Kornmehl
Terry Aizen – Director, Kornmehl Pre-school
The children all arrived back after the holidays excited to see their friends and teachers. Although the term has started off with two short weeks, we have already covered so much in such a short space of time.
We feel very lucky this year to be able to celebrate Sukkot at Pre-school with the children. Usually Sukkot falls in the school holidays, but this term we have immersed ourselves in this beautiful festival full of tradition and lots of symbolism.
In the first week back, we began learning about how we eat in a Sukkah and why we shake the Lulav and etrog. We learnt about their symbolism and why we shake the Lulav and Etrog in all directions.
We visited Emanuel School to eat in their Sukkah. The children love going up the hill to the school and eating morning tea in the Sukkah , fulfilling the mitzvah of Sukkot, and for many children it was their first time in a Sukkah.
We have been working on a collaborative Sukkah that we are making and designing with each group, using recycled materials. The children love the opportunity to be creative and to decorate their own Sukkahs.
On Wednesday this week, we were lucky enough to enjoy an interactive workshop with Tracey from Live, Love, Learn, who, together with her team, presented the children each with a cute Sukkah made out of cardboard and ready for them to decorate, add schach and even put a little table inside.
We are very excited to be visiting Succah By the Sea in Bondi next week with all three groups. This will complete our emersion and learning around this special Jewish Festival.
Symbio Wildlife Park
The Dolphins visited Symbio Wildlife Park on Thursday this week. The children and teachers travelled on the Emanuel School bus, which was a huge highlight of the trip. The zoo allows visitors to get up close and personal with Australian and exotic favourite animals which include cheetahs, ring-tailed lemurs, red pandas, meerkats, small monkeys and many more.
On arrival we ate morning tea and began to look at the animals. We saw kangaroos, dingoes, cheetahs, monkeys, emus, cassowarys, wombats, red pandas, crocodiles, goannas, koalas, meerkats, echidnas, Tasmanian devils, lots of birds, mini beasts, reptiles and farm animals.
The Dolphins especially loved the meerkat and cheetah presentation, as well as being able to feed the kangaroos.
The Symbio farmyard precinct was popular and the children were able to feed and pat goats and sheep, meet the cutest guinea pigs and see chickens and ducks.
We also got to walk in the enclosure with the kangaroos and feed them from our hands.
Many thanks to all our wonderful parent and grandparent helpers. We really appreciated you joining us on this excursion.
National Bandanna Day
On Friday, we raised money for Canteen to support children and teenagers suffering from cancer. We all purchased colourful bandannas and wore them to Shabbat. We are proud to be able to support others in our community and to instil compassion and caring in the children from this very young age.
Kindy orientation
Next week the Dolphins and Starfish moving onto Year K at Emanuel School, will enjoy their first orientation visit for all children with surnames A-K on Thursday 31 October 2019 at 2.00 pm. Orientation visits will take place over the next four Thursdays.
