We are very interested in learning more about Aboriginal culture at kinder, so we really enjoyed a visit fom Jo and Tony today.

Tony played the didgeridoo and Jo played the clapping sticks.

Jo told us about the dreaming – it’s the story that Aboriginal people tell about what they do, what they hunt, where they live, and so on.

Jo showed us how they got the idea for some of the symbols we know – the person sitting down symbol comes from the marks in the dirt when someone has been sitting down.

This dreaming is about people  sitting around the fire hole near a big rock and they found an emu egg – they put it in their dillybag.

We made a mural of our dreaming at Ouyen kinder.

The children each chose some symbols that they could make up a story about – sitting down by a waterhole with their dad, or going hunting with a boomerang for emu.

This dreaming was about sitting around a water hole with an emu egg and the dilly bag and a digging stick to find some bush potatoes – we followed the emu tracks  to find the egg.

And  we pretended to be emus pecking on the ground then stretching out our necks to look around.

We think that our Ouyen Dreaming is pretty special!