Play School (1966)
Season 267
TV-G
Preschoolers are provided with learning opportunities through music, crafts, stories, games and information. The aim is to encourage a child to wonder, think, feel and imagine, striving to reflect a modern, diverse Australian society.
Where to Watch Season 267
5 Episodes
- Shapes (Monday)E1
Shapes (Monday)Series 267: Shapes Monday Different shapes are all around us and are a constant source of wonder to young children. This week in Play School we explore shapes through play. Learning about basic shapes helps children recognise numbers and letters and sets the building blocks for learning to read and write later on. Monday PRESENTERS Jolene Anderson – Teo Gebert PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY Miffy the Artist Author & Illustrator: Dick Bruna Publisher: Tate Publishing FILM Dot Painting (Play School, ABC) SONGS Hickory Dickory Dock Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing I’m a Train Composers: M. Hazlewood & A. Hammond Publisher: Chrysalis Build It Up Composer: Peter Charlton Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Let’s Go Walking Composers: Satis Coleman & Alice Thorne Publisher: The Willis Music Co. (c/o Campbell Connelly) Heads and Shoulders Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Great Big World Composers: Peter Dasent & Arthur Baysting Publisher: Origin/Control Hokey Pokey (Ocean Motion) Composer: Jimmy Kennedy Publisher: Campbell Connelly & Co. IDEAS FOR LATER Create a city street using different shaped blocks. Build tall skyscrapers, large square buildings, a circular building and whatever else you can think of. Stack different shapes to make different shaped buildings, such as a rectangle building with a triangle roof. Use play dough to create lots of different shapes. Making Things (It’s Fun to Make Things) Composers: S. Aplin & P. Barton Publisher: ABC Music Publishing MAKE AND DO How to Make Shape Pictures You will need: - Plain A3 paper or cardboard - Coloured paper Safety scissors Paste - Marker Cut lots of different shapes from coloured paper. Paste the shapes onto a plain piece of A3 paper or cardboard to create a shape picture. You might like to arrange some shapes on the paper to create an object, animal or person. We m - Shapes (Tuesday)E2
Shapes (Tuesday)Series 267: Shapes Tuesday Different shapes are all around us and are a constant source of wonder to young children. This week in Play School we explore shapes through play. Learning about basic shapes helps children recognise numbers and letters and sets the building blocks for learning to read and write later on. PRESENTERS Teo Gebert – Emma Palmer PIANIST Peter Dasent TOLD STORY Mr Round’s New House (A story told by the Play School team) FILM Decorating Cup Cakes (Play School, ABC) ANIMATION This Little Pig (Play School, ABC) SONGS Build It Up Composer: Peter Charlton Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Horsey, Horsey Composer: Box, Cox, Butler & Roberts Publisher: Sun Music 1937 The Little Grey Ponies Composer: Laura Pendleton MacCarteney Publisher: Allans Ten Little Indians (Rolling Shapes On) Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Singing in the Kitchen Composer: Shel Silverstein Publisher: Universal The Hippopotamus Song (Glorious Mud) Composers: M. Flanders & D. Swann Publisher: Warner Chappel Man-Man-Mangia Composers: Rosemary Sheldon & Pauline Mitchell Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Here’s a House Composers: John Fox & Warren Carr Publishers: ABC Music Publishing IDEAS FOR LATER Cut different shapes from a kitchen sponge and stick them to a cardboard cylinder. Roll the cylinder in paint, or use paint brushes to cover each sponge in paint. Roll the cylinder on a piece of paper to make prints. This would make great wrapping paper! Use different shaped containers collected from your kitchen as building blocks and build a castle! Rectangular containers can be used to build the castle walls and round containers can be used as turrets. MAKE AND DO How to Make Dough You will need: - 2 cups plain flour - Decorations - 1 cup salt - 3/4 cup water - Different shaped biscuit cutters - Rolling pin - Straw - Ribbon - Baking tray, lined with ba - Shapes (Wednesday)E3
Shapes (Wednesday)Series 267: Shapes Wednesday Different shapes are all around us and are a constant source of wonder to young children. This week in Play School we explore shapes through play. Learning about basic shapes helps children recognise numbers and letters and sets the building blocks for learning to read and write later on. PRESENTERS Alex Papps – Abi Tucker PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY Hooray for Fish Author & illustrator: Lucy Cousins Publisher: Walker Books FILM Making Jelly (Play School, ABC) ANIMATION All the Fish Are Swimming in the Water (Play School, ABC) SONGS What Shall We Do? Composers: Peter Dasent & Mark Barnard Publisher: Origin/Control Build It Up Composer: Peter Charlton Publisher: ABC Music Publishing All the Fish Are Swimming in the Water