Here in Hummingbee Kindy, the children have been settling into our Kindy rhythms and participating enthusiastically in our drawing, craft, painting and baking activities. It has been a delight to watch the warm connections being made among the children as they engage deeply in creative play together.
This term, in our Kindy garden, the children have been busy harvesting Madagascar beans (the children counted over 100!), sunflower seeds, star fruits, native mulberries, midyim berries, and making delicious lemongrass, mint and lemon myrtle tea to share.
Summer has been holding on with some very hot days, but the Kindy children have been delighting in finding secret signs that Lady Autumn is here: dew drops glistening on spiders' webs and grass, mist hanging low in the valley under Grandmother Koonyum, mushrooms popping up all around, and the starry star fruits ripening in our kindy garden.
Now that autumn is here, we are busy with our preparations for our Kindy Autumn Festival at the end of term; practicing our songs and dances, preparing food and making decorations. The Autumn Festival is also known as the Harvest Festival and it is a time to celebrate the bounty of Mother Earth with gratitude and reverence. Our Kindy festivals are joyous celebrations that lift the children out of the everyday and into the mystery and magic of the seasonal rhythms and the natural world around us.
Kara Mallory
Kindergarten Teacher
This term, in our Kindy garden, the children have been busy harvesting Madagascar beans (the children counted over 100!), sunflower seeds, star fruits, native mulberries, midyim berries, and making delicious lemongrass, mint and lemon myrtle tea to share.
Summer has been holding on with some very hot days, but the Kindy children have been delighting in finding secret signs that Lady Autumn is here: dew drops glistening on spiders' webs and grass, mist hanging low in the valley under Grandmother Koonyum, mushrooms popping up all around, and the starry star fruits ripening in our kindy garden.
Now that autumn is here, we are busy with our preparations for our Kindy Autumn Festival at the end of term; practicing our songs and dances, preparing food and making decorations. The Autumn Festival is also known as the Harvest Festival and it is a time to celebrate the bounty of Mother Earth with gratitude and reverence. Our Kindy festivals are joyous celebrations that lift the children out of the everyday and into the mystery and magic of the seasonal rhythms and the natural world around us.
Kara Mallory
Kindergarten Teacher