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"Luxury Waiheke Break at Atea's by the Sea" being auctioned on TRADEME. Bidding is underway and will close next Wednesday. This would make an incredible gift for a loved one, or yourself!
http://www.trademe.co.nz/458773119

Next we have the "Silent Auction Packages" available to bid on at the Harvest Fayre! They will be located in the Market area (the car-park) At the end of the day, the highest bidder wins. Have a look I am sure there is something for everyone!

1. Le Chalet are offering a midweek break with lunch at Delight cafe.

2. Zebez creative offering a child's holiday programme package including workshops, a creative art pack, and music lessons.

3. Pampering item for Mums & Dads including: soaps from Waiheke Soap Company, Beauty Treatment with Annabelle, a therapeutic massage by Natalie Davies at Synergy Studio, Body & Sole Products

4. Holistic Wellbeing: Premaloka Yoga Transformational Yoga session at the Sanctuary, Herbal Health Voucher, Natures Rhythm voucher, Vital well being Chiropractic Care for Mum, Dad and the children, Elaine from Waiheke Osteopaths session for children.

5.Loose Change, Impish Organic Children's Clothing, Dreamboat Publications, Arithmetic Village, Freckles donating children's items for the child's raffle.

6.Trade services from Lindesay Industries - 4 hours of handyman services, James Samuel (Social Media) Copy Espresso.
7.Date night at deVine Restaurant (Saratoga) includes babysitter and transport!

8.Shine Studios offering a photography session & a Alice Doig Waiheke Calendar

9.Beautiful pieces of art From Glendale Rangihaeata and Mary Ferguson.

10.Vineyards contributing bottles of wine Man O war, Passage Rock, Cable Bay.

and last but not least we have 3 Raffle baskets including "Children's, Mum's and Dad's" filled with goodies. These will be at the Ostend Market this Saturday, at the Kindergaten next week and along side the Blind Auctions on the day of the Fayre.

Mary Willow

"Early childhood is the critical period for laying down the foundation of all learning and well being. These talks will give parents a new and essential understanding of the make-up of the young child, insight into the profoundly different stages of early childhood and how children learn at each stage, and show how age-appropriate parenting educates our children for responsiveness and freedom." Mary Willow

Part 1: Understanding the Young Child: a new view of the stages of childhood and how each stage learns and grows.

Part 2: Over the Mountain: taking children on a pathway from reactivity to responsiveness.

Part 3: Setting them up for Success: bringing out the best in our children.

Part 4: Positive Transformations: turning stuck behaviour around.

Mary operates Plum Parenting, a service providing one-to-one Parent Counselling, Parenting Courses, Lectures and Articles, and Parent-and-Child Playgroups. In the past 39 years she has practiced as a Registered Nurse, Certified Midwife, Early Childhood Teacher and Parent Educator. www.plumparenting.com

Parent Workshop:

Saturday 3rd March $20.00 per person

9.30am - 12pm Part 1

12-1pm lunch break - please bring a plate for a shared lunch

1-3pm Part 2-3

Early Childhood Teachers Workshops:

Sunday 4th March $25.00 per person

9.30am - 12pm Part 1

12-1pm lunch break - please bring a plate for a shared lunch

1-3pm Part 2-3

Saturday 10th March $15.00 per person

9.30-1pm Part 4

The lectures will be held in Tui room at Fossil Bay Kindergarten, space is limited. Please rsvp asap to confirm your place. Phone 372 2152 or email fossilbaykindergarten@xtra.co.nz Payment is made in cash on entry.

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This is a special day where our whole Kindergarten and Waiheke Island community gather together and enjoy this beautiful family event. This is our largest annual event and we ask every family to be involved. Everything is coming along nicely for Sunday the 1st of April! We have a very energetic group of parents already working together, thank you!

“OPEN DAY” Friday 27th January 10am - 12pm.

Why do we choose natural fibres/materials for Toys instead of plastic ones? Why do we celebrate the seasons with craft, song and festivals? Why do we have a Nursery room for 3 year olds? Who was Rudolf Steiner?

