Natural materials are a big part of Aboriginal arts. To connect with this, children searched through a selection of natural materials and placed these over a piece of cardboard which they covered using torn pieces of bark sheets as a background. The paperbark mosaic formed the backdrop whilst stones, paper bark, leaves, shells, gum, nuts, twine…
Category: Inquiry Journey
End of Term Assembly
For those of you interested in rewatching the Prep’s contribution to the school’s Term Two Assembly, a link has been created for you here. In it, you’ll find a small selection of videos related to our exploration of collaboration through various construction projects and a dinosaurs mural.
Building Our Understanding of Collaboration
“In provocations we did collaboration.” Allen This response from Allen to the writing reflection in which children had a go at writing what they had been doing in provocations sums up our focus. It’s also a clear indication that the children have a solid understanding of our inquiry into collaboration. We see collaboration in all…
What Can We Leave Behind?
The children have begun to notice traces of past inquiries left by previous preps and have begun to ask the question ‘what can we leave behind?’ We’ve reflected on our learning over the course of the year and the children were able to identify and discuss that our inquiry has been on the concept of…
Strong & Capable
The children have settled back into school beautifully. Every day they demonstrate what strong and capable children they are, following our daily routines with ease and confidence. It is a joy to have them back! We continue our inquiry into what it means to “collaborate”. To grow the children’s understanding of “collaboration” and make connections…
Oh, how time flies!
As the term draws to a close, the preps have been focused on bringing together all their skills and understandings. We’re all very excited to bring our ideas about collaboration, creativity and dinosaurs to the next level. Although the term is ending, we haven’t slowed down! Last week, many students had the opportunity to dip…
What is it to wonder?
What matters to us and what we are wondering about connects us to each other. As a way for us to get to know the children more deeply and gain an understanding of their interests and prior knowledge about the world, we asked them “what do you wonder about?’. We chose to use this question…