Welcome to another exciting edition of the Kidi Kingdom Child Care Hillcrest Newsletter for 2023!

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all our new families to the centre and thank you for choosing Kidi Kingdom Child Care Hillcrest as your preferred child care provider. I look forward to building strong and lasting relationships with you all as your children grow and develop in our early education and care environment. To all of our families your support throughout this year has been very welcomed and greatly appreciated.

I would also like to welcome some of our new Educators who have joined our team, Miss Aimee our Kindergarten Teacher. We also welcomed to our team, Miss Shantae and Miss Ngaire. We look forward to watching you all grow together with us as a team and hope you all share your creativity and enthusiasm in helping the children develop and grow through daily learning, creating and exploring.

If you require further information regarding your child care account, child care subsidy or support in any other area, please do not hesitate to discuss these matters with myself and Miss Christina. We are always here to support and help our families.

Please like our Facebook page and we always appreciate our loyal families helping our centre by sharing your positive experiences to the local community by writing a quick Google, CareForKids or Facebook review. Thank you for the families that have already taken to the time to write a review.

Kind Regards, Julie Hunter Centre Manager	Click here to visit our pages at Facebook and Instagram

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our current and new families for choosing our centre. Our aim is to ensure that all our children and their families experience the benefit of professional, personalized and high quality practices at Kidi Kingdom Child Care Hillcrest.

As the Educational Leader, my responsibility is to provide curriculum direction to the educators and engage educators with all elements of the approved learning frameworks including the principles, practices and learning outcomes.

I am available to support the educators in gaining an understanding of high quality practices, implement reflective practice and lead critical reflection discussions to examine policies. I will always collaborate with educators and we look forward to reaching new goals with the educators in the coming months.

Kind Regards, Miss Cheri - Educational Leader.

Dear Valued Families of the Early Learners Room,

We are excited to share with you the latest happenings and highlights in the Early Learners Room for this term. Firstly, a big welcome to Alfie, Alaska and Amelia, our new friends in the Early Learners Room. It is great to see you all making new friends and exploring your new surroundings.

The children have been very busy in the past few months celebrating various events and working towards their own milestones, skills and development.

In June, July, August the children participated in a lot of different events including Reconciliation Week, Best Friend's Day, Yoga Day, Naidoc Week, Teddy Bear's Picnic, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day, National Red Nose Day, Science Week and Book Week! We all took part in lots of different activities and experiences to celebrate these events. What a fun-filled few months it has been in our Early Learners Room.

In the Month of June we had fun exploring colours, shapes, space and our human body. Throughout our play experiences the children especially enjoyed the physical obstacle course as they worked on their gross motor skills while learning about their bodies.

In July we focused on learning about our five senses as we explored touch, taste, hearing and sight senses. We then transitioned to learn all about the benefits of healthy eating as we created healthy food together such as a fruit salad, blueberry muffins as well as banana bread.

In the month of August our focus was learning about nature. We each created our very own grass heads. The children grasped the grass seeds, planted them and watered them. We have been watching them grow and they have been growing so fast. The children showed interest as they joined in, creating a veggie patch together with snow peas! We look forward to another wonderful term together!

Kind Regards, Miss Emily and Miss Alexis.

Welcome to the newsletter for Junior Early Years Room A special welcome to our new friends that have moved up from Early Learners, SJ and Alice, as well as our new friends that have begun their education and care journey with us.

What a fantastic couple of months we have had in the room. Over the last couple of months the children have participated in so much learning and exploring. The Junior Early Years children have explored Arctic Animals, Jungle Animals, Sea Animals and Farm Animals. During these experiences the children have had the opportunity to explore, create and use their imagination through sensory play, drawing, role playing and identifying animals they are familiar with in books and puzzles.

In the coming months we will participate in experiences that support the development of our colours, shapes and name recognition. The children will have the opportunity to explore these through art and craft, science experiments and cooking experiences.

The children have also been visiting the garden at least twice a week where they have been engaged in weeding, raking and planting some spring onions.

Kind Regards, Miss Kylie, Miss Kara and Miss Verity.

Hello and Welcome to the Early Years Room. During the last few months the children have been involved in many learning and educational experiences. We focused on implementing experiences that supported the children in learning their colours throughout an eight week project. We also explored their colours through science experiments, cooking and art and craft.

During July the children showed an interest in different animals from around the world. We started with our jungle animals, exploring tigers, elephants, frogs, sloths and snakes. The children responded well to learning about these animals and showed an extended interest in participating in experiences that involved learning more about other animals.

This month we have just started exploring our sea animals and have so far looked at sharks and jellyfish and will continue to explore more sea creatures. The children have really embraced the activities and we look forward to introducing more experiences that meet the children's interests of animals.

During this time we have also had some special events such as NAIDOC Week, Teddy Bear's Picnic, Reconciliation Week, National Best Friend's Day and International Yoga Day. In the next couple of weeks we will be celebrating National Red Nose Day, National Science Week and Children Book Week.

KInd Regards, Miss Tia and Miss Benita.

Welcome Valued Families to our Kindergarten Room.

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our new friends Ewai, Ollie, Ej and Hamiora into the Kindergarten program. The children have thrived in making new friends and building relationships with the Educators and their peers in the classroom. It has been a busy term in the Kindergarten Room as we continue to prepare the children for the beginning of their formal school journey.

During the month of July, we focused on NAIDOC celebrations and extended our learning on diversity. The Teddy Bear's Picnic was another great opportunity for the children to develop communication, language skills and creating imaginative play ideas.

Over the next month we will be focusing on the children's individual interests, creating a learning environment and experiences based around the children's individual learning needs and development. We will keep developing our ongoing objectives for this year such as reading the calendar, identifying days of the week, name writing and recognition, alphabet letters and sounds and number writing and recognition.

We are also developing observations and listening skills through literature and show and tell. These experiences support in building children's confidence in front of their peers, asking and answering questions.

It has been an amazing past few months of learning and development to support the children in their preparation for a smooth transition to primary school.

A big thank you to all families for ongoing support. If you have any questions regarding your child's routine and their development, please feel free to contact us through the centre.

Kind Regards, Miss Cheri and Miss Regina.