Seaford Kindergarten

On Wednesday 4th September we celebrated National Early Educators’ Day. It was a great day to recognise the difference our Early Childhood Educators make to the wellbeing and development of the young children in their care.
Thank you for shaping little minds, sparking curiosity and making learning fun.
We look forward to celebrating with our amazing Teachers in October for Teachers Day.

Don’t delay, get into Grill’d today and grab a meal. Your token will support our kinder and entries close August 31st. We are currently trailing so any extra tokens might just help us achieve the win! Thank you to all our supporters so far.

💚 S E A F O R D • @ • K A N A N O O K 💚

We are getting ready for our big move at the end of the year to the site of Kananook Preschool!

Check out our teachers Mal and Bel testing out the new privacy toilet stall doors at Kananook 😆
Dedicated teachers, always thinking about the rights of children 🧒🏻👧🏼

If you have any questions about our move, our rebuild or our kindergarten, please give us a call ☎️, send us an email 📧 or hit up our socials ⌨️

Can’t decide what to eat this weekend? Why not head to Grill’d Frankston and grab something tasty to eat and support the Kinder at the same time. We have till the end of August to gain the most tokens to be victorious. We are trailing at the moment so your support would be greatly appreciated.

📚 G E T • Y O U R • R E A D I N G • O N 📚

We are so very excited to announce we now have a Seaford Kindergarten STREET LIBRARY!

Come and grab a book on the way to kindergarten or school. Or maybe you need something to read whilst on the train or whilst relaxing at the beach.
Or you might just like to donate a good read for our community.

Our Street Library is located on the corner of Railway Pde and McRae Street, near the kindergarten entrance.

THANK YOU to Street Library Australia for the wonderful donation of our Street Library!
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THANK YOU to 123Read2Me for the donation of books!

Seaford, we ❤️ you!

💰 F U N D R A I S I N G • T H A N K Y O U 💰

Throughout the year we ask our families and community to support our kindergarten with fundraising and donations.

We are so grateful for every bit of support we get and so are the children who get to enjoy the resources that are purchased.
Take a look at our recent purchases 👇🏻

We are a proud not-for-profit community kindergarten, passionate about educating and caring for the children in our community.
We are so appreciative of the support we receive from our community, thank you 👏🏻

Creative ways to fundraiser for the Kindergarten! Visit Grill’d Frankston this August and earn tokens for the kinder.

🖐🏻 F I N E • M O T O R 🖐🏻

We love supporting our children to develop their fine motor skills!
Having good fine motor skills definitely supports children to be able to write their names and draw what they imagine but fine motor skills also support children to:

🎒Zip up their kinder bags and jackets
👕Button their shirts
👟Tie or strap their shoes
🍱Open and close their lunch box
🍪Open their packet of biscuits
🤲🏻Wash their hands thoroughly
🪥Brush their teeth and hair

All of these tasks create confidence and independence in being able to utilise self help skills!

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This year’s National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day theme is, ‘Strong in Culture, Stronger Together’.
This year we stand with our children, proud of their culture, stories, kin and community - all that makes our children special, resilient and the bright leaders for our future.
Our vision is for our children to thrive, be strong in culture and connected to kin and community - our children should be proud to come from the oldest living culture in the world.

📚 L I T E R A C Y • E X T E N S I O N 📚

Our 3yo Jellyfish group have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (every session!). To say it's a favourite would be an understatement!

To extend on their love of this story, the children had the opportunity to make their very own caterpillars.

The children enjoyed using paints, sponges and their fingers to bring their favourite book character to life.

Whilst creating, the children repeated the story to themselves and their peers, practiced new vocabulary, developed maths and science skills in counting and colour and shared resources and took turns developing respect and fairness for one another.

We can't wait to see how the Jellyfish extend on their love of the Hungry Caterpillar further 🐛

At Seaford Kindergarten we enjoy participating in learning experiences that connect children with nature. We have been busy weeding our vegetable patches ready for planting, reading stories about nature, recycling and sustainability.

