Week 3

Week 3
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Students checked Wagga's online diary at the IETA website and were pleased to see Wagga had arrived safely in Kuranda.
They then looked at the CD that Wagga had sent back last year which had been made with the help of Nicola House, the Teacher Librarian at the Kuranda District School. It included words and dreaming stories from the Djabugay people. The students started to notice different animals in the stories, like the cassowary and crocodiles. The land was also different with many rivers, mountains and rainforest plants, not like the Adelaide Plains area of the Kaurna people.

There were two little movies for the students to watch from last year showing how to do a couple of dances: the Shake-a-leg and Cassowary. In one of them Wagga had been learning too!

The video, which had also been sent down in 2003, had an aboriginal man being interviewed about Djabugay stories and their connections to the land. There was a story about how the crocodile got its teeth, another one about greedy birds and a snake, and one about fighting brothers and how the mountains were formed.
The students finished their lesson by experimenting with drawing tools in 'Powerpoint' in preparation for their creating their own stories later.

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Students checked Wagga's online diary at the IETA website and were pleased to see Wagga had arrived safely in Kuranda. They then looked at the CD that Wagga had sent back last year which had been made with the help of Nicola House, the Teacher Librarian at the Kuranda District School. It included words and dreaming stories from the Djabugay people. The students started to notice different animals in the stories, like the cassowary and crocodiles. The land was also different with many rivers, mountains and rainforest plants, not like the Adelaide Plains area of the Kaurna people.
	There were two little movies for the students to watch from last year showing how to do a couple of dances: the Shake-a-leg and Cassowary. In one of them Wagga had been learning too!
The video, which had also been sent down in 2003, had an aboriginal man being interviewed about Djabugay stories and their connections to the land. There was a story about how the crocodile got its teeth, another one about greedy birds and a snake, and one about fighting brothers and how the mountains were formed.		The students finished their lesson by experimenting with drawing tools in 'Powerpoint' in preparation for their creating their own stories later.