Mister Rogers takes a field trip to to the US Postal Service to see how people design and make stamps.There’s a heat wave in Make-Believe and the neighbors are trying to keep cool. Handyman Negri delivers the Annual Report to King Friday. There’s extra money in the budget and Lady Elaine wants to use it for brushes to paint the museum,but King Friday has other ideas – he’s planning to use it for the spectacular addition of a swimming pool.
Mister Rogers visits a dairy farm and learns how cows are milked and how the milk is bottled. In Make-Believe, the king gets the estimate for a swimming pool. It costs too much. Lady Aberlin suggests that the pool will be affordable if the neighbors dig the hole themselves.Ana Platypus wishes her dad could come and play.Mister Rogers helps children know that parents work because that’s one of the ways they care for their children and that everyone needs to make choices about how to spend their money.
Mister Rogers visits a grocery store.It’s a lesson in budgeting. He explains that parents must decide what items are best to buy, and we can’t always buy everything that we want. In Make-Believe, the the neighbors must make a big decision. Everyone was working to build a swimming pool, but a water pipe has broken and there’s not enough money to fix the pipe and build the pool. The children, Daniel, Prince Tuesday and Ana, suggest that the money be used to fix the pipes.
Mister Rogers visits a grocery store. It’s a lesson in budgeting. He explains that parents must decide what items are best to buy, and we can’t always buy everything that we want. In Make-Believe, the the neighbors must make a big decision. Everyone was working to build a swimming pool, but a water pipe has broken and there’s not enough money to fix the pipe and build the pool. The children, Daniel, Prince Tuesday and Ana, suggest that the money be used to fix the pipes.
Mister Rogers helps children know that there are many different kinds of work that people do. His work is making television programs for children and he steps away from his familiar seat to show a view of the studio where he works, introduce some of the people who help make Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, sing a song he has written and show some of the puppets he uses in Make Believe. And because play is part of the work that children do, he shows some of the ways children play and work.
Watch full-length Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood programs. The first Monday of every month will feature programs from the early years 1968-1975. The third Monday of every month will feature programs from the “Theme Weeks” library 1979-2001.
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