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Kidz at the Beach

Locality: Bowen, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4785 1863

Address: 29 Tracey St 4805 Bowen, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 Prep Open Day is on Sunday. Come along and Explore Play Smile ... We can't wait to get to know you. Please help spread the word and share. See more

25.01.2022 Finding the Lorax update - today we went on another adventure to find the Lorax and to our surprise today we found new clues - a sign and a picture that said I speak for the trees stuck to a cut off tree stump and then when we got closer to the tree we think the Lorax lives in we found footprints - orange footprints. Lastly when we sat and discussed our findings we looked up at the tree and saw that a branch had been cut and on the branch it looked like a black footprint .... Could it be from the Onceler??? The Lorax mystery continues

25.01.2022 THE BEACH HUT This afternoon some of the children participated in Art with Mel. We are lucky enough to have Mel join us every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday now EVERY WEEK! Today they worked on an artwork together taking turns in painting different sections each. We can then continue this artwork during the week as an ongoing experience. Today they worked on drawing and painting a Monstera leaf.

25.01.2022 The Starfish Children have been learning lots about the Aborginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures particularly about their use of signs and symbols in their art and stories. We have also talked lots about Bush Tucker. After throwing Boomerangs the children decided that they wanted to make their own Boomerangs and decorate them with stories using the signs and symbols. Following on from this we have Renees cousin Buddy coming today to show the children how to throw a real Boomerang and talk about his culture.

24.01.2022 Welcome back Starfish for term 2 Lots of exciting learning to be done - Bunyip Hunts, Casey the Caterpillar writing and next week we will start our ‘Reef Guardian Superhero Journey!!’

24.01.2022 HERE IT IS! The Beach Huts Vacation Care Program Please let us know if you need your child/children booked in for any of the days over the school holidays

23.01.2022 Last Photos for Vacation Care at 'The Beach Hut'. Thursday and Friday! Some children made cake in a cup, decorated their own biscuits with icing and lollies, made bracelets by only using wool and straws, played freeze and danced outside in the sun, had running races and so much more! Enjoy the rest of your week and remember 'Art with Mel' is this afternoon!

23.01.2022 More Easter shenanigan's.....

21.01.2022 Beach Hut - Wet play Today don’t forget to bring togs and towel.Beach Hut - Wet play Today don’t forget to bring togs and towel.

21.01.2022 Starfish Families this event is tonight hope to see you there

20.01.2022 Big congratulations to our staff who have recently upgraded their skills. Rhonda Davy and Melissa Brazil both RPL their Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care through GC Institute. Caralyn Read completed her Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care. Emily Woodhouse and Emily Herrington both completed their Certificate III in Early childhood Education and Care. Lily Horspool completed her Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care through School based ...Traineeship. Thanks to Lorraine Freeze from Horizon 2 Registered Training Organisation who provided the staff with experienced education and training outcomes. See more

20.01.2022 New photos added The Starfish Children were very proud of their work today and asked me if I could share their pictures with their families We are continuing to explore different Dreamtime stories and this week we are reading The Mad Magpie story. This story talks about how to calm our bodies and not react to bullying. We talked about how using chalk pastels helps to make us feel calm too I will add to this post each day

20.01.2022 Pupil Free Day Fun At The Beach Hut On Friday!

20.01.2022 We had a special visitor this morning at Kidz at the Beach. Children were very excited. (well most of them). Wishing all our families a Happy Easter.

20.01.2022 WOW, Wasn't Monday a jam packed day! We designed our own happy rocks, we made slime, we celebrated Lydia's birthday with her AND we had a visit from the Bowen Fire Department! The children were able to sit in the firetruck, look at all the equipment AND we even got to have a race to see who could get dressed quicker and use the fire hose to reach the big orange cone! We were also lucky enough to get some souvenirs to take home! A big thank you again to Chris and his crew for making the kids day so special!

