RIC-6277 I can dance the Barramundi

DAINTREE
Preparation
• Collect pictures of rainforests, particularly the Daintree.
Presentation
• Share and discuss the pictures with
the class. If any students have visited a
rainforest, ask them to talk about their
experiences.
• Say the rhyme with the actions for the class.
Additional activities/information
• Share the following information and rhymes
with the class.
• If you visited the Daintree tropical rainforest,
you would see huge trees growing high
above your head. Their branches overlap
to form a canopy over the trees and ferns,
which grow below.
Daintree trees
Grow so tall
We cannot see
Their tops at all.
• Say the rhyme for the class and have the
children improvise the actions.
• The Daintree is a deep green forest of giant
trees, tangled thickets and woody vines that
twist and twine; but somehow sunshine
finds its way down to the ground so you can
walk through the forest safely.
Between the leaves
And shadows too
The dappled sunshine
Filters through.
• Say the rhyme for the class and have the
students improvise the actions.
• The Daintree is moist and misty.
Everywhere, droplets of water drip from the
tips of leaves.
• The class claps the beat while saying the
rhyme.
• The class says the rhyme with the actions.
Little drips
Drip and drip
And drip and drip and drop
Big drips
Drip and drip
And drip and drip and pl-op.
• Say the rhyme for the class and have the
students improvise the actions.
• When we visit the Daintree tropical
rainforest, we should remember . . .
Be gentle with
Each branch and stone
It could be
Some small creature’s home.
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• Creatures of all kinds make their homes in
the Daintree tropical rainforest. They include
the Daintree River ringtail possum and the
musky rat-kangaroo, the golden bowerbird
which builds its nest three metres
high, the flightless southern cassowary
and the rainbow bee-eater, lorikeets and
kingfishers. Frogs, skinks, geckos and snakes
live there as well as insects, including the
bird-wing butterfly and the Hercules moth,
waterbeetles and dragonflies.
I can dance the barramundi
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