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JUST IN: Police confirmed the four-year-old was found "alive and well" in a locked house in WA and has been reunited with her family.

A man has been taken into custody.

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Cleo Smith found alive in Western Australia Cleo Smith found 'alive and well' by WA Police after desperate searchBy Adam Vidler7:57am Nov 3, 2021 Tweet Facebook Mail Missing girl Cleo Smith, who disappeared while camping with her family on October 16, has been found 'alive and well' in Western Australia.Police confirmed the four-year-old was....

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What an amazing artist and an amazing woman.
Such talented families we have at our services.
You can see some of Melle’s beautiful pieces in the foyer at our Concord Service.
Thank you Melle for being our brains trust for Indigenous Education and Practices.
❤️

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NAIDOC week work Expressing both halves of our lives 🥰

Croydon Park: I just want to say a big thank you to the families that keep their children home, even with the slightest of sniffles to keep our beautiful little girl having treatment safe. We know we can’t keep every germ away but we thank you for being so vigilant, caring and thoughtful. We know it’s not the pandemic keeping you away. This has been happening from the moment you knew.
Thank you

Croydon Park: families, can you please provide an old child Size sock for your Joeys and kanga child. Thank you

Parachute fun.
Today the children in the koala room had lots of fun with the parachute. We began by identifying the different colours that we could see. The children then shook the parachute at different speeds and sang songs.

Croydon Park
A massive thank you from all the educators to all the beautiful parents for all the wonderful Christmas gifts.
We wish you all a blessed Christmas, safe holidays and we hope 2021will be filled with abundance.
Merry Christmas 🎅🌲🎉🎁 and a happy new year....

Croydon Park: I arrived this morning just as the children commenced their morning tea. The National Quality Frameworks outlines standard such as “ensure that the interactions, experiences, routines and events included in the educational program maximise opportunities for children’s learning”.
The NQS also outlines standards to maximise and enhance each child’s learning and to also do this within their routines (Element 1.1.3 Program learning opportunities: All aspects of the program, including routines, are organised in ways that maximise opportunities for each child’s learning).

Routines are a valuable part of the day. It’s NOT just about learning to wash your hands, eating good food and why, sleeping/resting for good health, learning through play and learning through intentional teaching. We can do more. We can jam pack MORE in a 10.5 hour day. That’s why we are exhausted at the end of the day and your child’s brain is overloaded with information communicated to them in those hours.

Today we discussed the weekend. Eleanor said that her Nan told her that Jesus is God’s son and that Christmas is about kindness. “What is Kindness?” asked Miss Maria. Eleanor added, “We don’t smack. It’s not very nice and makes you feel sad”. She also added, “but sometimes like (name of child withheld) smacks but she doesn’t understand”. Eleanor meant that she does not judge those that developmentally do not understand. Miss Maria said, “Often we judge people, and like you said as your Educators have explained many times (child’s name withheld) doesn’t do it on purpose but we must be kind all the time”.

This sparked a deep conversation as we enjoyed our morning tea. “What does Christmas mean to you and your family?” We all had turns. Some answers are:
It means family.
It means happiness.
It means lots of food.
It means swimming.
It means holidays.
It means we pray lots.
It means love.
It means giving and getting gifts.

Miss Maria then read, “Fair Dinkum Aussie Christmas”. It was so funny and so was Miss Maria’s BAD singing. Some of the words:
“On the first day of Christmas a swagman at the gate said, Have a ripper Aussie Christmas, mate! Deck the shed with bits of wattle and get set to join Bucko and Champs for a corker of an Aussie Christmas singalong! It's a swag full of classics that have become part of every Aussie Christmas, including 'He's the Aussie Santa', 'Australians Let Us Barbecue' and the brand new song 'Fair Dinkum Twelve Days of Aussie Christmas'.

Back to our discussion about what Christmas really means to you and your family.
After another discussion we then illustrated our very own interpretation of what Christmas means to you and your family.

Miss Maria was talking to the children as we illustrated our Christmas meaning. “Kindness is an important tool that we should instil in all. It should be a habit. Kindness comes from the heart and promotes happiness in all.
It is all about acceptance, diversity and love. This is done by taking opportunities to perform acts of kindness towards others.

Ashna totally blew us away this morning with her illustration. “What does it mean to you and who are these two in your drawing?” asked Miss Maria.

GET THE TISSUES READY FOR THIS!
“This is me and this is my friend Ahana.
She is sad. She has no food.
She has no new clothes.
She doesn’t even have nice things.
I’m trying to cheer her up with some beautiful flowers and clothes.
I get photos and letters from her and I send her toys.

The Educators just stood in awe. We assumed that Ashna’s family sponsor a child.

