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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Kinderchat Welcomes PBS Kids!!!

We are SO EXCITED to welcome

to next week's

Monday April 8th 9PM New York time!

Please join Matt Gomez and the "Team Tech" crew to talk technology and math with

PBS Kids!

WOW!

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