Events for December 2015

Each month the centre will hold a range of different special events for children to participate in. We will display this in the foyer noticeboard and also outline this in each newsletter for you.

Every Tuesday

Callum’s Baby Boot Camp

1st December 2015

First day of Summer.

The Count Down Begins!!! 24 days until CHRISTMAS!!

4th December 2015

Queanbeyan Festival of Ability. 4pm-8pm at Queanbeyan Town Park.

Christmas & Graduation Party

18th December 2015

10am—2pm

20th December 2015.

Carols in the Park.

5-9pm Sunken Garden Queanbeyan Park Lowe St.

25th December 2015

CHRISTMAS DAY.

26th December 2015

BOXING DAY

1st January2015

NEW YEARS DAY.

Lost Property.

A reminder to parents to please label your child/ren’s

Welcome / Director’s Corner

Welcome to all the new families that have joined us in the month of November. As you can see November has been a very busy month with enrolments increasing yet again which has

meant that the centre has been recruiting new educators. Just to keep you informed of your child’s room educators.

In the coming weeks we will be posting on Story Park the Educators changes that will happen as of January 2016. Please rest assured that their will be a familiar educator kept in each

classroom to aid the transition for the children.

Housekeeping:

Christmas holiday period the centre will only be closed for the Public Holidays all other days the centre will run as normal.

Families will still pay centre fees even though they have indicated they are going on holidays.

If you have any question or queries please see the myself or Emma in the office.

Room:

Room Leader

Assistant

Assistant

Floater

Joey Janet Bree Sue Ashlea

Possum Tegan Halima

Koala Amina Anamika Sakshi

Penguin/Emu Michelle Biva

December 2015 Newsletter

Issue 9

We all enjoyed some delicious cake at Create Imagine Learn this month. Happy Birthday to our October children.

Isabella

Aaleyah S

Abel

Imani

Lucinda

Joey Room

The countdown to Christmas has finally begun! The Joey have been really getting into their Christmas craft making their own Santa hats and Christmas trees. This month we have also been focusing on gross-motor, encouraging the Joeys who are showing a interest in walking and crawling.

And as Summer is approaching, the Joeys have been enjoying different types of water play, and also incorporating it into their art by doing painting with frozen paint icicles.

Possum Room

This month the Possum’s learnt all about how dinosaur’s

come from eggs, and create one themselves using paper ma-

che. This prompted the question “Where did the dinosaurs

go?” Together we investigated one theory, that there are no

dinosaurs left due to a mass ice age. Exploring further, we

also looked at the theory of the dinosaur extinction from vol-

canic eruptions, which led us to making our own volcano us-

ing a plastic tube and building sand up around the tube. We

placed bi-carb soda and vinegar together down the tube and

waited for them to react together showing what a volcano

could look like when lava spills over the sides. This experi-

ment encouraged us to look into other science experiments.

We investigated how ice reacts to different substances, find-

ing that ice melted quicker when placed in water then it did

when placed in salt and bi-carb soda. Trying to figure out why

water is good for our bodies, we placed one half of a potato

in a bowl with just water and the other half in a bowl of salt-

ed water. We are currently waiting on the results. We also

enjoyed getting messy with our colour explosions, mixing to-

gether lemon juice, foamy soap and food colouring of their

choice. The children noticed a reaction when they added bi-

carb soda, the faster they stirred the mixture the quicker the

reaction.

Koala Room

Basket Weaving

Ronnie from Thunderstone visited the Koala’s this month, she showed us how to make some traditional Aboriginal craft. We made our own little person by winding pieces of wool around hay to keep It all to-gether and making sure to separate the hay as need-ed for the arms and legs. The children showed inde-pendence and enjoyment over making their own lit-tle person and had a great sense of achievement.

Koala’s had a great time using their mathematical skills to cook some chocolate cupcakes. The children now know that to make cupcakes you need milk, eggs, oil, flour, sugar, butter and a flavour like choc-olate. Using easy mathematical language such as “let’s add 1 cup of milk” and counting how many eggs we used, help the children develop a passion for both maths and self-help skills.

The Koala’s have started talking about Christmas and what it means to ourselves. We have been reading stories and have started making Christmas craft.

Penguin/Emu Room

Basket Weaving

This month, Michelle moved to join us in the Pen-guin/Emu room. We have been working together to further along our self-help skills and our behaviour towards others and what it means to be treated the way we would like to be treated. Michelle has been working with the children to set up the Penguin/Emu room as a Preschool room. A great activity we have been a group time is mind maps, where everyone gets the chance to give their opinion on the daily topic.

The Penguins and Emus also enjoyed a visit by Ron-nie from Thunderstone, we talked about traditional Aboriginal craft and got to make our own little per-son using hay and wool. Winding the wool around the hay to help keep it together.

Have you seen us on facebook?

Create Imagine Learn Queanbeyan is now on

Facebook. Go to Create Imagine Learn

Queanbeyan and “like” our page to keep up to date with the Centre. Share with your family

and friends

Apple Crumble

1 cup Plain Flour.

1/2 cup Brown Sugar, firmly packed.

100g Chilled Butter, chopped.

1/2 cup Rolled Oats.

1 x 800g can Bakers Apples.

Method:

Preheat oven to 180c. Combine the flour, sugar, butter and

oats in a bowl.

Use your fingertips to run the butter mixture with the flour

until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.

Spoon the apples into a 1.5L capacity ovenproof dish. Scat-

ter butter and flour mixture evenly over the apples. Bake in

oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden. Spoon the apple

crumble into serving bowls and enjoy!

Vicky’s Kitchen Rules!

Each month we will print a recipe from Vicky’s Kitchen. These dishes are prepared for the children and we are sure you’ll love them too.

The kids absolutely love them.

Please remember the businesses that support our centre.

Welcome to our new families who started this

month.

* Scentsy is a unique candle that uses a heated element plate

to warm and melt the wax to maximise the strength and life of

the scent

* No Flame, No Wick, No Soot and No Lead

* Over 80 Scents to choose from

* Over 50 unique and decorative warmers ready for any home

* Scentsy warmers, warm the wax to just about body tempera-

ture, meaning kids and pets are extra safe

* Up to 80 hours of fragrant time per bar

* Wax is all natural, paraffin wax that is non-toxic so safe for

children and pets

* We can scent your whole life Scent circles, room spray, hand

soap, Scentsy buddies, shower gel, hand cream, body butter,

body lotion, body spray, washer whiffs and dryer disks.

Jake Pihu

Ashton

Sofia

Anneliese

Troy

Stori

Sienna

Eloise

DON’T FORGET TO CHECK OUT OUR DISPLAY TABLE IN THE FOYER

Cordially Invites You to Our

XMAS & GRADUATION

PARTY December 18

10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. R.S.V.P by the 1st December 2015

To Julie or Emma on 6297 3755 or info@cilqueanbeyan.com.au

Sausage sizzle

Jumping castle

Glitter tattoos

Balloon modeling