Theme Notes Series 276: Put On Your Hat (Wednesday)
This week in Play School we explore the theme of “Put on Your Hat” through music, stories, craft and play. Every day this week, we visit the Play School hat shop where a hat for every occasion can be found. On Wednesday, we take a special ride with Justine as she puts on a helmet and travels to Play School on a motorbike.
PRESENTERS
Jay Laga’aia – Justine Clarke
PIANIST
Peter Dasent
STORY
Little Dog
Author: Katrina Germein
Illustrator: Tamsin Ainslie
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
FILM
Little Nippers
(Play School, ABC)
ANIMATION
My Dog Bill
(Play School, ABC)
IDEAS FOR LATER
- Set up a shop that sells sports hats. Your shop could include a cricket hat, a motor cycle helmet and a life savers cap. Have fun selling your hats to customers. They may come into the shop and say, “I need a hat to wear while I’m playing the cricket. What will be the best hat?”
- Build some sandcastles in a sandpit or at the beach. Decorate them with leaves and pebbles from the garden. Put a flag on the top.
- Take a ride on a pretend motorbike with an ice cream helmet.
- Find pictures of people wearing different hats in old magazines and make a collage.
SONGS
Motor Bike Song
Composer: John Waters
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Put on Your Hat
Composer: Colin Buchanan
Publisher: Rondor
I Like Dogs
Composer: John William Fox
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
My Dog Scrap (My Dog Bill)
Composers: Henrietta Clark & Warren Carr
Publisher: ABC Music Publishing
Making a Hat
Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage
Publisher: Origin/Control
Watermelon
Composers: Peter Dasent & Arthur Baysting
Publisher: Origin/Control
MAKE AND DO
Make Sun Hats for Your Toys
You will need:
- Small recycled boxes and takeaway containers
- Scraps of material
- Scrunchies
- Things to decorate your hats with, such as ribbons, crayons, stickers and tinsel
- Yellow mate
