Story House Early Learning Forest Hill

06/09/2026

Growing Feelings in Senior Toddler 🌱

Our Senior Toddler children have been exploring different feelings and emotions through a creative chia seed growing experience!

Each child selected a facial expression for their own “emotion person” before placing chia seeds onto the wet paper towel on top of its head. The children are now watching closely as the seeds begin to sprout and grow into funny green “hair”!

Our educators listened carefully to the children’s voices throughout the experience. When children suggested other feelings and expressions they wanted to explore, they were given opportunities to add their own ideas and make meaningful choices.

The children had so much fun while developing their emotional vocabulary, creativity, scientific thinking and understanding of plant growth. We can’t wait to see how long our emotion characters’ chia hair will grow! 🌱

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05/09/2026

Our Star Team – Kinder Four 🌟

Our wonderful Kinder Four educators truly embraced the magic of Book Week! Dressed as their favourite book characters, they created a joyful and engaging atmosphere that encouraged the children to become fully involved in a range of storytelling and creative learning experiences.

Working together and following the children’s choices, interests and ideas, the team brought the Slinky Malinki project to life in such a creative and meaningful way. The children explored the story through imagination, discussion, art and play—strengthening their confidence, communication and love of books.

A big thank you to our Kinder Four Star Team for your creativity, teamwork and dedication to making learning so exciting for our children! 📚✨

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04/09/2026

Book Week Project Competition

As part of our Book Week celebrations, each room worked collaboratively to create an interactive project inspired by one of the children’s favourite books.

These projects were created not only for display—the children also had opportunities to explore, play and engage with them in their rooms, bringing familiar stories to life through imaginative and hands-on learning.

The children were invited to view all the wonderful projects and vote for their favourite. We are excited to announce that Kinder 3’s The Gruffalo project won the competition, finishing just two votes ahead of Kinder 4’s Slinky Malinki and Pre-Kinder’s The Very Cranky Bear! 🏆

A big thank you to all our children and educators for their creativity, teamwork and enthusiastic participation. Every project was truly special!

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02/09/2026

🌟 Happy Early Childhood Educators’ Day! 🌟

Today, we celebrate and recognise our incredible educators for the passion, care and dedication they bring to our service every day.

Thank you for supporting one another, working together as a team and creating a safe, welcoming and inspiring environment where every child feels valued, supported and encouraged to thrive. Your patience, creativity, teamwork and commitment make a meaningful difference in the lives of our children and families.

To show our appreciation, every educator will receive a special gift kit from Story House. We hope it reminds you just how valued and appreciated you are.

Thank you for everything you do—we are so proud of our amazing team!

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31/08/2026

Book Week Afternoon Tea Adventure! ✨📚

Throughout Book Week, our wonderful Chef Holly brought a favourite story to life each day with a creative book-inspired afternoon tea:

🐛 Monday – The Very Hungry Caterpillar
A colourful caterpillar-shaped fruit platter.

🥕 Tuesday – Peter Rabbit
Mr McGregor’s Garden Platter with fresh vegetables and beetroot hummus.

✨ Wednesday – Possum Magic
Delicious Cheesymite scrolls inspired by Hush’s journey around Australia.

🐻 Thursday – Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Tasty porridge cookies that were “just right”!

🐯 Friday – The Tiger Who Came to Tea
A special tiger tea party with sandwiches, fruit and cookies.

What a delicious way to connect books with creativity and sensory learning! A big thank you to Chef Holly for making our Book Week celebration extra magical. 💛

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29/08/2026

28/08/2026

BOOK WEEK IS HERE!

We’re excited to celebrate Book Week at Story House Forest Hill!

This year, each room will choose a special story based on the children’s interests and favourite books, then bring it to life through a fun Book Week Project!

Throughout the week, children will explore their chosen stories through:

* Storytelling & shared reading
* Creative experiences
* Dramatic & imaginative play
* Children’s ideas and voices
* Hands-on learning inspired by the story

KINDER 3 & KINDER 4 DRESS-UP DAY!

Our Kinder 3 and Kinder 4 children are invited to dress up as their favourite book character and bring a little extra storybook magic to our Book Week celebrations!

We can’t wait to see our rooms filled with stories, imagination, creativity and lots of Book Week fun!

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23/08/2026

SCHOOL HOLIDAY STOMP IS COMING TO FOREST HILL!

We’re so excited to share that **Story House Forest Hill has been selected to take part in the September School Holiday STOMP Program!** 🎉

Our children aged **3 years and over** will have the opportunity to enjoy a special STOMP experience filled with **dance, movement, fitness, mindfulness and creative experiences**. 🌟

📅 **Thursday 24 September 2026**
📅 **Friday 2 October 2026**

✨ **Casual bookings are available!**

If your child doesn’t normally attend on these days, this is a wonderful opportunity to book an **extra casual day** so they can join in the fun and experience something a little different during the school holidays.

Places are limited and subject to availability, so we encourage our families to **contact the Forest Hill team to secure an extra casual booking**.

We can’t wait to STOMP, move, dance and have fun together!

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22/08/2026

🔬✨ Science Week at Story House Forest Hill! 🌱🌋

What a wonderful Science Week we’ve had at Story House Forest Hill! 💚

From Nursery all the way through to Kinder 4, our little scientists explored a variety of fun, hands-on and age-appropriate science experiences.

From sink or float experiments to bubbling volcanoes 🌋, seeds and plant life cycles 🌱, colour mixing 🌈, sensory science play, and simple early chemistry experiments — there was so much to explore, discover and wonder about!

It was wonderful to see the children getting involved, asking questions, making predictions and discovering how things work through play.

We loved seeing their curious little minds in action and can’t wait to watch their thinking grow and their curiosity continue to sprout! 🌱🧠✨

Happy Science Week from Story House Forest Hill! 🔬💚

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21/08/2026

Exploring Our Amazing Brain

As part of our My Body inquiry, our Kinder children explored one of the most fascinating parts of the human body — the brain.

We began by sharing ideas about what our brains help us do, including thinking, remembering, listening, moving and playing. We then read My Fantastic Elastic Brain and explored a realistic jelly brain, encouraging children to observe, touch, question and make connections with their learning.

Children also had the opportunity to document their ideas through drawings and reflections in their learning journals.

Through meaningful, hands-on experiences like this, our Kinder Program encourages children to be curious, ask questions, investigate and develop a lifelong love of learning.

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