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spring/summer issue | 2014produced for our families

SummerSNIPPETSsalisbury child care BUMPER EDITION

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inside this issue

Australia Day

Red nose day

Fathers day

Bunnings visit

Crazy Hair Day

Pyjama day

Gingerbreak man puppet show

Easter

snapshot of the year

bumblebees

dragonflies

lady bugs

room news

christmas closure

thank you

centre happeningsstaffing news

our favourite recipe

general news

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Welcome to our BUMPER edition of our Salisbury Snippets

for 2014.

Another year is nearly over and it has been a very successful

one at that. All the Educators have worked at such a high

standard following the Early Years Learning Framework

(EYLF) to ensure your Children get the highest quality of

care and education. Your input and suggestions are highly

important to us so please spare a few minutes to look at all

the hard work the girls have put in to the curriculum and

write down any comments or suggestions you may have.

Your feedback will help us to ensure your Children’s interests

are included in our daily routine. There is also a suggestions

and comments journal in the foyer for you to write in. Thank

you for all the positive feedback we have already received,

it has been a wonderful year so far and we look forward to

our Christmas Celebrations ahead.

Sadly we will be saying a few goodbyes to some wonderful

families this year. You have been a huge part of Salisbury

and it has been so nice watching your Children grow

and learn starting in the Bumblebees room through to

the Dragonflies room. Watching them go through these

different stages of learning has been so rewarding. We will

miss you all so please remember to come and visit us. To all

the families who are staying on in 2015, we look forward to

seeing you in the New Year.

THANK YOU

Silvana and Ewa

Welcome

“We wish you all a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a happy and safe NEW YEAR”from All the staff at Salisbury

STAFFING NEWSYou may have noticed a few new faces around the

centre. We would like to welcome Sara and Ashley to

our centre. They are both Qualified Educators and

have worked with Children for many years. Sara is in

the Bumblebees room taking over from Loretta to

which we sadly said goodbye to her in August. Loretta

has been a huge part of our centre for aproxiamently

four years. We will sadly miss her contagious laugh

at Salisbury, she was loved by everyone and it’s

always nice when she pops in for a visit to say “hello”

Sadly we also have to say goodbye to Diana that has

been at Salisbury for over 22 years. She has watched

this centre grow in to what it is today and has seen

and adjusted to the different changes over the years.

She completed her diploma a few years ago and

always put her heart and soul while at the centre.

Diana guaranteed to give us all a laugh a day. The

stories she told always put a smile on our face and

a good laugh too! It is so, so hard to say goodbye to

such a wonderful role model, we will miss you Diana.

Diana has written us a letter to say thank you and goodbye.

CHRISTMAS CLOSUREThe centre will be closing at 6pm on Tuesday

the 23rd December and re-open again on

Tuesday the 07th January 2015. You will not

be charged during the time we are closed.

THANK YOUJust want to say a huge thank you to all our wonderful

families that have helped us throughout the year,

especially our PAC members. Thank you John to doing

such a fantastic job with our Bunnings Sausage Sizzle

earlier this year, we look forward to doing it again next

year. I would also like to thank Mike Matusik for his

generous donation AGAIN for the AGM raffle. Last year,

Mike kindly donated a watch and this year three beautiful

Bracelets and earrings to put towards the raffle. I would

also like to thank Jennifer Turner for the perfume, Pinna

Tanno for the Arbonne products and Nicole Marshall for

the Peter Rabbit books, your generous donations were

greatly appreciated and we had very happy winners too!

Lastly I would like to thank Baden and Frank for

cooking the sausages, Rachel Masters for holding

the meeting and Betti, Christina and Amanda

for serving the sausages at this year’s AGM.

OUR FAVOURITE RECIPEMonica has been very busy in the kitchen cooking

all our yummy food for the day. Our favourite recipe

this month is Mexican Oven Baked Fish. We have

included the recipe for this popular dish. If you

would like any more of Monica’s delicious recipes

that is on our menu please don’t hesitate to ask.

LUNCH MENUMexican oven baked fish

Serves children

• 1 1/2 pounds cod fillets (can use bassa fillets)

• 1 cup salsa

• 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese

• 1/2 coarsely crushed corn chips

• 1 avacado - peeled, pitted and sliced

• 1/4 cup sour cream

Method:Preheat over to 250c.

Lightly grease one 8x12 inch baking dish

Rinse fillets under cold water and pat dry with paper towels. Lay fillets

side by side in the prepared baking dish.

Pour the salsa over the top and sprinkle evenly with the shredded

cheese. Top with crushed corn chips.

Bake uncovered int he preheated over for 15 minutes or until fish is

opaque, ad flakes with a fork.

