Series

Pinkalicious & Peterrific

24 episodes

PBS KIDS episodes built on Victoria Kann's picture-book characters, along with read-alongs and one-minute sing-alongs that put the lyrics on screen. Half-hour episodes pair two stories, among them a face-painting booth, a wildly imaginative "dream salon," a cupcake machine that goes gloriously wrong, and Peter practicing until a magic trick finally works. Nearly all of them turn on making something or working out a feeling. Several come in American Sign Language versions with a signer on screen. Pre-K through grade 2: use one as an art-project lead-in, or a sing-along as a sixty-second reset.

what this series covers

What Pinkalicious & Peterrific covers

24 episodes in the library, tagged for Pre-K–2nd. Heaviest coverage: Social-Emotional Learning, Art and Music. Between them they line up with 32 distinct standards across 4 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

Pre-K: 22
K: 24
1st: 24
2nd: 4

Episodes per subject

Social-Emotional Learning: 14
Art: 8
Music: 4
Reading & Writing (ELA): 2
Social Studies: 2

Common Core — ELA 5

RL.K.1With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.10Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
RL.K.2With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
RL.K.3With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
RL.K.7With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.

Social Studies (C3 / NCSS) 5

D2.Civ.12.K-2Identify and explain how rules function in public (classroom and school) settings.
D2.Civ.3.K-2Explain the need for and purposes of rules in various settings inside and outside of school.
D2.Eco.3.K-2Describe the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.
D2.Eco.5.K-2Identify prices of products in a local market.
D2.Eco.6.K-2Explain how people earn income.

National Core Arts 6

VA:Cr1.1.1Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
MU:Pr6.1.1aWith limited guidance, perform music for a specific purpose with expression.
MU:Cr1.1.1aWith limited guidance, create musical ideas (such as answering a musical question) for a specific purpose.
VA:Cr2.1.1Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design.
VA:Cr2.3.KCreate art that represents natural and constructed environments.
VA:Cr3.1.1Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.

CASEL (Social-Emotional) 16

CASEL.RS.2Build and keep positive relationships and friendships.
CASEL.RDM.2Identify solutions to personal and social problems.
CASEL.RS.7Seek help when you need it and offer help when someone else does.
CASEL.SOA.5Understand and express gratitude.
CASEL.RDM.3Make a reasoned judgment after looking at the information, facts, and evidence.
CASEL.RDM.4Anticipate and evaluate the consequences of your actions before you act.

+ 10 more

CASEL.SA.1Name your own feelings and notice how they change during the day.
CASEL.SA.2Connect feelings, thoughts, and actions — notice what set a feeling off and what you did next.
CASEL.SA.3Recognize your own strengths, interests, and the assets you bring from your family and culture.
CASEL.SA.4Show honesty and integrity, including admitting mistakes.
CASEL.SA.5Show self-confidence — believe you can do hard things and take on a challenge.
CASEL.SA.6Hold a growth mindset: treat effort, practice, and mistakes as how ability grows.
CASEL.SM.2Use calming and stress-management strategies (deep breaths, a break, asking for space).
CASEL.SM.3Show self-discipline and self-motivation — keep working when a task gets hard or boring.
CASEL.SM.4Set personal and group goals and track progress toward them.
CASEL.SOA.7Recognize what a setting calls for — behavior that fits recess may not fit a library or a lab.