RIC-6277 I can dance the Barramundi

BUSH TALES
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
• Tell or read the fairytale Little Red Riding
Hood. Discuss stranger danger.
• Help the students to create an Australian
bush tale based on the story; for example,
Red Riding Hood and Feral the Fox. Some
ideas are given below:
– Develop the original story’s sequence
– Use Australian characters, names and
locations.
– Improvise situations, dialogue and
actions.
An example is given below.
RED RIDING HOOD AND FERAL THE FOX.
One morning, Red Riding Hood was walking through the bush.
She stopped to pick some wildfl owers. High in a gum tree,
Kookaburra saw Feral the Fox following Red Riding Hood.
‘Where are you going, Red Riding Hood?’ asked an unpleasant
voice.
Red Riding Hood turned around and there stood Feral! She
was startled but she answered politely.
‘I am going to visit my grandmother’, she said.
‘Are you indeed?’ thought Feral the Fox as he sped away
through the scrub.
Kookaburra fl ew from tree to tree.
‘Red Riding Hood is in danger!’ he told everyone.
Possum, Joey, Wombat, Echidna, Wallaby and Koala hurried
after her and Kookaburra, Mopoke, Willy Wagtail and Magpie
fl ew overhead.
Meanwhile, Feral the Fox reached Grandmother’s cottage. He
shut her in a cupboard, jumped into her bed, put her nightcap
on his head, pulled up the covers and waited.
When Red Riding Hood and her bush friends arrived at the
cottage, she knocked on the door and went in.
‘Oh, Grandmother, what big eyes you have!’ she cried. ‘And
what big ears! And what big teeth!’
Just as Feral sprang upon her, the door fl ew open and there
stood the ranger! He seized Feral and tossed him into a sack.
He lifted Grandmother from the cupboard, put her gently into
her wheelchair and tucked a rug around her. Then he turned
to Red Riding Hood and said, ‘Always remember you could be
in danger, so never, never talk to a stranger’.
‘I will remember’, promised Red Riding Hood.
The ranger picked up the sack, waved goodbye to everyone
and disappeared between the gum trees. Red Riding Hood’s
kind bush friends took her and her grandmother safely home
to Red Riding Hood’s mother.
• Tell or read the tale of Jack and the
beanstalk. Discuss the bully in the story
– the giant. Talk about bullying and child
protection.
• Help the students create a new Australian
bush tale called Bilby, Bunyip and Bully
Dingo. Begin by deciding where the story
happens, who it happened to, why it
happened, what happened and how it ends.
An example is below. This could be used as
the basic story sequence, then dialogue and
characterisation could be added.
BILBY, BUNYIP AND BULLY DINGO
Bully Dingo bullied the new boy, little Bilby, by making him
climb the tall prickletree that grew beside the small bush
school.
Bully Dingo did this because he knew that there was a bunyip
at the top of the prickletree who would frighten poor little
Bilby.
Bunyip saw little Bilby and he roared and bellowed and chased
little Bilby down the prickletree.
But when little Bilby reached the bottom of the prickletree,
his teacher came out of the school, stood between little Bilby
and Bunyip and told Bunyip to go away.
She gave little Bilby a piece of sweet fruit to eat and took
him back to the classroom so everyone could look after him.
Then the teacher said to Bully Dingo, ‘Come with me to the
principal’s offi ce’.
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