Welcome
Firstly we would like to welcome all of our new families that have recently joined us here at the Centre. We certainly hope that you enjoy your time here. I would like to remind you all that Wednesday the 16th August is the Exhibition Public Holiday and the Centre will be closed.
Staff Changes
We have made a few changes around the Centre and one of those changes was to place a permanent Assistant in the Pre-school 2 Room. Miss Maree will work alongside Miss Pedeta in the room as the new Assistant. As our Nursery Room numbers have grown significantly we are happy to announce Miss Chrystal will be re-joining us permanently in the Nursery as the Assistant. Miss Hayley will commence maternity leave as of the 8th September, Miss Sharon will replace her until the end of the year. If you have any concerns please feel free to come and have a chat.
Nursery Room News
A huge welcome to all the new children who have joined us recently. They have all settled very well and are enjoying their time in the Nursery Room.
We would like to wish the following children a big Happy 1st Birthday.......Cruz, Evie and Hudson. Happy Birthday we certainly hope you have a wonderful day.
Over the past few weeks the children were really curious when they were exploring sensory activities: finger painting, bubbles, sensory bottles and other textures. Lots of smiles were displayed as we explored these different textures.
As your babies grow please remember that their daily food intake will change. Keeping this in mind please bring in sufficient food that will keep your baby going throughout the day. If you need suggestions for different food varieties please see the Educators in the room that are only to happy to assist you. You will also notice in the foyer area we have information available in the wire rack.
Miss Jasmine and Miss Ha
Toddler 1 News
We have finished our farm theme and we now working on our transport theme. Over the coming weeks our daily program will be based around transport. This will be incorporated through art, stories, songs and general play in and outside of the room.
The children really enjoyed the biscuit decorating activity that we recently did. We had so much fun trying to spread the icing and eating the lollies before we put them onto the biscuits. I'm sure we have a few little master chefs in the making.
At the moment we are spending quiet a bit of time outside so please remember to bring your child a hat each day they attend.
if you have any concerns please feel free to come and have a chat.
Miss Hayley and Miss Sein
Congratulations
From everyone here at Jellybean Childcare we would like to congratulate Miss Shaileen on achieving 10 years of service. Please join us in congratulating Miss Shaileen on this fantastic achievement.
Toddler 2 News
It has been a very busy couple of months following our gardening/healthy eating program.Firstly we planted some beautiful flowers which you can see on the fence near the shed also in the tyre near the sandpit. The children love watering them and looking at the different colours of the flowers.We also watched some potatoes grow then we planted them and hopefully we will have more potatoes one day.
We have been very creative using different foods to paint with instead of brushes.We painted with capsicum, apples, celery, potatoes, sweet potato and carrots.This was a great activity to help children identify the different foods while having fun painting with them.These are up around the room for you to look at.
We also collaged using leaves, used food stickers to stick on plates and made leaf prints in the playdough using real leaves.This was a very successful activity with everyone enjoying looking at the different patterns in the playdough.
The children had fun with our science activities, they put celery in different food colouring and within days the celery changed to the colours of the water.
They also put white flowers into food colouring and the same thing happened, turning the white flowers, red, blue and yellow.
We had a great time icing biscuits, the children used plastic knives and spread icing over their biscuits and then sprinkled coloured sprinkles over their biscuits.These were to be for afternoon tea but they were so yummy and inviting, everyone ate their biscuits after they iced them so Miss Veronica had to ice some more later for our afternoon tea.
At mat time we have been reading stories that revolve around food, flowers and gardening, the children have really enjoyed these stories as some have pull tabs and under these tabs are different pictures, they get excited to see what the picture is underneath the tabs.
The favourite is The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the different food it eats.We have been singing a butterfly song, also Wash Your Face in Orange Juice, which the children find extremely funny.We have food cards, to help children recognise and say the names of different fruits and vegetables.They have improved greatly since we began this at mat time.
Over the coming months, we will focus on learning about transport so keep an eye out for our transport theme.
Miss Veronica and Miss Cristina
Father's Day
On the 1st September we will have a breakfast on the run to celebrate Father's Day. Breakfast will be available from 6.15am until 8.30am. Miss Margaret has been really busy dispersing the Father's Day Raffle Tickets out to the rooms, please return your tickets and money by the 31st August.
Dates to Remember
Come dressed as your favourite Super Hero on Monday the 4th SeptemberEarly Childhood educator's Day is Wednesday the 6th September - Bring a plate to share
Pirate and Princess Day is Tuesday the 19th September - Rob the Pirate Show