Koorie Studies

For Nancy and Jamie

At Nowa Nowa all of the kids have two-koori education. They do koori studies with us they do it with the big kids and the little kids too. We like it so much, we like drawing and learning about things that we don’t know. When we need help they will help us, they are so cool Nancy reads a story to us then we draw it and whatever Nancy says is what we have to do. So we do it cause we love Nancy that much and she loves us all. We are doing reconciliation and we have koori words. We know koori animal names.

Gunai language	Animals	Gunai language	Numbers
Ngeth	Turtle	Koote	1
Goongera	Possum	Boolooman	2
Mirrigan	Dog	Boolooman bata kootook	3
Kaangal	Bee	Boolooman bata Boolooman	4
Tambo	Fish	Bret	5
Goola	Koala	Yail	Many
Jimmialong	Platypus	Kowern	Echidna
Ko-noon	Dolphin	Jirrah	Kangaroo
Kokokarrak	Kookaburra	From Jessica & Janelle

Our school has koori studies on Wednesdays. Throughout the years most of us have learnt some of the names of our local animals in the Gunai language (See “NOWA NOWA IS WHERE WE LIVE” in the poems section to learn more). we draw a lot of pictures using patterns. we've used wood burning to make little boomerangs, BY LAHNA AND DYLAN