Splash Child Care

August Newsletter

August Issue 2012

A message from our Director Lesley Massey

Even as the season changes we will remember having such a lovely summer with great weather. The childrens gardens are growing well and the children are getting out on walks and getting to know the community. The field trips at Splash have been interesting, fun and there are more to come. This summer was extremely expensive. We need your support to help fundraise so that we can continue to have a great program at Splash. Please consider this the next time you are asked to sell tickets. the Enrichment Centre team as our new Team Leader. She was a Director in her other centre and must give 4 weeks notice. She starts August 27, 2012. and we hope she can somehow return next year! We will also see some children leaving and some coming over from the Enrichment Centre. As the season changes we are growing and changing at both centres. People tell us our centres are lovely, clean and organized and our staff are friendly and caring. Our children enjoy their great curriculum. Together as a team we can continue to be the best we can be, provide the best early learning and child care and create a stimulating environment where children love to learn, care about each other and the world in which they live.

Staff on Holidays Tara 1st - 10th Corine 13th Gwenn 14th Doug 15th - 17th Doug 27th Tara 30th - 31st

Even as the season changes so will we. We welcome Cindy, ECE 3, to

We will be saying good bye to our summer staff Ashley CCA and Ernestine CCA. We have been lucky enough to have Ashley return every summer

Front page thank you!!

We would like to thank all the parents and children of Splash for being on time everyday for the summer. Being on time ensures a fun and safe summer. We always ask our families to be on time to help make sure that when we are ready for field trips we have everyone accounted for and that we are not taking extra time to get prepared to leave. We would also like to thank parents for calling ahead and making arrangements with the staff for those times that you are late or have an appointment. This is the best way to keep us informed and then we can include your children on our fieldtrips without compromising the safety of our children.

Upcoming fieldtrips
We are now in our second month of the summer and that means more fieldtrips! This months fieldtrips are as follows: 8th: Folklorama @ Garden Grove 14th: Wolves @ Kildonan Park / Splash @ St. Johns Library 16th: Scarecrow Forest 20th: Garden Park Exchange & Picnic @ MFRC 21st: A Maze in Corn 30th: Wind up @ Assiniboine Park

Folklorama: Greece
Every year we at splash teach the children about diversity of different cultures. We do this by having the children participate in Folklorama. This years country that we are learning about is the country of Greece. We chose this country because it is currently in this years London Olympic games. We do this every year to take part of Folklorama and to show our children the wonders of culture and the world around us. For our chosen country we have various activities and crafts for the children and a nice Greek lunch. We also have another centre visiting and taking part of our festivities. That centre is Garden Groove daycare. We welcome them to This years country that we are our centre for Folklorama learning about is the country of

Greece.

Fundraising news
Every year we do our best to make sure we have great opportunities for our children and one of the major ways we do this is by holding fundraisers at both of our centres. Coming up in September we will be holding a meat raffle for both centres. Please watch for future fundraisers in your newsletter and posted in the centre.

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July in Pictures

Question of the month Q: Why do I see all these blue and red hats on the children?
A: The blue and red hats you treasure hunting and creatsee on the children help determine ed the groups from that what group they belong to. The red idea. hats are the Hammerehead Shark group., and the blue hats are the Splash Pirates group. The children choose their group names Hammerhead Sharks and Splash themselves. Our theme is geocaching Pirates. and mapping the urban jungle. The children thought of

Now that summer is slowly coming to a close...

Our summer is going great, but all good things must come to an end. Here is a list of reminders to parents about the changes that will happen in the fall: dergarten program please make sure that your child is enrolled into school for morning classes Strathcona starts at 8:15 for the morning. All children are welcome to be a part of the breakfast program.

If you are taking your child out before the fall or anytime, please make sure you write a two week notice. Parents who are enrolling children into our nursery or kin-

Warm-ups with start up again on the first day of school, September 5th, 2012 Our soup supplement program will start up again on the first day of school, September 5th, 2012 The Breakfast program at

Splash Child Care

233 McKenzie St. Winnipeg, Manitoba R2W 4Z2

Phone: 204-582-3959 Fax: 204-586-1818 E-mail: splash@splashcares.ca

6th: Civic Holiday (Cenre Closed) 8th: Folklorama @ Garden Grove (presenting Great Britain) 9th: Folklorama @ Splash (Presenting Greece) 14th: Wolves @ Kildonan Pool / Splash @ St. Johns Library 16th: Scarecrow Forest/ Dougs Birthday 20th: Garden Party Exchange & Picnic @ MFRC 21st: Amaze-N-Corn 23rd: Journeys Birthday 26th: Maribeths Birthday 30th: Assiniboine Park Summer Wind-up with CC & EC

SPLASH CHILD CARE

Expect Respect at Splash!

Thank you to our summer staff

We would like to give a big thank you to Ashley and Ernestine. They have provided a great help to the centre for our summer program. Thank you very much and hope to see you next year!!!