I Love You, Blue Kangaroo!

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I Love You, Blue Kangaroo’ is a lovely story to help explore a range of feelings and emotion words, as demonstrated by this orange cog activity with a lower primary nurture group. This is a poignant story about a little boy caught in a storm; when “the ocean roars and rages” he cries for help and is rescued by a whale named Blue. One day when Blue does not come, the child dives into the ocean to find him. When Blue opens his mouth to say “AAAH”, the boy discovers a “belly full of bags”, which the child works to haul away, rescuing the whale in return.

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Emma Chichester Clark (1955 - ) is a British author and illustrator. Emma always knew she wanted to draw, and began making picture books with sewn-up spines when she was 5-years-old. As a young adult, she was taught by the illustrator Quentin Blake, and wrote her first picture book in 1987. Team Margot call to action: if you’re mixed race, we urgently need your help – you could be a match for Lara & others like her

I Love You, Blue Kangaroo! | Centre for Literacy in Primary I Love You, Blue Kangaroo! | Centre for Literacy in Primary

Vuurtorenwachter Jonas vaart zijn rondje op een rustige zee. Hij houdt van de zee. Tot op een dag het weer omslaat en torenhoge gitzwarte golven zijn bootje laten omslaan. ‘De zee kolkt en woelt.’ Time running out to save Alfie – please help by registering & sharing, especially if you have Chinese or mixed heritageEvery day, he looks forward to greeting Blue - until the one day when Blue is nowhere to be found. Alarmed, the boy dives into the water in search of his friend - and finds Blue laying listless on the ocean floor. Turns out that Blue swallowed a tummy full of plastic (a breakaway from the Pacific trash vortex, maybe?) and needs help flushing his system - and cleaning up his ocean home. Sweet, delightful book about the seriousness of plastics in the ocean. A young child goes out alone on his boat when a sudden storm appears. Yelling "May Day," the child is rescued by a large whale, named by the child, Blue. (Blue Whale....) A friendship, especially on the part of the child, develops, but he worries when he cannot find Blue. In mooie aquarelkleuren wordt een verhaal verteld van milieuvervuiling in zee. Je ziet in het water allerhande kleurige vissen en andere dieren zwemmen zoals kwallen of een zeester. Aan het kleurgebruik van de zee is af te lezen of het water kalm, onstuimig of vervuild is. De mimiek van Jonas, walvis Blauw en zelfs van de vissen wordt weergegeven door een enkel lijntje waardoor emotie is te herkennen. De enorme berg plastic tassen die je ziet als de walvis zijn mond opendoet spreekt tot de verbeelding van jonge kinderen. Het geeft de ‘plastic soep’ goed weer die er in een oceaan drijft. Oplettende kleuters zien ook op eerdere spreads plastic tussen de vissen zweven. Deze beelden geven opening tot een gesprek over afval en het milieu, maar ook over vriendschap. In het nawoord geeft de auteur een toelichting en tips om zeeën en walvissen te redden. De enkele terugkerende details in de illustraties maken het af. Make a list of adjectives that are used to describe each of the toys in the story. Can you think of more describing words for each toy? The text is simple and easy to read, but the message is critical. Our oceans are dying and the young will inherit this planet. They must learn to care for it and protect it. This books is a wonderful way to introduce this concept of saving the whales and the oceans, caring for the environment, cleaning up beaches, reducing plastic waste and instilling a deep love for the sea.

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Discuss what sharing is and why it is nice to share things with other people. What do you have to share with your family / friends? Find out about toys from the past. What have children played with during different periods in time? We have to credit the idea to Fiona Lang, Nurture Teacher at Meldrum Primary School in West Lothian, and we’re fairly sure you’ll get the gist of how she used the orange cog magnifying glass with her group by looking at this photograph.

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Try hot-seating the characters in the story to find out their feelings about what happened. How did Blue Kangaroo feel at different points? Did Lily realise that Blue Kangaroo was feeling upset? Amy Ronneberg, CFO, National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match® Said: “Patients in need of a life-saving marrow transplant are most likely to match a donor of their same race and ethnicity. Team Margot is meeting that need by recruiting diverse donors and people of mixed heritage. We’re proud to partner with such an outstanding organization, dedicated to saving lives.” The Finnish Stem Cell Registry supports the International Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Awareness Day. We hope that through this initiative many more will decide to give leukemia patients a chance for cure.” Have the ‘heart to heart’ conversations with your loved ones during Organ Donation Week and #LeaveThemCertain This simple story with water-colored illustrations teaches us the impact pollution has on the ocean and its inhabitants. Seeing a whale’s stomach full of colorful plastic bags made my own stomach turn as I think of the thousands that must be floating along in the ocean. Since they look like jellyfish, the whales eat them and then find they are in trouble. No matter if you live near an ocean or in the middle of nowhere, the plastics that we discard can still find their way into streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. We are all contributing to the problem and we can all be part of the solution.Blue Kangaroo has trouble sleeping at night because he is upset. Find out why we need sleep and think of ways that we can help ourselves to sleep. Find out more Seemore books by Emma Chichester Clark here Titles include: Come to School too, Blue Kangaroo! I Never Saw a Purple Cow And Other Nonsense Rhymes Amazing Mr. Zooty! No More Kissing! Melrose and Croc: Friends for Life Plum and Rabbit and Me