First 5 Forever - Kids story time and song – ‘Snap! Went Chester’ and ‘Row Row Row Your Boat’ transcript
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The First 5 Forever logo, which has 5 stars on the left on the words ‘first 5 forever’, is in the centre of the screen. There is a pink animation showing a big frog and little frog talking, with the word TALK above the image. Next to this image is a yellow animation of a big frog and little frogs with their hands in the air, with music symbols around them. The word SING is above this image. Next is a blue animation with the big and little frog reading a pink book, with the word READ above them. The final animation is a green box with a big and little frog playing with blocks, with the word PLAY above them. The blue and yellow Logan City Council logo is in the top right-hand corner. 
Narrator:
Talk, sing, read and play with First 5 Forever 
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Debbie and Emily are sitting on chairs in a library. Debbie has a black First 5 Forever shirt on and Emily is wearing a yellow First 5 Forever shirt. They have a table between them and on the table is a book, some giant coloured blocks, and a plush green crocodile. They are sitting in a library with boxes of picture books behind them. There are artworks displayed on the walls behind them. 
Emily:
Hello I'm Emily.
Debbie:
And I'm Debbie.
Emily:
And we are from the Logan City Council Libraries’ First 5 Forever team. And today we get to share a story with you. But before we share our story we're going to do our Acknowledgement of Country. 
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Debbie and Emily place both hands out to the side at waist height, palms facing up.
Emily :
So at home you can use your arms and do the actions along with us. And if you know the words, you can say the words along with us as well.

Emily:
Are you ready?
Here we go
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Emily has hands out to the side at waist height, palms facing up.
Emily and Debbie:
Here is the land
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Debbie and Emily both move their hands in a flat circular motion. 
Emily and Debbie:
and here is the sky
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Debbie and Emily arch their hands above their heads and move them down to their side.
Emily and Debbie:
here are my friends
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Debbie moves her hands, palm up from their inside elbow out.
Emily and Debbie:
And here am I. 
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Debbie and Emily tap both their hands on their chest. 
Emily:
Perfect, alright.
So the story that we have chosen to read today is this one. It is called 'Snap Went Chester' 
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Debbie and Emily place their hands in their lap. Debbie looks over to Emily. Emily pick up the book from the table.
Emily:
And it's all about a crocodile. 
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The cover of the book is white and shows a brown crocodile with the title in green. Emily points to the crocodile.
Emily:
This story is written by Tania Cox and David Miller and this is how it goes. 
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Emily points to the authors and illustrators name then turns the page.
Emily:
One afternoon when Chester was wondering what to do,
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Books shows a picture of a brown, scaly crocodile, lying on brown mud and rocks with a fly overhead.
Emily:
A fly kept buzzing around his ear. 
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Emily is holding the book while Debbie looks on.
Emily:
Here's the little fly and he is buzzing around Chester's ear.
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Emily points to the fly in the book and uses a circling motion around the crocodile’s ear. Emily turns the page.
Emily:
SNAP! Went Chester
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Picture of a very big fly with big green eyes, yellow wings and the word ‘snap’ in green. Debbie uses her arms in a up down motion bringing the palms together to snap. Emily uses one hand to slap her knee.
Emily:
Great job Deb
Emily:
If you're at home, you can use your arms to do a big snap action just like a crocodile. 
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Debbie and Emily use their arms in a up down motion bringing the palms together to snap.
Emily:
Are you ready? SNAP! Great job
Snap went Chester and the fly zoomed away. 
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Picture of a very big fly with big green eyes, yellow wings and the word ‘snap’ in green and the jaws of the crocodile showing to the side.
Emily:
Chester smiled he had just thought of something to do! 
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Debbie looks at Emily and Emily smiles.  Emily turns the page.
Emily:
Chester saw a frog sitting on a lily pad, slowly he crept up on it
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Picture of a yellow, red and brown striped frog sitting large green lily pad. The frog has red toes. Emily turn the page.
