This term Our Inquiry topic is ‘Playing with Time.’ Through this unit we have been exploring how toys have changed or stayed the same over time. We have been investigating the passage of time and relating it to our lives and the lives of our families in the past. This Inquiry is a component of History in the new Australian Curriculum. To help us explore this topic we had Alan from the Australian Museum of Childhood come to visit us.
He brought along many types of toys so that the children could experience through hands on learning activities toys and games used in the past and the present.
All the Year Ones had such fun being able to hold and play with toys they had not previously seen. It gave them a real appreciation of the types of toys used in ‘the olden days’. Many thanks to Alan for running this interesting session.
Toy Museum on PhotoPeach
I remember playing with some of the toys that you had the opportunity to try!
Some of these are very different to the toys you see available in shops today.
It looks like you all had lots of fun!
We all had fun didn’t we? I loved getting the spinning top to work. I remember that I used to play with a ‘Barrel of Monkeys’ set and I LOVED playing ‘Knucklebones’ with my friends at school. We used to skip a lot as well … but our skipping ropes were made of rope and not plastic like ours at school. We are learning lots about toys of the past!
From Mrs Nelson