Our Kindergarten is a hive of activities, stories, singing, laughter, dancing, ideas, questions, and conversation. At any moment there are children exploring art ideas, engaged in conversation and story at our small world play tables, reading, drawing, making, practicing writing their names, cooking, preparing lunch, setting and decorating tables for lunch on our cooking days, cooperating in play, counting, building, engaged in dramatic play and working out solutions together. Outside, the children spend time on country in our bush playground, exploring culture, exploring the bush, building, talking, expanding their vocabularies, learning about fire safety (and how to find the perfect stick to toast the perfect marshmallow) and improving their gross motor skills. In the playground, they are now often engaged in complex games involving rules they are making up, ideas, testing theories and again, co-operating with one another. This all looks like lots of fun, and it is, it should be! Added to this fun, there is so much learning going on – socially, literacy, numeracy, science, improving motor skills, arts, culture… 

We are fortunate to have a small class this year and there are so many benefits for this group of children. They have become a tight-knit kindergarten family who treat each other with respect, work together beautifully, take care of our space and one another. I am proud of each and every one of them.

Tania Steenholdt