One of the major parts of our learning environments for the Toddlers is our garden. We’ve successfully grown a few sorts of vegetables this year, including our bumper crop of cabbages we have just started to pick from the seeds that were sown in March! Taking …

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Our visit from Dr Lucy, a Scientist at the University of Queensland,  – Nat in Junior Kindy’s daughter – and her experiments with “where do burps come from” sparked a new line of interest for our Toddlers! We’ve explored explosions with chemicals, colour mixing and are …

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Term Two saw an increased interest in all things DINOSAUR with the Toddlers experimenting with social play, learning fun facts about ancient creatures and even a trip out to the Museum with some of our family volunteers! We worked really hard as a team to create …

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A regular feature in the Toddler program is learning more about the green world in which we live. The Toddler’s take part in planting seeds, helping to care for them with water, pulling weeds and eventually taste testing our wares within food we cook for our …

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April was the end of our first term learning project – CONNECTIONS – which saw the Toddlers out and about in the West End Community on an excursion to our favourite local park (and home to Kurilpa’s end of year party), Lyon’s Park. It was a …

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Clay provides such an expansive range of opportunities for our Toddlers to build upon a range of skills. It’s manipulative – working fine motor skills with pinching, prodding and scraping our fingertips through the squishy surface. It’s a side by side (parallel) learning opportunity – we …

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We had such a great turn up at the Parent Information which really helped us start our year strengthening the connection between our home and Kurilpa life. We’ve created goals for our year ahead and have become ever so busy in the first Project of the …

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A Toddler Vegetable Garden Cooking Adventure! Savoury Sauce 1 cup silverbeet leaves and stalks 2 cloves garlic 1 brown onion 1 tomato Bread 3 1/3 cup plain flour 1 sachet yeast (7g) 1 1/2 cup luke warm water extra flour for kneading Method Savoury Sauce Roughly …

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The latest project our Toddlers are undertaking is “WATER.” This project has us asking all sorts of questions about this great natural element. Where does it come from? Why can it change forms? Who looks after it in our environment? What does it do for our …

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During the months of July – October, the Toddler’s learning project was “BEING GREEN.” This was quite a broad spectrum to fill, but the Toddler’s interest and curiosity saw it take many twists and turns covering a range of subjects! We made a great vegetable garden, …

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