Milestones Early Learning Cranbourne North

🤩 Inspiration

Our Toddlers have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛, and they used the book for their painting inspiration!

Have the book available to choose a picture 🦋 for them to recreate with their own twist!

🎶 Fun-Key Yoga 🧘‍♀️

The session starts with an Acknowledgment of Country and ‘Namaste’ 🙏 greeting. The children learn a new mindfulness exercise to focus on calming their breathing with the use of little 🧸 teddy bears/beanbags. Everyone warms up before focusing on the day’s yoga session. Today the story revolves around ‘Going to a party’ 🥳.
The children imagine dressing up as fire breathing dragons, 🦸‍♂️ superheroes, batman, & the star of the movie “Brave”; playing musical chairs 🪑; eating pretzels 🥨; giving gifts such as an aeroplane ✈️, a bike 🚲 & a ball ⚽️; then helping blow out the candles on the cake 🎂. The cool down segment includes a discussion about the day’s adventure.

🌼 Bee Bee Bumble Bee 🐝

Our 4 Year Old Kinder have been learning about Bees!

After seeing one in the garden 🪻, the children were talking about the bee, where it was going and what it was going to do - this started a research project 💻!

With the help of their Teacher, children were able to find some information about bees, where they live, what they do, how they make honey 🍯 and that they need a Queen Bee 👑🐝 to run their hive.

🎂 We love a Birthday Celebration!

For each child's birthday we bake a fresh delicious Cake - often with 🍓🫐 fruit on top and inside!

When we have many Birthday's close together - we do share a Birthday Cake Celebration so that we don't have too many cakes throughout our week! We do of course sing 🎶 Happy Birthday for every individual child!

🤸 Movement and Motion 🛞

Throughout our days we are always exploring movement and motion! Our Learning experiences are set up on tables, on the ground 🧘, and everywhere in between! Some of our experiences encourage movement, some explore motion.

🏃‍♀️‍➡️ All of this is designed to help children learn how to move their bodies, be it learning to walk, learning to climb, learn how to push, pull or pose!

📖 Literacy and Story Telling

We all love a good Story Time 📚 - but how do we know that children have listened, and understood the story❓

That's where our Story Baskets and Story Time experiences come in, allowing children to revisit the book 📕, and have props 🧸🪑🛏️ to help them tell the story, adding their own understanding and even adding their own twists and turns!

🎶 Hey Dee Ho Fun-Key Yoga 🧘

The session starts with an Acknowledgment of Country and ‘Namaste’ 🙏 greeting. After the mindfulness activity focusing on body awareness and the sense of touch, the children participate in a fun warm up dance.

The day’s theme was all about encouraging everyone to recognise the colours all around us. The yoga poses and dramatic storyline encourages everyone to 💫 stargaze; become 🎇 fireworks; triangles; 🦇 bats; bighorn sheep; downward dogs; lizards; 🌈 rainbows; camels; & 🐰 rabbits. The session concludes with a cool down and recap of the day’s activities.

🏖️ Sand - So Many Ways to Play

We love our Sandpits - they are great for digging, scooping and filling buckets to make sand castles 🪣!

They also make great Class rooms for our School for Soft toys 🧸, and they are a fantastic place for Band Practice 🥁!

❤ Casey Leisure is offering FREE swimming lessons for father figures and their 6-18 month old children, during Men's Health Week. This is a fantastic opportunity for dads, grandfathers and other father figures to introduce their babies and toddler to the joy of swimming. It is also a very important step toward families increasing their water safety awareness and, hopefully, considering ongoing lessons for their children (and themselves). As a beach-focused country, we know how critical swimming skill can be during summer.

🌟 Reminder to our Families 🌟

We will be Closed on Monday 8th June for the King's Birthday Public Holiday!

❤ We hope everyone has a wonderful, safe long weekend!