November News

 In our Coolibah room, our toddlers have been busy using their imagination and creative skills as they engage in dramatic play learning experiences with their friends.

In our home corner, we have setup our Coolibah kitchen where the children are able to explore using different pretend foods and understand healthy eating through play experiences with their friends. By promoting different types of pretend food such as fruit and vegetables, it encourages children to make healthier food choices. They are also able to develop their communication and language skills, creativity and imagination, building on their self-confidence and independence. The children have access to a variety of pretend foods, bowls, spoons, cups and pots and pans.

We are continuing on with our Magnetic sorting puzzle boards area for the children to develop their cognitive skills. The children can use their problem solving and thinking skills to engage with the magnetic boards, also using their creativity.

The children love playing dinosaurs within our room whether it be making dinosaur sounds or engaging in imaginative play with them, therefore we have created a dinosaur world where the children have access to big and small dinosaurs to further develop their imaginative skills. This is also a great way for the children to engage with their friends in the room and develop their communication and language skills.

Next month, our Coolibah room will be engaging in a variety of Christmas activities throughout the whole month which will be so much fun! We will participate in some arts and craft, sensory experiences and gift making. We are all looking forward to Christmas!

Just a reminder, please remember to label your child's belongings e.g., hats & drink bottles and please take all belongings home with you during pickups e.g., bags, hats and drink bottles.

If you have any questions, please approach the educators in the room and they will be able to assist you.

Thankyou

Miss Simran, Miss Sukh and Miss Tina

 Hi Families, 

In the Eucalyptus Room we celebrated two community events, Halloween & Diwali. For both of these events we had put up lots of decoration, some dressed up for the occasion, we had yummy party food (thanks for your contribution in this). We set these up at self- help tables, we had lots of music and dancing, did arts & crafts applicable to the occasions, like spooky arts & crafts, Rangoli art & painting Diya clay candle pots. Not long now and we'll be celebrating Christmas!

The children have started taking part in an Art Resilience Program every Thursday afternoon. A qualified art teacher is taking these classes. Clothes that might get messy will be good for Thursdays.

Also remember to put 2 spare sets of clothing in your child's bag for each day. With the Summer weather approaching please ensure you avoid singlet straps please.

In the room the children have mainly been interested in insects & spiders, construction & transport, together with baby doll care. 

The children have been doing really well with their self- help skills, following a routine, and getting ready to transition to the next room. Children are learning numbers 1 to 20, and their colours. We have also started to learn letters of the alphabet, with the focus first on learning the letter of their name.

Since we will be in the summer season and the Christmas festive season soon, we will be focusing on teaching about this through class activities, arts & craft and group discussions.

It's been a great year with lots of learning, fun & friendships! 😊

 Hello to our Lilly Pilly Families!

Welcome to the Month of November. Christmas is fast approaching, and we are starting our Christmas activities soon. The year is certainly zooming by very quickly and a lot of learning in our room which is amazing. At the moment the children are interested in sensory play, with rice, coloured water, sea animals, dinosaurs etc. We have started exploring a lot of things indoors and outdoors. Sensory play activity with rice and sea animals is of interest and we will extend it by adding water play and sand.

Our toddlers are expressing great interest and enthusiasm in all our activities, and we will continue to offer our little learners a variety of different learning experience so that their knowledge grows. Music and dancing are our favorite at the moment. It is so helpful for the development of our gross motor skills and much more.

Just a few reminders:

Can you please make sure to put an extra set of clothing in as we are doing water activities?

Please label all your belongings e.g. (hat, sunscreen, and water bottles)

Until next time!

Miss Monica and Miss June

 We welcome Miss Elaine to the Paperbark room. Miss Elaine settled well in the room and the children really like her.

In the past two months in Paperbark room, we celebrated Father's Day, few birthdays and different culture events such as Diwali, Independence Day and Heritage Day. I would like to say thank you to the parents who let us celebrate their child's birthday together and dressed up for the special events. It was a great opportunity for children to learn different cultures.

In September we celebrated Spring by doing different art activities, gardening and talking about how bees bring us honey, singing a song about bees or making a craft of honey hive together. Children learnt different body parts of a bee, especially the sting.

Children also learnt some new things such as simple sign language, making DIY musical instruments and resilience practice. We also did many different science and sensory experiments.

We are so lucky to have many new educational toys for the room. The use of educational toys can help children learn many different skills they will need as problem solving, development of fine motor skills or nurturing their creativity.

Children have been practising their self-help skills and helping others by putting their bedsheets away or passing meals to their peers.

Recently we created a hair salon in the room and the children really enjoyed the role play. We can see that the children have developed their social and imagination skills by taking good care of their 'customers'.

Christmas is a just around the corner, we will be planning how to celebrate Christmas with your child such as making Christmas decorations, singing Christmas songs, stories about Christmas, Christmas costumes…...etc. By the end of the year all parents will get their child's profile which include your child's learning journey and artwork throughout the year.

Miss Clara, Miss Anastazia and Miss Elaine feel very pleased to work with you and your child. We have enjoyed seeing your child grow and learn.

Hello families

We have been very busy this term in Kindy 1 with lots of learning happening. We have been learning about recycling and being sustainable so that we can save our planet for the future. We have also started looking at healthy and non-healthy foods in readiness for our big adventure to school for most of us. Next week we will be exploring our lunch boxes and how we can keep them healthy. We will also be exploring being independent in being able to open and close our lunch boxes as we will need this skill for next year. If you have a particular lunch box you would like your child to learn to open, please send along so that we can start learning how to open them.

We have continued to explore letter sounds and letter recognition. We have worked hard on these and have had fun interacting and helping our friends; we will continue to incorporate literacy and numeracy within our play-based learning. To extend on our art program we are currently discussing what makes us happy and where our happy place is. The children have been thinking about this and drawing pictures to symbolise what makes them happy and where that place is. If your child has a happy place at home, send along a photo and we will incorporate this into our happy place book that we are compiling.

Over the coming weeks Kindy 1 graduation children will be preparing for their special graduation day being held on the 8th December. We have picked a special song and are preparing this for our graduation.

Miss Ruby and myself would like to thank all our lovely families for their support over that past 12 months. It has been an amazing year.

Miss Jacqui