The Children’s Hour broadcasted live from the opening of the Jim Henson exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum in Old Town Albuquerque. The kids interviewed Cheryl Henson, Jim’s daughter about growing up on Sesame Street. With live music from KUNM’s own Allison Davis and Friends, local puppeteer Loren Kahn and an audience of listeners just like you! Learn about the life of Jim Henson, and hear a story about the search for truth.

How can we unlock family stories through songs? Musician and educator Michael Napolitano from Michael and the Rockness Monsters gives us tips on how to learn your family history through music at your holiday tables.  Then, second graders in Ms. Antillon's classroom in downtown Albuquerque's Coronado Elementary School teach us about the legendary Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo.

This week on The Children's Hour, join us for a live broadcast from the Museum of the American Military Family in Tijeras, New Mexico. How does having a parent serving in the armed forces impact a family? This museum is set up to look like a military family's home during World War 2 and is filled with memorabilia and more. Featuring musical guest, Rowan McJimsey and the Boy Scouts of New Mexico Troop 185.

This week on The Children’s Hour, we’re all familiar with nursery rhymes like row your boat, but what’s the soundtrack of a New Mexican childhood? Dr. Enrique LaMadrid explores the folk songs of New Mexico with our kids crew, in a lively discussion that includes some tunes meant to sing along. Airing first on KUNM-fm Saturday November 2 2019, 9-10am MST, livestream anywhere at ChildrensHour.org  or listen to the podcast later. 

Photo by Russell Lee

 

Does an animal have to be adorable to be appreciated? This week on The Children's Hour, we're covering unappreciated animals.  How do commonly animals like snakes, bugs, lizards and others fit into the web of life? Our friend Bethany Dunn, Science Education Coordinator from the Albuquerque Biopark will bring some misunderstood species to our studio to help us learn to love them.

This week on The Children's Hour, in a live broadcast from The Outpost Performance Space in Albuquerque, we feature musical guests, Eileen & The In-Betweens, kid comedian Ian Marquez, Maxi the singing chihuahua, and so much more.

Tom Guralnick, Executive Director at the Outpost and his singing chihuahua Maxi

The Children’s Hour is a production of The Children’s Hour Inc., a New Mexico nonprofit dedicated to creating broadcast media with kids.

This week on The Children’s Hour, how do weather and climate interact? To find out, the kids interview climatologist Dr. Dave Gutzler and meteorologist Dr. Dierdra Kahn about our changing climate. Plus, the crew talked with kids attending the school strike for climate about what they hope to accomplish. A warming planet makes some places extra hot, like cities. We'll find out why that happens, and what we can do about it.

This week on The Children’s Hour, travel to distant lands through song as we explore world music. Featuring performances recorded at Globalquerque 2019's school time show before an audience of a thousand kids by the Yup'ik band, Pamyua and the Garifuna Collective from Belize.

On this edition of The Children's Hour, the award winning children's musical duo Two of A Kind perform a mini concert live in our Sunspot Solar Studio.The band tells stories through music, movement, humor and audience participation, covering themes like reading and social issues, such as conflict resolution and diversity.

The Children's Hour broadcast live from the East Mountain Public Library in Tijeras New Mexico. Bernalillo County Commissioner Charlene Pyskoty explained her job, and what life in the mountains is like. With our musical guest, teacher, singer-songwriter Seth Hoffman.