Goodstart Early Learning Forest Lake in Forest Lake, Queensland | Nursery

Goodstart Early Learning Forest Lake

Locality: Forest Lake, Queensland

Phone: +61 1800 222 543

Address: 10 Forest Lake Boulevard 4078 Forest Lake, QLD, Australia

Website: www.goodstart.org.au/centres/forest-lake-and-babyworld

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25.01.2022 What a purrrfect day for a few furry friends to visit the Kindergarten One Room! Thank you to Miss Cheree for bringing Mickey and Sapphire in for a cuddle and play

24.01.2022 Our Senior Toddlers celebrated Book Week yesterday by reading the book, "Goldilocks and the three bears!" Miss Gagan and Miss Sonia made a wonderful display for the children to retell the story to their peers. Don't you wish you were here to do this with them?

24.01.2022 We would like to thank everyone for wearing their jeans today and donating a gold coin towards Jeans for Genes. Check out Toddler one and Kindergarten one that decorated a denim jacket and jeans today to show their support!

24.01.2022 Look at what our nursery babies were busy doing today! Little artists in the making with their rainbow fish and exploring ocean animals for World Ocean Day!

24.01.2022 Help us join awareness for a very important day. Child safety is something we take extremely seriously in our job. Today we will be doing a fun run to support raising awareness and we ask that where possible, the children wear red to support this cause.

22.01.2022 Look at what our friends have been doing in our Pre-kindergarten room. Our friends are becoming little Inventors with our marble ramp set.

21.01.2022 We are hosting National Pajama day tomorrow! Dont forget to come dressed in your Pjs!

20.01.2022 In the famous words of DR Seuss ... The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places youll go.

19.01.2022 On Thursday 13/08/20 the babies helped us raise awareness for Red Nose Day (preventing SIDS and promoting safe sleeping) by exploring red strawberries and fruit in red jelly. They had so much fun using their senses to feel and taste the jelly and the fruit.

19.01.2022 Over the weekend Senior Toddler ones butterfly Mack made an appearance! So on Monday it was time to set our beautiful friend free! The children spent a very special day with him. Feeding him some fruit, painting our own pictures of him and finally setting him free after a picnic!

19.01.2022 In Kindergarten 2 we have been busy exploring cause and effect relationships around the childrens interests of mixing colours. During our conversations we have also been exploring the difference between dissolving and melting. Take a look at some of the interesting experiments we have been doing.

19.01.2022 In Kindergarten One the children have been doing outdoor physical experiences. This provides children to develop their gross-motor skills of climbing, balancing and coordinating. This is also enhancing their social and emotional skills through communicating, turn-taking and working together as a team

18.01.2022 Here in Toddler One, children are actively engaged in fun, creative, and exciting experiences daily. Here is a snippet of what our morning looks like!

18.01.2022 Here in Senior Toddler One the children have been extending their knowledge on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture by learning about Aboriginal symbols. So this week we made some playdough and gave the children the opportunity to observe these symbols and create the symbols in the playdough!

18.01.2022 The babies had a lot of fun last week practicing their fine motor and problem solving skills to free the balls from muffin tins.

17.01.2022 Recently in the Senior Toddler One room we have been learning about the life cycle of bugs, in particular the butterfly! Miss Kerry has brought in a special friend as an experiment for the children to watch up close and personal every day. We have watched Mack the butterfly change every day and cannot wait for him to form into his beautiful butterfly self!

17.01.2022 In Goodstart Forest Lake Boulevard, we embedded Aboriginal and Indigenous culture into our daily routine. We combined both Nursery rooms for singing Taba Naba and Inanay as a way of making acknowledgement of country.

17.01.2022 Goodstart Awards - Family nominations are now open! This year Goodstart will host our annual awards virtually to celebrate Goodstart individuals and centres for the above and beyond support they have shown children, families and their communities. One award is nominated by you - our wonderful families! This award is called the Above and Beyond Award and an individual educator or an entire centre. We would love you to nominate us! If you love the work we do here at our centre, keep an eye out for an email giving you a guide on the quick and easy process to lodge your nomination. Nominations are open now and will remain open until 28 August 2020. Thanks so much for your support!

