From Miss Hailey Birchers Early Learning Beaconsfield: "One of our Kinder friends spoke of a recent camping adventure and seeing kangaroos. This led us to discussing Australian animals and our Acknowledgement of Country. As it was the beginning of the year for us, we were still very much discussing what we are acknowledging and this included what was in our community. Where we are located there are a lot of house developments alongside kangaroos and other wildlife. From this we had a craft activity On Country in our outdoor classroom using clay and native floral from the community around us. As a group we listened as Miss Hayley read the book ‘Welcome to Country’ by Aunty Joy Murphy. We then set to creating whilst Indigenous music played and we had our amazing loose parts to creative with. It was encouraged to name the Aussie animals being created and then we created a display in our indoor classroom for our families to see."

