Listen all around, Listen for the sounds Listen listen listen, Listen all around.
Listen for the sounds Listen listen listen Listen listen listen Hello Hello, Hello Hello.
Listen everyone.
Listen and play.
Where are we today?
Tell us where are we?
We've come all the way to the other side of the world, to Australia.
We're outside near a lake.
Listen.
Do you know what makes this sound?
It's the water of the lake.
Slip, slap, splish, splash goes the water against the shore of the lake.
Listen and play again.
Do you know what makes this sound?
LAUGHTER
It's the sound of a bird called a kookaburra that you find here in Australia.
They have an unusual call that sounds like laughter.
Listen again.
Do you know what animal makes this sound?
It's some frogs.
Ribbit, ribbit.
There are lots of frogs here beside the lake.
Today's song is called Five Little Speckled Frogs.
You might know it.
Join in and sing along with me and count the frogs on your fingers.
Five little speckled frogs sat on a speckled log eating some most delicious bugs yum, yum.
One jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool.
Then there were four speckled frogs glug, glug.
Four little speckled frogs sat on a speckled log eating some most delicious bugs.
Yum, yum.
One jumped into the pool where it was nice and cool.
Then there were three speckled frogs.
Glug, glug.
Three little speckled frogs sat on a speckled log eating some most delicious bugs.
Yum, yum.
One jumped into the pool where it was nice and cool.
Then there were two speckled frogs.
Glug, glug.
Two little speckled frogs sat on a speckled log eating some most delicious bugs.
Yum, yum.
One jumped into the pool where it was nice and cool.
Then there was one speckled frog.
Glug, glug.
One little speckled frog sat on a speckled log eating some most delicious bugs.
Yum, yum.
He jumped into the pool where it was nice and cool.
Then there were no speckled frogs.
Glug, glug.
In today's rhyme, there's a frog and a snake.
Over on the lake, in the water and the sun, lived a little mother frog, and her baby frog won.
Croak, said the mother.
I croak, said the one.
So they croaked and they croaked on the lake in the sun.
Over in the bush on the grass near a tree lived a little mother snake and her baby snakes three.
Hiss, said the mother.
We hiss, said the three.
And they hissed and they hissed on the grass by the tree.
Listen, listen, listen.
It's story time.
Today's story comes from Australia and it's all about a greedy frog called Tiddalic.
Shh!
Listen, listen.
The story's called... Tiddalic and the Kookaburra.
Once upon an Australian time, there was a frog called Tiddalik.
Tiddalik was a very greedy frog.
I want water, Tiddalik cried, opening his big mouth very wide.
You see, it was so very hot and it hadn't rained for ages, and all the animals were very, very thirsty, especially Tiddalick the frog.
Tiddalick hopped over to the pond.
Hop, hop, hop.
I want water, Tiddalick cried, opening his big mouth very wide.
And he swallowed all the pond water down inside.
Gulp, gulp, gulp.
Next, he hopped over to the river.
Hop, hop, hop.
I want water, Tiddalic cried, opening his big mouth very wide.
And he swallowed all the river water down inside.
Gulp, gulp, gulp.
Then he hopped over to the lake.
Hop, hop, hop!
I want water!
Tiddlyt cried, opening his big mouth very wide.
And he swallowed all the lake water down inside.
Gulp, gulp, gulp!
It wasn't long before he had drunk all the water in the whole of Australia.
Then, Tiddalic just sat, looking very fat.
He was a very greedy frog indeed.
Unfortunately, this meant there was no water left anywhere for any of the other animals to drink.
So, Snake, Kookaburra and Kangaroo called a meeting to decide what to do.
First, Snake said, We need to get back the water to drink.
Let's scratch our heads and have a think.
I know, said Kangaroo.
Just what we need to do.
We'll have to make Tiddalik laugh.
If we're all very funny, the water will come out of his tummy.
No worries, said Kookaburra.
I'll do some laughing.
And so he did.
Then Kangaroo began to laugh.
Which made Snake laugh.
But Tiddalic just sat, looking very fat.
That made the animals feel even thirstier.
We need to get back the water to drink.
Let's scratch our heads and have a think.
I know, said Kangaroo.
I'll do some silly bouncing.
And so she did.
Boing!
Boing!
Boing!
It was so silly, Kookaburra began to laugh.
Which made Snake laugh.
Tiddlyk began to smile and a tiny trickle of water ran out of the corner of his mouth.
That made Tiddlyk start to rumble and grumble.
Then he opened his mouth as wide as it would go and laughed out loud.
As soon as Tiddalik laughed, a huge gush of water began to pour out of his mouth.
Then the gush of water became a stream.
And the stream became a river.
And the river became a huge whoosh of water that made a deep lake.
And Tiddalik?
What did he do then?
He just sat, looking shrivelled, not fat.
The laughing bird from the story is in our last song.
It's called Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.
As you listen, move your arms like the wings of the kookaburra bird.
You can sing along too, if you know it.
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree.
Merry, merry king of the bushes he.
Love Kookaburra, love Kookaburra, happy as can be.
Kookaburra flies from the old gum tree, flapping his wings for all to see.
Love, kookaburra, love, kookaburra flying oh so fast.
Cookaburra happy as can be.
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, merry, merry king of the bushes see.
Love Kookaburra, love Kookaburra, happy as can be.
Love Kookaburra, love Kookaburra, happy as can be.
I hope you enjoyed listening to all our sounds from Australia today.
I wonder what you think a laughing Kookaburra looks like.
Maybe you could draw a picture of one.
Join me again soon and we can listen and play together.
Bye!
Listen, listen, listen.
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