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Farmhouse Family Daycare, Clermont (2026)

11/05/2025

Happy Mother’s Day to all of our wonderful Farmhouse FDC Mums! 💐💗
This week during Nature Arts & Crafts, little ones used paint pens to decorate a terracotta pot each for Mother’s Day. Wearing our gloves, we then transfered some soil into our pots. Next we made a hole and planted a flower of our choosing into the pot.
Lastly, we added a little more soil on top, carefully placing it around the sides of our flower and then pressed down with our fingers until the plant was secure.
Little ones enjoyed using creative expression to design art on their pots with the paint pens and select a pansy or viola that their Mum’s would adore for Mother’s Day!

12/04/2025

During Bookish Play in Wk8, we engaged with the Australian story ‘Wombat Stew’ by Marcia K Vaughan & Pamela Lofts, using Tara Treasures felt finger puppets, play scape mat, billy and felt ingredients.
Little ones have been enjoying exploring the theme ‘Australian Animals’ and engaged with this Bookish Play experience as a fun way to continue introducing and exploring a range of Australian animal characters through such an interactive and rhythmic storyline.

‘One day, on the banks of a billabong, a very cleaver dingo caught a wombat and decided to make...
Wombat stew,
Wombat stew,
Gooey, brewy,
Yummy, chewy,
Wombat stew!’

‘Platypus came ambling up the bank.
“Good day, Dingo,” he said, snapping his bill.
“What is all that water for.”...
”If you ask me, the best thing for a gooey stew is mud. Big blops of billabong mud.” said platypus.’
M, L and C, engaged cooperatively using the platypus animal figurines and felt mud to plop the ingredients into the billy!

F & H danced Dingo around the billy as we sang...
"Wombat Stew,
Wombat Stew,
Gooey, brewy,
Yummy, chewy,
Wombat stew!’

‘Waltzing out from the shade of the ironbarks came emu. She arched her graceful over the brew.’...
”If only it were a bit more chewy” she sighed.
“But don’t worry. A few feathers will set it right.”

‘Old Blue Tongue the Lizard came sliding off his sun-soaked stone.’
“Sssilly Dingo” he hissed.
“There are no fliesss in the ssstew”

M and H engaged cooperatively, using the felt Blue Tongue finger puppet and felt flies, to flip them into the gooey stew!
Little ones enjoyed poking their tongues out like Blue Tongued Lizards catching flies.

‘Wombat stew,
Wombat stew,
Crunchy, munchy,
For my lunchy,
Wombat stew!’

‘Up through the red dust popped Echidna. “Wait a bit. Not so fast” he bristled, shaking the red dust from his quills.’
“Now I’ve been listening to all this advice - and take it from me, for a munchy stew you need slugs and bugs and creepy crawlies.”

M, E and L engaged cooperatively, using the felt Echidna finger puppet and felt slugs, bugs & creepy crawlies, to drop them into the gooey, chewy, crunchy stew!

‘Just then the sleepy-eyed Koala climbed down from the scribbly gumtree.
“Look here” he yawned,
“any bush cook knows you can’t make a spicy stew without gum nuts.”
“Leave it to a koala to think of gum nuts” Dingo laughed and licked his whiskers. “Righto, in they go!”
C used the koala animal figurine to shake gumnuts into the stew.

Lastly, Dingo was now ready to put the ‘fat wombat’ into the stew, however the Australian animal friends convinced the clever Dingo that he must first taste the stew!

“Aaargruffooee! I’m poisoned,” Dingo howled.
“You’ve all tricked me.”
‘And he dashed away deep into the bush, never again to sing...
Wombat stew,
Wombat Stew,
Gooey, brewy,
Yummy, chewy,
Wombat stew!’
Little ones enjoyed howling together “Aaaaaarrrrrrggggg! I’m poisoned!”
Franklin matched the howling Dingo to the illustration in the story.

This Bookish Play experience encourages a love and great enjoyment of books & reading, as well as providing such an interactive play based way of learning about and engaging with Australian animals!
It includes aspects of Dramatic Play, providing opportunities for little ones to develop sequential acts and story telling, develop abstract thinking and engage cooperatively with peers through small group play.
Bookish Play enriches little one’s imagination and brings stories to life! Through the use of Tara Treasures felt Australian animal finger puppets, felt ingredient and a billy, we explored sequencing through story telling, memory recall, procedure, rhythm and rhyme, rich vocabulary and expanded our knowledge of the Australian landscape and animals!This was such an interactive play invitation which was thoroughly enjoyed by all!
Little ones loved re-telling the story and acting out scenes from the story with the Australian animal finger puppets.

