9th September 2014
Dear parents and whanau
What a fun term it has been with our focus on extending the children physically. We have had the children rolling over mats placed on the long ramp, skipping rope challenges, extended obstacle courses and Commonwealth Games based activities such as beam work and hurdles. The children were so very proud of their achievements and it has been so lovely to see so many children still wearing their medals. We have also focused on the ways God makes us unique with all of our special body parts and our individual skills.
At present we have a large portion of our afternoon children interested in creating and inventions. We are currently extending this interest through reading and discussing stories about real life inventors and crazy inventions. We are also showing the children’s own profile books at mat times that contain running recordings of inventions and creations made during the session.
Thank you to all our families that helped and supported the disco. We all had so much fun dancing and eating and we even raised $800 to put towards our new playground. A special thanks to Sam Lienert from Prolight Electrical who supplied the fabulous lighting.
Welcome to Flynn Couchman (mum Janine and dad Ryan) who has recently started at our kindergarten.
Do you know someone who has access to wood, that is not tanilised, for our carpentry table? The afternoon children would greatly appreciate any wood that can be contributed. Please let one of the teachers know if you can help.
As the weather is now very changeable, please remember to include your child’s jacket and also their sunhat, for those changeable chilly mornings. We have sunhats for sale at $20 each, as well as Grace Kindergarten tee-shirts.
Please check out our facebook page (you don’t need to be a member to see it). It contains all of our updates, plus if you like or follow it you can receive updates to your newsfeeds.
We are having an Open Day on Thursday 18th September from 10.30am. Please “spread the word” to any friends/ family members you know that may be interested in coming to our great Kindergarten.
There will be a number of places coming available at the end of the year so now is a good time for new families to join the Grace Kindergarten community. We have flyers available for you to give to friends and family on the information table.
The Term Dates for this year are as follow:
| Term | Start | End |
| Three | Monday 21st July | Friday 26th September |
| Four | Monday 13th October | Friday 19th December |