Ducklings Family Daycare

06/09/2026

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06/09/2026

**Current Families**

03/09/2026

Week 31-8/26 - 3/9/26

🌟 Our Week at Ducklings 🐥💛

What a fun-filled week we have had! Our little learners have been busy exploring, creating, playing and learning through a variety of hands-on experiences. 🥰

🔤 ABC Flash Cards & Alphabet Learning
We explored letters, animals and early literacy through ABC flash cards and magnetic alphabet tiles on whiteboards. The children practised recognising letters, developing vocabulary and building early communication skills.

🦔 Porcupine Stick Game
The children carefully placed sticks into the holes, developing hand-eye coordination, concentration and fine motor skills.

🩷 Imaginative Barbie Play
Using the Barbie bus, Barbies, cars and pool slide, the children enjoyed imaginative play, storytelling and social interactions with their friends.

💙 Father's Day Craft
We finished creating our special Father's Day gifts with lots of creativity, concentration and pride in our work. 🎁❤️

🌈 Sensory & Creative Play
Tunnel sensory play, Stickems and connector toys gave the children opportunities to explore, experiment and create amazing trees and tunnels using their imaginations. These experiences supported problem-solving, creativity and fine motor development.

😊 Exploring Our Emotions
We spent time looking at our emotion chart and talked about different feelings. This helps children begin to recognise and express their emotions and develop important social and emotional skills.

🌳 Community Park Outings
We enjoyed two community outings to the park, including morning tea with our peers! The children had lots of opportunities for sliding, running, climbing, digging and enjoying fresh air and exercise. These outings encouraged physical development, confidence, social skills and connection with our community.

💛 EYLF Learning Outcomes:

✨ Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity.
✨ Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world.
✨ Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing.
✨ Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners.
✨ Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators.

What a wonderful week of learning through play, creativity, friendships, movement and exploration! 💛🐥🐥🐥🐥🔠🔡🛝🪜⏳⛱️🦔🃏🧲🦸🫂😎🌞

02/09/2026

Getting ready for pirate Thursday as we do untill the theme changes. 🏴‍☠️🦜🏴⚓🪎🧌☠️

02/09/2026

HAaPpY Early Childhood Educators Day today. 🥳🤗🤩🤗

27/08/2026

Week 24/8/26 - 27/8/26

🌟 What a Wonderful Week at Ducklings Family Daycare 🌟

We have had another busy, fun-filled week full of learning, laughter and adventures! 🐥💛

Our resident Daddy and Mummy Ducks came to visit every day 🦆🪿🧡

🎨 Creative Drawing
The children enjoyed creating their own drawings using texters and pencils. They explored colours, lines, shapes and their own creative ideas while developing their fine motor skills and confidence.

📚 Lots of Book Reading
We have enjoyed plenty of stories together this week! Reading helps children develop listening skills, language, vocabulary, imagination and a love of literacy. ❤️📖

🌍 Community Outings
We enjoyed three exciting outings this week!

🎃 Bunnings – We explored the scary Halloween decorations 👻🎃 and then enjoyed some fun at the play area!

🏞️ Local Park – The children enjoyed digging in the sand, running, climbing and sharing morning tea with our friends. We loved getting our bodies moving and exploring the outdoor environment while we walk and drive to some!

🍟 McDonald's Play Area – This outing was requested by the children! 😊 We danced to music, climbed, slid and enjoyed morning tea while socialising and playing with our peers.

👟 Our Shoes Became a Talking Point!
The children were very interested in everyone's shoes this week! We enjoyed comparing colours, designs and different styles. Such a simple everyday conversation created lots of opportunities for language, communication and social interaction. 👟✨

🧸 Free Play Adventures
Our free play this week included:
📏 Measuring toys
💇 Hairdressers
🚂 Trains
🏴‍☠️ Pirates
🐛 Roly-polies on the ground
💃 Lots of dancing!

Through child-led play, the children used their imagination, practised problem-solving, developed friendships and explored their own interests.

🤫 And something exciting is underway...
We have also started working on our secret Father's Day gifts! 🤫🎁💙 We can't wait to share these special surprises with our wonderful dads!

