Year 1 have been exploring: What doesn’t change? Many ideas have been explored including a student’s wondering if ‘letters and numbers have ever changed’. To explore this wondering we looked at how Aboriginal people recorded their stories overtime and how they communicated with each other. We discovered there were 250 Aboriginal languages and overtime some have been lost but 150 remain. We brainstormed and then researched how knowledge was/is passed down and found that it is shared through story-telling, deep listening, song, dance and artwork using symbols. We enjoyed learning about the dreaming and dreamtime stories. We wrote our own stories and presented them to our class in a chosen form. We have also enjoyed participating in the First Nations bedtime stories program this week practising using our deep listening whilst listening to Elders.

Bec Witts/Bridgette