Dinosaur Train Comes to KAKM in September

Wed, August 19, 2009
Posted in Program Highlights, Schedule Updates

Buddy-The T-Rex stars in DINOSAUR TRAIN

“PBS KIDS invites preschoolers to hop on board the fun and fantastical DINOSAUR TRAIN, a new CGI-animated series from The Jim Henson Company.”

8:30 a.m. Monday-Friday on KAKM.

Starting September 8.

Repeating Saturdays and Sundays at 7:30 a.m.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: SATURDAY, SEPT. 7. — 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

“DINOSAUR TRAIN embraces and celebrates the fascination that preschoolers have with both dinosaurs and trains while encouraging basic scientific thinking and skills as the audience learns about natural science, natural history and paleontology.

Each of the 40 half-hour episodes features Buddy, an adorable preschool age Tyrannosaurus Rex, and includes two 11-minute animated segments along with brief live action segments hosted by renowned paleontologist Scott Sampson.

Young viewers can join Buddy and his adoptive Pteranodon family on a whimsical voyage through prehistoric jungles, swamps, volcanoes and oceans as they unearth basic concepts in natural science, natural history and paleontology.”

Here are KAKM’s downloadable schedule grids for Primetime, Daytime and Early Morning programming in September.