🌈 S M A L L • W O R L D • P L A Y 🌈

We love creating small world play spaces, dramatic play areas for 1-3 children to explore and develop their skills.

This term we used the children's interests of dinosaurs, blocks and princesses to create two new small world play areas. Take a look 👇🏻

❓ How does small world play help children to learn?
When children engage in small world play they are able to explore their world, express their feelings and act out scenarios from their lives to work through challenges and conflicts. Small world play enables them to feel safe and confident enough to problem solve, be themselves and develop skills they can use in real-life.
Children also develop their language and social skills when playing with others.

Family Photo Fundraiser
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to book your family portrait session with Vision Portraits for Sunday 28th July!
This is a great opportunity to update your family photos and fund raise for the kinder at the same time.
Bookings close this week.
Please visit www.visionportraits.com.au/fundraiser to make the booking. The Kinder will receive 100% of your photo fee.
Thank you for your support.

Linktree — Vision Portraits

👋🏻 O P E N • A F T E R N O O N • 2 . 0 👋🏻

We are having another Open Afternoon at our 2025 site at Kananook Preschool.

If you didn't make it to our first open afternoon, or you'd like to come and take another look, please come and see us!

WHEN: Tuesday 30th July
TIME: 3:30pm-4:30pm
WHERE: Kananook Preschool, 6 Buna Ave Seaford

We can't wait to meet you, or see you again!
Our teachers and educators will be there to answer any questions you may have about our 2025 3yo and 4yo programs, our site move, our new build and just to say hi 👋🏻

🖱️Follow us to make sure you get all the updates on our move, new build and program!

Reminder to Kinder families that our Vision Portraits fundraiser is only 2 weeks away, Sunday July 28th. Please book your session as this is a great way to get updated photos of your family and support the Kinder’s fundraising efforts.

🗓️ C O U N T • D O W N 🗓️

Only 6 more days until kinder is back! We can't wait to see you all again!

How fabulous was our last day of term 2?! We dressed in our winter warming clothes and PJs, cooked yummy warming food, and ate together whilst talking about Winter, our holidays and the Winter Solstice ❄️

Our teachers and educators have been sneaking into kinder to plan some wonderful new experiences for you. Are you as excited as we are? 🤪👏🏼🎉

🌿 N A T U R E • P A T T E R N S 🌿

When we visited the Seaford Wetlands we noticed how many beautiful patterns there were on the trees and in nature.
We also went searching for patterns in our own kinder yard!

To extend our learning, we decided to make our own nature patterns using paint screening and printing.

✨ How magical do our artworks look?! ✨

Relocatable Butterfly Garden
Woolworths Junior Landcare Grant

SEAFORD KINDERGARTEN ASSOC. INC
The aim of our project is to create a relocatable butterfly garden to move with the centre in 2025, then to the rebuilt centre in 2026. The children will be involved in selecting pots and plants from posters, hand painting pots, measuring soil, planting, watering and care of caterpillars and butterflies. The expected (environmental and educational) outcomes of the project include learning about plants and insects, care and cultivation; a continued connection to place for students returning in 2025 and 2026.

❤️💛🖤 R E C O N C I L I A T I O N 🖤💛❤️

This week we have been learning about reconciliation and the culture and beliefs of the traditional custodians of the land in which we play and learn.

🪹 We demonstrated our respect to our land and community by building a nest for Bundjil.

🫶🏾 We continued to be kind to one another and be thankful for what we have.

🌈 We enjoyed a visit from Wayapa Wuurk where we began to learn how we can connect to country and take care of the land, the animals and each other.

🌱 We explored our natural surroundings at the Seaford Wetlands and practiced respecting living things and our environment.

We may be young but we can begin to learn about shared histories, cultures and achievements now, and contribute to reconciliation in Australia.

🙌🏻 T H A N K • Y O U 🙌🏻

Thanks to our committee and staff who organised and helped made our Mother's Day fundraiser possible and to those who bought raffle tickets to support our kinder.