20.01.2022 Starfish today is the day let’s go on a Bunyip Hunt - don’t forget your green shirts see you all soon

19.01.2022 Last term the Starfish Reef Guardian Superheroes learnt about six elements that negatively affect the Great Barrier Reef and made their own Sad List. From this Sad list they had to chose a job that they were going to achieve as a Reef Guardian Superhero. They drew and painted themselves as a Superhero which will also be used as a transfer for their capes which they begin sewing this week. The children have all had a turn at reading their own stories as they can identify with the pictures from the Sad List.

19.01.2022 What an awesome day yesterday, we asked Wes from Wes Bau Personal Training to do a boxing Mu Thai seminar at The Beach Hut! He taught the kids traditional Mu T...hai stance and name of elbow, kneeing and kicks also greeting and thank you all in Thai language. Before they started they did warm ups. While Wes was working with one child the other children were doing push-ups, squat jumps, star jumps and burpees. When they were finished for the morning they then did warm downs as Wes said it’s very important. Thanks so much again Wes, the boys loved it and said how great it was! See more

18.01.2022 The Starfish Children had a problem on Friday some of the children were wasting paper which lead to the discussion about where paper comes from - trees and if we cut down all the trees we will have no oxygen to breathe. This started a discussion about the Lorax and how he speaks for the trees To our surprise when we arrived this morning the Lorax book and a Lorax Map was sitting on the mat surrounded by magic sparkles We decided to follow the map after we all made our own maps and to our surprise we found 2 clues a stump surrounded by rocks which had a message on it UNLESS and secondly orange fluff stuck in the tree it must be from the Lorax

17.01.2022 Please support this event the local schools are giving up their time to support your families smooth transition to formal schooling - remember there will be delicious desserts afterwards

17.01.2022 School Holidays *Week 1* Since it was such a busy week with lots of amazing things to do i had trouble fitting all the photos in one post, so ill first put Monday & Tuesday photos up! Monday we had 'Art with Mel' where the children got to create different sea animals with white clay, they then went for a walk to find some natural objects they could use for coral and then they started painting them. Tuesday we had Wes Bau form Wes Bau Personal Training come in to do some different techniques with the kids (Videos have been uploaded) and we also got to celebrate Lily's birthday with her. Some children also made their own kites then tested them in the wind to see if they worked! What a great few days!

17.01.2022 Starfish Families we are going on our annual Bunyip Hunt this Thursday leaving at 9.30am - we would like all children to wear green if they can and we will paint their faces and hair green. We will supply them with Bunyip horns as our goal is to pretend to be Bunyips!!

16.01.2022 Vacation Care at The Beach Hut! Here are some photos from Tuesday and Wednesday last week. The children had 'Art with Mel' on Tuesday creating different sea animals out of clay and painting their dry ones from last week as well as painting some more coral to add to the bottom of the mural. On Wednesday the children had a go at making their very own bouncy balls. It was fun, messy and they didn't even take long to make. Stay tuned for Thursday and Fridays pictures!

16.01.2022 This is tomorrow Starfish Families

16.01.2022 A fun morning for all the children with Carlos the African Drummer. Carlos has been visiting Kidz for over 10 years. Always entertaining and engaging for the children. Thanks Carlos.

15.01.2022 Tapping Sticks- Mumma Mia

15.01.2022 PART 2! Wednesday - Friday photos! Wednesday we had our bike/scooter day with a sausage sizzle, Thursday we made homemade soap and on Friday the children made their own bubbles and did some different athletic activities including long jump! We staked some of our capsicum plants, watered the garden and so much more!

15.01.2022 The Starfish children will be attending the Merinda State School Prep open day tomorrow so if any families wish attend with us you are welcome

14.01.2022 Thanks to all our families who attended our Welcome Family Breakfast this morning. It was a huge success with families enjoying a relaxing breakfast of fresh fruit, cereal, bacon, eggs, sausages and more before heading off to work and School. Special thanks to Ashlyn and Dominique from OT4you for coming at such short notice and talking to our families. Many thanks to our Kidz at the Beach staff who came in to make this magical event happen.

