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Play School: Bits and Pieces

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Bits and Pieces

Episode 4 | ABC COMEDY/ABC KIDS | March 14, 2018

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This program encourages children to wonder and learn through the medium of play. Music, art and the imagination are all key ingredients as hosts take us on an intimate and fun journey revolving around a week.

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This program encourages children to wonder and learn through the medium of play. Music, art and the imagination are all key ingredients as hosts take us on an intimate and fun journey revolving around a week.

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This program encourages children to wonder and learn through the medium of play. Music, art and the imagination are all key ingredients as hosts take us on an intimate and fun journey revolving around a week.

Play School: Bits and Pieces

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This program encourages children to wonder and learn through the medium of play. Music, art and the imagination are all key ingredients as hosts take us on an intimate and fun journey revolving around a week.

This program encourages children to wonder and learn through the medium of play. Music, art and the imagination are all key ingredients as hosts take us on an intimate and fun journey revolving around a week.

Play School: Bits and Pieces

Years F, 1-2 English, Visual arts, Music, Dance

This program encourages children to wonder and learn through the medium of play. Music, art and the imagination are all key ingredients as hosts take us on an intimate and fun journey revolving around a week.

This program encourages children to wonder and learn through the medium of play. Music, art and the imagination are all key ingredients as hosts take us on an intimate and fun journey revolving around a week.

Play School: Bits and Pieces

Years F, 1-2 English, Visual arts, Music, Dance

This program encourages children to wonder and learn through the medium of play. Music, art and the imagination are all key ingredients as hosts take us on an intimate and fun journey revolving around a week.

This program encourages children to wonder and learn through the medium of play. Music, art and the imagination are all key ingredients as hosts take us on an intimate and fun journey revolving around a week.

Play School: Bits and Pieces

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This program encourages children to wonder and learn through the medium of play. Music, art and the imagination are all key ingredients as hosts take us on an intimate and fun journey revolving around a week.

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Join Leah and Matt as they make egg-carton chickens, cook hard-boiled eggs and toast, and have fun dressing up as queen bees. Through the windows, we learn how honey is collected from buzzing bees.

Emma and Alex set up a fish and paella market, craft some colourful music shakers and cook some dahl and chapatis in the kitchen. Through the windows, we visit a farm and see where our eggs come from.

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Emma and Alex set up a fish and paella market, craft some colourful music shakers and cook some dahl and chapatis in the kitchen. Through the windows, we visit a farm and see where our eggs come from.

Join Michelle and Alex as they set up a market stall with vegies and cooking tools, cook yummy vegetable dumplings and create a night noodle market. Through the windows, we visit a vegetable garden and pick fresh vegies.

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Join Michelle and Alex as they set up a market stall with vegies and cooking tools, cook yummy vegetable dumplings and create a night noodle market. Through the windows, we visit a vegetable garden and pick fresh vegies.

Miranda and Teo set have fun creating a bottle person dairy farm, make labneh and toasted pitta bread and paint a garden splatter artwork. Through the windows, we visit a dairy farm and milk some cows.

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Miranda and Teo set have fun creating a bottle person dairy farm, make labneh and toasted pitta bread and paint a garden splatter artwork. Through the windows, we visit a dairy farm and milk some cows.

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Join the team to learn a little, while singing songs, listening to stories, making things and going on adventures with Big Ted, Jemima and the other toys on this all-time favourite children's show.

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Join the team to learn a little, while singing songs, listening to stories, making things and going on adventures with Big Ted, Jemima and the other toys on this all-time favourite children's show.

Join the team to learn a little, while singing songs, listening to stories, making things and going on adventures with Big Ted, Jemima and the other toys on this all-time favourite children's show.

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Join the team to learn a little, while singing songs, listening to stories, making things and going on adventures with Big Ted, Jemima and the other toys on this all-time favourite children's show.

Join the team to learn a little, while singing songs, listening to stories, making things and going on adventures with Big Ted, Jemima and the other toys on this all-time favourite children's show.

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Join the team to learn a little, while singing songs, listening to stories, making things and going on adventures with Big Ted, Jemima and the other toys on this all-time favourite children's show.

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Play School: Create, Code, Go!

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Play School: Create, Code, Go!

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Entering its 50th year, Play School encourages children to wonder and learn through the medium of play. Music, art and the imagination are all key ingredients as two hosts take us on an intimate and fun journey revolving around a week.

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Play School: Create, Code, Go!

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Entering its 50th year, Play School encourages children to wonder and learn through the medium of play. Music, art and the imagination are all key ingredients as two hosts take us on an intimate and fun journey revolving around a week.

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We have codes all around us, including musical codes or signs for movement. This series of Play School explores some of these codes and shows that it can be great for our thinking to make mistakes and fix them up. We also enjoy some playful experiments and explore coding through dress ups and pretend play.

Today, join presenters Matthew and Zindzi to visit an equine vet, make some crazy cakes by programming a 'robot' and share the story Where is the Green Sheep by Mem Fox.

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Step into the world of STEM, exploring ideas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. We meet people who work with STEM ideas including a vet, a marine biologist, an engineer, and we meet some children who have learned to program robots to dance! We have codes all around us, including musical codes or signs for movement. This series of Play School explores some of these codes and shows that it can be great for our thinking to make mistakes and fix them up. We also enjoy some playful experiments and explore coding through dress ups and pretend play. Today, join presenters Matthew and Zindzi to visit an equine vet, make some crazy cakes by programming a 'robot' and share the story Where is the Green Sheep by Mem Fox.

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Join Jay and Jolene as they create cat and owl masks, make the play dough person calendar, play hopscotch and look through the windows to see some colourful fish at an aquarium.

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Join Jay and Jolene as they create cat and owl masks, make the play dough person calendar, play hopscotch and look through the windows to see some colourful fish at an aquarium.

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