First Five Early Learning Bundall

06/10/2026

💐 Happy World Teachers’ Day 2026!

🌼World Teachers’ Day is celebrated internationally each year on 5 October. Established by UNESCO in 1994, the day commemorates the signing of the 1966 UNESCO/ILO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. This important recommendation recognised the vital role of teachers and outlined standards relating to their rights, responsibilities, education, employment and working conditions.

🌼World Teachers’ Day is an opportunity to acknowledge the dedication, knowledge and influence of teachers around the world. It also highlights the important role they play in supporting children’s learning, development and future opportunities.

🌼At First Five Early Learning Bundall, we are incredibly grateful for our teachers Angel, Kirsten and Safalta.

Thank you! 💚

02/10/2026

01/10/2026

🍶Today in Pre-Kindy, we explored transferring and transporting through a fun water play experience.

🍶In a large water trough the children discovered milky water (made with cornflour), coloured shells, small balloons with a little water inside to make them wobble, and a variety of wooden spoons, scoops, bowls, funnels, and cups.

🍶The children were invited to explore the resources at their own pace, experimenting with transferring and pouring the water between cups and bowls, collecting shells, and splashing in the cool water.

🍶We also gave them an added challenge to balance balloons and other items on the wooden spoons or scoops, balancing and carrying them a short distance to drop them into two smaller tubs.

🍶This experience supported the children's balance and hand eye coordination, along with fine motor skills to grip the often slippery tools and resources.

🍶Through play, with these resources, the children had the opportunity to practice real world tasks and self-help skills, such as pouring drinks and serving their own food. The repetitive motions of the experience provided a calming sensory input that supports focus, concentration, and self-soothing.

✨Tammy & Tegan✨
Pre-Kindy

EYLF
Outcome 3.2.1 - Children engage in increasingly complex coordination of body movements with sight, sounds and other sensory stimuli to engage with people and explore materials.

NQF
Element 1.1.2 - Child-centred: Each child’s current knowledge, strengths, ideas, culture, abilities and interests are the foundation of the program.

01/10/2026

🐞The Toddler 1 children have been enjoying the story, "A Good Place" written by Lucy Cousins.

🐝It follows a ladybug, bee, dragonfly and beetle all looking for a safe home that meet all their needs - leaves, flowers, ponds and deadwood.

🦋By chance they meet a butterfly that leads them to a thriving habitat.

🪲Our educators set up a provocation that would re-tell the story to help the insects find their safe place.

🐛On this journey the children were learning how the characters in the book are facing challenges, predicting what happens next as they search for a safe place as well as becoming aware of nature and the environment.

🐜This beautiful story shows children that caring for our environment helps nurture and sustain the rich diversity of life.

☀️Sylvia & Julia☀️
Toddler 1

EYLF
Outcome 2.4.5 - Children care for Country and connect with animals, plants, lands and waterways.
Outcome 3.2.5 - Children use their sensory perceptions, physical capabilities and dispositions with increasing integration, skill and purpose to explore and respond to their world, including finding new challenges and risks.

29/09/2026

🥣Today, the Nursery children enjoyed an engaging sensory and creative experience using corn flour mixed with different colours of water.

🥣We provided the coloured mixtures in a variety of containers, including squeezing bottles, bowls and cups, along with spoons for the children to scoop, pour and explore.

🥣The children showed curiosity and excitement as they experimented with the different textures and colours.

🥣They used their hands and spoons to scoop the corn flour mixture, squeezed the bottles, transferred the mixture between containers and observed how the colours and textures changed.

🥣The experience encouraged the children to explore through touch, movement and experimentation at their own pace. This experience supported children used their senses to play, explore and try new things.

🌟Rika & Alka🌟
Nursery

EYLF
Outcome 3.2: Children become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing, using fine motor skills, and coordination to manipulate tools, grip spoons, scoop materials, and pour without spilling.

25/09/2026

🧡 Happy Birthday to our Team members who celebrated their special day in September!

Hope you had a fabulous day 🥳🎉

24/09/2026

🌈 The National Week of Deaf People (NWDP) is an annual, week-long celebration that honors Deaf individuals, their language, culture, and achievements within the Australian Deaf community. This includes celebrating the International Week of Deaf People (IWDP) and International Day of Sign Languages (IDSL) which are initiatives of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD).

🌈 This year’s theme is Declaring Deaf People’s Human Rights.

Under the Australian National Quality Standard (NQS), early childhood education and care services are legally and ethically obligated to provide an inclusive environment where deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children can fully participate and thrive.

💚 A big thank you to Ebonie, the Centre Manager of our sister centre at First Five Cranbourne, who was happy for us to share this video showcasing the sign language talents of the lovely Janice.

24/09/2026

🎨 Today the Pre Kindy children were invited to participate in creative experience which included an element of experimentation. Colour was added to cups of bubble solution and droppers were used to transfer the colours to paper. This artwork was all about the process rather than the product.

🎨 Children were given time and space to explore the resources freely, experimenting with mixing the colours, squirting them across the paper with a dropper in each hand, then lathering up the bubbles on the table. There was so much liquid on the paper it could not be picked up without ripping so we also experimented with laying another piece of paper on top to create a print. Although this was process art the product or result was also very beautiful!

🎨 This experience supported the children's curiosity, encouraging them to hypothesise as they explored the possibilities of the resources, while expressing themselves creatively to add colours to the paper. They also worked their fine motor skills and observed how primary colours mix to create new colours.

Early Years Learning Framework: Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners.
4.1.4 Use play to investigate, experiment, test hypotheses, imagine and explore ideas.

Tammy 🌟
Pre Kindy

24/09/2026

👁️ Our Kindergarten children had an exciting visit with Lesley, an Optometrist from Eyecoast, Isle of Capri. Lesley used many types of glasses and gadgets to check vision in our children optimising their school readiness for next year.

👁️ The aim of Quality Area 6 under the National Quality Standard is to recognise that collaborative relationships with families are fundamental to achieving quality outcomes for children and that community partnerships that are based on active communication, consultation and collaboration are also essential.

22/09/2026

☀️ Sensory investigation goop in Nursery.

☀️ The children were invited to explore a tray of goop, using a range of techniques to discover what works to move the goop around.

☀️ They discovered it was hard and then melted into liquid as it rested. The children were very interested in digging their fingers into the goop and using a variety of spoons and whisks to manipulate the goop.

☀️ The children had big smiles on their faces as they managed to dig into the goop using the spoons, educators assisted the children to move the goop so we could see underneath, made it easier for the children to pick up in small clumps and observe it.

☀️ The children strengthened fine motor and grasping skills with this experience.

4.2.8 Children manipulate objects and experiment with cause and effect, trial and error and motion.

Julia & Alka 🌟
Nursery