Term Four Newsletter No Images? Click here Welcome to Term 4We have just begun the final term of 2019 and are looking forward to the warmer weather, sunhats are essential this term. It is a good idea to leave a sun hat in your child’s bag or at your home educators house to be used daily. Please sun block your child before arrival each morning, your educator will reapply in the afternoon. We have some exciting events planned this term, with the first one happening yesterday at Willowbank.
Newspaper Request With our Christmas party approaching we are after any donations of newspaper that we can use to wrap the children’s Christmas books in from Santa at the Christmas party. We have continued to improve and think about our sustainable practices this year and aim to become as paperless as possible in the office as well as reduce, reuse and recycle. There will be more to come in 2020 as we share our passion for our environment and sustainable living with you, our Organic Kids whanau. Christmas Closures Your home educator will be sharing with you what dates they are closed over Christmas, please also let them know what dates you are planning to take off over the Christmas period, as Charlotte will be requesting this information from them at the end of November. ❤ Bec, Lou and Charlotte Programme Review Outdoor CookingPreparing, cooking and eating food together in the outdoors was definitely a highlight of the year. We had tamariki cutting and peeling apples, making damper and collecting dried cabbage leaves to start the fire. None of this could have happened without the support of our amazing educators and parents. We look forward to this becoming an annual outing.
Cavan FarmsTrailer rides, petting and feeding calves, Tractor photos and fresh milk tasting was all part of our morning at Cavan Farms. Educators and families who came along got to take home some fresh milk. One of our educators made butter with the tamariki the following day from the creamer on top of her bottle of milk. Forest Ed ProgrammeThis term saw us experience our first Forest Playgroup in wet weather. Lou and Bec made a hut for everyone to rest under for kai before heading out into the rain for some limbo, obstacle hurdles and the making of a bivouac. We took away some key learnings regarding our shelter making, as drips made their way through the roof. If you have any old guy ropes or tent pegs we would love to take them off your hands to add to our Forest playgroup kit for future rainy days.
PlaygroupWe have noticed that a lot of our tamariki have been interested in climbing up the blue ladder at playgroup. This ladder is a little tricky for some tamariki and they are really challenging themselves learning and knowing where to put their hands and feet. Playcentre have done some fresh painting of the deck and posts and also added in a new bike track that can be used as soon as the concrete dries fully. I know this will be loved by our bike crew! Forest ProgrammeCHCH - Bottle Lake Forest, Fortnightly on a Thursday. 10am - starting 31st October - 12th December. Re-starting again in 2020 on 30th January Selwyn - Prebbleton Nature Park, Fortnightly on a Tuesday. 10am - starting 29th October - 10th December. Re-starting again in 2020 on 28th January Oxford – no planned days, as it happens spontaneously. PlaygroupSpencerville Playgroup, weekly on a Wednesday. 9:30 - 11:30am. We will have Library Lynette join us on 13th November and at our last playgroup on the 18th December. Forest Playgroup, first Wednesday of each month. 9:30 - 11:30am: Groynes (head towards the kids fishing lakes) Playgroup will starts back on the 5th February. |