Who we are in the ELC

Transdisciplinary theme

An inquiry into the nature of the self; beliefs and values; personal, physical, mental, social and spiritual health; human relationships including families, friends, communities, and cultures; rights and responsibilities; what it means to be human.

Identity is Unique to each person

Lines of Inquiry:

Identifying growth (Change)

Knowing how we develop (Growth)

Recognising similarities and differences from others shape our understanding of self (Reflection)

Throughout this term we have been focussing on getting to know each other, learning names and building trusting and respectful relationships with one another.

We began discussing our class ‘Essential Agreement.’ This is the children’s agreement on what they want the class to be like.

We began our unit of inquiry looking at our individual characteristics such as eye, hair and skin colour. We referred to our photos on display in the room and studied our image in the mirror to explore the similarities and differences we have.

We explored books about facial features and created faces from natural loose part materials such as buttons, pebbles, feathers, wool and clay to represent our thinking.

We created our class prayer cloth, adding individual drawings from every child to deepen their sense of belonging to the class.

We celebrated where we come from on Harmony day with discussions, language and a shared party.

We have continued our unit of inquiry looking at baby photos and discussing the physical changes from then until now.

We played a game of ‘guess the baby’ by noticing the similarities in the features of the baby to our classmate.

We went on an excursion to the Portrait Gallery where we explored many ways of creating portraits We used our knowledge of portraits to have a go at creating our own self-portraits. The children’s voices we captured around this were amazing. (photos below)

We have done ALL this, as well learning new routines, building relationships, learning and exploring our environment.