Preschool News Term 2 Week 9

Hello everyone,

Firstly, a huge thank you to Gina and everyone that attended maintenance day last Sunday. As always, the school looked amazing on Monday. We were thrilled to find the outdoor area of preschool looking so pristine. We all really appreciate the time and attention that was put into this and from the conversations we’ve been having with children know that many of the preschool families were involved with this.

We were again fortunate enough to have Michael back with us for most of the week. He has superstar status in preschool, with lots of excitement from the children each day when he arrived. It led to lots of children requesting he joins them for games of soccer on the basketball court and plays his guitar, so children could revisit songs they are interested in.

The children voted to not walk to Kimberley Playground on Monday, though we did head off to Lane Cove Library on Wednesday. Hopefully, next week we’ll walk to the park for our last Monday of the term, weather depending!

As our astronomy unit has finished, we are now providing group time in place of this. This week the children have enjoyed participating in construction experiences, developing a dance for the upcoming music concert, and have begun project work on dinosaurs. When we offer group time we are first coming together as a large group, children are told what activities are available in each group, and then able to choose to participate in the group they are interested in.

There continues to be a lot of illness about in preschool. Preschool children have immature immune systems, and as many, if not all the children in preschool, were born during COVID, we are finding the spread of illness is more prevalent than ever. A huge thank you to everyone that has kept unwell children at home to prevent the spread of their illness to others.

That’s it for this week!

Love

Katrina, Lisa, Abi and Anna