Hannah Wall

Birri-Li Babies Room Programming

Observation Experience Learning Outcome – Link to Children voices Evaluation
EYLF and milestones and
domain
19th July Music Bottles Investigate how different Isabella loved making music with
Isabella and Molly TUESDAY objects/materials make different items. She would walk around
love making Fill plastic bottles with a variety of different different sounds and noises. with a bottle in each hand shaking them
music with toys objects and materials such as rice, pasta, Create different sounds and with a huge grin on her face. When
by shaking them. water, sand, tissues. Children can shake music with the plastic music multiple children started shaking the
Today they were these bottles to make different sounds and bottles. bottles at the same time it sounded like a
shaking them and types of music baby band. Ivy would dance as she shook
laughing together EYLF: 4.2 Children develop a the bells and heard the music by
when they could range of skills and processes such bouncing up and down.
hear the music as problem solving, inquiry,
experimentation, hypothesising,
they were making researching and investigating

Milestone: Engaging with

shaker-type instruments for
short amounts of time.

Domain: Cognitive

19th July Safari Animal Play Learn and practice safari Brook’s said Adding a small world to the room with
Brooks read an MONDAY animal sounds and play with “moooooo” animals on it added to the space and
animal book with On the table top place green material, each type of safari animal. when he held allowed children to play and use their
me today and plastic blocks and safari animals for up the cow creativity. Children were drawn to it and
tried to repeat children to play with and learn animal it helped them practice handing up with
the animal sounds. EYLF: 1.2 Children develop their support. The addition of wooden blocks
sounds after I emerging autonomy, inter- was successful as children could move
dependence, resilience 25 and
modelled them the blocks around as homes for the
sense of agency
for each animal animals and things to build with. The
such as dog, cat, animals got moved and carried around
Milestone: Saying basic
elephant all day following the children as they
words and copying words
crawled, walked or ran.
said by others (9-12 months)
We changed the animals to farm animals
Domain: Language & social
to match the theme of the room and
added a barn and fences to go on the
small world.
20th July Sensory Sock Tunnel Practice crawling and make Leon and Zoe After children got over the confusion and
Summer, Daisy, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY it an engaging and enjoyable “Peek -a-boo” concern they loved crawling through the
Audree and To continue to encourage Summer, Daisy, experience. box tunnel. Leon was confidently
Yaden are Audree and Yaden to crawl I will use boxes crawling through it after a few goes.
crawling as their and socks to create a sensory tunnel for Molly kept touching her head after going
form of transport them to crawl through. Other children EYLF: 3.2 Children take through telling me that the socks and
around the room might find this a fun activity to play in. increasing responsibility for their ribbons her felt on her head. Audree
own health and physical wellbeing giggled as she crawled through and Clo
had a go going through the smaller
Milestone: Crawling on their
tunnel today with a bit of
hands and knees (6-9
encouragement from me and Emma.
months)
Leon and Zoe played Peek-a-boo in the
tunnel by sitting as either end and find
Domain: Physical
each other’s grinning faces through the
socks and shouting with delight it was
fantastic! They also met in the middle of
 the tunnel by both crawling through on
either sides.

Children were intrigued by the green

shinny paper and spent some time
running their hands up and down the
paper on the side of the box.

19th & 20th Vegetable stamp painting Understand that patterns

On both Monday THURSDAY and prints can be found in
and Tuesday Using cut up vegetables such as capsicum, food. Create art work using
children have celery and potatoes and three colours of vegetable stamps and paint.
engaged in paint children will create a painting with
different types of these prints and patterns. EYLF: 5.4 Children begin to
painting. They understand how symbols and
pattern systems work
have enjoyed
doing finger
Milestone: Enjoy the flow
painting and
and process of creating art
sponge painting
not the final product
to create
beautiful piece of
Domain: Cognitive
art displayed in
the Babies Room
20th July Sensory hoop Children to engage with Clay and Yaden love when the hoop is
Yaden crawls to MONDAY - FRIDAY their senses with different lifted up around them while the sit in the
things that A hoop attached with different pieces of materials during tummy middle of it. The babies are most
interest him. He material and objects for children to feel time. This will inspire interested in the pol noodles and like to
spends lots of and engage with while on their tummies on curiosity, help strengthen feel them with their hands and mouths/
time on his the floor their core as they lift their Leon ran around with the hoop touching
tummy playing heads and stimulate his face and arms feeling the different
with objects with pathways in their brain as textures of materials and giggling.
his hands. they engage with new
activities.

EYLF: 3.2 Children take

increasing responsibility for their
own health and physical wellbeing

4.1 Children develop dispositions

for learning such as curiosity,
cooperation, 37 confidence,
creativity, commitment,
enthusiasm, persistence,
imagination
and reflexivity

Milestones: Explore objects

(9-12 months)

Domain: physical
22nd July Scarf Play To develop object “Where’s As Lily was away today I completed this
Lily has had THURSDAY permeance, visual activity, Leon?” activity with Leon. He loved covering his
surgery and have Brushing the scarf on babies body parts cause and effect and motor head with the scarf and pulled it off with
both her legs in a and using words such as tickle, breeze, feel, skills “Peek-a-boo” a cheeky grin waiting for me to say
cast. Lily is only soft and brush to describe the sensation. “Peek-a-boo”. Leon also liked the feeling
able to sit in a Children can play peek-a-boo with EYLF: 3.2 Children take of the scarf on his arms and kept moving
bean bag, do educators and other children increasing responsibility for their it up and down his body. Leon thought it
tummy time and own health and physical wellbeing was hilarious to put the scarf over his
be carried. head and walk around the room waiting
Milestone: Discover Cause
Towards the end for someone to ask “Where’s Leon?”
and Effect (6-9 Months)
of the day she
gets frustrated
Domain: Physical &
and wants to be
Emotional
able to move
around freely