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Free Range Kids Wallangarra

Locality: Wallangarra, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4684 3685

Address: 63 Barrawell Street 4383 Wallangarra, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.freerangekids.com.au

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25.01.2022 DUCKLINGS This past few weeks the Ducklings have enjoyed exploring their environment, playing with musical instruments, singing & dancing, climbing the forte and sliding down it, drawing on the chalk board, playing with the toy trucks and playing in the sandpit! The sunny weather certainly made exploring outside more fun, but They have also enjoyed spending some time inside on the colder days

25.01.2022 DUCKLINGS (22/06/20 - 26/06/20) Last week in the Ducklings room we engaged in activities that required use of our gross motor skills. We brought some of the outdoor equipment inside for the children to practice their crawling, climbing and balance. The children also enjoyed playing with the balls and balloons as well as reaching up high to play with the bells, developing their coordination. We encouraged walking using the walkers, practicing sitting up with little support and riding the bikes.

25.01.2022 This week in the Ducklings, the children have been enjoying colour recognition, celebrating Remembrance Day and paying our respects by the whole centre sharing 1 minute silence and celebrating NAIDOC week with reading books, painting and craft.

25.01.2022 BILLY GOATS PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS Families, Please be advised that the parent/teacher interviews are taking place each morning this week, over the phone. If the phone is engaged, please contact us again after lunch time or for urgent matters please call 0428130762. Thanks!

24.01.2022 Last week in the Piglets room our focus was Animals. The children are showing interest in animals in the last couple of weeks. We are going to continue this next week, looking at sea creatures. Activities included Paper plate lions, animal habitat with sand and water, handprint giraffes, animal parade, animal tape rescue.

24.01.2022 Last week in the Piglets our room focus was Multiculturalism. Due to Naidoc week normally falling on the 5th to the 12th of July, which was postponed due to the Covid-19. I decided to focus on the different cultures in our room. We celebrated the indigenous culture by visiting Girraween National Park, Canadian Windsocks, Canadian fun facts, Vietnamese paper plate hand fans, Vietnamese fun facts, Indonesian face masks, Indonesian fun facts, we made Koala biscuits and learnt some Australian fun facts.

24.01.2022 Come and see what we have to offer! Tuesday 16th February 5-6pm.

24.01.2022 DUCKLINGS (15/06/20 - 19/06/20) Last week in the Ducklings room we engaged in activities that required use of our fine motor skills. Some of these activities included pom pom drop in a box, figurines, rollers and tongs in play dough, sensory boards, pulling up items stuck to the ground, chalk board drawing, threading pipe cleaners through holes and popping bubbles.

23.01.2022 ENROLLING NOW FOR 2021 Free Range Kids Wallangarra is now taking new enrolments for 2021. Fees start from as little as $18.03 per day and include 3 home cooked meals, courtesy bus from Stanthorpe and Tenterfield, fun, educational program and Kindergarten Program for those in our 3 -5 year age group. Kids will enjoy our chooks, vegetable garden, large bike track, water playground and high quality resources. To enquire or come for a tour contact Nadia Bates on (07) 4684 3685.

22.01.2022 Families, Please note we have been advised today by the Police and Health Authorities that a Drive In test centre for COVID-19 will be set up in Wallangarra. The attached poster outlines some changes to street access for the foreseeable future. This will begin as of Monday 3/8/20. The centre is operating as normal but Barawell Street will be changed to one-way access only. Thank you and stay safe

22.01.2022 POWER BACK ON We have the power back on at the centre. Please use our usual phone number (07 4684 3685) to contact us. Thank you!

22.01.2022 PIGLETS 17-28TH AUGUST 2020 The last 2 weeks in the piglets room we engaged in book week and safari week. Stories from book week were brown bear, brown bear for book week, where is the green sheep, ,the very hungry caterpillar, green eggs and ha. activities included ; brown bear splat painting, making green sheep using cotton wool and food dye, making green eggs and ham with playdough, and handprint caterpillars. For safari week we did paper plate lions developing our fine motor skills , handprint elephants, exploration box with safari animals in the sand, bark and grass.

