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Young children are generally eager explorers, keen to investigate the world around them.

They use their senses and their bodies as they encounter and play with new objects and

explore familiar and unfamiliar places. Young children also like to experience the world from

many different vantage points, such as under, over, beside, in front of, behind, between and

through. Experiencing these different perspectives is valuable in developing a sense of

spatial awareness.

Join us this week as we explore the notion of „under‟ and look at what is hidden underneath

the surface. We look at the world hidden under the sea, objects hidden in boxes, the roots of

trees under the ground and much more. Every day this week there is something hidden

underneath the Bed Calendar.

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Monday

PRESENTERS

Georgie Parker – Matt Passmore

PIANIST

Peter Dasent

STORY

The Thingamabob

Author & Illustrator: Il Sung Na

Publisher: Koala Books

FILM

Clean Up Australia Day

(Play School, ABC)

ANIMATION

Der Glumph

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Have a cleanup of your toys and books

and share what you no longer need with a

friend.

Visit a pet shop to see all the fish swimming

in their undersea gardens.

Take a rainy day walk under an umbrella

wearing a rain coat, gumboots and hat.

Enjoy stepping in the puddles!

SONGS

Octopus' Garden

Composer: Richard Starkey

Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC,

Startling Music LTD C/O Bruce V. Grakal

Under the Sea

Composer: Vanessa & Karina Johnston

Publisher: Jingle Jam Pty Ltd.

Ducks Like Rain

Composer: Traditional

Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing

It’s Starting to Rain

Composers: Peter Dasent & Arthur Baysting

Publisher: Origin/Control

Ten in the Bed



Drip Drop

Composers: Peter & Robyn Mapleson

Publisher: ABC Music Publishing

Ocean Motion (Hokey Pokey)

Composer: Jimmy Kennedy

Publisher: Campbell Connelly & Co.

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MAKE AND DO

How to Make an Octopus’s Garden

You will need:

Pillows

Fabric – old sheets or curtains will do

Recycled materials

Your favourite toys

Set up pillows and fabric to look like a deep

sea world.

Add recycled materials, decorated to look like

under sea creatures, seaweed and rocks.

Dress your toys as sea creatures –

Make a large cardboard star and cut a

hole in the centre to go over the head

of a toy to create a star fish.

Create an octopus by filling eight old

stockings with scrunched up

newspaper. Decorate stockings with

patty cases. Attach the stockings to

another, empty, stocking and tie

around the waist of a large toy.

How to Make a Rainy Day Picture

You will need:

Plain A3 cardboard

Paste

Cotton wool balls

Grey & blue paint

Coloured paper

Safety scissors

Cotton buds

Glitter

Paste cotton wool balls along the top of the

cardboard for clouds. Paint with grey paint.

Cut some umbrella shapes from different

coloured paper – just the shade of the

umbrella, not the handle.

Paste umbrella shapes underneath the clouds.

Use a cotton bud to decorate each umbrella

with paint. Paint a “J” under each umbrella

shade for a handle.

Cover the rest of the cardboard with paste

and sprinkle with glitter for rain.

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Tuesday

PRESENTERS

Abi Tucker – Jay Laga‟aia

PIANIST

Peter Dasent

TOLD STORY

The Great Treasure Hunt

(A story told by the Play School team)

FILM

Jenolan Caves

(Play School, ABC)

ANIMATION

The Dino Stomp

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Cut some star shapes from silver cardboard

and attach them to your bedroom ceiling

to create a night sky.

Hide a treasure and ask a friend to go on a

treasure hunt. Create a map or give clues

to help your friend find the treasure.

Go on a bushwalk at night with a torch and

see if you can spot any birds, animals or

insects.

SONGS

We're Going on a Treasure Hunt (We’re Going

on a Bear Hunt)



The Dino Stomp

Composers: Judith Simpson & Max Lambert


Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star



Humpty and Big Ted Jumping on the Bed (Three

Cheeky Monkeys)



Dem Bones



Walking in the Bush

Composer: Tony Strutton


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MAKE AND DO

How to Make a Clothes Basket Boat

You will need:

Clothes basket

Strips of crepe paper

Pegs

Two long cardboard cylinders

Tea towel

Cardboard

Tape

Thread strips of crepe paper through the holes

in the washing basket.

Use pegs to attach a tea towel sail to one of

the cardboard cylinders.

Tape the cylinder to the inside of the washing

basket for a mast.

Cut paddle shapes from cardboard and tape

to either end of the other cardboard cylinder

to create an oar.

Put your toys in the washing basket boat and

take them for a row in the sea!

