A Word from Us Kids is a regular feature aired as interstitial content on most episodes of Arthur between the first and the second stories. The segment is used as a time-filler during airings of Arthur shown on PBS, and is excluded from international broadcasts.
The segment features real kids (most often third graders and usually at a school), who discuss the topic featured in the story immediately preceding the segment. For example, in the segment following "Arthur's Chicken Pox," a group of real kids discusses having had the chicken pox and show their own chicken pox-related drawings. After the segment, a kid's drawing of Arthur is shown while the kids announce, "And Now Back To Arthur."
Segments[]
Season 1[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Arthur's Eyes" / "Francine's Bad Hair Day" | Kids discuss that how somebody looks is not important and that everyone is different. | January 18, 1996 |
| 2 | "Arthur and the Real Mr. Ratburn" / "Arthur's Spelling Trubble" | A class describes what their teacher is like. | April 4, 1996 |
| 3 | "D.W. All Wet" / "Buster's Dino Dilemma" | A class learns about sea animals. | |
| 4 | "D.W.'s Imaginary Friend" / "Arthur's Lost Library Book" | Kids discuss how imaginary friends are good for creativity. | |
| 5 | "Arthur's Pet Business" / "D.W. the Copycat" | Kids create their own pet businesses. | June 7, 1996 |
| 6 | "Locked in the Library!" / "Arthur Accused!" | Kids rap about heroes and heroines. | |
| 7 | "Arthur Goes to Camp" / "Buster Makes the Grade" | A class of 3rd graders make their own 'suitcases' out of paper, and they draw on the suitcase what they would bring to camp. | |
| 8 | "Arthur's New Puppy" / "Arthur Bounces Back" | A class shows and talks about their class pets. | |
| 9 | "Arthur Babysits" / "Arthur's Cousin Catastrophe" | Kids discuss how babysitting isn't as easy as it looks. | April 1996 |
| 10 | "Arthur's Birthday" / "Francine Frensky, Superstar" | A group of kids pretend it is their birthday. | |
| 11 | "Arthur's Baby" / "D.W.'s Baby" | Kids talk about their baby siblings. | |
| 12 | "Arthur Writes a Story" / "Arthur's Lost Dog" | Kids discuss how to write a good story and write stories of their own. | |
| 13 | "So Long, Spanky" / "Buster's New Friend" | Kids write letters to D.W. on the loss of pets. | |
| 14 | "Arthur the Wrecker" / "Arthur and the True Francine" | Kids write letters to Arthur on the computer. | |
| 15 | "Arthur's Family Vacation" / "Grandpa Dave's Old Country Farm" | Kids write letters to Arthur and tell him about their own vacations. | |
| 16 | "Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest" / "D.W. Flips" | Kids create their own version of the Crunch Cereal commercial. | May 21, 1996 |
| 17 | "Meek for a Week" / "Arthur, World's Greatest Gleeper" | Kids write letters to Francine and tell her why being kind is good. | |
| 18 | "Arthur's Chicken Pox" / "Sick as a Dog" | Kids discuss what it's like being sick and some of the benefits it has. | April 1996 |
| 19 | "D.W. Rides Again" / "Arthur Makes the Team" | A figure skating girl discusses why it's important to practice. | |
| 20 | "Arthur's Almost Boring Day" / "The Half-Baked Sale" | Waleska Sanguita Santana Perez talks about what she and her class does when they are bored or if it is a rainy day. | |
| 21 | "Sue Ellen Moves In" / "The Perfect Brother" | A class writes letters to Sue Ellen to tell her how they felt on the first day of school and/or what it was like in a new school. | |
| 22 | "D.W.'s Snow Mystery" / "Team Trouble" | Kids make their own interpretations on how D.W.'s snowball disappeared. | |
| 23 | "Bully for Binky" / "Misfortune Teller" | Kids demonstrate special things that they can do. | |
| 24 | "Arthur's Tooth" / "D.W. Gets Lost" | Kids discuss how their teeth grow and change as they mature and how their baby teeth fall out. | April 1996 |
| 25 | "D.W. Thinks Big" / "Arthur Cleans Up" | Kids discuss what they're small enough and big enough to do. | |
