We invite you to listen to this love filled episode with your grandparents.

Swara leads with her well researched NerdOut, Ari interviews his grandparents, Leela from Newsy Pooloozi and & her friends answer the question "What do you love most about your grandparents?" and Ari visits his Nana's retirement community. We then invite you to play a trivia game, entertain you with an extra Bizarre ASMR, and finally, our very special super grand bad dad with Swara the great's grand dad.

Thanks and we hope you enjoy it (:

Welcome back & thanks for joining us for the 1st episode of season 3 - songwriting. Our new co-hosts Chloe & Swara join Ari in an exploration of this expressive form of art. Chloe leads with a 'Nerd Out' as she walks us through her songwriting process, Swara takes us to her park where kids answer the question 'what instrument do you think is underestimated or misunderstood?'. We turn this question into a game and of course include for you 'bizarre ASMR' & 'Bad Dad' segments, cause this podcast is for silly feel good fun!

The headliner for this episode is a songwriter we've admired for years and think you will enjoy meeting. Laurie Berkner's joyous outlook and engaging presence fill this episode with good vibes.

The good times keep on rolling as guest Miss Lynn of What If World pops in

And Dan Saks of Noodle Loaf shares his insight on the bigger picture

We hope you enjoy this episode & that it might even help encourage the songwriter in you!

Cover Art Photo by Pixabay Design by Tal Kelly

Produced by Art & Light Society

Hey kids, we want to hear your voice on season 3 - Hurry hurry! Send us your recordings & we'll put you right in.

We have a new phone 617.299.1652 - you can call and leave a message. Or you can always email us a recording to: [email protected]

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WE NEED:

Poop jokes!

Tell us why your grandparents are the best.

Guess the bizarre ASMRs (can be found on our website: AtYourLevelPod.com)

This season finale is filled with poems about space. The trombone bits are also about space. The whole thing is packed with poems and, well, space!

That's because for this episode we collaborated with some amazing creatives that inspired us:

Astrophysicist Sean Raymond who wrote the book 'Blackholes Stars Earth and Mars', Illustrated by his son Owen (who was kind enough to make this cover for us too). We highly recommend this book! Here's a link to it: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Holes-Stars-Earth-Mars/dp/B08LFZZWGZ

And our Kids Listen friend Darren Short of Kids Poetry Club. The kid poets heard in this episode are the winners of his 'Space and the Sky' contest. To enter the next competition or to check out more kid poetry, visit: https://www.kidspoetryclub.com/

Trick or treat ? This one's both! The trick is that this is not a new episode, witchful thinking, I know. The treat is.. well, this fa-boo-lous episode! So What do you think this Halloween's gonna look like? Was last Halloween different than what you expected? Did you even have any expectations? And do you remember Halloween before the pandemic?

What superpower would you like to have? Do you think science has made that superpower possible?

Science helps us do so many things that we couldn't before. In this episode Ari explores this topic through interviews and games with Dr. William Haseltine and Jack of Jack to the Future.

As well as a special Nerd Out with an assist from Dr. Laurie Santos' The Happiness Lab and the Let Slip the Dogs of More Happiness inspiring episode.

A special thank you to the kids who lent us their voices:

Eva, Belle, Jesse, Anya, Warren, Roland, John, Charlie & Dominic.

And the wonderful adults:

Darren Short of The Kids Poetry Club - www.kidspoetryclub.com/competition (to enter your poem to space)

Sandhya Nankani of Literary Safari & Story Seeds Podcast - https://www.literarysafari.com/team https://www.storyseedspodcast.com

Dr. William Haseltine, author of Science as a Superpower - https://www.williamhaseltine.com/

Get in the 'back to school' mindset and have a listen. Eight of us Kids Listen member podcasts created a short offering on the theme of this year's return to school as a sampling for you and your family. Collaborators in the order in which they appear in the episode: The Fina Mendoza Mysteries - www.chesapeakepress.org/finamendozapodcast All Things Madison - www.ShopMadisonLauren.com Nature Narratives - www.NatureNarrativesPodcast.com At Your Level - www.AtYourLevelPod.com Journey with Story - www.journeywithstory.com Best Whatever Ever - www.thebestwhateverever.com Stories for Wonderful Children - www.storiesforwonderfulchildren.com Book Club For Kids - www.bookclubforkids.org

Have you ever tried a martial art? How would you choose which one anyways? Do you even know what kinds of martial arts there are?

In this episode you get to play a 'martial art or food' game with guest Anya & learn how guest Isabella helps her mom teach a jiujitsu class. We also finally have a new 'Riddle Me This' segment again. We hope you enjoy this feel good podcast we put together for ya.

Kid guests:

Anya, 8

Isabella, 10

The cover art is Anya in her karate gi.

Our recommendations:

The Lab

Family owned Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy.

https://thelabbjjdedham.com

Story Seeds

Summer of Podcasts

Camps • Workshops • Classes

https://www.storyseedspodcast.com/camp

Best Day Yet Podcast:

Affirmations, Meditations & Mindfulness for kids.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-day-yet-affirmations-meditations-mindfulness-for/id1474983385