Places and Spaces - Under the Sea Play School : Season 23 Episode 11

Aka 4.1 Benita makes an 'Antarctic' landscape with a bowl of blue water filled with ice cubes, icebergs made from white tissue paper, a white cardboard box for land, cellophane glaciers and peg penguins. John sings 'P-P-penguins'. The calendar wheel turns to reveal sea creatures: crab, octopus, jellyfish, shark, fish, lobster and starfish. Through the round window a diver, at Sea World in Surfers Paradise, looks after fish in an aquarium. Benita sings 'Swim Big Fish'. John reads the poem 'Roger was a Razor Fish' by Al Pittman. Bit and Bot the fish are kept in a bag while the tank is cleaned. John adds a weed to the tank and then the fish are released back in. The presenters sing 'I am the Man in the Wellington Boots'. It is eleven o'clock on the rocket clock with three kittens in a basket behind it. Benita reads 'Aunt Nina's Visit' by Franz Brandenberg. Benita and John make a puppet theatre from a fruit box with cake frill added for decoration. Finger puppet cats are used to perform 'Three Little Kittens' and 'Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat'.