Welcome to our latest edition of Jellybean News
First of all we would like to welcome all of our new friends and their families to our Centre. We certainly hope that you enjoy your time with us. Booking Forms for 2018 have been handed out and these need to be returned by Friday 20th.October. If you are looking for extra days in 2018 please ensure you add this to the Booking Form. As the holiday season is fast approaching please let us know if you are planning on taking holidays during December and January so we can start allocating leave over the festive period for our Educators.
Christmas Raffle
Our Christmas Trolley will be decorated and placed in the foyer over the coming weeks all eager for your donations for our Christmas Raffle. Donations can be toys, books, toiletries, scented candles and simply anything that is not perishable. First Prize this year is a Webber Q and you could win this by purchasing just one ticket......you have to be in it to win it!
Nursery 1 News
Hello all, spring is now well under way!!!
Welcome to all the new children who have joined us recently. They are all settling in well and enjoying their experiences in the Nursery.
We firstly would like to inform you that the Nursery 2 Room has officially re-opened as we have been inundated with lots of new babies. Miss Margaret and Miss Nittaya will be the Educators in Nursery 2.
In the past month the weather has greatly improved and we've been able to venture outside!!! The babies absolutely love going out to the veranda. The are enjoying being able to crawl, walk and run around. The bigger babies are also enjoying the social aspect of engaging with the Toddlers through the fence, some are very eager to try and get through the fence.
This month we are planning to do lots of Halloween arts and crafts activities. The children will have the opportunity to make a pumpkin, spider, bats painting and crafts using variety of materials.
Just a little reminder, please label all your child's belongs including milk bottles, formula containers, water bottles and please be sure to pack spare clothes for your child.
Many thanks for your support
Miss Jasmine, Miss Chrystal, Miss Margaret and Miss Nittaya
Hi all and welcome to another newsletter for the month of October. It's crazy to think that in just under two months it will be Christmas. Where has this year gone? We would like to give a warm welcome to Jason, Arleen and Anthony who have started in our room and Caritas who has made the big move up from Toddlers.
We have been busy little bees this month and one of the things the children enjoyed doing was going on a nature scavenger hunt in the big playground. With our list in hand the children searched around the playground, finding all different types of leaves, sticks and rocks that we were able to cross off the list. At the end of the hunt we were able to find 11 objects on the list in the playground, which the children were very proud of.
Cars have always been a favourite in our room, so we decided to come up with different ways that the children could use the cars, so we decided to do car races by using the wooden blocks inside or the plank outside. The children really enjoy watching the cars go down the ramp and also seeing which car will win each race.
As you may have seen on the lockers we have made some grass heads. The children enjoyed the process of making these from putting the soil in the cup, planting the grass seeds and watering them to help them grow. After a week of planting the grass seeds our grass heads are growing awesomely and the children really love watering them to help them grow even more.
We have continued to introduce more textured play through slime and shaving cream. The children have enjoyed these experiences as it allows them to explore the different textures of each element. We are going to extend on this in the next couple of weeks through jelly play and also textured playdough.
What a fun filled month it has been in our room, until next time!
Miss Steph and Miss Carly J
Pre-School Room 2018
If your child is moving into the Pre-School 1 Room in 2018 please bring in a copy of their Passport or Birth Certificate. For those of you that have a current Health Care Card or Pension Concession Card we need a copy of these as well.
Congratulations
We are excited to announce Miss Nat and her husband welcomed baby Samuel into the world on the 5th October! We could not be happier for Nat and her husband.
Car Park Safety
We would like to remind all of our families about the importance of not leaving any child unattended in the Centre Car Park. If you need assistance with your children please ring the Centre Phone and we will be only to happy to assist you. Below I have outlined what penalty may apply if you leave your child unattended in the car.
Leaving a child under 12 unattended (1) A person who, having the lawful care or charge of a child under 12 years, leaves the child for an unreasonable time without making reasonable provision for the supervision and care of the child during that time commits a misdemeanour. Maximum penalty—3 years imprisonment. (2) Whether the time is unreasonable depends on all the relevant circumstances. [Section 364A, Criminal Code Act 1899]
Toddler 2 News
Welcome to Toddler 2 Newsletter for October.
We have had a busy time in Toddlers over the last two months with the children learning about science through several science experiments which the children have found very interesting and loved doing.You could try these at home as they are simple and easy.
These are great activities which encourage children to investigate and explore how things work and change.If you would like further information on making any of these experiments, please let me know.
Our vegetable garden is growing very well.We have potatoes, an onion, strawberries and tomatoes growing in the garden in next doors playground.We now have worms in our garden to help break down the soil and make our veges grow well so hopefully Miss Vicki may be able to eventually use them in her cooking.Please feel free to wander over and have a look with your child if you have time.The children enjoy watering this garden and watching them grow.We feed our worms fruit scraps from morning tea so they can grow healthy as well.
Our spring theme is coming along well, we have dot painted flowers, collaged snails, sponge painted bees plus much more.When you drop off or pick up, have a look at our beautiful spring theme on our wall. We also turned white flowers into coloured flowers by putting them into small containers of food colouring.
We had fun icing biscuits, everyone enjoyed this activity especially when it came time to eating our finished products.This is a great activity, it helps the children with hand/eye co-ordination also independence and satisfaction of making their own afternoon tea.
We visited the big kids playground which was a wonderful experience for the children, they especially loved pretending to drive in the big red car just like the Wiggles.They also had fun climbing on the fort and sliding down the big slide.
Miss Veronica and Miss Cristina