RIC-6277 I can dance the Barramundi

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KARRI Presentation • 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. Additional activities/information • Read the story below and discuss the student’s opinions on what happened. The story could be used as a script for an assembly item. HARRY THE KARRI The karri forest has always been beautiful and peaceful. Every day the branches of the karri trees whisper the news of the forest to each other. Early one morning, Harry the karri, the oldest, wisest and tallest karri tree in the forest, heard some dreadful news. ‘If this is true,’ he thought, ‘it will change our forest forever’. So he sent for Mopoke, the boobook owl. ‘Gather the forest creatures together, Mopoke,’ said Harry the karri, ‘and bring them to me’. ‘Mopoke! Mopoke! Mopoke!’ echoed Mopoke’s call through the karri trees as she gathered the forest creatures to her. Fairy wrens, honeyeaters, cockatoos and parrots, mopokes and robins, barking owls and a noisy scrub bird followed Mopoke and settled in the branches of Harry the karri. Possums and quokkas, echidnas and numbats, bandicoots and wallabies, dingos and bats and rats followed Mopoke and gathered about the great trunk of Harry the karri. Tiger snakes curled up on warm rocks and skinks rested in the cool grasses. Dragonfl ies hovered and beetles scuttled under leaves. Frogs sat quietly on lily pads. Marron in a nearby stream poked their whiskers out of the water to listen. When everyone was assembled, Harry the karri spoke to them. ‘Friends of the forest,’ he said, ‘I welcome you all here this morning. I have something to tell you’. Then Harry the karri announced the news he had heard that morning. ‘People from local timber mills are coming here today to inspect our forest to decide which karri trees they will cut down and carry away to their timber mills.’ The forest creatures could not believe their ears. Silence fell in the forest. The dragonfl ies and beetles trembled. The skinks and tiger snakes slithered quietly away. But the other birds and animals were FURIOUS! ‘CUT DOWN OUR TREES?’ bellowed a possum. ‘DESTROY OUR FOREST?’ squeaked an echidna. ‘TURN OUR TREES INTO LOGS?’ howled a bandicoot. ‘AND WOODCHIPS?’ shrieked a noisy scrub bird. ‘This way, Joe’, said a voice. ‘Over here.’ Timber mill people could be seen through the trees. They stopped and stared in silence at Harry the karri and the forest creatures gathered about him. ‘I’ve worked in this forest for many years’, said one of the timber mill people. ‘It’s like home to me.’ ‘If we chop everything down it’s gone forever’, said another. ©R.I.C. Publications Low Resolution Images Display Copy ‘But I need a job. I’ve got a wife and family’, said a third. ‘Bushwalkers come to this forest all the time’, said a fourth timber mill person. ‘They love it here. Why don’t we talk to the tourist people to see if they can arrange jobs for us?’ The timber mill people nodded their heads and stood talking together for some time, then they turned back and disappeared through the trees. The forest creatures were ECSTATIC! Harry the karri and the other karri trees waved their branches with delight and all the birds and animals jumped with joy. ‘Friends of the forest,’ said Harry the karri at last, ‘I think we all agree that this karri forest is kept as an old growth forest to be protected and never felled for timber’. • What do YOU think? I can dance the barramundi 58 R.I.C. Publications ® www.ricgroup.com.au ISBN 978-1-74126-424-1
Karri We love The giant karri trees So old So high So strong. When next we went To visit them The karri trees Had gone. ©R.I.C. Publications Low Resolution Images Display Copy Lines 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. Stand on tiptoe. Wave to the karri trees. 6 & 7. Pat thighs gently. 8 & 9. Shade eyes with hand. Look into the distance. R.I.C. Publications ® www.ricgroup.com.au 59 I can dance the barramundi ISBN 978-1-74126-424-1
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RIC-6277 4.3/88 ©R.I.C. Publicatio
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Foreword I can dance the barramundi
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Teachers notes Action rhymes serve
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Bush dance I can dance The barramun
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Echidna Rustle Rustle Hustle Hustle
Page 11 and 12: Emu feather As I was fl oating In t
Page 13 and 14: Pet cat My lady cat strolls In and
Page 15 and 16: Getting up Woke up Out of bed Queas
Page 17 and 18: Dugite Br-ea-th-ing in Th-ink-ing t
Page 19 and 20: Gum tree Diddledy diddledy Dumpty A
Page 21 and 22: Bush damper Flour and water Pinch o
Page 23 and 24: Wombat It was a wild and Windy nigh
Page 25 and 26: Crossing a creek Stepp-ing o-ver st
Page 27 and 28: Trolley Shopping trolley trundling
Page 29 and 30: Where am I? Feeling funny Squirm in
Page 31 and 32: Old house Old house Creaking door R
Page 33 and 34: Jackaroo I crack my whip I gallop m
Page 35 and 36: Cane toad It chomps up the middle I
Page 37 and 38: Magpie I love My dappled magpie tre
Page 39 and 40: Koala Crunch Crunch Munch Munch Yum
Page 41 and 42: Spring things Butterfl ies Buzzy be
Page 43 and 44: Ducksailing On the water Crumpled,
Page 45 and 46: Veranda When I stay with Grandpa An
Page 47 and 48: Southern Cross I’m looking for Th
Page 49 and 50: Joey In his mother’s pouch When h
Page 51 and 52: Hills ® hoist Washing on the Hills
Page 53 and 54: Walking bus Off we go On the walkin
Page 55 and 56: Kakadu Skip with me Mum and Dad And
Page 57 and 58: Bunyip Rompa Stompa Rompa Stompa Be
Page 59 and 60: Sandcastle I built a castle On the
Page 61: Matilda waltzing I saw Matilda walt
Page 65 and 66: Platypus Dig your burrow Deep and d
Page 67 and 68: A bird’s-eye view I spread my win
Page 69 and 70: Windmill Windmill turning Round and
Page 71 and 72: Dingo Lost dog dingo Running down t
Page 73 and 74: Tin roof Snug and warm In my soft b
Page 75 and 76: Crocodile Deep down on the riverbed
Page 77 and 78: Daintree Come with me Take my hand
Page 79 and 80: Rottnest Cuddly little quokkas Snoo
Page 81 and 82: Bush tales Tiptoe out Tuck yourselv
Page 83 and 84: Possum Brush-tailed possum Ran away
Page 85: Phillip Island seal Flap Flip Flip
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