FEATURED SERVICES
123four Early Learning Centre
For Naidoc week our Preschool children created the Aboriginal Flag with rice that they coloured and used a recycled box for the border! We have hung it up at 123four ELC.
Don’t you love our creative new SENSORY ROOM We had a spare room (look at our before photos) and wanted to do something very special to benefit all our children at 123four ELC.
We decided to create a Sensory Room to be used by all our rooms. It’s an absolute favourite and a very unique feature. To see the full room set up and our other creative rooms, contact us book a tour.
At Pine Cottage Early Education, we aim to build a home away from home for the children we care for.
Our programs promote active, hands-on learning as children become explorers, problem solvers, observers and playful experimenters.
This approach helps foster creativity, teamwork, problem solving strategies, reflection and self-confidence.
We operate from 7.30am to 6pm Monday to Friday, closed on public holidays.
Fees are $140 for 0-3 year old’s and $136 for 3-5 year old’s, this includes all meals cooked daily on site by our Chef.
At Pine Cottage we use Storypark, this gives families the opportunity to have round the clock access to their child’s learning.
We encourage families to be as involved as possible in the centre, as we believe working together is in the best interest of the children’s development.
Pine Cottage put a big emphasis on fun and love to think outside the box, one example of this is our Pine Cottage vivid festival where we turned the centre into our own light display, we then stayed open till 8pm so the children could enjoy the lights and parents could have a ‘date night’. Contact us for more information.
Kindisaurus Child Care Centre is a small family orientated centre located at Mascot. We have been open for 21 years providing high quality education to families who like a small centre environment. We have 26 children per day catering for the ages of 2 - 5 years.
The most enduring aspect of our centre is the educators. We have mature educators who have a combined experience of over 50 years in the industry. There is always the same team here each week as we all work part time so when someone is on leave other educators cover. This provides for a very settled environment where children always know their carers.
The centre offers a toddler and pre school learning program, daily music and story time, yoga, a soccer program, fortnightly cooking experiences as well as the children learning modern greek. We also provide individualised programs for additional needs and Non English speaking children. Contact us for more information.
Centennial Park Early Learning Centre
We are focused on the children experiencing the natural world around them - the children have been planting veggie and herbs and learning the importance of caring for the plants properly to help them to grow, as an extension of this experience we will also be continuing with our regular excursions to the Centennial Park with the children.
Contact us for more information.
Every week Paisley Park Early Learning Centre Randwick hold FREE activities for young children, including Messy Play and Story and Rhyme Time. This is great fun for all ages under five and all are welcome. Refreshments are provided and car parking available. Centre is located on Level 1 138 Belmore Road, Randwick. Join their facebook page@PaisleyparkEarlyLearning for information about these great weekly free events.
Learning Links
If your child is showing signs that they struggle with learning, have social, emotional or behavioural issues, or are behind their peers with speech development or fine and gross motor skills, Learning Links is here to help.
We offer a range of assessments, including cognitive/IQ, academic skills, dyslexia, autism, ADHD, behavioural, speech and language, and occupational therapy. Our professionals can determine your child’s strengths, needs, preferred learning style and any appropriate interventions – an important first step in understanding how to best support them. Following each assessment, you’ll receive a comprehensive written report to outline results as well as recommendations for your child.
An assessment can also be used to support your child’s NDIS plan.
To book an assessment, contact our friendly Customer Care team on 1300 003 900 or visit www.learninglinks.org.au. Our Maroubra Learning Centre is located at 3rd Floor, Bowen Library 669-673 Anzac Parade Maroubra Junction NSW 2035.
Kyokushin Karate North Bondi Bring your kids down to our beautiful, safe, and fully-equipped facility in North Bondi and allow them the opportunity to learn with our friendly, proficient, and world-class crew of instructors.
Our program is designed to enhance mental focus, physical coordination and mastery as well as internal discipline. Undeniable life skills for all ages.
Kiddies aged 5-7 and kids aged 8-12 are placed in age- and emotional-specific classes. We also have the most successful TEENAGE karate program in the area; geared specifically to the teen mind and body.
The first two weeks of training are FREE and with no obligation :) http://www.karatebondi.com/book
Frontrunner Learning Centres providing professional tutoring in Frenchs Forest and Mona Vale for over 17 years. Our tutors are here to see that our students Get in Front and Stay in Front.
