Last week the children explored the Dreamtime story How the Birds got their colours as told by Mary Albert. We participated in various shared reading activities and spoke about the importance of story telling in Indigenous culture. We learnt that in the Indigenious culture, they pass stories down from generation to generation to help them develop understandings of the importance of the animals and the land.
We got familiar with the story and made connections between the text and ourselves. We thought about times we might have seen birds of different colours and of times that people have helped us, just like the parrot in the story. We used the comprehension strategy of summarising to find out the important parts of the story and completed a story wheel. We had a lot of fun drawing the pictures to match the story!
Below are some pictures of the children constructing our story wheel and the final product!
We did some evaluating between a claymation version of the story and compared it to the story book version. We discussed what some of our reasoning was when choosing our favourite and a lot of the children chose the story book version as they enjoyed the voices and expression the class used when reading.
Below is the video of how the birds got their colours that you can share with your children, I'm sure they will love telling you about it!
Thank you
Miss Prowse
