Okeedokee Norman Park in Norman Park, Queensland, Australia | Education

Okeedokee Norman Park

Locality: Norman Park, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 3324 8887

Address: 119 Bennetts Road 4170 Norman Park, QLD, Australia

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

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25.01.2022 Book Week Dress-up Day! We always love celebrating book week with a big dress-up day, highlighting the joy that books and reading brings us. We’ve had a wonderful day at Okeedokee, reading lots of new books, exploring stories, creating some of our own, and then listening to a special reading of Grannysaurus Rex by Granny herselfbefore chasing her T-Rex self around the yard It has been lovely seeing the children’s enthusiasm and listening to them excitedly tell us about their favourite stories.

25.01.2022 Our Bubbees and Todlees have had a lovely morning, enjoying what would ordinarily have been an event to celebrate Mothers Day. Our mums had written down some of the things they like doing at home, since they cant be with us themselves; our Todlees and Bubbees have then had a lovely morning reading stories, going on bushwalks, doing some gardening and having some wine and tea parties! (...with water ) We love you Mums!

23.01.2022 Today marks International Friendship Day, a day to showing our appreciation for others, embracing our differences and sharing our love for all our friends. Today our Junior Kindy looked back at their baby photos, initiating discussions about each others appearances and a time to admire how beautiful everyone truly is! Plus I mean, who doesnt love looking at baby photos?

23.01.2022 So exciting to have another visit from Superhero Recycleman, once again flying in to educate and enlist some new recycling superheroes! Recycleman spoke about the different bins we might have at home, the different items we can and can’t recycle, and why it’s important for our Earth that we do as much as we can. Transforming into little superheroes, our preschoolers played some games, learned about the recycling triangles, and are all ready and rearing to up our recycling game! Thank you once again Superhero Recyleman! Recycleman Show

22.01.2022 Henny Penny has initiated lots of discussions in our Preschool room. The children have had the opportunity to watch chicks enter the world, observed the chicks every day movements, learn about the life cycle of a chick and everyone's favourite part baby chick cuddles!

22.01.2022 The Preschool children created their very own chemical reactions today as Science Week continues to erupt!

22.01.2022 Halloween Fun! So many spooky characters today as across the centre we engaged in a number of Halloween activities - from spaghetti worms to baking bat cookies to carving pumpkins, it was a spooky morning of excitement

22.01.2022 Science Week means more demonstrations with Mr Josiah! Our older rooms were treated to a morning of experiments balls hovered, rockets flew, lids popped to the roof and containers overflowed, all to Woops of excitement and surprise. The children have performed many of these experiments in different ways throughout the week, so this was a lovely opportunity to see how they occur on a larger or louder scale, or how some reactions change with slightly different ingredients. Hooray for science! Afterwards the children were again able to try many of the experiments for themselves and use their investigative minds in new waysalthough it wasnt long before all of the rockets were on the roof

21.01.2022 As the first in an exploration of senses, our Preschoolers have been learning about tongues and how they work. Today it was time to put their taste buds to the test with blind tasting! What a fun experience, trying to work out the different foods by taste alone

20.01.2022 Hiding in the Three Little Pigs house, balancing on planks, drawing under tables, making dinosaur phone calls and painting a work of art ... that is a Friday well spent. Happy Friday everyone!

20.01.2022 Our toddlers have spent the morning cutting, mashing, mixing, cooking and even washing up! The next task will be eating the delicious banana muffins. Yummy yummy!

20.01.2022 Today Okeedokee raised funds and awareness for the incredible charity Jeans for Genes Australia Jeans for Genes is an amazing charity predominantly focused on research that helps diagnose, understand and find cures or treatments for conditions affecting kids - including genetic diseases, cancer, and epilepsy. Thank you for joining in with Jeans for Genes Day through raising awareness by wearing jeans and your kind donations.... Jeans for Genes have also just announced that any donations made online will be matched meaning any donations will fund twice the research and twice the help! If you would still like to donate or learn more about Jeans for Genes and their work please take a look on their website: https://www.myjeansforgenes.org.au/donate

19.01.2022 What better way to start Science Week than with a volcano eruption!

19.01.2022 Recently our Junior Kindy children have been exploring different play schemas. Today we focussed on the orientation schema, experimenting with ways to make marks from different angles.