Serve with sliced avacado and sour cream. ENJOY!

Pictures of our Little miraclesAUSTRALIA DAY - FATHERS DAY - RED NOSE DAY - PYJAMA DAY - CRAZY HAIR DAY

EASTER - INCURSIONS - GINGERBREAD MAN PUPPET SHOW

moments captured, create a lifetime of memories

dragonfliesThe dragonflies’ room have had a wonderful year with the

children all busily involved in a range of exciting projects

and learning experiences. The beginning of the year start-

ed with a focus on recycling, sustainability and water con-

servation. This has continued throughout the year with the

children carrying out their weekly jobs of taking out the

recycling and feeding the worms as well their daily job of

watering the vegetable patch and garden.

We then started a project on healthy eating which the

children really enjoyed. The project started with a puppet

show incursion about healthy eating, the children abso-

lutely loved this and talked about the show afterwards.

We then started to learn about foods that are good for

our body and the children wanted to make one of their fa-

vourite healthy recipes. We decided to plan an excursion

to Coles so that the children could experience buying the

ingredients needed to make corn and zucchini muffins.

Another exciting project that the children have been in-

volved in was learning about African animals. This project

arose from the children’s interest and educators collabo-

rated with the children to extend their learning through

various experiences. We then organised an excursion to

the Zoo so that the children could see some of the animals

that we had been learning about. The Zoo was a big hit

with all the children, they were all just so excited and the

day was enjoyed by all. I think it is fair to say that every-

body was exhausted afterwards including staff.

This year we ran the PALS program again as it was so en-

joyed by the children the previous year. The PALS program

is designed to help young children develop a range of so-

cial behaviours that will help them to form friendships and

get along with others. The program consists of ten sessions,

each focusing on a different skill that teaches children the

required skills for social interaction. Each session uses

puppets, songs, story- telling and role playing and the

children loved being involved in the sessions and learnt

a lot as well.

More recently we had our AGM and the children had a

special dance to perform. We first began to practice the

dance a few months ago with the children helping to

choose the song. The decision of joining two songs to-

gether was made as these were the songs which were

the most popular among the children. The children all

worked really hard on practising and perfecting the

dance in the weeks leading up to the AGM and they

were so excited about performing it for their families.

When the night arrived the children did a fantastic job

and most importantly they had, the staff were so proud

to see this after all the children’s hard work.

Well the year is quickly coming to a close and the edu-

cators in the dragonflies room would like to say a big

thank you to all families for the privilege of being with

your child this year, we have loved watching them grow

and develop.

Love Chevon, Disa, Mare and Marilyn

we love ourdragonglies carers

such as rewards charts and positive feedback with their

attempts, in being successful.

It’s been another wonderful year and we look forward

to seeing you all again next year, for an even better one.

We would like to wish everyone a wonderful Christmas

and a safe and happy new year, filled with lots of love and

laughter. Merry Christmas Everyone

Love the Ladybugs room

Emma, Rachel, Sabine, Maria, Diana and Ashley

ladybugsWe have enjoyed some wonderful events lately; we

had an awesome time on our excursion to Noranda

childcare centre and Park. For most of us it was our very

first daycare excursion, and everyone had an absolute

ball, loving everything from the bus ride, to meeting

some new little friends. It was lovely to see all our

families at our Father’s Day and AGM night. Everyone

appeared to have a great time at the AGM, with the

children especially loving all the face painting and

seeing their faces on the big screen. We hope you all

enjoyed our little presentation too.

We have all loved watching our chickens hatch from

eggs, and have all shown such respect and kindness in

taking such good care of them. Showing curiosity and

an eagerness to investigate, and gain knowledge of a

chickens lifecycle, and questioning what other animals

hatch from an egg.

Some of our favourite things to do have been

experimenting and exploring through a variety of

activities; such as, water play with bubbles, dye and

ice, and constructing using different materials. We

have also had lots of fun, and shown a keen interest in

the Farmyard corner, collecting the pretend eggs, and

doing lots of imaginative dramatic play.

Christmas is nearly upon us, and we will be getting

ready to celebrate all the festivities shortly. Most of us

are very enthusiastic and excited about the prospect

of Santa coming and will be beginning to write their

Christmas wish lists soon. With the year flying by, we

are also getting very excited about, soon graduating

up to the dragonflies room.

The group are really getting cracking on their toilet

training, ready for the big kindy room. Whilst some

children take to it like a duck to water, some can be

a bit resistant to try. We aim to make this a positive

experience for the children and sometimes they need a

little extra encouragement and positive reinforcement,

we love ourLADYBUGS carers

bumblebees

Hello from the Bumblebees room

Well it’s crazy to think that another year is nearly over! We have had

so many laughs and created some wonderful memories together

that we will cherish forever. We have loved watching all of the chil-

dren’s little personalities grow.

