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Practical guidance, family resources and everyday moments connected to German-language early learning through GAP Playschool.
These posts help families understand the rhythm, routines, culture and community around early childhood learning at Spielwelt.
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What Makes Spielwelt Special
The committee has been discussing “who is Spielwelt and what makes it so special?” These are some of our answers: German language We are welcoming Teachers spending time with children rather than admin during the day Teachers having the time to show care and love to each child and family We look at the family…
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Frogwatch Visit 2021
The Monday/Tuesday GAP children enjoyed a visit from Anke Maria, the wonderful Frogwatch ACT coordinator. We learned lots about frogs: what they eat, what they like (insects) and what they don’t like (pollution), where they like to live and the importance of taking care of habitat, and their life cycle. Then we got to go…
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Wiradjuri Echoes visit 2021
We were absolutely delighted to welcome back Duncan and Wiradjuri Echoes to the GAP! The Thursday/Friday class had a wonderful time and learned a lot. Duncan showed us some interesting Aboriginal artefacts and taught us the Wiradjuri names for them. He played his didgeridoo to make all kinds of Australian animal noises for us to…
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Aboriginal Tent Embassy visit 2021
After our visit to the National Portrait Gallery (see previous blog), we walked to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, where we would be welcomed and hear from one of the ambassadors there who had come from Gamilaraay country (near Moree NSW). Between the gallery and the tent embassy we found an empty fountain pool. We simply…
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Portrait Gallery Excursion 2021
The Monday/Tuesday GAP class thoroughly enjoyed their excursion to the National Portrait Gallery last week. We were pleased to be able to visit the Aboriginal Tent Embassy as well. We gathered outside the gallery at 9:15am and enjoyed our morning tea in the sunshine next to the sculpture garden. At 10am, our guides met us…
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The Great Australian Picnic
At the GAP, we love to give the children simple old-fashioned experiences: We are helping them build memories of a fun and joyful childhood spent with friends in the sunshine and fresh air. Last week, we took our wagon, some sausages, salad and drinks, and our big colourful picnic rug, and we headed off into…
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Nikolaus at GAP in 2020
Der Nikolaus war da! The children had a really lovely visit from Nikolaus this week and since parents couldn’t attend this year, I thought I’d share this blog with you. The day before our visit from Nikolaus, we baked and decorated some wonderful Christmas cookies, ready for him. With the aroma of our baking still lingering…
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GAP Lantern Walk
The GAP children enjoyed creating their own lanterns this year, out of recycled materials and sticks from the park. We added a tea light candle and some ribbon, and took them out in the park to test them out. We walked with our lanterns and sang the traditional German lantern walk songs we learned at…
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Wiradjuri Echoes Delight Us Again
Duncan and Jacita of Wiradjuri Echoes aboriginal education group always give us such an energetic and powerful presentation. We learn about artefacts, we laugh at Duncan’s funny jokes, we sing Wiradjuri songs with Jacita to Duncan’s traditional music, we get to practice saying Wiradjuri words, we hear the rainbow snake creation story while Duncan draws…
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We love animals
The GAP children were delighted to meet Louie, a super friendly dog, who came to wag his tail for the children and answer all their dog related (and many non-dog related) questions!