Making Damper. Will A: Hey we go to Kindergarten too! Harrison: why does he have a bath outside? I have a shower inside and I put in my whole body.

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1 Purple Group Reflection Term two week five Making Damper On Wednesday purple group began to read the book Tom Tom by Rosemary Sullivan with Ashleigh. This is a story about a boy called Tom Tom who goes to Kindergarten. He lives in the Top End of the Northern Territory. This story highlights the importance of family relationships and connectedness in Aboriginal society. As Ashleigh was reading the story the children were making connections between the similarities and differences they have with Tom Tom. Will A: Hey we go to Kindergarten too! Harrison: why does he have a bath outside? I have a shower inside and I put in my whole body. As Ashleigh was reading the book we continued to come across words that we had not head before like debil debil and damper. What s damper asked Hannah Ashleigh described that damper was a type of bread that you can make from flour, salt and water and cook on a fire. Can we make it? said Will A. As a group we helped Ashleigh get the ingredients and began to make the damper mixture.

2 Outcome 2: Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of Identity - Children develop knowledgeable and confident self identities

3 Dinosaurs This week we had a very special visit from Leanne from the Melbourne Museum. Leanne talked to the children about if any of the children had been to The Melbourne Museum and told us what are some of the things we can see at the Museum. talked to us about the history of dinosaurs and we learnt some more dinosaur names. She asked us lots of questions like What we ate for breakfast did we eat leaves? Did we eat some meat? Did we eat some stones?

4 There was a dinosaur that ate leaves, they had small round teeth do you know who it could be? Brachiosaurus! We learnt that animals that eat only leaves and plants are called herbivores. There was a dinosaur that loved to eat meat and other dinosaurs, with sharp pointy teeth. Do you know who that could be? T-Rex all the children shouted. There was a dinosaur that ate pine cones! Do you know who it could be? It s a Stegosaurus. We learnt that the Stegosaurus had no teeth at the front of it s mouth and only had small teeth at the back. So the Stegosaurus would swallow the pine cones whole, then eat two stones. Once the pine cones and the stones were in it s tummy, it would contract it s muscles to squash the stones onto the pine cone to break it down to digest it. The Stegosaurus also had something along it s back to protect them from other dinosaurs body plates.

5 So, are dinosaurs alive? Leanne asked. There extinct! said the children. Leanne then read a story called Tracy the T-Rex. It told the story of Tracy becoming extinct and how a Palaeontologist found her bones and took them to the Museum. Do you know what colour a dinosaur is? Leanne showed the children a picture of dinosaurs that were all different colours. Some had spots, others where pink and our favourite was the rainbow dinosaur. Leanne played dinosaur freeze where we all walked around chomping like Brachiosaurus, roaring like T- Rex, and gulping like Stegosaurus. We then got to meet Chintoesawrus. Do you think it could fit inside the kinder? We had some helper to assemble the bones to see it s skull and foot, shin and thigh bones. All the children were amazed to see the large bones and fossils as Leanne revealed them.

6 LEARNING Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and flexibility This is evident, for example, when children: Are curious and enthusiastic participants in their learning. Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials. This is evident, for example, when children: Experience the benefits and pleasures of shared learning exploration