The Educators had a discussion earlier in the day about next years program. About the weekend bear each child would take home so we can have an insight into their interests outside of the service. We do this for the first half of the year.

After today’s discussion we will be putting a twist on the weekend bear experience. We will introduce “KENNY KINDNESS”. He will take it in turns to spend the weekend with you where he will witness your family doing a random act of kindness.

Here is a list of acts of kindness that children can complete.
• Hold the door open for someone.
• Do a chore for someone without them knowing.
• Tell a joke.
• Feed the birds.
• Leave happy for friends and family.
• Put a small bin in your car to collect recycling.
• Call your grandparents and ask them about their day.
• Pick up litter.
• Let someone go ahead of you in line.
• Compliment a friend.
• Write a thank-you note to your parents/teacher.
• Plant something.
• Bake dessert for a friend.
• Bury treasure at the playground.
• Set the table for dinner.
• Leave bubbles on a neighbours doorstep.
• Tell someone why they are special to you.
• Donate outgrown clothes and toys.
• Pass out stickers to kids waiting in line.
• Talk to someone new in class.
• Make a new friend.
• Write chalk messages on the sidewalk.
• Donate food to the food pantry.
• Bring flowers to your teacher.
• Call a friend you haven’t seen in awhile to say hello.
• Read a book to someone.
• Donate a book to a doctor’s office waiting room.
• Tell someone how much you love them.
• Say hello to everyone you see.
• Make someone else’s bed.
• Hold the door open for someone.
• Wave at kids on school buses.
• Sing songs at a nursing home.
• Invite someone to play on the playground.
• Donate a toy to Toys for Tots.
• Turn off the water while brushing your teeth.
• Fill a kindness jar with candy for another family.
• Make a busy bag for a family with young children.
• Bring cookies to your friends.
• Help make dinner.
• Make a get well card for someone.
• Take care of someone’s pet while they’re away.
• Share a special toy with a friend.
• Clean up your room without being asked.
• Tape a video message for faraway friends.
• Leave kindness stones at the park.
• Buy extra school supplies for teachers.
• Teach someone something new.
• Reuse paper when you are drawing.
• Give someone a hug coupon.
• Donate colouring books and crayons to the children’s hospital.
• Write a poem for a friend.
• Ask for donations instead of birthday gifts.
• Collect books for the library.
• Adopt an animal online.
• Make a homemade gift for someone.
• Clean up your toys without being asked...
• Give high fives to a friend.
• Make playdough for your class.
• Send a postcard to a friend.
• Smile at everybody. It’s contagious.
• Say something nice to someone
• Decorate kindness rocks
• Share
• Tell your siblings how special they are.
• Say thank you to your parents.
• Hug your teachers.
• Help a friend up when they fall.
• Give a cuddle when someone is crying.
We can wait to introduce this in 2021.
Thank you to Eleanor for sparking this!

This week we will read “The judgemental flower” each day to lead important discussions on tolerance, acceptance, prejudice, and racism to help children develop emotional intelligence skills in learning to accept and value differences in others

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Kanga and Joey's
Making a Christmas wreath
Today the children wanted to do Christmas craft and since we have had uncertainty due covid the educators thought it appropriate to be cheerful as has been to much sadness.
Miss Elysha and Miss Rebecca carefully traced each of the children's hands and then with patience cut them out to make a Christmas wreath.
The children then engaged in discussion about when thier Christmas tree can go up.So Miss Elysha discussed where the tree should go and it was decided unanimously home corner.
Learning outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
Sustainable Development Goal 4
Quality Education

Croydon Park:Continuing on from last week, we read about some other famous Aussies. Today we read about Ned Kelly. The Book is in rhyme and we child appropriate.
Edward "Ned" Kelly (June 1855–11 November 1880) is Australia's most famous bushranger. He has become a symbolic figure in Australian history, folklore, books, art and movies. As a national icon, his image was used during the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He is remembered in the saying "... as game as Ned Kelly"; the word game in this case meaning brave.
While he was growing up, his family was often in trouble with the police. After fighting a policeman at his home in 1878, Kelly went to the bush to hide. He felt he and his family had been picked on for being poor. His brother had also been in trouble with the law before but is this any reason to pick on Ned and his mum? Had they been judged?
The government made Ned, his brother, and two friends outlaws. They became known as the Kelly Gang.

Ned Kelly is still a major part of Australian popular culture. His story has been told in books, movies, plays and television shows. His image has been used for everything from cakes to tattoos.
The discussion and book was filtered to be even more so child appropriate. We discussed fairness, equity and not judging people. We also did tell the children that Ned was outlawed because he was blamed for something he didn’t do but then he proceeded to break the law and that’s what made him an outlaw.
That’s why we always choose to the right thing!

Today we will be making our very own Ned Kelly Art and Craft, this is going to be Fab.