| 26 | "My Dad, the Garbage Man" / "Poor Muffy" | Kids discuss their parents' occupations. | |
| 27 | "D.W.'s Blankie" / "Arthur's Substitute Teacher Trouble" | Kids show and talk about their favorite things, and how meaningful they are to them. | |
| 28 | "I'm a Poet" / "The Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club!" | Kids write and read their own poems. | |
| 29 | "My Club Rules" / "Stolen Bike" | A class creates a friendship club. | April 1996 |
| 30 | "Arthur's First Sleepover" / "Arthur's New Year's Eve" | A school hosts a sleepover for its second graders. |
Season 2[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Arthur Meets Mister Rogers" / "Draw!" | A behind the scenes look at the making of "Arthur Meets Mister Rogers" featuring Fred Rogers. | |
| 2 | "Binky Barnes, Art Expert" / "Arthur's Lucky Pencil" | Kids in art camp make their own art pieces. | |
| 3 | "D.W. the Picky Eater" / "Buster and the Daredevils" | Kids make their own crazy sandwiches. | |
| 4 | "Arthur Makes a Movie" / "Go to Your Room, D.W." | Kids make a movie adaptation of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. | |
| 5 | "Arthur's Underwear" / "Francine Frensky, Olympic Rider" | Kids talk about weird dreams and sing a song about the "Dreambusters." | |
| 6 | "Buster Baxter, Cat Saver" / "Play it Again, D.W." | Kids talk about crazy things that happened to their pets. | |
| 7 | "Arthur's TV-Free Week" / "Night Fright" | Kids talk about the things they could do instead of watching TV. | April 1997 |
| 8 | "Arthur vs. the Piano" / "The Big Blow-Up" | Kids discuss music and play different instruments. | |
| 9 | "Lost!" / "The Short, Quick Summer" | Kids talk about and create maps. | |
| 10 | "D.W. Goes to Washington" / "Arthur's Mystery Envelope" | Kids have a class president election. | May 1997 |
| 11 | "D.W.'s Deer Friend" / "Buster Hits the Books" | Bethany visits the Roger Williams Park Zoo to see the primates. | |
| 12 | "Arthur's Faraway Friend" / "Arthur and the Square Dance" | Kids create their own story together. | |
| 13 | "Water and the Brain" / "Arthur the Unfunny" | Kids talk about their fears and how to combat them. | |
| 14 | "Sue Ellen's Lost Diary" / "Arthur's Knee" | Nora shows her video diary and how to make it. | |
| 15 | "Grandma Thora Appreciation Day" / "Fern's Slumber Party" | A class throws a surprise appreciation party for their teacher. | November 1997 |
| 16 | "Love Notes for Muffy" / "D.W. Blows the Whistle" | Kids experiment with density. | |
| 17 | "Francine Redecorates" / "Arthur the Loser" | A girl shows how she redecorates old furniture | |
| 18 | "Arthur vs. the Very Mean Crossing Guard" / "D.W.'s Very Bad Mood" | Kids discuss unusual things they believed in when they were younger. | |
| 19 | "D.W.'s Name Game" / "Finders Key-pers" | Kids discuss why name calling is bad. | |
| 20 | "How the Cookie Crumbles" / "Sue Ellen's Little Sister" | Students at The Perkins School for the Blind discuss how they make chocolate chip cookies. |
Season 3[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Buster's Back" / "The Ballad of Buster Baxter" | "A word from us friends" - Three sets of best friends show what they like to do together. | |
| 2 | "D.W. All Fired Up" / "I'd Rather Read It Myself" | "A word from Firefighter Scott" - A class takes a trip to the fire station. | |
| 3 | "Arthur Goes Crosswire" / "Sue Ellen and the Brainasaurous" | Kids act out a play. | |
| 4 | "Background Blues" / "And Now Let's Talk to Some Kids" | Kids make posters of their families. | |
| 5 | "The Chips are Down" / "Revenge of the Chip" | A class visits the Cape Cod potato chip factory. | |
| 6 | "Binky Rules" / "Meet Binky" | Kids find clues around the school to solve a mystery. | |
| 7 | "Arthur Rides the Bandwagon" / "Dad's Dessert Dilemma" | Kids design their own toys and games. | |
| 8 | "Popular Girls" / "Buster's Growing Grudge" | Kids make and play their own musical instruments from recycled materials. | |
