Term 3 Week 9

Happy School Days to Caitlyn Hunt, off to St Thomas Aquinas School and to Eden Pilkington, off to Winton School. This week we welcome Jax Walker to the TF Group.

FOREST KINDY
This was our last week for the term and last day at the Reserve for the majority of the group who head off to school at the start of next term. We had a constructive day making some running repairs on our shelter, and adding a path, camp fire and seats - if you are out and about do head into "The Dragon's Den" and check out the group's efforts! Thanks to Julie Pilkington and Diane Hose our Parent Helpers this week.

Caitlyn, Eden, Leo, Benjamin, Kourtney and Libby around their camp fire

Making the path leading up to the shelter

WINTON SPRING FLOWER SHOW
Wow, what a busy week we have had finishing off our individual owls and our group collage. We headed along today and were just blown away by the accolades we received from the organisers and the judges...If you get the chance to head along to the Memorial Hall (purple building) this afternoon or tomorrow, it is well worth the visit...Check out these pics!

Well done us!!!!! SPECIAL AWARD: "Overall Best Entry"

First Place for Group Collage: "A Blossom Tree"

Connor spots his owl perched in the tree

Addison Laura, and Ayden check out the flowers on show

Welcome Jax Walker

Tingah-Bell Faalologo finds her owl

Janet, James and Bevan admiring all the daffodils

Term 3 Week 8

This week we fare welled Natalie Russell off to Dipton School. We welcomed new faces and families to our TF Group: Fred Ricamor, Isabella Batt, Pauleen Taguiam, Zabian Close and Emily Mackintosh.

Welcome Emily

Welcome Fred

Welcome Zabian

Welcome Isabella

Welcome Pauleen

WINTON SPRING FLOWER SHOW

We are busy creating our pine cone owls in preparation for this year's Winton Spring Flower Show to be held next Friday and Saturday. Both the MTW Group and TF Group will be submitting entries so do please head along to the Memorial Hall to acknowledge the tamarikis efforts if you get the chance. We will be taking the children along on Friday and a big thank you to those who have already indicated that they can come along as Parent Help.

Rachel and Andreous working on his Owl in the Project Room this week

Lexi using the glue gun to secure pieces to her pine cone Owl

Term 3 Week 7

This week we have been working away on our Fathers Day gifts...With both groups baking delicious treats and creating personalised cards for their special person. Over the week their has been lots of talk about Dads and what makes our Dads special to us. Happy Fathers Day to all our wonderful Dads out there!!

Ethan, Luke and Maddison baking up a storm

Rachel Cooper working alongside Ferguson on his Fathers Day card

NARRATIVES
This term we are focused on narratives. The children love to retell stories from home, produce their own scripts, and dictate their thoughts on to paper. Many many books have been produced or are still in the production line in the Project Room waiting final approval from their authors and illustrators. At Story Time in the afternoons the wider group have enjoyed listening to and participating in retelling stories from our trip to the Oreti River. Sometimes these are factual accounts....sometimes we unleash the power of imagination and anticipate what the storyteller will say next!! Lots of meaningful play and learning; literacy and language, contribution, imagination, role play... the list goes on!!

Freddie illustrates our Oreti River story this week

Sophie adds her touch to the book as the group watches on

WINTON SPRING FLOWER SHOW 19th & 20th September
Next week we will be focusing on our entries for this year's Spring Flower Show. The Individual Section involves creating Owls from Natural materials, so a big thank you to our Forest Kindy kids for collecting and bringing back to Kindy lots of taonga/treasures for us to use in our art. We will also be working on a Group Project...watch this space. The Show is on Friday the 19th and Saturday the 20th September. We will be organising an excursion with our TF Group for Friday the 19th - a sign sheet and notice will be out next week. We also hope our MTW Group can head along with their families and check out the Show.

FOREST KINDY
Thanks to our Ash Cameron and Megs Mitchell our Parent Helpers this week. We welcomed Sarah Crowe and Kourtney Mitchell to the group.

This week we farewelled Izzy Forde off to Winton School, Happy School Days Izzy. We also celebrated James 4th birthday today with the most tremendous erupting volcano cake!! James has a huge passion for volcanoes and over the past couple weeks the TF Group  have also been hugely intrigued with erupting excitement - YouTubing eruptions and watching in anticipation as lava spills from the crater!! Thanks for sharing your special day with us James ... and your cake!!

Happy Birthday James Shaw!!

RACHEL COOPER STUDENT
Rachel has been with out MTW Group each Monday this term and now starts her 3 week posting. The TF Group have welcomed her and we look forward to supporting Rachel's final semester before graduation. Rachel will be with us again next term also.

Term 3 Week 6

POLYFEST PERFORMANCE
DRESS REHEARSAL MONDAY 25TH AUGUST
On Monday we walked down to Winton School for a dress rehearsal before the big day on Tuesday. It was great to see soooo many Winton School students and teachers come and support us, as well as our wonder Kindy supporters and parent helpers. In the afternoon we had a second practice show for St Thomas Aquinas School who came to Kindy and watched our performance followed by the slide show of our Polyfest Art.

THE BIG DAY!!!! TUESDAY 26TH AUGUST
On Tuesday we headed into Invercargill by bus to the Museum and Queens Park. We enjoyed morning tea in the Band Rotunda before heading into the Museum to view our Polyfest Art and have a look around. Back on the bus and off to the Stadium!! We were greeted by our fabulous Polyfest Volunteers who escorted us to our changing room and helped us back stage. Puipui (skirts) on, tipare (headbands) on, black lipstick for the girls and korowai (cloaks) and poi for our four leaders - and of course the glow stick bracelets for kapo kapo nga whetu (twinkle twinkle little star)....time to make our way to the side of the stage! The presenters welcomed us on stage as we took our places. Wow, sooo many Winton Kindergarten supporters in the crowd!! The children sand their four waiata and moved their bodies to the beat - a great honour to be part of such special occasion representing our Kindergarten! Before we knew it the show was over and we made our way to have a group photo before getting changed once more. A quick play in the playground then back to Winton - what a big day it was!! A huge thank you to our parent helpers for making the day such a success. Ka pai to mahi to all our talented tamariki, a job well done!

CANCER SOCIETY DAFFODIL DAY FRIDAY & MONDAY
Thank you to everyone for their support for the Cancer Society's Daffodil Day held on Friday and today. On Friday we took our donations with us and went down the street to find collectors to pass on our contributions - Paper Plus, The Bakery and New World, what a great way to end the week out and about in our local community. Thanks to everyone who dressed up, brought something yellow for shared kai, donations, and helping out.

Check out The Eye and The Fiordland Advocate for writes up on our Polyfest Art achievements - GOOOO WINTON KINDY!!!