Hewish Road Child Care Centre

🎨🎵🦕 A Day Full of Wonder and Play!

What a beautiful, busy day in our rooms! Our little ones have been exploring, creating and discovering in so many wonderful ways! 💛

Our babies have been jamming together with xylophones, maracas and drums — shaking, tapping and crawling their way through a full music session! 🎶 So much joy in those tiny hands!
Our sensory tray was a hit, with little fingers exploring buttons, pom poms, feathers, paddle pop sticks and so much more! 🌈

The toddlers got creative painting on balls and canvases with blue and green, showing brilliant concentration and imagination! 🖌️

We also loved watching our little ones explore a gorgeous dinosaur felt board — moving, sorting and creating their own prehistoric world! 🦖🌋

And of course, cuddles with the stuffed animals in front of the mirror is always a favourite — building self-awareness and nurturing skills at the same time! 🧸🐻

Every moment is a learning moment — and we love every single one! 😊

🌟💛 Little Learners, Big Moments!

From our tiniest explorers to our toddlers, every corner of our room has been buzzing with curiosity and discovery today! 🥰

Our youngest ones are building strength and coordination through tummy time, reaching for toys and exploring the world around them 🎵, while our babies explored amazing sensory bags — squishing, pressing and watching colours move beneath their hands! 🟣🟡

Our toddlers have been deep in imaginative play — tenderly wrapping and caring for their baby dolls, showing such beautiful empathy and nurturing behaviour 🧸💕

And we love seeing our little artists confidently making their mark — bright chalk lines on black paper, bold and proud! ✏️🖍️

Every experience, big or small, is laying the foundation for a lifetime of learning. 💛

🎨🎶🌿 Tiny Hands, Big Learning!
What a beautiful mix of creativity and exploration happening in our rooms!

Our little ones have been getting hands-on with clay — poking, pressing, rolling, and swooshing alongside natural materials like leaves and pebbles. We love how this open-ended experience sparks curiosity and strengthens those little fingers! 🤎

The youngest learners have been jamming away with xylophones and musical instruments, discovering sounds and rhythms with big smiles and lots of concentration! 🎵

We also spotted some gorgeous imaginative play happening outdoors with dolls and friends, and our tiniest artists have been exploring mark-making and caterpillar drawing with so much focus and joy! 🐛✏️

Every experience — big or small — is building confidence, creativity, and a love of learning. 💛

📚🦎🌿 Learning Through Play — Inside & Out!

What a wonderful day of exploration and discovery! Our little ones have been busy in so many ways — flipping through books and getting lost in colourful stories outdoors 📖, getting hands-on with an amazing animal water sensory tray featuring crocodiles, turtles, lizards and more! 🐊🐢

We also spotted some budding little movers — carrying chairs, exploring the outdoor space, and showing off some seriously impressive strength on the monkey bars! 💪😄

From literacy and sensory play to gross motor adventures, every moment was filled with curiosity, confidence, and joy. We love watching our children lead their own learning! 🌟

🍋🥛 Little Scientists at Work — Making Cottage Cheese! 🔬✨
It all started with a simple question during morning tea: "What would happen if we added orange to milk?" 🍊

Our curious little scientists got straight to work — pouring, squeezing, and carefully observing! First we tried orange juice… and waited… but nothing happened! 🤔

"Maybe orange is not that citrusy!" — so we switched to lemon juice, and WOW!

🌟 Before our eyes, the milk began to curdle, forming little white curds that we strained through a paper towel — with clear liquid collecting underneath!

"It's lemon yogurt!" 😄
"It's strawberry yogurt!" 🍓

(We'll need to add strawberries for that one!) 😂

Through this beautiful inquiry, our little ones experienced real science in action — predicting, testing, observing, revising, and discovering — all before morning tea was over! 💛

What an incredible reminder that curiosity, a cup of milk, and a squeeze of lemon can spark the most amazing learning! 🍋🥛

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🌟 What an amazing week of learning, laughter, and growing together! 💛

Our little ones have been busy exploring music and movement, nature, art, numbers, and so much more! 🎵🌿🎨🔢

From dancing and discovering musical instruments 🎶, to building shapes in the sandpit and with blocks 🏗️, our curious learners were engaged and beaming with joy all week long!

We visited our very own lemon tree in the garden 🍋, got our hands colourfully painted to create the most beautiful prints 🖐️🎨, and threaded colourful wool through cardboard to create gorgeous artwork! 🌈

To wrap up the week, our little mathematicians proudly made numbers using pom poms and excitedly called them out — the enthusiasm was absolutely contagious! 🔢✨

Every single day was filled with curiosity, creativity, friendship, and so much joy! We are so proud of all our little learners! 💚🌟

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🍋 Our little ones in the Babies Room have been busy, curious, and absolutely thriving! ✨
Tiny hands have been squeezing lemons and exploring pipettes, discovering textures, smells, and cause and effect in the most adorable ways! 🌿👃

From colourful painting to chalk creations, our budding artists have
been expressing themselves with so much joy and imagination! 🎨

Music time has been an absolute highlight — dancing, singing action songs, and exploring instruments together, filling our room with the sweetest sounds! 🎵🥁

Add in sensory play, outdoor adventures, and plenty of giggles with friends — it has truly been a magical few days of learning through play! 🌈💛

We love watching these little ones light up with curiosity and wonder every single day! 🌟

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🌱 What a week of wonder, discovery, and big thinking! 💛
Our little learners have been exploring healthy eating 🍎, discovering how roots help plants drink and grow 🌿, and diving deep into the amazing life cycle of frogs — from tiny frogspawn all the way to leaping adults!
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Our beloved puppet "Squashy" sparked some beautiful conversations about why tadpoles live in water while frogs can live on both land and water — the questions these little minds ask never cease to amaze us! 🤩

Most heartwarming of all, our children showed incredible empathy for our environment 💚 — discussing how plastic and pollution harm wildlife, and coming up with their own solutions like using bins and reducing plastic packaging. Future environmental champions in the making!
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We are so proud of how our little ones are thinking, questioning, and caring for the world around them! 🌟

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🐝 Our little scientists have been buzzing with curiosity! ✨
Our big question — "What happens when things change, and how can we understand it?" — took us on an amazing journey into the world of insects and animals eyes!
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Did you know bees have FIVE eyes?!
🤯 Our curious learners discovered this and so much more, diving deep into questions like "How many eyes does a spider have?" and "Why do cockroaches need so many eyes?" Through books, pictures, and lively discussions, our little ones are thinking, questioning, and discovering just like real scientists!
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We've also been exploring the wonderful world of drawing — experimenting with straight lines, zig-zags, curves, and circles as our little ones grow in confidence and creativity!
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What an incredible week of wonder, curiosity, and joyful learning! 💛🌿
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What a wonderful and busy day of learning and discovery across our rooms! 🌟

Our little ones have been busy exploring in so many beautiful ways — squishing and moulding clay with loose parts and corks 🏺,
playing with vibrant playdough and craft sticks, and getting their hands into gorgeous sensory trays filled with feathers, wool, and Easter-themed treasures
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Outdoors, our toddlers enjoyed nature play with leaves and paintbrushes, and some energetic ball play in the fresh air!
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Back inside, our babies were busy exploring colourful scarves, pipe cleaners, books, and beautiful natural materials — all with wide eyes and curious little hands
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Every experience, big or small, is sparking curiosity, creativity, and a love of learning in our incredible little ones!
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