| 9 | "Arthur's Treasure Hunt" / "The Return of the King" | A class plants a garden and end up finding a buried horseshoe. | |
| 10 | "Attack of the Turbo Tibbles" / "D.W. Tricks the Tooth Fairy" | "A word from Amelia and Eliot" - Two kids make a TV show, "Spork an' Foon." | |
| 11 | "Double Tibble Trouble" / "Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival" | Kids talk about their twin siblings. | |
| 12 | "What Scared Sue Ellen?" / "Clarissa is Cracked" | Kids identify different sounds. | |
| 13 | "Arthur's Dummy Disaster" / "Francine and the Feline" | Kids show and tell about their own dummies that they made. | |
| 14 | "Mom and Dad Have a Great Big Fight" / "D.W.'s Perfect Wish" | Kids talk about emotions and their meanings. | |
| 15 | "Arthur and D.W. Clean Up" / "The Long, Dull Winter" | Kids work together as a team on a pirate ship. |
Season 4[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "D.W.'s Library Card" / "Arthur's Big Hit" | Kids visit the Providence Public Library in Providence, Rhode Island. | |
| 2 | "Hide and Snake" / "Muffy's New Best Friend" | Kids go on a nature walk at the Caratunk Wildlife Refuge. | |
| 3 | "Buster's Breathless" / "The Fright Stuff" | "A word from Dr. Griffith" - kids visit the doctor to check up on their asthma. | |
| 4 | "The Contest" / "Prove It" | "A word from Holly" - Holly Holland, the winner of TV Guide's "Create Your Own Arthur Episode!" contest, shows what her daily life is like in Canadian, Oklahoma. | May 1999 |
| 5 | "The Blizzard" / "The Rat Who Came to Dinner" | "A word from us" - Kids have a snow day. | |
| 6 | "D.W. Tale Spins" / "Prunella Gets it Twice" | "A story from Franceska" - Franceska tells a story that she made up. | |
| 7 | "Binky Barnes, Wingman!" / "To Beat or Not to Beat" | Kids learn about the American Burying Beetle and make paper-mâché models of them. | |
| 8 | "1001 Dads" / "Prunella's Prediction" | Kids talk about their families. | |
| 9 | "What is That Thing?" / "Buster's Best Behavior" | Kids share their drawings of new invention ideas. | |
| 10 | "My Music Rules" / "That's a Baby Show!" | "A word from us musicians" - Two musicians play instruments: one plays the violin and the other plays the saxophone. | May 1999 |
Season 5[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Arthur and the Big Riddle" / "Double Dare" | Kids put on a show and perform their best riddles. | |
| 2 | "Kids are from Earth, Parents are from Pluto" / "Nerves of Steal" | "A word from us parents" - Parents of second graders talk about their kids and their interests. | |
| 3 | "It's a No-Brainer" / "The Shore Thing" | Kids talk about their nicknames. | |
| 4 | "The World Record" / "The Cave" | "A word from Kosta" - A chef shows kids how he makes pizza at Kosta's Pizza & Seafood in Needham, Massachusetts. | |
| 5 | "The Lousy Week" / "You Are Arthur" | "A word from a biologist" - Al Gettman, a biologist, talks to Vondell about mosquitos. | |
| 6 | "The Election" / "Francine Goes to War" | Kids do an election-style vote for the colors of the sign-in sheet. | |
| 7 | "Sleep No More" / "Pet Peeved" | Kids talk about their sleeping techniques. | June 8, 2000 |
| 8 | "The Last of Mary Moo Cow" / "Bitzi's Beau" | "A word from us ZOOMers" - Caroline and Kenny from ZOOM give a behind the scenes look at their TV show. | |
| 9 | "Just Desserts" / "The Big Dig" | Kids talk about their favorite healthy snacks. | |
| 10 | "Arthur's Family Feud" / "Muffy Gets Mature" | Kids try to come up with a solution to an argument about a pen. | May 2000 |
Season 6[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Sue Ellen Gets Her Goose Cooked" / "Best of the Nest" | Kids write poems on computers. | |
| 2 | "Arthur Plays the Blues" / "Buster's Sweet Success" | Kids learn to play bongo drums. | |
| 3 | "Prunella's Special Edition" / "The Secret Life of Dogs and Babies" | Original: Kids have a book-signing event for books they wrote themselves.
