Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Fund Raiser a Great Success!
A great big thank you to all the people who helped with the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Fund Raiser this week;
Linda Chin, our president donate $300, Coles Box Hill donated 10 loaves of bread; Supafruit Fruit and Vegetable Market donated 10kg onions; Chris Lau donated $71 in drinks, Melissa Wong $70, Maxi food store $50; Safeways Blackburn North $25; Safeway Shoppingtown $20; Doris with Bread Wise Bakery 28 loaves of bread; Coles Tunstall Square 10 loaves of bread; Eva 10 loaves of bread; Linda $20; Marianne, Noah's grandmother donated $20 and both Noah's dad and Marianne did the cooking on the day; Mei Wu $10; Carrie $10, gloves and card boards from Eva; hand wash & garbage bags from Carol; Eskies from Melissa, Chris, Eva and Su San; bags of ice from Kirra teacher and Chris. 1000 serviettes & cooking oil from Marisha.
Parents helping on the day:
Chris, was there the whole day and without her excellent organization skills and patience and willingness to drive back and forth to collect and top up the shortages, we wouldn’t have had such a successful outcome. Heng, Paul, Bernard, Rebecca, Olivia, Liz, Mariane, David, Su San, Maggie, Amy, and Melissa and our dedicated teachers: David teacher, Chow teacher, Jessica, Kirra, Wendy & Marisha. Without any of your help, this annually fund raising would not have been so successful. So three cheers for the excellent team work of our Kimmba families and teachers.
We took $1745.45 (with Amy’s donation of $20) for the day, and with all the cost of the sausages had been covered by parents donation, the profit was $1957.15.
A BIG THANK YOU TO YOU ALL.
End of Year Concert and Kimmba Open Day 28th November
As we mentioned in the last newsletter, Saturday the 28th of November from 1-3 pm will be Kimmba’s end of year concert and open day. It will be held at the Adjani Centre, 284 Thompsons Road, Bulleen. Volunteers for setting up and face painting are invited to arrive at the Centre by 11.45am to get things ready by 12.40pm.
Tickets are now available - $10 per seat. The overall cost to stage this event is more that $6,000 so we need families’ support to make it a success and to try and cover costs as much as possible. Seats are allocated and we encourage you to bring along as many family members and friends as possible so they can share in the joy of your children’s achievements.
The following are the parent helper roles for the day. Committee members have taken full responsibility for all the organization before the event, but we really need more parents to help on the day.
Duties are:
Hall decorating, teachers presentation tables, and all seating : All teachers and 6 fathers to help with table and chairs at 11:45am
Traffic officer 12:30 - 1:10
4 x Face painting 12:20 - 1:00; 2:15 - 2:45
3 x Receptionist, T-shirt sale 12:10 - 2:45
Teachers are to find their own representative to look after their own table.
1x stage manager help direct children on and off the stage
2 x Customer service representatives to help direct families and children to their seats and viewing teachers’ presentation work
1 x sound system microphone (battery)
1 x medical Dr. parent for any accidental falls or injury on site
1 x nurse parent to help out with first Aid
Cleaning up, toilet, floor cleaning packing up all our displays before 3pm
Pre-purchasing of 2009’s Kimmba Concert DVD is now available. 2007’s Kimmba Concert DVD was hugely popular and is still being used by families as an exciting memory of the event and learning resource (children can practice the songs at home). Parents will get the chance to see the 2007 Kimmba Concert DVD during term 4 sessions so they can see how worthwhile this production is for their children. Pre-purchased DVDs will be discounted – only $25 – a saving of $5, so don’t miss out on this chance to own wonderful memories of your child’s early development and learning.
Early Learning Conference Presentation
This is a link to the newest brain research about babies’ early learning capacity. Brain expert Dr. Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington, talks about the innate learning ability of infants and children. This is a valuable film to watch, especially if you have children younger than 7 years old.
Also have a look at Marisha’s brief comments about the presentation. She has noted that:
1. The critical period for language learning begins from after 7 months of age. After this age, the ability to distinguish between sounds starts to decline. You can already see a significant decline from 7 months to 12 months in the ability of babies to distinguish foreign language sounds where the babies are not exposed to those sounds.
2. The reason for this is that the baby starts to take stats of what they hear, and their neurons start to gear themselves to what they are hearing. This is basically the "use it or lose it" principle.
3. With just 12 sessions of 25 minutes each during this time period where babies are exposed to the foreign language, the language ability of that baby was found to be NO DIFFERENT compared with a baby who was in the foreign country!
4. Exposing babies to just foreign language videos or audio tapes MAKE NO DIFFERENCE (ie., they do not work!). The key is INTERACTION. The degree of interaction seems to determine how much the baby's brain decides to pay attention to (or take stats of) the foreign language that is being heard.
University of Melbourne “Raising Children Bilingually” 29th November
There are no magic bullets but come along and get some new ideas and even contribute your own ideas about the topic of Raising Children Bilingually in contemporary Australia. You will have to chance to mix with like-minded families and hear the views of some very learned professionals who work in the field of bilingual research including the director of Kimmba, Marisha Theeboom!
Please see the attached flyer and send an email to register with:
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