Hello everyone,
As always there’s currently lots happening in preschool!
We had our last drumming session on Monday. It’s been great to see the children’s skill and confidence in drumming develop over 3 short weeks!
In Astronomy we’ve been looking at fossils. We joined Jess’s class on Monday for our first astronomy lesson of the week, casting a big fossil for her class to explore later. For the astronomy lessons in preschool we’ve been doing a range of things. We’ve completed some rather complicated work sheets that children wouldn’t usually come across until later in primary as well as pretending we were palaeontologists and going on a dig in the sandpit to find dinosaur bones. We’ve also made imprints and continued to explore bones, fossils and all things related to dinosaurs!
We’ve added a couple of toy cash registers to our dramatic play area. This has led to lots of play as well as experimentation and identification of coins and notes. We’ve found it really interesting that most children don’t know that they are actually cash registers, obviously they’re almost an obsolete thing!
We had a very successful drip to Lane Cove Library this week. We managed to get there on time and listen to the lovely Mal (children’s librarian) read us some very interesting stories. Everyone was then able to borrow a book to bring back to preschool. We’ve also been visiting the school library to explore the book selection, seems however the Rainbow Magic chapter books are by far the most sought after books amongst the children.
We’ve joined primary a few times of late for whole school singing in preparation for Currambena’s 50th Birthday celebrations in Saturday 21st September from 2pm. We’re hoping everyone can make it and take part in the celebrations! All classrooms including preschool will be open during this time. We’re hoping to have some assistance from preschool families who may be able to volunteer an hour of there time to assist with monitoring the use of preschool by visitors.
As a follow on with the children’s interest in their journals we’ve acquired a small table and set them up next to the writing area for children to have access to them whenever they like. It’s only early days with this, though so far it seems now they are easily accessible the children aren’t as keen to use them! We’ll continue to encourage children to add to these as they wish!
Thank you to everyone that’s been doing washing for us.Thank you also to the families that brought in jars for our soil experiments last week. As the end of term draws near we’ll be placing up an end of term cleaning list. Please add your name to anything you can assist us with, all of which can be added to your maintenance hours.
That’s it for this week!
Love
Katrina, Michael and Hannah
