Day Twenty-Nine (Final Day)

Day Twenty-Eight

Cleaning out the school
Saying goodbye to everyone

Day Twenty-Seven

Individual Kids' Evaluations
Presentation of certificates, CDs and canvasses

Day Twenty-Six

Activities from today:
STORYTIME - Albert Einstein
SCIENCE - Cornflour goo & Film canister rockets
ENGLISH - Reading a novel ('The Bad Beginning')
COMPUTERS - Setting up personal Skype accounts
ART - Decorate CD covers

Day Twenty-Five

Activities from today:
Active Survey
RECAP - 'How Can I?' video screening
COMPUTERS - Setting up personal emails
STORYTIME - Barack Obama
MUSIC - Song recording, 'From Little Things Big Things Grow'
SCIENCE - Lava lamps & Dancing sultanas
ART - Finishing off painting canvasses

Days Twenty-Three & Twenty-Four - Final Weekend

Day Twenty-Two

Activities from today:
MUSIC - making musical instruments + 'There's nothing I would rather be...' sing-along
ENGLISH - reading a novel ("The Bad Beginning")

Day Twenty-One

Activities from today:
MINYERRI TRIATHLON - 
i) swimming relay race
ii) running race
iii) ball-catching competition


Also, there was a planned consultation session with the community.

How Can I?

This video, filmed by us in Minyerri over the last day or so, was shown to the kids for the first time this morning. We hope it gets them thinking about their dreams and the pathways to achieving them.

Day Twenty

Activities from today:
MULTIMEDIA - showing of 'How Can I?' video
ART - painting individual canvasses
MATHS - Sudoku
COMPUTERS - introduction to Skype
ART - editing, printing personal photographs
EXTRA - Hide-and-go-seek

Day Nineteen

Activities from today:
MUSIC - 'Man in the Mirror' sing-along
STORYTIME - Jessica Mauboy & Dan Sultan
COMPUTERS - Google Earth, tour of tutors' houses & Melbourne University
ENGLISH - Reading a novel ("The Bad Beginning")
ART - Photograph your three favourite things about Minyerri
SCIENCE - Circuit-making (introduction to electronics)

Day Eighteen

Activities from today:
Active survey
SCIENCE - Volcano in a jar
STORYTIME - Liam Jurrah
MUSIC - Voice projection
COMPUTERS - Introduction to emails
ENGLISH - Reading
ART - Painting T-shirts

Days Sixteen & Seventeen - The Weekend

Day Fifteen

Activities from today:
RACE AROUND MINYERRI (team building) -
i) Blind Obstacle Course
ii) Walk the Plank
iii) Weet-Bix Challenge
iv) Magic Carpet
v) Human Knot

Plus a Community BBQ this evening.

Day Fourteen

Activities from today:
MATHS - Introduction to Sudoku
STORYTIME - Vincent Lingiari + 'From Little Things Big Things Grow'
COMPUTERS - Blog entry ("What do you want to be when you grow up?) + image
SCIENCE - Rocket balloon races
SPORT - Stuck in the mud, Basketball
ART - Painting T-shirts

Day Thirteen

Activities from today:
COMPUTERS - Around the world (Google Maps)
ENGLISH - Reading a novel ("The Bad Beginning")

Minyerri video productions

The Blackwater Band of the Minyerri Aboriginal Community is made up of several members of the Riley family, who we've been hanging out with quite a bit over the last few weeks. See their video and hear their track here:



And here is a video created by Michaela Riley and the kids from the after school program at Minyerri School a couple of years ago:

Day Twelve

Activities from today:
MULTIMEDIA - Intro videos for the kids
ENGLISH - Reading a novel ("The Bad Beginning")
COMPUTERS - Blog entry ("What have you done in your holidays so far?")
ART - Painting T-shirts
SCIENCE - Making cornflour slime

Sing-along

The kids from Grades 5 & 6 at Minyerri School singing 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' with the Teachabout Crew on the first day of formal programming.

Day Eleven

Activities from today:
SCIENCE - film canister rockets
STORYTIME - The Windmill Guy (William Kamkwamba)
COMPUTERS - introduction to blogging
ART - design your own T-shirt
MUSIC - 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' sing-a-long

Intro Video

This video was shown to the kids on the first morning of the program. They all loved it!

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Day Three

Teachabout Crew in Darwin

The Teachabout Crew has been in Darwin for the last three days furiously preparing for our four week Minyerri pilot program. The five of us are all very excited to head out from Darwin bright and early tomorrow morning to arrive in Minyerri tomorrow evening. Apart from hiring a 4WD and a satellite phone and purchasing teaching equipment and food supplies, we have also been attempting to document what we can on video camera, which we hope to upload to a suitable blog very soon. This will enable you to keep track of the day-to-day happenings of the program.

We can't wait to arrive in Minyerri tomorrow night!

Day Two

Day One

The Teachabout Crew is excited to bring you our daily video logs! Tune in regularly to watch video updates direct from the Territory.