How to Make a Surprise Spring Box

You will need:

A small cardboard box with a lid

Two strips of coloured paper about 2cm

x 30cm

Tape

Coloured cardboard

Safety scissors

Take two long strips of coloured paper and

place ends at right angles to each other. Tape

ends together. Fold each strip over the other

until you reach the end to create a spring.

Attach the spring to the inside base of the

cardboard box with tape.

Cut a small cardboard shape from coloured

cardboard, such as a star, apple or strawberry.

The shape must fit inside the cardboard box.

Attach the cardboard shape to the end of the

spring with tape.

Push the spring into the box and put on the lid.

Remove the lid and see the shape spring out!

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Wednesday

PRESENTERS

Teo Gebert - Leah Vandenberg

PIANIST

Peter Dasent

TOLD STORY

The Enormous Turnip

(A story told by the Play School team)

FILM

Light Rail

(Play School, ABC)

ANIMATION

Singing Sheep Choir

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Dip some old items from the kitchen into

paint, then press them onto paper to make

prints – a potato masher, kitchen sponge

and a plastic lid will create interesting

shapes!

Take a train ride to the city or a nearby

town.

Make your own billabong using a tray filled

with sand, a dish filled with water for the

billabong and small branches and other

plant materials for the bush. Add some

plastic toy animals that might live near a

billabong, such as lizards, kangaroos and

ducks.

SONGS

The Billabong Family (The Gumtree Family)


Publisher: Origin/Control

The Wombat Wobble

Composer: Val Donlon

Publisher: ABC Music Publishing c/o Mushroom

Music

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep



Morningtown Ride

Composer: Malvina Reynolds

Publisher: Associated Music Pty. Ltd.

Train is A-Coming

Composer: James S. Tippett

The More We Are Together



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MAKE AND DO

How to Make a City Train Line

You will need:

3 or 4 small cardboard boxes of a

similar size for train carriages

Coloured paper

Pencil

Safety scissors

Paste

Pipe cleaners

Recycled plastic bottle lids, such as milk

or juice bottle lids

Tape

Two identical lengths of ribbon (as long

as you would like your train track to be)

Paddle pop sticks

A large, thick piece of cardboard for

each train station – we made five train

stations

A large cardboard box for each train

station

2 medium length cardboard cylinders

for each train station

Coloured markers, pencils and paints

Short cardboard cylinders for

passengers

Small polystyrene balls

Scraps of fabric for clothes

Wool for hair

Train

Make a train from 3 or 4 small cardboard boxes of a similar size. Ask an adult to cut one of

the large faces from each cardboard box so passengers can ride in your train.

Use scissors and paste to cover each cardboard box in coloured paper.

Ask an adult to poke holes in either end of each cardboard box. Join each carriage by

threading pipe cleaners through the holes and twisting them together to secure.

Tape plastic bottle lids to the base of each train carriage for wheels.

Train Track

To create a train track, line up two identical lengths of ribbon. Start by taping the end of

each piece of ribbon to either side of a paddle pop stick. Continue building your train track

by taping paddle pop sticks at even intervals along the piece of ribbon. You can also use

craft glue for a neater track.

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Station Buildings

We made five stations for our train line –

Central, Art Gallery, Museum, Shopsville and

Possum Park.

Start by creating a backdrop on a piece of

large, thick cardboard using coloured paper,

markers, pencils and paints. Draw, paint or

collage each backdrop. For example, we

covered our Shopsville backdrop in pink paper

and pasted on purple, rectangle buildings with

orange, square windows. You might like to find

images that symbolise each location in

magazines, such as shops for Shopsville station,

and paste to each backdrop.

Write station names on coloured paper and

stick them to each backdrop.

Stick each backdrop onto a large box.

Create stairs from each station to the train line

by taping paddle pop sticks to two cardboard

cylinders.

Train Passengers

You might like to make a train driver and some

passengers to ride on your train.

To create train passengers, glue or tape

polystyrene balls to short cardboard rolls.

Draw faces on the polystyrene balls with a

marker.

Paste scraps of fabric to the cardboard rolls for

clothes.

Tape some wool to the polystyrene balls for

hair.

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Thursday

PRESENTERS

Teo Gebert – Abi Tucker

PIANIST

Peter Dasent

STORY

Ducks Don’t Wear Socks

Text by John Nedwidek © John Nedwidek

Illustrated by Lee White © Lee White

Viking Children‟s Books, NY

FILM

Antarctic Animals

(Play School, ABC)

ANIMATION

Three Little Ducks

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Fill a large bowl with soapy water, wash

some clothes in it and hang them out to dry

on a small line. Watch them blowing in the

breeze.

