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We keep you up to speed about additional resources -- mostly
available online -- that you can use to extend your programming
for children in your care.
Bayside Playgroup weekly programs are based on
our attentive observation of each child's unique interests and
emerging aptitudes in playgroup -- their 'play stories.'
By providing you with continuous updates about the rationale and
resources for our children's Bayside Playgroup experiences, we
aim to support your own
quality of care and programming for each individual child.
1. Please
remember to always wear hats when outside.
This includes OUTDOOR PLAY as well as WALKING TO
AND FROM VEHICLES.
2. PLEASE REMEMBER to send any
day-to-day interests, events, or conversations that may
arise.
All Weekly Info extras are examples of interest based
learning.
3. I am finalizing the First
Semester of 2009 Playgroup Program.
► Please send me any ideas to assist in personalizing our
program.
4. The OHP will be made available for children to explore
‘light & shade’ in the cognitive room for another week.
Supervision is essential.
Cellophane paper will continue to be available to encourage
colour experimentation.
5. A slide show of last week’s activities will be
continually running on the computers in the cognitive room.
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Encourage children to view the pictures and revisit their
experiences.
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Listen to or initiate conversation that will assist in
extension ideas.
6. Warm soapy water will be available to encourage children
to independently clean own mess. This bucket will be
separate from adults cleaning cloths and clearly marked.
7. A selection of percussion instruments will be available
to explore sound, music, and rhythm.
Literacy & Numeracy Resources
Literacy
'Messages Can Be Sent from
One Place to Another'
Relevant to this week’s
Treasure Map
Numeracy
'Upside Down is about
Position and Direction'
Relevant to this week’s
Treasure Hunt
Carer/Parent Extension
Use
polystyrene trays and paper tissues to make a pirate ship.
1. SAFETY
IN CAR PARK - Several Community Groups use the
facilities at the Wynnum Gospel Hall. It is a very busy car
park so it is important for children to always be
accompanied by an adult when outside the Playgroup Hall.
Supervision should be “at arms length” in this busy and
potentially dangerous setting.
2. PLEASE REMEMBER – To send any day-to-day
interests, events,
or conversations that may arise. All Weekly Updates are
examples of children's interest-based learning.
3. The Overhead Projector (OHP) will be made available for
children to explore ‘light & shade’ in the cognitive room
for another week.
Finger Puppets & Fish Shadow Puppets will
be made available.
Supervision is
essential.
4. A slide show of last week’s activities will be
continually running on the computers in the cognitive room.
Encourage children to view the pictures and revisit their
experiences. Listen to or initiate conversation that will
assist in extension ideas.
5. Boats & floating lotus flowers will be added to water
trough outside.
6. An Obstacle Course will be set up inside Playgroup Hall
7. Thailand Colouring Pages will be available [and online] shortly.
Video of Loy Krathong Festival:
Carer/Parent Extension
Show children how to fold a simple origami lotus flower.
1. Please
Remember - To send any day-to-day interests,
events, or conversations that may arise. All Weekly Updates
& Extensions are examples of interest based learning.
2. Due to rain ceasing outside play this week, Ramps &
Race Cars will still be available outside in sandpit.
3. The Overhead Projector (OHP) will
be made available for children to
explore ‘light & shade’ in the cognitive room for another
week.
Supervision
is essential.
4. A slide show of last week’s activities will be
continually running on the computers in the cognitive room.
Encourage children to
view the pictures and revisit their experiences.
Listen to or
initiate conversation that will assist in extension ideas.
5. A shop will be set up in home corner to provide
next weeks interest based learning activity. Thank you to
Natasha for offering a day-to-day interest idea.
Carer/Parent
Extension
Make a
‘Remembrance Day’ Bouquet.
Have children bring
in a flower or go looking for wild flowers.
Use tissue paper to
wrap around flowers to make a bouquet.
Find your local
Memorial Statue to lay bouquets under.
1. Help to Enrich
Children's Experience of Playgroup!
Remember to send any
day-to-day interests, events, or conversations that may
arise. We are
still waiting for you to act on that!
All ‘Weekly Update’ extras are examples of interest
based learning.
2. REMEMBER 10.00 AM
‘My Gym’ Kids Fitness Program on Monday.
Obstacle Course & Gymnastic Equipment set up inside indoor
sports centre at bottom of the Car Park. Make sure you
arrive on time as there will be a prompt start at 10.00 am.
3. STAYING HEALTHY in CHILDCARE
A child carrying the ‘Hand Foot & Mouth’ virus was at
Playgroup last week.
1. STILL WAITING - Remember to send any
day-to-day interests, events, or conversations that may
arise. All ‘Weekly Update’ extras are examples of interest
based learning.
2. ONE SESSION ON MONDAY’S PUPIL FREE DAY
Sausage Sizzle at Playgroup
Hall
(Sausages provided)
Open from 8.30 AM and finishes by 11.00 AM
Come & Go anytime between these hours.
3. Due to popular demand, trowels &
buckets of wet sand will continue to be offered in sand pit.
4. Brushes with water will be available for a second
week.
Carer / Parent Extension
Box Race Cars
Find a cardboard box large enough to fit around child’s
waist. Cut the top and bottom out and allow children to step
inside. This will be the body of the race car which can be
decorated with name, license plate, steering wheel etc.
Cut two pieces of rope long enough to act like braces over
child’s shoulders. Punch two holes in each side of box and
attach the rope braces. The race care is now ready to take
off ...
I feel refreshed and
excited about the next 10 weeks of Playgroup, in
the remaining weeks of 2008.
After attending Emergent
Curriculum Training I have decided to
include the 'children's own interests' learning approach to
our Playgroup Sessions.
To achieve this goal I will
need to work cooperatively with carers and parents to make
play personally meaningful to every child.
Our Bayside Playgroup Updates
Service -- on this website -- is an ideal tool to send any
day-to-day interests, events, or conversations that may
arise. This is all new to me, so please be
patient and cooperative as we attempt to engage our children
at a deeper level of play.
Important!
► Is anyone available to
pick up one Sudanese family who wants to attend the second
session on a Monday? Car safety seats are available.
Sausage Sizzle at Playgroup
Hall 
