12 July 2013
Dear parents and whanau
Hopefully you will have had a chance to see our lovely Miss Best on the Māori channel last Sunday evening. The children were most impressed seeing the clip of Miss Best winning a dishwasher. Our afternoon children were also very excited to find out that we were doing our own version of ‘its in the bag’ during the session.
MRS JULIAN’S FAREWELL – We will be having an afternoon tea, on Wednesday 10th July at 3.30pm, here at our kindergarten, to say thank you and give our farewells to Mrs Julian. Please refer to the notice beside the sign-in sheet.
Our programme has recently been focusing on the children’s interest in leaves and nature. We also have been researching and discussing, with the children, the star constellation of Matariki. This produced a great interest in the stars, the sun and space. The children expressed lots of their ideas about the greatness of God’s creation and were very interested in knowing how God created the stars.
The recent bus trip for the afternoon children to Te Papa was successful and all enjoyed the experience of a ‘night sky’ held in a dome tent. The stories about Māori treasures (taonga) and additional stories about Matariki captured the children’s interest.
For examples of the way we include literacy, numeracy and science into our above programme please see the blue learning snapshot board.
If you have any friends who may be interested in enroling at our kindergarten but would like to visit us beforehand, please encourage them to contact us so that we can arrange this.
Welcome to Eva McClintock (mum Michelle and dad Henry), Thomas Cobham (mum Kirsty and dad Josh), Amelie Nestmann (mum Daniela and dad Michael) also to Oliver Yeoman (mum Rebekah and dad Ben) who have recently started at our kindergarten.
Reminder about Children’s Safety
We would like to remind parents that our driveway is one way only.
There is NO REVERSING.
Warning for new parents – turning right into Khandallah Rd means you are turning into a blind corner.
Term Dates 2013:
Term 2 End Date is Friday 12th July (both sessions)
Term 3 Start date is Monday 29th July (both sessions)
Grace Kindergarten hats and tee-shirts are available for sale. Please see the teachers. They are both $20 each.
Please save your milk bottle tops, corks and untanalised wood for our carpetry table.
Any donations of TISSUES would be greatly appreciated for the upcoming cold and flu season.
We would like to remind you that your child’s portfolio is available for you to look at any time. Also that we value your feedback at any stage either with a meeting, through a phone call or with an email.
Parent Help Roster: Due to the weekly/daily changes in our parent help roster we are unable to email out an accurate copy. Please write down the dates you have chosen in your calendar at the time of your choice. If you cannot make your parent help duty – please contact 3 other parents to try to swap before your duty date.
Please speak to myself (Pip) or Ange Marklew if you have any financial concerns regarding paying donations. We understand that this can be a tough financial climate for some of our kindergarten families.
**Remember to pack an extra set of clothes and named drink bottle for your child.
