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May 31st
Meeting Uncle Russell and the Start of our Day of Learning about Indigenous Culture. This was our Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony at the start of our SUPER DAY!
Cleansing ourselves with the smoke from the gum leaves as Uncle Russell taught us by waving our hands in the smoke towards our body.
Uncle Russell painted our faces and for some of us, our hair too!
Playing the didgeridoo
Showing us some traditional tools used by Aboriginals
Clapping sticks and we got to do a dance with these instruments
Getting our faces painted
Helping us to make an Indigenous inspired piece of art with our hands
Learning to throw a boomerang with Uncle Russell. We couldn’t believe our eyes how high he could throw it and how it returned back to him. WOWZERS!
Uncle Russell painting his Totem (the black snake ) on our artwork!
This term our Inquiry topic is “Who Lived Here First?” and this week we have been learning more about the Stolen Generation. We listened to Archie Roach, watched a few interviews of Indigenous people of Australia telling their stories or their family’s story and then we watched a clip from the movie “The Rabbit Proof Fence” and wrote an imaginative recount of what happened. Check out our writing pieces below the videos.
What did you learn about Sorry Day or the Stolen Generation? What does this make you wonder? How does this make you feel?
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