Today we welcomed Melissa to our kindy to read to us the latest ONE BOOK ONE BUNDY STORY – “The Smallest Turtle” by Lynley Dodd. Each year a new text is chosen for our town and this year we are excited about having a text written by the children’s novelist most famous for the Hairy McClary series. In fact, Lynley will be visiting Bundaberg around May to share The Smallest Turtle and other texts with us so be sure to attend one of her events as well as all the other activities that will be available around this. It’s so wonderful to have a text that relates to one of our community’s local animals enabling us to extend on the learning around turtles even more and how we can continue to for these precious animals.

 

We were amazing at how many turtle eggs are laid in a nest.

We loved the words Melissa read, “Skitter Skatter” to describe how the smallest turtle moved over the sand. Another favourite part was seeing all the animals and plants that he passed on the way to the water. A baby turtle does indeed have an amazing and perhaps scary journey to the safety of the sea.

At the end of the story, Melissa sang us a song about a turtle who was swimming in a bath tub, ate some soap and then grew a bubble in his throat – we loved it.

 

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THANKS, MELISSA, FOR COMING TO SHARE THIS AMAZING STORY WITH US AS PART OF YOUR ROLE AS C & K’s Community Liaison Officer. Three copies of the story arrived in the post just after your visit and we have been having a great time re-reading the story, talking about the pictures and of course exploring the turtle puppet.

WHAT IS A C & K COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICER (CLO)

Hi everyone,
My name is Melissa Hodgetts, and I have recently been appointed C & K’s Community Liaison Officer for Bundaberg.
My role as CLO involves developing partnership within the community with many organisations, such as BUSH kids (Early Childhood Early Intervention NDIS provider). FAB network, Uniting Care, IMPACT and many others. I also provide support and assist our families with referral processes and provide information to our new families and support them during the enrolment process. I am currently visiting all C & K services and local playgroups to share the One Book, One Bundy story for this year, The Smallest Turtle by Lynley Dodd.
If you any have any questions or feel that I may be able to support your family in any way, please don’t hesitate to ask.

 

CHECK OUT ALL THE FANTASTIC WAYS OUR 2019 KINDY KIDS ARE ACTIVELY CARING FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT AND ENGAGING WITH SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES EACH AND EVERY DAY….

At Kindy we love to:

o Feed the composting worms our fruit and vege scraps (you can also bring teabags, egg shells and hair from your hair brush from home if you like because these are their favourite things to eat). We then use the worm wee from our worm farm as fertilizer for our children’s garden – our plants love it.
o Place paper and cardboard in our recycling bin inside.
o Place excess fruit and vege scraps, leaf litter, shredded paper in our big blue compost bin. We regularly collect the compost and sprinkle it on the children’s garden as food for our plants.
o Look after our flower and vege gardens
o Care for our Kindy pets
o We only turn on the air conditioners on when we are working inside (if required).
o We turn our lights off inside when we are playing outside
o We have a bin to collect food scraps for Mrs. Louise’s pet chickens.
o We have a bin to place yogurt containers in which Mrs. Leisha and Mrs. Nicole washes up for our creation station or to place paint and glue in.
o We have a bin specifically for food packaging items that can be recycled…children are taught about the recycling symbol to look for on packaging and then place it in our special recycle bin that the children have made.
o All the above-mentioned strategies ensure that are significantly reducing the amount of non-biodegradable or non-recyclable products and therefore reducing our environment footprint.

 

A few simple things you can do at home to extend this learning…

• Talk with children about which items/packaging can be recycled. Show them where to locate the recycle symbol. Provide an in house recycle bin where children can place recyclable items.
•     Collect tea bags and egg shells and hair from your hair brush for our Kindy worm farm. They love them!!!
•      Pack lunch boxes that are either waste free and/or contain limited waste packaging.   Check out http://www.terracycle.com.au
  TerraCycle is a highly-awarded, international upcycling and recycling company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material into affordable, innovative products. TerraCycle is widely considered the world’s leader in the collection and reuse of non-recyclable, post-consumer waste.
•  Check out http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/recycling.html
  This website has a great range of recycling activities for a range of ages.

 

Tips for Waste-Free Lunches

Waste-free lunches contain only items that are eaten, composted or recycled. They don’t contain wrappers or packaging that will be thrown in the rubbish bin.

Reusable containers – Using reusable containers is the cornerstone of a waste-free lunch! Suitably-sized containers will keep sandwiches intact and make little treats easy to pack. Although reusable containers may have a higher upfront cost than a roll of plastic wrap, they are durable, they will save you money in the longer term and they will help to reduce waste.

Buying in bulk – Buying items such as juice, yoghurt, crackers, biscuits and cheese in bulk quantities or containers, rather than in individual servings, will probably save you money as well as reduce waste. It also allows your child to drink or eat only as much as they want at one time, and then they can reseal the container.

Recyclable packaging – We understand that some children’s lunches may need to contain packaged food items for dietary, religious or other reasons. Check which types of packaging can be recycled at home, by visiting RecyclingNearYou.com.au and searching under your council area.

Check out this Earth Hour Website with some great ideas for children to increase their understanding of why it is so important to care for our environment. www.

 

earthhour.org.au/kids/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forestview Community Kindergarten would love to thank Sunsmart (Cancer Council) QLD who recently granted us a Sunsmart grant of $1013.64 for the replacement of the damaged shade sail over our slippery slide fort.

This amount is 50% of the cost with the remaining funds being sourced from the Forestview Kindy Building fund which past and present kindy families have contributed into.

We love our new shade sail and are proud of providing such a wonderful Sun Safe environment for our Kindy children and families.

A huge thanks to the 2018 parent committee and National Poly Industries Bundaberg for their financial contribution (50% each), towards the installation of a new Poly boat into our playground.

After many years of pretend fishing and boating our old fibre glass boat had seen one too many repairs and needed replacement.  Also, a big thanks to Tim Pyle (2018 Wombat Group parent) and Mrs Leisha and her husband Jason Bartholomai who stepped in to remove the old boat and install the new one in our 2018/2019 Christmas school holidays.

We are sooooooooo excited with our new addition to the playground so that our fishing adventures can continue for many years to come.

Throughout 2018 we have had a special visitor at our kindy called Mrs Yuka, she has taught us lots of wonderful and valuable things about Japan, language and Japanese culture. We have made sushi, origami stars, counted to 10 in Japanese (ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku, nana shichi, hachi, ku, juu), said hello and goodbye and now…we can write our names in Japanese characters.

The first challenge was that we could show Mrs Yuka how to write our names in English and then have a go at copying the lines and marks of our name that had been written in Japanese.

 

It was very tricky but we didn’t give up and looked at each symbol closely to work out the individual parts that made it and then copied these underneath.

Many of us were very fascinated by the fact that our Japanese name didn’t have the same number of letters as our English name.

Thank you Mrs Yuka for all you have taught us this year! We have loved every minute of it.