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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.

Forestview Kindergarten’s very busy bike track just got a new gadget and it’s solar powered!

Thank you to Mrs Leisha’s husband Jason for installing our very own set of STOP, SLOW and GO lights! How cool.

Now we will be able to take turns switching the lights to red, yellow and green for essential bike track change overs.

Our kindy police officers might even give out some running red light tickets…look out!

SAVE THE DATE! City Fit have generously come on board and donated their instructors, decorations and space to host a fun-filled night of 80’s tunes and some seriously dodgy moves.

Friday 22 June, 6:30 – 7:30pm. No gym membership or experience necessary just a good time vibe!

Tickets – $10 and available at City Fit Gym and Forestview Kindergarten. Only 75 spots available so get in quick!

We are excited to announce our first big fundraising effort for the year – the Forestview Community Kindergarten Family Fun Day.

Open to all Forestview families and their relatives, the Family Fun Day is a wonderful opportunity to get to know other Forestview families and their children and raise vital funds for the kindy.

This year there will be:

• BBQ & Tea with Maree’s vintage caravan on site for all your eats and treats
• Fresh produce and cake stall
• Dad’s Read corner with a roster of Dad’s reading books to our kids (and adults too if they wish!)
• Facepainting by Colour Me Happy
• Jumping Castle
• Sideshow alley with ring toss, rubber duck dip, popcorn and more.

We can’t wait to share this fun filled day with you!

The community are encouraged to get on board and support by purchasing raffle tickets for $1 each. These tickets are available via Forestview families or by contacting the kindy directly. There are over $2,000 of wonderful prizes on offer generously donated by community and kindy families. The raffle will be drawn on Sunday 20 May and winners notified thereafter.