New: The winner of the CVS All Kids Can Character Search, Connor Gordon, talks about designing his new character (Lydia Fox) with Marc Brown. (The original segment was replaced with the new segment in the early 2010s.) |
|
| 4 | "Muffy's Soccer Shocker" / "Brother, Can You Spare a Clarinet?" | Kids play a game of soccer. | |
| 5 | "The Boy Who Cried Comet" / "Arthur and Los Vecinos" | Kids visit the Lad Observatory in Providence, Rhode Island and learn about astronomy. | |
| 6 | "Citizen Frensky" / "D.W.'s Backpack Mishap" | Kids show how they do their video news announcements at school. | June 11, 2001 |
| 7 | "The Boy with His Head in the Clouds" / "More!" | Sophie, Tommy, and Katie talk about living with dyslexia. | |
| 8 | "Rhyme for Your Life" / "For Whom the Bells Tolls" | CB and JE rap about rhyming. | |
| 9 | "The Good Sport" / "Crushed" | "A word from Jennie Kirk" - World Junior Figure Skating Champion Jennifer Kirk shows what a typical skating session for her looks like. | |
| 10 | "Arthur Loses His Marbles" / "Friday the 13th" | A Boston Partners in Education volunteer helps teach a boy to read. |
Season 7[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Cast Away" / "The Great Sock Mystery" | Kids go whale watching. | |
| 2 | "Francine's Split Decision" / "Muffy Goes Metropolitan" | Kids make timelines of their daily routine. | |
| 3 | "Ants in Arthur's Pants" / "Don't Ask Muffy" | Kids go outside to make science observations on the school grounds. | |
| 4 | "To Tibble the Truth" / "Waiting to Go" | Kids write and draw about lies they told. | |
| 5 | "Elwood City Turns 100!" | "A word from Larry King" - Larry King interviews Arthur and his friends for their 100th celebration. | |
| 6 | "Pick a Car, Any Car" / "Jenna's Bedtime Blues" | "A word from a bike mechanic" - A bicycle mechanic at Broadway Bicycle School teaches kids how to fix their bikes. | |
| 7 | "D.W.'s Time Trouble" / "Buster's Amish Mismatch" | Kids talk about their siblings or cousins that they admire. | |
| 8 | "The World of Tomorrow" / "Is There a Doctor in the House?" | Kids talk about what they think will happen in the future. | |
| 9 | "Prunella Sees the Light" / "Return of the Snowball" | A 4th grade boy talks about living with prosthetic legs. | |
| 10 | "April 9th" | Kids learn about fire safety with firefighters. |
Season 8[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Dear Adil" / "Bitzi's Break-up" | Kids correspond with and eventually meet their pen pals. | April 30, 2003 |
| 2 | "Fernfern and the Secret of Moose Mountain" / "Thanks a Lot, Binky" | Kids learn about orienteering. | |
| 3 | "Arthur's Snow Biz" / "Bugged" | Kids make and sell cupcakes. | |
| 4 | "Fernkenstein's Monster" / "D.W., Dancing Queen" | Kids talk about scary stories they've read. | |
| 5 | "Vomitrocious" / "Sue Ellen Chickens Out" | Kids talk about the digestive system, and times that they threw up. | |
| 6 | "Postcards from Buster" | N/A | |
| 7 | "Desk Wars" / "Desperately Seeking Stanley" | Kids show what's inside their desks | May 22, 2003 |
| 8 | "Muffy's Art Attack" / "Tales from the Crib" | Showcasing Arthur Ganson's sculptures at the MIT Museum. | |
| 9 | "Flea to Be You and Me" / "Kiss and Tell" | To celebrate Japanese Children's Day, kids learn about Japanese culture. | May 2003 |
| 10 | "Big Horns George" / "Bleep" | "A song from us kids" - Kids listen to Paul Rishell and Annie Raines perform the blues, and create their own blues song. |
Season 9[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Castles in the Sky" / "Tipping the Scales" | Kids design their dream buildings. | |
| 2 | "Francine's Big Top Trouble" / "George Blows His Top" | Siblings perform gymnastics. | |
| 3 | "Arthur Weighs In" / "The Law of the Jungle Gym" | Kids demonstrate different exercises, and talk about the importance of exercising. | |
| 4 | "Buster's Green Thumb" / "My Fair Tommy" | Kids grow and cook their own potatoes. | |
| 5 | "Lights, Camera... Opera!" / "All Worked Up" | Rodney Gilfry visits a class and helps them create an opera about dodge ball. | September 2004 |
| 6 | "Arthur Makes Waves" / "It Came From Beyond" | Kids make up stories about unexpected friendships. | |
| 7 | "Three's a Crowd" / "A is for Angry" | Kids show activities they like to do with their parents, such as making crafts and rock climbing. | October 2004 |
| 8 | "The "A" Team" / "Emily Swallows a Horse" | Kids play dodge ball. | |
| 9 | "D.W. Beats All" / "Buster the Myth Maker" | In music class at Conservatory Lab Charter School, kids learn about rhythm and beat. | October 2004 |
| 10 | "Binky Goes Nuts" / "Breezy Listening Blues" | A visit with the proprietors of a family business, Kellie's Candies Nut-Free Confections, and their daughter who is allergic to nuts. |