17.01.2022 This week Kindergarten One made their own clap sticks, an Aboriginal instrument. Today, Miss Leanne and the children used their clap sticks to sing along to an indigenous song called, Inanay. #NationalReconciliationWeek2020 #InthisTogether

16.01.2022 Book week fun in Kindergarten 2. Where there were Giraffes, Cats, fairies and more with Cat in the Hat delivering our food on Wednesday and some of his cheeky friends up to Mischief throughout the day. On Wednesday Miss Rebecca (thing 1) and Miss Tahlia (thing 2) swapped their personalities and names for the day! And as the children would say: kindergarten friend ‘Hi Thing 1, Hi thing 2’ or ‘Thing 1 where has Thing 2 has gone?’ #CBCA2020 #CuriousCreaturesWildMinds

15.01.2022 Dear families, Tomorrow is Jeans for Genes day! If you would like to help support this cause please send your child to care in their Jeans and provide a gold coin donation.

14.01.2022 In the Nursery room, we value our parents input and feedback. We work collaboratively with each other to meet the childrens needs and development. This month we have been practicing sitting up and the babies have done so well.

14.01.2022 With a few good friends music fills the soul #stayconnected

14.01.2022 Something all our children should know. The life they save might be your own!

13.01.2022 Kia Ora whnau, Happy Te Wiki o te Reo Mori! (Hello Family, Happy Mori language week). This week the Kindergarten one children have been learning a new Waiata and kanikani (song and dance) called Krero Parirau. Ka pai tamariki! (Well done children)

13.01.2022 Something to think about

10.01.2022 Piranhas eat Bananas read by our Kindergarten two friends. Today our children decided to sit in an area of the yard and enjoy some stories together. True illustration of the love for a good book. Proud teacher

10.01.2022 Are you looking for a fun place to work? We are looking for an educator to work in our Nursery. Meet some of your potential colleagues. Contact us before someone beats you to it!

09.01.2022 Here in Toddler Two, after making our own play dough we use different kinds of materials to cut and play with. The children are developing their fine motor skills as they use the scissors.

09.01.2022 We all participated in a Funraiser to raise much needed funds for the Morcombe Foundation on the annual Day for Daniel. Please enjoy!

08.01.2022 In Senior Toddler One we have recently been practicing colour recognition, Astrid has taken I big liking to the book colours so much that she knows every word! Today I asked Astrid if she wanted to read it to the class and she said yes with confidence! Here she is reading her favourite book to the group this morning!

07.01.2022 Some of our Kindergarten 2 friends performing a concert of their favourite songs

06.01.2022 In Senior Toddler One we have recently been exploring the wonderful world of art, each week we have tried a different and excitng way to paint and this week was - Pasta! This was such a shock for the Toddlers at first but after some reassurance they were soon eager to try and what a ball they had!

06.01.2022 Children in the Nursery room are busy exploring painting and mark making experiences. In Nursery rooms, we plan experiences to age appropriate and fun for the children.

05.01.2022 During the week of Samoa, we are fortunate enough to enjoy some lovely nursery rhymes in Samoan sung by the lead educator in Nursery One, Miss Maxine, alongside with a wonderful guitar player, Miss Nyce.

04.01.2022 On Monday 03/08/20 the babies explored edible sand (biscuit crumbs) using their senses of sound, sight, touch, smell and taste. The experience also gave the babies a chance to practice mark-making skills.

04.01.2022 This week in the senior toddler two room the children have been interested in the phonics song. As an extension Miss Danyel bought in a letter board for children to match the letters to the words.

02.01.2022 Toddler Two have been practicing Taba Naba, a Torres Strait Island Song #NationalReconcilitionWeek2020

02.01.2022 Its always good to promote early literacy in such young age. In our Nursery room, we encourage the children with their language development using their senses. The book we were reading in the picture is Thats not my truck. The children were so engaged in the different textures inside the pages.

01.01.2022 In the Nursery room, we help promote childrens physical development during their outdoor play. The children have enjoyed challenging themselves on their obstacle course.

01.01.2022 2020 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander childrens day today.