Term 2 2008

• End of Term Sausage Sizzle.
• Acknowledging Aboriginal Reconciliation.
• Visiting Australian Animals.
• The Children’s Walkathon.
• Fun withScience.
• Online activities for children plus lots of print and colour pages.
• New songs to sing
• View our term 2 art gallery.
• Read the Term 2 Curriculum overview.

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End of Term Sausage Sizzle.

Please join us for a sausage sizzle on Wednesday 2nd July. At the end of every term we ‘farewell the term’ with a sausage sizzle lunch. This is held from 11.45am–1.00 pm and all kindy families are welcome to attend– even if Wednesday is not a kindy day for you. All food is suppliedby the centre at a cost of $4 per family. We would love to see you come along– catch up with some of the other kindy families and spend some time with your child at our centre. All children need to be accompanied by an adult for the sausage sizzle, unless they are a regular Wednesday Lunch child. Please note that this will follow the children’s Walkathon on Wednesday.

Acknowledging Aboriginal Reconciliation from 26th May

The reconciliation message of You, Me,Us,Together will be celebrated over the next few weeks at kindergarten. It provides us with an opportunity to introduce children to the history of Australia’s indigenous culture and also to reinforce our philosophy of valuing difference.

We are fortunate to have Brenda a school SSO who will share her culture by showing us indigenous artefacts and traditions.

The children will talk with staff about how traditional Aborigines used to live, hunt, dance sing and look for food long ago as well as the fact that they now often live in urban homes just like them. Children will have opportunities to play didgeridoos and clapping sticks, grind ochre to paint their faces, paint dot paintings and dance and move like Australian animals.

We will be listening to traditional songs like ‘Waltzing Matilda” with Aboriginal words and learning one of the more simple ones ( listed on this page).

Kiara, our Aboriginal persona doll will join in the dramatic play with the children and her story about her Aboriginal family will be shared with all the children around our pretend campfire.

Any input from families re the Aboriginal displays or learning will be appreciated.

Visiting Australian Animals.

As an extension to our learning about the Aboriginal Culture we will also explore the concept of Australia and being an Australian. As well as learning about the different states and capital cities we will also focus on the animals that are native to Australia. To make this a real living experience we have booked ‘Remabi Park’ to do a presentation with a range of Australian mammals and reptiles.

The Children’s Walkathon.

Our children will be helping to organise our next fund raiser. This will involve them walking 10 laps of the kindy park to raise money for new play equipment at kindergarten. Staff members will decide with the children on a range of equipment we need and each child will vote by placing their spot on their favourite item. The items with the most votes will be purchased first with the money raised by the walkathon (democracy in action). This is a great mathematical and planning experience for the children as they count votes, develop an understanding of more and less, make medals to record each lap, decide how they will decorate themselves for such a special walk and plan the activities they can complete as they walk. Parents are welcome to come and watch with the sausage sizzle following Wednesday’s walkathon.

The children’s interests have moved their learning into some interesting areas this term

Science experiments with air have been exciting with balloons, parachutes and bubbles all providing unpredictable results. Many of our children have built their resilience in dealing with unknown and unpredictable experiences with balloons popping, using low melt glue guns.

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