Season 10[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Happy Anniversary" | "A word from Buster" - Buster reads letters from kids telling why they like watching Arthur. Includes clips from episodes such as "All Worked Up," "Sleep No More,", this episode, "Castles in the Sky", "George Blows His Top," "Muffy's New Best Friend," "Arthur Meets Mister Rogers," "The Good Sport," "My Music Rules" and "Francine's Big Top Trouble." | Envelopes are postmarked with dates ranging from March 7 to 15, 2006. |
| 2 | "The Squirrels" / "Fern and Persimmony Glitchet" | A 3rd grade class learns about wild animals, including spiders, flying squirrels, snakes, and various reptiles. | |
| 3 | "Desert Island Dish" / "The Secret About Secrets" | A girl named Corinne explains how she deals with having diabetes; she, her sister, and friends make healthy snacks like fruit smoothies, then play basketball at the end of the day. | |
| 4 | "Feeling Flush" / "Family Fortune" | Students experiment with filtering water in Science class. | November 17. 2005 |
| 5 | "D.W. Aims High" / "Flaw and Order" | Francesca's mother, who is an astronomer, visits the class to talk about the solar system, then the students create their own imaginary planets. | |
| 6 | "The Curse of the Grebes" / "Arthur Changes Gears" | "A word from us Grebes" - Boston Red Sox players Johnny Damon, Mike Timlin, and Édgar Rentería work as a team with a group of kids to paint a wall at Dimock Community Health Center. | |
| 7 | "Unfinished" / "D.W., Bossy Boots" | Students write their own endings to the book from "Unfinished." | October 27, 2005 |
| 8 | "Binky vs. Binky" / "Operation: D.W.!" | A karate class. | |
| 9 | "Do You Speak George?" / "World Girls" | A boy who is deaf shares a day in his life. | |
| 10 | "What's Cooking?" / "Buster's Special Delivery" | Ming Tsai demonstrates preparing a meal at Blue Ginger restaurant, and his son and friends taste healthy food. |
Season 11[]
For the entirety of Season 11, Postcards From You replaces A Word from Us Kids. The list of those segments can be viewed here.
Season 12[]
Episodes 1-7 feature Postcards From You in place of A Word from Us Kids.
| Number | Episodes | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1-7 | "Is That Kosher" / "Never, Never, Never" through "War of the Worms" / "I Owe You One" | N/A - Postcards From You |
| 8 | "The Blackout" / "Mei Lin Takes a Stand" | Kids make strawberry jam and pickled apples with Peter McCarthy, a chef from Evoo restaurant. |
| 9 | "Home Sweet Home" / "Do You Believe in Magic?" | Kids visit a farm school. |
| 10 | "The Perfect Game" / "D.W.'s Furry Freak-out" | Kids design the layout for their own city. |
Season 13[]
Episode 7 features Postcards From You in place of A Word from Us Kids.
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Great MacGrady" | Students at Mason-Rice Elementary School share their feelings after their principal Mark Springer recovers from cancer. (Aired again during Season 24) | |
| 2 | "The Silent Treatment" / "Kung Fool" | A 3rd grade class share times when they experienced a humorous misunderstanding in conversation. | January 2009 |
| 3 | "Arthur's Number Nightmare" / "Brain Gets Hooked" | A class writes 'priority lists' in regards to tasks they do each day. | |
| 4 | "MacFrensky" / "The Good, the Bad, and the Binky" | A class counts pennies for Pennies for Peace and helps their local community by sorting items at the Goodwill Store. | January 2009 |
| 5 | "No Acting, Please" / "Prunella and the Disappointing Ending" | "A word from an actor" - A teenager discusses acting in a play. | |
| 6 | "When Carl Met George" / "D.W. Swims with the Fishes" | Kids who are on the autism spectrum share what their life is like. | January 20, 2010 |
| 7 | "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Tibble" / "The Secret Guardians" | N/A - Postcards From You | |
| 8 | "Fernlets by Fern" / "Prunella and the Haunted Locker" | A class writes short poems, which they later type on the computer and design into pin-on buttons for their jackets. | |
| 9 | "Paradise Lost" / "The Pride of Lakewood" | Kids read Arthur books to a dog who is trained to go into schools and be read to by children. The idea is that reading to a dog will build children's confidence in reading, as dogs cannot ridicule them or critique them on their reading abilities. | |
| 10 | "Looking for Bonnie" / "The Secret Origin of Supernova" | A girl discusses her love for music and playing the mandolin. |
Season 14[]
| Number | Episodes | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Wheel Deal" / "The Buster Report" | A girl with a disability (likely cerebral palsy) shows how, despite the fact that she uses a wheelchair and a walker, on the inside, she is just like anyone else. (Filmed May 2010) |
| 2 | "The Agent of Change" / "D.W. Unties the Knot" | A group of girls make their own short film at the computer clubhouse within Boston's Museum of Science. |
