Last week our MWF preK classes experienced the wonders of Australia. We learned where Australia is located, we talked about the equator, created some Aboriginal art and much more. When we talk about our world, we introduce many concepts. The children are learning what an island is, we talk about the oceans and how would we travel. Our discussion is also that there are children, families, mommies and daddies all over the world. When we look at a country on the map, we ask the children if they think the children are awake or sleeping.
The children discovered that Mrs. Q is terrible at accents but that an accent is when someone sounds different than what you are used to. We have an accent! We would sound different to someone from Australia.
They worked really hard on their Aboriginal art, too!
A book about Australia...
Aboriginal art...
We traced each child's hand on recycled brown paper bags and packing paper.
We will have more aboriginal art next week at the easel. Animal shapes, markers and dot markers. Have a g'day mate!
