KLRU has great programs for kids and great programs for adults, but it’s not easy to find programs that all family members can enjoy together. Each month, KLRU identifies a Family Choice program from our schedule that will interest and engage family members, ages 7 and up.
This month, KLRU features The Biscuit Brothers holiday specials starting at 5 p.m. on Sunday, December 20.
Musical Celebrations at 5 p.m.
Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Hispanic tradition, birthdays and other holidays and celebrations are explored after Tiny Scarecrow accidentally releases all the holiday melodies from Melody Garden. This song filled special shows how a “holiday” can be a good time to learn about other cultures and traditions and a great time to share your culture and traditions with others.
Merry Musical Christmas at 5:30 p.m.
The whole family will sing and laugh along with this heart-felt musical nod to traditional Christmas specials of the past. Join the Biscuit Brothers and company on Christmas Eve as they use music to celebrate on the magical, musical farm and try to cheer up Tiny Scarecrow who sits high atop Symphony Barn waiting for snow.
Each month, KLRU chooses a program for your family to enjoy together. This month’s Family Choice program is Nature “Fellowship of the Whales” on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. The story of the first year of a humpback whale’s life as she learns the lessons of humpback life from her mother. Together, they make the long journey from her birthplace in the suptropical waters in Hawaii to summer feeding grounds in the cold seas off Alaska’s southeast coast. he youngster will meet dangerous orcas and sharks, and playful dolphins and seals.
KLRU Family Choice
Sunday, July 19, at 4 p.m.
Family Choice web site at klru.org/familychoice
KLRU has great programs for kids and great programs for adults, but it’s not easy to find programs that all family members can enjoy together. Each month, KLRU identifies a Family Choice program from our schedule that will interest and engage family members, ages 7 and up.
This month, KLRU features Peace: The Handraised Polar Bear. On December 2, 1999, a polar bear named Peace was born at Japan’s Tobe Zoological Park. After his mother rejected the cub, zoo keeper Atsuhiro Takaichi took on the task of parenting and subsequently succeeded in hand-raising a polar bear for the first time ever in Japan and just the third time in the world. Peace: The Handraised Polar Bear chronicles five years in the life of the young cub and the caring zoo keeper.
KLRU Family Choice
Sunday, May 21, from 2 to 6 p.m.
KLRU has great programs for kids and great programs for adults, but it’s not easy to find programs that all family members can enjoy together. Each month, KLRU identifies a Family Choice program from our schedule that will interest and engage family members, ages 7 and up.
This month, KLRU features summer fun documentaries on Sunday, May 31. From 2 to 6 p.m. KLRU will feature: Great Old Amusement Parks, Ice Cream Show, Hot Dog Program, and A Program About Unusual Buildings and Other Roadside Stuff. Find out more about each of these programs at the Family Choice Web site: klru.org/familychoice
Ask This Old House “Special Projects for Kids: Building a Vegetable Garden”
Saturday, March 28, 5:30 p.m.
Each month, KLRU identifies a Family Choice program from our schedule that will interest and engage family members, ages 7 and up. Keep updated on the Family Choice program-of-the-month and ways your family can build and extend the program through discussion and activities.
The annual kid’s episode features family-friendly projects that parents and kids can build together! Landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a 12-year-old budding gardener build a raised bed for growing vegetables. In the Ask This Old House loft, general contractor Tom Silva and plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey with the help of several kids, build a miniature indoor golf course. Later, host Kevin O’Connor and a middle school teacher show eager students how to build a model rocket launcher using commonly available household and hardware store items.
