Preschool News Week 6 Term 2

Hello everyone,

Our week wasn’t as busy as the last couple, though still action-packed as every day in preschool tends to be.

The Purple Hearts (Vinnie’s class) joined us on Monday for a morning of fun and frivolity at Kimberley Playground, we spent time with them again on Wednesday as we headed down to their class to watch the latest episode of Playschool starring our very own Abi! The children have been having a great time with Bec on a Monday during Drama. This week we created a time machine and headed way back in time to when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Obviously, the children were very taken with this as some of the imaginative games we learnt in Drama were played in preschool in the afternoon. We’ve also had Michael return to preschool for a couple of days. We were all thrilled to have him assist us while Abi was off rehearsing for her upcoming performance at Vivid.

Our unit of work involving Astronomy has almost come to an end. This week we have been learning about the cooling of the Earth and how once it cooled life and weather, and soil started to form through the breaking down of rocks.

In craft we spent time revisiting collages and in Spanish we continued to learn the names of different fruits and vegetables.

Performances on the preschool stage have re-emerged as an interest and there continues to be a huge amount of time creating with the gym mats. The children are now being turned into vehicles and being used to race around the preschool. We’ve spent some time reflecting on Reconciliation Week, particularly the speech and smoking ceremony by Harry Whiting as the children had posed many questions to me regarding what he was saying and why his mother was taken away at birth from her mother.

Lastly a warm welcome to Anna Swan who’ll be joining the preschool week on a full-time basis from Tuesday.

Wishing everyone a restful long weekend!

Love Katrina, Lisa, and Abi.