This is a place where tutors encourage, motivate and make a really positive difference.
Of course our qualified tutors do more than just set tasks and correct the work. They engender a love of success in the now so that our students believe that they can achieve. Our tutors develop great attitudes that create great results.
That’s why we are successful educators.
Frontrunner Learning Centres offer an initial free diagnostic educational assessment so you know exactly what your child needs in tuition. We facilitate real learning for school-aged children with the fundamentals that they need most in school. Students receive professional and caring help them in Mathematics, English, Reading, Spelling, Comprehension, Grammar, Listening, Speaking and Writing.
With the active support of paediatricians, speech therapists, behavioural optometrists, dieticians and other health care professionals the Frontrunner tutors provide a caring environment that’s helps your child achieve her or his own personal best and really enjoy success.
An integral service Frontrunner Learning Centres offer is Readbetter with
Contact us for more information www.frontrunnerlearningcentres.com.au
or www.frlc.com.au
PARENT INFORMATION
Wondering how you can help prepare your preschooler to learn how to read, spell and write?
Ensuring your child has good speech and language skills is important. Also of critical importance is laying down some foundations for learning literacy at school.
So – be inspired and get ready to have some fun with the following activities!
Syllable Counting is learning how to break words up into their smaller parts. For example; “birthday” has two syllables, “birth/day”. “caterpillar” has four syllables, “cat/er/pil/lar”. Don’t forget the one syllable words such as “chair”.
The possibilities are endless when it comes to activities to build skills in counting syllables; here are a few ideas… ensure to make it enjoyable!
Get physical – clap it out… or skip, jump, hop!
Get musical – toy drums, guitars, keyboards, maracas etc… Are great to tap, strum, play, shake to the beat of the syllables.
Name items you can see in the room of a house, or whilst in the car, and count out the syllables.
Build a tower- take turns counting syllables using blocks; and build a tower as you go; the tallest tower wins.
Syllable word lists can be found easily on the Internet – practice counting syllables in words with 1-4 syllables.
If you aren’t sure where to break words up, remember that every syllable has a vowel sound.
Rhyming is a great way to teach your child new words and get them to think about how words can relate to each other. It sets the foundation for your pre-schooler to learn about word families and the different sounds that letters can make. Rhyming words have a repetition of similar sounds e.g. rocket/ pocket; pie/ sky. Some activities include;
Sharing books that rhyme – the most obvious start! As your child gets to know the book; have them complete the sentence for you (fill in the missing word). You can make this fun, by substituting a nonsense rhyming word, and have your child give you the correct version.
On the go – point to items wherever you are, and take turns thinking of rhyming words. E.g. “tree… see!”
Place items on a table, have your child select the word that best completes your sentence E.g. If items include rock, hat, toy, ball; you then make up a sentence – “There was a large cat, who wore a large…???”
Roll a ball to each other, exchanging rhyming words with each turn.
Sing nursery rhymes!
Even if your pre-schooler comes up with a nonsense word, it’s okay, you just want them to get the idea behind how rhyming works.
Hearing the first and last sound in a word
Be sure to focus on the sounds heard (rather than letter names). For example; “Can hear a ‘ssss’ sound in ‘sun’? What else can we think of that starts with ‘sssss’“?
Use family names/ photos
Catalogues
Story books
Sound Scrapbook – create a collage of all things starting with a certain sound e.g. “m” page, “s” page etc…
Hearing the last sound can be trickier…
You may give a visual cue, and emphasise the final sound as you say it. E.g. “Room” (whilst pointing to your lips)
Remember to be clear when talking about sounds vs letters to your child. E.g. The letter ‘s’ makes a ‘sssss’ sound etc.
Sounding out words
This is not about the spelling of the words– it is about sounds!
Pre- Kindy; focus on words structures that have 2-3 sounds E.g. ‘go’ (‘g’ – ‘o’) and ‘cat’ (‘c’ – ‘a’ – ‘t’). With a word like ‘shoe’, there are 2 sounds, ‘sh’ – ‘oe’.
Use visual cues
Coloured counters
Fingers
Objects such as blocks
Use movement; steps, jumps, tapping, pointing, whilst saying each sound.
When ready, incorporate practice visually scanning LEFT to RIGHT with objects such as the counters, blocks.
I may as well say it again – HAVE FUN! – That is how kids (and adults) learn best!
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