| 3 | "Nicked by a Name" / "The Play's the Thing" | A class in Braintree, Massachusetts research where their town, school, and a river in their town got their names. |
| 4 | "Falafelosophy" / "The Great Lint Rush" | A 4th grade class make their own graphic novels. |
| 5 | "Tales of Grotesquely Grim Bunny" / "Pet Projects" | A 2nd grade class make self-portraits, which flip open and reveal drawings of what they are scared of. |
| 6 | "Follow the Bouncing Ball" / "Buster Baxter & the Letter From the Sea" | A class draws their own 'mosaic' using their names as the base of the drawing. |
| 7 | "Around the World in 11 Minutes" / "Muffy and the Big Bad Blog" | A 1st grade class discusses the countries they or members of their family members were born in. |
| 8 | "Arthur Unravels" / "All the Rage" | A group of children discuss knitting and create 2 projects: hacky sacks and bracelets. |
| 9 | "D.W, Queen of the Comeback" / "In My Africa" | A group of children are read a Japanese folktale, utilizing a 'paper theater'. |
| 10 | "Buster Spaces Out" / "The Long Road Home" | A science club for girls create 'rockets' using balloons. |
Season 15[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Fifteen" | A class explores how the passage of time (15 seconds and 15 minutes) can feel different. | |
| 2 | "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" / "Whistling in the Wind" | A 4th grade class writes a class newspaper for the 3rd grade students, discussing what 4th grade is like. | |
| 3 | "Buster's Secret Admirer" / "The Last King of Lambland" | A 3rd grade class create paper flowers with poems written on the leaves for their retiring principal. | |
| 4 | "Cents-less" / "Buster the Lounge Lizard" | Students in an after-school care program talk about what it is like to do small jobs to earn 'base bucks', which they can then use to purchase small prizes. | |
| 5 | "To Eat or Not to Eat" / "S.W.E.A.T" | A class makes pizza in a solar cooker. | |
| 6 | "Grandpa Dave's Memory Album" / "Buster's Carpool Catastrophe" | Kids talk with senior citizens in a care facility and learn about what life was like before they were born. | |
| 7 | "Prunella the Packrat" / "What's in a Name?" | Kids donate clothing and other items to a donation facility (similar to Goodwill). | |
| 8 | "Muffy's Classy Classics Club" / "Best Enemies" | A class splits up into groups to focus on different elements of a story. | |
| 9 | "Buster's Garden of Grief" / "Through the Looking Glasses" | A class visits their school garden. | June |
| 10 | "The Butler Did... What?" / "The Trouble with Trophies" | Students try to guess their classmates' secrets. |
Season 16[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Based on a True Story" | Kids advise Ladonna on what she should do after lying. | |
| 2 | "Flippity Francine" / "Muffy Takes the Wheel" | A 1st grade class takes pictures. | April 24, 2012 |
| 3 | "All About D.W." / "Blockheads" | Second graders create a class play. | March 2012 |
| 4 | "Get Smart" / "Baby Steps" | A class plays a quiz game on an interactive whiteboard. | May 4th, 2012 |
| 5 | "Night of the Tibble" / "Read and Flumberghast" | Kids discuss times they were scared and how they got over it. | |
| 6 | "The Last Tough Customer" / "Brain's Chess Mess" | Poems about bullying. | |
| 7 | "Baseball Blues" / "Brain's Biggest Blunder" | A class discusses talents and interests. | |
| 8 | "Buster's Book Battle" / "On the Buster Scale" | Kids recommend books to each other. | |
| 9 | "Fern and the Case of the Stolen Story" / "Sue Ellen Vegges Out" | Story about a birthday party. | |
| 10 | "So Funny I Forgot to Laugh" / "The Best Day Ever" | A class has a puppet show about standing up to bullies. |
Season 17[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Show Off" / "Dog's Best Friend" | An 11 year old shows how he has been training his dog with the help of a professional dog trainer. | |
| 2 | "Adventures in Budylon" / "Ladonna Compson: Party Animal" | Students in a summer camp explore their surroundings outside, noting the attributes of various plants and animals. | |
| 3 | "Molina's Mulligan" / "Buster Bombs" | A 2nd grade class creates their own cheers. | |
| 4 | "Opposites Distract" / "Just the Ticket" | Students in a summer camp make their own fruit smoothies, discussing how not everyone likes exactly the same things. | |
| 5 | "All Thumbs" / "Kidonia" | Students discuss bad habits. | |
| 6 | "Speak Up, Francine! / "Waiting for Snow | Students give public speaking tips. | |
| 7 | "Pets and Pests" / "Go Fly a Kite" | Students write stories based from an animal's point of view. | |
| 8 | "The Director's Cut" / "Crime and Consequences" | Students work together in committees to make decisions. | June 14, 2012 |
| 9 | "Caught in the Crosswires" / "Framed!" | Students act out situations of conflict and suggest solutions. | January 17, 2013 |
| 10 | "Binky's Music Madness" / "Brain Freeze" | A group of kids visit Mark Stewert at the Brookline Music School, and learn about homemade instruments. |
