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Play School: Season 269

How Does Your Garden Grow?
TV-G

  • ABC Comedy
  • 25m
  • Australia
  • English
Most young children enjoy digging in the dirt whether it be in a garden or in a pot of soil. Being involved in gardening can help young children develop many new skills. These include understanding, co-operation and self-confidence. Children will also learn about science, nature and the environment from growing their own flowers and plants.

5 episodes

Season Premiere

269x01 How Does Your Garden Grow? (Monday)

  • no air date25m

PRESENTERS
Rachael Coopes – Andrew McFarlane
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
STORY
Wow Said the Owl
Author & Illustrator: Tim Hopgood
Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books
FILM
Wind Montage
(Play School, ABC)
IDEAS FOR LATER
Make a kite from a paper bag, string and
coloured streamers. Run around outside
to watch it flutter in the sky.
Grow some tiny tomatoes in a pot. When
they grow, eat them in a salad or on a
sandwich.
SONGS
Dig, Dig, Dig
Composer: J Gough, M Trapaga & D Basden
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Composer: Sophie Emtage & Peter Dasent
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing/
Control
Wet Washing
Composer: Liz Olsen
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Like a Leaf or Feather
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Composer: M & G Russel-Smith
Publisher: EMI
Doin’ It (Making the Garden Grow)
Composer: Dasent/Baysting
Publisher: Origin

Tuesday
PRESENTERS
Luke Carroll – Karen Pang
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
STORY
Bullbre the Koala
Retold by Lois Birk
Illustrations by Bronwyn Bancroft
FILM
Bug Montage
(Play School, ABC)
IDEAS FOR LATER
Use some empty egg shells to sprout
some water cress seeds.
Make yourself a hardboiled egg.
Visit an aviary and see all the colourful
birds.
SONGS
What Can a Chicken Do? (What Can a Cow
Do?)
Composer: Peter Gosling & M Cole
Publisher: BBC Manuscript
Eggs
Composer: D Spencer
Publisher: Mushroom
There’s a Worm at the Bottom of my Garden
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
Wiggerly Woo
Composer: M Cochrane & D Spencer
Publisher: Mushroom/Australian Music
Foundation
What Shall We Do?
Composer: Mark Barnard & Peter Dasent
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing/
Control
Birdy Birdy
Composer: Rochelle Wright & Rob Shannon
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Composer: Sophie Emtage & Peter Dasent
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing/
Control

Wednesday
PRESENTERS
Rachael Coopes – Alex Papps
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
STORY
Maisy Goes Camping
Author & Illustrator: Lucy Cousin
Publisher: Walker Books
FILM
Cooking at the Campsite
(Play School, ABC)
Family Bushwalk
(Play School, ABC)
IDEAS FOR LATER
Camp outside with your family or camp
under a table inside with your toys.
Play shadow chasing with a friend. Try
and step on their shadow as they run
around.
Go for a walk in the bush with your family
and friends.
SONGS
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Composer: Sophie Emtage & Peter Dasent
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing/
Control
Walking in the Bush
Composer: Tony Strutton
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Hop Little Bunny (Fly Little Bird)
Composer: Roberta McLaughlin
Publisher: Unpublished
There is Someone Who is Hiding
Composer: Henrietta Clark
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Moon, Moon
Composer: L Sprague Mitchell (Gerfolktune)
Publisher: Allans Music (Aust) Ltd
Everybody Get Together
Composer: Sophie Emtage & Peter Dasent
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing/
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Thursday
PRESENTERS
Karen Pang- Alex Papps
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
TOLD STORY
The Big Bush Adventure
(A told story by the Play School Team)
FILM
Waterfall Montage
(Play School, ABC)
ANIMATION
Der Glumph
(Play School, ABC
IDEAS FOR LATER
Have a swim in a wading pool.
Cut up some watermelon and share it for
a snack.
Make some frogs from large stones, pipe
cleaners and draw on some froggy eyes.
SONGS
Three Little Speckled Frogs
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Composer: Sophie Emtage & Peter Dasent
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing/
Control
Stomp, Stomp
Composer: Tiny Grimes
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing
Rain
Composer: Jay Laga’aia
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
I Like Swimming
Composer: P Barton, B O’Hara & K Gentz
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing/Larrikin
Watermelon
Composer: Peter Dasent & Arthur Baysting
Publisher: Origin

Friday
PRESENTERS
Luke Carroll – Alex Papps
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
TOLD STORY
A Cake for a Cat
(A told story by the Play School Team)
FILM
Recycled Art
(Play School, ABC)
IDEAS FOR LATER
Make a cake for your family or friends.
Collect some old boxes, lids, plastic
containers and other useful bits and
pieces. Make a robot, a sculpture or
anything you wish.
Make compost for your garden with
vegetable scraps, old eggs shells,
newspaper.
Make a bird house from old containers.
SONGS
What Shall We Do?
Composer: Mark Barnard & Peter Dasent
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing/
Control
How Are You Feeling Today?
Composer: Sophie Emtage & Peter Dasent
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing/
Control
Happy Birthday
Composer: M & P Hill
Publisher: Summy-Birchard Music (ASCAP)
I Like to Dance (I Like to Sing)
Composer: Peter Dasent & Garth Frost
Publisher: Origin
Bump a Deedle (Everybody Says Sit Down)
Composer: Malvina Reynolds
Publisher: Schroder Music Co.
Possum on the Rooftop
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing

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