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Stuarts Point Preschool

November 2014

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From the Committee:

Thank you to GASP – Heather Kind and Chris Kaczan (Dunecare) for your generous donation.

Fees due: Please ensure your account is paid and up to date for the end of the year. There are various payment methods available. See Jodi or Kelly in the office on a Wednesday or Friday. Thank you

Unkya Markets: SUNDAY 14^th of DECEMBER……We are cooking our famous bacon and egg rolls for breakfast or brunch. Please volunteer your time by adding your name to our display or pop along and purchase a roll to support our preschool.

Staffing: Erin is returning from maternity leave in 2015. Jodi will be finishing up at the end of this year.

From the Staff:

End of Year Party: Will be held on the last day of term WEDNESDAY 17^th of DECEMBER. Please join us from 1-3pm for a BBQ. If you would like to bring a healthy plate of fruit, cheese and cracker or salad that would be fantastic. The ‘party’ will be held outdoors and preschool will have an ‘Art Appreciation Gallery’ in which families can purchase handmade canvasses.

Nude Food: We are passionate about nude food – healthy unpackaged/unprocessed nutritious foods in our children’s lunch boxes. Please see staff if you have any questions regarding this.

Facebook: For those of you on Facebook, don’t forget to ‘Like’ our Facebook page – Stuarts Point Preschool and keep up to date with our latest happenings.

Reminders:

Old Machines: If you have any old VCR’s, CD players…..or anything with removable parts we would love it! We also would love your old hammers and nails.

End of Term 1:  Wednesday 17^th of December 2014 is our last day of Preschool we will be closed from December 17^th 2014- Wednesday January 28^th 2015.

Term 1 2015: Will commence on Wednesday the 28^th of January.

Community Notices:

Scotts Head Playgroup: Wednesdays 10am – 12pm @ Scotts Head Rec Hut or Beach. Visit the Facebook Page: Scotts Head Playgroup.

Annual Fire brigade Fundraiser: Sunday 16th November at the Stuarts Point Bowling Club at 11am.  

Support the

Cook Brothers Memorial Day

Events include:  pool comp, lawn bowls, mullet throwing comp, crab races, Johnny bowls balls to the wall, seafood and meat raffles drawn throughout the day, an auction with great goods! Come along and enjoy a plate of Cooks famous battered fish with spuds and bread for only $5! FUN – Jumping castle for the kids, live music by the piano man from 3pm

From our Lilly Pilli Children:     

Art Appreciation - exploring the arts and different painting techniques.

Our Lilly Pilli Preschool children have been discussing and exploring the arts through demonstration and hands on discoveries as they prepare to create their own canvass for our end of year ‘Art Gallery Walk.’

Life cycle of the butterfly and worm discoveries....

We investigated, discussed and observed our caterpillars, Chrysalis and butterflies. We are hoping to get some silk worm before the end of term.

Exploring our worms and what it means incorporate sustainable practices within our preschool.

    

Tinkering and deconstructing old machines....

We have been very busy this term exploring the arts, investigating life cycles and tinkering with old machines.

From our Gumnut Children:     

Healthy Eating

Our Gumnut room is full of fun and new discoveries as our children have been making delicious fruit smoothies and vegetable pizzas.

Dylan is deep in concentration as she slices her banana to add to her smoothie.

Kyla is enjoying a fresh blueberry smoothie.

Making Music

Our children and educators love it when family members join in,  singing and exploring musical instruments with us!

Our Gumnut children continue their fantastic adventures around our creek and oval area, they have been bird watching, cooking and creating new tunes.

Deconstructing Machines

We have been having lots of fun pulling apart an old CD player, a sandwich maker and  a printer as we endeavored to 'see how things work.' Our children have used scissors, pliers and various sized screw drivers to cut, undo, unscrew and disassemble these old machines.

Our boys gathered around the table curiously....Gem said "It looks like a music player." Obi asked "How will we see inside it?" Noah declared, as he climbed up onto the table "We will pull it apart with the tools." Obi said "I've got the lid off, we can see down inside it now." Gem added "I'm going to get these speakers out." Santai observed "There are lots of little screws. The ones at the back are too long."

Gem collected all the screws "I'm going to keep these screws...we could use them to build something." Noah lent right down "It's like a city on this switchboard."

Nathaniel watched Gem, Noah, Santai and Obi work. Gem and Noah passed him screws "Can you put that in our container Nathaniel?" Nathaniel pointed to the sandwich maker "What is that one?" Obi replied "I think you can cook things it in." Santai said "Does it have any screws in it?" Nathaniel picked up the sandwich maker, turned it side ways and upside down "Yep, it has screws!" Santai and Nathaniel started to pull it apart with their hands. Nathaniel said "I can do it now, I've got a screw driver" as he located the screws and began to undo them and add them to the container.

Most recently we investigated an old printer. Our children took their time opening, closing, turning, pressing, sliding and lifting all the different elements of the printer. Gem finally asked "Ok, can we pull it apart now?" Obi added "Let's see how it works."

Noah concentrated as he loosened each screw “See Gem, I got it. Now turn it over.” Gem turned the printed over “There is nothing here, I’ll give it a wack." Santai collected little bits and pieces “This could be a wheel, its spins!” Santai and Noah worked together as Santai held the top of the printer still for Noah to unscrew. Gem said “There are lots of little cords” as he used scissors to cut them. Isadora had a go with a screw driver “This is a bit tricky.” 

Obi, Isadora, Killara, Jules, Noah, Olivia, Santai, Freya, Gem and Seth took their time using various tools to pull apart the printer and closely examine each intricate part.

Our Ambulance Visit

This week we had a special visit from Nick (Matilda and Frieda’s dad). 

 Nick is an ambulance officer and came to our preschool to talk with us about when we should call an ambulance and what number we have to call. We discussed that we don't usually need an ambulance for a 'little hurt' such as a grazed knee. Our children identified that we call an ambulance if we have a 'big hurt' like a broken arm.

         We were very lucky to have the opportunity to have a look inside a real ambulance. 

Some of our children had their hearts traced and were able to see their heart beat on the monitor before it was printed out. Santai looked at his heart trace on the monitor and said “Wow.”

Our children asked Nick many questions as they observed all the gadgets inside the ambulance.  

Nick showed the children the oxygen mask before we ended our tour of the ambulance with a ride on the ambulance bed for some of our enthusiastic children.