11/04/2025

During Bookish Play in Wk7, we engaged with the beautifully illustrated First Nations book ‘Counting Aussie Animals in my Backyard’ By Bronwyn Houston.
Little ones explored one to one correspondence, when counting a variety of Australian animals together in the story, matching Australian animal figurines and felt finger puppets. We also identified and matched the numerals to the number of animals counted on the pages of the story.
This was such a fun experience, enriching little one’s imagination, bringing the story to life with an interactive, tactile element and expanding our knowledge and skills in counting and identify numbers to ten through play based learning!

10/04/2025

What a fun filled Term 1 we had together with our Little Farmhouse friends!

Nature Arts & Crafts during Wk5 was certainly a fun one! We shared lots of creativity & giggles together, making our nature aliens & animals!
We used a variety of loose parts collected from nature including; pine cones, sticks, gumnuts, leaves, dried flowers, pods etc.
Little ones used fine-motor skills to pinch, roll and mould air dry clay, attaching it to our pine cones. Next, we used our creativity and imagination to design our aliens and press natural loose parts into the clay to create our art. This was lots of fun!
Little ones proudly showed their peers our creations and shared lots of giggles with our nature aliens!

Little ones developed & learnt...
*Natural curiosity & creative expression
*Sorting & selecting a variety of natural loose parts
*Experienced sensory development with air dry clay & natural loose parts with a variety of textures
*Developed concentration, focus, persistence & being calm
*Developed imagination
*Improved dexterity & fine-motor skills
*Developed pencil grip & strengthen hand muscles by manipulating objects
*Explored tools, texture, colour, shape & technique
*Practiced problem solving skills
*Worked cooperatively with peers, turn taking & sharing resources
*Expressed, represented & created art
*Developed an awareness of the world around us & nature

02/03/2025

I absolutely adore Bookish Play, it encourages a love and enjoyment of books, as well as developing early reading knowledge & skills such as making predictions, observing illustrations, turning page by page through a book, sequencing, oral language and rhyme.

Little ones enjoyed engaging with the book ‘Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas’ By Aaron Blabey, using fine-motor skills and strengthening our pincer grip with the nipping piranhas on pegs, as well as exploring the characteristics of a piranha.

We also shared lots of giggles as we read
“Well, I bet you’d like some plums?
That’s it, Brian!
We eat bums!”
Little ones enjoyed nipping the peg piranhas onto our toes and bums as we read the story together. Blue rainbow rice continues to be a favourite sensory base!

16/02/2025

What a wonderful start to Term 1 we have had!
This week during During Bookish Play, we engaged with the First Nations book ‘At the Beach I See’ By Kamasani Bin Salleh.
This beautifully illustrated book explores a variety of sea creatures that can be found at the beach.
We discussed and mimicked characteristics of these sea creatures, such as the movements of jelly fish, crabs, seaweed, sea stars & sea birds.
We explored gross motor movements by bobbing our jellyfish hands up and down whilst wriggling our te****le fingers, scuttling sideways like crabs with our nipper fingers, drifting side to side like seaweed swaying in the ocean, crawling like sea stars and gliding like seabirds with long straight arms for wings.
We thoroughly enjoyed the sensory element to this Bookish Play experience, using our fine motor skills to manipulate the blue play dough (ocean) for quite some length of time.

27/01/2025

Little Gardener’s Journals…

I would like to thank all our 2024 Farmhouse families for such a wonderful year together and hope you enjoy this precious keepsake of our discoveries in nature together.
I am so proud of our little Farmhouse Friends, their natural curiosity, growth and learning journies together!

Throughout 2024, little ones enjoyed engaging with nature in our Little Gardener’s Club.
We planted, nurtured and harvested Snow Peas, Sweet Pea Flowers, Cosmos, Sunflowers, mulberries and enjoyed visits to the Orchid and the chookies collecting eggs, just to name a few of our experiences in nature!
As the year progressed and our skills developed, we learnt how to record our observations and began making recordings in our Little Gardener’s Journals!

