14th February 2014
Dear Parents and Whanau
Welcome back to all of our families. The teachers have had a wonderful holiday but feel very blessed to be coming back to lots of happy smiling children.
We have had an exciting start to 2014 with recognising the Chinese New Year and celebrating Waitangi day and its meaning with the children, this week.
The teachers invite you to be involved in our planning to recognise and celebrate your own family’s culture. What songs, food and traditions do you like to celebrate with your family? Or would you like to bring in something that connects your family with NZ or another country?
Our current programme has been focusing on ‘Maths with Meaning’. We are collecting a variety of learning snapshots that we will put up on our notice board, which will show how we weave maths into the exploration part of the session as well as within our mat times.
If you would like to see other examples of the way we include literacy, numeracy and science into our programme please see the blue learning snapshot board.
Welcome to Isobel Gill (mum Jenny and dad Simon), James Moffat (mum Chrisna and dad John) and William Tye (mum Suzanne and dad Stephen) who have recently started at our kindergarten.
Thank you to Marie and Andrew Butel who organised our rock climbing wall for our outside area over the holidays.
As Term 1 is a summer term, please remember to include your child’s sunhat in their bag now that we are having some lovely sunny days. We have sunblock available, on the sign-in table, for your use.
If you have any friends who may be interested in enrolling at our kindergarten but would like to visit us beforehand, please encourage them to contact us so that we can arrange this. Word of mouth is a great way of connecting new families to Grace Kindergarten.
The Term Dates for this year are as follow:
|
Term |
Start | End |
| One | Monday 27th January | Thursday 17th April |
| Two | Monday 5th May | Friday 4th July |
| Three | Monday 21st July | Friday 26th September |
| Four | Monday 13th October | Friday 19th December |
