Nature Programme
This week we had our second day at Ivy Russell Reserve. A BIG thank you to our two parent helpers this week Craig Reed and Laarni Vasallo. The children had a wonderful day exploring more of the Reserve - finding many new treasurers deep within the forest, including a slide pit - awesome fun! As part of Conservation Week, we collected rubbish around the Reserve and swept the shelter - further instilling ownership of this special place within the Group. Last week we made bird feeders, and this week it was time to coat these in peanut butter, lard, and cornflakes (great idea Ruby!). Craig made a rope from knotting flax together and we used it as a jump rope! After a big day of fresh air, the good people at McDerrotts arrive with the "truck-bus" to give us all a ride back to Kindy - fabulous!
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| Ruby tries out the slide pit! |
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| All aboard! Time to head back to Kindy!! |
Winton Salvation Army 2013 Photographic Competition
The Winton Kindergarten children are very excited to be taking part in
this year’s photography competition. As part of our Programme, we have
introduced a digital camera for the children to utilize. Our strong ICT
(Information and Communication Technology) focus at the Kindergarten is
integral to our commitment for nurturing “21st Century Learners”.
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| Trophies and prizes up for grabs at the Prize Giving tomorrow night! |
The children LOVE to take snaps around the Kindergarten – in fact we
had 705 photos to sort through in just the past week! The children helped to
select just 7 of these photos to enter into this year’s competition, keeping in
mind the theme “Celebration of life”. We entered a number of sections including
Life @ Play, Life @ Work, and Life @ Home. Leading up to the competition Ruby,
Kenny, Cohen and Dante went along to the Winton Pharmacy to develop our photos.
While we were there the ink and the photo paper needed changing – what an eye
opening experience for the children as we got to see the inside of the printer,
and watch as the ink and paper were swapped! We hope you enjoy our photos as
much as the children have enjoyed capturing these precious moments in their
Kindy days.
Promoting our children as “Citizens of the community” is an important
part of our Kindergarten’s philosophy. Taking part in this competition is one
way we hope to raise our profile within the wider Winton Community, and to
acknowledge the efforts of our amazing children!On Wednesday, we received a phone call from the Competition
Organisers to let us know that it would be, “A very good idea if, our amazing photographers
and subjects (our awesome children!) could come along to the Salvation
Army Hall at 7pm this Saturday night for the prize giving!” Although
the photographers remain anonymous as we have sooo many amazing photographers
at Kindy, subjects in the seven photos entered, include the following children:
Dante
Wharf, Cohen Davis, Logan Wallace, William Reid, Tristin Davis, Albie Reed,
Jessica Irwin, Joshua Short, Jasmin Johnstone, and Charlie Templeton. There are lots of great prizes and even a "Peoples choice" award where we can vote for our favourite pics on the night SO the more Kindy families at attending the better! See you tomorrow!
Winton Spring Flower Show
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| Milly, Stella and Lily work on their Spring Flower Show Natural Art Entries! |
TF Group: We have been very busy in the Project room the past two days working on our Individual Project - Natural Art entries for this year's Flower Show. We will be entering our works next Thursday the 19th, and then taking a walk down to the Memorial Hall on Friday for the Show - lots of parent helpers on the day will be needed for ratios for our walk, a notice will go out on Thursday - see Christina if you are able to lend a hand, thanks!
Canteen Bandannas
We have Bandannas for sale for the next week, please bring your $4 and chose from the variety available to show your support for the cause, thank you!
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