Theme Notes
Series 313: My Family, Your Family
My Family, Your Family
A family is those who love and care for you. Young children need love and care for their health, well- being, for play and for learning.
Families are different and may include mums, dads, cousins, grandparents, aunties and uncles, brothers and sisters and friends. There are many fun things that families can do together like gardening, cooking, or swimming at the pool.
In this series of Play School we celebrate a wedding and tell stories about the different things families do together. The Play School toy family also welcome a new baby and we meet some children who introduce us to their families through the windows.
Come along as we follow the adventures of the Bottle People Village, some hens and chicks stop by for a visit and we welcome a very special guest – presenter Emma’s baby daughter Anouk!
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Series 313: My Family, Your Family
Episode 1 SONGS
Peek-a-Boo Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Did You Ever See a Lassie Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Have You Seen the Little Ducks
Composer: Traditional PRESENTERS Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Emma Palmer & Teo Gebert If You’re Happy and You Know It Special guest: Anouk Composer: Traditional PIANIST Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Peter Dasent It’s So Nice to Have a Cuddle
STORY Composer: Sandy-Tobias Offenheim Our Baby Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Author: Margaret Wild When Someone Smiles Illustrator: Karen Blair Publisher: Working Title Press Composer: Val Donlon Publisher: ABC Music Publishing FILM Marli’s Blended Family Come A Look A See (Play School, ABC) Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
IDEAS FOR LATER Mixing Song Composer: Arthur Baysting/Peter Dasent Use some cardboard boxes to make your Publisher: Origin house. Make figures of each person in your family using cardboard cylinders, pipe Fa La Nana cleaners and wool or ribbon. Composer: Traditional (Italian) Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Do you know someone who is going to have a new baby soon? Make a card for Rock-A-Bye Your-Bear the baby to welcome them home. Composer: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
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MAKE AND DO
How to Make a Photo Picture Book
You will need: 8-10 x printed photos Glue stick 4 x sheets of cardboard Sticky tape
Tape the four sheets of cardboard into one long strip, taping along the short edge each time.
Fold each page of cardboard into two so that the long strip of all the sheets of cardboard are like a concertina.
Paste one or two photos onto each half page.
Fold the cardboard up into a book.
Flip through your photo book and look at all your memories!
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Episode 2 SONGS
The Wheels on the Bus Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Hey There What Do You Wear Composer: Helen Martin Publisher: Control
Making a Hat
Composer: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage PRESENTERS Publisher: Origin/Control
Takaya Honda & Rachael Coopes Dancing Pants
PIANIST Composer: Arthur Baysting, Peter Dasent & Peter Dasent Justine Clarke Publisher: Origin
TOLD STORY My Dad’s Getting Married The More We are Together (A story told by the Play School team) Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing FILM Emily’s Extended Family Skidamarink (Play School, ABC) Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
A Little Bit of This IDEAS FOR LATER Composer: Gordon Sneddon Publisher: Control Put on some dancing pants and a dancing
jacket or cape. Dance to your favourite How Many People Live in Your House music. Composer: Lucille Wood Count some things in your house, in your Publisher: Chambers Harrap garden or at your local park. How many Happy Dog beds are in your house? How many pairs of shoes do you have? What about in your Composer: Peter Dasent & Jane Lindsay garden? How many flowers can you Publisher: ABC/Mushroom count? How many trees are there at the park?
Have a street party with your toys. Make some decorations and choose some music for the party.
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MAKE AND DO
How to Make a Paper Hat How to Make a Celebration Cake
You will need: You will need: Paper plates 2 x round cakes Ribbons (or large cake cut in half through Scissors centre to make two round pieces) Masking tape 1 ½ cups of ricotta Elastic 2 x tablespoons of honey Washed strawberries, blueberries and raspberries 1x Banana 1 x Passionfruit
Cut out the centre of the paper plate, leaving the rim. Combine the ricotta and honey in a mixing bowl. Use the cut out middle section to cut out a flower or star shape for your hat, stick it on with Mix together with the wooden spoon. tape. Spread the ricotta mixture over the top of each Attach colourful ribbons or stickers to your hat of the cakes. using tape. Prepare the fruit by cutting up the strawberries Make a small hole on either side of the hat. and banana.
Thread the elastic through and tie a knot on Cut the passionfruit in half and scoop the pulp each side so that you can wear the hat by out into a small bowl. pulling the elastic under your chin. Spread the blueberries over the ricotta on one cake and then put the other cake on top.
Decorate the top layer of the cake with the banana, strawberries and raspberries and finish it by drizzling the passion fruit over the top.
Enjoy a piece of your yummy celebration cake!