🌱 Skills the Children Have Been Developing

Throughout our experiences this week, the children have been developing:

✨ Fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination
✨ Creativity and self-expression
✨ Language, communication and vocabulary
✨ Early literacy and listening skills
✨ Social skills and friendships
✨ Confidence and independence
✨ Gross motor skills, balance and coordination
✨ Problem-solving and critical thinking
✨ Imagination and symbolic play
✨ An appreciation for their local community
✨ A sense of belonging and connection with others

📚 EYLF Learning Links

Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity 💛

Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world 🌍

Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing 🏃

Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners 🧠

Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators 🗣️

Another wonderful week of learning through play, exploration, friendships and fun! 💛🐥

We can't wait to see what adventures next week brings! 🌈

27/08/2026

26/08/2026

Our Fathers day secret gifts are coming along nicely. 🐝🍯🦸🫶😘🧡🩶

24/08/2026

We are literally Ducky Day Care. Love where we live. :) :)

20/08/2026

Week 17/8/26 - 20/8/26

🌈 What a wonderful week of learning, exploring & friendship at Ducklings Family Day Care! 🐥💛

What a busy and exciting week we’ve had! Our Ducklings have been learning through play, building friendships, developing confidence and discovering new skills every day. 🥰

🏡 Welcoming new families for 2027
We were excited to meet some new families looking at joining Ducklings in 2027. The children enjoyed being part of welcoming new faces into our environment, practising social skills, confidence and connection with others.

🫧 Shaving cream sensory play
Lots of messy, squishy fun! The children explored textures, made marks, practised hand movements and used their senses to investigate and experiment.

🔤 ABC & letter recognition
Our ABC poster has been a big hit! The children practised recognising letters, noticing familiar symbols and developing early literacy skills through conversation and play.

🧩 Puzzles, pop-its, locks & keys
So much concentration and persistence! From matching puzzle pieces to figuring out locks and keys and manipulating pop-it toys, the children practised problem-solving, fine motor control, hand-eye coordination and perseverance.

🦖 Dinosaurs & imaginative play
The dinosaurs inspired lots of wonderful imagination, storytelling and conversations. The children created their own play scenarios while developing language, social skills and creativity.

🖍️ Whiteboard drawing
Our whiteboard became a place for children to freely draw, experiment with lines and shapes, make their own marks and express their ideas.

🕳️ Tunnel fun, climbing & slides
Lots of movement and physical challenges! Crawling, climbing, balancing and sliding helped build gross motor skills, coordination, spatial awareness and confidence.

📚 Books & stories
We enjoyed plenty of books throughout the week, supporting language development, listening skills, vocabulary, imagination and a love of reading.

🏴‍☠️ Our pirate adventures continue!
Our little pirate obsession is still going strong — especially with Billy! 🏴‍☠️⚓️ We made and decorated our own pirate hats and continued our imaginative pirate adventures. The children practised creativity, decision-making, communication and cooperative play.

🎶 Dancing with Danny Go!
There was lots of dancing, singing and copying actions. The children followed movements, listened for cues, used their bodies expressively and had lots of fun moving to the music! 💃🕺

🛒 Bunnings community outing
We headed out into our community with our friends at Bunnings. Community outings give children opportunities to practise safety awareness, social confidence, communication and understanding that they are part of a wider community.

🌳 Park outing & picnic with friends
We finished the week with some outdoor fun at the park and a picnic with friends. The children enjoyed running, climbing, exploring and sharing experiences together while making new friendships. 💕

🌱 Skills we’ve been developing this week

✨ Social confidence & making new friendships
✨ Communication and language
✨ Early literacy and letter recognition
✨ Fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination
✨ Gross motor skills, balance and coordination
✨ Problem-solving and persistence
✨ Creativity and imagination
✨ Sensory exploration
✨ Independence and decision-making
✨ Listening and following instructions
✨ Turn-taking, sharing and cooperation
✨ Confidence within our community
✨ Expressing ideas through art, music and movement

🌈 EYLF Learning Connections

Outcome 1 – Children have a strong sense of identity

Outcome 2 – Children are connected with and contribute to their world

Outcome 3 – Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

Outcome 4 – Children are confident and involved learners

Outcome 5 – Children are effective communicators

💛 Another week full of little moments, big learning and lots of fun at Ducklings!

Every experience doesn't need to look like a lesson to be learning. Sometimes it's through shaving cream-covered hands, a puzzle that finally fits, a pirate hat, a new friendship, a dance action or simply having the confidence to explore something new. 🐥🌈

Learning happens everywhere, every day, through play. 💕