NAIDOC INCURSION BY KOULAH, ALONA AND OLIVER

On Thursday 4 August Room 19 went to the NAIDOC incursion to learn about Aboriginal culture with Miss Dagostino. Leonard taught us lots of important facts. Room 19 learnt something very interesting about echidnas and platypus. They are the only mammals in the world that lay eggs. We also learned about how they kill to eat animals evenly so they don’t wipe out a specific animal. Did you know that kangaroo bones are used for needles? Room 19 had a lot of fun when they connected wool to each animal that they held.

Boys, you’re lucky you’re in the 21^st century because if you hit a kangaroo with wood and it breaks this means you didn’t choose the correct hard wood. So you would get hit across the face with very hard wood. Last but not least Aboriginal women used to use digging sticks as their walking sticks. Thanks for reading.

Some other things we learnt during our NAIDOC Incursion:

• Aboriginal people make bags and clothes out of kangaroo skin
• When the owl visits Leonard’s family that means someone is dying
• Gum nuts have seeds in them and birds like parrots and cockatoos can get the seeds out with their special hooked beaks
• Aboriginal people never hunt the baby animals. They need time to grow and have babies.
• Aboriginal people use the boomerang to make the ducks think that an eagle is above them and this confuses the duck and makes it easy for them to be killed
• Aboriginal people use the tendons from the kangaroos as cotton/string to sew with
• You can use a big stick and put it in a snake hole to kill them
• All animals are killed for food
• Aboriginal people use fishing spears to catch fish – it has four hooks on it
• When it’s winter you wear the kangaroo skin with the fur facing your body
• When it’s summer you wear the kangaroo skin with the fur facing out
• If you find a snake track going into a building you have to make sure you find another one going out otherwise the snake is inside the building
• Everything in nature is connected – tangled with wool
• Leonard spoke about how important the trees are and how just by destroying one tree it affects things like; bees, birds, butterflies, possums, snakes, cockatoos, crickets, ants, lizards, bugs