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Peg + Cat - The Tree Problem (S1E9)
When Cat is stuck in a tree, Peg needs to figure out how to get him down using three giant gifts. Primary Learning Goal: Spatial sense, solving a puzzle. Secondary Learning Goal: Direction, position.
| Runtime (min) | 30 |
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| Air Date | 2013-10-14 |
| Genres | Kids, Animation |
| TV Rating | TV-Y |
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Storyline
In 'The Tree Problem,' Peg and Cat face a challenging situation when Cat finds himself stuck in a tall tree. Determined to rescue her friend, Peg must think creatively to devise a plan utilizing three giant gifts. Each gift offers a unique approach to solving the problem, but Peg needs to figure out the best way to use them to ensure Cat's safe descent.
As Peg experiments with the gifts, she encounters various obstacles that test her spatial awareness and problem-solving skills. With Cat's encouragement and her own clever thinking, Peg learns the importance of direction and position. The episode showcases teamwork and ingenuity as Peg ultimately finds a way to get Cat down safely, reinforcing the value of persistence and creative solutions.
What Parents Say
This episode of Peg + Cat is an engaging exploration of problem-solving and spatial awareness, perfect for young viewers. Peg's journey to rescue Cat emphasizes the importance of thinking critically and using available resources wisely. Parents will appreciate how the show encourages children to view challenges as opportunities for creative thinking.
Throughout the episode, Peg’s determination is inspiring, showcasing resilience in the face of challenges. The dynamic between Peg and Cat highlights teamwork and friendship, making it a relatable experience for kids. The problem-solving aspect can spark discussions between parents and children about how to approach obstacles in their own lives.
What Children Can Learn
Kids will learn about spatial sense and the importance of direction and position through Peg's inventive use of gifts to rescue Cat. The episode encourages them to think critically about how to solve puzzles and navigate challenges in their environment. By watching Peg's process, children can see real-life applications of these concepts.
Additionally, the episode teaches children about the value of perseverance. Peg encounters setbacks but continues to think of new ways to help Cat. This resilience is a great lesson for young viewers, showing them that persistence and creative thinking can lead to successful outcomes.
Five Most Asked Questions
| Question | Answer |
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| What problem does Peg face in this episode? | Peg faces the challenge of rescuing Cat, who is stuck in a tall tree. To solve this problem, she must use three giant gifts creatively, testing her problem-solving skills and spatial awareness as she figures out how to get Cat down safely. |
| How does Peg use the gifts to help Cat? | Peg experiments with the three giant gifts, each offering a different potential solution to rescue Cat. She must assess their size, shape, and position in relation to the tree, showcasing her spatial reasoning as she decides how to utilize them effectively. |
| What lessons about teamwork are presented? | The episode highlights the importance of teamwork and friendship between Peg and Cat. They encourage each other throughout the challenge, showcasing how collaboration and support can help overcome difficulties and achieve a common goal. |
| How can this episode encourage problem-solving skills in children? | Children watching Peg's journey will be encouraged to think critically and creatively about problem-solving. The episode illustrates the process of trial and error, demonstrating that setbacks can lead to new ideas and solutions, fostering a growth mindset. |
| What are the key learning goals of this episode? | The primary learning goal is spatial sense, as Peg navigates the puzzle of rescuing Cat from the tree. The secondary goal focuses on understanding direction and position, reinforcing these concepts through fun and engaging scenarios that children can relate to and enjoy. |
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| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Peg, Cat and Richard must get the 100 chickens away from Big Mouth and back to their spaceship.
Primary Learning Goal: Counting by tens. Secondary Learning Goal: The number 100. |
| 1 | 3 | Peg and Cat show a group of very hungry Pirates how to share tropical fruit fairly.
Primary Learning Goal: Fair sharing. Secondary Learning Goal: Adding within 4. |
| 1 | 4 | When the Pirates are having a sleepover at Peg’s house, they get scared at bedtime. Peg and Cat help the Pirates fall asleep by counting chickens.
Primary Learning Goal: Counting to 20. Secondary Learning Goal: 4 + 1 = 5. |
| 1 | 5 | Peg and Cat bring the Three Bears, the Three Little Pigs, and the Three Billy Goats Gruff together to form a super group: “The Electric Eleven.”
Primary Learning Goal: Adding 1. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting to 11. |
| 1 | 6 | Peg and Cat must attempt a great escape when they think the Giants want to eat them and their 8 fairy tale friends for lunch.
Primary Learning Goal: Combinations that add up to 10. Secondary Learning Goal: Circle. |
| 1 | 9 | When Cat is stuck in a tree, Peg needs to figure out how to get him down using three giant gifts.