13.01.2022 Our new swing has arrived, the Dolphin children have been working on a recycling project bringing in cans and bottles for our cash for cans bin. Ross kindly takes them to the Recycle Depot when the bin fills up and gets money back for them. Through this experience they are learning about a sustainable future and contribute constructively to mathematical discussions, learning about addition and how to save up to buy something. A special thanks to all the families for bring in cans and bottles to recycle. It has been a huge effort and a special thanks to James and Miranda’s family for donating some of their own money they received from recycling at the recycling depot. James and Miranda got to test it out to make sure it was working right after Lee gave it a safety check and the thumbs up!

13.01.2022 Check out what's happening in the Dolohin room. We have started planting the Woolies seeds starting with herbs. The worm project has been underway for over a week....starting from one of our families bringing in worms they found at home and another family sharing a worm observation experiment we are working on. We have set up an Easter provocation table to start a discussion about Easter.

12.01.2022 Yesterday the heavy rain held off long enough for the children to enjoy their ‘Wet Play Day’ at The Beach Hut!

12.01.2022 A couple of videos of The Beach Hut children having a session with Wesley Bau from Wes Bau Personal Training. Thanks so much for taking time out of your busy schedule Wes to show the children some of the basic skills and language of boxing Mu Thai. The children thoroughly enjoyed the sessions.

12.01.2022 All set for our Melbourne Cup Breakfast See you soon

11.01.2022 THE BEACH HUT On Wednesday the children had a very busy day! We got a special visitor, Sergeant Michelle from PCYC brought bee’s in from Stackelroth farms. We got to look at the native bees and honey bees she brought in and we found out some pretty cool information about them as well and we even got to try the 2 different kinds of honey to taste the difference. Thank you so much Sergeant Michelle, the kids loved every minute and we even got to take a little container of honey home! Then since it was ‘Art with Mel’ today that inspired the children with their artworks. They did some paint pouring to create the background on their canvas before drawing and painting a silhouette bee when the background dried.

11.01.2022 What a busy couple of days so far at the Beach Hut! On Monday the kids made signs for the bike day today with Ross and then painted them. Tuesday we had a big art day with Mel. The children made a very colourful tree painting, hung up some clay animals on the mural and they also finished painting their road signs!

10.01.2022 THE BEACH HUT DON’T FORGET tomorrow is bike and scooter day! You can also bring rollerblades if that’s what you prefer. As we are unsure on what the weather is doing tomorrow please bring a spare pair of clothes JUST IN CASE SEE YOU THEN!

10.01.2022 Last Thursday was the Starfish Children's Bunyip Hunt. The children had made a map of the possible bridges in Bowen that the Bunyip might live under. We all dressed up as Bunyips as it was the children's plan to become friends with the Bunyip when they found him as they thought he looked lonely in the story. Travelling by bus the children visited 5 bridges and under the last bridge at Muller's Lagoon the children found the Bunyip. When the children got to the back of M...uller's Lagoon they knew they were on the right track as they found a trail of green footprints and some green arrows. After they found the Bunyip they asked him if he wanted to come to the park for a picnic. The Bunyip had 'kangaroo sausages,' Bunyip juice and a cup cake with green icing and 'Magic Midnight Sparkles.' Not long after the Bunyip finished eating he showed and told us he had to go to the bathroom as he was busting. We all waited for his return and to our surprise instead of the Bunyip Grandma Poss arrived. The children thought about this and they came up with the theory that the 'Magic Midnight Sparkles' had not only grown him a possum tail it had magical turned him into Grandma Poss!! See more