20.01.2022 PIGLETS 7th September - 11th September 2020 Last week in the piglets our focus was art n craft, we engaged in bubble painting, easel painting , cotton tip painting and collage. There activities helped the children to develop their fine motor skills and abilities. We also has some free play outside climbing on the obstacle course, riding the bikes, visiting the veggie garden helping Miss Tia to water and weed it. We also had a donation of Dress ups from parents, the children really loved engaging in their dramatic play exploring characters and their social skills. A new area that was introduced to the room we reading garden and literacy area, bothnareqs have proved popular in the room.

20.01.2022 This week in the Billy goats room The children showed an interest in Ocean animals. The children and educators brainstormed the animals they knew of and than further investigated them. The children learnt about whales, turtles, sharks and dolphins. They followed on with this by creating ocean animal craft and decorating the room ... We would like to wish all of our Billygoat friends that are starting Big school next week the very best of luck and we know you’ll do great things! We will miss seeing all of you

20.01.2022 This week the Piglets focus was Numbers. We participated in a variety of activities which included: Number hunt, Number tracing, Caterpillar number match, Dot painting numbers. Playdough numbers, Number Lego maths. We celebrated Siennas 3rd birthday. Happy Birthday Sienna

19.01.2022 UPCOMING PUBLIC HOLIDAY Families, please be advised that Monday, 5th October 2020 is a public holiday. The centre will be closed on this day. We hope everyone has a lovely long weekend!

19.01.2022 For the last 2 weeks the Piglets have been engaging in activities about Under the Sea. The children have been showing an interest in all different animals this month. Activities have included Party paper clams, handprint fish, handprint crabs, handprint jelly fish, paper plate whales, paper plate sharks, paper plate fish, marble painting starfish and painting the blue sea. As most families/parents know it is my last day today. I have treasured the time i have spent with your children and getting to know each family. I have enjoyed watching your children grow and develop over the last 5 years.I will miss your children very much and will cherish the bonds that I have formed with them. I would like to thank you all for the kind words and gifts. Thank you Miss Wallis-Sullivan

18.01.2022 PIGLETS Last week in the piglets our weekly focus was shapes. We engaged in color sorting shapes matching the shapes to the picture, circle printing onto paper, playdough with shape cutters, painting shapes onto paper tracing over shapes. All of these activities help us to develop our creativity and imagination as well as developing our fine motor skills and our thinking skils. We all had a great week.

18.01.2022 DUCKLINGS 27/07/20 - 31/07/20 Last week in the Ducklings room our weekly focus was learning about colours. Some of the programmed activities that the children enjoyed included colourful play dough, painting, pencil drawing, chalk drawing, colourful balloons, rainbow puzzle, and colour sorting games. While engaging in these activities with the children, we explained what each of the colours that appeared were to further broaden their knowledge.

18.01.2022 Last week the Piglets focus was Life Cycles. We engage in a number of activities including, the life cycle of a caterpillar, life cycle of a bird, life cycle of a frog, human life cycle which we watched a Documentary on how babies grow in inside our mummys tummy. And learnt about the life cycle of a plant.

17.01.2022 ~ WELCOME TO THE PIGLETS ROOM ~ Age Group: Toddlers (2 years - 3.5 years) Lead Educator: Mrs Diane Wallis-Sullivan Assistant Educator: Miss Tia Campbell

16.01.2022 DUCKLINGS (08/06/20 - 12/06/20) Last week in the Ducklings room we learnt about all different kinds of animals. The children enjoyed exploring the animals in playdough, animals in the sandpit and other natural materials, playing with the animal puppets, painting with animal footprints, interacting with the animals on the felt board, singing "Old McDonald", reading the touch and feel books and helping to care for the centre chickens by checking their eggs and refilling their food and water each day. The babies are getting so clever with learning what sound each animal makes! :)

15.01.2022 If your child is headed off to school next year, please remember to complete and return your Transition Statement consent form and Family Information sheet as soon as possible. If you require a new copy of these, please give me a call. Thanks, Izzy

15.01.2022 Happy Grandparents’ Day to all our beautiful grandparents at Free Range Kids. Grandparents Day is an opportunity to show our appreciation for our grandparents’ love and support.

