Introducing our first Artist....Lyn Taylor

Well, what a hit!! Lyn Taylor came with BIG bags of goodies and many of us were VERY curious to see what was in those bags. She had bought in giant pine cones, paint, and glitter to make very amazing Christmas decorations.

Lyn explained the process, while the children listened intently. Great to see everyone showing such awesome respect for our visitor.

The concentration that showed on the children's faces while they made sure all the pieces on the pine cone had 'white snow' on them was priceless!

Once they were all covered, we got to sprinkle glitter all

over the cone. I think this might have been the children's favourite part!

Lyn was very kind and left some of her pinecones (which came all the way from Tekapo) to share with the afternoon kindy kids too!

I just think it's so special to be able to share our Kindergarten with members of the community! Keep checking the board for upcoming visiting artists. And if you know anyone that could share some of their talents with us, we would love it if they could come along.

My goodness...Look how busy we have been!!

The beginning of the week saw the Kindergarten children go...BALLOON CRAZY! We were lucky enough to have all the balloons donated to us from the Winton Open Day. How lucky were we? The chidlren certainly enjoyed them and I think being able to pop them was one of the hightlights! A big thanks to the organisers for your generosity, it was greatly appreciated!!

Also this week, our art term focus is well underway and with Christmas fast approaching we are developing our artistic ability and creating some masterpeices that could possibly be used as Christmas presents for the children's family...SHHH, it's a surprise!

So ripping was on the agenda, lots and lots of ripping!!! Using a fantastic idea out of a recent 'Littles' magazine, the children (both morning and afternoon) began the process of making their very own paper mache bowls.

By ripping up LOADS of coloured paper we will work on creating bowls for each child to take home as a Christmas gift. Morning children are already well through the process with many colouful bowls drying on the project room window sill. I must say, they look fabulous! Afternoon children next week will work on soaking their ripped up paper and mixing in the glue...Can't Wait!

Don't forget to check out all the wonderful happenings in the Kindergarten, and if anyone knows of any local artists that could come in and share some of their knowledge, of just 'create' with the children let either Judy or Kylie know.

Thanks and keep creating,

Kylie and Judy!

Tour of Southland - GO GO GO!!!

Tour of Southland is once again upon us...

What an awesome event for Southland!

We trundled out the door at Kindergarten and made our way down to the starting line.

We even managed to source some flags from Power Net (one of the major sponsors of the event). Thanks Deklyn for handing them out.

The Main St of Winton was certainly filled with heaps of hustle and bustle...the bikers were doing their warm-ups, police cars were making sure everyone was safe, and it was so cool to see some familiar faces from both Winton School and St Thomas' School there too :) !

Be sure to check out the news on the telly and the local newspapers...Winton Kindergarten might make an appearance!!

Thanks to everyone who joined us,we couldn't do it without you!

Once the Tour of Southland had departed we ventured down to see Willie Solomon at the library, he is soooo cool and the children were fixated on all the stories he shared with us...wasn't it lucky that he managed to find his pie!! I wonder if there were still some of those bees in there.....

We invited Willie to come and visit Winton Kindergarten too, so keep an eye out for when he is scheduled to visit!

Great day had by all, now we just need to get prepared for Limehills pet day on Monday!!

Can't wait