September 2021 Newsletter - Kidz Magic Capestone

•  4 to 8 October 2021 - Space Week

World Space Week is the largest annual space event in the world. The weeks helps build up the workforce of tomorrow by inspiring students; demonstrates visible public support for the space programme; educates the public about space activities; and fosters international cooperation in space outreach and education. This year theme is "Satellites Improve Life."

• 4 October 2021 - World Animal Day

A social movement charged with the Mission of raising the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards around the globe.

• 5 October 2021 - World's Teacher Day

An annual event aimed at thanking all teachers.

• 8 October 2021 - Odd Socks Day

Reducing the stigma of mental ill-health and raising awareness of this serious issue, while having some fun, is what Odd Socks Day is all about! Don't forget to wear the odd socks on this date!

• 21 October 2021 - Wildlife Show

$9 per child. Cash to be paid by 18 October 2021. Please refer to the information sheet in front of your child's room for the complete details. 

• 22 October 2021 - Loud Shirt Day

A fun one day event when you can wear your brightest clothes and raise money to help give the gift of sound and speech to deaf children.

• 28 October 2021 - Spooky Party

Halloween Dress Up

• 29 October 2021 - Day for Daniel

Australia's largest child safety education and awareness day. Held annually on the last Friday of October, Day for Daniel honours the memory of Daniel Morcombe.

This month our center graduated the Moreton Bay Reginal Council's Waste Minimization program. We have been participating in this program for over 12 months now and have managed to change our behaviour around waste substantially. 

Today we were presented with a certificate and recognition of our efforts in supporting a sustainable future. We also received many new and exciting resources to help our center continue along our sustainability journey.

Most of what we have learnt is small behaviours we can all do at home, like: sorting our rubbish and recycling, learning what can be recycled in our local area, reducing paper usage, growing herbs ourselves and buying products that aren't wrapped in unnecessary plastic.

Miss Laura Chapman

Welcome to September in Nursery 1.

And what a month it has been.

We have welcomed Rishi into our room, who will be 5 days a week. Its so lovely to have you join us.

We have also said goodbye to Olivia as she has moved to another centre with her Mum, and we have also said goodbye to Finn as he moves up to the Toddlers room.

The end of September is also time for Miss Tracy to say goodbye. I can never put into words how much it has meant to me to be a part of your babies first years. The trust you have given me to provide for your children is so humbling. I have enjoyed getting to know each and every one of the babies, and will miss them like crazy when I leave. I know Miss Hiro, Miss Raman and the other girls will take good care of your babies.

Would you also believe nearly every baby is now over 1, and nearly all are now walking. It is so amazing watching the children learning to walk, and the pride on their face when they achieve it.

We have also been exploring sensory play, using sensory bags where we fill them with different sensory items, so they can play with them without any risk to the babies. Some of these have included paint, cornflour goop, and gel balls.

Well that's it for September.

Miss Tracy, Miss Hiro and Miss Raman 

Wunya Families,

This month, we had lots going on in Nursey 2. We welcome two new friends to our little family. Brock and Aahan! We are so happy to have you, and look forward to creating many memories with you!

We celebrated Arthurs 1^st birthday! Earlier this month, he completed his first solo step. Now we can't get him to sit still! Even more, he held his milk bottle all by himself! What an achievement! Well done Arthur! We educators love watching you grow in front of our eyes.

On another celebratory note, we had another birthday. Koda had his 2^nd birthday, and we celebrated with a soft toy marathon. You couldn't wipe the smile off his face!

The centre celebrated R U OK day by wearing yellow to bring awareness to mental health, and encourage conversation. It is important we look out for each other, especially in these challenging times.

We are so proud to announce three of our friends have progressed to Toddler: Charlotte, Caleb and Jack! Nursery 2 will miss playing with you, and we wish you all the best J

A couple of friendly reminders for parents and guardians:

• Please pack (if you haven't already) Sudocrem for your child to use when needed and label it with your child's name.
• On the last attendance day of the week, please don't forget to bring home used bed/cot sheets. Ready to go on the following week, clean and fresh for your child to sleep on and label them with your child's name as well.

Following up on last month's newsletter reminders:

• Please name all your child's belongings.
• Bottles that use cow's milk need to be labelled as such, and refrigerated with their name in the Nursery 2 kitchen. There is a chart on the refrigerator door that needs to be filled out each day with the quantity of bottles you have brought in.
• Please keep teething creams/gels in your child's bag for easy access.

Please enjoy a selection of photos from the month so far.

Miss Yefi, Miss Inday, Miss Raman and Miss Swetha

 Welcome Families and friends to Pre Kindergarten's September newsletter,

We worked on the pre writing shapes for J, K, L and M this month with children showing so much confidence in coming to the board. There's has been lots of "I did it's!" What the letter looks like isn't important, it's the conversations and confidence that are important.

We've done a bunch of fine motor skills activities to build the little muscles in the children's hands as well as provide some hand/eye coordination building. The children made beaded bracelets to wear. We engaged in cutting and gluing and the children made some great geometric artworks.Lots of sensor play was had with Miss Dani making playdo with the children and also some slimy cloudy looking dough! So messy and cold.

For a cooking experience the children made Damper and we spoke about the different ingredients and how wee cooked it. Was so delicious with a bit of jam for our afternoon tea.

The children have been discovering the different items I have on the shelves like, rainbow stackers, stacking gems, glass stones, fairy houses, velvets, stones, crystals, little bugs and wooden boxes and bowls and I'm seeing such independent child led play come out of it. This truly expresses to me that the room is the third educator and children resource their own learning.

Thank you very much,
Miss Amy, Miss Dani, Miss Tabi, Miss Charmaine, Miss Dishu, Miss Ailish, Miss Alida and Miss Sunita. 

September already, the year has gone so fast!! This month we have been focusing on the letters F, L and revising all of term 3 letters which are D, G, O and U. We have been brain storming words that begin with letter. The children are learning to use the Casey Caterpillar Term to form the shapes of each letter.

Here are some children's voices of their best moments of September:
Van - Playing with my friends.
Harvey - When I was playing with Angus.
Arshaan - Riding bikes.
Taylor - Climbing.
Oscar - Running.
Arlo - Running.
Faith - Being outside.
Violet - My favourite part is being outside.

We also had two birthday celebrations for September, Happy Birthday David and Grace.

We all said our Goodbyes to Miss Cathy with a good bye party as she begins a new chapter.

To finish off our month of September we are discovering all about Spring over our two week holiday break.

Thank you 

Miss Cathy, Miss Tahlia and Miss Ailish