What's On In Foundation

For our Integrated Unit Foundation students have been investigating how to be more sustainable and care for our environment. We have then learnt about our Indigenous culture, and recently have explored DreamTime Stories. 

We were so excited to participate in a Drama Toolbox incursion that brought the well known DreamTime story ‘Tiddalik’ to life, with the help of music and costumes. 

Tiddalik was a very greedy frog who did not share any of the fresh water with his animal friends. Students were so excited to turn themselves into many of our native animals and role play the story. Smiles and laughter filled the air as our ‘birds’ flew around the room and our ‘frilled neck lizards’ growled to scare off others! All the animals worked as a team and performed a vibrant ‘eel dance’ with scarves. Tiddalik laughed so hard that all of the water came out of his belly and filled up the billabong again!

This was such a lovely way to bring a traditional DreamTime story to life and into our classroom.

“I loved being the lizard because of the sound we made…ARHHH. I loved when the frog ‘laughed’ and let out the water” Xavier

“I enjoyed being the cockatoo because it was fun to spin and pretend to fly around.” Lola

“ I really liked being a frilled necked lizard.” Sam

“ I loved being the large cockatoo and flying around.” Poppy

“I liked being the kookaburra because I liked trying to make the frog laugh.” Alice

“I liked being the wombat because of the way we moved around. I liked when we pretended to drink the water.” Marli

“I liked being the frill necked lizard because of the sound we made.” Levi

“I liked being a lizard because we were trying to make the frog  laugh.” Nila

 “I liked hearing the story at the start.” Franklin

“I liked being the lizard because we had the eels.” Connor

“I was a kangaroo and enjoyed pretending to drink the water.” Serena

“I enjoyed trying to make the frog laugh.” Paris

“I liked being the cockatoo because we got to fly and sit in our tree!” Killarney

“I liked it when Tiddilik drank all the water. I was thirsty and there was no water left!”  Theo

“I loved hearing the thunderstorm on the speaker. It sounded like it was outside!”  Aaima

“I liked being the lizard the most because I could scare the frog with my scary voice’ Tommy

“My favourite thing was being the cockatoo because I could fly” Scarlett

“I liked being an emu as I flew to the river to drink”  Maya

“I liked when Tiddalik got really fat by drinking all of the water”  Tom

“I liked the emu dance where they had to make the frog laugh” Sienna

 “I liked everything, especially the costumes!” Serena