Macquarie Family Day Care in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory | Primary School

Macquarie Family Day Care

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: +61 428 502 917

Address: 7 Ulva Place 2614 Canberra, ACT, Australia

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25.01.2022 We finally got around to making our weather chart. We've had many discussions this week about the crazy weather and have spotted two rainbows!the perfect day for craft project....

24.01.2022 Following on from last weeks Dinosaur hunt, this week we went fossil digging! The children worked collaboratively an persistently to chip open their egg to reveal their fossil. Another free activity in Canberra loved by everyone

23.01.2022 A short but sweet final week to the school holidays... apple picking with friends at Pialligo and planting natives at Erindale Community Gardens with other FDC children and educators. #enjoyingautumninCBR

22.01.2022 Ive just found out that I have been chosen to receive a scholorship to study Bachelors of Education - yippeeee!!!!

21.01.2022 We had such fun connecting with our emergency response crew at playgroup. Callum and Cooper showed great confidence by having a go on the hose! We learnt about the truck and the crew..Our nature based playgroup this week took us to Fadden Pines - it was a bit chilly but we had a ball enjoying and learning about the environment, risky play inc jumping in very muddy puddles and collecting pine cones for our craft project. We also welcomed David into the gang. Annalises baby brother is too cute for words and enjoying all the attention

21.01.2022 A beautiful cold Winters morning spent at The Cotter this week. The learning that took.place includes how the river flows and carries items downstream, water droplets create coloured rays when the sun shines through them, handprints on frozen benches look cool and our dam is releasing water after the recent rain. Such a valuable teaching environment and it never fails to relax me #MFDClovesthecotter

20.01.2022 Inside snow day!

20.01.2022 Two reindeers ready for the Communities@work playgroup Christmas party. Thanks for a great year Ntia, see you in 2016!

19.01.2022 We hope everyone has a great Australia Day on Tuesday. We made these fab native animal mobiles and displayed them on our hanging branch

19.01.2022 Why are provocations so great? You can present the children with absolutely anything meaningful and watch in amazement as they discover, explore and create. I love days at home with the children roaming between dramatic play and exploration.

19.01.2022 This week is National Family Daycare Week- every child is a star! We celebrated by having a day out at the Deep Space Complex, Tidbinbilla. Cooper had spotted a plane in the sky recently and commented that it looked like a rocket! So we decided to investigate further.... the children were in awe of the Rockets, space suits and planets! They asked if we could create our own outer space at home...of course we can, watch this space

18.01.2022 Step 1. Collect some really cool natural materials from our local community. Step 2. Using your creativity, paint a lizard or frog. Step 3. Select materials wanted for your pet frog or lizards shoebox(home) habitat. Step 4. Love your pet

18.01.2022 We had a simply stunning morning at the Cork Oak Forest at the Arboretum. We enjoyed morning tea amongst the trees, explored,collected some cork bark to take home to paint , indulged in some risky play climbing trees and enjoyed stories under the canopy. A new favourite of ours. Thanks Theresa at Communities@work

17.01.2022 This morning we went to Sideshow Alley exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery - Death masks (inc Ned Kellys!), convict records and wax faces interested us all. We then played some traditional games, did craft and were treated to puppet show narrated by Laney who remembered the story from her learnings at Pre-school last year....

16.01.2022 We finally got around to making our weather chart. Weve had many discussions this week about the crazy weather and have spotted two rainbows!the perfect day for craft project....

16.01.2022 Another morning at one of Canberras finest. The children learnt about uniforms, life in the trenches and the animals and vehicles of war. Followed by craft, of course! Our military history should be instilled in all Australians and yourre never too young (or old) to learn

16.01.2022 Yay we made the front page!!! My interview on pg 4. ....

16.01.2022 School.holiday fun Cockington Green village and gardens. Everyone loved our morning spent looking around the model village and riding the train

15.01.2022 On Wednesday we visited one of my favourite places, The Botanical Gardens. The warm weather brought out heaps of wildlife to enjoy and the children loved the rainforest walk. Equipped with their binoculars the children spotted birds, interesting plants, a bee hotel (!) and lizards warming up in the sun. Fantastic learning taking place in this wonderful city of ours #explorecbr

14.01.2022 Spring is definately in the air and weve been so busy! So much learning has taken place in a number of different environments. Weve been enjoying the sunshine as well as some activities at home. Our experiences include book week, meeting koalas, being scientists and supporting Callum when it was his turn to feed the lambs at school. Enjoy the photos!