Come along and be enlightened to the answers, meet our incredible teachers and have a look around the classrooms and playground.
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We currently have limited spaces available for children aged 3.5 to 6 years with 20 hours ECE funding support.

Please rsvp to fossilbaykindergarten@xtra.co.nz

“Summer Working Bee” this Sunday 22nd Jan

10am - 1pm

Calling all kindergarten parents to come on down and help get the kindergarten ready for Term 1. Lots of sand arriving for the sand-pit! Please bring you wheel barrow and spade:-)

Welcome to Term 4, 2011

"The Advent Festival"

Sunday 27th November

This festival is one of the most beautiful festivals of the year and begins the preparation time before Christmas. It is a festival of beauty and light, and includes a ceremony suggested by Steiner, in which the children quietly walk round a big spiral of roses and greenery to light a candle at its centre. They carry the candle back to the wreath that they have previously made at kindergarten and light one of the four candles on the wreath. Each Sunday before Christmas at home they can light another candle on the wreath until at Christmas time all four candles are lit. Each Sunday they remember the quietness and beauty of the festival.

Behind the commercial consumerism and hype that Christmas has gathered in modern times there lies a story about the birth of a great hope. If we can stand aside for a little while from the all consuming busyness of life perhaps we can catch a glimpse once again of what perhaps every child glimpses at Christmas and that which fuels the many legends surrounding the Nativity and the Christmas story; the sense of a great and magical mystery in the birth of a child.

Mary has been described as an archetypal picture of the soul that prepares for the birth of a spiritual light. She makes her way to Bethlehem to give birth to the child and in her journey we see a soul picture from which we can draw many parallels to our own journeys through life, as we strive for the birth of a spiritual light in our own souls. The journey towards spiritual enlightenment requires strength, courage and faith and the path is not always easy. Essentially the light that we are seeking is the light of peace and love. We are all hungry for the brush of angel wings in the night and the golden glow in the stable and the touch of divine grace.

But for the soul to experience these things we have to give room in our hearts for them to dwell there and for that we have to allow a little quietness and reverence in our being. It has been suggested that the Advent wreath was once a wheel taken from a wagon and decorated with greenery; the wheels being brought indoors as a symbol of a different time, a time to stop and to turn inward. Imagine if we took a wheel off our car for the time of Advent and what a difference that would make to the pace of our lives. Perhaps the advent wreath can help remind us to take the time to stop and reflect every now and then at this very busy time of year and, in doing so, can help bring back some of the wonder and mystery that lies behind the Christmas festival.

Our hope is that the Advent Festival will give to the children such an experience of beauty, peace and wonder that they will carry a picture of it in their souls for many years to come.

‘During Advent we are invited to be vulnerable to our longing and open to hope.’

Latest pictures from Fossil Bay Community Garden. November 2011

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This is a short term of just 8 weeks. Already we hosted a "Live Foods" workshop last weekend...

The 4-hour workshop is aimed to demonstrate the making of a selection of foods using live cultures and fermentation.

Because the modern diet is high in nutrient-depleted, refined and processed foods, it is essential that we include a good measure of enzyme-rich, raw and fermented foods, which aid proper digestion and improve both health and vitality.

You will learn how to: make a Soft Cheese, make Sourdough Bread, make fermented foods such as Spicy Korean Sauerkraut (Kimchi); Ginger Carrots, make health-giving fermented drinks from live cultures such as Kombucha and Kefir as well as Beet Kvass

The workshop will include a light lunch (of all of the above) and run between 10am and 2pm on Saturday 29 October. Cost will be $40.00 per person and spaces are limited.

Welcome to Term 3, 2011

Dear parents and whanau,

This Sunday the Waiheke Island Rudolf Steiner Education Trust (WIRSET) will hold its annual general meeting.

Please join us at the Kindergarten by 2pm.

Agenda

1.Welcomes
2.Apologies
3.Minutes of the previous AGM
4.Matters arising from the minutes
5.Reports:
              WIRSET report-Jenny
              Pedagogical report- Vibusha
             Treasurer's report -Mike K
              Home school report -Mala
6.Proposed property purchase- Wendy and Mike Delamore

7.General business
i)Resignations from the Trust
ii)Expressions of interest to join the Trust
iii)Report from the trust on school prospects,steps being taken, support needed.