Most of the children are getting that little bit older now and becom-

ing big toddlers, we have Audra and Ebony orientating to the Lady-

bugs room at the moment and they will be moving up in no time.

We are going to miss them very much but we know they are going

to have a great time in their new room! To cater for the other children

we will start to put them on mattresses and encourage them to drink

out of cups, preparing them for the transition to Ladybugs room.

As we are getting into the nice warm weather we have been focus-

ing on being sun smart, teaching the children to ‘Slip, Slop, Slap’. We

would appreciate if you could all check that your child’s hat fits them

or if they need a new hat and bring them a new one if necessary. It

is also our policy that your children wear a t-shirt out in the sun so

please ensure they have one stored in their bags.

We are coming into the festive season now which we are all looking

forward to, so in the upcoming months we will be very busy making

Christmas decorations and preparing everything ready to be taken

home.

Love

The Bumblebees staff

we love ourBUMBLEBEE carers

 

RED NOSE DAY 2014 

Today we celebrated Red Nose Day to support SIDS and KIDS and everybody came 

to day care dressed in red. Disa was also kind enough to paint all of our noses red 

which was a lot of fun. We then all sat for a group photo to show off our red 

outfits as well as red noses. 

Learning outcome 2) Children are connected with and contribute to their world 

Children broaden their understanding of the world in which they live by helping to 

support SIDS and KIDS. 

Principle 4) Respect for diversity 

Educators recognise that diversity contributes to the richness of our society and 

provides a valid evidence base about the ways of knowing. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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Learning outcome 2) children have a strong sense of identity                         

Children demonstrate a sense of belonging in their environment, they feel 

safe, secure and supported in their interests.  

Today all the children and staff wore their Pyjamas 

to day care. All the children looked cute in their 

pyjamas and we all had a fun day with movies and 

popcorn. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

The Gingerbread Man 

Puppet ShowMonday June 9th

As planned we are introducing healthy eating this month in 

accordance with our annual intentional teaching plan. What 

a fantastic way to start the topic, with a puppet show. The 

show began with children learning about healthy food to 

put in their lunch boxes. The show then went on to a 

puppet show which was a unique take on the traditional 

tale with creative puppets. The show’s messages were 

about healthy eating and go for 2 and 5 a day. The children 

thoroughly enjoyed the show and learnt a lot as well.  

Jett – “I liked the cat” 

Ciaralee‐ “I liked the gingerbread man 

Addison – “The gingerbread man was funny” 

Jude – “The fox ate the gingerbread man 

Oscar – “I like the fox” 

Zak – The fox eat him” 

Jasmine – I like the fox as well” 

Zeke – “Yeah that was funny when the fox ate the 

gingerbread man 

Charlotte – I like the gingerbread man the best” 

Neve – “I liked the biscuit” 

Learning outcome 3) Children have a strong sense of 

wellbeing                                                                                    

Children about healthy lifestyles and nutrition. 

Practice: Intentional teaching                                                 

Educators plan opportunities for intentional teaching and 

knowledge building. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

Today we had a special afternoon tea for our dad’s which the children were really excited about. There was 

father’s day colouring in set up on the table for the children to do with their dad’s and the presents were set 

up on a table, the children loved giving out their presents that they made.                                                                  

We had a lovely afternoon so thankyou to all the dad’s that came. 

This morning we had a discussion about why we love our dad’s and this is what the children said. 

Alice “I love to read books with my dad” 

Emma “Dad pretends to be a tiger” 

Ethan “I love it when dad takes me driving in the Hilux” 

Charlotte “I love to play with dad” 

Xavier “Playing racing cars” 

Annabella “I like exercising with my dad” 

Sidney “Playing games” 

Oscar “Playing wrestles” 

Jacob “My dad comes to early starters with me” 

Isla “He gives me kisses and huggles” 

Florence “My dad takes me to kindy” 

 

 

Friday 05th September 

 

Our Easter Egg

Hunt!

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Today Emma said she saw the Easter Bunny hopping around in the garden. So we decided to go investigate and see if he had left anything behind. As we searched and discovered high and low, we found that the easter bunny enjoyed everything from eating our vegies to playing on the swing and hopping right round the centre .Working together to find some eggs that the easter bunny had left, we decided we should share them out and put them in our own easter baskets that we had made.

Everyone joined in the search and shared in their discoveries.

