WOW, what a fantastic time we are all having exploring our new iPads! A BIG thank-you to our wonderful families who purchased the children’s art work at our recent Lumsden Art Exhibition, enabling us to purchase 2 new iPads. The children at...Read more
At Lumsden we have access to YouTube throughout the session. We use YouTube as a research tool to answer any questions that we may have and to extend our knowledge on the various interests that we share. Some of the things that we have been...Read more
At Lumsden we have children who are WONDERFUL early readers and writers and many have taken an intrerest in writing stories and books. As an extension of this interest in writing books, Rakelle asked those children if they would like to make a...Read more
Linda brought in her telescope for the children to look through. This piece of equipment was new to some of us, many of us had never seen a telescope before and were very intrigued to see how it worked. Linda explained that a telescope is used to...Read more
The children have been really interested in making Transformers at Lumsden lately. To extend on their interest in this area we decided to re-introduce the computer programme ‘I Can Animate’. This is Apple software that lets the...Read more
As we know, Jill is in Thailand teaching English. We had a lovely surprise last week when we got a ‘Skype’ call from Jill. Children were able to see her and talk to her using the computer. It was lovely. Watch our Movie to see...Read more
As many of our families would know, YouTube is the main way we research information at Lumsden. The children love being able to get instant information and see a video that sits alongside what they are wanting to find out about. YouTube is a...Read more
Ella, Poppy and Suzanna decided our current literacy cards were too old and we needed some new ones. The three girls used the ‘Kids Camera’ to take photos of things, and people around Lumsden Kindergarten. Once the photos were taken...Read more
Jacob began his morning by telling me; “I’m going to make my favourite thing in the world, a Transformer.” Now, I know that Jacob really LOVES Transformers and I told him to show me his creation once he had finished building. Jacob did just...Read more
We are super appreciative of all the work the whole team at Lumsden have done for Jasmin and have nothing but nice things to say about each and every one of you. We would highly recommend Lumsden to anyone who'll listen!
I am particularly impressed with the wonderful teaching and learning that occurs in the art room and also the teaching of different languages to the children. ... I have nothing but praise for this kindergarten.