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Welcome to April, with that brings our very special visitor the Easter Bunny. The children are ever so excited about Easter
and the Easter Bunny. That’s right this year we will be blessed with a visit from the Easter Bunny here at Bushkidz. We
would like to welcome our new families to Bushkidz we hope you are enjoying the Bushkidz Experience.
Staffing
As you may be aware Miss Terri from our Poddy Calves rooms has resigned from her position due to personal reasons, we
will miss her greatly and wish her all the best. We are very fortunate to Welcome Nicole Murphy to our Teaching Staff.
Nicole has been working at the Brassall Centre for the past 2 years and brings with her a wealth of knowledge, experience
and enthusiasm. Please help me and make her feel welcome, she will be commencing in the Poddy Calves room from the
11th of April 2011.
Market Day
This year we will be having a Market Day here at Bushkidz Blacksoil and all our families are invited to attend. We are also
seeking interested parties for stalls on the day. Do you have something to sell or offer a service, maybe you have your own
business, why not promote your business at our Market Day. Keep Sunday May 15 spare and come down and have some
fun. Please see Kylie to secure your spot. Stay tuned for more information.
Signature for attendance
Please make sure you are signing your child/children in and out each day they attend, Parents are also
required to sign for Holidays, Public Holidays and Sick days. Full fees will be charged for days that do
not have signatures.
Vacation Care
April school holidays are less than 2 weeks away, vacation care program will be running through this holiday period, we do
only have limited vacancies so don’t delay. Please collect your vacation care program from the schoolies locker area or see
Miss Michelle.
Colouring in competition
You still have time to enter Bushkidz Colouring in competition, Collect your entry from the office today. Great prizes up for
grabs. Entries closing soon.
Extra days
The centre is filling up fast, we do have some days still available, if you are looking for an extra day then please see me and
I can give you a quote. Don’t forget as of 4th July 2011 Child Care Tax Rebate (to eligible families) will be paid weekly or
fortnightly. This will greatly assist families in paying their child care fees and reduce your gap fee even further.
Parent Surveys
We recently sent out parent surveys via email, we would love to hear your feedback about our centre whether it is good or
bad. Feedback allows us to review our service, policies and procedures and then to implement action plans to further
develop bushkidz. We thank you for taking part in our parent surveys.
Be sure to have a look at the fantastic display that Mrs Munce and Mrs Lukins and the Kindergarten
children have done in the undercover area about Easter. Well done
Up and coming events
21st April – Easter Bonnet Parade and Easter Party
22nd to 25th April – Centre Closed for Easter Public Holidays
26th April – Centre Closed Anzac Public Holiday
10th May – Ditto Show – Teaching Children about personal
Safety $6.00 per child.
The staff at Bushkidz would like to wish all our families a Happy
and Safe Easter and we will see you all soon.
Hello little lambs families,
We have had yet another busy month in our room exploring our self help skills, the children are
encouraged to put their shoes on, dress themselves while role-playing in home corner, pour
their own drinks, assist with the setting of our table for meals and clearing away their own
scraps, plates and cups into the correct bucket, the children have been doing a great job at this,
they have also attempted to serve their own sandwiches using tongs but the children have
found this a little difficult so we added tongs into
home corner so that
the children can practice using the tongs. This also
strengthens the
children’s hand muscles, during the month of April we
will continue
encouraging self help skills, we will also be doing art
and craft activities to
celebrate Easter we will also be making our own Easter
bonnets for our Easter
parade on the 21st of this month, we hope to see you
there.
Just a reminder that it is getting cooler so warm clothes and closed in shoes will need to be
worn and if your child is toilet training some extra warm clothes may need to be packed to cover
for this. We would also like to welcome Kobe, Harry, kyliehleah, Jordyn, Zade and Emma to our
room, and good luck to summer, Hannah, Sam and Riley O who have transitioned to the tree
frogs room, some of the older children in our room will be starting the transition process to the
tree frogs room, if you have any questions please come and see us.
