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Phone 67 461894
Fax 67 463266
E-mail [email protected]
quirindipreschool.nsw.edu.au
Educational, Caring, Family Focused
Term 2, Week 2
6th May 2019
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SUPPORT GARDEN AND MOWING ROSTER
Thank you, to Jeremy and Dougie Pengilley for caring for our preschool garden and chickens
over the weekend. The garden is a vital part of our learning
environment. The garden maintenance is an ongoing commitment to valuing the
importance of young children learning, and education & care.
Thank you to our volunteers for the 2019 Mowing Roster. Term 2 2019 Wk2: 11th/12th May – Jenni and Nick Hird Wk3: 18th/19th May – Daniel and Tanya Peterson Wk4: 25th/26th May – Dean and Kylie Slade Wk5: 1st/2nd June – Chris and Jenna Wilson Wk6: 8th/9th June – Sallie Nixon Wk7: 15th/16th June – Shannon Reid Wk8: 22nd/23rd June – Brittany and Jordan Whillock Wk9: 29th/30th June – Luke and Rina Whitten Wk10: 6th/7th July– Krystal and Lee Kelly Term 3 2019 20th/21st July – Return to school – Kelly and Rod Grant 27th/28th July – Min Hamilton 3rd/4th August – Krysia and Peter Roberts 10th/11th August – Emma and Michael Lees
Thank you for being an active part of our
preschool community. To all the families who have volunteered for our lawn mowing roster.
Your time is honestly appreciated.
News Note
Rain, Rain, please
come another day.
Some of us may have been lucky enough to
hear the rain on our roofs for most of Friday
night. If so, you may even be lucky enough to
have some water in your creeks and dams. Or
you could go to our local creeks or Quipolly dam
and make a recording.
Jodi Rowley curator of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Biology
The Australian Museum and the University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW is asking for frog recordings for their research to be forwarded using the
universities Frog ID App to identify the frogs you hear.
Identify the Frogs you hear with Frog ID App Australia has 240 known frog species. Most are found nowhere else. Some flourish. Many struggle. Four have become extinct since the 1980s. As human activity on the land intensifies, and as environments change, frogs are impacted. Now anyone with a smart phone can record frog sounds and submit them to scientists such as Jodi Rowley. Jodi and her team are experts at identifying frogs from their calls. They plot where frogs are found and update information about which frogs are doing well and which may be in need of help through direct conservation measures. Jodi reports that in the first year of FrogID, she has received more than 66,000 recordings and 53,000 submissions. The concerning news is that in recent years, the iconic Green Tree Frog (Litoria caerulea), once common in Sydney backyards has not been seen, or heard in inner city suburbs. If you do record a frog sound and forward to Jodi please let us know, we love to know about your adventures to record the sound.
Are you Interested? Quirindi Preschool has secured funding for FREE Mental Health First Aid Training. Participants will learn the signs and symptoms of mental health problems, where and how to get help and what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective. Any interested adult can attend. This course is not a therapy or support group, rather it is an education course. Venue: Quirindi Preschool Date: Saturday June 22nd and Sunday 23rd June 2019 Time: 9am-3pm Numbers are strictly limited RSVPS essential [email protected] 0438296015 or RSVP to Shaz or Alison. Morning Tea will be provided, please bring your own lunch. Flyer Attached for more information.
Pie Drive Orders Forms will be sent home this week. A perfect week, the
weather is cooling down and perfect weather for Pies. Due return orders 5th June
Our next visit to Eloura is Thursday 16th May. We have been
invited for a sausage sizzle. The bus will leave at 11.10am, and we will return at approx. 1.30pm. Please pack your child some lunch just in case they are still hungry on our return to preschool. Thank you to Quirindi Country Women’s Association (CWA) for their continued support, of our connections with the local community.
Welcome to SWAP It! Our service has partnered with Good for Kids (from Hunter New England Health) and the Skoolbag app to trial a new program called SWAP It. SWAP It aims to support families with advice and tips for packing a healthy lunchbox. SWAP It includes lunchbox advice on food to pack (swap in) and not to pack (swap out). For the duration of the program, please use the lunchbox recommendations provided by SWAP It when packing lunchboxes The recommendations will be in the “parent information” section on your Skoolbag app and paper copies will also be available from our service. You will start receiving messages from SWAP It on your Skoolbag app soon (one per week for 11 weeks). We encourage you to look at them and click through to the useful links. If you aren’t yet on the Skoolbag app– please download the app now so you don’t miss out on this opportunity! Search for Skoolbag in the app store. Instruction sheets are also available at the service.
For more information on SWAP IT, please contact: EMAIL: [email protected]
We look forward to hearing your feedback at the end of the
program.
Dear Families, please do not underestimate the creativity of your children and the many mediums they can use to share their stories. My story…the white pebbles are the snow followed by the melting snow turning into water (blue pebbles), the water is running onto the grass to make it green. The white rocks in the middle with the blue balancing on top is the snow starting to melt. Spontaneous experiences are just as valuable as planned. Children and educators collaborating and challenging each other’s thoughts, ideas and experiences.
My story…
The blue rocks are the river and the green rocks are the grass on the banks of the river. The white rocks are the fish swimming in the river.
Creativity as a quality of thought…What is extraordinary in the human mind is
not only our capacity to move from language to another, from one intelligence to another; we are also capable of reciprocal listening, which makes communication and dialogue possible. Children are the most extraordinary listeners of all. They encode and decode, interpreting data with incredible creativity. Children ‘listen’ to life in all its facets, listen to others with generosity, and quickly perceive how the act of listening to others is an essential act of communication. Children are biologically predisposed to communicate and establish relationships. This is why we must always give them plentiful opportunities to represent their mental images and share them with others. – Professor Carla Rinaldi
Creating our Nature Wheel…
We should remember that there is no creativity in the child if there is no creativity in the adult. The competent and creative child exists if there is a competent and creative adult – Reggio Emilia
Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud
Dirt and water… 2 very simple and basic ingredients have and continue to be
the source of so much activity, creativity, joy, and sensory fun for children and adults. (Nature Play)
MUD PLAY BUILDS CREATIVITY – The
open-ended nature of mud play is perfect for the developing brain. There is no end to the creations, ideas and games children will invent. During this type of unstructured, outdoor play, children are not only exercising but are building their ability to form ideas, problem solve, and think critically, as well as be innovative and inventive. (Nature Play)
A few thoughts to why Mums are special…
Happy Mother’s Day to all our Mums’, and Nans’. ▪ Mum makes me laugh from her laugh - Wyatt
▪ I like her cause she makes cookies and slice for me - Archie
▪ She gives me icy poles and reads me books - Tom
▪ I love kissing mum; mum gives me good kisses and cuddles - Layla
▪ Her do me a favour and packs me noodles for lunch - Toby
▪ Mummy Tickles me and feeds Lucy my horse - Adele
▪ I love my mum cause she gives me crackers and good cuddles – Oliver. N
▪ I love my mum cause she likes Gecko; and we eat and bake a cake – she loves cake
– Oliver.B
Little Pig, Little Pig, Let Me In
Not By the Hair of My Chinny, Chin, Chin.
He Huffed and He Puffed but he could not blow the house in.
What surprise will we discover inside the Box!
Thank you, Peter, for sharing your new shoe box.