<P> Each week's episodes are built around a single scientific theme or concept . The first week (episodes 1--5) focus on scientific tools and concepts (such as charts, observation, estimation, and measuring). The second week (episodes 6--10) focuses on changes and transformation (including decay, growth, freezing and melting, and the effects of heat). The third week (episodes 11--15) focuses on the senses (including touch, smell, sight, and hearing). The fourth week (episodes 16--20) focuses on health . The fifth week (episodes 21--25) focuses on simple machines . The sixth week (episodes 26--30) focuses on backyard science . The seventh week (episodes 31--35) focuses on the human body . The eighth week (episodes 36--40) focuses on weather . The Friday shows are designed to review, reinforce and summarize the central concept of the week . </P> <P> One recurring segment, "Good Laughternoon", features the kids opening panels in a brightly colored playground structure and telling jokes . The format and set borrow heavily from the closing "joke wall" of Rowan & Martin's Laugh - In, the Groaning Wall from Square One TV, and "locker jokes" from You Can't Do That on Television, but for a pre-school audience and Sid would end the segment by saying, "Now that's funny!" along with a pre-recorded laughter from his toy microphone . Other recurring segments include "What's the big idea?", a problem that Sid has with anything that has to do something with the problem; Breakfast Time, when either Alice or Mort teaches Sid something that has anything to do with the problem; The Sid Survey, the segment where Sid asks questions to May, Gerald, and Gabriela; Rug Time, where Sid shows his friends and his teacher something with the problem; The Super Fab Lab, where the scientists do the lab along with a live - action class (in fast - motion) performing the experiment of the day; Playtime; whenever the class finished an experiment, the kids would either play in the classroom or on the playground . Singing with Susie; where Susie sings a song related to the experiment or theme . Backseat Driving with Grandma; Scientist in the House!, when Sid solves the problem and / or plays with his family after school; and "Sid's Super-Duper - Ooper - Schmooper Big Idea!", where Sid would think about what will he do to solve a problem like the one he had from each episode . Sometimes, Sid would have his play date with Gabriela or May after school making it "2 Scientists in the House!" </P> <P> Sid (motion captured by Misty Rosas, voiced by Drew Massey) wants to be a scientist when he grows up . Sid is the most practical character on the show and is often portrayed as a very supportive friend . His special item is a toy microphone with four different colored electric buttons . When pressed, the blue button plays the recorded laughter of people, the yellow button plays the recorded applause, the red button makes a cow noise, and the white button records echoes . He wants to know "everything about everything". He enjoys singing and dancing as well . He is a well - noted observer, and possibly the brightest of the group . His daily activities consist of playing in his room, coming up with a question, asking people about his question, studying his question in school, going home, and presenting his' Super-duper - ooper - schmooper Big Idea!' Sid's mother is of African descent and his father grew up Jewish as noted in the Hanukkah / Christmas / Kwanzaa episode . </P> <P> May (motion captured by Dana Michael Woods, voiced by Julianne Buescher) is one of Sid's best friends, marked by her striped stockings and fairness . She is shown to have terrible eyesight (maybe myopic) and in one episode makes a parody of Velma Dinkley in Scooby - Doo . She is the most sentimental character of the group . She is very polite and is characterized by her charming, courteous ways . May often sympathizes with everyone and everything, appreciating even inanimate things like decayed pumpkins and brown, mushy bananas . In the eponymous episode as Sid asks whether she would ever eat a mushy banana, she replies, "Aw, he probably thinks no one likes him . Yes! Yes, I would definitely eat him and be his friend!" In The Perfect Pancake when Sid recalls his father's burnt pancakes, she suggests that the oven might be angry . May has a Manx cat called Mooshu . While her conduct is quite silly at times, May is exceptionally smart, often performing at peak excellence in school . </P>

Who plays the voice of sid the science kid