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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...
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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...
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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...
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Plasticene
Playdough is a bit tired at present – limited by the very features that make it so accessible – being easy to manipulate makes it soft and saggy, colors don’t stay separate, tiny pieces don’t keep...
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Autumn in the Mallee
It’s autumn in the Mallee and that means cropping and gardening after the heat of summer. We have reintroduced worms to the worm farm and studied and drawn them, moved like them, read about them,...
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Mums’ Night
Last week we were busy working on presents for our mums – we gave them at the Mums’ Night. We used thrifted and donated costume jewellery beads – with plenty of bling! We used the “Skinny Spaghetti”...
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A butterfly encounter
We received some butterfly pupae in the mail recently. We wondered if they would come out – we watched them a lot. And they did! After one day inside we let them go in the garden. We watched them visit...
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The post office table
Sending letters to other people is a powerful way to connect emotionally and socially - and a great literacy opportunity. The role play of stamping and mailing is fun too! We will be sending letters...
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Rainy days in Ouyen
We have had some rain! and everyone is happy (especially the farmers and the farmers’ children!) On Thursday we just couldn’t stay inside – it was too exciting! We did stay under cover of the verandah...
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Yes, it happened – the camera was dropped (though not by a child) and we are waiting on a replacement. That involves a 300 km round trip for me to choose one and pay and then wait and go back again to...
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Trike repairs
When families depend on cars and motor vehicles as much as we do out here, most children will have experienced a problem – flat tyres or something worse. And our high numbers of farming children means...
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an accidental crop
We are following the progress of our vegies and lupin crops at kinder, but on Thursday we made an interesting discovery. Some lupins were coming up by themselves! No watering, no weeding, nobody...
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Responsible Pet Ownership visit
Our friends Cecilia and Barnaby came for a visit today. We were learning about how to stay safe around dogs. This is a fantastic program for FREE provided by the Victorian government. This is a vital...
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Our daily report
At the end of each day, we ask the children to think about what they have done during the day and tell us something that we can write down on our little whiteboard. We put this up in the window, facing...
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hard at play
One morning there were 14 children at kinder and a little while into the session, we realised that 11 of them were down on the mat, playing. Thee were several small play spaces that had been set up by...
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the medical centre
Hospitals, health and their own bodies is a big interest with young children, and the medical centre has been going for a while at kinder – though lately, it hasn’t been very busy as the children have...
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recycled art
We have been saving our lunch packaging, especially lids, all year and we have lots. What could we use them for? The children discussed different possibilities – and then got to work. In the first week...
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“Simply” Squeezing orange juice?
Squeezing orange juice seems such a simple activity and one that at home we have probably relegated to technology with an electric juicer. Like lots of activities that we choose to do more quickly and...
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Dinosaurs and fossils
We got a postcard from Celia today, from Winton in Queensland where they have found lots of fossil footprints of donosaurs – a dinosaur stampede! This got us thinking about making our own fossils –...
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A visit from a dinosaur scientist
We were very excited to get to meet a real scientist on Thursday and to see some fossils. Simon told us how fossils are formed and we looked at the bones of a Tsintosaurus. It was big! The children...
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