Hi-5

is a children’s show created and produced by Helena Harris and Posie Graeme-Evans. It aims to be a show that would cater to children’s different interests. The show makes it a point to touch on children’s different areas of intelligence and enhance skills and learning.

The 5 hosts of the show represent the different areas of learning.

Nathan focuses on shapes in space and makes use of different materials such as boxes, play dough, and other things that are easily accessible to children.

Kathleen is in charge of puzzles and patterns by solving mazes and puzzles, sorting items, and making patterns. In her segment, problem solving is made fun and easy.

Tim ’s role is to teach the children about making music. He introduces concepts such as beats, rhythm, pitch, and melody through the use of different muscial instruments both improvised and not.

Kellie’s focus is on word play, exploring languages and sounds. She makes use of stories and games to encourage the awareness in language.

Lastly, Charlie specializes in body movement. She encourages children to stretch, hop, skip, jump, balance, clap, throw, crawl and twist along as she teaches them different songs and dances.

At the end of each episode, all these 5 segments are integrated into the story sharing segment. This segment explores emothions and interpersonal interactions through light-hearted story and drama. This is then capped off by a musical integration where the kids are encouraged to sing and dance along with the music which reflects the theme of each program.

 

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*Source: http://hi5.ninemsn.com.au/