St Lukes Uniting Kindergarten

This first Term has focused very much on settling children and supporting those with separation anxiety. With two weeks left, they are almost all quite relaxed and enthused 😊 The Program has delighted in the staples of Kindergarten : block construction; pasting; playdough; puzzles and the pretend play in Home Corner. As well as this we have celebrated Chinese New Year, Indian Holi Day and this week as Harmony Week. It has been a joyous time together ❤️
An incursion by the Rock Pool has us exploring and learning about sea creatures! ( Nothing like seeing a seahorse or Port Jackson Shark up close!)

St. Luke’s Kindy Bunnings Sausage Sizzle ongoing!!! Do come and support 🌭

📍Bunnings, Notting Hill

All proceeds from this fundraiser will go towards equipment and educational supplies for St. Luke’s Uniting Kindergarten.

🌭🌭🌭 Come and support St. Luke’s Uniting Kindergarten’s Bunnings Sausage Sizzle 2023!!!

Sunday, 15 Oct 2022
9am to 4pm
Bunnings, Notting Hill

All proceeds from this fundraiser will go towards equipment and educational supplies for St. Luke’s Uniting Kindergarten.

Even though we have begun to discuss Winter, the environmental changes of Autumn are still significant in our outdoor spaces, so we have continued with the children's interest in these activities. Care of our natural environment is highlighted in the discussion of sea turtles and recycling, and bathing "babies" is a lovely sensory and dramatic play extension of our families discussion. Currently the children are excited at guessing each other from baby photos as a result of the picture book "Guess the Baby " and are very amused at the staffs photos 🤣
We are also looking forward to exploring facts about Japanese culture in readiness for our zoom cross culture exchange next term 😍

Lots of Autumn Fun: the autumn corner an annual sensory attraction ✨️ many thanks to the Baddeley family for collecting these again from their garden for the 14th year? More? 😅❤️ the children just adore throwing, rolling, kicking, sliding, crunching and hiding in here!!!
The program has included much discussion and creative work arising from Autumn and it's environmental changes ....
Discussion too of important social issues such as Earth Day 🌏and Sorry Day 😪
Every day is rich with children's play, their voice, and learning. ❤️😍

One of the reasons we focus on play based activities. Be wary of those who present lots of worksheets at this stage of development as many children find these too challenging and then effectively "turn off "this avenue of learning needed later. Attitude and success is everything 😉

Happy Easter to all our beautiful families. May you enjoy this special time if it's part of your family celebrations. ❤️
Happy Holiday to everyone. 😊😍 Time to relax a bit and not have to worry about where and when you have to be somewhere.....
We look forward to Term 2 on Monday 24th April and hearing about the children's holiday experiences ❤️

Come by St. Luke’s tomorrow, 30 March, from 5 to 7pm for Kindergarten Open Night 🤩

This is a wonderful opportunity for you to speak to our wonderful educators, discuss the programs being offered and speak to current parents about their experience at St. Luke’s.

Children who turn 3 or 4 years old by 30 April 2024 can attend kindergarten.

A busy first Term celebrating Chinese New Year, and Indian Holi Day, settling into Kindergarten routines, learning to farewell your Parents comfortably, learning Mandarin, enjoying the beautiful creative experiences that painting, blocks, play dough, pasting and sand play offer.....
Cooking for Pancake Day, learning about sea creatures when the Rock Pool people visited, planting carrots courtesy of Bunnings in your own pot, singing, climbing getting messy with sand and water...the children of Red and Green Groups have had a wonderful start to 2023 😊❤️😊

The new mud kitchen is IN and it’s an awesome piece of work 😍😍😍

A BIG THANK YOU to the awesome people from:

🔹 Monash Men's Shed who made the entire thing as per the designs drafted by the 2022 green group and delivered it to the kinder.

🔹 Bunnings Warehouse Australia for donating all supplies.

The kids will surely enjoy this and I bet some of the parents will too 😉

Gong Xi Fa Cai
Happy Chinese New Year to our families celebrating today. May it be a happy, healthy and successful one for you all.

Hello past and present St Luke’s kinder families. Sue Dickson our wonderful Green group Teacher is leaving St Luke’s after 24 years. Please drop in to the kinder on Monday 19th December any time from 3.30-5.00pm to wish her well. If you can’t make it on the day, please send her a message via Facebook or the kinder email. Sue would love to see or hear from you. Please share this invitation with other kinder families.