{"id":214,"date":"2011-02-08T07:23:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T14:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2011\/02\/08\/make-tracks-for-the-new-%e2%80%98chuggington%e2%80%99-dvd-released-feb-8\/"},"modified":"2011-02-08T07:23:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T14:23:38","slug":"make-tracks-for-the-new-%e2%80%98chuggington%e2%80%99-dvd-released-feb-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2011\/make-tracks-for-the-new-%e2%80%98chuggington%e2%80%99-dvd-released-feb-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Tracks for the New \u2018Chuggington\u2019 DVD, Released Feb. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'Chuggington_LetsRideTheRails.JPG','200','288');return false\" onfocus=\"this.blur()\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chuggington_LetsRideTheRails.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"139\" height=\"200\" title=\"Chuggington_LetsRideTheRails.JPG\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Chuggington_LetsRideTheRails.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbs\/th-Chuggington_LetsRideTheRails.JPG?resize=139%2C200\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>Six episodes of chuggers Wilson, Koko and Brewster come together on today\u2019s Anchor Bay Entertainment DVD release <em>Chuggington: Let\u2019s Ride the Rails<\/em>, along with some fun extras in a memory game and a coloring book. The appealing stars may <em>look<\/em> like train engines, but they act even more appealingly like children: eager to learn new skills but not quite getting them right on the first try or not quite remembering all the instructions.<\/p>\n<p>The playfulness of their world\u2019s pastel coloring and simplified sets disguises the factual information presented as play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBraking Brewster\u201d builds up from a short lesson in how a hopper car works \u2026 subtly establishing what a \u201chopper car\u201d is in the first place. Education at its most effortless \u2013 almost by osmosis. The lesson Brewster and Wilson are supposed to learn \u2013 that it\u2019s \u201calways harder going downhill with a heavy load\u201d \u2013 is driven home by showing what happens when that warning is ignored. And what saves the day is taking an observation of action in an earlier situation and applying it to the new one.<\/p>\n<p>Box cars are the train lesson of \u201cClunky Wilson.\u201d The behavioral one centers on Wilson\u2019s attempt to ignore the squeaky sound in his wheels and the shimmy that keeps getting worse. It\u2019s an easy parallel to people not wanting to ask for help because they\u2019d first have to admit there was something wrong. And although young kids may not know what a \u201csuspension spring\u201d is, just hearing real-world terms helps give them a basis on which future learning can be built. (A quick repair took care of Wilson, and he learned that needing a repair is a perfectly normal part of his life.)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all simple and straightforward, in short tales suited to the young \u2013 short \u2013 attention spans of kids age 2-5. And not a hint of condescension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six episodes of chuggers Wilson, Koko and Brewster come together on today\u2019s Anchor Bay Entertainment DVD release Chuggington: Let\u2019s Ride the Rails, along with some fun extras in a memory game and a coloring book. The appealing stars may look like train engines, but they act even more appealingly like children: eager to learn new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds-released","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paS5I2-3s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}