Pebble Patch ELC Cranbourne

Kindergarten Information Night at Pebble Patch ELC.

Are you looking for a 3- or 4-year-funded Kindergarten for 2027?

We invite our local community to our "Meet & Greet" Kindergarten Information Night at Pebble Patch ELC.

**Come and meet our Teaching and Leadership Team
**Explore our 3 and 4-year funded Kindergarten programs
**Learn about our engaging and innovative Kindergarten programs embedded in a long-day care setting
** Meet other families, stay for light refreshments, and receive our Kindergarten Information gift bag

Our Kindergarten program includes :
** A School Readiness Program - a 2-year journey with us before commencing school, supported by our own Allied Health Team
** Access to the "Sing and Grow" Music program
** Incursions
** Participate in our "Wayapa Wuurrk" Aboriginal Program with Aunty Karan
** Cooking program with our Chef
** Music sessions with one of our Educators as our in-house Music Maestro
** and much more

To register for this event, please phone Linnea, Centre Manager, on 5996 1788.

Pebble Patch ELC is located at 975 Cranbourne-Frankston Road, Cranbourne West.
We look forward to meeting you at this event.

A busy week of learning at Pebble Patch ELC...

We have been exploring the world of nature, discovering insects and butterflies in our garden, while harvesting our herbs and vegetables from our Garden Patch. Our herbs collected today were added to our lunch, Beef Chow Mein.

"National Bee Week" was a fun week learning about Bees and honey. This led to engaged conversations about where the bees are in our garden, which led to creating our own flower pots.

We pride ourselves on listening to children, following their lead and interests, to create engaging programs.

If you would like to learn more about Pebble Patch ELC, contact us and book a tour.

https://www.pebblepatch.com.au/

Mothers and Special Friends Day
Afternoon Tea, at Pebble Patch.

We had a wonderful afternoon on Thursday to celebrate our children’s families and Mothers for Afternoon Tea.

Each room provided amazing activities for children to participate with their guests.

Gumnuts (babies) provided a game “find my family” and threading flowers.

Kangaroo Paws (toddlers) provided sensory play dough and nail polish to paint guests nails. ( toddlers were very creative)

Wattles ( 3 year olds) provided Flower arranging for children creating floral posies for their mums.

Waratahs (4 - 5 yrs) provided a “Day Spa” and creative arts. Our 4 years had a story about “I love my mum” and sang a song for their guests.

Afternoon Tea was beautiful cupcakes made by our chef and our children also decorated some cup cakes which was served with fresh fruit and cheese platters. Delicious!

I would like to thank our familes for attending our social event which our children enjoyed your their visit and they enjoyed making their mums beautiful gifts.

I would like to thank our team for creating a special time for our children and families. Each room had a lovely afternoon tea party, decorating their rooms, demonstrating a real sense of pride creating a special day for all.

Wishing our Mums, Educators and all the mums in our local community, a wonderful Mother’s Day.

Linnea

ANZAC Day at Pebble Patch

As a Pebble Patch Commnity, we gathered in the yard with our Educators and Children sat together in a circle while our Centre Manager read the story “Lest We Forget”. The story was supported with conversations about kindness and respect. Our Children were encouraged to reflect on how they can be kind friends, what makes them happy, what maked them sad, linking the story to their everyday interactions. This highlighted how important it is to create space for children to explore big ideas through familiar concepts and emotions. This approach of friendship, respect and belonging is traditionally our ANZAC Day message with children.

Earth Day at Pebble Patch

Celebrated on 22 April every year, Earth Day is an opportunity for communities around the world to demonstrate their support and commitment towards environmental protection and preservation.

Our children participated in a range of experiences teaching them the importance of caring for our environment, recycling, reuse and sustainability, an ongoing project at Pebble Patch.

We have a Sustainability plan where children are activity involved in being energy efficient and reducing our carbon footprint.

Our children take care of….

** Children turn off lights when going outside
** Left over water collected and used to water plants
** Children put food scarps in compost bin
** Children sort rubbish into recycle bins
** Children care and water for our vegetable and sensory garden

A copy of our Sustainability Plan is located in our front foyer.

We hope this information about our “Sustainability warriors” inspire your children to implement these practices at home!

Happy Easter from Pebble Patch ELC

Our children have enjoyed the magic of Easter this week with creativity, story time, creating hats for an Easter Hat Parade, having fun finding Easter eggs in the garden, and meeting the Easter Bunny!

We wish our families and community a Happy and Safe Easter.

Harmony Week and International Friendship Day. At Pebble Patch.

Last week, we been celebrated Harmony Week. Our children and Educators held discussions, and explored how and why we all look different, encouraging children to observe and appreciate each other’s unique features and learning about different countries around the world.

A range of learning experiences occurred across the Centre. Our younger children in Gumnuts and Kangaroo Paws enjoys exploring different cultures through art, story telling and music.

While our older 3 year Kindergarten children in Wattles and 4 year Kindergarten in Waratahs learnt about their teachers cultures learning about Persia and Sri Lanka languages and counting in Japanese. Each day there was connection to our Local Aboriginal community and participating in Acknowledgement of Country.

Lively conversations were held about where we come from and invited the children to speak with their families about their cultural backgrounds and any special items that represent their heritage.

The Waratahs children created self-portraits and added their handprints to a classroom poster titled “Everyone is different, Everyone Belongs.”

The Wattles children created and decorated Harmony Flowers.

On Friday in recognition of the International Day of Happiness, children shared that they feel happy at Pebble Patch and discussed ways to show kindness to their friends, such as giving presents and sharing toys. To extend on these ideas, the Waratah children were invited to create friendship bracelets as a meaningful gift for a peer, promoting kindness, connection, and a sense of belonging.

To celebrate our Educators cultural backgrounds, we had a Harmony Day Educators lunch where we share food for our team to enjoy together upstairs.

What a wonderful culturally rich week of celebrating our Diverse community.

"Happy Holi"

Holi, is the vibrant Hindu "Festival of Colours" and "Festival of Love," marks the arrival of season changes and the victory of good over evil. Celebrated over two days (Holika Dahan and Rangwali Holi), it involves throwing colored powders (gulal), dancing, and repairing relationships.

On Friday, 6 March, our Educators and children participated in the "Color Run Fun!" at Pebble Patch.

A very colorful day!