14.01.2022 DUCKLINGS 10/08/20 - 14/08/20 Last week in the Ducklings room we celebrated Science Week! Our little scientists enjoyed a bunch of different activities including: - puffy painting... - volcano in the sandpit experiment - magic milk experiment - walking water experiment - playing with goop - exploring balloons and bubbles Dont forget that this week is Book Week, cant wait to see all of the wonderful costumes! :)

13.01.2022 BILLY GOATS Monday 17/08/2020 - Friday 21/08/2020 Last week, the centre celebrated Book Week. This celebration has formally been moved (by the CBCA) to later in term 4, but we know how much our little learners love reading, and using their imaginations to create new understandings - so well be celebrating it twice! Some of the focus stories for the week included: - The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister... - Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox - The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle - Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss - A Walk in the Bush by Gwyn Perkins We paired each focus story with an activity, which the group loved! These included collaging rainbow fish, cotton wool ball sheep, butterfly print artwork, looking at rhyming words and going on a scavenger hunt outside! We have still been working hard on our sign in sheets and have been enjoying some of the warmer weather outside too! See more

13.01.2022 DAYLIGHT SAVINGS CHANGES Families, please be advised that Daylight Savings in NSW starts as of Sunday, 4th October 2020. The centre ALWAYS runs on QLD time however we open and close a little earlier during daylight savings to account for the earlier time over the border. As of Tuesday, 6th October 2020, the centre will open at 6:15am (instead of 6:30am) and close at 5:15pm (instead of 5:30pm). For buses which take our children home over the border into NSW, the bus pick up and drop off times will remain the same for you.

12.01.2022 DUCKLINGS (01/06/20 - 05/06/20) With Monday last week being the first day of Winter, I made this our program focus for the week. The children enjoyed activities including painting with ice, Winter collage, exploring snow, making snowmen and playing with animals in frozen snow! Were definitely beginning to feel the cold, fingers crossed we get to see some real snow this year :D

10.01.2022 PIGLETS 17th -21st AUGUST 2020 Last week in the piglets we focused on science week. The children loved experimenting . Science experiments were magic milk, magnetic discovery bottle, walking water, bi carb soda experiment and the sink / float experiment. We also explored in home corner were we set up,hospital corner. We all had a great week of fun

10.01.2022 EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS DAY - WEDNESDAY 02/09/2020 Tomorrow we will celebrate Early Childhood Educators Day! This day recognises and celebrates the work of Australias Early Childhood Educators in Early Learning Services for their wonderful contributions to the wellbeing and development of the children in their care! Please feel free to leave a message in the comments for the staff to read! Thank you.

10.01.2022 This week at Free Range Kids we celebrated Melbourne cup in style with the kid’s! They loved dressing up and showing off their outfits!

10.01.2022 PIGLETS 10 -14th August 2020 This particular week in the piglets was national dental week the children engaged in activities that showed them the effects of food on theirr teeth, learnt about how to brush their teeth and how often. It was a busy week in piglets with the children and staff adjusting to another educator in the room as we said goodbye to Mrs Sullivan and hello to Mrs Williams.

10.01.2022 Today we celebrated Halloween! The children enjoyed face painting, dancing, painting and we read some halloween books! We had some very spooky costumes, special thanks to all the parents and staff for getting involved and making the dress up day a success! these are just a few of the spooky outfits!!

09.01.2022 Last week the Piglets were very busy learning about Heroeos and Superheroes. Activities we engaged in were throwing pom pom into a sticky spider web which was made out of masking tape, face painting, superhero dress up day, we discussed firemen and learnt about all the brave things they did for the community during the Bush fires, we participated in a superhero training camp. We celebrated Red nose day on the 26th of June by painting our noses red.

