Painting by Numbers Me Too!

# Come on and get on down to the city

# Where the trains all clatter through

# Hey! Look at that driver driving

-# I want to ride that train of blue

-Me too

# I'm looking way up high to the windows

# Take a peek for an inside view

# All these people busy working

# I want to see what they all do

# Come on, let's weave around the market

# Do you hear the hullabaloo?

# Everybody's busy selling

-# I wanna buy me something new

-Me too

# Look through the arches under the station

# Down where the pigeons perch and coo

# Take a taxi ride to the river

# I wanna drive down the avenue

# Hey, look at those buses gleaming

# They look so clean and spanking new

# All lined up to drive around the city

-# Let me ting that bell

-Ding, ding!

# Going to ride on round to the school stop

# Where the children hurry through

# Sit down, the teacher's teaching

-# I'd love to learn a thing or two

-Me too

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal, by the sea. #

Seven o'clock.

# Come on and get on down to the city

-# Where the ferryboat sails are blue

-Sails are blue

# Time to call on Granny Murray

# She'd love to say hello to you. #

Hello, honeypie!

Come away in and see who's at home today.

# Granny Murray's house has two at home to play

# Granny Murray's house is home to... #

Who's here today?

Well, we've got Rachel and we've got Sean.

Don't just sit there! Come on, let's get busy!

What's on Granny Murray's shelves today?

Oh, newspapers!

We'll make a big mess. Do you like making a mess?

-Yes!

-Yes!

-Me too!

Oh, that's the way!

Into strips...lots of strips.

We've got Rachel and we've got Sean,

but someone's missing today.

Oh, not any more!

Who's coming home to Granny Murray? Who's that?

It's Rebecca with Mickey John!

Hello there!

Hello, Mickey John!

Hello, sweetcheeks, come on through.

Oh, well done!

-Wow, what a mess!

-It is.

It's a fun mess.

-Looks like a bird left its feathers all over the place!

-Feathers!

Now we'll do something new.

Why don't you dress Claude up as a cockatoo?

Good idea!

We can "perch" ourselves over by the chairs.

Bukaw! Bukaw!

What will you do with the paper?

We'll make something out of papier-mache.

What is it gonna be exactly?

Oh, I don't know!

We're going to make a wonderful mess!

Out of the mess will come...

Well, who knows? After all,

some great inventions were discovered by accident.

I won't be making a mess today.

I'm doing something with precision.

What precisely are you going to do?

I'll show my class how to make a beautiful painting...

-with this!

-Oh, that looks interesting!

What is it?

It's a cockatoo.

A cockatoo too! Just like Claude!

-That's right.

-It's black and white with numbers all over it.

I'll show the class how to paint with numbers.

Each of these numbers is a colour.

Number one is yellow, number two is red.

I better go to school. There's lots to get ready!

Look at poor Claude!

Wow!

You look brilliantly feathered!

Well done, you guys!

Here, Daddy.

My very own feather!

-Thank you, sweetheart. See you later.

-Bye!

Come on, Mickey John.

Some of the greatest inventions were discovered by accident.

Thanks, see you later!

-Bye-bye, my darling, I'll be thinking of you.

-Me too!

Now, you keep a wee eye on Mickey John.

Make sure he goes the right way to work!

# I'm on my way to work today

# Walking my shoes through the city views

# Stepping along and swinging my arms

# Singing my way through the city's charms

# Getting there is just so fine

# I so enjoy my walking time

# I always go the way I know

# can you show me the way I go?

# OK, which way?

# Do I go left now? Do I go right?

# Which way is wrong now? Which way is right?

-# Right! #

-OK, right, to the school.

# I'm on my way to work today

# Looking this way and that a-way

# Hello, alley!

# Hello, doors!

# Hello, steeple!

# Hello, walls!

# Hello, people!

# He's on his way to work today

# Looking this way and that a-way, hey!

# Do I go up now? Do I go down?

# Which way's a smile now? Which way's a frown?

-# Up! #

-OK, that way, up.

# You told me the way to go

# Thank you! You showed me the way I know! #

Here I am!

Now what?

Thanks. I need to put my tie on.

All dressed and ready to go.

-Hello there!

-Dr Juno, what are you doing here?

I've come to see the headmaster. We go to the same art class.

Art, eh?

