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Gurukul Family Daycare

Registered with mackay family daycare, please contact Mackay family daycare on 07 49659933

28/08/2025

Today children started their morning doing various puzzles indoors and then we spent the morning outdoors. Children practiced their gross motor skills by using jumping bags to do bunny jumps, obstacle course using sticks and hoops and also learning to throw the hoops over the sticks. Children showed great perseverance and determination to learn new skills and encouraged one another to try new activities. It has been a wonderful week practising Gross motor skills outdoors.

27/08/2025

Today children started their morning dancing on their favourite rhymes. We read the book Where did Thursday go? and talked about days of the week. Children enjoyed building blocks and tracks with peers. After morning tea, we went outside for a fun outdoors play. Children played soccer and practiced their kicking, running and passing skills. Children picked up some hoops and learnt to push them around in the yard. They also arranged the hoops on the ground and practiced their jumping skills. Children worked together to build waffle blocks obstacle course. They enjoyed walking over the waffle blocks tracks with their peers. They climbed up and down the climbing frame and also played in the home corner. It was a great morning practising many gross motor skills.

26/08/2025

Today children started their morning playing with indoor toys. We read the book ABC and practiced recognising letters. After morning tea we spent the rest of the morning outdoors playing in the sandpit, in the caterpillar tunnel and in the home kitchen. Children also rode bikes and climbed up and down on the climbing frame. It was a wonderful morning outside practising Gross motor skills and engaging in sensory play.

25/08/2025

This week we are going to spend more time outdoors to practice gross motor skills. Today children started their morning playing puzzles indoors. We read the book On your potty and talked about toilet training. After morning tea the children were excited to go outside.
Outside children had great fun going in the caterpillar tunnel. They rode bikes and played in the mud kitchen. Children also enjoyed playing with the bean throw bag. Children listened and followed the instructions to hold the bean bag at their shoulder height and did a big throw as they followed the instructions Ready steady go... Children did a great side and followed up their side stance with amazing throws hearing the instruction - Go.. It was great weather to play outside this morning.

21/08/2025

Today children started their morning dressing up in their favourite costume and leading their pretend play. Children enjoyed recreating the 'we are going on the bear hunt' story with peers. We read the 'Unicorns' book and talked about the colours of the unicorn. Children coloured in pictures of unicorns. We also spent some time outdoors today. Children played in the mud kitchen and in the home corner. They also engaged in doing obstacle courses with their peers. It was a great morning.

20/08/2025

Today children started their morning playing with different farms and jungle animals. We read the book Giraffe can't dance and children talked about how much they all enjoy dancing. Giraffe can dance but it just needs a different song! A child said, "like us. We all pick our favourite song to dance on." Children always enjoy taking turns to pick their favourite song on YouTube and they all dance happily with their peers. Children coloured in pictures of Giraffe using various colours to create their own version of giraffe including a rainbow giraffe as we all are different and so are all animals. Children enjoyed dressing up and dancing on the songs. We also read a book There was an old bloke who swallowed a bunny. Children had a good laugh listening to the story and repeating some funny words.

19/08/2025

This week we are continuing to read more and more books to finish off the Premier's reading challenge and also be picking the book of the day to celebrate the book week. Today children came dressed in their favourite books characters' clothing to recognise book week. We read many books including Where is the very hungry caterpillar? which a child brought in to share. Children played with blocks, train tracks and tubes. Our book of the day was Thomas- the runaway engine. Children recognised the letters of the name and coloured in the picture of the Thomas train engine. They enjoyed making toot toot sounds and talked about how Thomas crashed into the gate! It has been a fun day.

12/08/2025

Today children started their morning playing outdoors with their peers and had a great time.
Indoors, we read the book Dinosaurs dads which a child brought in to share. Children had fun reading this book and learning about all the adventures the kids dinosaurs had with dads dinosaurs in the jungle. So we decided to create our own dinosaur' jungle on the green mat. We used different toy dinosaurs and bugs in the jungle. Children used their creativity and imagination to recreate the story. Children went on the hunt with dinosaurs feeding them bugs. We discussed various fun facts about different dinosaurs and from science to the magical world - a child used a Magical wand to turn the frog into the prince. Children created various sounds and scenarios to play with dinosaurs and bugs. We also read the book My First Heroes - the inventors and talked about different Scientists and their inventions. Children also enjoyed singing and dancing with their peers.

11/08/2025

This week we are doing science week activities and also reading various books to participate in Premier's reading challenge.
Today children started their morning playing with different blocks and tracks. They used magnetic blocks and train tracks to build. We talked about how train engines work and how seeds grow into big plants while playing with toy garden vegetables. Children also engaged in practicing Yoga moves which they still remembered from our Health and wellbeing week activities a few weeks ago. Children enjoyed signing and dancing with peers. They also enjoyed playing with Magnetic wands which they called magic wants to attract bottle caps. They used words like Abra ka dabra and golden Treasure to collect gold coins ( gold bottle caps) We read the book Scientists and learnt about different Scientists like Medical scientists, environmental scientists, astro scientists etc.

07/08/2025

Today children started their morning playing outdoors with their peers. They had fun chasing and popping bubbles and climbing up and down the climbing frame.
Indoors we read the book Australian Edition Hokey pokey. Children recognised many Australian animals and learnt their Hokey pokey moves. Children engaged in stickers activity practising fine motor skills. They recognised different musical instruments on the sticker sheet. They all enjoyed dancing on their favourite rhymes including Hokey pokey. It has been a fun week to engage in music and movement experiences.

06/08/2025

Today children started their morning playing outdoors and picking some mandarins from the tree. Children enjoyed eating fresh mandarins for the morning tea. Today children were curious to make their plastic eggs shakers. Children opened the plastic shells and they were empty. We decided to fill them in with various ingredients to listen to the sounds they create. Children first filled up the egg shells with pasta and enjoyed shaking them like maracas. Children thought they didn't create loud sounds. Then they emptied the shells and refilled them with white beans and shook the shells as hard as they could. The egg shells and white beans created a bit louder sound than pasta shells. Then they emptied the shells and filled them up with tiny green beans and shook them hard. Children noticed that this time the sound was the loudest. Children were happy to shake the shells listening to the sounds. We also discussed how they can reuse empty bottles with some beans at home and make their own instruments. Children enjoyed dressing up and dancing on their favourite rhymes.
We read the book Annabel's dance and talked about how wiggly jiggly Annabelle was different and unique from others.

05/08/2025

Today we read the book She will be coming around the mountains. Children enjoyed listening to some of the rhyming words and singing yay yay yippee yippee yay. We talked about different musical instruments in the book and how the animals sang and danced. Children took turns to play on the piano mat. They were excited to engage in singing and dancing. They dressed up in different costumes and danced with their peers. They picked their favourite rhymes to play on YouTube and showed off their amazing moves. It has been a wonderful day to engage in music and movement experience.

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Andergrove
Andergrove, QLD
4740

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http://mfdc.com.au/team/dipika-pande-located-in-andergrove/

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