Do you enjoy treasure hunts and outdoor games? Do you love exploring local water falls and creek beds? And what about literacy? Do you want to build confidence as a writer, but hate putting pencil to paper? Gather with us at a local creek to explore literacy tools for the writing process through cooperative games, treasure hunting and nature journaling.

Our adventure will give opportunities to build our self-expression muscles and to take bigger risks. It will provide tangible literacy tools for developing knowledge and understanding of the writing process and  as we explore a range of language features, including different text types and playing with grammar. Our journey will see us develop writing products for our own private use and/or publication in Wild Ground’s up-coming book.

We will forage for wild nouns, collect verbs and map sentences across the land. Collaborative writing , Imaginative text , Visual Poetry, Illustration. Writing and Illustration will be tools to connect us more deeply to place.

We will use a tactile, sensory approach for building literacy skills. Handwriting skills are not essential to participate in this program. Children can use other writing tools that suit their current needs (e.g. scribing, voice-to-text, typing and audio recording).

**Creative Kids Vouchers Accepted**

GROUP 1: 5-7 years (flexible)

GROUP 2: 8-11 years (flexible)

Strands: English; Creative Arts; HSIE; Science

Mondays 12:30-1:30pm (8 Weeks starting week 2)

Location: Hazelbrook