Until next month
Miss Cloe and Miss Robyn
Tree Frogs Newsletter
What an exciting couple of months we have had in the Tree Frogs Room! Some new faces have
joined us and I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Jordan and to the Bushkidz family.
Amy and I have been encouraging the children to use their:
Language: Using their manners, communicating with their peers and staff, to verbalise own name
and the exploration of new words.
Self Help: Washing their hands, putting their scraps in the bin, putting their drink bottles away,
helping to pack up, encourage children to wear their hats outside, and toilet training.
Gross motor: Amy and I have been helping some children with their climbing skills. Thus enabling
the children’s confidence to develop, helping them to balance and climb apparatuses un-aided.
Sensory- Visual: Colour recognition, Shape recognition, Animal recognition and fruit and vegetable
recognition.
Social and Emotional: To participate in activities, recognition of self and others feelings, to express
anger in words rather than actions, to separate from parents and to form a relationship with staff and
other children.
The children are really excelling within these areas and are beginning to achieve these goals without
any teacher prompts, WELL DONE!
Miss Vicki and Miss Amy
Poddy Calves
Hello to everyone in the poddy calves room. As you are aware I am leaving Bushkidz and my last day
will be Thursday 7th April 2011. I have enjoyed spending the year learning and loving the children
within the group and will miss you all dearly. Miss Nicole will be the new teacher in the room and
she will commence from Monday 11th April.
As we move into April we will be commencing our Easter crafts and enjoying the Easter festivities.
The children will be busy making their Easter bonnet hats for our Easter parade and Easter party.
The children have been developing confidence, self esteem and independance through self help
tasks like making our beds, packing our bags, putting our shoes on, serving our lunch, pouring our
drinks. We have also been focusing on our colours and being able to name and recognise them.
I hope you all have a fantastic year and I will see you all when I visit.
Miss Terri, Miss Chloe and Poddy Calf children.
Kindergarten Newsletter - March
I wish to give a big Welcome to all the new children who have started in the Kindy Room this last month. And
hope they enjoy their time at Bushkidz Kindergarten.
We have had a busy month we are preparing props and doing story maps to do the
play of Goldilocks and The Three Bears. At the same time we have been looking at
Dinosaurs including drawing a ‘Bushasaurs’ a special dinosaur found only at Bushkidz.
The children have made dinosaurs out of boxes and we went on a dinosaur hunt
looking for (cardboard) bones in the sandpit and we made a fossil out of plaster of
paris.
We have started learning our letter sounds and the children are getting good at recognising and making the
sounds, so far we have learnt up to ‘m’ – Missy mouse likes cheese and goes “mmm”
We are having a market day on 15th May for flood relief and our room is organising a $2.00 jar stall and are
asking if parents could donate a jar full of popcorn, lollies, pencils, and hairclips,
anything to sell and help raise money.
Show and tell boxes will be going home soon, your child is asked to bring something
back in the box to show the other children. Books are welcome at anytime or if
something extra special has happened like photos from a special holiday, they can bring
it along to show the children.
Thank you to all the parents who dressed their children in green and wore crazy hair for
our fun days.
Until next time,
Mrs Sharon Munce& Mrs Jo Lukins
GOANNAS
Easter is just around the corner, so for the next couple of weeks we will be busy with our
Easter activities. I will be sitting down with the School children sometime this week and we
will be deciding exactly what they would like to do in the way of Easter Activities. Because
Easter is so late this year and I am going on Annual Leave in 2 weeks we will be starting out
Easter Activities a little earlier than usual.
As I have been relieving in the Tree Frogs for the past couple of weeks I have not had much
of any opportunity to spend time with the children but I know that they have been kept
busy with lots of different activities. I did however spend some time with them last week
and they were heavily involved with making scoobies and modeling the pipe cleaners into
different creations. They even made me a new pair of glasses out of pipe cleaners, the only
bad thing was that they made the glasses with three eye holes.
Happy Birthday to all the Goannas who have had birthdays this Month.