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Wild Kratts?
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Who on here has children who love this show? It comes on our PBS station and I promise you that my children learn more about Science from this show than they have ever learned in our science lessons.
Do you think it would be very CM if I changed their science curriculum to Wild Kratts? Just kidding.
My boys LOVE this show. They only get to watch it once a week at Grandma’s. Every Wednesday evening they give me an excited narration about what they learned about this or that animal. They were at Dollywood, a local theme park, a couple of years ago and we saw them. My 21yos loved their Zaboomafoo show several years ago as well.
My 6yos absolutely LOVES it too! The only show I let him watch because he learns so much and just loves finding out all he can about the animals. After each episode, he narrates of his own accord in great detail about the particular animal featured, where it’s found, what it can do etc. etc.
What I’ve been doing is to read to him from Thornton Burgess books to add to what he’s learned from the show, for eg. when he watched the one about beavers, all he could talk about was beavers, he was building beaver ‘dams’ outside, pretending to be a beaver etc. So I read him ‘The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver’ and he loved it. We do this over and above our 106 Days so the only problem is that I can’t keep up with him……
I haven’t totally decided about this show. My kids loved Zaboomafoo, and I liked it except the little claymation parts of it….
I just wish this show was live instead of animations.
My children love it! My biologist/nature husband enjoys it too!! They do learn a lot from the show, so if you allow some children’s TV in your home, this is a good choice! By the way, concerning the animation, my daughter pointed out that the “good guys” on the show are drawn in realistic proportions, while the “bad guys” on the program have exagerated body parts – tiny legs for a big body, etc. Of course, we are a nature loving family, so most shows about nature/animals interest all of us.
We’ve been Kratt Brother fans for years! We enjoyed Kratts Creatures back when my 16yo was little, then Zaboomafoo when my middle son was young. Now, my 4yo absolutely loves Wild Kratts! Of course my older boys mention how “old” the Kratt brothers are looking
.I was wondering if it was the same “Kratts” as I remember from back in the day. LOL My two oldest watched that all the time.
I looked up this show, which I had never heard of (but I do remember Zaboomafoo or however you spell that) and I’m very interested in it. We do not have television channels at all but I’m thinking of maybe ordering it on DVD. One question first. Does it have evolutionary ideas in the episodes at all? I’m guessing not much if so many of you like it, but I wanted to be sure. Thanks!
I have not heard one evolutionary reference. They call them all creatures, to me, indicating that they are created!
I have not watched it closely, but I had a friend tell me that show refers to the earth being billions of years old instead of a young earth. We saw the Kratt bros. at Dollywood, and after that my DD started to watch the show more. We have only seen the cartoon a handful of times, and honestly, I haven’t kept a close eye on it like I should. I figured it was fine since the other show was. I will be watching more closely since my friend mentioned that.
I do recall hearing a reference to something evolutionary – millions of years, or something. I don’t remember exactly, but it is certainly infrequent in the episodes, and provides a great teachable moment. Even at 6 and 4, I have taught my children to recognize that not everyone believes the Bible. We were reading Who Owns the Sun? earlier this week, and when we got to the page where the son asks who owns the birds and the father replies that no one owns the birds, my 4 year old spoke up, “That’s not true. God does!” I think it’s helpful to point out ideas that don’t line up with the Bible so our children can be discerning. I don’t think it’s beneficial to flood them with evolutionary thoughts, though. Just thought I’d share…
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