We've sort of become buddies.

I wanted to show him my paintings.

I'd love to see your paintings.

-Oh, would you?

-Yes! I'm a bit of an artist too, you know.

This is one of the sunset over the Fingal.

Very good! Interesting colours.

I wanted to capture the way the setting sun changes the colours.

-And in this one...

-Very impressive!

-Thank you.

-My artwork's not of your sort.

-Oh?

I'm more of the school of a tree looking like, well, a tree!

For example, here's my picture of a cockatoo with numbers.

The children use the numbers to get their colours right.

-So their pictures will look like yours?

-Exactly!

I hope to inspire the children with their art.

-That will be nice.

-Yes.

Van Gogh, Picasso, Mickey John...

Oh...well, right. I better go and show Edgar my paintings.

I didn't know Mr Grant's name was Edgar!

-You learn something new every day!

-I hope so. Bye, Dr Juno!

Bye! Enjoy the painting.

I wonder how my little cockatoo's getting on.

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal Riverseafingal by the sea

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal Riverseafingal, that's for me. #

That's it, my darlings, layer it on!

Who knows what we're making?

We're just letting our creative juices flow!

Pop that in and get nice and gooey!

There's some paper, Granny Murray.

Wonder if your dad's being as creative as we are!

BELL RINGS 'I love you, Daddy.'

Right, class, we'll start with some quick counting.

When I point you out, call out the next number.

up to ten and back down again.

-One.

-Two.

-Three.

-Four.

-Five.

-Six.

-Seven.

-Eight.

-Nine.

-Ten!

-Nine.

-Eight.

-Seven.

-Six.

-Five.

-Four.

-Three.

-Two.

-One!

That was good. Well done, everyone!

Your counting's up to scratch.

Time to get down to some hard work.

# I whoop with joy when I go to school in the morning

# Teaching with my chums and seeing the children learning

# School day, work away

# Learning, learning, learning when I'm teaching

# Teaching, learning Teaching, learning, teaching

# School day, work away

# Teaching to count and teaching to read

# Learning about birds and plants and seeds

# Playing games and sports outdoors

# Blowing my whistle and keeping the score

# School day, work away

# I'm learning, learning, learning when I'm teaching

# We're learning, learning, learning when he's teaching

# School day, work away

# The secretary's filing as she does her organising

# The jannie fixes, the cookie mixes and the cleaner keeps a shine

# I whoop with joy when I go to school in the morning

# Holding the line in the dinner queue

# While the cookie cooks and serves a stew

# Answering the questions Where and why

# How does it work and how does it fly?

# School day, work away

# I'm learning, learning, learning when I'm teaching

# He's learning, learning, learning when he's teaching

# School day, work away

# Oh, the children peep or eye me as they sit and try their writing

# I take a look and mark their books The good one's get a smiley

# Oh, I whoop with joy when I go to school in the morning! #

-BELL RINGS

-Right, everyone, there's the bell.

After lunch, we have art class

and I'll teach you how to create your own piece of art.

See you after lunch.

Right, I'm gonna sort these paints out.

Right. Number one - yellow.

-Hiya!

-Hi, Tina, what are you up to?

I've brought some children back to school in my taxi.

They've been to the dentist

so I thought I'd pop in and see you on your lunch break.

Tina, this is your lucky day.

-Behold - art in the making!

-Really?

I'm painting a cockatoo.

Oh, fantastic!

Two - red.

There.

I've marked the numbers on the pictures

and I've marked them on the paint pots.

-SHE YAWNS

-That's really fascinating,

but I ought to be back at work by now.

But I haven't finished the painting yet!

But it was wonderful to watch an artist at work.

Bye!

Oh well! Now, what number next?

Ah, I wonder how my little bird is getting on.

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal Riverseafingal, that's for me. #

-Look, my darlings, can you see the birds?

-Yes!

Look at that wee one over there.

-What colours can you see?

-Red.

Yellow feathers too, do you see?

-Blue.

-Oh, blue!

They're called cockatoos.

-I bet your dad would leave to hear about these birds, Rebecca.

-Yeah!

'What are you doing now, Daddy?'

Number six, that's blue.

Oh no! Look, what a mess!

Look at my beautiful, perfect cockatoo!

If the children can't see how I painted it by numbers,

how will they know what to do?

