Mikarie Child Care Centre

💛🟡🟨It’s Colour Week at Mikarie Playgroup 💛🟡🟨

Join us tomorrow as well look at all things yellow.

For our littlest learners, this will be sensory play with safe yellow household items like sponges and crinkle paper.

For the older kids we’ll be creating sun art with different yellow objects!

As always, our sessions are thoughtfully tailored to meet the unique needs of every child.

Session Times:
📍 Mikarie Child Care Centre Playgroup Room
9:15 – 10:15am
10:30 – 11:30am

🔗 Register now: www.sylvanvale.com.au/services/mikarie-playgroup/

🐶🐭🐵It’s Animal Week at Mikarie Playgroup 🐶🐭🐵

Join us tomorrow as we discover the world of animals and nature.

For our littlest learners, this will be identifying different animals through cards and play and reading animal books.
For the older kids, we’ll feed pretend animals and create animal masks!
As always, our sessions are thoughtfully tailored to meet the unique needs of every child.

Session Times:
📍 Mikarie Child Care Centre Playgroup Room
9:15 – 10:15am
10:30 – 11:30am

🔗 Register now: www.sylvanvale.com.au/services/mikarie-playgroup/

Today at Mikarie, we’re celebrating the amazing Early Childhood Educators who make our centre such a special place for children to grow and learn.

Early Childhood Educators Day is a chance to recognise the care and passion these professionals bring to their work every single day.

To say thank you, we treated our educators to a gift pack, a delicious morning tea, relaxing massages, and thoughtful messages from the families they support.

Please join us in showing your gratitude to these everyday heroes who help shape the future, one child at a time.

🌦☀️🌪It’s Weather Week at Mikarie Playgroup 🌦☀️🌪

Join us tomorrow as we explore weather and temperature!

For our littlest learners, we’ll being doing sensory play with seasonal textures, and for the older kids we’ll be creating weather-related art.

As always, our sessions are thoughtfully tailored to meet the unique needs of every child.

Session Times:
📍 Mikarie Child Care Centre Playgroup Room
9:15 – 10:15am
10:30 – 11:30am

🔗 Register now: www.sylvanvale.com.au/services/mikarie-playgroup/

⏰Scheduling change for Mikarie Playgroup⏰

Mikarie Playgroup will now be held every Tuesday from 9:15am.

We understand that changes to routine can be disruptive, and we appreciate your flexibility. We hope this new schedule will make it easier for families to attend regularly and enjoy the benefits of our inclusive, all-abilities playgroup supporting children’s early learning and helping prepare them for school.

Join us next Tuesday for Weather Week ☁️☀️⛈️

Session Times:
📍 Mikarie Child Care Centre Playgroup Room
9:15 – 10:15am
10:30 – 11:30am

🔗 Register here: https://www.sylvanvale.com.au/services/mikarie-playgroup/

🔵🔺🔶 It’s Shapes and Blocks Week at Supported Playgroup 🔵🔺🔶

Join us this Thursday for a fun and engaging discovery of shapes.

For our littlest leaners this means playing with shape-sorting toys and looking at black and white shape cards during tummy time.

For older kids this looks like painting with shape sponges while naming each shape, and matching cut-out shapes to trays or mats.

As always, our sessions are thoughtfully tailored to meet the unique needs of every child.

Session Times:
📍 Mikarie Child Care Centre Playgroup Room
9:15 – 10:15am
10:30 – 11:30am

🔗 Register now: mikariechildcarecentre.com.au/supported-playgroup

It’s Alphabet Week at Supported Playgroups!
Join us this Thursday for a fun and engaging exploration of letters.

For our littlest learners (under 1s), we’ll be playing Letter Peek-a-Book to introduce letters of the alphabet.
For older children, we’ll dive into alphabet playdough and letter sorting activities designed to help kids discover how letters work together in words.

As always, our sessions are thoughtfully tailored to meet the unique needs of every child.

Session Times:
📍 Mikarie Child Care Centre Playgroup Room
9:15 – 10:15am
10:30 – 11:30am

🔗 Register now: mikariechildcarecentre.com.au/supported-playgroup

🥳 Hip hip, hooray! 🥳

Today at Mikarie Child Care Centre, our little learners helped us celebrate a very special milestone - our 14th birthday! 🎂🎈

We’re incredibly proud to have spent the past 14 years supporting children of all abilities in a safe, inclusive, and nurturing environment. With the backing of our amazing community, we look forward to continuing this journey for many more years to come.

From fairy bread to decorating, pin the candle on the cake and much more, we’ve had a blast!

👉 Take a look at all the fun activities the kids enjoyed today!

🎶 "Like birds of a feather, we stick together!" 🎶

This International Day of Friendship, our little learners are showing us the true meaning of connection 💛

From sharing smiles to lending a helping hand, let’s take a moment today to celebrate our friends and family. How will you show appreciation to someone special?