Lobethal Community Kindergarten Newsletter Phone: 8389 6321

Fax: 8389 5153

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

Web: www.lobethalkgn.sa.edu.au

What an amazing term we have had so far….Our Fundraising efforts have been nothing short of phenomenal. We are so thankful to our wonderful Governing Council who have worked tirelessly to organise and run two extremely successful events. Our Bunnings BBQ on the 31st of July was great fun and luckily we scored a lovely sunny day and lots of hungry customers. We raised just over $1000. Saturday night’s Red, Roast and Rhythms showed us just how successful we can be when we work together collaboratively. The community support shown on Saturday night, reminds me just how much we are a valued and integral link in our community. Thanks so much to all of our Governing Council members, fundraising sub-committee and families who donated and or attended our major fundraiser for 2016. Thanks also to Will Goodings, 5AA breakfast announcer for generously giving us his time to MC the event. Also thanks again so much for kind generosity of our platinum sponsors, Kloses Supermarkets and Hughes Constructions, along with all of our other local sponsors. All of this amazing work helped us raise over $11,000 for our kindy. We will use these funds to enhance our mud kitchen area, up-grade our resources and construct a new fence and garden area. Happy days!

Sustainability Learning in Action Our sustainable learning has been enhanced with a visit from 9 volunteers from Conserva-tion Volunteers Australia and a worm farm from Bunnings. So many awesome learning experiences for us all to help us con-nect and care for or environment. we have begun looking at reducing our contribution to landfill by collecting our plastic and paper wrappers from our lunches each day. We have begun collecting these and will count and tally the total wrappers and rubbish each day and each week. our aim is to have zero rubbish at lunch times. This initiative will help you save money, provide healthier foods for your child and help reduce our impact on the environment. It’s a win/win for all of us. Please he lp us to work with your child to help send a nude (wrapper /rubbish free) lunch to kindy everyday.

Curriculum in Action Our kindy program has been so exciting and full of so many interesting and engaging learning opportu-

nities. We have been looking at gender equity as a result of some conversations we have had with children sharing their

theories on what girls and boys can do at kindy and in the workforce. We have spent time theorising and challenging these

ideas and understandings through discussions around where girls and boys can play and what girls and boys can do for a

living. We want to enable our children to be kind to to each other and develop and understanding that gender doesn't define

ability or power. We have also focussed many conversations around using our correct names at

kindy. Having this agreement in place, sets our children up with an understanding that names,

other than our own can hurt other children’s feelings. All of this supports our term three focus of

‘Developing healthy minds, attitudes and bodies’.

To help make our learning visible, we have displayed our learning map on large sheets of pa-

per on the PVC blinds outside on our veranda. It is incredible to see what learning occurs at

kindy. The idea of this map is for us all to see the emergent and planned learning experiences

and add to them each week. The emergent, child led curriculum we run at kindy is all about

listening and responding to children. It doesn’t easily fit into neat little boxes but it is rich, meaningful and authentic and also

covers all of the outcomes of the Early Years Learning Framework.

Map Makers In response to Nicole Ross (Landon’s mummy) coming into kindy and sharing her expertise and

knowledge of maps with us, we have decided to try and map our kindy community. You should all have got a let-

ter sent home by your child, asking you to do some homework with your child in the coming week. We are asking

that you work with your child to create a map of your place to kindy. There is no template, no right or wrong. The

aim is that you spend time with your child, creating the map, thinking about land-

marks and rough directions and towns ( if you reside out of Lobethal). we will display

all of these maps and then map where we live. Such great opportunities for us to de-

velop our geographical, literacy and mathematical understandings.

Thanks again for your ongoing support.

Lee

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Thanks so much to every one who gave up

their precious time to help sell sausages at

our BBQ on Sunday 31st July. Lots of hard

work selling and cooking sausages enabled

us to make just over $1000 profit!!! Thanks to

the following awesome, hard working

parents: Gill Newby, Liz Young, Cath

Thomas Caderyn McEwan, Cath's Mum and

Dad, Kel Boyle, Jodi Trengove,Erika

Amalija, Rhiannon Green and Michael

Green (I hope I didn't forget anyone).

A massive thank you to Nicole Murphy for

helping us organise our snags and goods

and for helping us get everything together

on time. Another huge thanks to Kloses Food-

land for donating all of the condiments and

bread. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Funds raised have gone towards buying a

lovely new couch for

us to all enjoy snug-

gling and sharing

stories together.

Toy Catalogues

You should have received via your pockets 2 toy

catalogues. Every year we pass them onto fami-

lies and they can make Christmas shopping very

easy. Kindy receives a percentage of all sales.

It’s easy just order online through each individual

website and nominate Lobethal Community

Kindergarten as your preferred Centre/School.

Your order will be delivered to your home address

in time for Christmas.

Happy Shopping!

Fundraising News

Community News Kindy Blog

One of the ways we make learning visible to the wider community is

through our blog. We will share snippets of our adventures at bush-

land park each week, and highlight all the amazing learning experi-

ences your children are creating. If you are interested in our nature

play journey over the past few years, the old posts make some great

reading too. We encourage you to leave feedback/comments/

questions on the posts, it is a great way of us showing family and

wider community voice and connections in our program.

www.lobethalkgn.sa.edu.au

Bunnings BBQ

Just a quick reminder to ensure the front door is not left open

in the morning arrival or afternoon pick up rush. Children can

easily pass through without being seen and we need to

ensure all children are kept safe at these busy times.

Kindy House Keeping

9.30am to 11.00am

What a busy term of learning !

The children’s interest in, and knowledge of Maps and Mapping continues to astound me.

Last week they created a big chalk map in the park with Tobi’s Mum, Liz. Katara and Raff even

had to add Swan Reach and Young Husband to the map! We look forward to sharing your

maps from home (and hope that the postie has delivered the majority of letters by now!) Our

walk to the Post Office and the Florist was part of our continuing emphasis on Community links.

Our lovely florist, Emma gave the children a very special gift of a succulent farm so that we

can propagate our own succulents back at kindy! She also gave us some poppies to paint.

Several children have become interested in “fixing” and or “dismantling” objects at kindy. This

“real work” is fabulous for fine motor, problem solving and intellectual stretch. We would like to

extend this by being able to pull apart some machinery/appliances. If you have anything suit-

able to donate to our “tinker table” we would really appreciate it. Our Making and Construc-

tion Table is very popular at the moment so we would appreciate cardboard boxes and bits

and pieces from your recycling!

Our Conservation Volunteers will be back in September to help us create a butterfly garden

and also a music wall. For this we are looking for donations of native/butterfly loving plants

and also anything suitable for a music wall—bells, old baking equipment, bike wheels, bits of

old instruments—anything that has the potential to make music.

Staff recently had the opportunity to engage in professional learning with Niki Buchan—a lead-

ing expert in Nature Play. Our collaboration with Niki will continue to drive our Nature Play

journey and provide us with some exciting opportunities too! Part of our work with Niki will see

us implementing some new floorbooks—one on Projects, and another on our Community

(which will highlight all of the learning we do out and about ie. Visiting, schools and Restvale,

local walks, contributions from Community—such as the amazing support we received for our

major fundraiser and the recent work with Conservation Australia)

We have been busy collecting documentation, photos and work samples for Learning Journey

books. We would really appreciate these books back so that we can add all of the amazing

learning to them!

Nell