We welcome you and your children to join us at Kookaburra Kindy for a fun and creative way to learn and grow where our caring and experienced team will look after your children.
Melissa Patti is the experienced Group Leader of Kookaburra Kindy.
Melissa has just started at Country Kids and comes with a wealth of experience and is a mother of 2.
The children in Melissa’s room grow, learn and develop through play and have lots of fun painting, building blocks, role-play and outdoor play to stimulate the children.
It is an honour to have your children with us at Country Kids Child Care and Kindergarten in Stanthorpe.
Here is some information on Kookaburras
Kookaburras (genus Dacelo) are large to very large (total length 28–42 cm/11–17 in) terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea, the name a loanword from Wiradjuri guuguubarra, which is onomatopoeic of its call. The single member of the genus Clytoceyx, though commonly referred to as the Shovel-billed Kookaburra.
Kookaburras are best known for their unmistakable call, which sounds uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter — good-natured, but rather hysterical, merriment in the case of the renowned Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae); and maniacal cackling in the case of the slightly smaller Blue-winged Kookaburra (D. leachii). They are generally not closely associated with water, and can be found in habitats ranging from humid forest to arid savanna, but also in suburban and residential areas near running water and where food can be searched for easily.