Lobethal Community Kindergarten Newsletter Phone: 8389 6321

Fax: 8389 5153

Email: dl.4630.leaders@schools.sa.edu.au

Web: www.lobethalkgn.sa.edu.au

Term 2 - Weeks 6-7, 2013

Issue 7, 2013 Growing & Learning...TOGETHER

Diary Dates

June 13th June—Governing Council Meeting 17th June— Drums at Lobethal Lutheran School

July 3rd July—CAYHS Screenings 5th July—Last day of Term 2 22nd July—Term 3 starts

Please do NOT send egg

products, sesame seeds, nuts or

foods which contain nuts to

kindy as doing so may cause

life threatening reactions to

children

attending.

News from the Director’s chair.....

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Dear Parents and Caregivers, What an amazing couple of weeks we have had at kindy! Our ‘Outdoor Kindy Week’ preparations, planning and activities have been our focus and needless to say, enjoyed by all. As a group of learners (staff, parents and children), we all experienced magical moments of authentic learning. We learnt that we are re-sourceful, creative, independent and resilient. Our kindy children coped exceptionally well with the change of environment and the change of resources available ( no toys, just tools and re-purposed and natural materials). In fact, they rose to the occasion and surpassed our expecta-tions , showing us all just what powerful learners they are. Who would have thought that our kindy children could design and make structures using only sticks and ropes, or that they would use planks of wood, stones and sticks to symbolise play things and objects? Who also would have thought that they would solve drainage issues and design complex water ways including trenches, dams and canals? Or that they would create magical gardens for our fairies, bird feeders for our birds and cook a campfire menu resembling a masterchef kitchen? To be involved in such rich learning experiences was a pleasure and taught us all so, so much about children as powerful and competent learners. We have reflected lots about the learning that we all experienced. We know that we will never be the same as educators as we have seen that ‘less is more’ when it comes to the resources available to children. We plan to continue our learning journey together and continue our outdoor learning experiences. Although most children voted to have ‘Outdoor kindy Year’, we figured that we still spend the majority of our playtime outdoors. We will have loads of photos available for you to view. Thanks so much to Ali Moylan for her amazing photos. We will have them running on the iMac over the next few weeks.

Lee on behalf of our fabulous kindy staff, Gen, Nell, Janice, Nic and Kylie

Sessional

Kindergarten

$130 per term

Term 2 Kindy Fees are now due. Please endeavour to pay fees as soon as possible .

FEES

Woolworths Earn and Learn Don't forget that we are collecting earn and learn points until 9th of June please ask

your family and friends to collect point stickers when they shop at Woolworths.

(Woolworths online is included in this promotion) Bring your sticker points to kindy either

on a sheet or add them to a sheet at kindy and place them in the box near the front door.

Thank you to everyone who has already brought them in.

We need a lot so keep sending them in.

ONE MORE WEEK LEFT TO COLLECT FROM WOOLWORTHS.!!!!!

Morning fruit from Week 7

Outdoor Kindy Week

Thank you

Where do we start this week with saying

thank you. Our outdoor kindy has been so

successful and we would like to thank the

following people.

Olivia’s family and the Riches Family for

donating firewood.

The Tilbrook family for donating firewood

and stumps for the fire pit.

Jody Schulz for stumps ,the apples and apple

slinky machine. (and more apples on the

second day after the children ate them all)

The Kowald family for the hay bales which

the children created many things from.

Everyone who donated pine cones, gum

nuts, sticks etc we used them for allsorts of

learning experiences and have a good sup-

ply now for further experiences.

The Fox family for lending us their gazebo

for the week, it was a fabulous spot to do

cooking.

Thank you to all our helpers and visitors for

the week, every bit of assistance was truly ap-

preciated and helped to make the whole ex-

perience even more special.. (would love to

name you all but I don’t want to miss any-

one.)

Thank you Mr Garry North, principal of

Lobethal Primary School for bringing his

guitar along and singing songs and telling

dreamtime stories to our children.

Thank you to our lovely parents and friends

who brought us coffee.

Also a huge thanks to Ali Moylan for mak-

ing us beautiful soup for lunch on Friday. It

was very much appreciated by us all after a

very wet morning outside.

Also thank you to Ali for spending the day

with us with her trusty camera. She has

taken some amazing photos and is a very

talented photographer. We will be display-

ing photos on the IMac this week.

You may be unaware that we have a Parent Borrowing

Library. It is situated near the back door. Please take time to browse the selection of books and if you would

like to borrow any of the publications please borrow using the bookmark system under your child’s name.

From week 7 this term we will be changing the way our

children have morning fruit. We found that the children really coped well with their own fruit last week and have

decided to continue this process starting next week. So please send your child with a names piece of fruit for

the morning and the afternoon.

This also means we will no longer need help in the morn-ings with fruit chopping, so thanks to everyone who has

helped us in the past.

Once again we will be conducting a McCues Bakery Fundraiser. This has been a very popular and successful fundraiser in the past. You will receive forms this week, so show your family, friends and work colleagues to help make this fundraiser a success.

Parent Borrowing Library

Check out our Website for the blogs on last weeks Out-

door kindy week. Www.lobethalkgn.sa.edu.au

McCues Bakery Fundraiser

See Bernadette Davis for ticket sales or see staff.

Come along to our wonderful playgroup. Same great Playgroup, different venue!

When: Fridays 9-10.30am Where: Lobethal P.S Activity Room (OSHC Room)

Cost: $2 Per family (plus Playgroup SA membership fees) Bring along a Sun-Smart hat, a drink and a piece of fruit for your

child. Come along and have some fun!

Quiz Night 2013

August 10th

7pm Centennial Hall

Tickets on sale 3rd

June.