Early Learning Centre

There are still vacancies available at our ELC for children 3 years and over. 

$95 per day -Less your Child Care Subsidy eligibility. 

You can contact the ELC or pop in for a visit. 

Phone: 9704 6313 - Option ELC

Email: elc@hillsmeade.vic.edu.au

 

 

What is happening in the ELC

Our Learning

Throughout this fortnight, the children have been undertaking learning in the following areas:

Reading
  • Exploring story books and looking at how stories and messages can be told
  • Listening to and deciphering rhyming words in books
  • Continuing to express selves through dramatic and small world play areas
Writing  
  • Children’s sign in sheets 
  • Creating names in playdough
  • Alphabet and number charts and first dictionaries on offer at the drawing table
  • Exploring Indigenous symbols and meanings
STEM
  • Magnets, exploring the properties of magnets and items that attract and repel
  • Exploring symmetry 
Inquiry
  • Exploring sources of light
  • Children explore how light changes what we see
  • Children explore the relationships between light and colour
Social & emotional learning
  • Children have continued to use the Zones of Regulation and place their images on the coloured zones as they feel different emotions
  • Continued to implement calming techniques and use the calm down spaces

 

News and Reminders

  • 26th July and 27th July- Cultural infusions incursion
  • 8th 9th 31st August- Splash water safety program
  • 10th August- ELC Art Show
  • 8th September- R U OK day

Celebration of Learning 

Children exploring light and colours
Children explore patterning on the light table
Children develop fine motor and literacy skills through making their name out of playdough
Children explore light and shadows using the overhead projector.
Children exploring light and colours
Children explore patterning on the light table
Children develop fine motor and literacy skills through making their name out of playdough
Children explore light and shadows using the overhead projector.