🔬🪐 Science Day for the 4-year-old Wallaby Group is on Monday and we are all ready to explore, wonder and investigate! The theme for National Science Week this year is: Decoding the Universe. Through play-based experiences the children will: 🧲 Discover the invisible power of magnetism with magnets 🧪 Investigate floating and sinking 🔍 Examine items up close with microscopes 🪨 Observe and sort rocks at a geology station 🌿 Explore nature and reflect on the knowledge of Aboriginal people as the first scientists ⚖️ Use scales to weigh and compare 🦕 Try paleontology with dinosaur digging 💀 Learn about the human body with books and a skeleton and x-rays on the light box 🍃 Watch physics in action with gum leaf helicopters ✨ Explore gravity using ramps, marble runs and car tracks 🏗 Build and problem-solve with engineering challenges 🌋 Create a bubbling volcano experiment 🌈 Observe other colourful experiments like celery colour changing, skittles diffusion, and a cloud in a jar. These activities support early scientific thinking, discovery and creativity. Our Bachelor of Early Childhood Education student has also prepared a hands-on literacy experience using science word cards. We can’t wait to see our little learners experiment, question and make sense of the world around them! (fb)

Our Book of the Month is “Rosie Revere, Engineer” written by Andrea Beaty and Illustrated by David Roberts. It is a beautifully-illustrated tale of a girl and her dream to become a great engineer. Where some people see rubbish, Rosie Revere sees inspiration. Alone in her room at night, shy Rosie constructs great inventions from odds and ends. Hot dog dispensers, helium pants, python-repelling cheese hats. Rosie’s gizmos would astound—if she ever let anyone see them. Afraid of failure, she hides them away under her bed. Until a fateful visit from her great-great-aunt Rose, who shows her that a first flop isn’t something to fear—it’s something to celebrate. (fb)