Thursday, December 8, 2016

Term 4 Week 9 2016

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Xmas Crafts
Santa's little helpers have been busy at work, decorating Kindy and working alongside the teachers to create lots of festive cheer! A big thanks to our amazing Parent Group for coming in each day this week and creating with the children - Kindy looks fantastic! Parents, grandparents, and other family members are always warmly invited to pop in and share in our programme  -arts and crafts, sharing story books and songs...A special time in your child's lives to celebrate together :)



Winton Community Xmas Tree Display @ the Presbyterian Church
Look what the children have been up to! Forming the shape of "Merry Christmas" using our Amazing bodies! Please do take the opportunity to visit the Display and to see our entry...."I am a part of the community; the community is a part of me".



A-Round Winton Art Exhibition @ the Winton Public Library
Congratulations to Hunter, Monty, Luiza, Reef & Bradley for having their vinyl art works selected by our honorary judge, Central Southland College Art Teacher Kara Boyes. Their art will be included in the Winton Public Library's A-Round Winton Art Exhibition, beginning at the Winton Open Day this Sunday-check it out!


Winton ADVENT-ure Challenge!
Our community identity and participation continues with the excitement of the great Winton ADVENT-ure Challenge. On Tuesday morning we came across the number 4 at Ivy Russell Reserve, and so we left a little piece of "us" at the Wishing Rock, hanging one of our shell decorations for other adventures to enjoy...Good luck to all families taking part - a fabulous opportunity to explore and discover our local community and all it's iconic places!


Forest Kindy - Sausages on the camp cooker - a fitting way to farewell 7 of the Forest Kindy gang - Jimmy, Jae-Bryce, Lucas, Sydney, Jeremy, Radian & Max! A big thank you to Robbie Watkinson - personal chef on Tuesday! And thank you to Lucas Campbell's Nan, who sent down The Three Little Pigs and Jack and the Bean Stalk- all the way from Nelson! We shared the stories at the Three Little Pigs House made of sticks - much to the children's delight. A BIG tks to Rachel Evans our Forest Kindy reliever - and indeed Kindergartens South who support an extra teacher for us to run our 'Nurtured by Nature' programme.  Rachel again joins us next year.

Finally, we have found a Dragon's Egg - great find Jeremy!
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Lucas standing below the Bean stalk discovered earlier in the Term - the magic of imagination!


Have a GREAT weekend ... Parent Group Xmas Family night tomorrow night - 5-7pm. See you all there!

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Term 4 Week 8

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Our beans have indeed woven their magic.  Not only are we 'watching' our beans propagate but we  have also listened to the Jack & the Beanstalk animated story on our Kindy iPad.  And also this week a magic 'Giant's City World' has been created by Alice Pulley, Eva Coveney & Holly Mitchell.   A wonderful appreciation from our Reggio Emilia inspired learning & teaching @ Winton Kindy - The Hundred Languages of Children - Children representing their understandings using varied & various media.





Also in Te Wanaga time this week (Wed) we watched a 'Lima Bean' time-lapse ... click on the link to view!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZMjBO6A7AE

Remember to send in your bean pics from home !!!

WINTON MUSEUM
Wednesday saw us off on a challenge ... Where is the Winton Museum?  As part of our Term Planning ... If you know who you are & where you are from, then you will now where you are going! Our thoughts were to historically consider 'What makes Winton ... Winton?'.  So off we went to find out about our local history!



FOREST KINDY
This week we had Craig Reed, Rebecca Warburton & Sarah Lobbett with us - thanks for coming along! It was a great opportunity for all the Forest Kindy kids to show Judy around (with Christina away).  And guess what we found in the shelter ... a Beanstalk!!!

 And while we waited for everyone to arrive  some of the children could show me what 'hanging around' actually means ... check out this face for determination - hold on tight Lucas Campbell!!!


 And then we were off ... but not before we made a 'wish' @ the Wishing rock -remember to keep your wish a secret everyone! The children have indeed NOTICED soon much this morning ... a fallen tree, they showed Judy the Monster Motocross track,  teamwork or a show of unilateral togetherness!  And we found many young birds didn't survive all that stormy weather in the weekend - but kindly we were able to respectably show how gracious we are!!! Tks for a great morning everyone & tks for being such great ambassadors & showing Judy around this naturalistic playscape - right @ our back door!


Ready. set, gooooooo

Or NOT!!!

Oops ... a very naturalistic but very prickly signpost!!!







 
Have a great weekend everyone!!!
The Teaching Team.