Sesame Street Season 54, Episode 9: Are You Ready For School?

Can They Be Friends?

Reporter Grover learns that people can be friends even if they are different ages, cheer for different sports teams and like doing different things.

The Oct-Dough-Pus

Grover and his friend, the octopus, are helping at Hooper's Store but the octopus can only cook bread. With help from his friends, Grover fulfills his customer's order while learning that families all over the world make bread in different ways, shapes, and sizes!

Proud of My Name

Elmo, Gabrielle and Rosita join a basketball team; Elmo and Gabrielle encourage Rosita to tell the coach to call her by her actual name; Rosita is proud of her name because names are a big part of one's identity.

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Abby's Magical Sleepover

Gabrielle, Charlie and Abby are having a sleepover! As they start their bedtime routines, they learn that their routines are different and alike.

Sesame Street Self-Portraits

Elmo, Tamir, Charlie, Julia and Cookie Monster are making self-portraits, drawing what they look like and what they love to do.

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Scootin' on Sesame Street

Elmo shares his scooter with Zoe and learns how to be patient and wait for his turn, while she practices and learns how to ride.

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Worms Want To Play

Frankie the worm wants to play with her cousins, but they moved far away. To help their friend, Rosita, Gabrielle and Zoe must think like engineers.

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Elmo's Morning Routine

Elmo and Abby help Crystal the Ball come up with a morning routine so she can be ready to go out and play.

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Supermarket Games

Alan creates a game to make food shopping more fun! Can Elmo, Abby and Cookie Monster get the food in Alan's cart before checking out?

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Sesame Street Song Day

Mia learns how to sing a song in Spanish with help from her friends, who tell her how special she is no matter how much or little Spanish she speaks.

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The Flamingo Scoop

When Fred the Flamingo is visiting Sesame Street for a family reunion, Elmo, Rudy and Nina learn all about flamingos.

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A Home for Fido

Chris, Elmo and Abby help Fido feel proud that he's a frog and find him the right habitat to live in.

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Sesame Street's Lunar New Year Celebration

Lily, Qui and Ji-Young are celebrating Lunar New Year on Sesame Street. They share with their friends how their families celebrate the holiday.

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Elmo Helps the Amazing Zero!

The Amazing Zero and Elmo are on Sesame Street to help take everything away when people need to get to zero.

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The Grover Game

At Street Carnival Day, Cookie Monster is playing the Grover Game and needs to move ping pong balls off a plate without touching them.

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The Kitty Sisters

Chris and Elmo put up signs to try to find a lost kitten's owner, and Grover and Cookie Monster learn all about how to take care of a kitten.

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Tamir's Water Works

Tamir needs to figure out how to keep the community garden watered while he's away at camp. With his friends' help, Tamir makes an irrigation system.

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Bert and Ernie's Opposite Day

On Opposite Day, everyone is doing things that are as different as they can be. Bert and Ernie realize they like so many opposite things too!

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Our Family Musical

For a school project, Mia writes a musical about how special it is to grow up in a family with two different cultures.

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Elmo and Abby's Ocean Adventure

After Abby turns Sesame Street into a magical ocean, Dorothy disappears, and Elmo and Abby must follow clues to find her.

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The Feelings Fair

At the Feelings Fair, Elmo, Alan and Julia learn to figure out how someone is feeling by looking at their facial expressions.

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The Sign Language ABCs

At Alphabet Day, Elmo sings the ABC song and his friend Mathis signs the alphabet using American Sign Language.

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Jumpin' in the Rain

Elmo tries to find something to do in the rain while he waits to jump in puddles.

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Shabbat Shalom!

Charlie and her family share Shabbat dinner with their friends Elmo, Alan, Big Bird and Tamir, who help them prepare their meal before sundown.

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Elmo's Little Star

Elmo keeps practicing and doesn't give up until he learns how to play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" on his piano.

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The Tasty Transport

Alan has a lot of food deliveries to make at Hooper's. Elmo, Charlie and Rosita ride their scooter and bikes to help deliver food to customers.

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Tamir Learns Tagalog

With help from his friend, Tamir, TJ makes a comic book gift to welcome his favorite comic book artist, Bobby Manalo, to Sesame Street.

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Brave Bessie by Brave Gabrielle

Gabrielle puts on a show to tell her friends about Bessie Coleman, the first African American and Native American woman to fly an airplane.

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Elmo Visits the Library

Librarian Grover helps Nina and Elmo find the books they need while looking through the different sections of the library.

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Elmo Goes Down the Big Slide

Elmo is excited and a little scared to go down the big slide for the first time. With help from Chris, Elmo is ready to go down the slide by himself!

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Roar, It's a Dinosaur

Elmo, Chris and their friends on Sesame Street have dressed up as dinosaurs. With help from Elmo's book, they learn facts about dinosaurs!

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Use That Rice!

At a cook-off about rice, everyone learns that when we share foods that are special to us, we share something special about ourselves.

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The Mystery Cricket

Elmo, Abby and Tamir come across a wooden cricket and learn that it's Dave's favorite Cuban musical instrument called a guiro.

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Prairie Dawn's Cookie Party

At Prairie Dawn's cookie party, Cookie Monster needs to figure out which of the cookies are octagons.

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