Primary Learning Goal: Spatial sense, solving a puzzle. Secondary Learning Goal: Direction, position. |
| 1 | 11 | Peg and Cat sort through the mess in Peg’s room just in time for company to come over and see Cat’s masterpiece, “The Circles.”
Primary Learning Goal: Sorting. Secondary Learning Goal: Shapes. |
| 1 | 12 | Peg the Bold and Brave Sir Cat, Knights of the Round Table, search far and wide to retrieve the Mermaid’s golden pyramids.
Primary Learning Goal: Solid shapes. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by twos. |
| 1 | 13 | Peg and Cat need to sort out recyclables to clean up the park in time for the nursery school’s Halloween Parade.
Primary Learning Goal: Sorting. Secondary Learning Goal: Estimating. |
| 1 | 14 | While trick or treating, Peg and Cat find themselves pursued by a metal monster. Later they teach fair sharing to a “friend” who turns out to be a real tiger!
Primary Learning Goal: Fair Sharing. Secondary Learning Goal: Positional relationships (in front of/behind). |
| 1 | 17 | The 3 Bees will produce honey for Peg and Cat’s super-popular honey cake – but only if Peg and Cat will dance for the Bees in a certain pattern!
Primary Learning Goal: Weight. |
| 1 | 18 | Peg and Cat coach a team of skiing penguins, who would have a shot at the Olympic gold medal if only they knew “over”, “under”, and “in between.”
Primary Learning Goal: Over, under, in between. Secondary Learning Goal: Balance. |
| 1 | 19 | Peg and Cat rebuild their homemade race car, “Hot Buttered Lightnin’”, to compete in the Talla-peg-a 20 race.
Primary Learning Goal: More than, less than. Secondary Learning Goal: Solid shapes. |
| 1 | 21 | Peg and Cat enlist the Teens to help them figure out how to clean filthy farm animals of various sizes.
Primary Learning Goal: More, less. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by fives up to 25. |
| 1 | 24 | Knights of the Round Table Peg and Cat search for the Wizard Ramone, who has floated away in a sparkling sphere.
Primary Learning Goal: Rectangular prism and rhombus. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by twos. |
| 1 | 28 | When Neighbor Ladies Connie and Viv have a tiff, Peg and Cat make peace by making sure each has the same number of flowers.
Primary Learning Goal: Subtraction, greater than/less than. Secondary Learning Goal: The equals sign. |
| 1 | 29 | Peg and Cat search the enormous Mega Mall for the teens so they can all enter the Zebra Guy dance contest.
Primary Learning Goal: Attributes of objects. Secondary Learning Goal: Maps. |
| 1 | 31 | The tables are turned! Peg is stuck up in the tree and Cat must figure out how to get her down… by making a ladder out of found objects.
Primary Learning Goal: Up, down. Secondary Learning Goal: Horizontal, vertical. |
| 1 | 32 | Peg and Cat help their poetic pal Romeo reach Juliet’s balcony using a series of horizontal and vertical lines.
Primary Learning Goal: Horizontal, vertical. Secondary Learning Goal: Parallel. |
| 1 | 34 | Super Peg and Cat Guy trail the Arch Villain, who has given up his arch ways and gone on a rampage with straight and narrow shapes instead.
Primary Learning Goal: Understanding straight, narrow, curved. Secondary Learning Goal: Counting sides to determine shapes (rectangles, triangles, squares), counting by tens to 100. |
| 1 | 35 | Peg and Cat must use the power of music, and patterns, to help their friends Beethoven and the Three Bears play together – and make incredible music together.
Primary Learning Goal: Patterns Secondary Learning Goal: Seeing squares as special rectangles |
| 1 | 37 | Peg and Cat are judging a singing competition in which all performers must get a rating of exactly ten stars.
Primary Learning Goal: Adding to 10. Secondary Learning Goal: The number 0. |
| 1 | 38 | While waiting in a long line, Peg and Cat try to help Richard realize his dream of being first in line for the first time.
Primary Learning Goal: Ordinal numbers, using a number line. Secondary Learning Goal: Positional relationships (in front of/behind), counting to 20. |
| 1 | 40 | Peg and Cat help their young Ninja-wannabe friend Aki find the fifteen missing cherry blossom trees by using Ninja skills and math skills.
Primary Learning Goal: Subtraction
Secondary Learning Goal: Counting to 15 |
| 1 | 41 | Peg and Cat use a map to help George Washington and his team cross the Delaware River.
Primary Learning Goal: Mapping / position
Secondary Learning Goal: Balance / number recognition |
| 1 | 42 | Peg and Cat agree to face Bad Jack in a show down at high noon. But they have no idea when noon is!
