Life Stages of Animals
Create a poster about the life stages of a python, koala or kangaroo.
1. Read about one of the animals
2. Cut the pictures out and put them in the right order
3. Glue the pictures on a piece of paper
4. Write a sentence about each picture
Pythons
Pythons are egg laying snakes. When the female python has laid her eggs she
pushes them into a mount and coils around them to protect them and keep them
warm. It takes about 10-14 weeks for the eggs to hatch. When the young pythons
hatch they leave their mum and have to look after themselves.
Koala
Koalas are marsupials which mean that the females have a pouch where they carry
and feed their young. When a baby koala is born it is the size of the jellybean. A
baby koala stays in its mother’s pouch for about 6 months. After that the baby koala
starts to come out of the pouch and eat gum leaves. When the baby koala is 1 year
old they leave their mum and have to look after themselves.
Kangaroos
Kangaroos are marsupials which mean that the females have a pouch where they
carry and feed their young. When a baby kangaroo is born it is the size of jelly bean.
A baby kangaroo stays in its mother’s pouch for about a year. When they leave their
mother’s pouch they stay close as they have lots to learn.