Liberty Public

Library

Story Time

Storytime Around the

World:

Australia

Welcome Song: Are you listening?

Are you listening?

Yes I am! Yes I am!

Now it’s time for Story Time,

Now it’s time for Story Time,

Yes it is! Yes it is!

World Cooking:

Anzac biscuits Kookaburra

Ingredients 2 cups rolled oats 2 cups flour 2 cups coconut 1 1/2 cups sugar 250g butter 4 tbsp golden syrup 1 tsp baking soda 2 tblsp boiling wate Directions Turn oven to 160°C. Lightly grease oven trays. Place oats, flour, coconut, sugar in big mixing bowl. Melt butter and golden syrup in saucepan. Take off heat. Mix baking soda and boiling water in a cup. Add to melted butter mixture in the pan. Quickly add to big mixing bowl. Mix well. Roll tablespoonfuls of the mixture into balls. Place on trays 5cm apart. Press lightly with fork. Bake for 20 minutes.

Retrieved from kidspot.come.au/kitchen/recipes

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree

Merry, merry king of the bush is he

Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!

Gay your life must be

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree

Eating all the gum drops he can see

Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!

Leave some there for me

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree

Counting all the monkeys he can see

Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!

That's not a monkey that's me

Kookaburra sits on a rusty nail

Gets a boo-boo in his tail

Cry, Kookaburra! Cry, kookaburra!

Oh how life can be

Book Recommendations

Created By Samantha Colwell, 2016, Liberty Public Library

Tips for Parents:

Not only does helping your child to be a citizen of the world promote a global sense of togetherness, but it also helps

your child’s early literacy! Learning about other communities, countries, and

people around the world requires learning a more advanced vocabulary,

and puts them ahead in critical and abstract thinking.

*Where is Australia? (It is highlighted in red below) * Australia is the smallest inhabited continent. Inhabited means that people live on it!

Facts and Figures!

*Koalas cling to the branches of eucalyptus trees and eat the leaves.

Does this blue fish below look familiar? It’s Dory from Finding Nemo! She remembered an address in Sydney, Australia! Sydney opera house (featured on the left) is a

popular sight in Australia.

Wombat Walkabout By Carol Shields

“Early one morning when the sun

came out, six woolly wombats went

walkabout. They didn’t see the dingo

with the hungry eye, he has a hunch

his lunch just walked on by.”

Does A Kangaroo Have A

Mother Too? By Eric Carle

“Meet the little joey, whose kangaroo

mother carries him in her pouch.”

Marsupial Sue By John Lithgow

“If you’re a kangaroo, through and

through, just do what kangaroos do.

Young Sue really doesn’t like being a

kangaroo, so she goes off to find some-

thing better.”