Stories, learning & life at Lakeview.

Today Sharon and Rachel visited Coomaditchie United Aboriginal Corporation to thank them in person for allowing us to use their Dream Time stories ‘Guma’maari and the Rainbow’, and ‘Gurangaty’ for our past Graduation plays. We discussed what Dream time story we might use in this years graduation play. So far ‘The Story of the Five Islands’ is winning with the children. 

We presented them with a gift box filled with children’s artwork, flowers, chocolates and a copy of past graduation plays. 

We also spoke to them about how we can continue to build on our relationship with their association, perhaps through visits or having them look at our Reconciliation Action Plan. We look forward to further strengthening our knowledge and improving on how we embed Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander perspectives into the centre. 

We appreciate all the dads and father figures that came out to celebrate Father’s day with us! We hope that you enjoyed playing ball games with your child/ren and the sausage sizzle! 🩵 

Science Week 2024 has been a hit! The children have enjoyed investigating, hypothesising, and drawing conclusions from the different experiments throughout the week. 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬

This week at Lakeview Pre-School we have celebrated National Pyjama Day all week! National Pyjama Day (officially held on Friday 19 July, 2024) is all about wearing your favourite pair of PJ’s to help The Pyjama Foundation raise much-needed awareness and funds for children in foster care. 💤🩵

Yesterday we went on an excursion to Bunnings! The children were so excited to travel on the bus. 🚌 

At Bunnings we participated in a gardening themed learning experience where we made grass heads and decorated recycled cardboard pots with paint sticks. We then walked through the garden centre and the Bunnings employees taught us about different plants, vegetables, herbs, natives and Bush-tucker plants. 🪴🌷

Yesterday we participated in National Simultaneous Storytime. This year the story was “Bowerbird Blues” by Aura Parker. The childen then took inspiration from the illustrations in the story and created their own Bowerbirds. #nationalsimultaneousstorytime #earlychildhoodeducation 

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Happy Mother’s Day to all the beautiful mums, step-mums, grandmothers and mother figures. We hope you were spoiled with love yesterday! 🤍 

Last week for Anzac day the children participated in an Anzac ceremony. We read the story “Lest We Forget” and had our minute of silence while listening to the last post. We also learnt about the significance of rosemary and enjoyed some Anzac biscuits for afternoon tea. ❤️