Minutes and correspondence from between 1988 and 1994, relating to the Committee of Management for Emerald Pre-School and Emerald Kindergarten. Under the title of Community Services Centre-based Child Care Emerald.Three folders of of documents relating to Emerald Pre-School and Sherbrooke Community Services. They contain correspondence to and from the pre-school, meeting minutes, and receipts.Some documents have been typed and printed, some have been hand-written.child care, education, community services, child development, emerald pre-school, emerald kindergarten, emerald community services

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This toy koala was owned all her life by Emerald resident, Karen Alexander, now aged in her 70s. Karen believes this toy was made by Mrs Wilkinson, a teacher at the Victorian Kindergarten Teachers College, Kew who was a friend of her mother.Indicative of toys owned by children in mid-20th century.A stuffed toy koala bear. Made with kangaroo fur, leather and rubber. Circa 1940s. Known to its owner as 'Teddy'.None discerniblealexander, stuffed toy, koala bear, 1940s - 1950s

This child's stacking tree toy was made by Mrs Wilkinson, a lecturer at the Kindergarten Teachers College in Melbourne in the late 1940s-early1950s. At that time, student teachers were taught how to make toys for the children they would teach. Karen Alexander's mother was a lecturer at the college and Mrs Wilkinson was her friend. The donor, Karen Alexander, has donated a range of objects from her childhood and from the family-owned farm at Emerald.This stacking tree provides an insight into kindergarten teachers' education at that time. The toy is plain and heavy and painted in a block color (dark green) and would not be considered nowadays as very engaging for a child.Child's stacking tree toy. Heavy wooden. Consists of seven dark green removable rings that fit over a central pole which has a red base to suggest a plant pot.No markingsalexander, toys, educational toys, stacking tree toy, kindergarten teachers college, mrs wilkinson