RIC-6277 I can dance the Barramundi

JOEY
Preparation
• Collect pictures of young kangaroos.
Presentation
• Share and discuss the pictures with the
class. Have the class members discuss their
experiences with kangaroos.
• Read the following to the students:
When a baby kangaroo is born it is very tiny.
It must climb up its mother’s furry tummy
and crawl into her pouch. It is safe and warm
in there. It has a drink of its mother’s milk
and falls asleep.
A joey will live in its mother’s pouch for
a long time—about 240 days! After 18
weeks its eyes open and it climbs out of the
pouch—but it soon hops back in!
Additional activities/information
• Say the following rhyme to the class. Have
the students listen for the long vowel sound
‘oo’, then say the rhyme again. The students
can hop to the beat of the rhyme and twitch
their noses when they hear the ‘oo’ sound.
Hop, hop, kangaroo
All the way to Paraburdoo.
Hop, hop, kangaroo
Say ‘G’day’ to a jackaroo.
Hop, hop, kangaroo
Catch a wave at Ningaloo.
Hop, hop, kangaroo
Hop on a ferry to Sydney Zoo.
• Discuss Australian coins. Current Australian
coins and notes are produced by the
Australian government in the Royal Mint.
In 1965 a new mint was established in
Canberra especially to produce decimal
currency.
When a joey is eight months old, its mother
decides it is old enough to leave the pouch
and learn the ways of the bush, although it
still stays close to its mother as she teaches
it which grasses and herbs and shrubs to eat
and where there is danger.
• 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.
• View one-dollar coins. The design of the five
kangaroos was created by Stuart Devlin.
• The red kangaroo is the Northern Territory’s
faunal emblem.
• Ask the students where they may have seen
a flying kangaroo. (QANTAS logo)
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