Term 3 week 7 2018

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Port Lincoln Children’s Centre Newsletter Dear Families

A huge thank you to all of our childcare families for your patience, understanding and support

while we transition to the new way of life under the New Child Care Package. Please ensure you are

registered with Centrelink to find out about your eligibility for Child Care Subsidy. Thanks also to

our kindy families who have paid their term kindy fees as this goes towards providing resources, ex-

cursions, and shared morning tea.

This year has been very busy at PLCC. Lynn and I went on a study tour to Reggio Emilia in Italy. It

was a very long flight to Dubai, then to Bolonga but very worthwhile. Reggio Emilia was a very inter-

esting place to visit. I was especially enthused about the partnership the education centres have

with the community. I enjoyed the visits to infant and toddler centres and the preschools. These

centres had many examples of how the children are active members of their community and

showed community involvement in the centres.

Nadine presented at the State Aboriginal Education Con-

ference in Adelaide, which was exciting to share the

changes to practice at PLCC to ensure literacy outcomes

for children are achieved. Nadine spoke about

the small group conversational reading that is currently

happening in kindy. If you would like to know a bit more

about conversational reading, reading aloud and some

words that extend children's thinking and knowledge, please come in and see Nadine, Roxanne

or Rose.

Please come and have a look at the play spaces, we have been working at developing the outdoor

area as a third space for learning for the children. We have had many trials over the years to change

our practice and spaces (some more successful than others) to make sure we provide the best pos-

sible learning environment for the children to be the best they can be when they leave PLCC.

Joanne

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm”

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From the

Kitchen...

Morning Tea Fruit Muffins

Ingredients:

2 cups of S/R flour

1/4 cups of brown or raw sugar

2 eggs

300grams of yoghurt (which ever

flavour you like!)

1 rough cup of fresh, frozen or dried

fruit of your choice

**Our favourite is banana, cinnamon and

honey**

Use either non-stick silicon moulds or

muffin paper cases

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180oC fan forced.

2. Using a large bowl, put the dry

ingredients into the bowl before adding

the wet ingredients and chosen fruit.

3. Using a whisk combine to form the

Baked Chicken Burgers

Makes about 8 burgers

Ingredients:

500grams of chicken mince

1 egg

1 small onion diced

1 small carrot and zucchini grated

1/4 cup corn kernels

1 teaspoon of crushed garlic

1 heaped teaspoon of parsley

Bread crumbs (use as needed, roughly

1/3 cups)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180oC fan forced and

line an oven tray with baking paper.

2. Add all ingredients to a bowl and mix

together thoroughly. Add bread

crumbs to help the patties stick to-

gether (roughly 1/3 cups)

3. Roll and shape the mix into palm sized

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Childcare News

As the warmer months are approaching its great to see that the children are remembering to put on

their hats and sunscreen before heading outside to play and enjoy the sunshine. We asked some of the

children ‘What it means to be Sun Smart’. These are their answers “If we didn't put sunscreen on we

would burn”, “if its really hot we have to get a cold drink of water,” “wear sunnies” and “stay in the

shade when you’re outside.” Just a reminder to parents that singlets and dresses with straps are not

sun safe, we encourage you to send T-shirts that cover the shoulders of

your child/children.

EYLF Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

3.2 Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.

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busy exploring, investigating, negotiating, problem solving, reading, talking, singing, counting, noticing,

sharing/turn taking, measuring, questioning, drawing, rhyming, painting, risk taking, writing, building and

helping /caring for each other and listening and doing lots of learning and having fun together.

NQF: QA5-Relationships with children: (5.1.1.) responsive and meaningful interactions build trusting relationships which

engage and support each child to feel secure, confident and included

What’s

happening

at kindy-

we not

only just

play we

are:

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Kirton Point Primary School invited the kindy groups to join them celebrate the different foods of

the

world.

Culture Week at KPPS

Poppa Dean had a table set up with food from

Guatemala. Tyler enjoyed the corn chips and

Zantae, Harper and kash enjoyed making their

own Chai tea from Nepal.

Callan and Keifa enjoyed watching the people

Ashden and Alby helped make and eat some Indonesian

Kayne h

elped m

ake food

from

What’s

happening

at kindy-

we not

only just

play we

are:

Crazy Hair Day On Tuesday 25th September & Friday 28th September

We will be supporting the Leukaemia Foundation and hosting a

Crazy Hair Day. Everyone is encouraged to come with their

craziest hair and bring along a gold coin donation :)

Glen Forest

On Thursday 27th of September we will be heading to Glen Forest

for an end of term celebration. The kindy children will be catching

a big bus and the Childcare children will be on the centre bus.

All costs will be covered by the centre.

If your child doesn't attend Kindy or Childcare on this day, you

are welcome to bring them out and spend the day with us.