It is all systems go in Class Four as we prepare to head off to Dryandra for our school camp!  We are really looking forward to spending time together connecting as a class, as well as exploring the biodiversity and sacred sites within the Dryandra woodland.

Our school camp compliments our previous main lessons of Human and Animal studies as well as Spirituality of the Dreaming.  We are also looking forward to applying our new mapping skills, stemming from the story of a new girl in class who could not stop floating up and out of her seat, and drew all her pictures from a bird’s eye view!  We then brought a bird’s eye view to our perspective of Golden Hill and rose courageously to the challenge of generating our own maps without support of standard school maps or satellite images!

With Ashley we have been delving into the History of Writing.  We traced back the very beginning of writing to ancient Sumerian, and made our very own clay tablets and wrote our initials in Cuneiform.  When we then searched for the origins of our own alphabet we discovered that some of the letters, like A and B, came from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics!  This mystery drew us deep into the desert and we are excited to announce that we have just unearthed the Rosetta Stone.  No code or cipher is safe from our enquiring minds!  Who knows what symbols or signs we may discover etched into Boyagin rock?

Be sure to watch this space ...!

Warmly,

Renee and Ashley