Kornmehl

Terry Aizen – Director of Kornmehl Pre-school

The Burger Centre

The Starfish and Dolphin groups walked to the Burger Centre last week to sing for the elderly patrons. These visits are always a highlight for everyone and a wonderful opportunity to take the children out into our wider community and to bring happiness and joy to others.

We ventured down the streets, noticing the different elements of our community, from nature, for example, leaves, flowers and sticks to the cafe right opposite. “I’ve been there,” said some voices. Others shared their familiarity of the streets telling us they have walked this way before.

We had a rough plan of what we were going to sing, but it was the moments of spontaneity and the unplanned parts that were highlights and helped bring a sense of comfort and love within the room.

Some of these included using the microphone. The children were very keen to use it and speak. We had lots of “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our concert”. The children were also articulate in naming the songs we were singing and explaining their meaning.

It was lovely to see the elderly engaged and participating with us, by clapping, singing, and showing us joys of happiness with their big smiles.

After the singing there was a Q & A. We were asked if we played any card games at Pre-school and, if so, what were they. We said Uno and Snap.

The question was then extended to all games that we play. Our answers included soccer, naughts and crosses, leaves and junk, the shopping game, dominoes, to name a few.

Ziggy: Our music was one of the best, and we were very nice.
Lexi: We were singing for them very beautifully.
Alma: They loved our singing.
Ella: They loved our music.
Noam: They loved everything we did for them.

Kornmehl Carnival

The Pre-school held a Kornmehl Carnival last week Sunday morning in the MPH and on the basketball courts. The children came dressed in carnival theme and we had a variety of fun activities to keep them busy for two hours. These ranged from a jumping castle, photo booth, face painting and Playball with coach Al. There were sensory activities such as playdough and kinetic sand and craft making. Lots of yummy food completed a beautiful time for families and children to relax, socialise and enjoy a fun morning together.

A big thank you to the Parent Club Committee – Mrs Leia Lewis, Mrs Lisa Greenberg, Mrs Sarah Robuck, Mrs Ellen Stuart and Mrs Yahav Vidor, for all their hard work, time and effort spent in helping to organise the carnival and make sure it all ran smoothly on the day.

A big thank you to all the Kornmehl staff who came along to help and for preparing the children during the week for the event.

Thank you to all the parent helpers on the day who assisted in supervising the various stations and cleaning up and to Coach Al from Playball for giving up his time on a Sunday morning to run three sold out playball sessions for the children.

Thank you to our wonderful, patient Emanuel students who came to do the face painting – Zarah Gorelik, Mia Goodridge, Lily Foltyn and Bronte Orgias. You did an amazing job, and the children loved your talented and artistic painting skills. We will be booking you all again next year!

Their morning was filled with laughter, chatter, squeals of delight, so much joy and happiness all round. It was lovely to see families with kids of all ages relaxing and enjoying the time together.