How one kindy incorporated seeing HIPPO into their curriculum

by Susan Jenner, Stirling East Kinder, South Australia

"This term our kindergarten has a strong literacy focus and we have a ‘focus story’ each week. To tie in with the performance we chose “There’s a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake” as the focus story for the week of the show. We read this and other books in the ‘series’. We also talked about the hippopotamus at the Adelaide Zoo, Brutus, who recently celebrated his 50th birthday. We researched hippos; where they live, what they eat, how heavy/big they are. We also turned one area of our kindy into a jungle, with jungle animal puppets and figurines (and jungle sounds playing in the background)."

I want to go to this Kinder! (Ed)

Image: Author Hazel Edwards, reading to actress Kaisha, who plays the girl, on the HIPPO set

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