09.01.2022 Piglets 31/8/2020-4/9/2020 This week has been a busy one. We have welcomed the warmer weather that spring has brought with it and enjoyed a few days outside. We have been very busy preparing all our gifts for Fathers Day. We also had to say a very sad goodbye and goodluck to Miss Britta.

09.01.2022 Sadly, Friday the 31st of July was Mrs Diane Wallis-Sullivans last day of work with us at Free Range Kids. Di has been part of the team for 5 years, and dedicated herself to her roles here. We want to wish her all the very best in her new adventure, and hope to see her around! Thank you for all your hard work and service to our centre Di! Taking over Dianes role as Piglets room Lead Educator, is a familiar face to many of you! Mrs Rowena Williams has worked at Free Range Kids for over 10 years and is excited for this new chapter of her employment! Rowie has settled into the Piglets room over the last few weeks, and has taken this position on with pride. We wish her all the best in this new role!

08.01.2022 This week In the Schoolies The children were very interested cooking, Miss Brooke set up a cooking experience for the children to get creative and bake shortbread biscuits for their afternoon tea They all enjoyed the decorating of the biscuits and getting to take the left overs home to share! ... We hope all the Schoolies enjoy their first week of school in 2021 next week and we look forward to seeing them all next holidays!

08.01.2022 Happy Early Childhood Educators Day to this wonderful team!

07.01.2022 SAVE THE KOALA DAY Last Friday the centre celebrated ‘Save the Koala Day’. The children enjoyed discussions around this native animal and had lots of information to share! Mrs T cooked us an Aussie BBQ for lunch and we played outside in the warm weather in true Australian style. We were also treated to some delicious biscuits from Mrs Thomas (one of our fabulous Kindy mums and also the owner of ‘Border Bakes’). Stacey cooked and decorated the most gorgeous koala biccies ...to help the children celebrate this day. They absolutely loved them - super cute but also super delicious! We would like to extend a huge thank you to Stacey for donating these to the centre, we could see the work that went into them and appreciate it so much! If you haven’t already, you can find Border Bakes on Facebook or Instagram (@border_bakes) to look at all the incredible work she does. What a star Thank you so much again Stacey!

07.01.2022 Dear families, Just a friendly reminder that next week (October 17th 23rd) is book week. We would like to encourage children to come along dressed up as their favourite characters. We cant wait to see them all dressed up

07.01.2022 ~ HAPPY FATHERS DAY 2020 ~ Love from the Ducklings room <3

06.01.2022 Last week in the piglets room our focus was: Ball activities-Throwing. We engaged in a number of throwing activities including bean bag toss, balloon catch, totem tennis, pitch and catch, target practice.

06.01.2022 The centre celebrated book week on the 17th - 23rd of October and we had some very creative costumes! These are just a few!

06.01.2022 Yesterday was a sad day for the centre as we said goodbye to Miss McEvoy. Brit has been part of the Free Range Kids team for 7 years, and in that time showed great love, passion and dedication to her roles. We will miss her so much, but want to wish her all the very best in her new adventure! Billie-Anne Flint has taken over the role of Ducklings/Babies room Lead Educator. Billie comes to us with experience in child care, family and community support. Make sure to introduce yourself to her if you see her around. Congratulations and all the best in your new role Miss Billie!

05.01.2022 ~ WELCOME TO THE DUCKLINGS ROOM ~ Age Group: Babies (6 weeks - 2 years) Lead Educator: Miss Brittany McEvoy Assistant Educator: Mrs Rowena Williams

05.01.2022 PIGLETS This week in the in the piglets room we have engaged in lots of outdoor / indoor activities such as Waterplay, Challenging our Gross motor skills on the Fort, bikes, and obstacle course, dress ups, train tracks, and ball games.The piglets also participated in NAIDOC week and paused for a minute of silence to show respect for the fallen soldiers.

