Anzac Day

On Monday, Boden’s Grandma, Mrs Hastings, came to tell us about Anzac Day.

She showed us where Vietnam is on the map of the world and she brought Boden’s Poppa’s uniform and medals and some photos of Vietnam. Afterwards, everyone who wanted to was able to try on the uniform.

On Tuesday we made anzac biscuits because they are the special biscuits that the people at home made and sent over to the soldiers for a treat. We all helped to make them.

They were a hit!

We know some of the children will be going to Anzac Day ceremonies – maybe they will be able to tell us what happens on Anzac Day?

On our walk to the Mobile Library next week, we will go to the Vietnam Memorial to see Boden’s Poppa’s name, and to remember all the people who left Ouyen to go to the war.

 

more shows on the stage

At the end of last term, there was the beginning of some interest in doing shows on the stage so we added some dressups and brought the instruments and chairs up.

There was a lot of planning but it was hard to work out a show.

Then Alissa took charge and improvised a story that melded 2 favourites – Little Red Riding Hood and the 3 Little Pigs. It was Little Red, Little Blue and Little Purple Riding Hoods and how they were picking flowers -red ones, blue ones and purple ones when the wolf came along.

So they needed a wolf – and Ollie said he would do it. We asked him to give us a taste of his roar – and it was amazing – we nearly fell over – it was so loud! (and funny!)

There were tickets sold – so we needed to know the time and how much it would cost – there were musicians to help play for it, there was a great storytelling activity with children taking the parts and acting it out – and lots of social involvement. A very successful show – and the tickets were free!

 

Easter at kinder

This year, Easter falls right at the start of our holidays so the children are a bit more  aware of it this year than they have been some years. And our interest in chicks and eggs and nests and feathers is quite strong still, so the traditional symbols of eggs at least seem a bit more relevant this year. We set up an Easter play space – the fur fabric we used as the base was a sensory magnet for many children.

And we had the usual Easter egg hunt outside…. but Easter egg hunts are not usual for a group of four year olds!

A focus on collecting and then sharing meant that there were no worries about how many eggs each child had found. Inside we counted them out into groups of 12 (how many children we had at kinder that day) and there were exactly 4 groups – the children very easily worked out that that meant they would each get 4 eggs! (don’t you love division with food – such a great learning opportunity).

Outside, Eli started a game where he  made an egg, clipped it to a peg, and then threw it to see how far it would go. He soon had some other children creating their own egg missiles…

Drawing, coloring in and cutting, pegging, throwing and chasing…comparing distances – so much learning in an activity that one child thought of for themselves….

And this is only a snippet of what happened on our last day of term!

Happy Easter and have a good break everyone!

 

Learning about the Fire Station

It all started with a few of the children pretending to be fire fighters one day..and the next…and the next… and after lots of play and learning about fire safety at kinder, we have had our long awaited trip to the Fire Station.

We  thought of some questions to ask – but that’s hard when we don’t know what we don’t know!

We couldn’t imagine what it would be like to stand up on the truck …

or to try on the gear…..

or to squirt the big hose…

and now we do.

The Fire Brigade  captain,Trevor, took time off his job to help us, showing us around and telling us all about it. We’ve written him a letter to say thankyou. We learnt a lot!

Thanks Trevor!

 

 

 

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