Caregivers Guide - Episode Descriptions

#102 We Want Toys

Wimzie is obsessed with a particular toy - a Binga Boinga - that she's seen on TV. She feels that getting gifts means that she is loved. When she sees Rousso is willing to give up something very special in order not to disappoint her, she learns that parents display their love in many different ways and that gift giving is only one way.

Theme: Meaning and Value

Children will learn that love can be expressed in many different ways.
Children will learn that doing something for someone you love is more important than giving material things.
Children will learn that they have the right to ask for what they want but they may not always get it.

Vocabulary:

calendar
fretting

Suggested Activities:

Before you view: Rousso and Wimzie are planning a very special trip.
Watch to see what kind of trip it is.

While you view: See suggestions in "How to use this guide".

After you view: Go back to your pre-viewing activity and have the children respond to the question.
(Answer: Fishing trip.) Talk about what you've seen and take some time to discuss it.

Extended Learning Activities

Option 1: Inventing a Toy (Art, Team Work and Imagination Activity)
Materials required: Butcher paper, crayons /paints /markers

Tell the children that you are going to create a new toy together, and the toy is going to be a doll. Here are some suggested questions to get you started. Will the doll be: an animal or a human being; will it be a boy or a girl; will it move or be still; if it moves, how will it move; will it be silent or make sounds; will it be one color or many colors. Write down what the children say on butcher paper. When the children are through with their list, read it back to them and help them decide on a name for the doll. (Optional) You can draw a picture of this creation or have the children draw their own version of the toy.

Option 2: There are Many Ways to Express Love (Discussion Activity)
Materials required: None

Giving gifts to family and friends can be a way to express caring and love. Ask the children if they can think of other things which they give or receive which can also show caring and love. For example: helping clean out the garage, hugging their little sister, reading a bedtime story with grandpa, helping mom set the table, talking to a friend after she has had a scary dream.

Theme Related Books:

Gone Fishing, Earlene Long, Houghton Mifflin (cloth) Sandpiper (paper), 1983.
Sam and the Lucky Money, Karen Chinn, Lee and Low Books, 1995.
The Table Where Rich People Sit, Byrd Baylor, Atheneum, 1994.
The Purple Coat, Amy Hest, Four Winds, 1986.

Notes

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