Term 4 Week 7

Kai Table Blessing
On Monday and Tuesday the group baked treats for our shared kai on Wednesday. A big thank you to Meeke and Karen for coming in and saying a karakia to bless our beautiful new table. Thanks to the families who brought in kai and also those who joined us at 10am for the blessing - what a special occassion for us all.

Movember
Today the group showed their support for The Movember Foundation - Changing the Face of Men's Health by dressing in blue, bringing something blue for shared kai, and a gold coin donation to the Foundation. We raised $34-20 ... good on us!!!

Forest Kindy
This week Judy was super excited to get out to Forest Kindy with the group. 'Today was just MAGICAL'. And we also welcomed for the first time :- Ashlee Keith (Oliver's Mum) & Julia Eade (Sophie's Mum) along as Parent Helpers ...

Casey Laffey's photographic prowess ...

Tks for helping today Ashlee ...

Chillaxing with Mum ... 

Amazing Me DVD 4
This week we watched DVD 4 of the series. This episode discussed the importance of expressing how we feel and acknowledge the importance of understanding what we feel and how to deal with our feelings - again reiterating "Stop, Think and act". Next week we will be watching the final DVD in the Programme. !! The following week we will hold our Amazing Me Parties - time to start thinking about which Super Hero you might like to dress up as....????!!!!  Tks to everyone who brought along a sock to create your very own Sock Puppet family ... check out this very groovy puppet - good on you Thomas Maguire!!!

Santa's Workshop
Monday marks the 1st of December and the countdown to Christmas and the summer holidays. The Elves have been contacted and we hope to come back to "Santa's Workshop" in the Project Room....We wait in anticipation!

CELEBRATION OF LEARNING EVENING - THURSDAY 4 DECEMBER @ 6:30PM
A wonderful opportunity to spend the evening seeing what we have been up to this year and share in your child's learning journey. Thank you to those who have already RSVP for the night, please let us know if you are able to join us - we'd love to see as many families as possible.

Term 4 Week 6

Forest Kindy
A big thanks to Craig Reed and Mike Crowe our Parent Helpers this week. We had a great time at the Troll Bridge where Tingah-Bell and Casey fished for "Troll Snot" and at the Dragons Nest and Kindy Castle where Craig and the group buried children under the fallen leaves to make our own hatching dragons and monsters. Mike was our champion "hider" for hide and seek - becoming part of the forest floor disguised by his camo gear - what a fun morning! To top off our day we collected sticks for our Obelisk that the Discovery Time children had made prototypes for in the past few weeks. We started to build our Obelisk then finished it off back at Kindy. This is to help our Winton Flower Show prize winning - Sweet Peas ... we now wait to see if our design will work - watch this space!

Baking
On Tuesday the Discovery Time group made Double Chocolate Fudge Brownie for our special visitors that would be coming to our Kindy that evening for a Provisionally Registered Teachers -Visual Arts Workshop. On Wednesday we made Red Velvet Cupcakes for the children - delicious! And again more Brownie, this time for the Parent Group Meeting that night. Lots of mathematical and scientific concepts at work - measuring, mixing, and creating!! Along with a wonderful appreciation of 'Giving' ... And yes Sarah Crowe the teachers LOVED our Chocolate Fudge Brownies!

Bravery
On from our attendance at the Armistice Day Service at Anzac Oval last week we revisited our learning this week by discussing with the Discovery Time Group: "What does it mean to be Brave?" The children shared times that they have been brave and put these down on paper.  We also introduced the Dictaphone and recorded each others contributions - we had a lot of fun replaying our voices!!

Amazing Me DVD 3
This week we have watched part 3 of our Amazing Me Programme. This week we have been looking at families, the importance of seeking help and what to do in an emergency. We will be watching DVD 4 next week and DVD 5 in Week 8. Week 9 will plan to have our Amazing Me/Super Heroes Parties on the 10th and 11th of December...More information to follow closer to the time.

Kai Table Blessing - Wednesday 26th Nov
Next Wednesday we have Meeke coming to bless our beautiful Kai table @ 10am. We would love to have as many families come along for shared morning tea as possible. A special day for us.

Movember - Friday 28th Nov
Next Friday we will be hosting a Movember Day. Please come along dressed in blue, a blue Morning Tea for Shared Kai, and a gold coin donation for the Movember Foundation - Changing the Face of Men's Health.

Term 4 Week 5

Armistice Day
On Tuesday we went to Anzac Oval to take part in the Armistice Day service at 11am, marking the end of WW1. The children had their faces painted with red poppies, wore poppies over their hearts, and we made a wreath at Kindy as well as James Shaw bringing one along to lay at the Memorial Gates. The Southland Times were there and we made the front page of Wednesday's paper. Over the week the group watched footage of WW1, had big discussions about war and soldiers, and revisited our learning on Wednesday at Story Time where the children retold their day and illustrated their stories in our big book. We talked about what bravery meant...Isaac Ellis shared: "You don't like being here but you need to stay there." We plan to go into this more during Discovery Time next week. A big thanks to our helpers. Did you receive a smilebox for this?? Send me an email if you didn't get it please.

Forest Kindy
Thanks to our helpers this week Greg Wright and Petra Laughton. We headed to the Troll Bridge and collected treasures for making Xmas decorations later in the term, followed by morning tea, before heading back to kindy for 11am.

Growing our own
This week we have been busy planting lettuce seeds, hanging tomato plants, and strawberries. We have to keep a close eye on our four-legged friend Rupert who is quite fond of our new plants...What a rascal you are!!

And a warm welcome to Callum Lyall and family who join our TF Group this week.

Parent Group Meeting next Wednesday night.

Term 4 Week 4

Limehills School Wild West Pet Show Day
What a fun filled day we had at Limehills - did everyone receive a Smilebox for this? I've also send through smileboxes this week for our Lochiel trip last Wednesday and Winton School Pet Day on Friday for families that attended... Send me an email if you missed receiving these :) A big thanks to all our Parent Helpers, and to everyone for getting into the spirit of things and dressing up!

Ava Chapman and Ella Henry

Max, Porter, Jovi Chavez, Matthew Cairns, Oliver Davis, Fletcher Scott and Corran Mee

Tingah-Bell Faalologo and Tahi Payne

Christina, Sally & Judy

Sophie Eade and Rachel Cooper

Ben Robson - Howdy partner!

Sarah "Butterfly" Crowe

Forest Kindy
Welcome to Casey Laffey who joined the group today. Thanks to Paula Cairns and Anna Ellis our helpers this week.

Amazing Me Programme
This week the children have watched DVD2 in the Amazing Me series. This DVD looks at keeping our self safe, knowing our contact details and where we live, road safety - stop, look, listen and decide, and about taking responsibility for our actions - stop, think, and act.

Rachel Cooper
Today is Rachel's last day with us. She has been a valued member of the teaching team and we wish her well for a fulfilling career as an early childhood educator. You will make a fabulous teacher Rachel, you should be proud of all your hard work, tino pai to mahi!