January Blossoming News

Hi everyone, I am Lucy Stevens a Lead Educator in pip room. WELCOME to all new families and babies that joined us at pip tree, we are grateful to know each one of you.

My goals at pip was to build self- confidence and achieve the mini milestones, encouraging every opportunity that they learn every day for example- crawling, standing, walking, sitting up themselves, feeding themselves, expressing words and having a stable routine etc.

I provide an educational learning such as facial and body parts by pointing, touching, patting, blinking and moving our hands up and down. In each of these activities our goals are for younger bubs/ pips to be stimulated by visual experiences, sounds, touch and movement.

In the next few weeks we will be allowing the babies to experience some different textures including "painting" with mashed banana, picking up peas and corn from a bowl and trying some grated carrot. Of course, these activities will have full supervision and very young babies will not be given the opportunity to choke!

Just a little reminder to all to please make sure you are completing your child daily communication sheet upon arrival each morning and your child's belongings are named. This help us all to make sure items don't go missing including all creams and medication are chemist labelled.

If there is anything you would like to know regarding to your child, please do not hesitate to see us in the pip room.

Kind regards,

Miss Lucy

Hi all,

Miss Havane and I are so excited to get to work with and get to know all your children over the next year. A little about me, I have done childcare for about 10-11 years, and this is the first year I have worked with the "toddler" age group!  Miss Havane has only worked with the younger age group and her journey here at piptree had her start in the pips room. Havane has made some wonderful relationship with the children and has helped made the transition into the sprouts room so much easier for them. Both of us hope to further our experience in this age group and make a pathway to allow these children to blossom and learn in the most supportive and inclusive environment we can provide.  Please be patient with us over the next couple of weeks while we're still getting to know the children and trying to figure out a room routine that works well with not only us, but with the children too.

As you've probably noticed, the room is a little different this year. This year we have individual box's in the kitchen for you to put your children's bottles, dummy and snacks in everyday. These boxes are all labelled with your child's name on them.

Also, if you have any messages for Havane or myself, you can write them in the parent communication book which is located on top of the lockers.

thanks,

It been a great start to the year in the Blossom room already.

Miss Tiahn and I are so excited to be your child's educators this year and we have so many ideas to support each of our Blossom children on their learning journeys.

Your child's learning journal has been started thanks to miss Tiahn's hard work and learning is occurring every minute of the day.

Miss Kirstin and Miss Tiahn will be engaging with children during play over the couple of weeks to understand their strength, abilities and interests and create learning experiences for our curriculum to support children's learning.

Our learning environments will be introducing your child to new mathematical and literacy skills, where we extend from learning our colours and shapes to counting and symbol patterns.

We will be extending from two and 3 word sentences to full constructed sentences,

which Miss Tiahn and I will be role modeling. Our toilet training children are at the final stages of this milestone but for the next 2 weeks could all our toilet trainers please have 5 changes of spare clothes and pull up for those who still require them for sleep time.

We are looking forward to our 1st month in the room and appreciate all your support and understanding as we are settling in.

Children are creating their own locker labels which should be completed by this Friday and placed in lockers early next week. The children, Miss Tiahn and I are super excited to show these off as a lot of hard work, concentration and self -agency was put into them.

A post will go up on Facebook for a sneak preview.

Thank You

The Blossom children, Miss Kirstin and Miss Tiahn.

Although we do not encourage the children to bring such expensive items to use here at after school care, such as, iPhones and iPods etc, we will allow it but will remain the child's responsibility to look after it.We do our best to keep the item safe but ultimately it is at their "own risk".I do appreciate your understanding in this matter.

We found last year a lot of the after school children were not bringing a hat for outdoor play.We go outside every afternoon at around 4-4.30pm and they require to wear a hat or they will need to spend the afternoon on the veranda doing activities supplied.

I am now implementing a plan for the children to do homework tasks while in afternoon care.I will supply the pencils and will listen to the children read, help them with writing tasks, maths work or anything specific you would like your child to work on, so please let me know.

Until next time

Miss Kamani

Welcome to Buds 2018

The teachers for this year are Miss Sarah and Miss Jamie-lee; we are both super excited to see what this year brings. The first month we will be focusing on bonding with the children, forming that secure relationship with each child.

Once we have formed that bond we will begin to assist the children in their physical, emotional, communication, learning development. By programming interesting age appropriate activities for the children to learn and grow.

The children will have self-selection throughout the day of what they would like to play with. We will encourage the children to become more independent by having them assist with making and unmaking their beds, assisting with packing away the room, begin toileting when they are ready, assisting putting away their bowls, drink bottles and food scraps when done.

Each day we will have 30-45 min outside play so the children can continue to take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical well-being.

Both Miss Sarah and Miss Jamie-lee are pumped and ready for Buds 2018.