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Fax 67 463266

E-mail qdipreschool@bigpond.com

quirindipreschool.nsw.edu.au

Educational, Caring, Family Focused

Term 1, Week 9 Part 1

25th March 2019

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SUPPORT GARDEN AND MOWING ROSTER

Thank you, to Jenni and Nick Hird for caring for our preschool garden and chickens over

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

environment. The garden maintenance is an ongoing commitment to valuing the

importance of young children learning, and education & care.

Thank you to our volunteers for the 2019 Mowing Roster. Term 1, 2019 Wk9: 30th/31st March – Luke and Rina Whitten Wk10: 6th/7th April – Brittany and Jordan Whillock Wk11:13th/14th April – Krystal and Lee Kelly Term 2 2019 27th/28th April – Return to school- Josh and Melissa Shaw Wk1: 4th/5th May – Emily and Jeremy Pengilley Wk2: 11th/12th May – Jenni and Nick Hird Wk3: 18th/19th May – Daniel and Tanya Peterson Wk4: 25th/26th May – Dean and Kylie Slade Wk5: 1st/2nd June – Chris and Jenna Wilson Wk6: 8th/9th June – Sallie Nixon Wk7: 15th/16th June – Shannon Reid Wk8: 22nd/23rd June – Brittany and Jordon Whillock Wk9: 29th/30th June – Luke and Rina Whitten Wk10: 6th/7th July– Krystal and Lee Kelly Term 3 2019 20th/21st July – Return to school – Kelly and Rod Grant 27th/28th July – Min Hamilton

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

Roxanne Harris for

volunteering for the

vacancy of Vice

Treasurer.

Welcome Roxanne

to our Executive

Management

Committee

Thank you to our 2019 management committee for your commitment to the children, educators

and our learning community. Thank you for taking the challenge. Thank you for your sharing the

vision of our beautiful preschool.

Switch off for Earth

Hour.

Saturday 30th March

2019

Together our voices

create change.

Rain clouds in a cup, and rain clouds in the sky…Oh, what a

beautiful sound rain…music to our ears…and joy for many families.

Interesting, Calming, Beautiful. The weather is changing, and we often see and talk about the shape and size of clouds and how they vary in shades of white and grey. These commonly occurring conversations led us to learning more about clouds and how it is that rain can fall from them sometimes. Rain clouds in a cup experiment: We used shaving cream to create a cloud like look on top of the water. We then dropped food colouring into our shaving cream 'cloud'. As our cloud filled up with food colouring, the food colouring fell down into the water creating a rain-like effect. ... Did you know that when clouds get so full of water that they can't hold any more, the water falls back to the ground as rain. It all sounds so simple, if only we could fill those clouds with water when we need it.

Inspired and curious, we all

asked lots of great questions.

Some questions were tricky,

and we had to investigate.

The weight of the water in

the dark grey clouds pushes

through to make rain that

falls to the ground. Rain has

lots of vitamins and minerals

(healthy Stuff for our plants,

trees, grass and crops).

Interesting,

Calming,

Beautiful.

Well planned…Luckily, we planted our

seeds in our vegetable garden before

the rain fell.

Strategies, concepts and

mathematical moments!

Mathematic moments followed by a

little heartful fun!

Our task was set…to work together to create a

3D representative of the geometrical shapes of

the Skeleton using recycled materials.

Cause and effect! When watering our sweet

peas Harley discovered that if we put water down

the hole at the top it runs out the bottom. We all

then explored and had to have a go!

Children are competent learners and our educators

have respect for children’s individual learning styles,

and capabilities. Our educational team hold high

expectations of the conceptual (concrete) ideas

that children explore, discover and to learn.

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