Euroa Kindergarten

05/06/2026

Yesterday we made the Greek dish ‘Spanakopita’ at Kinder.🇬🇷🇬🇷

One of our three-year-old Kinder friends brings it in their lunchbox and talks about it with such pride. This has stirred up lots of curiosity, and questions from the other children. ‘What does it taste like?’ ‘How do you make it?’

We decided to ask this family if they would share their traditional family recipe with us, so we could try to make it at Kinder.

Not only did the family provide us with the recipe, but they very generously brought in a huge bunch of fresh Silverbeet grown in their home garden for us to use.

The children took turns preparing the ingredients. This included: chopping the Silverbeet, Spring Onion and Dill; stirring carefully while sautéing the vegetables in the frypan; helping crumble the feta; sprinkling in the Nutmeg and Parmesan; whisking the eggs and pouring them in.

It was then time to assemble, which meant layering the filo pastry and brushing on butter and oil. Then adding the filling and topping it off with more pastry.

As we placed it in the oven, we were excited and had lots of wondering about what it might taste like.

Once golden brown and cool, we all gathered together to enjoy our hard work. We listened carefully to the crunchy pastry as we cut in to enjoy a piece each!

We value our relationships with families, and their cultures and traditions deeply at Euroa Kinder, and experiences such as this strengthen children's identity and sense of belonging. These experiences also provide opportunity for children to practice real-world skills in a safe and supported environment.🥬🥬

04/06/2026

27/05/2026

We are so lucky and grateful to belong to a Community and an Early Years Education Organisation that value days like these:

Morning: Chopping and preparing vegetables that our children have brought in from their family gardens to share. Kneading and proving sourdough to rise while we go out

Mid-day: Walking through our town, noticing changing leaves, pointing out parks and shops and other places our families visit, getting a "whoop and flash of lights" from local police.
Participating in at our public library with children from all across Australia

Afternoon: Back to Kinder to light a fire 🔥 in the yard together to cook our pumpkin soup and bread for Afternoon Tea. Long chats, silly songs as we share food.

Today our children experienced belonging to groups and communities, autonomy and trust in them as capable learners, practising real-world skills safely, simple enjoyment of the company of their peers, other familiar adults, and members of their wider society.

All of this without mentioning the dozens of important but unseen moments that occur between them during the flow of the day when they are allowed and encouraged to wonder, contribute, explore, and step out of predictable and comfortable routines.

We are very grateful for this culture we have worked so hard to create with our families and children ✨️




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21/05/2026

This week was BUSY!

◇ Found and tasted our Native Saltbush Berries
◇ Discovered a natural clay pit (made sculptures and bowls)
◇ Fallen bird's nests (which we climbed up and re-settled)
◇Creating our base-camp and fire circle from branches (so much team-work!)
◇ Camp-fire popcorn and marshmallows
◇ Constructed our new camp toilet with privacy screen
◇ Caterpillar-trains Inquiry 🐛 ◇ Surprise visit from the Euroa Police!!! 👮‍♀️👮‍♂️
◇ "An Army" of mushrooms!! 🍄‍🟫
◇ The Long and Winding road back (best chats and reflections)




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13/05/2026

Today was our first Bush Kinder session of the season. Our busy bodies and minds have been anticipating, planning and imagining what it would look like for weeks.
We've had a lot of meaningful discussion about Safety, Togetherness and being Custodians of Country.
Our children showed how much of these concepts they have understood by small acts of service, love and respect today:
- working together to devise a plan to help teachers to get our VERY heavy trolleys across unexpected rocky, inhospitable tracks
- taking extra care to be very kind and gentle to small creatures and returning them to their homes (with names) after inspecting them
- reaching out to initiate previously unexplored friendships with physical and verbal actions of encouragement
- staying together with our Kinder Team as we paced ourselves to our slowest members, even when their brains and bodies were loudly telling them to "go!"

We also:
- found a full snake-skin!
- started a brand new cubby project inspired by other's works we have seen at the Arboretum
- shared a delicious baked treat brought in by one of our families
- starting collecting wood for our fire pile
- found TWO new spots to explore that we've never been before
- slithered around in some mud
- staked out the tadpole spots for after the rains 🤞🏻

At the end of this day we were

* muddy
* wet
* tired
* hungry
* making plans for next week

08/05/2026

Come on down to the front of Burton’s this Saturday for our annual Euroa Kindergarten Mother’s Day Stall!💗

Your support means a great deal to us!!❣️

01/02/2026

Our learning spaces are refreshed and ready to welcome our children and families tomorrow✨️
We are so excited to see you all🫶🏻

19/01/2026

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