Emily:
And SNAP! went Chester. The frog jumped high into the sky and Chester laughed. This was fun.
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Debbie has her hands in her lap, she looks at Emily. Emily is holding the book. Debbie moves her hands to her chest with the palms together and then claps her hands together in an up and down motion. The frog jumps there is the crocodile’s jaw at the side and the word ‘snap’ is in green. Emily turn the page.
Emily:
Then Chester saw a duck asleep on the riverbank. 
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Close up of a duck with a green head, golden wings and a red chest. The duck is sleeping on the ground in front of green reeds. There is a blue pond with other ducks flying above.
Emily:
What do you think Chester's going to do? Shhhhhh.
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Emily points to the duck and looks at Debbie. Debbie uses her hands in a snapping motion. Emily turns the page.
Emily:
SNAP! Went Chester. Off flies the ducks. 
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Emily shrugs her shoulders and points to the duck. Debbie uses her hands and snaps them together. The picture shows the duck lifting off from the reeds with the crocodile’s jaws peeping through the reeds. Emily turns the page.
Emily:
Cheeky Chester. 
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Debbie uses her hands and snaps them together. Emily looks at the illustration. 
Emily:
SNAP!
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Debbie uses her hands and snaps them together. Emily looks at the illustration. Crocodile jaws peeking from the edge of the page, near the tail of a small stripy animal with whiskers. The animal has a long tail and is standing on the mud of a riverbank with green reeds above. Emily turns the page.
Emily:
And again, SNAP! Went Chester. 
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Debbie uses her hands and snaps them together. Emily looks at the illustration, it shows a leopard walking along a long over the reeds with the crocodile’s jaws peeking out of the reeds near the leopard’s tail. Emily turns the page.
Emily:
SNAP! Went Chester again.
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Debbie uses her hands and snaps them together. Emily nods her head.
Emily:
What kind of animal is this? Do you know? I think maybe it's a flamingo.
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Emily points to the bird on the page. Crocodile’s jaw is peeking from the bottom of the page while a bird with long, bendy legs with pink and brown wings flies off. The word ‘snap’ is in green. 
Emily:
With his big long legs? Maybe?
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Emily traces the bird’s legs while Debbie looks on with her hands in her lap. Emily turns the page.
Emily:
SNAP! Went Chester to the monkey. 
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Debbie uses her hands and claps her palms together. Emily and Debbie are looking at the book.
Debbie: 
Can you make a monkey sound? 
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Debbie balls her fists and places them under her armpits with elbows out to the side. She moves her elbows up and down while smiling.
Emily and Debbie:
*Monkey sounds*
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Debbie continues to move her elbows up and down while smiling. Emily balls one fist and places it under her armpit with elbows out and moves her elbows up and down. Picture of a brown monkey climbing up the riverbank while the crocodile’s jaw snaps near the monkey’s foot. Emily turns the page.
Emily:
SNAP! Went Chester all afternoon. He was having a wonderful time.
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Debbie is smiling looking at the book. The book shows an antelope jumping over the ground with the word ‘snap’ in green.
Emily:
I don't know if I really like what Chester is doing. He's being very cheeky. 
Debbie:
Naughty.
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Emily shakes her head several times. The book shows an antelope jumping over the ground with the word ‘snap’ in green. Emily turn the page.
Emily:
Naughty Chester. 
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Picture of tall green reeds and wavy blue and green water. Inside the reeds are white feathers and a yellow beak. Emily turn the page.
Emily:
Until there was nothing left for him to snap at except for a tiny tail in the reeds. 
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Emily and Debbie are both looking at the book.
Emily:
Can you see the tiny tail Deb?
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Picture of tall green reeds and wavy blue and green water. Inside the reeds are white feathers and a yellow beak. Debbie’s finger points to the small white tail poking out of the reeds.
Debbie:
There it is!
Emily:
Slowly Chester crept up on it. Shhhhhh. 
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Emily puts one finger to her lips and Debbie places her palms together. Emily turns the page.
Emily:
And SNAP! Went something back at Chester. 
