Benowa Children's Centres in Benowa, Queensland, Australia | Childcare service

Benowa Children's Centres

Locality: Benowa, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 5539 6144

Address: 198-200 Ashmore Rd 4217 Benowa, QLD, Australia

Website: http://benowachildrenscentres.com.au/

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25.01.2022 After morning tea time, Guran extended to have water play outside. The children loved splashing the water in the bowl and scooped the water with spades. The group collected the little dinosaur figures in the buckets. They used the small watering cans to water the plants showing care for the environment.

23.01.2022 Tuesday we had an Aboriginal Naidoc Show. The children enjoyed learning about the paint made from the rock "goppi." They enjoyed watching the rocks being crushed up to make a type of paint we can use on our skin. Anahera, Henry and Lili volunteered to help with this process. We then enjoyed being painted as females or males and then danced to represent different animals. We learnt about the didgeridoo! We also had some rhythm and beat with the clap sticks! We learnt about Aus...tralian animals and also felt a kangaroo skin that was used as a blanket or jumper. We all had lots of fun!

18.01.2022 Today in the Chungarra Room we explored the alphabet. To support our emergent literacy we are beginning to understand that our thoughts, ideas, and feelings can be written down. We are playing around with the idea that symbols are a powerful means of communication. Becoming familiar with letter symbols and the sounds that they make are a part of this important process. We played a game of musical alphabet. When the music played we danced around the circle, when the music stopped we picked up the closest letter flash card. We had a look at each letter and some of the words that can be made using that letter. When we had finished playing musical alphabet we used some letter shapes to do stamping. This interaction lets us explore concepts of print such as the left-to-right orientation of printed text.

17.01.2022 Miss Kazue was teaching the children how they to make sushi. We grated some carrot, cucumber and opened a can of tuna. While the children each had a go at grating the vegetables, we had to cool down the rice. Firstly we put in the 2 table spoons of sugar and 1 tablespoon of rice vinegar. We divided the children into a group of 2, to make sure everyone had a go at grating, mixing and to practice doing their sushi under supervision from Miss Kazue. Everyone did really well at p...utting their ingredients onto their seaweed but rolling the seaweed with the sushi mat took a bit of practicing. Only a few children who have made sushi were able to do most of their sushi roll by themselves and also help other children with theirs. When both the groups had finished making their sushi, we had the option of sitting down inside at the table or on the mats outside to eat our delicious sushi rolls See more

17.01.2022 Our vacation care program for April 2021 is now available. If you would like some information on the program please call or email the centre.

17.01.2022 Entertainment Books are back Click link below if you wish to purchase one https://www.entbook.com.au/14544z3

17.01.2022 We were all very excited to kick off the final Bush Kindy term. Today, we went to our new location, Evandale Park and it was a massive hit for all. We enjoyed climbing up the big rock steps to be rewarded with a beautiful view of Surfers Paradise. Then, we had a little morning tea where the children requested to climb the trees close by - excellent idea! After, we made our way to the purple rock where the children climbed inside it and felt very clever. Finally, we walked aro...und to admire some of the sculptures and introduce the rules of looking at sculptures (no climbing etc). It was the most wonderful morning! See more

16.01.2022 Today we did a fun science experiment to explore colours. In 3 containers, were some coloured water. We used paper towel and dipped it into each of the colours, we then watched the colours transfer and mix into one another. Children were interested to explore further so they used the droppers to collect and drop the water onto their own piece of paper towel

15.01.2022 Jeneya, Denzil and Oakleigh would like to welcome baby Amiya Yvonne to the Benowa Family. Congratulations to all mum and bub doing well

14.01.2022 We had Miss Lynne join our arts and crafts today to demonstrate how to paint our moon crest using art techniques with acrylic paint and paint brushes. The children showed they had some skills using their paint brushes to make their picture unique and colourful. Miss Lynne made this session more straight forward and simple so that children under 5 years (Audrey)were able to keep up. Every child demonstrated their skills well, listening and following step by step instructions.

14.01.2022 We continued our interest in Chinese New year and cutting with lantern making. It was great to challenge our cutting skills along lots of straight lines that had a point where we had to stop!

12.01.2022 We have had a wonderful day celebrating Children’s Week and Halloween. We started our day with dancing outside, it was such great fun watching the children dance around and giggle. When we come inside, the children enjoyed Halloween themed art activities including cutting, making pumpkin masks, numeracy and construction.... After our morning activities, we headed outside to do our Naidoc concert practice. The children are really getting the hang of the songs and actions we can’t wait to show off to those who can attend in two weeks time. This afternoon, we will do quiet activities after rest time and do our concert practice for graduation always busy in our pre-prep room!