We all had such a fantastic time and were so excited!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today one of our special mums, whom works as a 

dental nurse came in to visit us and talk to us about 

how important it is for us to look after, and clean our 

teeth. With the help of douge the dog, Nurse Skye 

talked about and showed us how we brush and clean 

our teeth, using a toothbrush, toothpaste and even 

special string called Dental Floss! 

 

Celebrating Dental Awareness Week

We discussed how some foods are very good for our teeth and bodies 

and that eating these foods, would make our teeth clean and strong.  

These foods we called everyday foods because we should eat them 

everyday. 

We also looked at some food and drink that 

were bad for our teeth, and we called these 

sometimes foods because we should only eat 

them sometimes, so that they didn’t hurt our 

teeth.

We brush our teeth up 

and down, round and 

round in little circles, 

side to side, making sure 

we brush every tooth 

 

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Outcome3:wearedevelopingastrongsenseofWellbeing,

Takingresponsibilityforourphysicalhealthandhygiene

PrincipleandPractice:Educatorsuseintentionalteachingtoextendchildren’s

thinkingandlearning.Workingwithfamiliesandthecommunitytoprovide

opportunitiestolearnandengageinexperiencesthatpromoteselfhelpskills

andknowledgetosucceed

Standard/Element:Qa6:part6.12:familieshaveopportunitiestobeinvolved

intheserviceandcontributetoservicedecisions.

We talked about how when we go to the dentist we sit in a big 

chair and the dentist asks us to open wide so they can see all 

of our teeth. Skye also talked about what a dentist wears e.g. a 

mask to help stop the spread of germs and glasses to protect 

the dentist’s eyes from getting water in them.  

We also talked about what tools a dentist uses like a little 

mirror and other tools. Then Skye got us to all line up so she 

could see our teeth and give us a big sticker for listening so 

well. 

 

Skye told us that when we are little 

we all have 20 ‘baby teeth’, and 

then when we are 6 or 7years old 

are baby teeth start to get wobbly 

and fall out so that we can grow 

adult teeth. 

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When a baby tooth falls out, we can put it under our 

pillow and the tooth fairy will come take It, and leave a 

little surprise for us to say thankyou. 

When you wake up in the morning at a 

quarter to one…. 

You brush your teeth…ch,ch,ch,ch….ch,ch, 

        

CRAZY HAIR DAY            Friday 14th March 2014

We had a very busy Friday afternoon, to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. 

 After we woke up from our afternoon sleep, our hair was 

styled and coloured with hair spray. The hair spray tickled our heads and felt funny! 

 Then, we decided to get the face paint out as well. We had spidermen, butterflies, flowergirls, and a fairy princess! We were all very pleased and excited with our bright outrageous make‐overs. We had lots of fun “getting into character", and 

portraying our make‐up personalities.  

We put our donations in the collection box in the hallway. 

 

Principle 1 ‐ Secure, Respectful and reciprocal relationships:  “Educators… help children to learn about their responsibilities to others, to appreciate their connectedness and interdependence as learners, and to value collaboration and teamwork. Practice ‐ Learning through play: “When children play with other children they create social groups, test out ideas, challenge each other’s thinking and build new understandings. Children’s immersion in their play illustrates how play enables them to simply enjoy being. Learning Outcome – Children have a strong sense of identity: When children have positive experiences they develop an understanding of themselves as significant and respected, and feel a sense of belonging. 

 

 

AUSTRALIA DAY FUN

Today we celebrated Australia Day. We started the celebration by having Vegemite on toast for morning tea. We then continued the day by having water play outside. The children all brought in there bathers and towels and enjoyed running under the water spray with their friends.

The children did Australian activities such as painting the Australian flag and reading Australian stories at mat session. We talked about Australia – the flag, the animals we have and the types of food that is eaten.

For lunch we had meat pies and sausage rolls with tomato sauce and fruit. As it was Gingers last day she brought in chocolate ice creams, we also had lamingtons.

What a great Australia Day- AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!!!

Learning outcome 4) Children are confident and involved learners

Today children expressed wonder and interest in their environment. They used play to investiagte, imagine and explore, they participated in creative play experinces with enthusiasm.

Practice: Learning thorugh play

Educators provide play experinces to encourage children to explore, solve problems and imagine. Educators understand the value of children’s play and how it can expand children’s thinking and enhance their desire to learn.

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Australia 

Day Fun 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balloon Creations!!

Face Painting!!

Fun at the AGM !!

 

We had a yummy sausage sizzle and loved seeing ourselves up on the big screen, in our special video presentation

We all had a ball!

Outcome 2; Children are 

connecting with and contributing 

to their world, building a sense of 

belonging to the community 

Principle 2: In genuine 

partnerships, families and 

educators value each other’s 

contributions to and roles in each 

child’s life 

 

 

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