Dreamtime stories - The water hole + How trees were created

Hi guys,

today we worked with Kathryn on Australia and Aborigines again. You could watch a video about one of the Aborigines' beliefs, a story that they created to explain the creation of the world.

Then Kathryn taught you a story that SHE wrote for you explaining the origin of trees.

Here is the picture she drew to illustrate it. She will finish it for next time.

And here is the story that goes along with the picture:

How Trees Were Created

By Kathryn

A long time ago, during the Dreamtime, the land was flat and empty and the sun was very hot. A koala and a lizard were wandering in search for a home for the koala.

After a while, the koala became weak. “The sun is too hot for me,” he said to the lizard, “I cannot go any further. I need some shelter.”

The lizard looked around, but there was no shelter in sight. The lizard loved the warmth of the sun, but he saw that his friend, the koala, was very weak from the heat. He wondered if he could find a way to help shelter the koala while still receiving the warmth of the sun himself. Suddenly, the lizard got an idea. “Koala, my dear friend, I can provide you with shelter,” he said.

“You? But you’re so small! How could this be possible, Lizard?” asked the Koala.

The lizard lifted himself from the ground and rose until be was balancing on his tail. “Take some dirt and throw it on my body,” he instructed the koala. The koala did as the lizard asked, and as the brown dirt hit the lizard, it caused him to grow higher and higher and take on the brown color of the dirt. As he grew, he stretched out his arms and legs. The dirt spread onto them but left his fingers and toes alone. His green fingers and toes widened in order to shelter the koala from the sun.

The koala sat under the shelter that the lizard had provided, and the first tree was created.

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Homework:

- penser aux animaux (1 ou 2) qui seront au centre de votre histoire. Vous devez déjà réfléchir aux grandes lignes de votre histoire pour expliquer l'origine du monde selon les aborigènes.