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2011 Staff meeting Santa Thankyou to Bronwyn for coordinating a great day, with a wonderful team of helpers. Also to the Bartholomeusz family for setting up a great place to meet Santa. Our Family fun Day is to farewell leaving families and welcome new families. We have lots of fun with facepainting, a jumping castle and Santa comes too. Merry . . . → Read More: Family Fun Day Through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) of the Australian Government we have been a focus of a story in their Earlychildhood ezine. You can follow the link to read the . . . → Read More: Best Start in Life ezine Drama Toolbox came to visit on Monday 25.07.11 Michaela brought her trolley load of costumes and music. The theme was MINI BEASTS. We all got to take turns to dress up as lady bugs, worms, caterpillars, butchy boys, dragon flies and grasshoppers. We learnt that grasshoppers rub their legs together to talk and that butchy boys curl up in a . . . → Read More: Drama Toolbox Term 3 Lizards At the end of last term, we had Jeanette from the Dove Puppet Theatre visit as our first incursion. She entertained us with puppets, songs and stories relating to Nursery Rhymes. We also got to have a turn at feeding the cow, giving instructions to the puppets and using them ourselves. At the start of Term 3, . . . → Read More: Term 3 Newsletter Lizards
We enjoy many Eric Carle books such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider and The Bad Tempered Ladybug. We wondered how he does his beautiful pictures. Shiona found a short video on youtube of Eric Carle painting his paper, drawing, cutting and preparing his collage pictures. So we did it too. We used textured rollers . . . → Read More: Eric Carle female spiny leaf insect
Just look at this magnificent specimen of a spiny leaf insect the children at Syndal Preschool have! male spiny leaf insect
She is a female, hence the different looking body shape to this male. We have had it since last year when it came as a tiny baby. Even though the children are used to it being here, it . . . → Read More: Spiny Leaf Insect A group of children from the Dolphin group playing in the sandpit with plastic piping. They are great pipes for the children to build with as there are different lengths and lots of joiners. A wonderful example of co-operative play. They were wanting to build a structure with the pipes but had trouble making it all stand up. There was lots of talking, . . . → Read More: Co-operative Play
Our amazing outdoor learning environment now includes a Bali Hut from www.outdoorableliving.com.auSo far the open ended imaginative play has included fishing, reading books together, washing painting the rocks in the dry river bed, playing with Dinosaurs amongst the plants /rocks and cooking. Through these creative play experiences children practise and develop social skills, how . . . → Read More: New Bali Hut |
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