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Debbie claps her hands together. Emily and Debbie look towards the book.
Emily:
Look at this big pelican with his big snapping beak! 
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Emily points to the pelican’s feet, then to the pelican’s beak. The pelican is white with yellow feet and a yellow beak. The pelican’s beak is open with the work ‘snap’ in red.
Emily:
He snapped back at Chester. 
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Debbie and Emily look towards the book and Emily turns the page.
Emily:
Home went Chester as fast as he could,
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Picture of tall reeds with green and blue water. The crocodile is swimming in the water. Emily turns the page.
Emily:
Where he didn't, 
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Picture has the head brown scaly crocodile with a large yellow eye and sharp pointy teeth. There is a very little crocodile sitting on the large crocodile’s head.
Emily:
Snap anything for the rest of the day. 
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Debbie and Emily are looking at the book.
Emily:
Look how small Chester is on the big grown-up Crocodile. 
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Emily’s finger points to the little crocodile 
Emily:
Oh my goodness look at these teeth. 
Emily:
And that is the end of our crocodile story. Do you know a song about a crocodile? 
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Debbie looks at Emily who is pointing out the large white teeth of the big crocodile. Emily places the book back on the table. 
Emily:
What do you think Deb what could we sing?
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Emily looks towards where Debbie is sitting and places her hands on her lap.
Debbie:
I think we could go rowing in our boat. What do you think Emily?
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Emily and Debbie nod. They make fists and bring them to their chest.
Emily:
Yeah, so if you have two big strong rowing arms, 
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Emily holds her elbows out and her fists at shoulder height showing her biceps. Emily pushes her fists to the front with her elbows to the side and them pulls then back to her chest. 
Emily:
We can row forwards and backwards and sing our song. Are you ready? Here we go!
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Emily and Debbie push their fists to the front with their elbows to the side and then pulls them back to their chest, they continue this action, backwards and forwards. Emily picks up the plush green crocodile from the table which is a hand puppet. She places it on her hand and opening and closing the puppets mouth shaking it as well. Debbie shakes both hands in the air near her chest. 
Emily and Debbie:
Row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream

Row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream 
If you see a crocodile
don't forget to scream
Ahhhh!
Emily:
Snap, snap, snap goes Mr Crocodile! Shall we do it one last time?
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Emily opens and shuts the puppets mouth, then removes the puppet from her hand. Debbie is smiling looking over at the crocodile.
Debbie:
I think so.
Emily:
Ok! Are you ready?
Emily and Debbie:
Row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream 
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream

Row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream 
If you see a crocodile
Don't forget to scream!
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Emily places the puppet in her lap and Emily and Debbie push their fists to the front with their elbows to the side and then pulls them back to their chest, they continue this action, backwards and forwards. Debbie continues the action and Emily places the puppet on her hand.
Emily and Debbie:
Ahhh!
Snap, snap, snap, snap!
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Emily opens and shuts the mouth of the crocodile puppet, she is smiling looking at the crocodile. Emily places the puppet on her lap, and Debbie looks over smiling. Emily stretches her arm out in front of and claps her palms together in an up and down motion, snapping like the crocodile. Emily shrugs and puts her hands out to the side with bent elbows. Debbie and Emily place their hand in their laps.  
Emily:
Very good! Did you use your big snapping arms at home? Ok! Well that's the end of our story time today, so until next time, goodbye!
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Emily and Debbie wave.
Description:
The First 5 Forever logo, which has 5 stars on the left on the words ‘first 5 forever’, is in the centre of the screen. There is a pink animation showing a big frog and little frog talking, with the word TALK above the image. Next to this image is a yellow animation of a big frog and little frogs with their hands in the air, with music symbols around them. The word SING is above this image. Next is a blue animation with the big and little frog reading a pink book, with the word READ above them. The final animation is a green box with a big and little frog playing with blocks, with the word PLAY above them. 
Narrator:
Talk, sing, read and play with First 5 Forever 
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