Birthday Time Again

3 staff at St Marys Blinky Bills Pre-School had birthday celebrations this past week. We played pass the parcel with the children and ate birthday cake. Yum yum

Clown Day

Don't forget to send your little students dressed up as a clown on Wednesday. The staff dress up as well which makes for a fun day. Some of the staff have already had a trial run.

Gardening is continued

Over the last week, we have continued on with our gardening project by extending into our own market garden.
The children at St Marys Blinky Bills Pre-School have had pleasure in gardening with using their gardening gloves, lots of dirt, shovels, and a large variety of vegetables.
These have been planted out in the foam boxes you see in the south paddock by the highway.
As with the last summer crop harvested at the centre, the children will participate with the consumption as well. All a bit green don’t you think?

Clown Day

Next Wednesday 6th July at St Marys Blinky Bills Pre-School, we are getting ready for another fun day with 'Clown Day', this should be fun to see what everyone turns up in. I've got my material ready to create a colourful outfit.

Gardening Project

We have been continuing our project about gardening with spider’s webs, planting seeds and seeing our science experience of coloured flowers come to an end.
Our room at St Marys Blinky Bills Pre-School is looking extremely colourful with added experiences being hung each week.

The Tea Party

We had a visit from Bronwyn this week, who is part of an arts company "The Tea Party" showing children around the world with a variety of dance, songs, movement and tea.

The children thoroughly enjoy these incursions at St Marys Blinky Bills Pre-School. Staff thought it was a tea party and bought in beautiful tea cakes to share.

Welcome to 2 year old children

This week has been busy with our 2 year olds commencing at St Marys Blinky Bills Pre-School.
We can now enrol 2 year olds but only if they are toilet trained to comply with DOCs regulations. During the week the smaller ones have been investigating a variety of areas within the centre and enjoying their play with the older children to help them along.

Insects and Stories

Insects - we looked at the environment where they live and what they eat, so the children at St Marys Blinky Bills Pre-School created a grassy leaf environment to display in our room. Felt board stories were told where children began to understand that all stories are not written.

Road Safety and Exercise

We have been focusing on road safety this week with holding hands when going outside with grown ups, and exercise which keeps our bodies healthy. Musical statues and the hokey pokey were enjoyed by all children and staff with body parts being identified.

Worlds Biggest Morning Tea

This week has been a busy one with our biggest morning tea going all week, with donations and cups of tea have been flowing each day. We have raised $130.00 in donations. Well done to everyone.

St Marys Blinky Bills Pre-School management team have decided to match this amount taking the count to $260.00 in total. This amount will be forwarded on to the Cancer Council.

Mothers Day

With last week being a short week we listened to all the exciting stories from the children about what they did on their holiday break over Easter, some went to the Easter show and some went camping, most stayed home and enjoyed eating Easter eggs.
During this week we have been talking about our Mums, reading stories and drawing wonderful pictures of Mums and Nans. Our easel has been extremely busy painting flowers and faces to give to Mum on their special day. Our special guessing competition is fun with some Mums turning the bottle upside down in an attempt to count the items inside to place the winning number on the board. Have a wonderful Mothers Day to everyone.

Easter Hat Parade

All the children showed off their hats made with love and sticky tape in the Easter Hat Parade. The hot cross buns also went like hotcakes and we had a visit from the “Easter Bunny”. Also we celebrated children’s birthdays with ice cream cakes and we discussed more about road safety.

Three Little Pigs, an Invitation to Play

This week the children had an opportunity to explore story telling through play by using props.
The children used this activity to become confidently involved learners by using their creativity, curiosity, imagination and exploration. It’s also a great opportunity for social interaction and communication.

Munch & Move

Through the NSW Dept of Health which promoted “Munch & Move” in October 2010, St Marys Blinky Bills Pre-School entered a competition showing how the centre implemented the initiatives promoted. This resulted in a $500.00 grant in January 2011 to supplement our centre supplies to promote physical and nutritional development. We followed this up last month winning a second $500.00 grant. Parents and staff should be rightly proud of their centre. Through our program we maintain a continuous balance of physical and nutritional experiences.

St Patrick's Day

Of late, Don and I have been dealing with the loss of his mother, and now I'm back on deck and able to do my weekly reports again. Thankyou for everyone's support during this time, it has meant a great deal to both of us.

On St Patrick's Day, we have had an incursion at the centre called 'Floating on the Sea' which was stories from Japan. This was enjoyed by children and parents.

St Patrick's Day was fun with lots of green splashed everywhere, children wore funny glasses, hats and shirts

Cooking experiences have been in focus with scrambled eggs and jam drops.

The story that goes with jam drops is they were a favourite childhood memory of grandmother by our Peruvian nephew Zac. He was cooking them in Peru in his memory of her passing while we also cooked them, a joint memory.

Children enjoy story times each day with them keen to bring their own books in for us to read. We played lots of action games for building physical skills and talked about nutrition which is extremely important for children to understand. We also discuss sun protection on a day to day basis and have just received our high level standard for accreditation, which we are all very proud of.

We still have a couple of vacancies for 3 - 5's so come in for a browse and a chat and receive our information package.