Monday, November 29, 2010

Excursion! AKA Field Trip

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Last Wednesday all the Stretton year 4 students and teachers
went on an excursion to an Aboriginal Heritage Center.
...there were a lot of us!
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They kicked the day off by giving us an Aboriginal face painting. 
The girls and the boys had a different disign. 
The boys were kangaroo paws. 
Ours meant "young lady."
That is my cooperating teacher, Lorinda. 
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Next, the boys and the girls learned dances and preformed for each other. 
The dances tell a story. 
Our story was of a women picking berries. 
The boys told a story with an eagle. 
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After morning tea, the classes were split up and went to different stations. 
One was talking about how the Aboriginals use the animals. 
There were a bunch of skins, shells ect. 
He also showed us the tools used to kill the animals.. note the boomerang.
Most impressively at this station, he played the didgeridoo! 
I will try to put up a video of after Wednesday.. when the internet is fast again.

Another station was story telling, 
Uncle Wally also taught us how to use a spear.
He was very entertaining.
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Most exciting was learning how to throw a boomerang! 
Lorinda was a natural! 
Her's nearly came all the way back. 
I found it funny and a little dissapoining, 
that our instructor has never caught a boomerang.
It was still fun to try. 
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Before we knew it, it was time to load the buses and head back to school. 
Notice the color of the bus! 
No yellow buses here!
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