EXPLORE GALORE / INSECT COUNT / GET GROWING – 3 PROGRAMS ON 1 DVD!

EXPLORE GALORE (11 min.) Watch as adorable puppet, Tia, explores the world of science. You never know what she might discover! Includes 6x 1.5 to 2 minute segments: Snowflakes; Snowy Footprints; Slush and Ice; Melting Snow; Hibernating Animals; Favourite Seasons. INSECT COUNT (6 min.) Count along with Gisele as she counts the insects in her big back yard. Includes 8x approx. 1 minute segments: 2-2 Ladybugs; 4-2 Butterflies; 4-3 Frogs; 5 Bees; 6-2 Dragonflies; 7 Birds; 8-2-2 Spiders; 9 Caterpillars. (Animated) GET GROWING (11 min.) Gisele and her friends have a community garden; a place to grow healthy, fresh foods! A place to learn how fruits and vegetables grow! A place to learn what happens above and below the soil! A place for friends to get together! Includes 11x approx. 1 minute segments: Worms; Ladybug; Bee; Worms in the Soil; Transplant; Tomatoes; Plant Roots; Garden Tools; Let There Be Light; Good Gourd; Winter's Coming.

28 min. • Gr. K-2 • 2012 • TVOntario • 530968 • DVD: $49.95 • Streaming Rights Also Available

LETTERELLA, VOL. 4 / SIR READALOT SIGNS / WANDA WONDERWORDS – 3 ON 1 DVD! LETTERELLA, VOL. 4 (13 min.) Letterella demonstrates how adding "ing" to a word can change its meaning. Includes: bark/barking; clap/clapping; dance/dancing; drink/drinking; eat/eating; empty/emptying; fish/fishing; grow/growing; jump/jumping; lick/licking; look/looking; mail/mailing; ring/ringing; scratch/scratching; shine/shining; sing/singing; stack/stacking; stay/staying; talk/talking; work/working. SIR READALOT SIGNS (15 min.) Sir Readalot and his trusty horse, Bookmark, travel the world in search of things to read because he likes to read a lot. In "Sir Readalot Signs" he encounters common environmental print signs, involving both words and images. He must decipher them to move through his adventures. Includes 9x approx. 1 to 1.5 minute segments: Bumpy Road; Do Not Touch; Help Wanted; Open and Closed; Push 'n Pull Door; Slippery When Wet; Speed Limit; Spicy Food Label; Wet Paint. (Puppet/Live Action) WANDA WONDERWORDS (13 min.) When Gisele wonders the meaning of a word, she types www dot into portuputer and finds Wanda Wonder Words. Wanda rocks the word by singing its meaning! Includes 6x approx. 2.5 to 3 minute segments: Astonished; Display; Fragile; Gigantic; Nutritious; Vertical.

41 min. • Gr. K-2 • 2012 • TVOntario • 9060D • DVD: $49.95 • Streaming Rights Also Available

ANIMAL ACTIONS & SUPER PALS – 2 PROGRAMS ON 1 DVD!

ANIMAL ACTIONS (12 min.) It's animal action time and Gisele is ready to dance! Sing along to original songs and catchy tunes and dance along with her too as she moves and shakes like the animals. Includes 8x approx. 1 minute segments: Dance like: a pig; a cow; a chicken; a seal; a wolf; a horse; a snake; an elephant. SUPER PALS (15 min.) Furry fun puppets, Super J and Marvellous M, are superheroes. This Dynamic Duo performs good deeds, saves lives and makes a difference in their community. They

seem to be able to solve any problem that is thrown at them except the challenge of dealing with each other. The Super Pals show how to deal with sibling rivalry and learn to be considerate of others, especially those closest to you. Includes 6x 1.45 to 4 min. segments: Don't Touch My Stuff; Give and Get; Super Powers; It's My Idea; Keep It to Yourself; The Public Likes You More. 27 min. • Gr. K-2 • 2012 • TVOntario • 531146 • DVD: $49.95 • Streaming Rights Also Available

