{"id":1590,"date":"2022-11-01T01:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T01:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2022-11-01T01:24:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T01:24:38","slug":"preschool-news-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/2022\/11\/01\/preschool-news-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Preschool News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enrolments for 2023 are now open. If you would like to enrol your child in 2023, please contact the preschool on 4465 1327 or <\/span><a href=\"mailto:preschoolkangaroovalley@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preschoolkangaroovalley@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The children have been singing and dramatising favourite nursery rhymes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have jumped over candle sticks, helped Incy Wincy climb up his water spout and taken turns to bump green bottles off the wall. Humpty Dumpty has had some adventures on his wall too!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engaging with rhymes and songs helps children develop literacy skills. They learn new words and practise pronouncing them. They experiment with rhyme and rhythm and remember sequences. Children look at the written versions of the rhymes and relate that to their spoken words. They also get creative and invent their own versions. Never underestimate the value of the \u2018simple\u2019 nursery rhyme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The children were keen to see what would happen if we froze bottles of water. Bottles were collected and were filled with different levels of coloured water \u2013 one even had pom-poms floating in it. What happened? The children were so interested in watching the melting process the bottles had to be re-frozen and melted over and over again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacinta Perry<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enrolments for 2023 are now open. If you would like to enrol your child in 2023, please contact the preschool on 4465 1327 or preschoolkangaroovalley@gmail.com. The children have been singing and dramatising favourite nursery rhymes.\u00a0 They have jumped over candle sticks, helped Incy Wincy climb up his water spout and taken turns to bump green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pre-school"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Kangaroo Valley Voice","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice","push-errors":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kangaroovalley.nsw.au\/valleyvoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}