Getting Ready for School (video)

Release Date	1987
Produced by	Random House Home Video
Catalogue no.	88936
Format	VHS

Getting Ready for School is a 1987 Sesame Street direct-to-video special in the "My Sesame Street Home Video" series.

Releases

Picture	Segment	Description
	FRAME 1	Big Bird, self-proclaimed school expert, is going to give the viewer the scoop on school (from what he's learned from his three days in school). Before he starts, he confesses that he was afraid of going to school and not knowing anything. He recalls seeing the alphabet inside, then recalls a time when he mistook the alphabet for something else...
File:BigBirdABC-DEF-GHI1980's.jpg	Insert	Big Bird sings "ABC-DEF-GHI." (EKA: Episode 2955) Edited
	FRAME 1 cont'd	Big Bird now explains that not only will you see the alphabet, but numbers too!
	Cartoon	A peacock counts twenty feathers on his tail. (EKA: Episode 0406)
	FRAME 2	Next, Big Bird displays signs that will be around the school, like "BUS STOP" and "EXIT".
	Cartoon	A man sets up a bus stop sign so that a giant can eat the buses that come. (EKA: Episode 2164)
	Cartoon	A honking orange ball follows signs to the EXIT. (EKA: Episode 2125)
	Muppets	Anything Muppets cheer for school. Part 1
	FRAME 3	Big Bird mentions something else from his days in school: there will kids you already know and kids you don't.
	Muppets	The Count sings about his first day of school. (EKA: Episode 1736)
	FRAME 4	Big Bird has set up a model school room in the arbor, with Snuffy and the kids as students. Big Bird asks his class for a rhyme for "hat", but they all answer at once. He explains that in classrooms, students must raise their hand and will be called on. Snuffy raises his snuffle, but unfortunately doesn't know the answer.
	Muppets	Teacher Little Chrissy sings about how important it is to "Raise Your Hand." (EKA: Episode 2274)
	FRAME 5	Big Bird reiterates that you'll see the alphabet in school.
	Film	Children on a playground form the letters of the alphabet. (First: Episode 2096)
	Muppets	Anything Muppets cheer for school. Part 2
	FRAME 6	Snuffy shares something he learned from Snufflegarden - it's okay to make mistakes. The duo then sings "Everyone Makes Mistakes". After the song, Big Bird displays the alphabet (not remembering he has before).
	Animation	The alphabet is presented using many materials and writing methods. (EKA: Episode 2494)
	Muppets	Anything Muppets cheer for school. Part 3
	FRAME 7	Big Bird watches as a girl demonstrates how she puts on her coat. Big Bird claims that by watching the next segment, the viewer can learn to tie their shoes too.
	Muppets / Cast	"Dandy David" sings a song about tying shoelaces as Herry watches. Herry then asks David to tie the laces on all the shoes in his shoe collection.
	FRAME 8	Big Bird has Snuffy apply the lesson by having him tie his sneakers, which is accomplished by blowing through his snuffle. Big Bird thinks of what he hasn't taught, when Snuffly mentions the alphabet again.
File:Groverlorenavlphabet.JPG	Muppets	Template:Mkmg Grover and Polly say the alphabet. (EKA: Episode 0324)
	FRAME 9	Big Bird thanks the viewer for watching and requests they send a letter to him once they learn how to write in school. Just as the theme music starts, he asks if he's forgotten the alphabet.