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The 3Ts program is about helping you set your child up for success. Learn, watch videos, and unlock tips designed for parents of infants and toddlers.
Learning Resources
Our free bilingual resources were developed in partnership with early childhood education experts and aim to help parents, caregivers and educators enhance learning opportunities for young children
Free Activity Guide
Explore tips and activities to engage with young children
Free Online Course
Professional development course available for early educators
Getting Ready for School and Life – Together!TM
As a caring adult in children’s lives, you naturally want children to be ready for school and for life. It’s a big world, and children need a lot of support from grown-ups to be able to live and thrive in it… now and over a lifetime!
Remembering Our Time Together
This video highlights the good feelings that family memories can bring. As you watch together with children, think of—and talk about—happy times you’ve had as a family.
The Wonderful in You
Together with children, watch this video, which focuses on adult-child bonds and celebrates the special pride parents and caregivers have for their children. Tell children what you think is wonderful about them.
Get to know preschool teachers Joseph Braswell and Callie Weller. As you watch these videos—whether on your own or with colleagues—think about how you might bring their insights and philosophies as well as specific and ideas into your work. You might take notes as you watch.
I am Somebody
An activity page with a strategy that can help set the stage for a lifetime of confidence, pride, and strength!
Seeds for Good
An activity page reminding children that even little acts of kindness can make a big difference.
Together We Shine & Sparkle
An activity about how we’re all connected… and how we’re stronger together.
Sing the Wonderful! Lyric Sheet
After watching the music video “The Wonderful in You”, print this page so you can sing the song whenever you like! Move together and have a “Wonderful” dance party. Invite children to decorate the page, then display where everyone can see it often.
Dream Big!
Print (or just read on screen) some or all of this adult-child activity book focusing on celebrating what makes us each unique, how we’re all connected, and how little ones can build a better world! You can sit with children and complete the pages together, or just talk about what you see on screen.
Our Big Lives
Print this page and invite children to join the Sesame Street community by drawing themselves into the picture. Then display their work!
Growing Together: Ready for School & Beyond
The Wiggle-Jiggle Game
Getting-to-know-you games can help us understand and appreciate the similarities and differences among us all
Abby's Magical Letter Garden
Prepare children for school success by exposing them to uppercase letters, helping them recognize them, and write them themselves.
Playing With Colors
Prepare children for school success by building basic skills, such as color recognition.
Playing With Numbers
Prepare children for school success by building basic skills, such as number recognition.
Building and Rebuilding Language Skills—and Community!
The pandemic impacted many children’s language and literacy skills, but their brains are malleable and adults can help build skills through rich conversations.
Read ‘Building and Rebuilding Language Skills – and Community!’
More Growing Together Videos and Games
PNC and Sesame Workshop have partnered to create Growing Together: Ready for School & Beyond to provide resources that help kids, parents, and providers get ready to succeed in school
Sesame Street’s Ready for School Challenge:
Preschool
Starting preschool can be exciting…and sometimes scary! But Elmo and his friends are here to help. Together with your soon-to-be preschooler, listen anytime, anywhere to real kids, real parents, a real teacher, and Elmo—all on the topic of preschool! In each episode, there’s also an interactive game.
Sesame Street’s Ready for School Challenge: Kindergarten
Starting kindergarten can be exciting…and sometimes scary! But Elmo and his friends are here to help. Together with your soon-to-be kindergartner, listen anytime, anywhere to real kids, real parents, a real teacher, and Elmo—all on the topic of kindergarten! In each episode, there’s also an interactive game.
A Day in the Life of a Preschooler
Whether it’s before beginning preschool or at the start of the year, a peek into another child’s day, in a similar setting, can ease children’s anxieties. Together with children, watch Sophie learn, play, and help in her preschool classroom and at home.
A Day in the Life of a Kindergartner
Whether it’s before beginning kindergarten or at the start of the year, a peek into another child’s day, in a similar setting, can ease children’s anxieties. Together with children, watch Dhaviya learn, play, and help in kindergarten and at home.
Elmo’s Brain Games
Help kids take a school-readiness adventure in which Elmo’s friends help him practice paying attention, focusing, reasoning, and memory—all skills that will help him in school. Kids will practice listening to instructions, staying focused even when there are distractions, remembering several-step directions, and more.
Play 'Elmo's Brain Games'
Get Moving
Physical activity can help both children and adults focus their minds. As you watch, notice how physical activity harnesses and focuses children’s natural energy as children build gross-motor skills and engage playfully with adults. Consider these ways to integrate “energy bursts” into your daily routines, then brainstorm some ideas of your own.
