RIC-6277 I can dance the Barramundi

PHILLIP ISLAND SEAL
Preparation
• Collect pictures of seals.
Presentation
• Share and discuss the pictures with the
class.
• Say the rhyme with the actions for the class.
Additional activities/information
• Share the baby seal family album below
with the class, then have the students draw
pictures of their families and write their
favourite memories. Make them into an
album.
BABY SEAL’S FAMILY ALBUM
• The class claps the beat while saying the
rhyme.
• The class says the rhyme with the actions.
My mum is beautiful. She is silver all over except for her
brown tummy.
My mum likes to keep herself tidy with her front
fl ippers. My mum and dad eat lots of fi sh and squid and
octopus and cuttlefi sh. My mum says she will teach me
to fi sh when I am older.
My dad is huge and fi erce. He has lots of muscles and
a big mane of long, rough, thick hair on his neck and
shoulders. My dad says fur seals have coats that are
water repellent. I think that means they keep the water
out. My dad tells me to take care in the water and
watch out for fi shing lines that could tangle me up. My
dad says never swallow plastic bags and bottles that
are fl oating about in the sea, and I don’t.
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I am a little fur seal. I live in a colony of fur seals on
Victoria’s Phillip Island. My mum feeds me yummy, thick,
rich milk. She is teaching me to swim. Instead of hands
and feet I have front and back fl ippers and I use my
front fl ippers like oars to swim through the water. When
I sit on the rocks with my mum, I rest on my front and
back fl ippers and when we go for a walk I bounce along
on my tummy. We watch the seabirds and sometimes
we see scary great white sharks.
I can dance the barramundi
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