Puddleducks in Brookvale, New South Wales, Australia | Childcare service

Puddleducks

Locality: Brookvale, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9905 9328

Address: 24 Robert Avenue, North Manly 2100 Brookvale, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.puddleducks.com.au

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23.01.2022 Snowpeas a plenty, ready to harvest #gardening #Snowpeas #Veggiepatch

22.01.2022 Spontaneous play: continuing on with the children’s interest of dinosaurs, in the afternoon the children participated in a spontaneous science experiment. We made a volcano then the children were encouraged to paint what they saw.

21.01.2022 Spring time means more water play hooray!

20.01.2022 Fine motor building with tongs Here we are harvesting the ripe red tomatoes and leaving the green ones for later Great activity for colour recognition too!

18.01.2022 Our fuzzy friends polka dot , Amelia egghart, and Hattie the hen love exploring our outdoor area and having cuddles with the children. While children love furry and feathery cuddles and experience the different ways that animals look, eat, move, sound and feel-research also shows that animal interactions can actually improve children's social interactions, reduce anxiety, and increase motivation. Many believe that animals can be the 'fourth teacher's- a conduit to learning and a way to incorporate the Reggio Emilia approach in our program.

16.01.2022 Extending upon the children’s fine motor and sensory skills. The children used tweezers at the finger gym to pick up different t coloured eggs and sort them based on their colours to different trays. Easter sensory mats: helps to build nerve connections in the brain. It encourages the development of motor skills. It supports language development.... It encourages 'scientific thinking' and problem solving. It can involve mindful activities which are beneficial for all children. See more

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15.01.2022 March 2021 is Veggie Month! At Puddleducks, we are utilising this wonderful opportunity to teach our children about the importance of vegetables in their own lives and in the world around them. As part of this new learning journey, we will focusing our intentional teaching experiences on: -The importance of vegetables in our everyday diet and their many benefits to our overall health and well-being. This will include a Healthy Harold incursion, where Healthy Harold’s van w...ill visit us to deliver engaging and age appropriate activities to teach the children about making healthy eating choices. -The environmental benefits of growing vegetables in our own veggie garden by using the Woolworths Discovery Garden initiative. - A crunch video streaming veggie experience with other preschool who are also participating in Veggie month! This will allow us to make connections to other preschool who are a learning about the same topic -Students will have opportunities to use their five senses to taste, smell and feel the different vegetables we will grow. This will also be linked to numeracy concepts as it will be very exciting to measure the growth over the vegetables in our own Puddle Ducks garden over the month of March. -We love story time each and every day so of course the children will be exposed to a range of books about healthy eating and vegetables. -Students will also be encouraged to think scientifically by predicting which veggies they think will grow the fastest in our garden. -Information for parents on positive eating habits will be displayed on our Health and Safety board throughout the month of March. We are very excited about Veggie Month!

14.01.2022 Exploring measurement during today’s lesson on animals that grow in eggs

13.01.2022 Healthy Harold incursion This morning we enjoyed a visit from Harold and his helper Kylie. Harold and Kylie talked about how important it is to have a healthy lifestyle by choosing healthy foods, exercising, brushing our teeth, and wearing sun protection when outside. The Puddleducks all got to participate in this fun presentation by helping Harold pack his lunchbox with healthy snacks and practicing brushing the funny big teeth . We also practiced some stretching and had a boogie to the music to get our bodies moving. Thank you Harold and Kylie for visiting us and and talking to us about staying healthy.

11.01.2022 Today we harvested Rocket from our veggie patch, which has gone to seed and grown like crazy in the spring weather This rocket is as tall as me! Said one child, measuring himself against the stems Peter our rabbit enjoyed munch on it We have kept the rocket flowers and will be drying and pressing them

09.01.2022 A simply and effective way to develop fine motor skills. Older / more advanced children were encouraged to create patterns to further develop their ability to understand and design patterns.

07.01.2022 Harvesting #tomato #seeds from old tomatoes A great way to build fine motor strength and reuse tomatoes that have gone soft

06.01.2022 School readiness: Measuring our seedlings Continuing with the children’s Interest with our growing our woolies plants. Week by week the Ducks will be measuring our plants using a ruler as a formal measurement tool.. Miss Steph modelled how to hold the ruler at the base of the stem and read the numbers where the seedling is touching at its highest point. Miss Steph intentionally made a number graph as a visual aid to discuss mathematical and critical thinking skills as I que...stioned them about identifying seedling which grew the most and the least amount! The children continued to work on their guided artwork about vegetables that grow under ground. They developed their fine motor skills as they used scissors to cut around the veggies, and glueing and pasting skills

06.01.2022 Our veggie patch has been blooming with the lovely spring weather and we have been working with the children to decide what to grow next. Their choice was....TOMATOES! Here is a great little video made with the Puddleducks kids about how you can grow tomatoes by reusing the seeds

06.01.2022 Continuing with our tomato theme for the week, Educators have been using tomato activities in group lessons to help the older Ducklings build their numeracy and counting skills and the younger Ducklings learn to recognise patterns

03.01.2022 This week our Ducks group has been exploring all things egg! From shark eggs, to drawing, to phonic matching games we have been having an egg-cellent time!