Nido Early School Baldivis East

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On Tuesday 28 October, Nido Early School invites families to a live online webinar exploring how we can work together to keep children safe and well.

Hosted on Zoom by Catharine Hydon, respected early childhood consultant and sector leader, alongside Nadia Wilson-Ali, Nido’s Director of Education and Quality, this session will offer practical insights and meaningful conversation around creating safe, supportive environments for children, both at home and in early learning settings.

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☕Let's Spread Some Love, Smiles (and Caffeine)! ☕

Did you know Early Childhood Educators Day is just around the corner?! This year we will be celebrating it on Wednesday the 3rd of September 2025.

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📚Book Week 📚

This year we did a whole service theme… Alice in Wonderland…

We encouraged our children to join in and we were so impressed with the effort from our families to participate!

The effort of our team is to be congratulated and it was so exciting seeing everyone’s costumes and the joy it brought to the children!

We have had some amazing costumes from our families throughout the week and we have loved seeing all of our little characters rolling through the doors!

📚❤️ Book Fair ❤️📚

In line with book week, this week we will have a book fair running. We love to share some incredible titles and support our children to develop a love of reading as they develop their early literacy skills!

We have so many books this year and lots of different titles so we hope everyone will stop and have a look at what’s available! We are all set up ready to go for tomorrow…

In Classroom 4 we have pet stick insects which were donated by one of our families! They are called the Gilbert’s!

This morning while making sure their enclosure was cleaned, they had fresh leaves, and they had a spray Brodie took one of the Gilbert’s for a walk to see our Classroom 3 children! One of our children had been curious about them so we took one through for the children to explore!

Our Classroom 3 friends were incredibly brave, at first they were happy to just look and then they had a small touch until one of our extremely brave friends wanted to hold it! We talked about making sure we were gentle and how they felt spikey!

They have laid some eggs so in the coming months we may have some baby stick insects which will be very exciting!

🦋🍃Today we released the last of our butterflies!
We were lucky enough to have all 5 chrysalis’s emerge giving us 5 beautiful butterflies!

Billie was very sad to see her babies be released and they were very hesitant to fly away with it being so cold!

The children have loved seeing them emerge and have been able to watch the first butterflies be released! 🍃🦋

🦋🐛 Classroom 3 - Bug Exploration🐛🦋

Classroom 3 have been learning about bugs. Today we received our Chrysalis where we will hopefully see our butterflies emerge!
Our Classroom 3 children along with Billie set up our butterfly enclosure. We had to follow the instructions carefully to ensure they were set up and can continue to form into butterflies.
Billie hung the chrysalis’s up on the lid and we talked about what would come out of them!
One of our friends is hoping a dinosaur will emerge. We continued to talk about what we need to do to look after them and to help them grow, we found out we need to keep them moist and mist them twice a day!
Our friends this morning helped to spray them as they used the spray bottle to wet them a little bit. We will keep watching them and hopefully the butterflies emerge while we are in our class!

We can’t wait to show you our butterflies 🦋 t

🪱 Worm Farm 🪱

Today Tiharne worked with some of our Classroom 5 children to set up our worm farm!

We had to use some shredded paper and wet the soil so it was moist, our friends helped to mix and pour the water! We then got ready for the worms to be added, this was the best part! We poured the bag of worms in and watched as they squirmed to the bottom trying to pick the up so we could have a better look.
We spent a lot of time holding the worms and watching them wiggle around! We talked about the blanket we had to put on top of them before we put the lid on and we made sure they had some food!
We put some of the food scraps that had been collected in the worm farm so they had something to eat and talked about what they can and cant eat!

“It’s wiggling on my finger”
“Look I’m holding it”
“Look I found a big capsicum for the worms”
“Look I found a carrot”

We can’t wait to get some worm tea to share with all of our families and to keep collecting our scraps to feed our wiggly worms!

🐝 Classrooom 3 - Buzzing Bee 🐝

In Classroom 3 our children’s current interest is bugs and bees! This morning we painted our own bees and then one of our friends asked to do some yellow playdough!
Brooke, one of our Classroom 3 educators, made some amazing yellow playdough so the children could use it to create their own bees! We had leaves and flowers because we know the bees love the flowers! 💐

Our children used their imagination as well as their fine and gross motor skills to manipulate the playdough and roll it into balls and worms. They used the flowers to stand up in the playdough and stuck the sticks into it to leave different markings!

We are very excited to continue learning about bees and to receive our butterfly kit so we can watch the butterflies hatch!

✨ NAIDOC WEEK ✨

Today across some of our classrooms children have been engaging with Aboriginal symbols looking at the different methods of communication that are used! Children attempted to copy the symbols in the red sand and in the older classrooms they were encouraged to tell a story using the symbols.

Some children used playdough to create the symbols by rolling small amounts of dough and manipulating them to look as similar as they could again allowing them to look at other ways Aboriginal people can communicate.

We also looked the book Noongar first words where child were able to attempt to speak in the Noongar language and learn some words they can use when talking with their friends and teachers!

🍃🎓A huge congratulations to our chef Tiharne for completing her Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care.. 🎓🍃

What a big achievement to complete your qualifications while still ensuring all of our children were provided with the best food possible! We appreciate all that you do and love watching your growth over the past 2 and half years!

Please take the time to congratulate Tiharne ✨