News from the Baby Room 1 – July 2025
Gromit and Feathers McGraw Have you met Gromit and Feathers McGraw? Come rain or shine we are ‘out-and-about’ in our city! We love our local Neighbourhoods Geographies Histories Cultures Memories We love to talk and play in the city We love being out-and-about in our...
Summer Celebrations!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Thank you to ALL the children, families, practitioners, musicians, cooks and chefs who made our Summer Picnics so delightful! A summer celebration full of love and laughter food and family dance and music song and smiles! … and a...
Clay Day, We Played with Clay!
Clay is like magic! It transforms and changes in your hands. You can bend and twist it, smooth and shape it. You can make anything from it. And then change it back again! What an intelligent material… so full of endless possibilities. Rhea our Clay Artist has been...
News from the Baby Room 1 – May 2025
Clay Play Rhea – our amazing Artist-in-Residence – has been “claying” with children from Babies to Nursery – and teaching and supporting all of us to play and explore with clay. We have been; Squeezing Slicing Pushing Tapping Rolling Pressing Scraping Cutting Pulling...
News from the Baby Room 1 – April 2025
Boing, Whoosh, Push and Pull! We have been so busy with our bodies! In our Baby Shack we have been biking and brushing, driving and digging. Zooming down the ramp and pushing the bike back up. Sweeping up and taking care of our Baby Shack. And having to coordinate...
News from the Baby Room 1 – February 2025
Peek-a-Boo and Bubble Dance Being together and belonging together. Peek-a-Boo I know you! (they seem to say) Bubble-bubble POP! (they seem to say) The children have been fascinated with each other, drawing each other into play and explorations. Their play so...
News from the Baby Room 1 – December 2024
We are Messy Scientists We do love mess! We are using our WHOLE bodies! We are so so curious and interested in how things feel, look, smell, taste and sound. Shaving foam SQUISHES! Shaving foam is SLIMEY! Shaving foam goes SPLAT! Fingers and toes are great tools for...
News from the Baby Room 1 – October 2024
Chop Chop Bananas! We love promoting independence and helping children know how capable and competent they are as learners to do things for themselves. In Baby Room 1 we have been supporting children to confidently explore their space, their room, their resources.And...
News from the Baby Room 1 – May 2024
Making Tzatsiki We have been going on a learning journey with our planted herbs. We planted some herbs a month ago and decided we wanted to make Tzatsiki to dip our breadsticks in. The children have been watering the plants and caring for them since we planted them,...
News from the Baby Room 1 – March 2024
BIKES OUT! We love to be BIG BOLD MOVERS! And some of the older children have been having adventures on the bikes to explore push and pull, balance and coordination. The children have been creating relationships with each other by supporting one another, modelling how...
