How the Kangaroos Got Their Tails Activities

How the Kangaroos Got Their Tails – Only $3.50

This activity booklet is designed to complement a themed unit on Aboriginal Dreamtime stories, with learning activities based on the traditional story How the Kangaroos Got Their Tails. The booklet includes a variety of hands-on literacy, numeracy, and creative activities that support comprehension, reflection, and skill development through storytelling.

Teachers can choose individual activities or complete the full booklet as part of a Dreamtime unit or integrated learning sequence.

This teaching resource includes 9 activities:

• Word and picture matching

• Opposites worksheet

• What did we learn? comprehension worksheet

• How the Kangaroos Got Their Tails word scramble

• How the Kangaroos Got Their Tails word study

• Measurement activity using a kangaroo footprint ruler

• Bee life cycle craft activity

• Count, tally, write the digit and write the number table

• Create a patterned kangaroo art activity

A thoughtful and engaging resource that supports literacy, numeracy, creativity, and cultural understanding while exploring a traditional Aboriginal Dreamtime story.