Phone 67 461894

Fax 67 463266

E-mail qdipreschool@bigpond.com

quirindipreschool.nsw.edu.au

Educational, Caring, Family Focused

Term 3, Week 5

20th August 2018

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SUPPORT GARDEN AND MOWING ROSTER

Thank you, Min Hamilton for caring for the preschool garden and chickens on 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 2018 Mowing Roster. Term 3, 2018 WK5: 25th/26th August – Dav Goodwin WK6: 1st/2nd September – Shannon Reid WK7: 8th/9th September – Andrew Gooch WK8: 15th/16th September – Dean and Kylie Slade WK9: 22nd/23rd September - Hannah and Hugh Hatfield WK10: 29th/30th September – Heath Forsstrom Weekend before we return for Term 4 WK: 13th/14th October – Josh Shaw. WK1: 20th/21st October – Chris and Jenna Wilson WK2: 27th/28th October – Min Hamilton WK3: 3rd/4th November – Mellissa Griffith and Michael Allan WK4: 10th/11th November – Dav Goodwin WK5: 17th/18th November – Shannon Reid WK6: 24th 25th November – Sally and Sam Stockwell WK7: 1st /2nd December – Andrew Gooch WK8: 8th/9th December – Dean & Kylie Slade WK9: 15th/16th December – Heath Forsstrom

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

Dear Families As many of you are aware, sadly the Quirindi Show has been cancelled. Unfortunately, the

hidden effects of the drought on our local community is becoming more evident.

In an attempt to keep the community moral high, the show committee is holding a Community

Piece of the Plains Market Day in support of our local community.

Quirindi Preschool is holding a non-profit BBQ Food Stall, with the aim to keep the cost down

and the preschool only to cover our cost.

The community over the years have supported the preschool in so many ways and our preschool would like to give a little back to the community

to say Thank You.

Sunday 9th September 2018 9.00am-2.00pm

Quirindi Showground

Our All-Day Menu Egg and Bacon Rolls Steak Sandwiches

Sausages Sandwiches

If your family can donate some bacon, or thin sausages, or eggs we would be very grateful.

Items to be delivered on the Friday to Preschool or on the Sunday to the Showground at 9am.

Below is a Stall Roster, please get behind the community. If you can assist on the stall or donate a food item, it would be sincerely appreciated in any

way, please let Shaz or Alison know.

Quirindi Preschool Non-Profit BBQ – Community Market Day Sunday 9th September

Time Help Please…

8.00am-10.00am Inclusive of set up

Alison, 4 volunteers please

10.00am-11.00am Alison, 4 volunteers please

11.00am-12.00noon Alison, 4 volunteers please

12.00noon-1.00pm Alison, 4 volunteers please

1.00pm-3.00pm Inclusive of pack up

Alison, 4 volunteers please

Thank you for your support

Garage Sale Trail Fundraiser Quirindi Preschool

Saturday 20th October 2018 8.30am-11.00am

Liverpool Plains Shire Council is making Garage Sale Trail happen locally on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 October 2018. It’s Australia’s biggest weekend of reuse and community with over 15,000 garage sales, 1.6 million items listed for sale and over 380,000 sellers and shoppers taking part across the nation.

Getting involved isn't just good for the planet. It’s good for the community and good for your school too.

• It’s a proven way to raise funds for your school.

• Liverpool Plains Shire Council is making Garage Sale Trail happen locally

• Garage Sale Trail is happening on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 October 2018. ▪ Quirindi Preschool Kindergarten will be hosting their Fundraising Garage Sale

on Saturday 20 October. ▪ Time 8.30am-11am ▪ A great opportunity to have a clean out in the holidays ▪ Drop off of items at Preschool is the first week of term 4. ▪ NO Electrical items will be accepted. ▪ If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask Shaz or Alison

Play Australia – Play Charter The Play Australia Play Charter is underpinned by the actions and vision of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Article 31 (General Comment 2013): The right to play and informal recreation, for all children and young people up to 18 years of age is contained in Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Article 31 includes a number of related, but distinct, rights: rest, recreation, leisure, play, participation in cultural life and the arts.

