On this day, November 10, in 1969 Sesame Street debuted. I remember watching it when I was little and there's a family story that while on a family trip I was left with my mom's best friend while my parents took my brother hiking and I didn't stop screaming until Sesame Street was on.
Sesame Street is such an institution especially for us kids of the 80's. I think I liked the music more than anything else. And Cookie Monster. And Grover. Well SuperGrover. And Big Bird's dog....or was it Snuffy's? He was orange and white and shaggy. But back to the music, C is for Cookie, Rubber Ducky, Put down the Ducky, which followed me to high school where saxophone became clarinet. Same syllables. It worked. The learning stuff was always there of course but I don't remember it as a huge impacting factor. It must have been but that's the best learning in my opinion, when you don't realize it's happening.
I don't watch the show anymore, but I learned some signs, some spanish and a ton of other things.
Here are some videos I found:
This one used to freak me out. I totally forgot about it. I guess I blocked it out.
Put Down the Duckie!
I forgot about a lot of these clips but I remember how much I loved them, or how much they scared me, now that I look back and see them.
I also love that I watched some of the same clips in sesame street that my brother did 5 years earlier that I'm sure they still play other things that I watched that my kids'll watch. Sesame street is a childhood staple.
Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
This entry is brought to you by the letter S!
Emily
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