Sid The Science Kid Episode 1: The Sticker Chart

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Children television program: Sid The Science Kid Season 1 Episode 1 -The Sticker Chart. The age target for the show is 3 to 6 years old, mostly preschool.
Plot: Sid's mother introduces him to a sticker chart for chores, with a reward for a mega space ship toy if its filled. Sid's curiosity begins that morning with the question of “Why do we need charts?”, this continues throughout his day from home and school. Sid uses his cognitive abilities with the guidance of peers, parents and teachers.
One of the cognitive skills that this show is trying to teach is cognitive organization skills with charts. This episode uses a lot of methods to teach its skills. First example, Sid asks his parents about charts importance and the parents provides him
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During the episode peer relationship and cohesiveness is shown. Sid is involved in activities, healthy communication with his peers and adults. Children’s autonomy skills were shown. For example, Sid’s mom gives him the chart so he can keep his chores organized. However, when Sid’s mom gives him chores to do, she is teaching him to be independent. Another autonomy example, before Sid’s mom gets home he cleans the kitchen table for her, and finish some of his chores by himself. This shows Sid demonstrating autonomy and it teaches the viewers of what autonomy is through actions that can be replicated in the viewer’s home. Apply and analyze skills are displayed because Sid applies all the knowledge he gathers throughout the day and put together a connection for the use and reason of his chore chart and goes home and apply his …show more content…
The episode hints a way parents can take the initiative to teach their kids responsibility with reward systems. As children viewers watch Sid become responsible and earn positive reward or praise, children can connect the idea of being responsible around the house as positive and may result in improving children self-esteem. The most important message that was received from the episode is that children learning development doesn’t happen in one aspect and the more environments the child learns in, the better for increasing advance learning. For example, Sid parents is teaching him about charts, next Sid goes to school and learn with his peers from the teacher, finally he is learning from his grandma about charts and responsibility on the way home. Also, it shows that parents may have jobs and other family members can help the parents (grandmother picking Sid up from

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