14.01.2022 A beautiful cold Winter's morning spent at The Cotter this week. The learning that took.place includes how the river flows and carries items 'downstream', water droplets create coloured rays when the sun shines through them, handprints on frozen benches look cool and our dam is releasing water after the recent rain. Such a valuable teaching environment and it never fails to relax me #MFDClovesthecotter

13.01.2022 Change of plan, we went on a snow hunt! We drove up to Tidbinbilla and found heaps of snow and plenty of roos enjoying it too. A cold but fun morning exploring the white stuff

12.01.2022 Riding and swinging in the rain #wedontcare

11.01.2022 First day back today, enjoying getting reacquainted and making picture frames for our this is us display...

11.01.2022 This week we revisited our Community Garden to continue caring for our plants, I also set up an office environment for the children to enjoy. Kaitlin has show interest in this type of associative play. She lead roleplay games with other children by ordering lunch, booking swimming and phoning Mum. Kaitling displayed leadership qualities whilst enjoying an area of interest to her. some administrators in the making I think!......

09.01.2022 We had another fantastic morning with the roaming playgroup. Today Lori from Grassroots met us at the shores of Lake Ginninderra to be waterbug detectives! We splashed, skimmed stones, used nets to find bugs and enquired into what we found and what lives in the lake. Local aboriginal man Adam also showed us bush tucker and remedies in the form of grasses, seeds and plants. Thank you Commsatwork FDC team, another wonderful activity

09.01.2022 Our welcome board upon which the children and I place our own photo when we check in each day has had a Christmas face lift courtesy of Cassidy - all ready for a week of Christmas parties, craft and fun!!!

08.01.2022 Our space display is complete! I know youve been dying to see it finished Moons, stars, planetss and rockets- we love it! Good job Cooper, Eli and Callum!

08.01.2022 This week Ive intentionally exposed the children to different learning environments. This is a big part of my program, a method which teaches children to see each environmemt as a new learning opportunity. Were still enjoying this beautiful Autumn weather #AutumninCBR

07.01.2022 We had an awesome morning at comms@work pop up play group. We made a truly magnificent didgeridoo, looked for (and found) bugs, did some drawings and other games. Thank you Theresa Roberts and Linda White for the massive effort we also started our sustainability project by freeing our community of litter. Our litter collectors did a great job! This experience demonstred children becoming socially responsible and show respect for the environment (EYLF 2.4) and collaborating with others..... (EYLF5.3)

06.01.2022 A week of Easter activities inc painting eggs, collage and making bunny baskets ready for our egg hunt this afternoon. Along with a great morning a Australias Biggest Playgroup yesterday a really great week! Happy Easter everyone!

06.01.2022 Our final excursion of the year to the beautiful Tidbinbilla. We made damper and cooked it on the fire, washed our sticky hands in the stream and had a bush walk before tasting our produce - yum! The grown ups even had billie tea. Another wonderful educational experience for the children organised by the Comms@work team

05.01.2022 Settling our new members of the gang, lots of boys to keep me busy! Weve been making dinosaur islands, eggs and fossils....heaps of fun!

05.01.2022 A fantastic outdoor playgroup run by Comms@work this morning. Craft, fun and games for all. So great to have a catch up with my fellow educators and a coupke of sausage sandwiches

03.01.2022 Spring is definately in the air and we've been so busy! So much learning has taken place in a number of different environments. We've been enjoying the sunshine as well as some activities at home. Our experiences include book week, meeting koalas, being scientists and supporting Callum when it was his turn to feed the lambs at school. Enjoy the photos!

03.01.2022 Phew, Christmas party all done. The children enjoyed some Christmas craft, water play, lovely food and a visit from Santa himself..... Merry Christmas everyone!

02.01.2022 I love the Green shed! Todays finds included a water/sand table for the Daycare children to enjoy and a bike for Laney....

01.01.2022 We had a wonderful morning at Jerrabomberra Wetlands this week. The children loved exploring amongst the tall grasses and spotting wildlife. We collected so many different types of grass we brought some home use as paintbrushes to see what different paint effects they could make. Fantastic explorative play opportunites whilst connecting with the local environment. The Chronicle newspaper came along to do a piece on our roaming playgroup. Catch the article in Tuesdays paper....we also had a birthday this week! Keir turned 2 - we celebrated with lots of home made cake, yum!

01.01.2022 Happy 2nd Birthday to our gorgeous day care friend Cooper! Callum and I made a lovely gluten free chocolate cake to celebrate.... Quote of the occasion from Cassie "I didnt know Gluten Free could be so delicious!" #loveabirthdaycake