JarJum Stories Live!
Each Thursday the Sea Turtles have been participating in JarJum Stories Live.
The stories are an initiative of the State Library of Queensland and kuril dhagun. Jarjum [ pronounced jah-jum] means children.
The free live-streamed session involving First Nations children’s storybooks are guided by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives.
They may involve dance, painting a performance or an interactive yarn.
Sharing Stories is a foundation pedagogy within The ‘8 Aboriginal ways of learning’ framework.
Through intentional teaching experiences, educators use their cultural competence to building children’s knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and being.
Two stand out stories from the month of May were;
- The rainbow serpent, told by Nana Magic; and
- Kookoo Kookaburra read by Minister of the Arts Hon Leeanne Enoch MP.
Nanna Magic presented the story sitting in the hollow trunk of an old eucalyptus tree.
She told how the Indigenous Australian believe that the mountains and rivers were formed by the Rainbow serpent and that the serpent protect the creeks and rivers.
Nanna Magic used a puppet serpent to tell the story.
To further embed their understanding of the rainbow serpent the class worked on a collaborative mural of the serpent.
By tearing coloured paper into small pieces, this represented the serpents rainbow scales. We then glued it onto the mural.
‘Kookoo Kookaburra’ is a story from the Dreamtime about Kookoo a kookaburra, and highlights kindness and the importance of thinking about how your actions will affect others.
After listening to the story the class identified what was an act of kindness and what was unkind.
The acts of kindness were written onto a friendship feather.
The children passed around the friendship feathers around the group, each child adding to the own line/symbol/dot art, resulting in a collaborative illustration on each feather.
- , i.e. narrative-driven learning
- learning maps, i.e. visualised learning processes
- non-verbal, i.e. hands-on/reflective techniques
- symbols & images, i.e. use of metaphors and symbols
- land links, i.e. land-based learning
- non-linear, i.e. indirect, synergistic logic, interdisciplinary approach
- deconstruct reconstruct, e.g. modelled/scaffolded genre mastery
- community links, i.e. connection to community.
That’s all from us until next week
Miss Patti and the Sea Turtles.
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