RIC-6277 I can dance the Barramundi

TROLLEY
Presentation
• Tell the class you are going to give them
clues that describe a mystery object. When
they have heard all the clues, they can guess
what the object is.
I am used in shops.
I am made of metal.
I am one metre high.
I am one metre long.
I am half a metre wide.
I am half a metre deep.
Additional activities/information
• Read the following story to the class.
TROLLEY
Trolley trundled out the door of the store to start
a wonderful new life. It was a very windy day and
the wind blew Trolley across the car park, along a
footpath and down a very steep hill towards a row
of houses far below.
‘This IS fun!’ thought Trolley. ‘It feels like fl ying.’ The
next moment Trolley WAS fl ying! Faster and faster
down the hill he fl ew until he sailed over a white
picket fence and landed upside down on a rosebush
in Mrs Mattie’s front garden. Mrs Mattie and her
granddaughter, Rosie, had been to the park. They
stopped and stared at Trolley. Simon arrived to
mow Mrs Mattie’s lawn and he stopped and stared
at Trolley.
‘Where could it have come from, Simon?’ asked Mrs
Mattie.
‘Probably from the supermarket on High Street’,
said Simon. ‘I know Robert the owner. I mow his
lawns. Would you like me to phone him, Mrs Mattie?’
‘Yes please, Simon’, said Mrs Mattie.
When Robert arrived, he looked at the rosebush and
he looked at Trolley and at Trolley’s wheels, which
had fallen off.
‘I’m very sorry about your rosebush, Mrs Mattie’,
said Robert. ‘If you tell me its name I’ll replace it.’
I have a wire basket attached to four wheels.
I have a strong handle which customers use
to steer me around the shop.
What am I ?
• Discuss the class’s experiences with
shopping trolleys.
• Say the rhyme with the actions for the class.
• The class claps the beat while saying the
rhyme.
• The class says the rhyme with the actions.
‘Thank you, Robert’, said Mrs Mattie. ‘It’s a very
strong rosebush. I’ll just tidy it up a bit.’
‘The trolley comes from my store,’ said Robert.
‘It’s an old, tired trolley. Its wheels wobble and its
handle is broken.’
‘What happens to your old trolleys ?’ Mrs Mattie
asked Robert.
‘We donate them to organisations who have them
repaired and put them to good use’, said Robert.
‘Rosie goes to a mothers’ group’, said Mrs Mattie.
‘I’m sure they would fi nd a trolley very useful.’
The mothers’ group was delighted to have Trolley.
He could carry the children’s books to the library,
buckets and spades to the beach, lunches and
water bottles to the zoo and the children’s fruit
for morning tea to the park. He was painted bright
fi re-engine red and he had new wheels and a new
strong handle and the mothers decided he should
have a new name as well.
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‘I think he should be called “Wally”’, said Rosie,
‘because Wally rhymes with Trolley’.
Everyone agreed and that is how Wally Trolley began
his wonderful, new, busy and useful life and lived
happily ever after.
• After the story, ask the class ‘Do you
know the names of other “happily ever
after” stories? What about stories that end
unhappily?’ The class can then talk about
their favourite stories.
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