Theme Notes Series 276: Put On Your Hat (Monday) 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. Hats can also be used in dress-up and role play for young children to explore different occupations and cultural differences. The role of hats in sun protection and warmth is also featured. PRESENTERS Alex Papps – Abi Tucker PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY Hairy Maclary’s Hat Tricks © Lynley Dodd, 2008. Permission for the use of Hairy Maclary’s Hat Tricks granted courtesy of Penguin Group, New Zealand and Lynley Dodd. FILM Gardening Together (Play School, ABC) ANIMATION Hat (Play School, ABC) IDEAS FOR LATER - Use some fruit and vegetables to make prints on paper or material placemats for your table. - Make a crepe paper garden in a cardboard box. Use brown crepe paper for soil, then twist and scrunch different coloured crepe paper to make fruit and vegetables. What fruit and vegetables will you make? - Make some party hats for your next birthday. - Make some silly hats for your toys. SONGS Making a Hat Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage Publisher: Origin/Control My Hat it Has Three Corners Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Do You Put Your Hat On Composer: Val Donlon & Claire Henderson Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Rain Composer: Jay Laga’aia Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Composers: Ray Gilbert & Allie Rubel Publisher: J Albert & Sons Bend with the Wind Composers: Roberta McLaughlin & Lucille Wood Publisher: ABC Music Publishing Like a Leaf or Feather Composer: Mary Champion DeCrespingny Publisher: EMI I Can Run as Fast as You Composer: Peter Combe Publis

Theme Notes Series 276: Put On Your Hat (Tuesday) 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. Hats can also be used in dress-up and role play for young children to explore different occupations and cultural differences. The role of hats in sun protection and warmth is also featured. PRESENTERS Abi Tucker - Alex Papps PIANIST Peter Dasent TOLD STORY Patty’s Natty Hat (A story told by the Play School Team) FILM Fire Station (Play School, ABC) IDEAS FOR LATER - Visit a fire station. What colour are the fire fighter’s hats? Where do they keep their hats? - Make some chef’s hats from white crepe paper and cardboard. Invite your friends over for a cooking afternoon. - Find a box and put some hats in it. Choose a hat from the box and mime what activity a person wearing the hat would do. Another person has to guess what activity you are doing. SONGS Singing a Cowboy Song Composers: Margaret Dennison & Margaret Fletcher Publisher: EMI Allans Music Australia Pty Ltd I am the King Composer: Ronald Gamack Publisher: Control What Shall We Do? Composers: Peter Dasent & Mark Barnard Publisher: Origin/Control Hat on My Head Composers: Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Murray Cook & Greg Page Publisher: Wiggly Tunes P/L Walk a Little Composers: Satis Coleman & Alice Thorn Publisher: John Day Co Painting a Picture Composers: Peter Dasent & Garth Frost Publisher: Origin The Fire Truck Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing MAKE AND DO How to Make Pikelets You will need: - 1 cup self-raising flour - 2 tablespoons of caster sugar - 3⁄4 cup of milk - 1 eggs - Butter Mix dry ingredients in a

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

Theme Notes Series 276: Put On Your Hat (Thursday) 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 TOLD STORY Playing with Little Ted (A story told by the Play School team) FILM Frisbee (Play School, ABC) ANIMATION Dingle Dangle Scarecrow (Play School, ABC) IDEAS FOR LATER - Set up a silly hat shop. Make lots of silly hats to sell! You could make a sparkle-arkle hat from tin foil, a kitchen pot hat, a colander hat, a sock hat and a pom-pom hat. What silly hats can you think of to sell? - Make a clown hat and dress up as a silly clown. - Make a space shuttle from foil and a plastic bottle and astronauts from cardboard rolls. - A space station can be made from a large cardboard box. SONGS Rocket Song (Big Adventure) Composers: Peter Dasent & Arthur Baysting Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Hat on My Head Composers: Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Murray Cook & Greg Page Publisher: Wiggly Tunes P/L Can You See My Funny Face (I am a Clown) Composers: Ann North & Martin Wesley-Smith Flying Around the Stars (Sally Go Round the Moon) Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Dingle Dangle Scarecrow Composer: Molly & Geoffrey Russell-Smith Publisher: EMI I’m Not Afraid(I’m Not Afraid of the Kissing Monster) Composer: John Shortis Publisher: ABC Music Publishing MAKE AND DO How to Make Flying Saucers You will need: - Paper plates - Coloured paint Coloured crayons - Stapler or tape Cut the inner circle from the centre of two paper plates. Paint or decorate the paper plates with coloured paint or crayons. When the plates

Theme Notes Series 276: Put On Your Hat (Friday) 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 Teo Gebert – Luke Carroll PIANIST Peter Dasent STORY My Mum is Fantastic Written and illustrated by: Nick Butterworth Publisher: Walker Books Australia FILM Greek Name Day Celebration (Play School, ABC) IDEAS FOR LATER - Do some balloon blob painting. - Make some Greek kebabs. - Take some photos of your family and put them in a special book. - Have a balloon hat parade! Make some balloon hats for yourself, your friends and your toys and yourself. Parade around your yard wearing your wonderful hats and them off to your family, friends and neighbours. SONGS How Are You Feeling? Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage Publisher: Origin/Control Hip Hip Hooray (Yippy-yi-yay) Composers: Peter Dasent & Sophie Emtage Publisher: Origin/Control My Body Makes Music (Mi Cuerpo) Composer: Traditional Publisher: Origin/ABC Music Publishing Blow up a Balloon Composer: Lucille Wood Publisher: Bowmar MAKE AND DO How to Make a Pop Painting You will need: - Broom handle or long cardboard cylinder - Two chairs - Dust sheets or newspaper to cover the floor and chairs Apron or large paint shirt - Balloons - String - Powder paint - Glitter - Confetti - Large sheets of butchers paper - Glue paste Cover your work area with newspaper or a dust sheet. Set two chairs on the covered work area, about a metre apart. Cover with newspaper or dust sheets. Rest a broom handle or long cardboard cylinder across the two chairs. Put on an apron or a large paint shirt. Put some powder paint in a balloon. Bl