Tilbrook Community Child Care Centre

One of the wonderful families at our centre brought in caterpillars from their garden. We have placed them in a glass tank in our Kindy room and have been watching them closely. On Thursday 14/3/24, our first ‘Monarch Butterfly’ emerged from its chrysalis. A week later, we had another 4 butterflies emerge within the space of 24hours. We placed them on our milkweed plant in the yard and watched them fly away. Four more caterpillars have transformed into chrysalis and we can not wait to see more beautiful butterflies. The kindy children have displayed a strong interest in the life cycle of a butterfly and have displayed enthusiasm throughout this learning experience. 🦋🌿

👨‍🍳 COOKING 👩‍🍳

In January we put our cooking skills to the test and celebrated Australia Day by making damper. We made two different flavours. One cheese and the other rosemary - delicious 🇦🇺

Yesterday, to celebrate Pancake Day, our cook made the under 2’s and pre-kindy children pancakes, whilst the kindy children made their own pancakes. They were delicious. We topped them with butter or strawberry jam. Amongst one another we spoke about our favourite pancake toppings which included… maple syrup, strawberries, peanut butter, Nutella, and many more 🥞yum yum!

2024! Hello & welcome back to all our Tilbrook Families and Staff. We are all well settled back into the new year and are looking forward to watching and supporting each child’s growth, learning and development! 🌈 🌟 🐻

Keep your eyes peeled for all the exciting things we have planned over the months! 🫣

The children have been proactive participating in the Christmas Program designed for this week. We have all been super festive and are looking forward to Santa visiting in 4 more sleeps. Tilbrook would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you back on January 9th 2024! 🎄🎅🏼🌟

On the 29th of November we were super fortunate to have Police officers Paul and Amanda come and visit us in their police car. We got to explore the car and all the different parts of their police uniform. We were all very enthusiastic to sit in the back seat and drivers seat of the police car. Our favourite part was the loud, flashing blue and red sirens. Thank you Paul and Amanda for a wonderful experience. We look forward to having you come back out in the future👮‍♂️🚔🚨 👮

🦜🦜The Kindy children have been busy making bird feeders! The children have shown fine motor skills and persistence to thread the food onto the ring and then chosen where to hang them in our yard! Hopefully we get to see many birds enjoying a snack! 🦜🦜

It’s Space Week! 🌏🪐⭐️🌗🚀🧑‍🚀 The Pre-Kindy children have been learning about the planets and the Solar System by painting our own solar Syetem as a group, creating our own with cookie cutters, sponges and paint and also engaged with sensory play with moon sand! We also listened to the Planet Song to learn more about each of the planets!

It’s Book Week!! We can’t wait to share your favourite books and see you dress up as your favourite characters!

Our eggs and chicks have arrived! Over the next two weeks we will be learning about life cycles first hand! 🥚🐣🐥🐔

This Friday 21st of July is National Pyjama Day! We would love to see the children come to Tilbrook in their pyjamas! If you can please bring a gold coin donation as it supports children in foster care.

During NAIDOC Week we had a lot of wonderful experiences for the children to learn; using storytelling and investigation! Have a look at some of the experiences our Educators provided for the children.

Tomorrow is National Teddy Bears Picnic Day! Children are welcome to bring in their own teddy bear for the day!