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On Friday 30th September we will hold our ...

"Spring Festival"

Please join us in this special celebration of joy and healing and to welcome the coming of Spring! :)

Festival Program:

-Parents and whanau are invited to join their children at 11:45pm for the making of Spring Garlands in the Kindergarten playground.
(If your child does not usually come to Kindergarten on a Friday, they are invited to join us at 11:45am.)
-Following this the Kindergarten children will have their Spring Festival Story in the Tui Room at 12:30pm.
-After the story at about 12:45 we will set off on a walk, through the Kindergarten playground, out the gate and clockwise around the farm onto the grass area under the flame tree.
-Here we will be greeted by Lady Spring, join hands and sing together, before enjoying a shared Spring time meal.......

Please bring next week to Kindergarten:
Flowers
A named saucer (for your child's spring flower garden)
Honey suckle and Jasmine (for Festival Garlands)

Please bring on Festival Day:
Flowers
Honey suckle and Jasmine
A plate of spring finger food decorated with flowers

Please dress in spring colours - green, yellow and pink

Please Keep an eye out next week for our job list and sign up for a role to help in the Festival.
Please also write down on the list outside each room, the name of the adult who will be at the Festival and responsible for your child during this time. We will be walking along the road and by the pond so it is important that we know each child has an adult coming to be with them. If you are unable to make it to the Festival, please arrange for another parent to look after your child.

Spring Songs:

When the Daffodils dance.....
When the daffodils dance in the sun and the rain
Then we know that the Spring time is with us again
Tra la la la la la, Tra la la la la la, then we know that the spring time is with us again.

Tui Bird.......
I have heard a Tui bird
Singing in the rain
Telling all her little ones
Spring has come again
I have seen a kowhai tree golden in the sun
Shining out to everyone
Springtime has begun

Waiheke Cinema Fundraiser for "Fossil Bay Community Garden"

Showing Friday 30th of September 8pm at Waiheke Cinema, Oneroa.

The Spiritual Task of the Mother

Trisha Glover is a mother and grandmother. Her expertise in child birth preparation and early parenting is formed by many years of mothering her own family, working with mothers, parents and families and by her own parenting. Trisha works from Rudolf Steiner House in Ellerslie and does workshops around the country on topics such as preparing for Childbirth, parenting, nurturing the newborn and growing child, support for developing family life and support for parents.

Each workshop is formed in a threefold way with a talk informing our heads first, moving into the social realm of morning tea (the library is open for mothers to access books for working with their own life questions); then we move into a creative task, engaging our will in learning and creating something for the home, for festivals, for ourselves, experiencing different art forms such as painting. The day is rounded off with a forum where, in relation to the talk, feelings may be expressed, understanding sought and an opportunity for issues one may be struggling with to be raised and worked with. The feedback is positive and mothers leave nourished and revitalized and return seeking more.

Trisha will be holding a workshop at Fossil Bay Kindergarten on Saturday 17^th September 10am – 1pm on the “Therapeutic role of the mother” $20.00 per person including refreshments.

Fossil Bay Community Garden

The Fossil Bay Community Garden was established last week. Initially the idea was for a children's vegetable garden, but after further exploration of the idea, we realized it will be a community garden. We would like to connect with other community garden's, sharing knowledge, resources and create a garden where all are welcome to be involved and share in planning, growth and harvest. Our kindergarten children will be involved with this project and hopefully it will create for them a greater respect for plants and a little understanding of why and how we grow food. The basis of our garden will be through biodynamic principles. Biodynamic's originated out of the work of Rudolf Steiner the founder of anthroposophy.We have a Biodynamic workshop scheduled for the 28th of August (see below). This will include some preparation for the vegetable garden beds. If you would like to help with this project, please contact the kindergarten fossilbaykindergarten@xtra.co.nz or 09 372 2152.