19.01.2022 Happy Mothers Day to all our wonderful mums and grandmothers! We hope you all get pampered and cherished like crazy on this special day, we love you!

19.01.2022 To kick start the week in our Toddler room, the children have been creatively constructing towers. Construction play provides children with the opportunity to strengthen their hand eye coordination and fine motor movements whilst also building some very impressive towers!

18.01.2022 Today our Dokees and Smartees children enjoyed a puppet show performed by our special guests from Camp Quality. The show answers all the difficult questions children have about cancer, dispels common myths and teaches students how to be supportive and understanding of children living with cancer. Our puppet friends Kylie and Mel showed us the power of positivity and laughter and a very valuable piece of information, Its not whats on the outside, its whats on the inside. This led to beautiful conversations amongst the children and educators about caring for each other.

18.01.2022 Such a beautiful day for some waterplay! Every now and then Okeedokee has a visit from this crazy blue fella with eight water-spraying arms. He might be a little bit crazy, but he definitely adds a very fun element to our splishy splashy water mornings

17.01.2022 Pizza time! Om nom nom Our Todless loved creating both pretend pizzas and real pizza dough today...delicious!!

17.01.2022 Our Bubbees and Todlees have had a fun filled morning, enjoying what would usually have been an event to celebrate Fathers Day. Our Dads had shared their favourite things they like doing for their downtime, since they cant be with us themselves; our Todlees and Bubbees have then had a very sporty morning four-wheel driving, having a soccer shoot out, playing a round of golf, scoring runs in cricket and AFL goals. What a fun morning celebrating our amazing Dads and Grandparents. We love you all!

16.01.2022 Preschool have started NAIDOC Week learning about traditional Indigenous stories, the Aboriginal Flag and exploring Indigenous dancing. NAIDOC Week is a great opportunity to share, celebrate and embrace the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

16.01.2022 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? ... Nope it's the children swing painting! The children swung their way through the morning as they enjoyed a painting experience which not only challenged their creativity but also challenged their balancing skills.

15.01.2022 Our Smartees had a lovely treat today, with one of the parents coming in to sing some duets together and teach everyone a little about the ukulele. They learned about chords and picking, and a special type of strumming called chucking, which helps give it a percussive sound. What a lovely way to start the morning, thank you!

15.01.2022 Soccer shoot out!

14.01.2022 Today our Preschool room was full of scientists and doctors! In the Science lab the scientists were working very hard to make a medicine for the sick babies. Luckily our doctors were also on call to administer the medicine for the babies.

13.01.2022 An incredible effort from Team Okeedokee after completing a 10km walk around this morning! What better way to spend a Sunday than walking to raise money for Big Walk for Little Kids Camp Quality. Go Team Okeedokee https://fundraise.campquality.org.au/fu/OkeedokeeNormanPark

13.01.2022 Sarah Dixon has been at Okeedokee for ten years! Ten years! We cant really say enough just how amazing you are, Sarah (and dont want to even imagine how many nappies youve changed), but from everyone at Okeedokee we want to say a massive Thank You for all that you have done. Were so happy we were able to celebrate with you on Saturday, and hope you feel appreciated. Thank you!

13.01.2022 Our Nursery and Junior Kindy children cooked up a delicious treat today! The children worked together to mix, pat, roll and bake their tasty Pumpkin Biscuits. Yummy Yummy!

12.01.2022 Today our Okees children have been exploring open-ended resources and using them to create frame art exploring ways to make object arrangements and also make funny faces!

12.01.2022 Why paint with paint brushes when you can paint with your feet?

12.01.2022 For the last day of Science Week, the Bubbees experimented with puffy paint as they made their own scientific discoveries through art.

12.01.2022 Spooky spider shaving foam, playdough monsters creations, eyeball painting and baking pumpkin muffins was a great way to spread our spooktacular spirit!

12.01.2022 Bottle pendulum painting was a huge hit with our Okees children today!

11.01.2022 A beautiful winter's day to spend outdoors; wiggling our bodies, dance painting, creating sea creatures in the sand pit, exploring a super long tunnel and chilling with friends!

10.01.2022 Who doesnt love a dress-up day? Lets have a party is definitely a good enough reason

09.01.2022 "Bird, birdy, tweet tweet" are words we have been hearing lots of in our toddler room. Recently the children have noticed a very friendly bird who flies into the yard - the toddlers have made their own beautiful birds.