Season 18[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Tattletale Frog" / "D.W. & Bud's Higher Purpose" | A 2nd grade class learns about chain reactions. | April 2014 |
| 2 | "The Friend Who Wasn't There" / "Surprise!" | A class uses their imagination to travel back in time with their homemade "time machine". | May 2014 |
| 3 | "The Case of the Girl with the Long Face/ "The Substitute Arthur" | A 1st grade class discusses feelings. | May 28, 2014 |
| 4 | "Best Wishes" / "The Tardy Tumbler" | Children at Arlington Center for the Arts summer camp create their own snowglobes and other winter-themed crafts. | |
| 5 | "Fountain Abbey" / "Arthur Calls It" | A 1st grade class talk about their legacy and what they would pass onto future generations of their family. | May 6, 2014 |
| 6 | "Whip. Mix. Blend" / "Staycation" | Children at a summer camp learn about what happens when you blend various substances. | |
| 7 | "Two Minutes" / "Messy Dress Mess" | A class learns about time by making a giant 'human clock' on the sidewalk. They also attempt to do various things within a 1 minute timeframe (jumping jacks, building a block tower, hula hooping). | April 2014 |
| 8 | "Arthur Read: Super Saver" / "Tibbles to the Rescue" | A 3rd grade class learns about bartering by playing a card game. | May 1, 2014 |
| 9 | "The Pageant Pickle" / "Some Assembly Required" | A 2nd grade class writes poetry pertaining to friendship, and then act them out. | |
| 10 | "Shelter from the Storm" | Kids visit the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. |
Season 19[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Brain's Brain" / "Brain Sees Stars" | A 2nd grade class does brain teasers and physical tasks to 'exercise their brains'. | |
| 2 | "Sue Ellen Adds It Up" / "Wish You Were Here" | A 2nd grade class uses math strategies to plan a class party. | |
| 3 | "Arthur's Toy Trouble" / "Spar For The Course" | A group of children learn about antique toys. | |
| 4 | "Carried Away" / "Dueling Detectives" | A 3rd grade class creates a commercial to get people to 'visit' different planets. | |
| 5 | "Buster Isn't Buying It" / "One Ornery Critter" | Children in a summer camp investigate a lake near their camp, which is home to a mysterious creature. They create models of what they think the creature looks like. | |
| 6 | "Maria Speaks" / "Postcards From Binky" | A 3rd grade class show how to make a 'radio play' (similar to old-fashioned radio shows before television was invented). | |
| 7 | "Carl's Concerto" / "Too Much of a Good Thing" | Children in the El Sistema music program in Somerville show how they rehearse for their concert(s). | |
| 8 | "Francine's Cleats of Strength" / "Little Miss Meanie" | A 3rd grade class talks about the various tasks they need to do to complete their clothing drive. | |
| 9 | "Mr. Ratburn's Secret Identity" / "Besties" | A 2nd grade class discuss what kinds of qualities they would like to have if they were superheroes. | |
| 10 | "The Last Day" | A 2nd grade class talk about what qualities their 'perfect teacher' would have. |
Season 20[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Buster's Second Chance" / "Arthur and the Whole Truth" | A first grade class plays a game where they create their own stories using their imagination | |
| 2 | "Fern's Flights of Fancy" / "Cereal" | A class writes limerick poems | |
| 3 | "He Said, He Said" / "Bunny Trouble" | Students discuss what it is like to work in teams and how their brains work in different ways. | April 26, 2016 |
| 4 | "Bud's Knotty Problem" / "That's MY Grandma!" | Students teaching each other how to do things. | |
| 5 | "Lend Me Your Ear" / "The Butler Did It" | "A word from an ear doctor" - three boys visit Dr. Cohen and Dr. Bhakta at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Otolaryngology. | |
| 6 | "Prunella's Tent of Portent" / "Mutiny on the Pitch" | A second grade class makes their own carnival booths. | |
| 7 | "The Hallway Minotaur" / "Ladonna's Like List" | Kids share their important classroom jobs, like the hallway monitor, gardener, pencil sharpener, weather reporter, lunch helper, and messenger. | May 16, 2016 |
Season 21[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Binky's 'A' Game" / "Brain and the Time Capsule" | A class shows their paintings of and reads their reports about famous women in history, such as Bethany Hamilton, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rosa Parks, and more. | |
| 2 | "The Master Builders" | A second grade class form an assembly line to make their own pinwheels. | |
| 3 | "Francine & The Soccer Spy" / "Sue Ellen & The Last Page" | "A Word From An Army Sergeant"- An army seargeant takes part in a school assembly honoring those who either are serving or have served in the military, surprising his young son by coming home after many months away on deployment. | |
