At Kidi Kingdom our sun safety policy pivots around different times of the day that children can access our shaded areas outside. Educators are required to at all times set a good example for the children by ensuring that they too are wearing hats and sunscreen outside.

As most parents are aware, getting your child to apply sunscreen, wear a hat and keep it on can often be a losing battle. Being a sun safe centre, Kidi Kingdom teachers spend a lot of time training our children about the importance of sun safety. Like everything, when teaching children the importance of sun safety, Kidi Kingdom educators like to make the learning fun, providing children with meaning so information is recalled easily.

One of the songs that we teach the children at Kidi Kingdom to help recall information about the importance of sun safety is:

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EARLY LEARNERS - Dear Families of Early Learners. Welcome back to another month! In the last few weeks we have been focusing on encouraging the children to enhance their skills and abilities through play, art, music and group time, as well as trying to extend on their emerging interests. We have enjoyed watching our younger children discover their strengths and abilities to reaching their milestones. Miss Kit and I will both be handing out permission forms for exciting upcoming events for 2019 and for 2020. With your permission we will be taking the children across the fields to Bob Gibbs Park for our Nature scape Program. If you have any concerns or ideas for our future activities, please feel free to speak with Miss Kit and I as we are always looking for new ideas to further your child's learning.

Thank you, Miss Taneeka and Miss Kit.

Junior Early Years - Dear Families of Junior Early Years. This Month we have had such a wonderful time exploring our environment by learning and enjoying all that summer has to offer through water play, ball sports and riding the bicycles. Both Miss Natalie and myself have enjoyed watching the children explore activities to enhance their physical and social wellbeing. Miss Natalie and I have also introduced a few new books for the children to explore and to extend on in our classroom activities around the themes such as animals, colours, sounds and patterns. All the children are developing their memory, recognition and are becoming more confident as individuals This has been shown within their interactions with their peers as well as educators. We have continued with our herbs and flowers, the children have explored from start to the end process as well as watering them every day and explaining the importance on why we need to keep our herbs and flowers hydrated.

Thank you, Miss Chrystle and Miss Natalie.

Early Years - Dear Families of the Early Years room, this month we would like to welcome our new friends Anastasjia and Jake to the classroom. We look forward to learning more about you and growing friendships. We have been very busy this month experimenting with different types of dough as the children have been expressing their interest in making and creating with play dough. We have extended on this by creating different bases with flour and food colouring. We have successfully made cloud dough, moon sand and a form of stretchy slime. The children have thoroughly enjoyed our experiences with creating the different doughs.

Thank you, Miss Angela and Miss Mahla.

School Early Years - Dear Families of the Senior Early Years room, the end of year is fast approaching and whilst reflecting over the month of November the children have enjoyed taking part and getting involved with many experiences such as learning about gardening, practicing name and letter recognition. Children have also taking an interest in caring for their environment through recycling and using natural resources through play in our construction area and nature corner. We have been discussing with the children at group time about what they have done over the weekend to continue their learning through expressing their interests and following up experiences in class. The children have been using the iPad to research activities to continue their learning such as gardening, sea life, dinosaurs and volcanoes. We have also been learning about everyday life through events that we celebrate during the month such as day for Daniel day, Remembrance Day & Recycle Week to name a few. The children of the classroom thrive on learning to achieve the best results and achieve their dreams to the best they can, as they are all involved learners.

Thank you, Miss Jess and Miss Alyssa

PrePrep - Dear Families of the Pre-prep room, welcome to another fun filled month! Wow I can't believe how fast this year is flying by. We have been very busy getting ready for our graduation, with our song's dances and outfits, this will be on the 27th of November 2019 6pm-8pm. We really hope to see you all there.

We have also been looking into Remembrance Day as the children sat for a minute of silence to remember our fallen soldiers who have paid the price for our freedom. The children also talked about why we show respect to our elders and how we can show that we haven't forgotten them, Miss Sarah also came in and helped us make some beautiful poppies for our room.

The children of the Pre-Prep room have been focusing on recycling week learning what object can and cannot be recycled, this has become a huge part in the Pre-preps routine over the past couple of weeks, we would love for you to share how you contribute to recycling at home with your children.

If you have any questions, feel free to approach anyone of our friendly team members, as we are all happy to help.

Thank you, Miss Sarabjit, Miss Desleigh and Miss Hope.

School Care / Vacation Care - Dear Families of School Care/Vacation Care, this month has seen us explore many different aspects of our identities, as we play and learn together as a team. We have enjoyed expressing our creativity as we participate in finger painting, brush painting, mixing colours, and painting poppies for Remembrance Day and painting our thoughts and ideas of Christmas.

We have explored our cognitive brains as we engage in experience such as chess and other board games which encourage us to think strategically and to think ahead as we play. These games have also given us opportunities to practice our positive winning and losing skills and to reinforce our teamwork skills. We have enjoyed building upon our social and emotional skills as we join in with team games and must work together with our friends to achieve a common goal. This month our use of positive inclusive language with our friends has been seen a lot and it is great to see everyone making efforts to include each other in their fun and games.

Over the next month we look forward thinking and researching ways we can celebrate Christmas here in the School care room while sharing the different ways in which we celebrate Christmas with our families. Any suggestions for Christmas activities are always welcome and encouraged.

Just a quick reminder that Vacation Care / School Holiday Program forms are now available for the Christmas break from Miss April at the front desk and spots are filling up quickly, the spaces are limited as we are limited to the number of seats on our courtesy Buses. As I prepare to go on maternity leave, I would like to say a big THANK YOU to the schoolies children and families for a wonderful year and wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Thank you, Miss Sarah.