Biodynamics Workshop - Sunday 28th August 10am - 1pm, Fossil Bay Kindergarten

Regarded by some as the first modern ecological farming system and one of the most sustainable, biodynamic farming has much in common with other organic approaches, such as emphasizing the use of manures and composts and excluding of the use of artificial chemicals on soil and plants. Methods unique to the biodynamic approach include the use of fermented herbal and mineral preparations as compost additives and field sprays and the use of an astronomical sowing and planting calendar.

Biodynamics originated out of the work of Rudolf Steiner the founder of anthroposophy.

Christine Moginie (Vortex Creative Wellbeing Centre, Ellerslie) will spend the morning talking about the philosophy of Biodynamics, followed by a shared lunch before we head to the new Children's Vegetable Garden site to put some skills into practice... more info to follow.

Cost $30.00 and lunch to share. Contact the Kindergarten to confirm your place; fossilbaykindergarten@xtra.co.nz or 09 372 2152.

Children welcome to come from 12pm (lunch) onwards.

http://www.biodynamic.org.nz/calender.html
http://vortexcentre.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposophy

“Raising Children in a Toxic World ” Helen Elscot talk Thursday 11^th August 7.30pm

Helen Elscot works at Herbal Health Waiheke. She has recently returned from the New Zealand Association of Medical Herbalists' annual conference in Wellington where they were addressed by Amanda McQuade Crawford on how to raise children in an increasingly toxic world. Amanda outlined where and when children were more susceptible to toxins, where the toxins came from, how food additives and pesticides are increasingly causing children harm, which foods to definitively avoid due to GM concerns and why children are maturing sexually earlier due to xenoestrogens.

From this address, there are some very basic things parents can do to avoid toxicity in their children.

This will be a free talk at the Kindergarten including handouts.

Please register by contacting the kindergarten fossilbaykindergarten@xtra.co.nz 09 372 2152

http://www.herbalhealthwaiheke.co.nz/index.html

Term 2, 2011

2011 Lantern Festival

Friday 17^th June 5.30pm start

Our kindergarten’s true feeling comes out with our festivals and it creates a wonderful sense of community when everyone joins together to make them work. Our lantern festival is about finding light and warmth in the depth of winter.

Lantern Festival Songs – 2011

BONFIRE’S BURNING….

Bonfire’s burning, bonfire’s burning

Draw nearer, draw nearer

In the gloaming, in the gloaming

Come sing and be merry

I WALK WITH MY LITTLE LANTERN…..

I walk with my little lantern, my lantern is walking with me

Up yonder bright little stars shine

Down here we are stars to the sky

The cock, he crows

The cat, meows

Hey, hey, hey

La bummel, la bummel la bay

THE SUNLIGHT FAST IS DWINDLING…

The sunlight fast is dwindling

My little lamp needs kindling

It’s beams shine far on darkest night

Dear lantern guide me with your light

GLIMMER LANTERN GLIMMER…..

Glimmer lantern glimmer

Little stars a shimmer

Over meadow, moor and dale

Flitter flutter elfin veil

Pee-wit, pee-wit, rick a tick a tick

Roo Coo, roo Coo

RISE UP O FLAME….

Rise up O flame

By thy light glowing

Bring to us beauty, vision and joy

move into a creative task, engaging our will in learning and creating something for the home, for festivals, for ourselves, experiencing different art forms such as painting. The day is rounded off with a forum where, in relation to the talk, feelings may be expressed, understanding sought and an opportunity for issues one may be struggling with to be raised and worked with. The feedback is positive and mothers leave nourished and revitalized and return seeking more.

A fundraiser to share knowledge of Biodynamic Gardening principles that originated from Rudolf Steiner. Come along and support the newly founded "Fossil Bay Community Garden" $15.00 per person or $25.00 for 2 people. Peter Proctor is New Zealand’s father of biodynamic agriculture. This film is his journey in India. One man, a bucket of cow dung and the agricultural revolution, that may just save the world...One Man, One Cow, One Planet – garden like there’s no tomorrow:-)

www.wicc.co.nz

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