| 4 | "Muffy Misses Out" / "Arthur Takes a Stand" | Students provide viewers a short biography of Congressman John Lewis, who is featured in "Arthur Takes a Stand." | November 2016 |
| 5 | "Slink's Special Talent" / "Take a Hike, Molly" | A class writes self-help books. | |
| 6 | "The Lost Dinosaur" / "The Princess Problem" | A third grade class discusses imaginary friends. | |
| 7 | "Invasion of the Soccer Fans" / "Pal and the Big Itch" | A class watches a sports TV show (designed by the first grade class) depicting the imaginary game of 'trash ball', and discusses how they feel when others cheer at sporting games. |
Season 22[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone" / "The Feud" | Students meet their teacher's husband for the first time and get to know him better. | November 2018 |
| 2 | "When Rivals Came to Roost" / "The Longest Eleven Minutes" | A second grade class talks about how their community rallied together after a gas leak emergency. | |
| 3 | "Muffy's House Guests" / "Binky Can't Always Get What He Wants" | A group of children visit an art exhibit at Rhode Island School of Design, pertaining to wild animals. | |
| 4 | "Muffy's Car Campaign" / "Truth or Poll" | A class experiments with the idea of what it is like to go a day without using paper. | December 11, 2018 |
Season 23[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Fright Night" / "Citizen Cheikh" | Kids craft their own fantastical creatures. | November 2018 |
| 2 | "When Duty Calls" | A girl explains what it is like to be in a military family. | |
| 3 | "The Pea and the Princess" / "D.W. and Dr. Whosit" | An improv class at ImprovBoston. |
Season 24[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "George Scraps His Sculpture" / "Arthur's Big Meltdown" | "A word from Mr. Kevin" - Kids visit with Kevin Sampson to see how he creates his artwork. | |
| 2 | "The Great MacGrady" | Students at Mason-Rice Elementary School share their feelings after their principal Mark Springer recovers from cancer. (Originally aired during Season 13) | |
| 3 | "D.W.'s New Best Friend" / "Freaky Tuesday" | Kids design and model their own clothes. | December 10, 2018 |
Season 25[]
| Number | Episodes | Description | Filming Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Binky Wrestles with a Story" / "All Will Be Revealed!" | Students learn how to write an attention-grabbing sentence. | |
| 2 | "Making Conversation" / "A Cloudy Day" | Kids make a silent movie. | |
| 3 | "Listen Up!" / "Arthur's New Old Vacation" | Kids work on their listening skills. | |
| 4 | "Blabbermouth" / "All Grown Up" | Students discuss their personalities and compare them with the Arthur cast of characters. | March 2019 |
Kids' drawings of Arthur at the end of the segment[]
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Related interstitial segments[]
In a number of installments of Arthur following the premiere of Postcards from Buster, A Word from Us Kids was sometimes replaced with the feature Postcards From You, but it was discontinued once Postcards from Buster went off the air, and A Word from Us Kids returned.
A similarly titled segment, A Word From Marc Brown, is shown at the end of the second Arthur story starting with Season 10. Marc Brown shows how to draw the faces of one character per segment, including Arthur, D.W., Kate, and Pal.
Later, a similar feature called Which ARTHUR Character Are You? started airing after the second Arthur story, featuring kids comparing themselves to characters in Arthur.
Trivia[]
- In Season 1 episodes and Season 2 episodes 1 to 10, the introductory music was eventually redubbed in reruns in the United States. Some VHS and DVD releases retain the original music.
- In overseas airings of the show, such as when it aired on CBBC in the United Kingdom and on Disney Channel Asia airings of the show, this segment was omitted to make room for trailers/commercials. They are also omitted on some PBS stations during pledge drives.
- The interstitial after "Prunella's Special Edition" originally showed students writing their own books and having a book signing, but this segment was later replaced by the interstitial after "The Wheel Deal."
- "Postcards from Buster" is the only episode (excluding the specials) to not include an interstitial break.
- None of the seven one-hour specials include A Word from Us Kids.
- The audio of the kids saying, "And now back to Arthur," at the end of each segment was slightly lowered in pitch in later seasons.
- Only a few episodes do not show a drawing of Arthur at the conclusion of the segment, including "The Last of Mary Moo Cow," "Elwood City Turns 100!" and "Happy Anniversary."
- The season 24 version of "The Great MacGrady" is the only episode to re-use an A Word From Us Kids segment. In this case, this was due to the episode being a re-make of another episode.