Shapes (Monday)

Series 267: Shapes Monday Different shapes are all around us and are a constant source of wonder to young children. This week in Play School we explore shapes through play. Learning about basic shapes helps children recognise numbers and letters and sets the building blocks for learning to read and write later on. Monday PRESENTERS Jolene Anderson – Teo Gebert PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY Miffy the Artist Author & Illustrator: Dick Bruna Publisher: Tate Publishing FILM Dot Painting (Play School, ABC) SONGS Hickory Dickory Dock Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing I’m a Train Composers: M. Hazlewood & A. Hammond Publisher: Chrysalis Build It Up Composer: Peter Charlton Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Let’s Go Walking Composers: Satis Coleman & Alice Thorne Publisher: The Willis Music Co. (c/o Campbell Connelly) Heads and Shoulders Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Great Big World Composers: Peter Dasent & Arthur Baysting Publisher: Origin/Control Hokey Pokey (Ocean Motion) Composer: Jimmy Kennedy Publisher: Campbell Connelly & Co. IDEAS FOR LATER Create a city street using different shaped blocks. Build tall skyscrapers, large square buildings, a circular building and whatever else you can think of. Stack different shapes to make different shaped buildings, such as a rectangle building with a triangle roof. Use play dough to create lots of different shapes. Making Things (It’s Fun to Make Things) Composers: S. Aplin & P. Barton Publisher: ABC Music Publishing MAKE AND DO How to Make Shape Pictures You will need: - Plain A3 paper or cardboard - Coloured paper Safety scissors Paste - Marker Cut lots of different shapes from coloured paper. Paste the shapes onto a plain piece of A3 paper or cardboard to create a shape picture. You might like to arrange some shapes on the paper to create an object, animal or person. We m