We read a big book about Australia Day
because the author told us lots of
information about who lives in our
country and what we celebrate, and
where we can go to see wonderful
places.. When we read the first pages
we think “Hey, we can change a word to
match the day we are celebrating now”.
So we take out the word Australia and
replace it with Harmony
“Australia opens its doors to people of many cultures.”
During our viewing of the globe we see Australia has ocean all the
way around it. It is an island as well as a continent. On our maps
we use strips of blue crepe paper dabbed with water to make the
colour seep out all the way around the Australia outline. It is
tricky work to make sure the ocean doesn’t go on the land and
that the strips have enough water for the magic to work.
Inside the country outline pictures of people are drawn. They
come from many different families as they all have different
coloured skin.
The doors are done separately. Exercises of straight lines down
and sideways are completed around the frame with a water
based texta. Water is also painted over the lines to make the
colour ‘bleed’ onto the door outline.
Some of us dress in a
costume that connects us
with our family background
or country of origin.
Some of us dress using the
colour of orange.
The word harmony has seven letters.
We learnt about number 7.
It is written with one pencil stroke. It has two straight
lines, one is sideways and one is down on a slant. The
two lines are joined by a point (corner).
Red Group students covered the first four letters in
harmony. Blue Group students covered the remaining
three.
4+3=7
Now the seven letters are orange.
Orange is the colour of harmony.
Harmony has three syllables.
Har/mo/ny
It is considered a long word.