Alma's Way

This is a vibrant series full of bright colors and music preschoolers will love. It's excellent at presenting each episode's social-emotional lesson in a simple and repetitive way that makes it easy for kids to understand. Alma's slow and considered decision making will help kids learn perspective taking and concrete problem solving skills, as well as helping to solidify their sense of right and wrong. Alma is a great role model, but she also makes mistakes, which will be very relatable to preschoolers.

There are many well developed characters that show the diversity of Puerto Rican American people in their interests, personalities, and physical appearances. The show explicitly talks about different aspects of Puerto Rican culture like food, music, and dance, and also highlights parts of other Latino cultures as well. The English-language version includes a lot of Spanish phrases, and the show also can be watched entirely in Spanish. Puerto Rican American kids will love seeing parts of their family and heritage reflected on screen, and kids from other backgrounds will learn about cultural traditions they may not be familiar with. The show's background music is super fun, drawing from traditional Puerto Rican styles like Plena, Bomba, and salsa along with other Latino genres such as Cuban son and Colombian cumbia.