Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students have been learning factual information about kangaroos, after hearing the Aboriginal Dreaming story, How the kangaroos got their tails.
Newborn baby grey kangaroo – Attenborough – Life of mammals – BBC
Kangaroo boxing – Attenborough – Life of mammals – BBC
Previously, we had used these other useful Youtube clips, featuring a young joey learning to hop, and newborns in the pouch. Click here.
Stage 2 students are still investigating People and their beliefs in HSIE. Today we compared Santa in Australia, a picture book by Maryann Pfeifer & David Van Asten with the song popularised by Rolf Harris, Six white boomers:
Six white boomers – a Rolf Harris tribute
We have read several Australian parody versions of “The twelve days of Christmas”, but here is a Youtube ciip of the original carol:
12 Days of Christmas – Christmas carol
Early Stage 1 students asked me to add this Youtube clip, one of their classroom favourites:
Aussie Jingle Bells – Bucko & Champs – the original
Bargain shop stock tends to arrive in waves, and certain items can disappear without a trace. I thought I’d seen the last of the endangered animals puppets that were so prevalent in the bargain shops a few months ago. This week, several stalls at Paddy’s Market, in Haymarket, had cheap puppets in the same style and I found it hard to pass up the $4 parrot, kookaburra and kangaroo puppets. I even found a $1.50 key ring with a joey, who seems to be in the same scale as the kangaroo.
We are really enjoying the ease of finding short video clips via Encarta for Kids CD-ROM, and online at Youtube.
As a followup to last week’s Aboriginal Dreaming story, How the kangaroos got their tails, Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students are investigating facts about kangaroos.
Kangaroo joeys playing:
This amazing footage of newborn joeys in their mothers’ pouches:
A trained(?) boxing kangaroo on TV – not so natural? (Disturbing; perhaps more useful for older students writing persuasive texts?)