Niina Marni (Hello) everyone!
On Monday the 25 October Mrs Barber and Jacob Kelly set out with our friends from St Martin’s Catholic School to celebrate Aboriginal culture. We explored the theme, ‘we are living, learning and playing on Kaurna Land,’ at the Living Kaurna Cultural Centre at Warriparinga Wetlands.
We had a fabulous day learning about Kaurna Culture. We were warmly welcomed in a smoking ceremony, and we were adorned with some beautiful white ochre on our foreheads.
Our first activity was to build a traditional shelter using the resources around us. Together we collected items such as big branches, and clusters of leaves. The children worked together in teams to build shelters called Wodli, meaning house in Kauna. It was so much fun building our wodlis and then sitting inside them! At the end of this activity, the children learnt the valuable lesson of showing respect for the land and leaving the land as they found it, returning all the resources back to where they came from.
Our next two activities explored story telling using Aboriginal symbols. In one of these activities the children learnt about ochre and the different types used in Aboriginal art. For this activity the children used white ochre. We learnt how to prepare it by grinding it between stones before adding water to make a paste for painting. This special paint was then used to paint the stories that the children created using the Aboriginal symbols. In the final activity we listened to traditional Dreaming Stories. The children created and shared their own Dreaming Stories which were drawn on boomerangs.
It was wonderful to come together as a community to learn about the Kaurna Culture and connect with nature. A big thank you to Corey Turner and all the people who welcomed us to the Living Kaurna Cultural Centre.
Nakutha (Goodbye)
Michelle Barber and Jacob
A man and a women follow the emu tracks then they find 2 big streams and set up camp there for the night. The next morning they walk over a sand hill. They find lots of witchetty grub and set up camp and finally they hunt a kangaroo.
I enjoyed making the ochre and painting and I loved the food, especially the kangaroo sausage.
Jacob
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