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My Place

Introduction and Outcomes
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Learning Sequence:
Concluding Activity
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Concluding Activity

HSIE: ENS1.6 - Demonstrates an understanding of the relationship between environments and people., SSS1.8 - Identifies roles and responsibilities within families, schools and the local community, and determines ways in which they should interact with others.
ENGLISH: TS1.1 - Communicates with an increasing range of people for a variety of purposes on both familiar and introduced topics in spontaneous and structured classroom activities., TS1.3 - Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and considers how own talking and listening are adjusted in different situations.
PDHPE: IRS1.11 - Identifies the ways in which they communicate, cooperate and care for others., GDS1.9 - Describes the characteristics that make them both similar to others and unique.
CREATIVE ARTS: MUS1.1 - sings, plays and moves to a range of music, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts., DAS1.2 - Explores and selects movement using the elements of dance to make dance express ideas, feelings or moods.

Celebrating 'My Place'.

You will need the student folders or books, 'My Place' and the Warumpi Band's My Island Home - also sung by Christine Anu.

Prepare an assembly item featuring aspects of the student books. Children could read descriptions and show paintings. They could make statements about the sharing of the community by people in the past and the present and about their hopes for the future.

Develop and perform a dance to the song My Island Home, or similar.

Invite a storyteller to present a Dreaming story from the local area.

Extension Activity

Using the books, My Community - One Arm Point and My Community - Doon Doon Station, create a book about the local community featuring personalities who are important to the students, school and community.

Publish with photographs and leave on display in the school library for all to see and share.

 

  
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