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The Cat in the Hat

Treehouse Handshake/The Big Pictures

The Cat introduces scientific inquiry skills, teaching core science concepts and vocabulary while taking your preschoolers on fun-filled adventures. Ages: 2-5 Educational Goal: Science, Language and Literacy

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Treehouse Handshake/The Big Pictures

Season 3 Episode 18 | 23m 25s | CC

Sally invents a secret treehouse handshake, but Nick can't remember the sequence. The Cat takes them to Over-and-Overton, where they figure out how to get through a series of obstacles by recognizing patterns. / Nick and Sally don't understand why one toy car goes faster than another. Cat needs their help to move some big pictures and along the way, they find out about how air can push objects.

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