Education Blog

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In the second of our Friday Family Movie Night series, WILL-TV brings you a mini-marathon starring Pinkalicious and Peterrific Friday, April 3 from 6:00pm to 8:30pm on our 24/7 KIDS Channel.  

Attention, parents! WILL-TV has made adjustments to our TV schedule to support your family’s at-home learning during Illinois school closures.  Our main channel, 12.1, now offers PBS KIDS programming for children in grades Pre-K-5 Monday through Friday from 6am until 5pm.

All new artful adventures with Pinkalicious and Peterrific start Monday, March 30th on WILL-TV.  The series airs weekdays at 10:30am on our main channel, 12.1.

Can’t go out to the movies?  WILL-TV brings your favorite PBS KIDS character movies right to your home every Friday night starting March 27 from 7pm to 9pm on our 24/7 KIDS Channel.

Who are your favorite historical heroes?  Jackie Joyner Kersee?  Anna Pavlova? Martin Luther King? Helen Keller?  Amelia Earhart? Imagine being able to travel back in time with your children to meet real-life inspirational figures when they were kids.  You can with the PBS KIDS show, Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum on WILL-TV and anytime on-line at PBS KIDS.

As a parent, you might be daunted by the role of “school teacher” while your children’s schools are closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Your local PBS television station is here to help!

Now that all of Illinois’ schools are closed through March 31, you might be wondering how to keep the kids playing and learning at home.  I’m with you!  I have a daughter in kindergarten who turns six in two days!  WILL Education is here to help.

With the start of the new school year comes the beginning of a new reading cycle for WILL- TV’s Book Mentor Project, a partnership between WILL, PNC’s Grown Up Great program and Champaign County Head Start.

Raising, supporting and teaching very young children is an awesome responsibility that takes all kinds of skills, patience and access to resources.  If you are in the midst of doing this work, you are helping lay the foundation for a child’s lifelong learning, and WILL wants to thank and support you.