Another birthday for Elmo has come, and he still does not look a day over 3 1/2. February 3rd Elmo celebrated another birthday that was sure to make him giggle. This weekend there are a few places around the United States showing Elmo a little bit of happy birthday love.
BocaNewsNow.com reports that there will be an Elmo birthday celebration at the Learning Express in Boca Raton, Florida. There will be face painting, and other fun activities for the children. This happens on Saturday
Sesame Place will be celebrating Elmo’s birthday both Saturday and Sunday. Sesame Place is located in Langhorne, PA and has year round fun with the Sesame Street characters. For each birthday that the Muppets have, Sesame Place takes time to celebrate.
Sesame Street Live was scheduled to perform in Youngstown, New Jersey at the Powers Auditorium this February. We reported earlier that the original dates February 17th through 19th were canceled, but then there were no rescheduled dates at the time. Now according to wkbn.org, Sesame Street live will now be heading to Youngstown in June for several performances on June 1st through June 3rd. The original February performance was “Elmo’s Super Heroes.” In June, instead of “Elmo’s Health Heroes,” Sesame Street Live will be presenting “1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo and Friends.” “Elmo’s Healthy Heroes” Sesame Street friends help Super Grover get “super” again by singing and dancing while teaching healthy habits. Elmo, Abby Cadabby, and Big Bird are among the friends there to help. “1-2-3 Image with Elmo and Friends” also has a slew of Sesame Street friends. This particular show is about Elmo and his friends using their imaginations to transport them to different places and have them do different things. Those that have purchased tickets to the original February performance can contact the box office to exchange tickets for the June performance.
OK GO is a music band that has their own individual sound. They will add a little bit of their personality to Sesame Street as they teach children about primary colors. You can check out a video of that performance below. You can also see it on the Sesame Street episode airing tomorrow. It is a fun way to learn that red, blue, yellow are the primary colors. Then these combinations can make secondary colors. Maybe you remember from the old Ziploc bag commercials that yellow and blue does make green. But there are some other ones0 like: yellow and red makes orange, or red and blue makes purple. No Muppets in this one, but we know the Elmo, Big Bird, and Cookie Monster could have filled in wonderfully for the primary colors.
According to local Youngstown, Ohio new stations website for WKBN 17, the February performance of Sesame Street Live has been canceled. The show was originally scheduled to be performed eat the Powers Auditorium February 17th through February 19th. No word yet on whether the Sesame Street Live performances will be rescheduled or why they we canceled in the first place.
Sesame Street is continually to evolve as it reaches a new generation of children that have already embraced technology. Random House has been a publisher of Sesame Street books, included leveled readers. Now Random House has developed some of these traditional books into e-books. Books to become eBooks include the titles: Elmo Says Achoo! , Elmo’s Breakfast Bingo , Get Moving with Grover, Big Bird Says . . . and Baker, Baker, Cookie Maker. Children will be able to read stories about Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and other favorite Sesame Street Muppets. Some of the e-books will also include narration Bob McGrath, who plays Bob on Sesame Street.
Sesame Street has previously launched several other eBooks that available through apps on iPhone, iPad, and iPod. These eBook have been interactive and included audio. Some have allowed readers that allowed readers to read along at their own pace, others have included animations that have allowed to the book to come alive as the children read.
In the new age of technology fueled lives e-books will probably become more of the rule than the exception. Hopefully the interactivity of the books will bring about more of the interest in reading that carry through from preschool years through adulthood. Because we all know that reading will open children to a wealth of knowledge.
Sesame Street Live fans there will be several performances of Elmo’s Healthy Heroes in Shea’s Performing Arts Center Buffalo, New York this February. You can will a family 4 pack to one of the performances on February 22nd through February 26th. .
The contest is being conducted by WIVB-TV in Buffalo. Sponsors of the contest are Sesame Street Live, Applebee’s, and Shea’s perform Arts Center. To enter you go to a participating Applebee’s restaurant in the area and have your child take a picture next to a cut-out of Elmo. You then upload the picture to the http://www.wivb.com/dpp/community/contests/contest-find-elmo-2012. Random winners will be selected from the eligible entries. There will be four winners of a 4 pack of tickets to one of the performances. A grand prize winner will also win a 4 pack of tickets, a chance to meet and greet with the characters from the show, and a $100 Applebee’s gift card. For me more information please visit the WIVB-TV website using the link provided above.
Kinect and Sesame Street are joining forces to create interactive television episodes that use virtual participation from viewers. On the programs characters have been able to ask questions that toddlers and preschoolers reply to and that has been the gist of the interaction, but now there will be episodes that can sense movements of the viewers and have the characters on the show react. This is similar the how Kinect game users interact with their games.
In a video below a Kinect spokesperson describes how the new interactive Sesame Street will work. In this episode Cookie Monster leaves a skateboard on the sidewalk and Super Grover drops the box of coconuts that he is carrying. The video shows a viewer tossing coconuts to Super Grover as he counts them.
Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music with be heading to the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri for several performances that will occur from January 26th through January 29th. Local ABC station KMBC is giving away a family 4 pack of tickets to see one of the performances. If interested ,you can enter online by visiting http://www.kmbc.com/entertainment/30206302/detail.html to fill out an online entry from. You need to enter before 5 pm on January 20th to be eligible. Five winners will be chosen to receive a family 4 pack of tickets that can be redeemed for one of the performances of Sesame Street Live.
Bert and Ernie have taken over the Sesame Street twitter account to tell a few frog jokes. Of course the best friends are letting the whole world in on their talent of telling jokes. No word on if Kermit the Frog thinks the jokes from his fellow Muppets are funny.
Sesame Workshop, the company behind Sesame Street has several different localized versions of Sesame across the world. One of those programs, Sharaa Simsim, is Palestine’s versions of Sesame Street and has been airing in that country since 1996. The show was halted because of freezing of USAID funding. The show is not expected to permanently end. Some USAID funds have been released, but it will not yet go to the 2012 funding of Sharaa Simsim.
USAID funds have been used for educational programs in many different nations. Afghanistan, with the help of USAID, recently started airing their version of Sesame Street. Each international Sesame Street program tries to meet the needs of the local children and add elements of culture from the nation.
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