Primary Learning Goal: Associating activities with time of day
Secondary Learning Goal: Making predictions |
| 1 | 44 | When Peg and Cat are playing with their new friend the Big Dog, Cat suddenly becomes strangely quiet. Using a graph, Peg attempts to figure out what’s wrong with Cat.
Primary Learning Goal: Bar graphs. Secondary Learning Goal: More, less. |
| 1 | 45 | When Peg and Cat get orders for halves of pizzas, they must learn about fractions to keep their patrons pleased.
Primary Learning Goal: Fractions (whole, half)
Secondary Learning Goal: Circles |
| 1 | 46 | As Peg and Cat deliver pizzas far and wide, they are menaced by the flying Pizza Pirates who are determined to “take away one!”
Primary Learning Goal: Taking away 1
Secondary Learning Goal: Adding 10 |
| 1 | 47 | Peg and Cat must teach Big Mouth the 6 steps for making on the potty, or his visit to Viv’s house will be ruined – as will Viv’s carpet!
Primary Learning Goal: Ordering steps
Secondary Learning Goal: Pattern recognition |
| 1 | 49 | Peg and Cat must help the pirates put together a puzzle, and then the four sections of their sinking ship.
Primary Learning Goal: Composing and decomposing puzzles
Secondary Learning Goal: Recognizing the attributes of shapes |
| 1 | 50 | When the Pirates’ treasure map is torn and carried off by the wind, Peg and Cat and friends from far and wide put their scraps of map together to find the treasure.
Primary Learning Goal: Working together to solve a problem, one-to-one counting
Secondary Learning Goal: Using a map, fair sharing |
| 1 | 51 | Peg and Cat help Aki pursue a tricky thief through the Japanese countryside, making use of their Ninja skills and three mysterious clues.
Primary Learning Goal: Increasing and decreasing height and length
Secondary Learning Goal: Deductive reasoning (using clues) |
| 1 | 52 | Peg and Cat find their world turned black and white! They must identify ten things that are the wrong size or shape, before they will be allowed to leave…the Highlight Zone.
Primary Learning Goal: Shape and size
Secondary Learning Goal: Comparing |
| 1 | 54 | Peg and Cat follow the Littlest Chicken all through Fairytale Land, as she searches for a group that’s just the right size to be her new family.
Primary Learning Goal: Adding 1, subtracting 1
Secondary Learning Goal: The numbers 99 and 100 |
| 1 | 56 | When Albert Einstein has Peg and Cat over on Hanukkah, he shows them how to make a 2D piece of paper into a 3D dreidel. Later, they need to use this process to bring peace to Al’s home and save his Hanukkah.
Primary Learning Goal: Turning 2D shapes into 3D shapes
Secondary Learning Goal: Length, width and height |
| 1 | 60 | Cat longs to impress the savvy Roxanne with his knowledge of solid shapes. So he moves his lips as his hidden friend Peg speaks for him.
Primary Learning Goal: Recognizing solid shapes: rectangular prisms, pyramids, cylinders, spheres
Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by 2’s to 20 |
| 1 | 61 | Peg’s girl group the Pentagirls has its biggest show ever, featuring a new hit song about flips, slides, and turns.
Primary Learning Goal: Flips, slides and turns
Secondary Learning Goal: 2D shapes |
| 1 | 62 | Peg and Cat help Peg’s hippy Grandmom create a groovy birthday present for Granddad based on his favorite numbers: the sixties.
Primary Learning Goal: Counting in the 60’s
Secondary Learning Goal: Using simple shapes to make complex shapes, counting by 10’s |
| 1 | 64 | Peg must trek through the Kingdom of Night to reach Cat. To cross the star-shaped steps, Peg needs to find lines of symmetry with the help of a magic ukulele.
Primary Learning Goal: Understanding day and night
Secondary Learning Goal: Finding lines of symmetry |
| 1 | 65 | When Baby Fox makes a spectacular musical instrument out of junk, Peg and Cat get stuck in it! To get out they must use up, down, around and 3/4 time.
Primary Learning Goal: Up, down, over and around
Secondary Learning Goal: Musical patterns |
| 1 | 68 | Peg’s T-Ball Team, the Mighty Nine, have no chance against a team of Aliens all-stars — Unless Peg can use the Aliens’ T-ball cards to predict where they’ll hit.
Primary Learning Goal: Making predictions
Secondary Learning Goal: Ordinal numbers, between |
| 1 | 71 | When Peg realizes her lemonade stand has no cups, Cat must make a series of shrewd business deals to get 200 cups with only 2 cookies.
