April Newsletter

 Hi Everyone!

Firstly, we hope you all had a very happy and safe Easter.

Its been another busy month in our Nursery, some of our babies have celebrated their first birthdays, taken their steps and also said their first words!!

Everybody has settled nicely and have formed lovely little friendships with each other.

Our activities from this month have been very enjoyable, all our little friends have had great fun experimenting with cold spaghetti, paints, crayon drawing and rice.In the coming month we will be focusing on our artwork and experimenting some more with different sensory activities and watching our room grow.

It will be very exciting to watch our little one's progress more with their development and celebrate their special moments.

Just a few reminders:

# Please keep your child's routine up to date with Miss Bec or Miss June

# Crazy Hair day Friday 13^th April, gold coin donation

# Please ensure all items are labelled

Thanks, Miss Bec & Miss June

 We would like to welcome Chicago, Sanyam and Dwity to the toddler room. They are settling in and are starting to form strong bonds and relationships with their educators and class mates, it just takes time, to learn routines and form those relationships. We have been focusing on our communication skills, and are following children's interest in climbing and focusing on physical activities, climbing to new heights, jumping, and manipulating puzzle pieces to fit.

The children are learning responsibility for their own belongings, by keep tracking of their drinks bottles and hats, and by helping pack away their sheets at rest time. They help tidy the room, and clean up after meal times. They are always eager to help out so we have modified activities so they can help and limit frustrations.

Also would like to remind families snacks brought in are for only if they are staying after 5pm, as we cannot be offering children snacks from home throughout the day, due to the amount of dietary requirements before 5pm it is centre foods only. Children will eat when hungry, so if they miss a meal they will more than likely make up for it at the next one. If you have concerns please talk to a staff member.

Snack options we just need to remember the centres health food policy, if providing a late snack it should be yogurt, fruits, crackers, cheese, and or rice cakes

We can't be giving chips, and chocolate, and it also just needs to be a snack, not a meal that requires heating as at that time.

Thanks Miss Tash and Miss Harmeet.

 Welcome Parents,

I would like to introduce myself, my name is Di I am the new Senior Educator in the Junior Room. I look forward to meeting and getting to know you all. I have only been here a few days so I am still settling in but I have already beginning to form friendships and bonds with the children and will continue to learn about their individual personalities as we go.

As a long term goal Miss Zubaida has begun to teach the children the alphabet, she has been singing the ABC song with them and we have included this in our morning group time as the children enjoy singing it, perhaps you may like to sing this song with you child at home. As part of thier ongoing learning Miss Zubaida has also been painting the alphabet with them as an art activity, so far they have done the letters A,B,C,D. We have put up a display on the wall in the hallway next to the pockets for you to view and would appreciate any feedback you may have.

Have a wonderful week.

Miss Di, Miss Mel & Miss Zubaida.

  Welcome to the April addition of the Junior Kindy newsletter! We are continuing to have a busy time in the room with the children. Recently we have had a re-organisation of the room and have been able to purchase some additional resources. This has been a very exciting time for both the children and the educators! It has been wonderful to see how the children can use the different areas and resources to learn through play. It has been challenging and rewarding for the educators to set up new play experiences for the children.

Sensory Play

One particular type of play the children have been enjoying over the past few weeks is 'sensory play'. This involves using our senses – sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste. We have provided children with sensory play experiences such as – coloured playdough with glitter, slime, shaving cream, painting and water tubs with containers.

Sensory activities provide children with "hands on" experiences where they learn:

• Decision making and problem solving skills
• Develop language skills by talking about what they see, hear, touch
• Literacy and physical development by developing pre-writing skills as they pour, spoon, grasp, and work on eye-hand coordination tasks.
• Science and maths ideas such as cause and effect, empty/full.
• Social development skills by learning to cooperate, work together and understand someone else's viewpoint.
• Using creative thinking skills and expressing one's creativity, which are important for building self-esteem.

And all of this learning occurs… Just from one activity!