NAIDOC Week Activities in Room 11

Over the past few weeks we have done a lot of actvities about Aboriginies to get ready for NAIDOC Week, which is officially celebrated from July 7-14.

In fitness we have been playing some Aboriginal games. One was called Chooba-Chooba. In this game a group of people pass the ball to each other and you have to count how many passes you do before dropping it. Our class record was 24. The Aboriginal people would use a ball made out of animal skin stuffed with leaves- YUCK! We just used a dodge ball.

We read alot of Dreaming stories. These stories explain how an animal became what it is (How the Birds Got Their Colours) or even how land was formed. We then wrote our own Dreaming story.

In groups we also read books about hunting, weapons and bush tucker. We had to take notes and share them with out group members. At the end we made our own Bush Tucker of damper! It was really delicious!

We also looked at traditional Aboriginal art work with dot painting. We then made our own dot painted boomerangs using the Aboriginal colours of brown, black, red, orange and yellow.

We have really enjoyed these activities and learning more about the tradition owners of the Australian land. our favourite activity was making damper, followed by doing the dot painting.

Here are some pictures of us hard at work!