by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | AEG
Classroom Activity: Teachers make copy of Kookaburra from Activity Booklet for students to colour in. Maybe take turns making the sound of the kookaburra. Teachers Notes: “Kookaburra by Claire Saxby & Tannya Harricks” The laughing Kookaburra is the larger...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | AEG
Classroom Activity: Plant seeds like bean seeds and/or plant carrot tops on cotton wool in water. Look at spears on the Wandana Artefacts chart and cards. Teachers Notes: There are over 700 different species of eucalyptus trees in Australia. The natural...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorised
Classroom Activity: Classroom Activity: Sensory tray- colour mixing, make a paint brush, make your own ochre mixing clay and water together. Look at the white and yellow ochre(in Coolomons) on Wandana artefacts Chart provided. Make your own paint with seeds, flowers,...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorised
Classroom Activity: Watch Wandana Sean Ryan playing Didgeridoo and collect sticks to tap along to song, just like using your own clap sticks. Look at the clap sticks and various boomerangs on your Wandana artefacts chart. Teachers Notes: Returning boomerangs...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorised
Classroom Activity: Play music provided and practice Emu and Bird Dance moves. Use images from the activity book supplied or (download) Teachers Notes: Music and dance are important to Aboriginal culture and used as everyday life and to mark special occasions....
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorised
Classroom Activity: Practice animal dance moves for the kangaroo and goanna lizard. Play Wandana Sean Ryan didgeridoo music (below). Use flash cards provided with the animal names (download). Teachers Notes: Music and dance are important to Aboriginal culture...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorised
Classroom Activity: Make a sound from a recycled material. Make a birds nest using recycled materials including twigs, straw, etc. Teachers Notes: The emu caller is a small 30cm section from a Yidaki (Didgeridoo) or hollow branch which would be used for...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorised
Classroom Activity: Paint/draw favourite symbols on paper, bark or canvas. Can also draw symbols in the sandpit to create stories. Use Wandana symbols cards provided to play snap. Teachers Notes: Aboriginal people have used traditional ochre as paint for...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorised
Classroom Activity: Sing the song again together and practice movements. Munch N Move. Move around like a goanna. What’s the time Mr Woolf? Teachers Notes: Inanay Cupuana is a beautiful Indigenous song, thought to be from the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal people of...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorised
Classroom Activity: Students with the help of Educators look for items starting with a Letter in your Centre or outside. Start with letter A…is for…..,B is for…. Educator asks ”anyone here today whose name starts with the letter A?”….How about the letter B?…. Let’s...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorised
Classroom Activity: Create a sand sensory tray using the three (3) colours of the Aboriginal flag.(Red, black & yellow). Paint rocks with three (3) colours. Colour pasta with three (3) colours. Draw and colour your Aboriginal Flag. Teachers Notes: The...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorised
Classroom Activity: Practice song and movements from the video. Create an ocean sensory bin with various materials to play with in a tub. Teachers Notes: In 1998 , the first National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Childrens Day was established on the 4th...