This was an exciting new experience for us, little ones developed a wide range of skills during this learning experience, exploring fine-motor skills, critical thinking & problem solving, comprehension and communication skills, cause and effect, creative thinking, design, shape & colour, developed an understanding of how symbols and patterns work and expanded on knowledge of the natural world!

Little ones were very proud of their recordings! Each week we engaged with nature, I saved little one’s observations and recordings, laminating and binding a personalised ‘My Little Gardener’s Journal’ for all, highlighting little ones findings, skills and progress throughout the year as a sentimental reflection of our journey together. I am so proud of all our little Farmhouse friends, their natural curiosity, play based learning journeys, growth and discoveries throughout the year. It has been my absolute pleasure caring for your little ones this year, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. I hope you enjoy this little gift of treasured memories, exploring in nature together! 🌱🌻🐝

26/01/2025

I absolutely adore Bookish Play and shared just as much excitement as little ones with this Christmas themed nursery story ‘The Gingerbread Man’ retold by Susan Price, illustrated by Colin and Moira Maclean during the end of Term 4!

Little ones thoroughly enjoyed the Christmas coloured rainbow rice as our sensory element and engaged cooperatively with peers by turn taking and sharing the felt finger puppets representing the characters from the story.
Little ones explored rich vocabulary, sequencing of events, story telling, repetition and memory recall through this Bookish Play experience.

Little ones enjoyed helping me story tell by using the Tara Treasures felt finger puppet characters to act out scenes from the story in sequence of events.
First we saw the Little Old Lady bake a spicy gingerbread, she then heard a knock on the oven door and “whoosh!” the Gingerbread Man raced past her!
Next we saw the Old Man digging in the garden, dropping his spade when he saw the Gingerbread Man run past him, joining in on the chase!
The Gingerbread man continued on past a
cow, horse, pig and hay makers!
Each time the Gingerbread man ran past another character in the story, we enjoyed reciting together “Run, run, run, as fast as you can - you won’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!”
Lastly, the Gingerbread Man came to a wide, deep river. “By the edge of the river sat a fox watching everything.”
The fox was very sly and convinced the Gingerbread Man that he would help him cross the river, so the Gingerbread Man climbed onto the fox’s back.
As the fox swam further across the river, the water got deeper and deeper. The Gingerbread Man had to climb higher and higher onto the fox, up onto his shoulders, next his head, then his nose.
“Just as the fox reached the other side of the river, and was climbing out onto the bank, he gave his nose a quick flip! Up into the air sailed the Gingerbread Man. The fox opened his mouth wide. Down fell the Gingerbread Man, right into the fox’s mouth - SNAP!”

25/01/2025

Nature Arts & Crafts: Santas & Elves! 🎅🏼🧝‍♀️🧝🏼

What fun we had exploring the Christmas theme together with little ones. We shared lots of excitement and discussions as Christmas drew nearer, little ones enjoyed talking about putting up their Christmas Trees at home and were excited counting down the days until Santa’s arrival! 🎄🎅🏼
Continuing on with extensions of learning, at the end of term, during Nature Arts & Crafts, we created Santas and Elves using whittled wood, paint pens, material Christmas hats, pom poms and paper daisies.
Little ones used creative expression to select which Christmas themed character they would create and used paint pens to draw and colour material Christmas hats, clothes and facial features onto their whittled wood.
I then hot glued little ones decorated hats, selected poms poms and paper daises onto their wooden characters.
Little ones adored their Christmas creations and were excited to take them home to show their families and add to their Christmas decorations!

29/11/2024

Little Gardener’s Club: Sunflowers!🌻

Little ones planted Sunflower seeds at the beginning of Spring in our Little Gardener’s Club. We have been so excited to discover Sunflowers now blooming in our garden!

Thank you Miss Tamekah for sharing one of your Sunflowers with us, while we eagerly awaited our blooms in the garden last week!

Little ones made observations on the Sunflower, discussing shape and colour. We have been enjoying practicing our newly acquired recording skills and noted down our observations through drawings and photographs in our Little Gardener’s Journals.