Article 31 States: 1 Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts. 2 Parties shall respect and promote the right of the child to participate fully in cultural and artistic life and shall encourage the provision of appropriate and equal opportunities for cultural, artistic, recreational and leisure activity.

WAYS TO TRANSFORM AN EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE INVOKE THE IMAGINATION

Pretend you are someone else. ‘What would a Fairy in our Fairy Garden do?’

Princess Rubbish, Princess Grubby, and the Knights of Rubbish Castle and no real castle is without a Dragon.

WAYS TO TRANSFORM AN EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE INVOKE THE IMAGINATION

Reflect on things as a storyteller, create your own story, be an actor in a play, or be the filmmaker. Create props from recycled re-used materials. Everything and

everyone’s collaborative ideas are a source of ideas for the story. Wear a costume or a disguise. Create with Fun!

Knights of Rubbish Castle

▪ Jamie: Story Teller and Knight

▪ Oliver: Gecko Man Knight

▪ James: Cat Boy Knight

▪ Axel Rubbish Castle Knight

▪ Erik Rubbish Castle Knight ▪ A special thank you to our recycled block

builders Logan and Emilia.

Princess of Rubbish Castle

▪ Ebony: Princess Rubbish

▪ Lainey: Princess Grubby Lainey our budding feminist ‘Just cause I’m a

Princess it doesn’t mean I can’t have a

sword’

▪ Walter: Dragon of Rubbish Castle

Father’s Day Breakfast Friday 31st August 9.30am-11.00am

Delicious Bacon and Egg Rolls Dads, Grandpas, Mums and Nanas all welcome.

Dear Families: If you are able to donate some bacon or eggs we would be very grateful.

Thank you to the Schultz Family, Webster Family and Sheaffe Family for their donation of eggs.

Thank you to the Shepherd Family and the Shaw Family for their donation of bacon.

There is a BUZZZZ at Preschool

Celebrating the wonderful world of Bees!

To make our bees we had to investigate a bee’s anatomy; and while making our bees there was plenty of opportunities for discussion

about the importance of bees to our local community and worldwide.

Thank you to Erik’s Family for our newly housed fish. Orie (as in orange) & Erik & the three little fish are

ABC Kids.

A Discussions from how we need to look after the preschool, extended to why we separate our food scraps, recycled materials, rubbish and soft plastics

at meal times. Which lead to a discussion of

The World of Landfill – What a Waste Exploring What is Landfill?

We send more and more rubbish away to landfill every year. There is no away, everything ends up somewhere and we are all responsible. Throwing stuff away is not

just a case of ‘out of sight, out of mind.’ We all thought that sending green waste to landfill is fine. It’s natural right?? Surely it

just breaks down and creates good soil that helps the environment?? We discovered…No, sadly, this is not what happens at all.

Landfill sites are essentially great big piles of rubbish. There is no air in these great big piles and this means nothing much breaks down in them at all (did you know that old

landfills are now being treated as archaeological sites because the waste is so well preserved?!). The only organisms that can survive in a landfill are bacteria which

decomposes the waste anaerobically (without using oxygen). Unfortunately, when they go to work to break down organic material like green waste and food they create

methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Basically, we decided it was a bad gas a stinky gas and after discussion and role plays of what a bad stinky gas would look like we put on our scientist hats and we have created

little festering bags of bad gas – a rotten egg experiment. And by making a portable glass house that demonstrates how some of the heat of the Sun’s warmth from escaping back

into the air at night. Composting our green waste is so much better for our environment, taking green waste

back to earth, enriching the soil and helping to grow healthy crops and pastures that produce food for everyone. Today’s green waste can grow tomorrow’s lunch!

The Little Earth Charter The Eight Principals for a Better World for Kids

1. Life 5. Earth

2. Interconnected 6. Peace

3. Family 7. Love

4. Past 8. Future

Next Week’s Bushwalk

Wednesday 29th August Bus Leaving 9.45am

Return 2.30pm