celebrate australia

Learning Environment and Inquiry

What a fantastic group of learners you are!!!   You really showed off your finding out skills during our inquiry group work over the past two weeks.FINDING OUT comes after our IMMERSION stage in our inquiry – as you found out all about the symbols, emblems and flags which represent AUSTRALIA and WESTERN AUSTRALIA!  Great job, people!  😎I think the film makers were also SO impressed with the way in which you changed our learning environment to fit the job you were doing at the time!   It’s all about knowing what changes you need to make to learn best!  🙂

FAMOUS SONGS AND POEMS ABOUT AUSTRALIA

We will be listening to some famous poems and songs about Australia.  You will need to read and listen to the words very carefully and try to picture what they say in your head.  We will be singing the first song ourselves and trying to picture what the “First Australians” thought when they saw the tall ships arrive by sea.

1. “I am Australian” – music video of the song

2. MY COUNTRY – a poem by Dorothea McKellar

We will be learning this poem and trying to recite it ourselves.  You need to look out for all the describing words (adjectives) and we will be drawing pictures to illustrate each line of this poem.  Enjoy!  🙂

Looking at the describing words she uses, you are now going to illustrate her famous first verse of this poem.

Mrs Veary 😎

 

What Does Our Patch Look Like?

Today we are going to be looking at Our Patch – here in Margaret River.

We live in the south-west of Western Australia.

  1. Can you find where we are on this map?

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAP – you need to zoom in to find us

2.  What kinds of activities do people do in Our Patch – as a business which affects the environment?  (Think of the things you see around you when you drive around – between Busselton and Augusta)  Some of them are natural and some of them are man-made.

Today you will be writing about and drawing your favourite two places in Our Patch: one will be a NATURAL PLACE and one will be a MAN-MADE PLACE.  I can’t wait to see what places you will choose.