Alpha Early Learning Centre

𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲 🍂
𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝐺𝑢𝑚𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑚𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑏𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑝𝑖𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠-𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚.

𝑻𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒚’𝒔 '𝑬𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒋𝒊𝒗𝒆' 𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒖𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕! 🏃‍♀️🎈
𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝐺𝑢𝑚𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑠' 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔—𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘.
𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦, 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠—𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 😊

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬❤️
𝐴𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑓𝑢𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠-𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠.
𝑇𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑘𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑎 (𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑠), 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑒, 𝑚𝑖𝑥 𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑦𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑔𝑔𝑠, 𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑙.
𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠, 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦-𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔.

𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩 𝘼𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙎𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙏𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙩
𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘬𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘢—𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴-𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥, 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺. 🙌💙
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦… 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵? 𝘌𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭-𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥! 😋🎉

𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝑶𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒅𝒐𝒙 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔🩵🌍
𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑂𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑥 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒.
𝑊𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑠ℎ: 𝑏𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑠ℎ 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑑.

𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝑾𝒆𝒆𝒌 @ 𝑨𝒍𝒑𝒉𝒂
Over the past two weeks, children across all rooms have been actively celebrating Nature Play Week through hands-on, sensory-rich experiences. Our children explored natural materials in many meaningful ways — playing with autumn leaves, pinecones, seed pods, bark, and other nature treasures. They enjoyed leaf play outdoors, water play, and creative learning experiences using natural loose parts. Some children created and explored nature collages and insect-inspired art, while others engaged in small world play with dinosaurs, plants, and natural items. The children also participated in group learning experiences, where they matched and discussed different autumn nature items such as red leaves, brown leaves, chestnuts, seed pods, and pinecones. These activities supported curiosity, sensory exploration, language development, creativity, and a deeper connection with the natural world. It has been wonderful to see children from all rooms learning through play, discovery, and exploration in nature.

𝐀𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐜 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
During the week of Anzac Day, we explored its meaning through discussions, watching the parade to the Shrine of Remembrance on YouTube, and reading What Will I See on Anzac Day by Emily Small. Our focus was on gratitude, mateship, and peace, helping children understand the importance of this national day and how it contributes to Australia and New Zealand being safe and peaceful places to live. We reflected on the courage and sacrifice of veterans, introduced real medals and a veteran’s jacket, and discussed what it means to “live in peace.”
The children engaged in a range of hands-on experiences, including creating poppies, making individual wreaths, and collaborating on a group poster titled “Lest We Forget.” They explored the maps of Australia and New Zealand, added images of veterans, and proudly wore poppies on their chests. To conclude, we practised singing the Australian national anthem and observed a minute’s silence to honour and thank those who served.

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗖𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 - 𝗛𝗨𝗚𝗚𝗬 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗥𝗢𝗢𝗠

This month, children explored the life cycle of an apple tree through hands-on and engaging experiences.
A learning table with books, pictures, and real apples encouraged sensory exploration, discussions, and curiosity about how apples grow and why fruits are important for our health.
Children developed fine motor skills through a lacing apple activity and explored early math concepts by sorting apples by size.
The experience was extended through creative art, where children painted apples and sequenced the stages of the apple tree's life cycle.
A wonderful month of learning, creativity, and discovery!

𝑳𝙞𝒕𝙩𝒍𝙚 𝙃𝒂𝙣𝒅𝙨, 𝑩𝙞𝒈 𝑰𝙙𝒆𝙖𝒔: 𝙍𝒆𝙘𝒚𝙘𝒍𝙞𝒏𝙜 𝙏𝒉𝙧𝒐𝙪𝒈𝙝 𝘾𝒓𝙚𝒂𝙩𝒊𝙫𝒊𝙩𝒚

Our 3-year-olds, Smarties, have been exploring how to recycle and reuse materials through creative play and art. Using their imagination, children transformed everyday resources into amazing creations — “dinosaurs,” “diggers,” a “house,” a “lion,” a “building,” and even a “tree.”

This experience supports children’s understanding of sustainability while encouraging creativity, problem-solving, and self-expression. 🌱🎨

𝙏𝒉𝙚 𝘽𝒆𝙣𝒆𝙛𝒊𝙩𝒔 𝒐𝙛 𝙉𝒂𝙩𝒖𝙧𝒂𝙡 𝙖𝒏𝙙 𝙍𝒆𝙘𝒚𝙘𝒍𝙚𝒅 𝑴𝙖𝒕𝙚𝒓𝙞𝒂𝙡𝒔 𝒊𝙣 𝙀𝒂𝙧𝒍𝙮 𝙇𝒆𝙖𝒓𝙣𝒊𝙣𝒈
Using natural and recycled materials in early learning years of education supports children’s overall development. These resources foster creativity, build fine and gross motor skills, and enhance problem-solving and memory. They also offer valuable opportunities to explore science concepts through hands-on play. Nature-based experiences nurture curiosity, a sense of wonder, and respect for the environment.
Additionally, they support sensory and physical development while promoting environmental awareness and sustainability.