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Episode 3 SONGS
Two Little Dickie Birds Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
The Bear Went Over the Mountain Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Here’s a House PRESENTERS Composer: John Fox/Warren Carr Luke Carroll & Zindzi Okenyo Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Everybody Do This PIANIST Peter Dasent Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
STORY Grandma’s House May I Come Over To Your Place Author/Illustrator: Alice Melvin Composer: Henrietta Clark Publisher: Tate Publishing Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
FILM Grandma’s Glasses JW’s Family Composer: Traditional (Play School, ABC) Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
IDEAS FOR LATER Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Make a house for some of your toys. What will make it feel like a home for them? A Knock, Knock, Knock book, or a game for them to play Composer: Colin Buchanan together? Or a cosy bed? Publisher: Rondor (Australia)
What is your favourite thing? Do you have a favourite toy or teddy bear? Ask everyone in your family what their favourite thing is.
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MAKE AND DO
How to Make a Crab
You will need: A ball of wool, a loofah or a scourer 4 x pipe cleaners Small round stickers Empty plastic jar or container
Push three pipe cleaners through the middle of the ball of wool, loofah or scourer and bend the ends to make the crab’s legs.
Bend another pipe cleaner in half and push it into the ball of wool at the front to make the crab’s claws.
Stick the two round stickers on the front for the eyes.
Decorate the plastic jar or container with some stickers, ribbons, anything you like.
Place your crab inside the container – a new home!
Choose a name for your crab and have some crabby adventures together.
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Episode 4 SONGS
La Bamba Composer: Traditional (Italian) Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Twinkle Twinkle Composer: Traditional Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Chicken Talk
PRESENTERS Composer: David Butts, Antoine Demarest, Teo Gebert & Miranda Tapsell Bruce Thorburn Publisher: ABC Music Publishing PIANIST Who Can? Peter Dasent Composer: Bob Randall TOLD STORY Publisher: Daki Budtcha Babes in the Bush Peek-a-Boo (A story told by the Play School team) Composer: Traditional FILM Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Azra and Wednesday’s Family Bonjour Mes Amis (Hello My Friends) (Play School, ABC) Composer: Traditional (French) Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
IDEAS FOR LATER What Shall We Do When We All Go Out
Use some old socks to make some hand Composer: Traditional puppets. You could use bottle tops or Publisher: ABC Music Publishing stickers for eyes and attach a beak or a snout. Use your puppets to act out a story for your family.
What are some of your favourite things to do together with your family? Draw a picture of you and your family doing your favourite thing.
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MAKE AND DO
How to Make a Pond Painting
You will need: Large sheet of paper Paints Paintbrushes Paint smock Sponge Bubble wrap Elastic band Paper plates
Pour one colour of paint onto each paper plate.
Paint a pond on your large sheet of paper.
You could include water, rocks and plants.
Tie the bubble wrap up with an elastic band. Dip it in to the white paint and press it onto the edge of your pond to make frog eggs.
Dip your thumb into some brown paint and press it onto the paper to make little tadpoles, use your pinkie finger to make their tails.
Press the sponge into some green paint and then press it onto the paper to make some frogs.
Use some orange paint and a paintbrush to paint some big and little fish in the pond.
Use some black paint to paint a long wriggly eel.
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Episode 5 SONGS
Who Will I Meet? Composer: Sophie Emtage & Peter Dasent Publisher: Control/ Origin/ABC Music Publishing
The Family Dance Composer: Music: Peter Mapleson & Robyn Mapleson Lyrics: June Buckingham & Henrietta Clark Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
PRESENTERS Let’s Go Walking Karen Pang & Luke Carroll Composer: Satis Coleman & Alice Thorn Publisher: The Willis Music Co. (C/- Campbell PIANIST Connelly) Peter Dasent Come On And… TOLD STORY Composer: Louie Suthers The Family Street Party Publisher: Control (A story told by the Play School team) Mixing Song FILM Composer: Arthur Baysting & Peter Dasent Jonas’ Family Publisher: Origin / ABC Music Publishing (Play School, ABC) Jump If You Feel You Want To Composer: Lionel Morton IDEAS FOR LATER Publisher: David Platz (Australia) P/L
Hip Hip Hooray Who do you meet and greet when you go Composer: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage out sometimes? The baker, the shop Publisher: Origin/Control keeper, the newsagent? Think about all the people that you meet when you go out.
Do you have a family member or friend that lives far away? Ask a parent or carer to help make a video call to them using the computer.
Make a sticker finger family! Draw faces on some round stickers and stick them to each finger and your thumb. Which finger is your brother or sister? Which ones are your grandparents or cousins? Sing the Family Dance Song with your finger family.
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MAKE AND DO
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How to Make Tabbouleh Salad
You will need: 1 x cup burghul (bulgur) wheat 2 x cups boiling water 1 x lemon 12 x cherry tomatoes ½ cup mint 1 x cup parsley Salt Pepper 3 x tablespoons olive oil
Ask an adult to pour two cups of boiling water over the burghul wheat and leave to soak for 15 minutes, then drain.
Juice one lemon.
Cut the cherry tomatoes in half.
Using the scissors, snip the herbs into small pieces.
Place the tomatoes in the salad bowl along with the herbs.
Next add salt and pepper to taste.
Pour the lemon juice in and then add the burghul wheat and olive oil.
Mix it all together with the wooden spoon.
Enjoy your yummy, zesty tabbouleh salad!
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