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This year our lives have been enriched with visits from Sharon and Bev from Cultivating Hope - Happy Horticultural Therapy. Thank you so much Shaon and Bev for bringing us hope and joy. ❤️❤️❤️
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“In a world where you can be anything……….be kind.”
This year our Giving Tree celebrates 21 years of gifting Christmas joy to our local community through the St Vincent de Paul Oyster Bay Conference.
We are very honoured to support families in our local community.
Thank you so much to our very generous children, families and educators for your kindness.
#GivingTree
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Last week, at Our Place we welcomed our families to celebrate our Grandparents.
Our afternoon was filled with so much joy as we watched our children delight in playing with their families and proudly showing them their preschool.
The children received high praise for the wattle seed cupcakes they had baked for their families. We enjoyed watching families participate in outdoor play; games of noughts and crosses; building with magnetic blocks; and children painting their families' portraits; reading books, building amazing cup towers and pyramids, and cooking and serving food in the cafe.
Thank you to everyone who visited Our Place to celebrate.
#GrandparetnsDay #PLay #FamilyCelebrations
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All of my fellow grandparents and I had a lovely afternoon with our darling grandchildren. Thank you for making us feel so welcome. The Point Preschool is a warm and wonderful community.
To express our gratitude to our dear friends Dr. Jodi Edwards and Amy Lea Hill-Trindall for writing and illustrating the Ezy book series, the children created "Ezy" gifts for them.
We drew inspiration from The Creative Collection ECE Thecreativecollectionece to re-imagine how we could create Ezy from paper-mâché without using a balloon. With our collection of recycled corrugated paper, egg cartons, and paper and cardboard cylinders, we discovered countless possibilities for bringing Ezy the dog to life. Jodi loved her Ezy dog just as much as we enjoyed creating him. Just look at Jodi's expression when she saw her gift!
Throughout the year, we've been exploring the art of paper tearing, and we've been constantly amazed by the children's skills, imagination, and creativity. We gifted Evelyn's stunning artwork to Amy Lea, and she absolutely loved. Just look at Amy Lea's face!
Our hearts are full and our buckets are overflowing ❤️
Thecreativecollectionece #DewrangArt
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This is so stunning and what a thoughtful intersection between paper, intentionality and ideas 💡
Gorgeous!!
Saturday was filled with joy, as we celebrated the launch of the beautiful Ezy books with our dear friends Dr Jodi Edwards, author; Amy Lea Hill-Trindall, artist, Dewrang Art and Mary Jacobs from Dharawal Publishing.
It was a pleasure to share the celebrations with more of our dear friends - Aunty Barb Sims-Keeley, who welcomed us to Country and Uncle Dean Kelly, who did the Smoking Ceremony for us.
We were very proud our longtime friend Jessica Staines from "The Koori Curriculum launched the Ezy books. A Garden for Life was there sharing their bush food knowledge and Ashley and Shirley from Serendib Craftlink with many educational resources.
We were so happy to meet EZY - we have loved reading about his adventures and he's such a happy and friendly dog who made us all smile. He looks just like he does in the books.
Thank you to our friend Bradley from Sutherland Shire Bushcare and Sutherland Shire Council Nursery for donating many bush tucker and native plants for our event.
Thank you so much to everyone who celebrated with us on Saturday. We are looking forward to reading more of Ezy's adventures.
As one parent said, "Our cups are overflowing." We all feel the same.
#DharawalPublishing #Ezy
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It was a beautiful event
We hope you can join us on Saturday for this very special book launch.
And Ezy the dog will be there!!!We hope you can join us on Saturday 2nd November for the launch of EZY’s books.
We are so proud of our friends Dr Jodi Edwards and Amy-Lea Hill-Trindall and their beautiful books.
Please join us for an afternoon of celebration at Our Place. ❤️
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"It was such an honour to be asked to present at the Semann & Slattery Educational Leaders Conference 2024. And it was an absolute joy to share stories of citizenship and advocacy with hundred of educators around Australia. Thank you to everyone who spoke to me, messaged and emailed me to share their gratitude for my stories. A very special thank you to Anthony Semann, Monique Proud, Kirsty Liljegren Consulting, Arty Play with Dr Gai for your inspiration and friendship." Catherine
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I treasured every minute of spending time with you all! What a gift 🥰
It was a blessing to share this special experience with you all. 💜💜💜💜💜
"Nothing without joy." Loris Malaguzzi.
This morning time stopped as we found joy in mark making and exploring light and shadow with our new immersive light projector. Our exploration lasted 1.5 hours and we are so eager to engage again tomorrow, and the next day and the next and the next.
"This is the best day in my entire life," said Henry.
"I am never leaving," said Andie and Audrey.
"Is this magic?," said Lucas when he saw his drawing projected onto the ceiling, walls, fans, and blinds.
As we were wrapped in the children's joy, wonder, delight, and pleasure, we were reminded of Dr. Gai Lindsay's words "The impulse to make and create meaning through the arts is a human right".
Arty Play with Dr Gai
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Divine documentation of magical wondering Catherine Morgan!!
Amazing creating of such incrediable artists🌻
Would you be able to share the type of projector? Inspiring!
"Inside us all patiently waiting, sits a tiny, little adventurous bird."
Last week we joyfully participated in the Aussie Bird Count.
We were excited to be part of a group of people around Australia who counted 4,202,299 birds. We have been counting birds every year since this wonderful initiative started.
Our native plants, bush tucker and established trees provide a safe haven for visiting birds and we delight in welcoming them to our back yard every day.
This year we counted:
34 Noisy Miners
10 Rainbow Lorikeets
7 Pied Currawongs
4 Magpies
3 Ravens
3 Kookaburras
1 Butcher Bird
1 Channel Billed Cuckoo
1 Nankeen Kestrel
aussiebirdcount.org.au/
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Such a great opportunity for the children to get involved in citizen science and explore the wonders of nature right in the backyard! 🦜 Did you notice any different birds than you'd seen before? Any conspicuously missing? 🤔