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Fax 67 463266

E-mail qdipreschool@bigpond.com

quirindipreschool.nsw.edu.au

Educational, Caring, Family Focused

Term 2, Week 10

26th June 2017

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SUPPORT OUR GARDEN AND MOWING ROSTER

Thank you, Heath and Marika Forsstrom for mowing and caring for the garden on

the weekend. The garden is a vital part of our learning

environment. The gardens up keep and care is an ongoing commitment to valuing the

importance of young children learning, and education & care.

Thank you to our volunteers for the 2017 Mowing Roster? Term 2 Wk9: 24th /25th Ju Return to Term 3, 2017 Bradly Evans- Weekend 15th /16th July 2017 Term 3 WK1: 22nd /23rd July - Grant McNamara WK2:29th /30th July -Tom & Sarah Pollard WK3:5th /6th August – Jamie Vesey WK4: 12th/ 13th August – Dav Goodwin WK5: 19th/20th August - Michelle Barnett & Sarah Johnsen WK6: 26th/27th August – Dean & Kylie Slade WK7: 2nd /3rd September Melissa Hamilton/Scott Colbourn Wk8: 9th /10th September- Andrew Gooch Wk9: 16th/17th September– Annette and Martin Wallis Term 4 Drew Robinson - Weekend 7th /8th October 2017 Wk1: 14th /15th October– Kate Rutter Wk2: 21st /22ndh October– Heath Forsstrom Wk3: 28th/29th October-Bradly Evans Wk4: 4th/ 5th November-Hannah and Hugh Hatfield

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

Thank you to all families and to our community for your support and advocacy for our

preschool educational curriculum.

Thank you to Hannah Hatfield

Kylie Burns Tash Heath

For caring for the chickens and the garden over the holidays.

Thank you to our preschool artists Heath Lawson and Lawson Milward for creating thank you pictures, one for Pursehouse Rural and one for Agracom Quirindi.

Thank you, Heath and mum Donna for delivering the pictures to share our appreciation.

Last day of Term 2: Friday 30th June 2017 First Day of Term 3:

Monday 17th July 2017

Dr Sue Elliott from the UNE and Armidale Thalgarrah Environmental Education Centre Principal and two

team members of Thalgarrah nature playspace research team member based in Science Education at UNE were very impressed by the day.

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Thank you to Jeff and Janelle, Sophie and Lachlan Stenner for trimming the limbs of our trees. Thank you to Thursday Children for trimming and moving the saved pieces.

We even had time to create with the different sizes and lengths of pieces.

Thank you to Eloura residents for sharing their items they performed at the recent Gunnedah Eisteddfod. Thank you to the families who could attend our Friday visit.

Outcome 4: Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). Children are confident and involved learners. Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials.

Educators provide experiences that involve children in the broader community and environment beyond the early childhood setting

Tyler – “No plastic is good for our soil or our planet cause it kills our planet and it will be for ever and ever and ever”

Logan – “The food will break down, wiggly worms will eat it”

Willow – “Paper and cardboard will rot away. The worms mix it all up and pooh it out”

Brody – “Patty cake paper will go away cause it’s not made of plastic”

Emily – “The Roll-up wrapper is paper and it will break down…. No it’s plastic and it stays forever”

Charles – “Orange goes away, slugs, grubs and worms will eat it away”

Andy – “My Tuna tin will stay forever. The Tuna tin has a Recycle sign on it”

Lachlan – “Chip wrapper is plastic and it stays in the ground”

Educator…. “Why are we doing this Landfill Experiment?” Andy – “To see if things stay or there’s nothing there”

Thomas – “We want things to rot away”

Educator…. “What do you think we might find after our rubbish has been buried for 30 days?”

Andy – “Nothing” Mila – “They will be dirty”

Logan – “The worms will eat them”

Educator…. “Why are worms good for our Landfill?” Willow – “Because they break it down”

Mila – “They eat it” Lachlan – “The worms make spaces in the soil and they push chicken pooh into the

soil and mix it all up” Maycee – “Worms are good for our garden cause they eat the scraps and they pooh

and wee and it helps the soil”

Outcome 4: Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). Children are confident and involved learners. Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating. Outcome 2: Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment. Educators share information and provide children with access to resources about the environment and the impact of human activities on environments. Landfill discussions and learning comments during the discussions from the Children, educators provide experiences that involve children in the broader community and environment beyond the early childhood setting.

Tyler’s Grandpa’s tractor. Thank you, Merinda Recycling for their donation of the bottle tops.

Addison’s sister Regan. Made with bottle tops and sticks from our trees arranged in a rectangle to make a page.

Grace mapping our preschool using all materials connected to our learning community. Leaves Lachlan Colbourn shared from home to feed the bugs found at preschool, sticks from our trees, small bottle tops donated from Merinda Recycling and larger bottle tops donated by Reg.

Playscape

sandpit Garden classroom

Hills

Deck Area and Bamboo Tunnel

Educator promotes this learning by providing

materials that encourage children to

represent their thinking.

Outcome 4: Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). Children are confident and involved learners. Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technology and natural and processed materials.

Outcome 4: Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). Children are confident and involved learners. Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating.

Educators promote this learning by recognising mathematical understanding that children bring to learning and build on these in ways that are relevant to each other. Model mathematical and scientific language and language associated with the arts.

Thank you to all our families for a wonderful term of learning and community connections…

Enjoy your break…we are looking forward to a wonderful term 3.

Emily – “When I was in the shower last night, I looked up at the shampoo bottle and

I saw a triangle… that means I can put it in the yellow bin”

Grace – “When I’m at home or daddy’s work, I put bottles, carboard and paper in

the yellow bin”

After eating morning tea, Willow turns to her friends and says….

“Now everyone don’t forget to look for the recycling symbol before you throw it

away”

Faith – “We recycle juice boxes in my home”!!

Grace – “Recycle means we use it again”

Tyler – “The recycle symbol is a triangle and you put it in the bin…. the yellow one”

Jack – “I found lots of triangles at home and in the caravan on the Tuna tins and

plastic water bottles and they all had triangles on them”

Andy – “All the rubbish that we can re-use we put in the yellow bin”

Tyler – “Litter means we put rubbish in the bin”

Does anyone know what Recycling means?

Willow – “To use again”

What can we do with some of our rubbish?

Emily – “Make something”

What happens to your rubbish at home?

Andy – “We put it in the bin”

Eli – “Then the garbage truck takes it to the tip”

What happens to our rubbish at preschool?

Maycee - “We put chip packets in the bin. We put oranges in the garden and under

the ground”

Why don’t we put chip packets in the garden?

Mila – “Because they don’t break down”

Logan – “Wipes don’t break down”

Where does paper come from?

Logan and Willow – “The shop”

Charles – “Trees”

Rather than put our recycling in the garbage, what else can we do with it?

Mila – “Make things from it”

Outcome 2: Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment. Educators embed sustainability in daily routines and practices and develop an awareness of the impact of human activity on environments and the interdependence of living things.

The Journey of our waste…

Please look for this symbol and

Recycle!

If it can be recycled we can Reuse and Recycle!