Add some food dye to water and place in

an iceblock tray. Remove when frozen and

add to a large bowl for water play.

Dress your toys for a trip to Antarctica.

Create warm clothes from old woolly socks.

SONGS

Spotty Song

Composer: June Tillman

Hoppity Hop the Kangaroo

Composer: Jean Edna Webb

Chicken Talk

Composers: David Butts, Atoine Demarest &

Bruce Thorburn (Hooley Dooleys)


Six Little Ducks



Peek-a-Boo



Walking in the Snow

Composer: Chris Harriott and Simon Hopkinson


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MAKE AND DO

How to Play Peep-o

You will need:

Old magazines

Safety scissors

A3 paper or cardboard

Paste

Cup or glass

Pencil

Look through old magazines for large pictures of familiar objects, such as cars, animals and

trees.

Cut out the pictures and paste each one in the centre of a piece of A3 paper.

Place the base of a cup or a glass in the centre of a blank piece of A3 paper and trace

around it.

Cut out the circle - an easy way to do this is to fold the piece of paper in half, creating a

semi-circle. Cut out the semi circle and then unfold the piece of paper to reveal your peep-

hole!

Place the peep-hole over the pictures and ask a friend to guess what each picture is.

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Friday

PRESENTERS

Teo Gebert - Abi Tucker

PIANIST

Peter Dasent

STORY

The Faraway Seed

Author: Anna Boucaut

Illustrator: Jill Brailsford

Publisher: JoJo Publishing

FILM

Jasmine Chooses a Hijab

(Play School, ABC)

IDEAS FOR LATER

Visit a green grocer or market and look for

vegetables that grow under the ground like

carrots, potatoes, kumera and onions. Use

the vegetables to make some “under the

ground” soup.

Create some water colour paints by

adding a drop of food dye to water. Use

the colours to paint a rainbow.

Take a walk in a park or the bush and look

at the different trees. Collect some leaves

and see how they are the same and how

they are different.

SONGS

Would You Like to be a Tree?

Composers: P. Casey & C. Campbell

Doin’ it (Making the Garden Grow)


Publisher: Origin

Changes

Composers: Henrietta Clark & Don Spencer

This Little Girl all Ready for Bed (This Little Boy)

Composers: M Miller & Paula L. Zajan

Publisher: Allen & Co.

All the Colours of the Rainbow

Composers: Colin Buchanan & Keith Robert

Publisher: Rondor

The Green Grass Grew Around



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MAKE AND DO

How to Make a Tree Diorama

You will need:

A large cardboard box

Safety scissors

Green and brown paint

One long and one short/medium

cardboard cylinder

Sticks and twigs for branches

Green and brown crepe paper for

leaves (or any colour you like)

Tape

Lengths of wool or string

A roll of newspaper

Ask an adult to cut out one of the large sides from a cardboard box.

Paint the top of the box green and the inside of the box brown and set aside to dry.

To make your first tree, paint a long cardboard cylinder brown and set aside to dry.

Ask an adult to poke some small holes around one end of the cylinder. Push sticks and twigs

through the holes for branches.

Cut some leaf shapes from green and brown crepe paper and attach to the stick branches

with tape.

Tape lengths of wool or string to the base of your tree for roots.

Ask an adult to make a hole in the top of the cardboard box to push the tree through.

To make your second tree, tightly roll a newspaper and tape to secure. Paint brown and set

aside to dry.

Use scissors to cut down through one end of the newspaper roll several times to create

drooping tree branches.

As above, tape lengths of wool or string to the base of your tree for roots and ask an adult to

make a hole in the top of the box to push the finished tree through.

To make your third tree, paint a short or medium cardboard cylinder brown and set aside to

dry.

Push some green crepe paper into the top of the cylinder for leaves.

As above, tape lengths of wool or string to the base of your tree for roots and ask an adult to

make a hole in the top of the box to push the finished tree through.

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How to Make Forest Creatures

You will need:

Cellophane

Pegs

A recycled plastic bottle lid, such as a milk or juice bottle lid

Pipe cleaners

Tape

You might like to add these creatures to your tree diorama. Do they live in the trees, on the

ground, or underneath the ground?

Cicada or Butterfly

Twist a small piece of cellophane in the middle to create wings.

Tape the wings to the middle of a peg and clip the peg to a tree branch.

Beetle

Fold a pipe cleaner in half and stick to the top of the plastic bottle lid with tape for

antennae.

Fold another pipe cleaner in half and stick to base of the lid for legs.

Witchetty Grub or Earth Worm

Twist and bend a pipe cleaner to create a long, wriggly worm.

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