Newsletter September / October (2019)

Kidi Kingdom Child Care Centre - Hillcrest

Early Learners - Dear Families of Early Learners we would like to welcome all our new friends to our Early Learners Classroom. This month we have been learning about Spring as the warmer weather approaches and flowers and plants start to bloom. The children have been busy finger painting their own gardens and creating beautiful artwork flowers. Children have enjoyed being able to get their hands messy while learning all about Spring. Miss Christina will be returning from maternity leave on the 1st October and we look forward to welcoming her back.

Thank you, Miss Kassandra and Miss Stephanie.

Junior Early Years - Dear Families of Junior Early Years. Another busy month in the JEY Classroom, we investigated and created some science activities during science week engaging and discovering how to change water containing some of our small animals into ice. We then got to smash one of the ice cubes and melt the other one in the sun as we all watched the hot sun melt the water to reveal the animals. We also watched the volcano erupting in the sandpit and made goop which was a very different sensory activity. We also celebrated Book Week reading a different book each day and interacting with props that were provided by Miss Julie. We got to dress as our favourite character on the last day. Reading with your child is one of the most important and satisfying things you can do and improves your childs imagination, concentration and communication skills as well as it being fun and special time spent with your child. The children all enjoy story time on the mat each day! We are still practicing counting and number recognition along with shape and colour recognition too! This will be ongoing as intentional teaching is part of our group time activities each day. We will be exploring the life of a pirate over the coming weeks reading books treasure hunting and lots of other fun learning activities involving pirates and their adventures.

Miss Julie and Miss Benita.

Early Years - This month in the early years room, the children have had a fun filled month. Continued to exploring their interest in transport, the children have now started exploring a new interest about the weather. Miss Kyra and Miss Raquel had a discussion with the children about the different seasons of the year and what all the seasons represent as now it's spring, we have started doing lots of fun activities for spring we have started exploring insects and different flowers in our outdoor gardens.

Kind regards Miss Kyra and Miss Raquel.

Pre Prep - Dear Families of Pre-Prep Classroom, we would like to welcome back our two friends Jack and Jessica from their long holiday. This month we joined the exciting Book Week Celebration at our Hillcrest centre. Every day the children enjoyed reading/listening to their favourite stories. The most memorable stories to them were the Gruffalo, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, the Hungry Caterpillar and the Wizard of Oz. The children loved acting out the characters in the story that they liked most. All the moral lessons in the stories were inculcated in the young hearts and minds of the children. The children's sense of pride and confidence were also deeply developed as they performed their song and dance moves from their favourite nursery rhymes and jingles. Some simple riddles also had captured their great interests.The most exciting part was the culmination where the children dressed up with their favourite story characters. The children were so proud showing off their beautiful costumes while talking about who their costumewas about in front of their friends during our yarning circle. Another meaningful activity that we celebrated was the Child Protection Week. The children learned a lot of survival practices to protect themselves from undesirable people like the strangers and bullies.They also learned some safety tips while at play, in public places and in cases of an Emergency. During our final activity the children were having a role play on how to apply basic first aid in case someone will be hurt or will have an accident in the future. This latter part of Term 3 our focus is to enhance the development of their fine motor skills in order to make them readier for the next school year. We received lots of positive feedbacks from our parents whose children successfully passed during their school interviews. Well done guys! Your teachers and your Kidi Kingdom Family are so proud of you.

Thank you Ms Nim and Ms Kara.

Before and After School Care & Vacation/School Holiday Care - We are all looking forward to the upcoming school holiday period over September and October where we will be engaging in some very fun exciting excursions and experiences. Over the past month we have been focusing on our literacy and numeracy skills and adapting to getting on top of our homework every afternoon to help our Mums and Dads have some more quality time in the evenings with their school age children. Our School Holiday / Vacation Care program is now available for you to secure your spot, limited capacity due to limited seats available on Courtesy Bus. We look forward to having an amazing time on the excursions this Spring Break!

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