Little Beginnings Education Forrestfield

This week, the children explored the letter I, numbers 1–10, and the colour green through a variety of hands-on learning experiences. They enjoyed activities such as making an ice cream craft, building blocks to match numbers, searching for green objects, and practising cutting skills. These experiences helped develop the children’s letter recognition, counting, fine motor, and language skills in a fun and engaging way.

Yesterday, our toddlers had so much fun making cookies for Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea ☕🍪 They helped the educators mix the ingredients, shape the cookies, and work together as a team. The children were very proud of the cookies they made and enjoyed every moment of the cooking experience together 💛

Fun tape challenge.
Today, the Schoolies had a fun tape challenge. They used plastic knife to move an object along the tape lines from shelf to shelf, finishing at the final point on the table. The Schoolies had lots of fun cheering each other on and stayed fully focused while completing the challenge. This activity helped develop their concentration , coordination and problem solving skills.

Last Friday ,the children were actively engaged and enjoyed the transportation messy play experience. They used a sensory tray filled with sand, water, scoops, and trucks to explore and create. The children demonstrated curiosity and creativity as they poured, scooped, and mixed different materials while driving their cars around the mud they had created. This activity supported the development of sensory exploration, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, imaginative play, and social interaction.

Last week, the children in Babies room had a wonderful time making their own pretend pizzas using playdough! 🍕The children rolled, pressed, and shaped the dough using rolling pins and their hands before adding different picture ingredients such as pineapple, tomato, and other vegetables. This fun hands-on activity helped develop their imaginations and fine motor muscles.

This week, the children explored the letter H through a variety of hands-on activities, helping them recognise its sound at the beginning of words. They also developed their early numeracy skills by playing number bingo, counting cookies from 1–10, and recognising numbers 1–6. In addition, the children learned about the shape rectangle by colouring and discussing a robot made from different-sized rectangles.

This week our toddlers became little chefs as they made were engaged in making playdough pizzas. They rolled, shaped, and moulded the playdough into delicious pretend pizzas before decorating them with colourful sprinkles and sparkling glitter toppings. The children then carefully placed their pizzas into the “oven” to bake. This sensory-rich activity supported fine motor development, creativity, and imaginative play while also encouraging the children to explore different textures, colours, and pretend cooking experiences.

The kindy children are practising their cutting skills, which helps with their hand-eye coordination. Cutting with scissors helps develop vital physical and cognitive skills. It builds fine motor strength, and bilateral coordination which teaches them the ability to use both hands at the same time (one holding the paper, the other cutting). The educator drew a dot on their thumb so they could remember that the thumb was always at the top.

Today in the babies’ room, the children enjoyed making a lantern craft using paper doilies, glue, red cellophane and pink shredded paper. They explored colours and textures while developing fine motor skills, sensory awareness, creativity, curiosity and confidence through the fun art experience.

This week, the children explored a variety of learning experiences, including recognising the letter H, building confidence by sharing their strengths, and investigating reflection through a simple science activity. They also practised their cutting and fine motor skills by creating monster faces and enjoyed making yellow playdough together. These activities supported the children’s language development, confidence, curiosity, teamwork, and fine motor skills.