January Newsletter 2021 Centre News and Events… • Miss Camila will be going on Maternity Leave in February. Her expected last day at Little Bees is 20 th February 2021. We wish her all the best with her delivery and can’t wait to welcome her bundle of joy. • Miss Amanda from Bright Stars is also going on maternity leave from Feb/March. She has introduced us to a new dance teacher Miss Tee who will take over until Amanda returns in September. Miss Tee has already been visiting the centre for the last 3 weeks conducting the dance session with Miss Amanda. • 4 th February - Sri Lanka Independence Day • 11 th February – Celebrate Valentines Day for the 14 th (Children and educators dress in PINK or RED)
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January Newsletter 2021
Centre News and Events…
• Miss Camila will be going on Maternity Leave in February. Her expected last day at Little Bees is
20th February 2021. We wish her all the best with her delivery and can’t wait to welcome her
bundle of joy.
• Miss Amanda from Bright Stars is also going on maternity leave from Feb/March. She has
introduced us to a new dance teacher Miss Tee who will take over until
Amanda returns in September. Miss Tee has already been visiting the
centre for the last 3 weeks conducting the dance session with Miss
Amanda.
• 4th February - Sri Lanka Independence Day
• 11th February – Celebrate Valentines Day for the 14th
(Children and educators dress in PINK or RED)
• 12th February – Chinese New Year (children and educators can dress in the colour RED or wear
traditional Chinese clothing)
• 16th February – Pancake Day
Happy Birthday Team Member of the
Month Yvie – 1
Sahasran – 3
Adhithri – 4
Prachetth – 3
Venkata – 4
Laasya – 2
Our new centre cook, Mr Hyoung will be
joining Little Bees on 1st Feb 2021. He has 21
years of cooking across different
restaurants and childcare centres.
Healthy Living Information
The Beach Room News (0-2)
After celebrating a fantastic new year, we are back to our daily childcare routine with the new energy.
We appreciate all the parents for their great support for the entire year of 2020.
During this month, we have welcomed lots of lovely new children into our beach room.
Celine, Isla and Oliver have started their new journey during this month, and they seem to be enjoying
themselves with their new peers. In this month we have another new friend name Vedarth, who started
his new journey with little bees.
We also shared our knowledge about the Aboriginal people and their traditions with children by doing
our daily yarning circle. During this activity, we also introduced our peers and educators by singing a
song.
SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICE
We did group activities with the children such as making sensory boards with recycled materials, which
explains to the children the importance of making different projects out of recyclable materials and also
creating an awareness among the children about saving and taking care of our environment and also
to minimize the waste and importance of reusing materials.
We also watered the plants around the centre.
SUN SAFETY
As the weather was getting hot during this month, educators introduced the sun safety programme
which encourages children to apply sunscreen before going out into the outdoor areas and learning to
keep themselves hydrated by drinking more water.
FAMILY TREE
We have also updated our family tree and birthday chart. We would like to appreciate all our parents for
sharing their family photos with us.
HEALTHY EATING PRACTICES
In this month, we encouraged children to learn about healthy eating practices. We have participated in
many various activities such as showing fruits and vegetables flash cards and educating them about the
importance of healthy eating.
AUSTRALIA DAY
We also celebrated Australia day with different activities such as making Australian and Aboriginal flags
with the children’s handprints by using the traditional colours of the flags. This helps the children gain an
understanding about the importance of cultural diversity.
The Farm Room News (2-3) It’s a new start of this year, we would like to say Happy new year and welcome back to all our existing
families at Little bees and to our new families. We hope that everyone enjoyed their Christmas and new
year with their family and friends.
Last year has been a tough year facing fears of the global covid19 pandemic, but we would like to say
thank you to all parents that 100% trusted us for the past year, and we will do our best job to continue to
look after the children, to help them grow strong and healthy.
There are several changes in Farm room
- Staff member arrangement
This year the educators in farm room are Miss Yumi, Miss Myer, Miss Atasi, Miss Michelle and Miss Marissa
(support worker).
- New children start in Farm room
Most of the new children have started in this month and they are doing their best to adjust to new
environment and building relationships with educators and other children.
- Room layout arrangement
We have rearranged all the furniture in both the indoor and outdoor area. Making the environment more
flexible and homelike for the children to explore freely and safely. We've added more greenery into the
outdoor garden area, as part of teaching the children to look after the natural environment with their
love.
Building upon on sense of identity and sense of belonging
- We have located children's photo in their locker, shoe box area and on their bag. Therefore, children
can learn to recognize their own belongings.
- We also made our family tree at the construction corner, looking forward to put all of the children's
family photos on it.
Forming positive relationships
- We have continuously conducted small group experiences, implementing a lot of dance and
movement, singing, storytelling and action games. We sang what's your name song, greeting hello song,
who eating cookies from the cookie jar, purposely for children to memorize each other's name and
building upon on sense of identity and positive relationships towards others.
Toilet training, washing hand procedure
As the children reach the age of 2, children are able to begin to identify their bodily and toileting needs.
This is the perfect age to start toilet training. Half of the children in Farm room are currently toilet training
at the moment. It is ok when they have toilet accident, it's all part of learning and to keep trying as
toileting training takes practice. Giving children enough time for them to process their toileting needs,
they will be able to go to the toilet themselves telling mum and dad proudly I can go to the toilet all by
myself.
The children who hasn't started toilet training yet, parents no need to rush. Getting the timing right is key
to successful toilet training process. Deciding on the right time for your child is an important decision, and