A bit of information regarding tomorrow morning:

• The Sesame Street producers of our local PBS affiliate, WNIT have partnered with PNC Bank to produce several 1-2 minute segments of real kids learning lessons pertaining to money: earning $, saving it, sharing it, spending it, values and making good choices.
• Tomorrow, those producers will be at WF from 8am-12pm producing 5 of these segments with our kids.
• The segments will be aired between Sesame Street “scenes”: EX: When the Elmo scene is finished, they cut away to real kids in a classroom, expressing, through activities, the ideas Elmo was sharing.
• They have given WF 5 scripts with activities and general ideas they want to shoot. Tami has worked closely with one of the producers to express our learning style and to make sure that we can stay true to this during the taping. In other words, making sure the kids are doing what they naturally do within the guidelines that PNC has fleshed out. The five activities are: 1) Build and share at the workbench 2) Dough to Dollars (mudpies and apple pies) 3) How Does Your Garden Grow? 4) E is for Energize and 5) Loan and Loaners (kids on bikes). All of these are subject to change tomorrow-but we hope not!
• After they’ve shot all morning, they will piece together/edit the story that will air. It is our hope that all of our Wee Friends will be represented in the segments, but it’s also something we have no control over. Like the 4 C’s video, a lot of film is shot for a little airtime. They haven’t shared when the episodes will air, but we will let you know immediately!
• In addition to the camera crew/producer, two representatives from PNC will be here working with the kids as they film.
• Wee Friends DO understand that Elmo and Cookie Monster are not coming, but rather, they might get to be on TV.
• For us at WF, it’s a normal day! Please arrive according to your normal morning schedule. We will have breakfast as usual and maintain a predictable WF routine around the requests made by the film crew.
• For the last few days, we have been introducing money concepts to Wee Friends and working with real/pretend coins, songs about $ and the ideas and games around saving and spending.
• THANK YOU to everyone for getting the release forms in so quickly.
• If you have a question that hasn’t been addressed above, please don’t hesitate to ask-we are happy to share any/all info that we have at this point!

Here are a few shots from today’s dress rehearsal .

See you tomorrow.