11.01.2022 As we are focusing on recognising the colour blue at the moment in our room and from the past weeks we also like to express our ideas in pretend play by riding in the empty cardboard boxes with friends. To extend on our interest, we had collected four more of the cardboard boxes and decided to painting them blue. Once they all dried we will connect them together to make our special buses. we connected them together to make our special bus express. We all enjoyed riding in our Pingin bus. We also had the wheels on the bus song and sang along whilst riding in our bus.

11.01.2022 Miss Kristin set up a water play activity for the children using our trough. She filled it with water and added a touch of blue food coloring and gave the children droppers and little cups to fill. The children had such a wonderful time filling their droppers and experimenting with them. This activity promoted finger strength and eye hand coordination. After we had finished with our water play, we gave the children watering cans which they filled up out of the trough and watered the garden showing care and respect for their environment.

08.01.2022 This morning Mr Rodd visited our room to teach us how to play tennis. We hold our racquets with two hands and watch the ball closely. When the ball comes close we push our racquets through the path of the ball. We feel a sense of accomplishment when we hit the ball. While the tennis lesson was happening some of us played a game of basketball. We used a blackboard to keep track of how many goals we scored. We love counting. Eli rode his bicycle to Kindy today with his Mum. Eli proudly told us all about his bike. He showed us the wheels, brakes and the bell.

05.01.2022 A great morning extending our interests from last week. We have been taking interest in the letters in our name and writing these, today we traced our names and had a go at writing them. We have also been enjoying our phonics letters and using various collage items to create these. Today we made a letter a out of matchsticks!

04.01.2022 Our friends have had a great morning. Harper came in with her two Halloween pumpkin buckets and also had a cute dress on, I'm a pumpkin she said. She shared one of her buckets with her friend Caitlin and together, our friends went for a walk around the yard. Later, we were so excited to see Maeve arrived and welcomed her warmly. Maeve was wearing a spider dress which was matching to her cousin Harper. Caitlin wanted to be a witch, Oakleigh was a police man, William was super... hero, Leonardo wanted to be super man, Oskar was wearing his spider man outfit and a mask, Scarlett was a princess, Blue wanted to be a bus driver, Hayden was super man. Our friends had fun with role play in home area, cooking with play food, looking after the baby dolls and dancing. At our yarning time, we revising our days of the weeks. We explored different insects in the nature's book as we have seen some insects in the garden this morning. We also sang a felt-board song of five little pumpkins. Our friends enjoyed participating in spider face painting and did such a great job by sitting patiently during this painting experience and following direction. We all have had a wonderful day.

03.01.2022 The ASC children were given an opportunity to make nachos again. time. We used nacho chips, one large onion, sour cream, and lots of cheese. They all had a go at cutting the onion, stirring the mince and making their nachos in their own containers. The children were satisfied once they had finished eating all their nachos

02.01.2022 We love this house which we made this Monday. "Hello welcome to my house." Skye came out from a house with a big smile. We will leave this house in our room and continue role play. Before we went outside Jack noticed Miss Maria was putting some pillows away. Jack decided to help her. He lifted it up then dropped it on the mat. "Haha, is it a bit heavy for you?" He lifted it again and took two steps. "Nice try Jack. Thank you Miss Kazue can finish it for you." At outside Zaa...ron found a bowl and put it on his ear then started talking. "Who are you talking to? Is it your mum on the phone?" He walked around with this bowl and kept talking. Jack and Yi-chen were sitting on the deck together and doing something. "Boo! What are you guys doing?" Yi-chen was tearing a leaf and Jack was trying to taste it. "I don't think it tastes good..." To extend on their interest in leaves we can go to next yard to look for some herbs. There are some parsley and rosemary in the garden. After group time we walked to the yard and looked for some herbs. "Would you like to smell it?" Halo and Jack put their nose close to Rosemary. But they both blowed their nose. Haha. Zaaron started collecting some parsley in a bowl and Ellie put a bowl on the table and enjoyed looking at some herbs. She shared one bowl with Halo. "That's very nice Ellie." Skye was trying to pick a flower with looking at Miss Kazue. "Is it ok?",,,,"I know it's pretty but if you pick it, the flower doesn't last long. So let's pick only herbs." Skye collected some of them and put them in Miss Kazue's bowl. "Thank you Skye." See more

02.01.2022 As the Dulei children headed outside for outdoor play they got to see the garbage truck drive in to collect our rubbish. The children were very excited and were waving to the driver. This brings a sense of community to our centre and sparks discussions about vehicles, recycling and jobs.