What the Children's Commissioner has to say!

Hi Bloggers,

I want to congratulate you all for thinking about new ways people can experience exhibitions at the museum. Your ideas on what and how things could be displayed like the ‘feel case’ suggested by Kyle are great ways of doing things differently.

The Indigenous Message Sticks were my inspiration and I am thrilled so many of you are interested in bringing different cultures together in celebration. I am very impressed with the range of ideas on the blog, from the environment to human rights issues and interesting things in everyday life.

It’s great you have taken the time to have a say and to see it in action here in this blog. I’m always telling people that kids have many fantastic ideas and want to have a say about what goes on in their community.

Keep blogging in the Great Southern and enjoy the exhibition.

Michelle, Commissioner for Children and Young People

North Albany's Exhibition Plan

At the moment we've just got the plans worked out. We kinda don't have the materials to make the exhibition, we just need a big board with half of the board painted black with a picture of that hand on the top third of it, then we're going to put an paint tray for the kids to put handprints on the wall and little hand-shaped or key-shaped pieces of paper for the adults to write comments on. (the other side of the wall's gonna be white)

We were also hoping to interview some students from Mirrabooka SHS who know of people who have has people traffiking experiences. We want to do little bit of a biography so we can make it into a story board kind of thing.

Cya soon! Natasha, Liam and Rebekah

Our Plan - South West Seascapes!

Our exhibition idea is called 'South West Seascapes' and is about the animals of south west Australia.

Our plan is that we'd have a corner and split it into half - one side being the bush, the other the ocean. On the walls is a landscape of that area with animals on it, maybe soft toys.

The animals have a speech bubble each and inside them are information on the animals. On the floor we were planning to have a path on the bush side, and footsteps on the ocean side to make it look like it's on a beach.

On the ceiling we thought we could have some lighting - yellow light for the bush, blue for the ocean. It could be just cellaphane on it. The animals on the walls include a tiger snake, kangaroo, eagle, southern right whale, salmon and jellyfish.

If there are anymore animals we need, I'll let you know.

See you on Tuesday! =)

Mia, Molly, Joe, David & Scott Katanning SHS

Kyle's Exhibition Plan!

Hi Millenium Kids

Here is the plan for my guitar exhibit. I will need a power point and power, so I can use my cd player and play guitar music.

And maybe a glass case to put my beautiful guitar in? Can you let me know if I can have these things, otherwise I will try and borrow a guitar stand from my grandfather.

I will have posters, can these go on the wall? Or can you let me use a display board?

Thanks
Kyle - Woodbury Boston PS

Congratulations Kyle for sending in your xhIBIT alBANY exhibit plan! We will get back to you shortly about how the Museum can help you display your inspiration. Look forward to seeing you on the 30th June at the Exhibit Drop -off Workshop. Thanks, Kate and the MK Team

Hi Alice

I love your idea to do your display about cows. When I was little I lived on farm and spent a lot of time with calves in the shed. I watched my Mum and Dad milk the cows every morning and every afternoon. My favourite memory was having butter on white bread in the dairy with my Mother. We used to have strong tea with fresh milk.
Did you know there is a cow exhibition coming to WA? Have a look at this website.

http://www.cowparade.com/

www.margaretriver.com/pages/cowparade-2010/


Cat – Millennium Kids

Rollerblading fun!

My inspiration is rollerblading. I like it because it is fast, fun, good for you and you can show off with some pretty cool tricks! I have know how to rollerblade since I was about 8 and ever since, I've gotten much better. I can blade fast and do some basic tricks, but I'm learning all the time. Though, there are things I still won't do!

Scott - Katanning Senior High School

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