Birches Early Learning Centre Ormond

This week the Nursery room for NAIDOC week made Gumtree wind chimes and painted them with Q tips whilst others painted Boomerangs 🪃

NAIDOC Week at Birches Ormond 🌳. A week to celebrate and recognise the history and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Who else loves puzzles 🧩 🧩

🔔 🔔 Stopping all stations on the Birches 🚃

Our nursery children have been working on developing and enhancing their strength and balance with an outdoor obstacle course this week.

We love Friday sports with Mitch! ⚽️ 🏀 ☀️

We know that play is essential for children's development, and we're committed to providing our kids with a safe and fun environment to explore and learn! 🛝 ☀️

🌟 Our beautiful nursery children unleashing their creativity and honing their hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills through an exciting play dough session! 🎨💪

💡🔍 As they squish, shape, and mold, these little learners are not only having a blast but also developing essential skills for their future success. 👩‍🎨👨‍🎨

🌈🤲 We watch as their tiny fingers manipulate the dough, turning it into beautiful masterpieces and unleashing their imaginations. 🎉✨

🎯 At Birches, we believe in providing hands-on experiences that foster growth and development in a fun and engaging way. 🌱💡

Mother’s Day celebrations 🎊

Pizza making in the toddler room 🍕

In celebration and recognition of ANZAC day the children made ANZAC biscuits.

Happy Easter!

Before we wrap up the week. The children in the Kinder room celebrated Harmony week. They held hands together to celebrate each others differences and that no matter where we're from we're all the same and can be friends.

"Everyone is friends", just like one of the Kinders said.

We celebrate Harmony week all throughout the year in the Kinder room in many different ways.

Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️

Happy Holi 🎉
Today the children and educators celebrated Holi, the festival of colours.

Pancake Day 🥞

Have you heard about Jacqui’s Kinder Program?

Our program offers a variety of exciting and unique experiences for children to learn and grow.

We are excited to announce the implementation of our term language class program, featuring Greek, Philippino, Italian and Mandarin.

Your child will be able to learn and explore different cultures and languages.

Our Kinder teacher, Jacqui, will also teach children essential Auslan words and communication.

In addition to language classes, our program includes a cooking program, where children learn about healthy eating and cooking skills.

We also implement a Reggio Emilia approach throughout the day and schedule, providing a holistic approach to learning.

We offer indoor and outdoor learning environments, allowing children to choose where they learn best. And, to keep them active and engaged, we have weekly sports and music programs.

Enrol your child today and allow them to learn, grow and have fun at Birches ELC.

As an extension of the kinders interest, a truck painting experience was set up.

This has encouraged discussions around road safety and exploring our community.

Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧

Last week the kinder children made some dumplings in preparation for Chinese New Year 🧧

The nursery children have been exploring a range of sensory play.
Sensory play is important for
Children as it encourages their investigation and discovery and it helps them to learn more about the world around them through their senses.

⭐️ 2023 enrolments are now open! ⭐️ We have limited spots for next year remaining. Call Shannon on 9578 1015 to organise your tour and enrolment. Please note we currently have a waitlist for several rooms already.

Taking turns to find the buried treasure!

Our Kinders have been creating their very own Christmas trees using recycled and natural materials collected from our outdoor garden.

We would like to wish our graduating Kinders all the best as they embark on a new journey.

With Christmas fast approaching the children have enjoyed a Christmas play dough experience.
They used baubles, ornaments and tinsel to create different patterns and shapes.
Play dough is the perfect experience to encourage fine motor skills. 🎅 🎄

The kinder children have been exploring their outdoor environment.
Learning about different bugs and their natural surroundings.

Lest we forget

Free Kinder offset payments starting next year for all 2023 kinder children.

As an extension of “The Rainbow Fish’ the kinder and pre kinder room children have been investigating under the sea creatures.

An observational area “under the sea” has been set up to allow the children to explore.

They have been discussing and documenting creatures in the sea and will extend this learning into sustainability and environmental friendly practices. 🐠 🐙

Happy Halloween 🎃 👻 🕷

The children made fresh bread rolls today to eat for their afternoon tea. 🥖 👨‍🍳

Today we spent some time in the kinder room talking about child safety.

This week the children made fresh homemade pasta with Chef Mike 🍝

🛎 🛎 🛎 Stopping all stations on the Birches tram. 🛎 🛎 🛎

Watching our chickens Bok Bok and Bailey is a daily highlight! 🐔

Fathers Day at Birches ❤️

Today to kick off Book Week the children in the Kinder room read the book about the ugly duckling, they then created a scene using clay to replay the story.

Enjoying the beautiful sunshine at Birches with friends. ☀️

Batman was busy building a fort this morning 🦇