I wonder where do shadows come from?

We have spent a neat Tue afternoon ... chasing shadows.  And we pondered the question 'I wonder where shadows come from?'  Some thoughts were shared;  Sam thought '... from the ground', Archie thought ' ... from the Sky' but Bryant said " ... no because the sky was so BIG and how could it make our pictures on the ground?"  We had a lot of deliberation, we drew around our shadows, we moved from inside to outside and watched our shadow disappear. Wow like MAGIC !!!

What an amazing phenomenon shadows are, they are fascinating & the children have been very very intrigued. Sam, Bryant, Eva, Matthew & Ella decided to experiment with shadows; we drew around our kindy wheelbarrow and came back later to find the wheelbarrow still in the same place ... but the shadow had moved.  We left the children to ponder this phenomenon, until the end of the day when we talked about the fact that shadows need a 'light source' ... and in this case it was the sun.  Here is a challenge can you find any shadows around home?  Let us know ...

And another other amazing light source we have been experimenting with this week has been the Data Projector.  We projected onto the back wall the story 'Going on a Bear Hunt' - sourced from YouTube.  Wow the children stomped there way through a real wheat field, rowed over a real river and into a real cave with REAL eyes.  Log onto YouTube and see if you can find it ... let us know.

Have a great week ... See you all @ Kindy Thur night @ 7pm.

Judy & Kylie

Haere Mai - Welcome Back Everyone ...

It's great to be back.  This term our Dispositional Planning will focus on questions, questioning & research to try & find meaning in our world.  We had lots of questions, last term within our Native Bird focus (for the morning children) and about frogs and what they eat and where they sleep (from the afternoon group), so keep checking our Kindy BLOG for updates & challenges.
This week has all been about ANZAC ... we have had some very meaningful discussions about ANZAC Day.  We have shared with the morning children "The Bantam & the Soldier" story.  It's a neat  children's story about the hardships of War ... ask about the story ... there could be some very insightful thoughts to be shared,  following our week of ANZAC 'things'.

We sourced a YouTube clip of ANZAC photos including 'The Last Post'.  It was a neat way to try to explain to our children the significance of this special day.  We even talked about the soldiers uniforms ... how they were all the same ... Ethan Turnock shared a thought 'So they know they are in the same team' ... yep I think you are so right Ethan.

And today we also made our own 'Poppies' after talking about all the poppies that grew in Flanders Fields and we have made ANZAC biscuits over the week.  We talked about how they were made in the War days ... the children LOVED them (as did everyone who walked into Kindy ... the smell WAS divine).  We also photocopied some recipes so if you do want to make them @ home just let us know.

Thanks to everyone who has replied to our 'Celebration of Learning' invitations.  Keep the Thur 6 May free to come along to Kindy and find out all about our new initiatives.  RSVP Tue 4 May.  If you haven't yet received yours ... check your parent Pockets.

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