Watch 'Get Moving'
Reading at Home and School
Children grow when they can teach what they learn. Children have a “school identity” and a “home identity,” and there’s a great way to bridge the two in a way that enriches, expands, reinforces learning. Encourage children to become “teachers” at home as they explain and demonstrate to their families what they’re learning all day—children gain confidence when they can share what they know!
Watch 'Reading at Home and School'
Parent Teacher Meeting
Every positive interaction between home and school helps create a partnership that benefits children all year long. As you watch these everyday, informal interactions between parents and teachers, reflect on how you communicate with parents, and consider new ways to do so.
Watch 'This Is How I Grow'
Day-to-Day Connections
Interacting with parents daily strengthens important home-school connections. As you watch, notice how this teacher personally interacts with the parent for a recap of their child’s day. Then think about ways you can boost similar everyday interactions with parents so that everyone stays “on the same page” with children’s lives and learning in both school and home.
Watch 'Day-to-Day Connections'
School Routines, Home Routines
Having the same routines in different settings enriches learning. Kids may have the same responsibilities in different settings, but routines can help them connect lessons between school and home. As you watch, notice what is the same and different about the routines of table-setting and handwashing at school and at home.
Watch 'Reading at Home and School'
Back To School
Teachers and parents form a powerful learning team when they work together to lay the foundation for success in school—and in life! Getting involved in school activities encourages learning inside and outside the classroom. Because everyone on the team has the same goal: to provide safe spaces—with lots of love and care—where children can grow and thrive.
This Is How I Grow
Use children’s curiosity about places, people, and things around them to get them excited about learning and preparing for school.
Observe With Me
Watch Abby and Rudy add to their wonder journal, then help children create their own.
Let's Make Art
Children can learn math, science, and more through creating art.
Meet Maggie Cadabby
With a little love, and modeling how to think aloud, you can help children become problem solvers. Help children build problem-solving skills to turn “Oops” into “Aha!” Watch 'Meet Maggie Cadabby'
Building Language Skills
Let's Make Up a Story!
Oral storytelling can be opportunities for great conversations and building vocabulary. Watch Rosita and her Abuela turn the night sky into a storytelling adventure.
Talk About It
Parent Tips
Regular communication with your child’s teacher will help your child learn, grow and thrive in the pre-K classroom.
Download Parent Tip Sheet
Host a Family Workshop
Plant Seeds to Boost Learning!
Are you a community organization, administrator or teacher that engages families of young children? Use this guide to plan fun workshops that help families discover the power they have to build their child’s brains during everyday moments
Download the Guide to Hosting Family Workshops
Words are Here, There and Everywhere
To kids, words are the most precious data. Every conversation a child has fosters brain development. And words are the foundation for a child’s school readiness and future success.
That's why we created Words Are Here, There, and Everywhere, in partnership with Sesame Street®. These resources provide a variety of activities to help spark conversation and develop young children’s vocabulary, building on their natural curiosity around math, science and the arts.
Digital Storybooks
Interact with digital storybooks featuring Elmo and his Sesame Street friends to make learning new words fun.
Explore Word Play Storybooks | Explore Reading Adventures Storybooks
For Parents & Caregivers:
For Educators:
Happy, Healthy, Ready for School
Happy, Healthy, Ready for School provides simple ways to create teachable moments that develop children’s physical, emotional, and cognitive skills. It promotes the importance of school readiness as well as empowers parents as a child’s first and most important teacher.
Download Activity Book | Read Magazine | Watch Video
Math is Everywhere
Math is Everywhere provides parents, caregivers and educators with strategies and resources to turn everyday experiences into math moments – at home, in school and on the go.
For Parents & Caregivers:
- Download Activity Book
- Read Magazine
- "Math On-The-Go" Activity Cards:
Set 1 | Set 2 - Watch Video
For Educators:
Learning is Everywhere
Learning is Everywhere helps parents turn everyday experiences into learning opportunities. It provides tools to help children learn through discovery by asking, doing and exploring throughout their everyday routines.
For Parents & Caregivers
For Me, for You, for Later: First Steps to Spending, Sharing & Saving
For Me, For You, For Later: First Steps to Spending, Sharing & Saving
For Me, For You, For Later provides parents, caregivers, and educators with strategies and resources to help children learn basic financial concepts that highlight the importance of saving, spending and sharing, making choices, and the value of people, things and money.
For Parents & Caregivers:
For Educators:
My World is Green & Growing
My World is Green & Growing
My World is Green and Growing is designed to promote exploration and investigation of the natural world. The journal provides useful tips and activities to help young children and grown-ups explore the natural environment by using everyday moments as great learning opportunities.
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