CREATIVITY ... at it's best.

We have been absolutely captured by this amazing Art form.  We watched the mystical & every changing YouTube SandArt videos (last week) on the iMac ... and WALA Winton Kindergarten now has it's own SandArt artists.  Lots of shadowy images have been created sometimes spontaneously, sometimes with such purpose ... they have been amazing.

Can you spare a minute to help with 'End of Term' tidy-up ... the roster is located on the sign-in desk and there are still some jobs available.   And yes it is end of term ... time flies when you are having fun.  Term 2 starts Mon 27 April.  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!!!!

Well what a fantastic occasion to be a part of!! We had visitors a plenty and sooooo much fun this past Wednesday. And what was the occasion you may ask....to celebrate 50 fantastic years of Early Childhood Education at Winton Kindergarten! It was great to have so much support from everyone involved and what a wonderful turn-out! A big thank-you to the committee, with special thanks going out to the sub-committee for making it happen, you guys are AWESOME!

Celebrations begun with the banner being hung, balloons being blown and the children arriving in the door dressed as...yes, you guessed it...Spidermen and Fairy princesses!

Then came the BIG finale, the cake cutting and the burying of the time capsule! Thanks to all the buriers! Great team work.

Bring on the next 50 years! It's bound to be just as brilliant!

'To be sure ... to be sure'

                                                                'Top of the Morning To Ya' 

 Our St Patrick's Day celebrations began with Leprechaun balloons on the gate and some very unassuming, but very small green footsteps at the door.  Yep I think we've had some Leprechaun magic occur through the night. We had wonderful green dress-ups, green water, green balloons, green teachers (Kylie's green tights were pretty amazing) and not forgetting that GREEEEEN bread ... oh and that Irish tap dancing music just about made you stop what you were doing and ... dance.  Morning children were also able to spontaneously partake in an actual Irish Jig by four fantastic ex Kindy kids. Thanks for coming along girls.  Thanks also to all our parents for fossicking around to find some GREEN attire.  The children looked amazing ... especially Jack with the COOL green hair.  

Victoria Bush Fire Dress Up Day ...

What a fantastic day.  We had spidermans, fairies, dragons and many more ...  thanks to all our families for helping the children with all their dress ups.  At group time we watched a YouTube clip of the fires ... to get a REAL feel of the actual devastation ... and it IS devastating. 

          Thank-you soooo much for your gold coin donations.  We raised $108.70.

We are off to the Winton Autumn Flower Show ...

Our Veggie garden is looking fabulous ... we have harvested lettuces, cucumbers, peas & courgettes for our morning/afternoon teas.  Following along with all this interest we decided to check out the Winton Autumn Flower show.  So on Fri off we went ... children got to use the camera and took some fantastic digi images. There were lots of vegetables, flowers, decorations and also we got to see our own Winton Kindergarten display.  Kylie & Judy sneaked along on Wed afternoon and displayed lots of our life-cycle work ... clay,  collage, screen printing ... it looked fantastic.   The children were sooooo surprised.  Thanks to everyone who was able to come along as Parent Help.  The children and visitors were so proud of all the work ... well done everyone.  And lots of people thought our Mosiac butterfly was fantastic.  But there is still more ... we are off to the Strawberry Farm (Oreti) on Friday morning to harvest some more goodies.  Check your pockets for details.  Judy & Kylie will be away Mon & Tue to a course in Dunedin.  See you all on Wednesday.  Kite ano.

Haere Mai to Maisie

Maisie the Butterfly has hatched out ... and has created quite a stir.  One of our questions we have posed to the children is ... I wonder... how does a butterfly know how to fly?  Jack thoughts were '... they flap their wings'.  You are so right Jack.  We have also learnt some new words ... instinct ... they just know how !!!  Other new words include ... chrysalis, pupa, cocoon and metamorphosis (all the transformation stages).    The children are developing such a wonderful sense of respect and thoughtfulness as they delicately hold Maisie. 

 Great to see the living world ... in action.

Haere Mai - Welcome Back everyone

Haere Mai - Welcome Back everyone.  Great to have everyone back.  The children have just been buzzing ... sharing all their holiday adventures with us.  Good to see the weather didn't deter anyone.

We have some NEW visitors to kindergarten.  Along with our wonderful new teacher Kylie Arnesen we also have some new friends.  Check them out.  As such, we have been discussing life-cycles along with ... going on various BUG hunts.  If you find any bugs at home could you bring them along ... so we can share them with our new friends.  Thanks Casie for bringing in your 'Billy the Bug'. 

DON'T FORGET OUR AGM ON WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY.  We have 5 of our committee leaving this term and we NEED some new faces and ideas.  We would love you to join us on Wed night ... ask Judy or Kylie for further details.

Our Kindy BLOG will be updated each Thursday ... so save this in your favourites & check it out each Friday.  

Have a great week.