Nurtured Steps Early Learning

✨ New vacancies at Nurtured Steps Early Learning - Family Day Care (registered with Cheeky Pandas Family Day Care) ✨

We currently have a vacancy on a Monday and Thursday

📍Werribee, VIC 3030 (near Riverwalk estate)
⏱️ 7am - 5pm
🗓️ Monday to Friday
👶🏼 0-5 years of age
🥪 Meals (breakfast, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea), nappies and excursions provided
📚Bachelor trained educator with child protection training, first aid and cpr, food handling certificate, and public liability
*Child Care Subsidy (CCS) is available

Please contact: [email protected]
or message us on our business page

Nurtured Steps Early Learning currently have vacancies for Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm!

Learning about animals with trips to the Werribee and Melbourne zoo 🦒 🦓

SCIENCEWORKS FUN 🧫 🤩 🧪

We hope everyone has a happy and safe Easter 🐣 🐰 🍫

Shopping 🛍

Miss 3 has been really interested in shopping for the past week, using the handbags in the dramatic play area to collect the fruit and vegetables in her ‘shopping bag’. In order to extend her interest in shopping we spoke about supermarkets and shopping lists, she created her own shopping list of items that we can have for afternoon tea and was was so excited to use this list the next day to shop for those items!

What does supermarket shopping help children to learn?
- Recognising symbols on food packaging is often one of children’s first pre-reading skills
- Building social skills as children see and interact with a range of different people, where they can practice skills such as waiting their turn, being respectful to others, speaking politely, asking for help, etc.
- Shopping gives children an opportunity to see and learn about a wider variety of foods

We are so lucky to have such a great waterpark close by 💦

We have been learning about and exploring the environment around us! The children at Nurtured Steps Early Learning love going on nature walks to investigate the natural environment. We have been focusing on trees and grass through feeling their various textures, colours and features and some of the reasons behind these differences ( exploring the importance of water to grow ).

EYLF Learning Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world
2.4 - Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment

The children were so excited to make banana muffins and cake for Mr 2’s birthday this week. We used sugar free ingredients to make healthy choices for our growing bodies, including sugar free chocolate chips and sugar free maple syrup!

Cooking enhances children’s learning and development through:
- Developing mathematical skills: Counting ingredients and their amounts (for example, 2 eggs or 4 cups)
- Language and vocabulary: Learning new words, names of utensils and ingredients
- Scientific thinking : What happens when you add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients? Cooking allowed us to explore many fascinating interactions between different ingredients.
- Sensory experience: Cooking is such a good way to engage all of the children’s senses as they smell the ingredients, feel the texture, look at the colours etc.
- Communication skills: discussing what we are doing and making observations to each other. This allows for meaningful and intentional discussions with the children.
- Cooperation and sharing: negotiating roles and taking turns mixing, cracking one egg each, having one child pour the ingredient while the other mixes
- Coordination and fine motor skills: Pouring, scooping, measuring and mixing are all great ways for your children to work on their fine motor skills and are a fundamental part of cooking that encourages us to move with coordination and precision.

Today the children demonstrated a great sense of pride and accomplishment in their cooking - well done!

To create our love hearts for Valentine’s Day we recycled some of our cardboard, developing sustainable habits to care for our environment.

The children have been learning to manipulate resources and materials, investigating how to hold a paintbrush and developing their senses as they feel the texture and sensation of the paint. They used their creativity to select how they would decorate the cardboard hearts and were so proud to give them to their families for Valentine’s Day.

Learning outcomes:
- Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
- Outcome 2.4: Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment

At Nurtured Steps Early Learning, we have been exploring the diversity of culture. We have been looking at the Chinese New Year. The children created a tiger to celebrate the year of the tiger, where we looked at the colour of a tiger, the sound it makes and the letter T.

Early Years Learning Framework - Learning Outcome 2 : Children are connected with and contribute to their world.