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.

Central Idea

What Makes Me Me

 Lines of Inquiry and concepts

  - Personal growth and the growth of others (Change)

  - Individual personality and characteristics (Form)

  - Personal Identity (Perspective)

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

The children shared Who We Are through posters, photos, stories, mini-interviews and the sharing of personal items.

We explored many books and compared the characters from stories to ourselves.

We were interested in height and compared our heights to others in our class.

We looked at our individual characteristics such as eye, hair and skin colour, exploring 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 celebrated where we come from on Harmony day with cultural dress, language, dance and baking damper.

We looked at baby photos and discussed the physical changes from then until now.

We played a game of ‘Guess the Baby’, noticing the similarities in the features of the baby to our classmate.

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