We are becoming very confident in our mark making skills. First, we practice the large gross motor movement with our fingers in the air. “A green stem is a long line. Start at the top, then straight down”
Little ones would repeat “Start at the top, then straight down!”
After practicing the gross motor movement together, little ones are then more confident in their ability to mark make using fine motor skills on the paper, as they have already done the movement in the air. It is not so overwhelming after achieving the large gross motor movement of the shape. Together we are practicing beginner writer shapes such as lines, circles, ovals, swiggles etc.
Little ones developed a wide range of skills during this learning experience, exploring fine-motor skills, critical thinking & problem solving, comprehension and communication skills, cause and effect, creative thinking, design, shape & colour, developed an understanding of how symbols and patterns work and expanded on knowledge of the natural world!

Little ones were very proud of their observations & recordings of nature! I cannot wait to share our Little Gardener’s Club Journals with all our wonderful Farmhouse families at the end of the year!

28/11/2024

What fun we have had in the jungle! 🦍🐅🐘

Little ones have been enjoying the ‘In The Jungle’ theme of late and have shown particular interest in the pandas, gorillas, tigers, elephants and frog at the Discovery Table. Following on with extensions of learning, we engaged with the story book ‘The Jungle’ By Usborne, Book & 3 Jigsaws.

Little ones adore rainbow rice as a sensory base to our Bookish Play experiences, we used shades of green rice for our Jungle theme.

‘It’s the middle of the night in the busy jungle. Can you find a red snake and an orange lizard?’

We used our looking eyes like detectives, scanning the page to search for and indentify animals hiding in the jungle.

‘The elephants love splashing in the pool. Find a pink butterfly and a frog.’

Little ones used problem solving skills, worked cooperatively with peers, practiced colour recognition and explored shape & spacial awareness to piece together each of the three puzzles matching to the illustrations in the story.

09/11/2024

Bush Kindy Adventure: Chook Eggs & Mulberry picking! 🐓🥚

Last week during outdoor play, we went on our first Bush Kindy adventure to visit the chooks & stop by the orchid for fruit picking!
Little ones were very excited to each wear an Egg Apron to collect the chook eggs into.

First we discussed how to stay safe on our adventure. We wore our gumboots or closed in shoes and hats, we talked about the weather getting hot and an animal that slithers out into the sun. We practiced freezing and calling out “Miss Laura, snake!” We practiced slowly walking backwards away from a snake to stay safe.
We also took our First Aid kit on our adventure! ⛑️ 🩹
We discussed walking legs with friends and staying close to the teacher, we all turned our listening ears and looking eyes on together.

Our first stop was the Mulberry Tree and what a wonderful experience this was! Little ones were very excited to discover that the tree was covered in berries, green, red and black! We learnt that mulberries begin green in colour, next turn to shades of red and lastly change to black. This is when they are ready to eat. Little ones searched the Mulberry Tree for berries, identifying their colours and excitedly picking the black ones to eat, YUMMY!!

Next stop, the Chook Pen. We used our stomping feet to walk to the Chook Pen, creating vibrations in the ground, scaring away any unwanted visitors which may begin to appear as the days heat up.
Little ones enjoyed this challenge!
“Everybody stomping, stomping, stomping.
Everybody stomping, just like Liliwen!”

Once we arrived at the Chook Pen, we used our whisper voices and gentle hands around our Farmhouse animal friends the chooks. We let the chookies out of the pen, tipped out our food scraps from the chook bucket and enthusiastically searched the nesting boxes, to discover EGGS! Lots of eggs!
Little ones worked cooperatively to collect two eggs each, ensuring all our Farmhouse friends each had a turn to collect eggs, then collecting any extra eggs together.
Little ones used one to one correspondence when counting eggs and carefully placed them into the pockets of their egg aprons. It was so lovely to see the excitement of this experience together.

Our little Farmhouse friend Franklin summed up this experience perfectly…
“I like this Laura. This is fun!” Franklin stated enthusiastically as we walked together!

There are so many wonderful benefits to including sustainability practices in the Early Years! Children are able to feel a sense of belonging, explore, engage with and develop an understanding of the world around them whilst encouraging empathy and responsibility.

It absolutely melted my heart to see the friendships that have formed between our Farmhouse friends throughout the year, as little ones so naturally paired up, walking hand in hand back to our Farmhouse nature play spaces together. 🥹💙

Little ones were very eager to keep their collected eggs. As an extension of learning, we used paint pens and creative expression to decorate eggs cartons which would safely nest our eggs for their journey to all our little Farmhouse friend’s homes that afternoon.

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