Series 277: My Favourite Things
Episode 5
My Favourite Things
Young children are curious about the world and enjoy exploring new objects and places. They also find security and pleasure through revisiting and reconnecting with familiar people, places and things. In this series of Play School we focus on ‘favourite things’ – special objects and collections as well as special relationships, pets, and places and favourite things to do. The concept of ‘favourite things’ is explored through singing, moving, pretending, making and creating, looking at books and listening to stories. Children and families are also encouraged to remember their own special times, places and people as the Play School presenters share experiences and memories. In each episode we sing ‘My Favourite Things’ and place something special on the Play School treasure shelf.
PRESENTERS
Emma Palmer – Andrew McFarlane
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
STORY
The Cat’s Pyjamas
Author: Catherine Foreman
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand, 2011
FILM
Newington Playground
(Play School, ABC)
ANIMATION
Animation Title
(Play School, ABC)
IDEAS FOR LATER
- Set a timer and see if you can get dressed before it rings.
- Play a washing basket guessing game. Put on a blindfold and feel the clothes in the washing basket to try and guess what you have found!
- Wash some socks and undies in a bucket of warm soapy water. Rinse them out in clean water and peg them out in the sun.
SONGS
Stir Up the Pudding
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
New Shoe Laces
Composer: Adrian Bell
Publisher: Unpublished
Run a Little
Composers: Satis Coleman & Alice Thorn
Publisher: Willis Music Co. administered by Campbell Connelly (Australia) P/L
I Jump Out of Bed in the Morning
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
My Favourite Things
Composers: Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rodgers
Publisher: Imagen
MAKE AND DO
How to Make M
