Inspired by our ongoing study of the ǃKung, ǀXam, Nǁnǂe, Kxoe, Haiǁom, Ncoakhoe, Tshuwau, Gǁana and Gǀui — some of the peoples of southern Africa — one of our students took the opportunity to show her peers how she makes bows, sparking conversations about craftsmanship, hunting, and learning through doing.
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San, Senses and Similes
Exploring restaurant-critic-style metaphors and similes, inspired by a real-life exploration of herbs and provoked by our study of some of the first known people groups in Southern Africa.
Evidence of Human Activity
Before asking the question, “How do historians and archaeologists use different kinds of evidence to learn about people from the Later Stone Age?”, we first explored our own space for evidence of human activity — and were surprised by what we found.
The Environment as Teacher
“What can we gather from our space?” A practical introduction to the ǃKung, ǀXam, Nǁnǂe, Kxoe, Haiǁom, Ncoakhoe, Tshuwau, Gǁana and Gǀui — some of the peoples of southern Africa known for their deep knowledge of foraging, observation, movement, storytelling, and relationship with the land.
Heritage Feast
We celebrated our diversity with the foods from each of cultures.
Information and Communication Technology
As part of the ICT curriculum students are encouraged to build a structure – a bridge (min span of 20cm, max span of 30cm), for example – using recycled materials, using shapes to ensure that their structure is as rigid as possible.
Peer Reviewing Photos
What we notice about still images of ourselves; focused on the mouth, the eyes, the nose, eyelashes, lids, cultures, emotions, to name a few.
Creative Arts
Our Foundation (6-to-9-year-old) students working with clay; rolling a slab and adding patterns that they have designed themselves.
Renovation
As part of their continuing exploration of ‘Creation Care’ our Foundation Phase students had the opportunity to listen and express their observations, thoughts and wonders in response to Boundless’ – Renovation (feat. Andy Flanagan and Lucy Crimble) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAN-pPxTK7o
Programing Robots
Our Foundation Phase created their own mazes and wrote a sequence of instructions – using arrows or letters (R, L, FW, BW) – to program a robot to a specific destination.