Primary Learning Goal: Comparing numbers
Secondary Learning Goal: Bar graphs |
| 1 | 72 | Landing in Wonderland, Peg and Cat eat berries to grow bigger or smaller, in their quest to get back Peg’s stick from the Queen of Hearts.
Primary Learning Goal: Height and length
Secondary Learning Goal: Comparing amounts |
| 1 | 74 | Robin Hood can’t tell how to redistribute the goodies! So Peg and Cat must teach him more and less.
Primary Learning Goal: Strategies for determining “more” and “less”, counting, estimating and weighing
Secondary Learning Goal: Using a pan balance |
| 1 | 75 | The Pig will only give Cat the hat he needs to warm his ears, if Peg and Cat will give him “infinity”. So Peg and Cat sail off in search of infinity.
Primary Learning Goal: Infinity
Secondary Learning Goal: Counting by 10’s, more than |
| 1 | 76 | When the Giant drops the diamond ring he’s about to give Giantess, it bounces into a pipe. He needs his very small friends Peg and Cat to get it back.
Primary Learning Goal: Ordinal numbers
Secondary Learning Goal: Adding on to find a difference |
| 1 | 77 | When Peg and Cat are chosen to organize the Giants’ wedding, they must get the twelve steps for a giant wedding in just the right order.
Primary Learning Goal: Ordering events over time
Secondary Learning Goal: Ordinal numbers |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | When Peg’s spaceship breaks down, she needs the help of a new friend who communicates without speaking. |
| 2 | 2 | To jam with Billie Holiday in the Mardi Gras parade, Peg and Cat must learn to use a diagram of notes – sheet music. |
| 2 | 3 | When a furniture store becomes a magical forest, Peg and Cat must become Knights of the Round Table – if only they can find a round table! |
| 2 | 4 | To get purple paint for their masterpiece, famous painters Peg Casso and Vincent Van Goo (Cat) need a whole new kind of addition. |
| 2 | 6 | On the singing competition “Perfect Ten,” Peg and Cat must impress the toughest judge ever: the Grumpy Grouchy Bear. |
| 2 | 7 | Peg and the dinosaurs search the jungle for Cat and Minkus, his imaginary monkey. |
| 2 | 8 | Nothing can keep Romeo and Juliet from meeting between their balconies – except maybe a dinosaur. |
| 2 | 10 | Peg's Neighborhood. How can Peg and Cat make Jesse a present for his room? He lives in two places! |
| 2 | 11 | Cat gets stuck in a tree in Egypt - with 3 crocodiles! |
| 2 | 13 | The Pentagirls get to record with the famous Worm. But this big break starts to break up the band! |
| 2 | 14 | Peg and Cat must save the nation from humiliation when the Vice President is stuck atop a monument that's 170 feet or meters tall. |
| 2 | 15 | Peg and Cat wait for a package but one minute feels like forever. |
| 2 | 16 | Is there a thief on the Peg + Cat Express that is stealing lollipops, bananas, and chickens? |
| 2 | 17 | Peg and Cat lead Emily Dickinson far and wide in search of a rhyming pattern for her new poem. |
| 2 | 20 | Peg and Cat go through the looking glass. Nonsense starts to make sense with the help of patterns. |
| 2 | 22 | Peg and Cat help the great Odysseus navigate the odd beasts and odd numbers of the Odd Sea. |
| 2 | 26 | Peg and Cat scramble to make enough valentines for all their party guests and surprise visitors. |
| 2 | 27 | ig Dog is too big to play Little Red on Peg's stage, until an elephant and mouse get into the act. |
| 2 | 28 | Peg and Cat must figure out how to use a giant beeper while chasing a giant baby and fleeing a giant mouse. |
| 2 | 30 | Peg and Cat search for their umbrellas, which they need for measuring puddle depth and singing in the rain! |
| 2 | 31 | In an outer space adventure, Peg and Cat are besieged by swiftly multiplying Fuzzballs. |
| 2 | 32 | Peg and Cat must present the King with the silliest song in the land. |
| 2 | 33 | Jesse fears that if his Mom gets married she'll love him less. |
| 2 | 35 | When the Pig leaves the farm to join the opera, Peg and Cat realize they can't make it without him. |
| 2 | 36 | Cat hires a 7-piece Mariachi band to serenade his true love, Rosana. |
| 2 | 37 | George Washington Carver's Laboratory. George Washington Carver will have a total of one hundred peanut-based inventions - if Peg and Cat can catch the tiny tricksters who keep swiping them. |
| 2 | 40 | |
| 2 | 41 | The Addison Hotel. Bellhops Peg and Cat help famous guests find their rooms in the luxurious Addison Hotel. |
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