I've been working hard to paint a perfect picture

and now it's a mess!

What happened? Where did the time go?

At seven o'clock, I dropped Rebecca off at Granny Murray's house.

The children were having great fun making a mess.

They dressed Claude as a cockatoo. He looked brilliant!

I showed Granny Murray my drawing of a cockatoo

and explained how I was going to show the children

how to paint by numbers.

At eight o'clock, Dr Juno popped in to see the headmaster.

She showed me her paintings, which were different from my cockatoo.

Nine o'clock, the children practised their counting.

At 12 o'clock, I told the children I'd give them an art lesson later

and I decided to get some painting done.

Tina popped in and I explained how I was creating

painting by numbers work of art!

One o'clock, I realised I would have to hurry

to get my painting finished,

but I spilled some paint and my painting is ruined.

How can I teach the children about painting when it's such a mess?

Some of the greatest inventions were discovered by accident.

Some of the greatest inventions were discovered by accident.

Of course! I spilled blue and yellow paint

and I created green paint!

The children will be more fascinated in that

than in my cockatoo paint by numbers!

I'm going to see how many other colours I can make by mixing paint

and it's a race against time!

# I've got to do it I've got to do it

# I've got to beat the clock before the chime

# I've got to sort it I've got to sort it

# I've got to do the job on time

# Like a busy bee I'm going to beat that bong

# I'm going to finish this job before I finish this song

# Do you think he's going to do it

# Do the job that needs to be done?

# Will he know how to fix it?

# Will he finish what he has begun?

# Just as sure as we are friends He will get there in the end

# Because he knows what he should do and work it through

-# I'm going to do it

-He's going to do it

# I'm going to beat the clock before the chime

-# I'm going to sort it

-He's going to sort it

# I'm going to do the job on time

# Like a busy bee I'm gonna beat that bong

# I'm gonna finish this job before I finish this song. #

Look at these! Absolutely fantastic!

This is gonna be a very colourful cockatoo.

Oh yes! This is gonna be a work of art!

There. Now, that's what I call a REAL bird of paradise!

The children have done a great job.

Ah! I wonder what my little Rebecca would make of this.

-This is my favourite thing, Granny Murray.

-Is it, my darling?

Well, look what we've done.

Out of all that wonderful mess,

we've made some beautiful cockatoo hats!

Pretty Polly!

-Is that funny?

-Yes!

-I think your dad would be proud to see what we've done, Rebecca.

-Yes.

He'll be here for you soon.

BELL RINGS

Mickey John, come away through!

-Look who's here!

-Hello, beautiful girl!

How are you? Have you had a lovely time?

-You bet!

-Say thank you to Granny Murray.

Come here, my darling. Oh, good girl!

Your saying "some of the greatest inventions

"were discovered by accident" saved the day!

Well, I never did!

Come on now, you'd better be off.

-Looking forward to next time.

-Me too!

Come on, Rebecca. Let's chat about our time away.

I suppose you'll want me to tell you all about my time too.

# Well, there was waving, greeting Hello, meeting

# Bye-bye, closing Wigging, dozing

# Eating, sleeping Fetching, sketching

# Painting, stretching Gluing, chewing

# Sticking up and wiping round

# Dressing up and sitting down! #

But what was really special about today?

Well, Claude was dressed as a cockatoo

because we had been ripping up lots of paper

and Mickey John thought it looked like feathers.

Mickey John showed me a drawing he had done of a cockatoo too.

It was black and white and covered in numbers.

Mickey John told me each number matched a colour

and he was going to teach the children how to paint by numbers.

Later on, the children and I had great fun

making messy papier-mache with all the newspaper we had ripped up.

We stuck it on some balloons.

Then we went to the park to meet the cockatoos

and had great fun pretending that WE were cockatoos!

When Mickey John collected Rebecca,

he told me that he had remembered what I told him -

some of the greatest inventions were discovered by accident.

He said it had saved the day.

Pretty Polly! Pretty Polly!

I hope you enjoyed yourself.

Me Too!

Bye-bye, honeypie!

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal Riverseafingal by the sea

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal Riverseafingal, that's for me

# Come on and get on down to the city

# Where the ferryboat's sails are blue

# Time to call on Granny Murray

# She'd love to say goodbye to you. #