THIS AND THAT SHOP – VOLUME 1 & 2 Join puppet characters "This" and "That" as they put letters together to create new sounds. Each episode will help kids get an early start on reading and learn new letters, words, and sounds. THIS AND THAT SHOP: VOLUME 1 (531141) Includes 23x approx. 1 to 3 minute segments: A Box for Teddy; Magical Flower; Puppy's Water Bowls; Tiny T-Shirt; Tower Toast; Button Hole; Cheeky Music; Donate Me!; Donation Box Jay; Good Shape; In & Out; Jay Gives!; Leaky Roof Music; Patience Please; Phone Manners; Saving Energy; Snap It Web Game; Story sequencing; Tea Cup Music; Word Find/am; Word Find/ate; Word Find/bat; Word Find/in. THIS AND THAT SHOP: VOLUME 2 (531165) Includes 20x approx. 1-4 minute segments: 100 Pennies; 2 Nickel Challenge; 5 Cent Challenge; A Lotta Big Numbers; Carney Cat - 10 Penny Challenge; Carney Cat - 4 Quarter Challenge; Carney Cat - 5 Penny Challenge; Carney Cat - Dime; Carney Cat - Dimes & Nickel Challenge; Carney Cat - Loonie; Carney Cat - Nickel; Carney Cat - Quarter; Carney Cat - Toonie; Half Off!; Melvin Saves; Saved Money Tia; Football; Golf; Baseball; Soccer 6. Each: 48-52 min. • Gr. K-2 • 2013 • TVOntario • DVD: $49.95 • Streaming Rights Also Available

TUMBLETOWN TALES – VOLUME 9 & 10 This charming series presents math in a meaningful way, as children watch the endearing hamster star Tumbleweed trying to achieve tasks in his miniature world. Amusing storylines and dialogue, inventive sets, and humorous characters engage young children in learning about math. As Tumbleweed ponders each quandary to find the right solution, children also gain valuable lessons about problem solving and persistence. Young audiences see that mistakes are natural and "human."

TUMBLETOWN TALES: VOLUME 9 (887941) Includes 7 segments: Counting Money; Needs and Wants; Researching a Purchase; Saving; Saving vs. Borrowing; Tracking Expenses; Approximating at the Electronics Store. TUMBLETOWN TALES: VOLUME 10 (887951) Includes 8 segments: Borrowing From Friends; Buying Designer; Giving To Charity; Hamster For Hire; How To Count Change; Sharing With My Friends; Where To Keep Money, Literally; Why People Go To Work. Each: 26-28 min. • Gr. 1-6 • 2011/12 • TVOntario • DVD: $49.95 • Streaming Rights Also Available

FOLLOW THE FARM

When puppet, city girl, Tia visits a farm for the summer, she reports back to Gisele via a video diary to tell her all that she's discovered about farm life! Includes 9 x approx 4 minute segments: It's Farm Time; Tia's in a Jam; Milk Comes From What?; Honey Bee Mine; Everything Needs Water; Starry Skies; Hay There, It's Harvest Time; Animal Farm; Welcome Home Party. 32 min. • Gr. K-2 • 2011 • TVOntario • 530831 • DVD: $49.95 Streaming Rights Also Available

CRITTER CORNER

Engaging young hosts talk to zoo specialists who introduce us to their animals and tell us all about their habitat, how they live, what they eat, and lots of interesting facts we should know! Includes 17x approx. 1.5 to 2 minute segments: Baboon; Camel; Falcon; Indian Rhino; Lemur; Lemurs; Limba the Elephant; Lion Cubs; Miniature Horse; Mountain Goat and Sheep; Pygmy Goat; Robbie the Tiger; Serval; Sharks and Stingrays; Skunk; South African Penguins; Zebra. 27 min. • Gr. 1-6 • 2011 • TVOntario • 221851 • DVD: $49.95 Streaming Rights Also Available

READING RANGERS – VOLUME 8

Join the Reading Rangers as they tackle reading! They ride straight into the issues of phonics, grammar, rhyming and action words. Find out what reading is all about with the Rangers! Includes 10x approx. 3.5 minute segments: Adjectives; Book genres; The library; Punctuation; Read around it!; Literacy; Words spelled differently than they sound; Verbs; Pronouns; Nouns. 30 min. • Gr. 1-6 • 2012 • TVOntario • 823187 • DVD: $49.95 Streaming Rights Also Available

MELVIN’S MARVELLOUS WORDS

"Melvin's Marvellous Words" helps early learners practice their Dolch words. Dolch words are sight words which are seen frequently in print and are often difficult to sound out phonetically. Practicing high frequency words at an early age will give children an early start in learning how to read. "Melvin's Marvellous Words" employs a "layered learning" pedagogical approach, which succeeds in teaching children the important early literacy skill of learning sight words using a step-by-step progression. Includes 50 segments providing example for the words: here, I, make, me, my, not, we, where, yellow, you. 68 min. • Gr. K-1 • 2012 • TVOntario • 530747 • DVD: $49.95 Streaming Rights Also Available