08.01.2022 Friday shenanigans! Hope you all have fantastic long weekends; see you next Tuesday!

08.01.2022 Henny Penny is back! All the children are super excited to have their very cute and fluffy friends visiting Okeedokee. Cheep cheep!

08.01.2022 Art experiences provide children with the experience to trust their ideas, be creative and explore what is possible.

07.01.2022 This afternoon Dr Cindy and Brushy the dinosaur came to visit from Tooth Town. Dr Cindy spoke to the children about the importance of brushing and flossing their teeth and how healthy foods can help protect your teeth. Thank you Dr Cindy, we look forward to seeing you again.

07.01.2022 A big thank-you to Miss Bec and Bruce the Shark from Hampton Swim School for coming in and talking to our older rooms all about staying safe at the beach! It was a very interactive and memorable talk with dancing, singing and games, and we were able to remember and repeat back everything we had learned at the end! Thank you Miss Bec and Bruce!

06.01.2022 Okeedokee became a sea of red today as throughout the centre we had a Red Nose party day! We explored a lot of red-themed activities from playdough to pasta to dress-ups, and of course, plenty of dancing! It was a fun morning in honour of the wonderful work Red Nose Australia does. You can donate online for this amazing organisation and see all the work they are doing and resources they have at their website - https://rednose.org.au/

06.01.2022 Nursery and Toddlers pizza making recipe: Step One - Prepare your pizza toppings taste test Step Two Add your toppings to your pizza base taste test Step Three Before cooking your pizza have a third taste test Step Four Cook whats left after all of the tastings ... Step Five Time to eat! See more

05.01.2022 Lovely to be able to get together with (nearly all) our team and have a paint and sip session at Cork & Chroma . Team building and...skill learning?...such a fun experience outside our normal day to day

05.01.2022 Cardboard boxes can be transformed into anything our minds can imagine. Today cardboard boxes were turned into drawing easels and mini ball pits!

05.01.2022 National Simultaneous Storytime! Once again, Okeedokee Norman Park joined more than 1 Million children across Australia in reading together this time reading Whitney and Britney: Chicken Divas by Lucinda Gifford. We made some tiaras and some microphones, and had a morning of dancing and performing, dressed up to the nines in glad rags. We then had a visit from one of our very own Chicken Divas to read us the story! Twice! Bock bock!

04.01.2022 Our Okees have enjoyed a delightful morning with water - splashing in colour and exploring volume in containers before turning the hose on all of their friends...and educators. Their faces say it all

04.01.2022 We've had a wonderful NAIDOC Week at Okeedokee, reading many stories and learning more about the oldest culture in the world. From exploring symbols and art styles, yarning with others, listening to Aboriginal music and connecting with Country, we look forward to taking all that we have learned beyond this week. #alwayswasalwayswillbe

04.01.2022 National Simultaneous Storytime! We were delighted to participate in this event for our third year, joining more than one million children across Australia (as well as a real astronaut on the International Space Station!) all reading the same book at the same time. After a space-themed morning of rockets, telescopes, stars, asteroids and more, we joined one of our educator 'astronauts' in a reading of Philip Bunting's "Give Me Some Space". Astronomical! #nss2021 #1millionkidsreading #philipbunting

03.01.2022 National Pyjama Day still the comfiest day of the year Weve had a lovely and cosy morning at Okeedokee, enjoying some quiet activities, dancing and a picnic morning tea in our PJs, before settling down inside to watch a movie together. We love that we can raise money and awareness to help The Pyjama Foundation and all that they do in supporting children in foster care.

03.01.2022 What a fun way to reiterate the importance of helmets and learning about bike safety! Our Junior Kindy children have had a lot of fun riding around the carpark today, sporting their very own helmets and making sure theyre always alert, watching and being aware of signs and other riders. Go Okees!

02.01.2022 1 month 1 team 19 team members 1186 kilometres walked $3612 donation total ... One reason to help support children and their families affected by cancer bringing smiles, giggles and laughter to kids facing cancer. A huge well done to team Okeedokee for your dedication and walking and a massive thank you for all the donations and support received. An amazing month fundraising for an amazing cause, Camp Quality truly do such an incredible job for children and their families affected by cancer.

01.01.2022 Friends are there to share the good times, give the best cuddles, make you feel loved each and everyday and share stories with.oh and friends are also there for popping bubbles. We love our friends!