Birdie and the flood – Auslan

Transcript

This is Birdie. Birdie is a happy bird who likes to sing. She lives in a nest in a tall tree, Birdie feels cosy and safe in her nest.

Birdie likes to catch worms and talk with her friend. Mr. Frog.

Mr. Frog lives in a pond with green lily pads.

One day when Birdie was looking for worms, she spotted some dark clouds in the sky.

Ping, ping, ping. Some drops of rain, fell out of the sky and landed on her head.

Birdie flew back up to her dry nest. The rain got harder and harder.

Ping, ping, ping. Splat, splat, splat.

The water was making big puddles on the ground.

Splash. Splash, splash, it went in the pond. There was loud thunder and lots of lightning.

Birdie didn't like the loud noises and all the water. It was scary.

Ping ping, ping the rain did not stop. Ping ping, ping it went on her head.

Splash. Splash, splash, it went in the pond.

Birdie got wetter and wetter, and colder and colder.

Soon her feathers and nest was soggy and yucky.

Birdie was not happy. She didn't feel safe, she was afraid.

The water came up and up. The pond got fuller and fuller soon. The water covered the ground, and then it covered the road. It even covered the cars and went into the houses.

When her nest started to break, Birdie flew to a safe place.

When the rain stopped, Birdie flew back to her tree. Oh no. Her tree was broken. Her nest was gone. There was water and mud everywhere. Birdie had lost all of her feathers in the storm, and she'd lost her home. She was very sad. She started to cry.

Mr. Frog was sad and worried too. His beautiful pond was dirty and full of mud and rubbish. All the lily pads were gone. What were they going to do?

Lots of helpers came. Birdie did not like the sound of the helicopters that came to help. Chop chop chop went the blades as they spun round and round, making a big whooshing wind. Whirrr went the engines.

Birdie was frightened and covered her ears with her wings. Mr. Frog went under the water with a splash.

The helpers brought buckets and shovels and saws to clean and fix.

Z-z-z went the saws, swish, swish went the brooms. Some helpers brought sticks to build Birdie, a new nest. Some of Birdie's friends brought feathers to make a new coat.

Soon everything was clean. All the rubbish was gone. Birdie had a bright new coat with lots of colours. She had a warm nest.

She and Mr. Frog were safe and happy again.