Composer: Beatrice Landeck Publisher: J. Albert & Son Swim Like a Fish Composers: Chris Harriott & Simon Hopkinson Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Dinosaur Roar Composers: Peter Dasent, Arthur Baysting & Justine Clarke Publisher: Origin/Control Jelly on a Plate Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Have You Seen Spaghetti? Composers: Don Spencer & Moira Cochrane Publisher: MCA/Gilbey IDEAS FOR LATER Visit the aquarium and look at all the sea creatures in different colours and shapes. Take some photos of different shaped buildings in your city or local area. MAKE AND DO How to Make Window Shapes You will need: - A4 coloured cardboard - Pencil - Safety scissors - Clear contact Coloured cellophane Torch Draw a large shape in the middle of a piece of A4 coloured cardboard, such as a square, a triangle or a circle. Carefully insert a pair of scissors in the middle of the shape you have drawn and cut out to create a frame. Cut out a piece of clear contact, about A4 size. Stick it to one side of your frame to create a window. Cut different coloured cellophane into small pieces. Decorate the sticky side of th - Shapes (Thursday)E4
Shapes (Thursday)Series 267: Shapes Thursday Different shapes are all around us and are a constant source of wonder to young children. This week in Play School we explore shapes through play. Learning about basic shapes helps children recognise numbers and letters and sets the building blocks for learning to read and write later on. PRESENTERS Alex Papps – Abi Tucker PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY The Runaway Pancake (Play School, ABC) FILM Ice Sculpture (Play School, ABC) SONGS Build It Up Composer: Peter Charlton Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Big Adventure Composers: Peter Dasent & Arthur Baysting Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Rolling All Around Composer: Val Donlon Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Do the Cockatoo Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage Publisher: Origin/Control Running to the Corner Composers: A. North & M. Wesley-Smith Publisher: Unpublished IDEAS FOR LATER Make pancakes in lots of different shapes! Use different shaped ice cube moulds to make orange juice ice cubes. Pop them in a drink to keep it cool! Build a space station using containers and bowls from your kitchen! Make a launch pad and a control room! Make astronauts from cardboard rolls and space ships from cardboard boxes. MAKE AND DO How to Make Ice Boats You will need: - Recycled plastic containers - A blob of tac - Straws - Water - Food colouring or paint - Coloured paper - Safety scissors Tape Stick a blob of tac in the centre of a recycled plastic container. Poke a plastic straw into the tac, so it stands upright like a mast. Fill the container with water, almost to the top. Add a couple of drops of food colouring and mix to combine. Cut a shape, such as a triangle, circle or moon, from a piece of coloured paper and tape to the straw for a sail. Place the boat in the freezer until the coloured water has frozen Remove the ice boats from their containers and sail them in a water trough or in the bath.  - Shapes (Friday)E5
Shapes (Friday)Series 267: Shapes Friday Different shapes are all around us and are a constant source of wonder to young children. This week in Play School we explore shapes through play. Learning about basic shapes helps children recognise numbers and letters and sets the building blocks for learning to read and write later on. PRESENTERS Emma Palmer – Teo Gebert PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY Pants Text: Giles Andreae Illustrations: Nick Sharratt Publisher: Random House UK FILM Sewing Class (Play School, ABC) ANIMATION Bags (Play School, ABC) Come on and... Composer: Louie Suthers Publisher: Unpublished Bags Composer: Don Spencer Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Move Over and Make Room For... Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Build It Up Composer: Peter Charlton Publisher: ABC Music Publishing I Like to Sing Composers: Peter Dasent & Garth Frost Publisher: Origin/Control Dancing Pants Composers: Peter Dasent, Arthur Baysting & Justine Clarke Publisher: Origin/Control How Are You Feeling Today? Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage Publisher: Origin/Control IDEAS FOR LATER Make a patchwork quilt for your toys by sticking different shapes onto a large rectangle of material. Build a puppet theatre with cardboard boxes or foam blocks. MAKE AND DO How to Make a Sleeping Bag for Your Toys You will need: - Coloured material - Sewing machine - Safety scissors - Paste Ask an adult to cut two identical rectangles from coloured material, pin them together and use a sewing machine to sew three of the edges. Cut some shapes from a different coloured piece of material. Paste these shapes onto your sleeping bag, or ask an adult to sew them on.  MAKE AND DO How to Make Shape Puppets You will need: - A4 coloured cardboard - Pencil - Safety scissors