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EARLY LEARNERS - Families of the Early Learners Room. What another awesome month with heaps of fun activities and expanding of friends. We would like to welcome Isabel to the Kidi Kingdom family, may your friendships start and your milestones grow. Our interest this month are activities based off of "We're Going on A Bear Hunt" which means more exploring on sensory play and adventures. We will be planning the nature scape adventure soon to further the children's knowledge while their interests grow on this topic. Parent's please make sure to bring back the permission form. If you have any questions or ideas please don't hesitate to speak with both Miss Kit and I, as we are always looking for parent input.

Thank you Miss Taneeka and Miss Kit.

JUNIOR EARLY YEARS - Dear Families of the Junior Early Years room, welcome to a wonderful month. We all hope your children are enjoying the love of learning with us. Thank you to Braxton and his family along with a few other families within the centre for their wonderful contribution of the Woolworths Discovery Garden of different types of herbs, vegetables and flowers. We have had a wonderful time learning about the garden and how things grow and where they come from.

We have also been watching short shows with "Blippi". It is an educational program to guide children with the healthy choices and to show them how things are made. They have really enjoyed this program. We have been working with the children on their independence as they grow by concentrating on their literacy to form their communication skills. As both Miss Chrystle and myself find that this is a major part in their development. It incorporates a range of modes of communication including music, movement, dance, storytelling and visual arts. As the children are learning we are developing our numbers and letter recognition, we are slowly achieving this with number blocks, cards, books and counting within the room.

Don't forget now that the weather is warming up please remember to pack different types of sheets, all we need now is a fitted sheet and a small sheet to pop over the top as we have the air condition on and the fans and it can get a little cold while the children are asleep and not moving. Also making sure we have our hats and drink bottles clearly labelled please.

Thank you Miss Chrystle and Miss Natalie.

EARLY YEARS - Dear families! Welcome to another month in the Early Years room. We have continued exploring our 5 senses and have begun engaging in activities to help our gross motor development. Our favourite game in the classroom is Ball in the Basket where the children have enjoyed cheering each other on and learning to aim. We have extended this experience by initiating a basketball hoop from outside. As we approach a new month, we begin looking at new interests the children are developing. We have observed their interest in babies, as the interest grows, we will extend with a caring for babies project. The children have been well engaged at group times as we practice singing our ABC's and counting from 1 to 15.

We would also like to Welcome Miss Toa to the classroom, you may see her in the Early Years Room quite a lot as she is working closely with them until the end of the year.

We would like to welcome Aaliyah to our room, she has recently moved up from the Junior Early Years Room. A big Happy Birthday to Paige, Adrian and Richan who have all turned the big 3 years old! Wishing you the happiest of Birthdays.

Thank you, Miss Angela, Miss Mahla.

SENIOR EARLY YEARS - Dear Families of the Senior Early Years Room. We can't believe that we are almost at the end of yet another amazing year. Firstly, I would like to welcome all of our new children and their families to our centre here at Kidi Kingdom Springfield. This month in the room we have been out on a few excursions, we visited the strawberry farm and our local supermarket Woolworth's where the children took part in a discovery tour to learn about healthy eating. Throughout the month the children have helped change the room around to help stimulate change of environment from this experience we have learnt to work together as a class and take on tasks as well as focus a lot more on our learning. The children have been taking an interest in learning about gardening and recycling in the upcoming weeks, We have organised an excursion to Bunnings to further the children's interest in gardening. We will also be visiting a Recycling Centre at Logan to further the children's interest in learning about recycling. As the children's interest grows, we will be looking into creating a worm farm with the children to encourage using our left overs and use them as a form of compost for the garden.

Thank you Miss Jess and Miss Alyssa.

PRE-PREP - Welcome to another fun filled month in the Pre-Prep Room. This last month we have continued with learning Japanese, Germs, Gardening and how to look after our own belongings. QKLG Identity - Acting with increasing independence and perseverance.

Our Vegetable garden at the service is growing extremely well due to the care the children are showing when tending the garden. Our Excursion to Bunnings was a wonderful experience where we looked at different plants to plant into our vegetable garden. Miss Desleigh bought Corn, Marigolds, Cherry Tomatoes and a large sunflower. QKLG - Connectedness - Showing respect for environments - caring for the kindergarten and exploring interactions between people and environments.

Literacy in the room currently is concentrating on Upper- and Lower-case letter recognition - this is important for children to recognise these as they begin to write. We are also clapping out how many sounds are in our names this enables us to practice learning to spell when we get to school. Miss Desleigh is encouraging those children interested in spelling using some sight word cards to enable children's interests and needs to be catered for. We are also starting up our visits to Woodcrest Primary School Library, where the children are getting used to going over to a big school and see the type of environment it has. QKLG- Communicating - Exploring and engaging with literacy in personally meaningful ways.

Numeracy in the room is concentrating on number recognition and counting correctly. Miss Desleigh has made up some games to help with developing this important skill. We also use it when we are cooking and measuring items and planting out our seedlings in the garden. QKLG- Communicating - Exploring Numeracy in personally meaningful ways.

With the children getting closer to starting school next year we are implementing them to be independent and have the resilience necessary for big school, children must be responsible for bringing a hat and water bottle each day. We are also going to ask parents from the first week of November to prepare a small lunch box so children are able to learn the skills necessary on important healthy foods and the right times to eat. The skills necessary to open the child's own containers and food packages are very important life skills necessary for school. We will do up a flyer on what types of things to pack in your child's lunch box.

Graduation is on the 27th November 2019. Please keep this date free :) We are very busy practicing our songs and dance routines and hope you and your family really enjoy the evening. We would also like to welcome our new friend Ava to our room.

If you have anything you think we would like to include in our program or can help in anyway, we would welcome your input. Until next month, warm regards from Miss Desleigh and Miss Hope.

Vacation Care / School Care - Welcome to the Schoolies corner. We have all made a smooth transition back to school over the past week and have enjoyed reconnecting with our friends and teachers. We have enjoyed our vacation care adventures and are looking forward to the many fun events in the weeks to come. First up we are going to start exploring Halloween and using the children's ideas to plan our experiences and activities. We will investigate what we know about Halloween and any other additional information the children would like to know and use play activities to discover new facts about Halloween. We will also enjoy many hands-on sensory experiences through our investigation of Halloween. Could everyone please remember to bring a hat and a water bottle with them every day, so we are able to fully utilise the outdoor play spaces in the afternoons. If you have any questions or would like to suggest a fun Halloween activity, please come and speak to either Miss Sarah or Miss Erika at the front desk.

Thanks Miss Sarah.