and Yasmina from the Big Heart Kids have a heart-to-heart about feelings. Watch the music video in the app and hear from Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer Chris Sernel about the recording here.

Accordion Content
  • Name and Describe Feelings
  • Manage Feelings
  • Express Feelings

Like Nobody Else

Big Heart Beats

Marisol and Marquis from the Big Heart Kids celebrate how awesome and unique they are. See the music video and hear from the creators Alex Geringas and Wil Fuller here.

Accordion Content
  • Identity and Belonging
Accordion Content
  • Appreciating Diversity
  • Identity and Belonging
Accordion Content
  • Name and Describe Feelings
  • Manage Feelings
  • Express Feelings
Accordion Content
  • Identity and Belonging

Hero

Rhymes Through Times

Watch as Ruby Bridges & Thurgood Marshall, portrayed by Zooli & Goby of Bubble Guppies, stand up for justice and equality. Teaching kids, they too can be heroes! Watch in Noggin or online here.

Accordion Content
  • Standing Up for Others
  • Understanding Fairness
  • Being Inclusive 

My Best

Rhymes Through Times

Katherine Johnson played by Nella the Princess Knight & Guion Stewart Bluford Jr., portrayed by Goby from Bubble Guppies, demonstrate that math is mighty! Watch in Noggin or online here.

Accordion Content
  • Expressing Confidence
  • Celebrating Differences
  • History

Why We Dance

Rhymes Through Times

Katherine Dunham, portrayed by Nella the Princess Knight & Alvin Ailey played by AJ from Blaze and the Monster Machines, express themselves through dance. Watch in Noggin or online here.

Accordion Content
  • Gross Motor Skills
  • Celebrating Differences
  • History
Accordion Content
  • Standing Up for Others
  • Understanding Fairness
  • Being Inclusive 
Accordion Content
  • Expressing Confidence
  • Celebrating Differences
  • History
Accordion Content
  • Gross Motor Skills
  • Celebrating Differences
  • History

Tune In to Podcasts

Letters O & S

10 Min

This episode brings together two neighbors who have never met – the swashbuckling Letter O, who rules all things Ocean-related, and the empowered Latina Letter S, who rules all things Sea related. They take DJ Al B to each of their kingdoms, and learn that both the Ocean and the Sea are amazing places that help each other, and it’s the start of a beautiful friendship.

Letter F

10 Min

The Letter F joins DJ Al B in the studio, and transports us to the fabulous forest. She sings to us about how the forest is friendly, and teaches us that we need to be fair and friendly to the forest to keep all the furry animals and fir trees protected.

Letter H

10 Min

DJ Al B welcomes the hero riding on his hippopotamus, the Letter H, into the studio. Letter H sings a David Bowie-style song about what it means to be a hero – and how we can all be heroes by helping at home and in our communities.

Download Books and Games

Meet the Froodles

Mission

Come to a faraway land to help some fantastically fun creatures called Froodles! With help from Agent Bubble Puppy and Agent Rubble, kids will use the math skill of quantity comparison to grow more wiggleberries and feed the Froodles.

Accordion Content
  • Comparing Quantities

Robot Boogie

Mission

In this adaptive game, kids practice reading sight words like “red” and “big” to boogie through groovy dance moves.

Accordion Content
  •  Identifying Sight Words

Dora and Diego by the Shore

Book

Dora, Diego, and Boots love the beach! But before they head out for a day by the shore, Boots wants to look at Dora’s scrapbook. This book is great for beach lovers ages 2-5.

Accordion Content
  • Comprehension
  • Living Things
Accordion Content
  • Comparing Quantities
Accordion Content
  •  Identifying Sight Words
Accordion Content
  • Comprehension
  • Living Things

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