05.01.2022 This week in the Piglets & Ducklings the children have been getting creative. WEEKLY FOCUS: Exploring the children’s environment The children were showing interest with the barn yard theme around the room, following on from this they created their very own barn yard animal craft to display around the room

05.01.2022 What else is there to do on a hot day except water play and icy poles!

04.01.2022 DUCKLINGS 03/08/20 - 07/08/20 Last week in the Ducklings room we provided the children with activities that encouraged them to engage in role play experiences. This involved a lot of time spent in home corner throughout the week playing with and bathing the dolls, cooking, doing the dishes and setting up tea parties with props. We also explored the dress ups (how cute are they!) and told stories using the puppets. The children showed a lot of interest towards the felt board animals and discovering the different sounds that each of the animals make. :)

04.01.2022 BILLY GOATS 06/07/20 - 10/07/20 Program Focus: Safari Corner Last week the Billy Goats program focussed around our new Safari corner. This is a dramatic and exploratory place space in the room. As well as engaging with the new space, the group enjoyed activities related to learning about animals we might find on safari. These included painting our favourite animals, doing some animal movement and walks in the yard, creating binoculars and telescopes for the play space and decorating the concrete verandah and pathways in all different kinds of animal footprints! Although the mornings and evenings and been FREEZING... We have had some lovely sunny weather through the day - so we made the most of it and spent much of the week outside. The parachute got a workout too, which is a crowd favourite!

04.01.2022 Everyone at Free Range Kids would like to wish all our Dads, Granddads, Pas and Poppys a wonderful Fathers Day Sunday 6th September.

04.01.2022 SCHOOL STARTERS 2021 Families, Please be advised that due to Covid-19 state border restrictions, Monique from HNEH will be unable to visit us this Wednesday as planned to complete the vision screenings. We have set a temporary date for later in the year (21/10/20) and will continue to monitor the border restrictions and health advice. In the meantime, if you have any major concerns about your childs vision, please discuss these with your GP. Thanks, Miss Lawrie

03.01.2022 Our centre has undergone its annual external audit of the kitchen and we are pleased to share that we have passed with flying colours, recieving 5 stars!

03.01.2022 DUCKLINGS 20/07/20 - 24/07/20 Last week in the Ducklings room we focused on engaging in group experiences in order to strengthening relationships and form bonds between the children. Some of the popular group activities involved playing with the instruments, ball games (encouraging turn taking/sharing), building towers together with the blocks and LEGO, role play with the puppets, dress ups, riding the bikes together as well as pushing each other along on them and exploring in the sandpit together. Lots of beautiful connections have been formed throughout the room <3

02.01.2022 Last week the Piglets focus was on Anatomy. Activities included: Life size self portraits, How the stomach digests food, paper bag lungs, build a slept on, we made red and white blood out of celmix, we sang head shoulders knees and toes, explored the animal bones.

02.01.2022 ~ WELCOME TO THE BILLY GOATS ROOM ~ Age Group: Kindergarten (3.5 years - 5 years) Teacher: Miss Isobel Lawrie Assistant Educator: Miss Jasmin Ball-Mandavy Assistant Educator: Miss Brooke Robertson... ~ Government Approved Kindergarten Program ~ See more

01.01.2022 STARTING SCHOOL IN 2021 Towards the end of this month, I will be holding our regular parent/teacher interviews, but they will be conducted over the phone. Now is a good time to start thinking about your kindergarten childs school enrolment for 2021. This includes where you might be looking to send them, as well as any concerns you have about the transition process. This also enables me to gain information about the childs chosen school and their open days/transition days.... This year, I will be allocating half hour time slots to each family. These time slots will be sent home in a letter to each of you. If the time slot given does not suit you, there will be directions on how to contact me to arrange another time. It is already June, so the year really is flying by. There has been a lot going on, but it is important to remember that this transition will be a big event for your little ones. I look forward to chatting in depth with you all, and hope that everyone is keeping well. Thanks, Miss Lawrie

01.01.2022 Good morning everyone, The centre phones are currently down, due to the current power outage. If you have any issues please contact 0409367661. Thanks Sorry for any inconvenience