Monday, February 8, 2010

Our Australia Unit Begins


We started our Australia unit today - kids thought it was a cool start, which is always nice. It's encouraging to see their continued excitement and enthusiasm for learning.

Today we...
-Read and sung the National Anthem... will continue this through the unit so they learn it by heart
-Checked out where Australia is on the globe and coloured it on a map...noting some other countries that are bigger or smaller
-Read the first chapter of A Little Bush Maid

Down the track we'll be visiting Sovereign Hill, going camping in the bush, cooking a couple of Aussie recipes, watching the movie The Man From Snowy River.... all filled out with colouring and craft activities about flora & fauna, the states and capitals... and a bunch of other bits!
I think I'm looking forward to it as much as they are :o)

oh - if you want the National Anthem... the words are here but don't use their music to sing it by (dreadful, like, really dreadful)... we prefer this for music

5 comments:

  1. Sounds fantastic, and loads of fun learning! xxx

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  2. Let us know when you visit Sovereign Hill - we're only an hour and a half away!!

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  3. Where are you Jeanne? I had to laugh... you could well live next door to us (though I think not) as we're also 1.5 hours away

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  4. Sovereign Hill next Tuesday!

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