Food This series is about the many foods that children enjoy eating. Over the week, we prepare and cook a range of dishes using both everyday and not-so-common ingredients. We also look at presentation and decoration, such as making a table cloth, table napkins and other craft ideas. We visit a farm to see where milk, eggs, vegetables and fruit are grown and find out about the foods that different animals like to eat. EVERY DAY THIS WEEK The Calendar is a kitchen chopping board with the name of the day written in oil and covered with flour. When the board is shaken, the day is revealed. Monday Hot Potato Composer: M Cook, J Fatt & G Page Publisher: EMI Would You like to be a Tree Composer: Campbell/Casey The Wombat Wobble Composer: Val Donlon Music c/- Mushroom Music Karen Pang Teo Gebert TOLD "Slush Stuck in the Mud" (A Play School Told Story) Children Washing" Glorious Mud Composer: M Flanders & D Swan Publisher: Chappell & Co Here is My Knife (Chant) Wash Your Dirty Face For a party table cloth, spread a length of paper over the table, ready for the guests to decorate with crayons, in any way they like. When it is finished, set the table ready to eat. Mashed potato makes a delicious topping for a pie. In a deep dish, place any filling you like, and top with potatoes and grated cheese. Bake till crispy and ready to eat. Page 1 of 5
Tuesday Heads and Shoulders Beetles in the Basin Publisher: Unknown Wriggle Like a Caterpillar Composer: June Buckingham Jay Laga'aia - Justine Clarke Here s a Bunch of Bananas "Mrs Honey s Hat" Text & illustrations: Pam Adams Publisher: Child's Play International Banana Picking and Packing (ABC) Beetles: See how many different kinds of beetles you can see in the garden or at the park. At the Beach: When you are at the beach look at the small creatures in the rock pools. Fruit Smoothies: There are all kinds of smoothies to make with fruit. Try using watermelon, strawberry or rockmelon. Page 2 of 5
Wednesday The Little Red Wagon Row Row Row Your Boat Karen Pang - Teo Gebert TOLD "The Gingerbread Man" (A Play School Told Story) "Horses Doing Exercises" Little Peter Rabbit (Robert Malherbe for Play School, ABC) The Gingerbread Man Jump Jump Jump Composer: Lionel Morton Publisher: David Platz Music Little Peter Rabbit Little Grey Pony Composer: L Pendelton-Macarteney Publisher: Allans Make a Train: Use some old milk cartons to make a train with carriages. The cartons could be painted or covered with paper. You can draw in windows with people looking out. The train carriages could be joined using pipe cleaners, and a track made of corrugated cardboard. The railway station could be a large box from the supermarket. Fun for a rainy day, especially if older brothers or sisters help set it up. Make a Gingerbread Man: You could make some gingerbread men using a simple biscuit recipe and a cookie cutter. Add eyes, nose and a mouth with icing. You could decorate the gingerbread men with buttons, stripy jackets or as you like. Page 3 of 5
Thursday Spotty Song Composer: June Tillman Publisher: McMillan Educational Ltd. My Hat It Has Three Corners Leah Vandenberg - Rhys Muldoon Max Lambert "Handa s Hen" Text & Illustrations: Eileen Brown Publisher: Walker Books "Sunday Brunch" Jump and Jiggle Singin in the Kitchen Composer: Shel Silverstein Publisher: Evil Eye Music Inc, Essex Walking in the City Composer: A North & M Wesley-Smith /Copyright Control Five Little Chickadees Composer: Robyn White & Edward Mackay Who is Hiding Inside the Egg? I m a Little Teapot Composer: Kelley Clarence & G H Sanders Publisher: Kellman Music Publishing The Library: Visit the library and look for some counting books. Egg Laying Animals: What other animals lay eggs? See if you can find out about others, and then look for pictures in books or magazines. A visit to the city: Next time you visit a city, have a good look at all the tall buildings, and the traffic lights showing green, amber then red lights. Page 4 of 5
Friday Pat a Cake Little Miss Muffett Sofya Gollan - Jay Laga'aia - Andrew McFarlane Max Lambert "The Kind, the Mice and the Cheese" Text & Illustrations: Nancy & Eric Gurney Publisher: Collins "Farm Segment 1 & 2" Dingle Dangle Scarecrow (David Johnson for Play School, ABC) Farm animals: Next time you visit a farm or the show, have a look at the baby animals there, and then visit the cows, dogs and other larger animals. Have you ever seen a turkey? Look for a picture of one in a book. Pitta Pocket salad: There are many different kinds of salads to eat. For a change, you could put a salad in a pitta pocket. Or you could try a salad made with chopped up celery, sultanas, apple, cheese, capsicum, grated carrot, parsley etc... Little Jack Horner Little Boy Blue If I Was a Farmer Composer: L B Scott/Traditional Cows in the Kitchen (Skip to My Lou) Dingle Dangle Scarecrow Composer: M & G Russel-Smith Publisher: EMI Three Little Mice Came to Tea Page 5 of 5