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Blue's Clues - Blue's Discoveries
: essential video:Blue's Clues features Steve and his friend, the sweet, long-eared, curious dog Blue. Each segment explores problem-solving, something that the show's young audience will deal with, in various levels, on a daily basis. Blue's Clues slowly offers up three clues to uncover what's missing, what Blue wants, and other examples that are easy for preschoolers to relate to. Blue's Discoveries contains two science-oriented stories that feature an experiment Blue wants to try and what Blue would like to do with recycled items. These experiments can easily be replicated at ...
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Blue's Clues - ABC's and 1,2,3's
: :The popular Nickelodeon Jr. show for the 2-4 age group does an excellent job of introducing simple vocabulary and numerical concepts in these two episodes. In the first, Steve and his dog Blue's house is labeled to discover what book Blue wants to have read to her. The labels (everything from 'refrigerator' to 'wall') are treated lightly, Steve mostly asking the audience to name the first letter of each word. Steve and Blue also work on constructing a simple sentence. In the second episode, Blue wants to buy something. Simple counting ...
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Blue's Clues - Story Time
: :Finally, parents will have something to pop in the VCR when their hopelessly addicted tots ask for a hit of the blue dog during one of the many hours it's not actually playing on television. This 50-minute video contains two segments that touch on several traditional tales, but focus on 'The Three Little Pigs' and 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears.' There's a little Elvis humor for the adults, but most of the jokes are aimed squarely at the pre-K set, who are asked to help our rugby-shirted friend Steve discover his ...
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Blue's Clues - Rhythm and Blue
: :Two episodes from the popular Nickelodeon Jr. show explore musical themes. In 'Blue Wants to Play a Song Game,' our intrepid Steve uncovers Blue's clues for what song she wants to play. Several nursery rhyme songs are featured along with examples of music in nature. The latter theme is explored further in 'Music in a Everyday Way.' Music is discovered in jars of water, sticks on the floor, and animal sounds. Even the thinking chair becomes a musical instrument. The sound and rhyme matching will make this video hold up to ...
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Blue's Clues - Blue's Birthday
: :This is the first video of this children's favorite series that's not just a TV segment. The introduction, created for the video, follows Blue's intrepid friend Steve as he visits a kid's house to learn the 'Birthday Candle Dance.' It's only six or so minutes but it does add to the fun. Then it's on to Blue's fabulous birthday party, where she has left some clues for what she really wants for her birthday. Another winner. --Doug Thomas
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Blue's Clues - Stop, Look and Listen
: :This 51-minute video opens with Steve taking a new look at familiar surroundings. As Steve and his viewers play Blue's Clues to figure out what Blue saw outside, they get a glimpse of how perspective can change an object's appearance. Just watch how a paw print changes when reflected in a mirror or take a look at a bundle of sticks through a vase of water. The fun really begins when Blue offers Steve his kaleidoscope to view books, a butterfly, and Mailbox's letter. Steve and his young viewers also make ...
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Blue's Clues - Reading with Blue
: :Multisyllabic words and reference volumes pique Blue's interest in this double episode focusing on vocabulary and books. But the inquisitive blue dog and her preschool audience have the effervescent Steve, a talking end table, and silent signing librarian Marlee Matlin to help them through this wordy lesson. In 'Words,' Steve and his pet plow through their Big Bag of Words, coming up with contrasts like enormous and miniscule. Blue has sorted the pair's books into categories in 'Blue's Book Nook,' and she generously loans out her tomes to the neighborhood animals. ...
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Blue's Clues - Blue's Big Pajama Party
: :Grab your sleeping bag and your favorite bunny slippers: it's time for a night-time game of Blue's Clues. Our moon-eyed (human) host named Steve and his frisky, animated dog named Blue have invited a crowd of their usual pals for a pajama party. While the format of this episode mirrors the other Blue's Clues shows, standard tunes such as 'Mail Time!' and 'We Just Figured Out Blue's Clues' are practically whispered so as not to disturb sleeping characters. Together, the very sleepy Steve and his cartoon friends identify nocturnal animals by ...
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Blue's Clues - Blue's Big Holiday
: :If sleuthing, not Santa-stalking, is the name of your 2- to 5-year-old's game, grab your scarf and settle in for Blue's Big Holiday, a festive double feature that doesn't dissolve into folkloric fluff. The title episode arranges itself gently around December's gift-giving trifecta. Steve and Blue, off delivering presents, pick up on some peculiar goings-on at the homes of their pals: At Wynonna Judd's, a tree twinkles in the living room; at Lisa Datz's, candles symbolizing a miracle burn brightly; and at Tyrese's, corn and a cup, tokens of community togetherness, ...
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Blue's Clues - Blue's Big News - The Baby's Here!
:Description:It's very exciting for everyone in the house! Since Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper are expecting a baby, we show our appreciation for them during our own special holiday 'Salt and Pepper Day.' We give them gifts and learn more about what they like to do. The, it's off to the hospital to deliver the baby! We prepare a special gift to give to the new baby, and even learn more about babies at the baby hospital, all the while helping Paprika prepare for her important role as big sister. :The ...
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