This week was the first of our themed tutorials. We began with introductions and other formalities, before moving into some specific exercises based on our theme 'through the eyes of a child.'
We took a wander into the Botanic Gardens, removing ourselves from the studio environment in order to focus on our memories. We were challenged to think back to our first learning experience...
The first Theme tutorial was obviously based on our theme focused towards exploring our early childhood memories. The tutorial included a number of exercises concerning ‘through the eyes of a child’.
The first exercise was to think back and reflect on our first learning experience. One of my first early memories of learning is from Kingaroy when my family and I used to live in a property 45minutes from the town. I used to go off on long walks because we didn’t have a TV or anything electronic related. My entertainment involved exploring the property doing whatever I wanted. I have a distinct memory of learning about trap door spiders on one such exploration adventure. I would play with the spiders using a stick to mimic an insect walking by the doors and watch as the spider lunged out only to be tricked and quickly retreat into its hole.
The first exercise was to think back and reflect on our first learning experience. One of my first early memories of learning is from Kingaroy when my family and I used to live in a property 45minutes from the town. I used to go off on long walks because we didn’t have a TV or anything electronic related. My entertainment involved exploring the property doing whatever I wanted. I have a distinct memory of learning about trap door spiders on one such exploration adventure. I would play with the spiders using a stick to mimic an insect walking by the doors and watch as the spider lunged out only to be tricked and quickly retreat into its hole.
The next exercise involved key words after the story. Key words included:
THE JOY OF LAERNING A NEAT TRICK | THE SIMPLE NATURE OF DANGEROUS CREATURES | THE FLAWS IN THE TRAP | THE SMELL OF THE COUNTRY | THE WIND IN THE TREES | THE LARGE PATCH OF DIRT AROUND THE SPIDER |
THE JOY OF LAERNING A NEAT TRICK | THE SIMPLE NATURE OF DANGEROUS CREATURES | THE FLAWS IN THE TRAP | THE SMELL OF THE COUNTRY | THE WIND IN THE TREES | THE LARGE PATCH OF DIRT AROUND THE SPIDER |
The third exercise was to remember a learning experience from school. A field trip; camp etc. My memory went straight to a trip to SeaWorld we took in grade 5. While walking through the tunnel a giant manta ray swam straight over the top of the tunnel. It was a scary thought for a kid in grade 5; the manta ray must have been at least 4 or 5 times my side. I remember it because it was a traumatic experience although I didn’t altogether dislike aquatic life it was a quite frightening experience and I remember running out of the tunnel.
The next exercise involved key words after the story. Key words included:
THE LARGE GREY FINS | THE TUNNEL WAS COLD | THE FISH SWAM NEXT TO ME | THE SHARK WAS LOOMING | THE MANTA RAY WAS ONE OF FOUR | THE SIZE WAS OVERWHELMING | THE SOUND OF MY FEET RUNNING | THE HUGE SHAPE DWARFING OVER THE GLASS |
We ended up sharing these experiences and many of these were from similar museums or excursions.
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