10.01.2022 Starfish children performing Green Eggs and Ham dance this morning at our Family Melbourne Cup Breakfast.

10.01.2022 Happy Birthday Yael

09.01.2022 Welcome back to term 3 Starfish We have a surprise parcel Starfish I wonder who its from????

08.01.2022 Thank you to our Starfish Families who supported our annual Prep Open Forum last night. I am sure that everyone would have taken away something valuable from this evening! A huge thank-you to all our local schools, what an amazing united community effort to support a smooth transition for our kindy children into prep in 2021. Also thank you to Kristy Williams from OT4U for always attending our family events and supporting our community

08.01.2022 We would love to wish our families a Happy New Yearand welcome you back for an amazing 2021

08.01.2022 Reminder - It is Photo Day this WEDNESDAY. Don't forget to have your form handed in.

08.01.2022 Excursion today we need shoes and hats

08.01.2022 The Starfish Children telling the story of ‘The Three Kangaroos Gruff!!’

08.01.2022 In the afternoons, the Dolphin children participate in a music session which varies each week. Including, singing nursery rhymes, chanting, games and tapping to the beat. This week we have been using the clapping sticks to Hap Palmer- Tap your sticks and Mama Mia making pizza. Music ignites all areas of child development and skills for school readiness, including intellectual, social-emotional, motor, language, and overall literacy. It helps the body and the mind work together.

07.01.2022 Don’t forget it is Crazy Hair day at the Beach Hut today.....

06.01.2022 Easter Bunny visiting the Dolphin children

06.01.2022 Over the past two weeks the Starfish Children have been reading the Dreamtime story Tiddalick the frog who caused a flood. This is the childrens retell of the story using some Aboriginals signs and symbols for waterhole, emu and kangaroo. The children enjoy using chalk pastels to create their stories - we find that using the pastels supports the children kinaesthetic learning.

06.01.2022 Postponed...... Sorry for the inconvenience but due to latest Covid 19 restrictions, we are postponing our Family night on Wednesday (tomorrow) night . We will let you know the new date ASAP.

06.01.2022 2021 Starfish Families we have posted ‘welcome letters’ to our new Starfish Superheroes if you don’t receive the letter please let us know so we can organise one before kindy starts

06.01.2022 Photos from Crazy Hair Day at The Beach Hut last Friday The children also had dancing competitions

06.01.2022 How lucky are we to have a visit today from Brumby Jack / Mr Payne / Harriets Dad Singing and whip cracking to start our week off Thank-you

05.01.2022 THE BEACH HUT Here is the program for vacation care! Please let us know if you need to book your child/children in. Email - [email protected], Call Kidz at the beach 47851863 or Call The Beach Hut 47850882... THINGS TO REMEMBER: ~We are open from 6:30am - 5:30pm ~You need to bring your own lunch box with enough food for morning tea and lunch, we supply afternoon tea ~Don’t forget your hat and water bottle

05.01.2022 Kindergarten Information night this Thursday night

05.01.2022 The Starfish Children had a great day at the Merinda State School Open day - lots of great experiences, balloons and a sausage sizzle!! Thanks for inviting us to visit your awesome school!!

04.01.2022 ATTENTION BEACH HUT FAMILIES

04.01.2022 Today is Early Childhood Educator Day. Thankyou to our Awesome, Educators at Kidz at the Beach and The Beach Hut for being so dedicated.

03.01.2022 Don’t forget our Melbourne Cup Breakfast in the morning - come and have some bacon and eggs or if your feeling brave ‘Green Eggs’ Starfish Children will be performing their Green Eggs and Ham Dance at 8.00am

02.01.2022 Ready for another week Last week the Starfish children decided that perhaps a Bunyip might live in Bowen - their reasoning was because they have seen kangaroos in Bowen and they know that Bunyips eat kangaroos . So our plan is to start looking for ‘narrow wooden bridges’ in Bowen!

02.01.2022 The Starfish Children finding the Bunyip

01.01.2022 Our Breakfasts have been a long standing tradition at Kidz at the BeachWe miss all our past families and we feel proud that these are memories that families hold dear to them

01.01.2022 Latest Seashell and Beach Baby Outdoor Set-up for them to explore!