CREATIVE CORNER Newsletter 30 January 2020

TENA RA KOUTOU
(Greetings to you)

SAVE THE DATE
****FAMILY PICNIC
Thursday, 20 February
5.30-7.00pm
(Caroline Bay Children’s Playground)
****TRIKEATHON FUNDRAISER
Saturday, 7 March 2020
Timaru Girls’ High School Tennis Courts
(More information to follow)
****CASINO NIGHT FUNDRAISER
Saturday, 20 June 2020
Oxford Restaurant
(More information to follow)

WELCOME BACK 2020

To our families and whanau
Tau Hou Hari
Happy New Year
and welcome back

We hope everyone has had a good chance to recharge your batteries over the Christmas break. We look forward to another successful year at Creative Corner.
It is great to see the children returning to Creative Corner, sharing stories about what they have done, with their friends and teachers.
When we slip out of our normal routines, like when we are not at work/school over summer, remember it doesn’t take long for children to lose their normal behaviour patterns. It can take children (and adults) a couple of weeks to return to “life as normal” and sometimes we all need a little bit more time for our bodies to catch up with what our head wants to do.

WELCOME – NAU MAI
We welcome Sasha Shaw, Danica Wilson, Lachie Small and Matilda Lindsay to the Kākā Room.

FAREWELL – KA KITE
Farewell to Cooper Heywood, William Campbell and Leilani Tealei who leave the Pukeko room. Happy school days Cooper, Leilani and William!

WELCOME TO NEW STAFF MEMBER KIRSTY MCINTYRE
We welcome Kirsty back to Creative Corner. Kirsty worked for us a few years ago and will be back in the Kaka room on Friday mornings. Please make yourself known to her.

WELL DONE!
The Pukekos celebrated Gay’s 30-year anniversary of working at Creative Corner recently. She received a beautiful bunch of flowers in recognition and the children sang to her.
Fantastic commitment and dedication to Creative Corner and the children who have attended the centre. Congratulations Gay!

KIA ORA FROM THE KĀKĀ ROOM
Kia Ora
Welcome back to the Kākā room for 2020! I hope you all had a well-rested break and are ready for the fun year ahead. After having three weeks off it was amazing to come back and hear the language that the tamariki are speaking; they have all just blown us away with what they have absorbed over the break.
I am really looking forward to all the new learning and discoveries that we will all make this year! Bring it on!!
(Katy)

KIA ORA FROM THE PUKEKO ROOM
It is great to see our tamariki well rested and excited to be back, after the long break. It has been awesome to hear stories about what they got up to over the Christmas period. From camping, going on long hikes to hanging out at CBay, but mostly their stories focused on spending enjoyable amounts of time with family and friends.
Over the past couple of weeks many tamariki have displayed an increased interest in exploring ways to be creative and expressive themselves. In small groups they have been building cities out of mud and water, blocks and loose parts. This has also extended in to re-creating experiences familiar to them from within the home or their local community. For example, being a doctor, vet, fireman, policemen and/or looking after babies and other small animals. Through these experiences the children are often found working together in small groups, providing opportunities for them to further develop such social skills as sharing, turn taking, listening to others thoughts and ideas.
(Kerry)

Whāia te iti kahurangi ki te tūohu koe me he maunga teitei.
Aim for the highest cloud so that if you miss it, you wil hit a lofty mountain.