A massive shoutout to ALL the businesses that donated prizes and goods! We are grateful for your generosity. It was a huge success, raising over $550 for the kindergarten with more than 100 tickets sold.






18-EightyEight

1888 Photography

38 SOUTH

Gelato UNOU

Runnez Fitness

Seaford Flower Studio

SoulNar Healing

Sunny Moves Pilates

Sweet Disposition

NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK 2024

This week is National Volunteers Week and we want to say a huge THANK YOU to our many kindergarten volunteers!

Thank you to our family volunteers; for coming on our community walks and visits, for joining in during Stay and Play, for buying raffle tickets and for bringing your children each day!

Thank you to our Committee Members; for organizing the fundraisers, for coming to our monthly meetings, for giving your feedback on policies and the services our kindergarten provides, for writing grant applications, for promoting our kindergarten.

Thank you to our Executive Committee; our Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. You go above and beyond with your time, effort and skills. You dedicate yourself to supporting the management of our service and without you we wouldn’t be a Community Kindergarten and we wouldn’t be a service.

Thank you to our President; you also go above and beyond, giving time, effort and your skill to support the staff and management of our kindergarten. You commit to being the face of the kindergarten and support our service wholeheartedly on every occasion.

We are PROUD to be a community run kindergarten and without our volunteers, this would not happen. This week, and beyond, we celebrate you and your ongoing contributions to our kindergarten. THANK YOU!

🫶🏼 C O M M U N I T Y 🫶🏾

We love our kindergarten community but we also belong to a larger community that we love...Seaford!
Our staff love supporting our wider community, including our local schools!

A big thank you to our beautiful Melinda who is off on camp this week with students from Seaford North PS.
Those children are so lucky to have you. Enjoy! 🥳

Wondering what to have for lunch today? Why not head down to Carrum Downs Bunnings and grab a snag or two and support community run Seaford Kindergarten. See our wonderful volunteers and grab your lunch.

Seaford Kindergarten is at Carrum Downs Bunnings today 8:00-5:30 cooking up delicious snags! Get down there today and help support the kindergarten fundraiser.

🌭 H E L P • N E E D E D 🌭

We need your help with our Bunnings BBQ Fundraiser this Saturday, 20th April 2024!

We have some volunteer time slots that we need filling and would love if you could please spare 2 hours on Saturday to help run the BBQ.

Times Available:
2pm-4pm
4pm-5:30pm (pack away)

Volunteer yourself, your partner, your family members, your friends, your neighbors, or anyone you know who just loves to cook a snag!

It's a fabulous fundraiser to support the kindergarten and purchase amazing resources for our children. It's also a lot of fun!

Please comment below if you're able to help out 👇🏻
Or contact us to let us know, 9786 1720 or [email protected]

Thank you to all the volunteers who have already signed up!

🌟 O P E N • A F T E R N O O N 🌟

A reminder that we have our Open Afternoon at our 2025 site, Kananook Kindergarten, today!

Come and join us in having a look at our temporary site for 2025, meet our teachers, have a chat with us and ask about our kindergarten program and registration for 2025!

All families welcome, of course including children!

WHEN: Wednesday 17th April
TIME: 3:45pm - 4:30pm
WHERE: Kananook Kindergarten, 6 Buna Ave Seaford

🦘 A N I M A L • E X P L O R A T I O N 🦘

Last week our 4 yo groups had a visit from Aussie Wildlife Displays !

We learnt all about different Australian animals. We got to touch, hold and feel them, and also learn about how to be safe around them in the wild.

To support the extension of our learning we have set up an engaging experience where children can process and document their learning by creating collages using different materials.

By creating with different materials children are investigating how to use them, igniting their creativity. They are using trial and error about how they fit into their creations, how to make them stick, how to make the right shapes.

We are adding to our vocabulary by learning new words such as habitat, carnivore, nocturnal and cold-blooded.

We are developing our fine motor skills, using precise movements.

We are increasing our wellbeing and those of our peers by being proud of ourselves and others.

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