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Cut out the sentences and arrange the main events of How the platypus got his shape in the correct order.
Use this sheet for children to categorise Australian animals into sets. How many of the animals do the children know?
Keep things simple by just thinking about the beginning, middle and end of our story.
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Keep things simple by just thinking about the beginning, middle and end of our story.
Use this sheet for children to categorise Australian animals into sets. How many of the animals do the children know?
Cut out the sentences and arrange the main events of How the platypus got his shape in the correct order.
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Use the How the platypus got his shape ebook on your whiteboard, iPad or tablet computer.
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Cut out the sentences and arrange the main events of How the platypus got his shape in the correct order.
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Keep things simple by just thinking about the beginning, middle and end of our story.
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Let the children demonstrate how well they’ve understood How the platypus got his shape with these comprehension questions.
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Learn all about the artist Gabriella Possum Nungarrayiand her painting Bush Fire Dreaming.
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Explore indigenous symbols and let children use them to create their own maps.
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A handy map of Australia to print or display on your whiteboard.
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Our interactive PDF will help children to get a feel for Australian geography, animals and music.
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Use these templates to create your own A to Z book of Australia.
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Our downloadable Australian animal fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their findings to the class.
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Our downloadable Australian animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own researched facts.
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Our downloadable Australian animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own illustrations.
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Our downloadable Australian animal fact card template is perfect for Antipodean class displays.
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This resource sheet features an excerpt about food on board HM Bark Endeavour written by Mr Perry, one of the ship’s doctors.
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These How the platypus got his shape prompts come with keywords from the story and are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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These image only How the platypus got his shape story prompts are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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These How the platypus got his shape prompts come with keyword phrases from the story and are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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Reward your storytellers with this How the platypus got his shapethemed certificate.
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Reward your KS2 storytellers with this How the platypus got his shape themed certificate.
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Get everybody singing with this traditional Australian song.
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Our radio play is set on board Captain Cook's ship the HM Bark Endeavour. Version 1 has simpler vocabulary and is shorter than version 2,
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Our radio play is set on board Captain Cook’s ship the HM Bark Endeavour. Version 2 has more advanced vocabulary and is slightly longer than version 1.
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Use this Venn diagram template to help children categorise Australian animals.
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Perfect for class assemblies or drama productions our editable How the platypus got his shape playscript can be adapted for as few as six children
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Get a taste for down under with these easy-to-bake biscuits.
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Get prancing, dancing, strutting and striding with our ‘Find the kangaroo’ game.
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Use this sheet for children to categorise Australian animals into sets. How many of the animals do the children know?
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Use these 'Creature consequences' templates to ensure accurate matching of your crazy creatures.
Our downloadable Australian animal fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their findings to the class.
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Our downloadable Australian animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own illustrations.
Our downloadable Australian animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own researched facts.
These image only How the platypus got his shape story prompts are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
These How the platypus got his shape prompts come with keyword phrases from the story and are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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‘Be quiet!’ said Badger. ‘Keep it down!’ grumbled Hedgehog. ‘Stop banging!’ pleaded Owl. Poor Rabbit, it seemed that no-one appreciated his drumming. But when trouble
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Use these words from the story to practise the tricky spellings from A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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Our closing thought helps us think about how noise affects us and lets us consider where we can go to escape from the hustle and
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Use the map on your whiteboard to help children visualise the key events in A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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Learn about children's book illustrator Emma Chichester Clark and find exciting ways to use traditional tales to look at sentence construction.
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Poems for learning by heart, poems for performance but, best of all, poems to inspire.
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Use this planner as a scaffold to help create your own story using the same structure as A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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In some cultures foxes are often depicted as symbols of deceit and cunning. Why do the children think that foxes are thought of in this way?
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Use our editable playscript in drama activities or for a full-scale production.
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Use these planning resource sheets to help keep your class’s film productions on track.
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Cut out the caterpillar cards and place a piece of double-sided sticky tape across each caterpillar. Ask the children to sticky tiny samples of woodland
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For centuries people have been using woodland plants to decorate their homes at Christmas time. Find out why with this resource that accompanies our ‘Deck the
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Use The Christmas Elf as a festive story starter or see how many woodland creatures children can spy in this adorable poster (©StoryWorld – illustrated by Tomislav Tomic.).
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Arm your class with magnifying glasses, notebooks, cameras and viewing jars and head out and about with these sheets to find out if your local
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Choose a tree, head out with pencils, crayons and a measuring tape and fill in the boxes to create a record of it.
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Reward your Early Years and KS1 storytellers with this A Thumping Great Rabbit themed certificate.
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Our downloadable woodland animal fact cards teach us about foxes, hedgehogs, rabbits and deers and will help start children off on their voyage of discovery
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Our downloadable woodland animal fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their findings to the class.
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Our woodland animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own pictures of four of our favourite characters from A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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Our woodland animal fact cards are ready for children to add their own facts for four of our favourite characters from A Thumping Great Rabbit.
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Bel Deering takes us through some useful minibeast basics – very useful for when you are out and about on your bug hunt.
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Our image-only ‘Storytelling prompts’ for A thumping great rabbit are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ with keyword phrases are the perfect accompaniment to your A Thumping Great Rabbit storytelling lessons.
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Our keyword ‘Storytelling prompts’ for A thumping great rabbit are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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Give your local trees a clean bill of health with these official-looking, class-issued 'Clean bill of health' certificates.
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Use these data sheets with the woodland animal shapes resource.
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Use these outlines of the woodland animal characters in A Thumping Great Rabbit to work out water rationing.
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