Time 4 Kindy

Book Week at T4K 📚 The children came in with their costumes and favourite stories from home. We had a surprise visit from a bear who engaged the children actively in a play of ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’. The children continued to develop their literacy skills this week through meaningful experiences.

Happy Father’s Day to all those celebrating! We had a great afternoon shared with all the wonderful dads and grandads who came in for a BBQ and some fun activities.

Can you guess what our educators dressed up as? 🖍

Thankyou to the lovely ladies at ‘The Hive Cafe’ on Bellingara Rd for having us. The children had their money and ordered their milkshakes at the counter. The children then had a play on the equipment and met some very lovely people from our community, including some elderly from the nursing home.

We aim to take our children out weekly to explore their wider community. Our park visits allow children to explore their immediate environment while promoting investigation and curiosity. Our children practice life skills such as road safety while we walk their together, interacting with their surroundings and strengthening relationships. Our children are confident and resilient beings.

An exciting visit from the firemen at Miranda Fire Station 🚒 Our T4K children were so engaged during their fire safety demonstration where they learnt how to safely exit a fire and what to do if their clothes catch on fire. The firemen invited the children to spray the hose and investigate the fire truck. The children were able to explore our wider community and get a better understanding of the role that firefighters have.

We are developing the children’s sense of identity through intentional learning experiences. We set up 2 chairs on either side of the glass and offered some black paint along with thin paint brushes. The children were invited to observe their peer through the glass, and simply paint what they see. This sparked curiosity as they developed a positive sense of identity about themselves and their diverse peers. It was beautiful to observe conversations amongst the children as they commented on their peers unique features. “I like your short hair that sits on your face” “You have big eyes that look kind of green and brown, I love them” “Your face is different to mine, it’s easy to paint”

Weekly Excursions at T4K 🌳 Our children are given the opportunity to investigate and show curiosity to their world through our excursions. They are able to interact with their community and strengthen relationships with their educators and peers while being outside our T4K walls.

💛NAIDOC week continued
Our children had a special performance by Uncle Troy, who is Koori person. Uncle Troy combined dance, storytelling and music to teach our children and educators about our Nations first people. This was an interactive performance that had all our children and educators involved in dream time story telling. By embedding cultural learning, it can impart the wonder of Indigenous knowledge, and support Aboriginal children’s sense of identity and belonging, as well as promoting a culture of understanding and respect towards cultural diversity for all children.

🎨 NAIDOC week
Our children were given the opportunity to be inspired by indigenous art and interpret it and represent it through their creative piece.
Some of the children’s voices after looking at the art were, “swirly and colourful”, “it’s beautiful so it makes you feel happy” and “it represents the earth”. The children explored their own creativity and recreated their own pieces while developing and strengthening many of their skills. How beautiful are they!

🌌One of our children has come in and expressed how scared and worried they have been feeling, because they’ve started to have nightmares. We talked about our feelings during group time and acknowledged how scary it feels to have these sorts of dreams. However, these dreams are made up by our minds and not real. We set up an experience for all the children to construct and decorate their own dream catches after watching a short illustrated film about the magic of a dream catcher. Our children felt safe, secure and supported while developing skills through this planned experience 🌌

🌱 This week, our children continued their learning from Reconciliation week. They were curious about how paint was made and were given opportunities to make their own paint, using rocks and oil. The children strengthened their gross motor skills while grinding the rocks and particpated in this hands on experience which allows the children to further explore methods and ways of indigenous Australians. All this learning is taking place while engaging in something familiar to them, painting! 🌱