2012 Term 4 Week 3 Day 2

Kindergarten

Religion: Lives of the Saints
☑ What is a patron saint?

English: Games
☑ Phonics Genius
☑ Meme Tales

Mathematics: IXL / iPad
☑ Motion Maths: Wings (pre-multiplication)

Creative Arts: Drawing
☑ Stencil Drawing

Human Society & Environment: Mystery Activity
Theme: All about me.
☑ Shopping excursion with Daddy

Science & Technology: Why Is It So?
☑ Dancing raisins experiment - why does dried fruit "dance" in a glass of fizzy drink?

Science & Technology
☑ Audio illusions. Following on from yesterday's optical illusions, Waratah asked to re-watch one of our favourite videos, David Attenborough and the Lyre Bird. We also found this video of a lyrebird in Adelaide zoo that (very briefly) captured a human whistling and speaking as well as a range of construction equipment.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education: Video
Crawford the Cat lets everyone play

Cultural Studies: Craft
☑ When investigating talking sticks yesterday, we discovered the Aboriginal Journey Stick:

This is an idea that originates from the aboriginal people from Australia. When they went on long journeys, Australian Aborigines created a journey stick to help remind themselves about the things It acted as a verbal map, enabling them to recount the story of their journey to others. It involved tying objects to a recording their experience. Find a short stick and wool to show places, objects and feelings to stick. Your special tree! Hold your palm in front of you and draw on the main palm lines. You could use a stick dipped in wet mud to draw with! Now look around you for the same pattern in the branches of a tree, the tiny twigs, bark, roots or other parts of the plant. This is your special tree. Draw your unique palm pattern and the tree that you link with. they had seen and experienced. stick (that represented different experiences or parts of the journey) in the order that they found. It was an individual, unique and personal way of recording their experience.
(WESTONBIRT: The National Arboretum)
 

Waratah was intrigued by this idea, so we decided to make one, recording the "journey" around our house.

Waratah's Journey stick on the left, mine on the right.

Detail of Waratah's Journey stick

Talking about it afterwards, we noticed the way in which a journey stick can be a map of the different environments we passed through.

From the pasture / grassland in the front paddock ...

through the fruit trees, chook pen and flower garden around the house...

to the bush out the back.

PreK - Play-based learning (EYLF)

Sensory Play
☑ Dancing raisins - fizzy fruit

Exploratory Play
☑ Mulga loved this David Attenborough spoof and asked to hear it multiple times!

Manipulative Play
☑ Zibitz Robot track

Dramatic Play
☑ Building a play fort

Creative Play

Mulga enjoyed running around with the stick and wool rather than creating a Journey stick.

Mulga did enjoy some sticker work, and using crayons to add some extra background colour.

Infant - Learning stories

☑ Boronia played in the clover, exploring the way the leaves and flowers felt on her face, her fingers and her toes.