Iris, The Happy Professor

Meet our friend the cow and her family. Cows come in all colours, and they give us something wonderful... milk! Lots of yummy things we eat are made from milk!

What are some of the animals we can have at home as pets? When we go to the farm... we find a whole new assortment of animals!

Sometimes it's because we're sad, other times because we're happy. Babies cry when they're tired or hungry. And even onions can make us cry when we peel them! We all cry at some time or another and for different reasons.

We take a tour of the different rooms in a house, to see what we do in each one. Then we take off around the world, to see the different kinds of houses people live in.

Everyone needs to eat... animals, people... even plants! We talk about some of the things we eat and how they help us stay healthy and strong.

Professor Iris, Ms. Principal and the gang fix up a really great- looking car right in the classroom, and find out all about cars at the same time.

What do you know that's red? Blue? Green? How do we mix colours to get other colours? When we see all the colours together in the sky, it's called a rainbow!

Skeleton starts a moth colony, which leads to all kinds of problems…and to a lesson on insects! While Ms. Principal worries about her moth-eaten clothes and Skeleton tries to find a solution, Professor Iris talks about other members of the insect family.

Ms. Principal shares her rock collection with Professor Iris and his students and they all learn about minerals.., what they are, where they come from and what they're used for.

Once the homes of ocean creatures, seashells come in all shapes and sizes. We can make things out of them... we can even hear the sound of ocean waves by putting them to our ear!

Professor Iris is dog-sitting and brings his cousin's dog, Bruno to class with him. Bruno helps the gang learn about dogs... and gives Ms. Principal for a good run for her money!

Miniature versions of some of our favorite animals... the babies! We find out where they come from, how their mothers take care of them and what each of them are called.

It seems like the more Professor Iris and the gang laugh, the more they want to laugh. It's contagious! Why are they laughing? There are all sorts of reasons

All the wonderful and beautiful elements of nature! They are very precious, and we learn things we can do to take care of them.

The story of the apple, from seed to tree. And let's not forget all the yummy things we can make from apples when they come off the tree!

Iris and his students demonstrate team sports like football, basketball and hockey. ..and individual sports like skating, skiing and surfing. Lots of fun ways to stay in shape!

We find out about our planet earth and what it looks like from far away. Then we look up into the sky to see the moon, the sun and the stars!

A trip to the farm, to see what the farmer does every day. So many good things come from the farm... fruits and vegetables, milk and eggs.. - the gang stops to have a picnic!

There are so many different kinds of voices.., high, low, young, old. Your voice helps you talk and whisper and sing. But what happens when you lose your voice? Ms. Principal finds out, right on the day of her big singing concert!

It seems like the telephone just won't stop ringing in Professor Iris' classroom today, so he and his students decide to learn all about telephones... where they came from and what they're used for.

They start out as caterpillars and turn into colorful winged creatures called butterflies! How do they do it?

They come in all sizes and colors.., and they don't only come from birds! Some of them have baby animals in them and others are good to eat.

Professor Iris brings his horse to school and we learn all about these beautiful and helpful animals. Ms. Principal even goes for a ride!

Elephants are big... ants are small. A hippopotomus is heavy, a feather is light. We also learn about fat and thin, and that's the long and short of it!

Professor Iris and his students learn all about these friendly giants when a baby elephant escapes from the circus and comes to visit their classroom.