Hello everyone. Ready for another month of what has been
happening at Minischool Educational Preschool and Vacation care? Here it is…..
We began June with a winter theme pyjama party complete with
hot chocolates and popcorn. Of course this was on the warmest winter’s day
rather than a cold one which made us all laugh in our sleeping bags, jammies
and groovy slippers.
Our next theme was Norfolk Island’s ‘bounty’ on Anniversary
week. This week we were grateful to be able to use the school Norf’k studies
resources on our trip to the library (Many thanks to the staff at NICS). We had
lunch at the nearby Queen Victoria gardens to learn more about our heritage
(Thanks to Marie Bailey for these amazing gardens & informative history in
the gazebo). We traced Bounty hats, tried our hand at weaving, Norf’k poetry,
Bounty ball dancing and even assembling the Norfolk Island flag. To end this
week we had two celebrations for Eli’s 5th Birthday and April-Rose’s
3rd birthday. There was plenty of cake, party food and treasure
hunts in our gardens.
To celebrate the Queen’s birthday, our next theme was Kings,
Queens and Castles. We discovered all about castles and knights in medieval
Europe. We discovered the names and colours of the crown jewels as we made
crowns filled with sapphires, emeralds, rubies and diamonds. To celebrate
princess Leilani’s 3rd birthday, we had a royal dress up party and
walked to the school library dressed in our finery practising our royal waves
to all the cars who passed us. Regular visiting developmental paediatricians Dr
Jane Leslie and Dr Michael MacDowell came to visit our new location and
commented that we were easier to find than the last one. It was great to have
regular contact to discuss any developmental growth and concerns. We appreciate
their taking time to visit us and the families of Norfolk Island.
Next came DINOSAUR week. Our budding palaeontologists
discovered dinosaurs in the gardens, made footprints in paint and in playdough.
We painted dinosaur stencils, made dinosaur shaped cookies, played with new
puzzles describing the different types of dinosaurs. We looked at what they eat
and were happy to discover that we are omnivores too.
From our funny quote book
1.
I was explaining about the meat eating dinosaurs
called carnivores. Miss 3 said “I LOVE CARNIVALS”
2.
While sounding our words, we all got stuck on
that tricky silent ‘p’ of the pteradon, Miss 4 guessed “it’s a potasaurus” I
prompted, it starts with a ‘t’ sound. Miss 4 guessed again “it’s a tera-saurus”
Close I said, further prompting ‘ptera-d…’ not giving up she jumped up
excitedly and said “I know… TERA-DAURUS!”
3.
I showed a Triceratops picture to the
pre-schoolers, miss 4 put her hand up to tell me that it was a “Tricerataurus!”
4.
While hole punching and threading pictures , Mr
4 handed me the hole puncher and told me that “it had run out” ☺
Our next theme was community helpers’ week. We are extremely
grateful to the Norfolk Island Police and to the Norfolk Island Fire Services
for their help with this week by allowing the minischoolers to visit both
stations for a first-hand look at the equipment needed to keep us safe. WE had
lunch and both places and a ride in the vehicles. What lucky kids (and adults)
we are to live in this wonderful community.
Many photos of these visits are on Minischools facebook page
for you to visit anytime.
2 more birthdays were celebrated in June Happy Birthday to
Geordie and to Teddy! And we got a visit or two plus cuddles from beautiful
newborn baby Harrison.
After Geordies birthday, we got a visit and private magic
show from Magic Fab (tennis coach Fabien) before he returned to France. Thanks
Fab for all the laughs. I hope we helped you with some more English words like
‘piles’ for your card tricks as much as we enjoyed the French versions. The
queen of hearts card trick was my favourite, especially when you pronounced it
as ‘hurts’.
This brings us to our current vacation care program. With
Baunti Escapes taking a break from kids club for the time being, we are happy
to help working parents these holidays by entertaining the school kids. It
certainly has been a fun filled 2 weeks. Our younger ones have enjoyed having
the school children entertain them and add value to our games and activities.
Many vacation care kids are ex Minischool and Kinderhaus who have returned and
are enjoying revisiting the games, activities & toys they played as pre-schoolers.
So far these holidays we have dodged the rain having picnic
lunches in the gardens, Queen Victoria gardens and Cascade bay. We Love the new
sandpit at pirate cove and stage one of our playground. WE have loved French
knitting our own scarves and bubble play.
We
celebrated 2 more birthdays in the holidays. Happiest 4th Birthday
to Nate.
Also Happy 5th
Birthday to Asher. How fantastic to have your brother and sister at vacation
care to celebrate with you!
High schooler Eloise
Grant came to play these holidays which was great timing as she will be
bringing the school children to Minischool when we begin after school care NEXT
WEEK!
Monday is a pupil free day so vacation care will continue on
this day.
If you need an enrolment form for after school care please
let me know on 51862.
MOOSH (Minischool out of school hours care) begins on
Tuesday 15th July from 3pm to 5pm. Bookings are essential as the
children get fed luscious & scrumptious afternoon teas. Mooshies will learn
to cook ans meal plan as well, so enrolment forms need to be completed so we
can plan for any food intolerences.
We will work in conjunction with the school’s active
afterschool program when it begins in term 3.
Until next month, see you on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/minischoolpreschool.
Stop by and say hi!
Love from all of the Minischool team ♥
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