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25.01.2022 The Junior Kinder children love music, whether we are playing music, singing or dancing to it. Music and movement is a daily part of our curriculum. Music and movement is a great way for children to develop social skills by participating in musical games such as The Hokey Pokey. Music allows children to be able to express their moods and feelings in a positive and appropriate way while also improving children’s balance, coordination and spatial awareness. Music refines children listening skills by recognizing different changes in rhythm, beat or tempo and develops language skills whilst singing builds confidence.

24.01.2022 During NAIDOC Week, at green leaves we thought we would celebrate by expanding the knowledge of our nursery children, giving recognition to our indigenous Australian cultures. This morning, children utilise their time to engaged in Aboriginal Dot painting using brushes and paint colours that represent the Aboriginal flag. Providing children with these experiences allows them to develop their understanding and empathy skills by responding to diversity with respect.

24.01.2022 African safari 7th October What an amazing adventure.!

24.01.2022 Finally, we got to see the diggers up close! Although we have stopped all external excursions while the COVID pandemic is occurring, we have been able to arrange a special outing for the kinder children into our centre carpark to see the neighbouring construction work. Children have been showing keen interest due to the excavators and this was a great opportunity to support their learning. into our centre carpark to see the neighbouring construction work. Children have been showing keen interest due to the excavators and this was a great opportunity to support their learning.

23.01.2022 A big thank you to Little Sports Heroes for the hamper full of sporting equipment, that youve gifted our centre! Were excited to put them all to use. Our children are looking forward to the many hours of outdoor fun and fitness! https://littlesportsheroes.com.au/

23.01.2022 SCIENCE WEEK. Today the kinder and Toddler children participated in an experiment. We placed milk in a dish then dipped food colouring into the milk. Children were then able to dip pop sticks into dish liquid and carefully touch the milk. ... Everyone was amazed to see the colours swirl away from the dish liquid and children loved watching the colours mix. This activity helps children with colour recognition and allows them to experiment with different substances and how they react with each other.

22.01.2022 So many amazing live online shows. This Saturday at 9.30am

22.01.2022 FRIDAY 14TH AUGUST - RED NOSE DAY- Today the kinder children made their own red noses from cardboard and red paint. "I think the children wore more red paint on their actual noses than the cardboard"... Dont they look awesome?? well done girls! The kinder room use many recyclable materials for arts and craft, imaginary play, and many other experiences throughout their program. Children also have many open ended opportunities with recyclable materials to extend on their creative skills. Happy Friday and have a great weekend.

21.01.2022 HAPPY EDUCATORS DAY! Thank you to our highlands educators for the amazing work they do. Stay tuned for more pics.

20.01.2022 Helping clean! Children naturally are interested in what is happening around them and are always interested in participating in whatever their parent is doing. One popular activity is cleaning! Giving a child a broom, small vacuum or cloth and spray bottle filled with water is a great way to help children practise tidying skills, contribute to their family or personal areas, and take responsibility for their space. Helping clean or tidy an area promotes pride, self-confidence and is a great way for parents to help show children ways to pick up after themselves. In our pre, Junior and kinder rooms we often play one particular song for cleaning up (Mission Impossible theme song) however having any great music playing is a fun way to get the jobs done.

19.01.2022 In the Nursery room, children were participating in decorating their Christmas tree with using recycled cardboard and paint. Using recycled material helps to promote a sense of responsibility, show respect for the natural environment, be active participants and bring about enquiry and social change.

18.01.2022 Promoting healthy eating in Nursery two! To promote healthy eating habits among children, educators display healthy food posters and images of fruits and vegetables. The children were able to engage in pretend play in the home corner while learning about healthy food and healthy eating. Books and display posters are great tool to motivate and encourage children to learn about healthy eating. Healthy eating habits helps children develop and sustain a healthy lifestyle which has many benefits such as healthy growth and development and help fight illnesses.

18.01.2022 To continue to promote our hygiene and correct handwashing practices at Green Leaves Highlands, we have Alayziah demonstrating the steps to take. Due to our current climate, it is particularly important that we teach the children to be healthy and wash our hands throughout our day.

17.01.2022 ? GUESS THE EDUCATOR Interactive games that involve problem-solving and guessing help to strengthen our children’s confidence face recognition skills and deepens their sense of belonging as they connected to the Highlands family they are part of Here our children were recognising the educators by looking at their pictures!

16.01.2022 Sensory activities facilitate exploration and naturally encourage children to use scientific processes while they play, create investigate and explore. The sensory activities allow children to refine their thresholds for different sensory information helping their brain to create stronger connections to process and respond to sensory information. Sensory bags allow children to explore, discover, imagine, create, and learn while engaging many of their senses.

16.01.2022 Like and share this post for a chance to win a brand new Urban Balance Bike! The winner will be drawn at our Family Open Day this Saturday. T&C's apply.

15.01.2022 SCIENCE WEEK! Volcano experiments. Look at our Volcano eruptions. Science week has proven to be a winner with children participating in a variety of experiments.

15.01.2022 Spider Web Basket Is So Much Fun! To enhance childrens fine motor skills, Educators created a Spider web basket with cross string at various heights and placed some of their favorite toys at the bottom and encouraged children to reach through to grab their toy. During this activity, we work on simple fine motor skills like grabbing and maneuvering small objects. Children found it challenging, however still persisted to reach the objects. It is a great activity to enhance chi...ldren fine motor skills and problem-solving skills. This is something that can be tried at home.

14.01.2022 From all of us at Green Leaves Highlands, we wish you all a Merry and Safe Christmas. See you Tuesday.

14.01.2022 SCIENCE WEEK Our little scientists were engaged in mixing colours experiment. It was so much fun and they were amazed to see new colours when they mixed two different colours together. This supports their colour recognition as well as being introduced to science and math. ... Using our primary colours to mix together introduced children to our secondary colours.

13.01.2022 SCIENCE WEEK. Dancing Raisins. The children observed with curiosity dancing raisin experiment. They were amazed to see raisins moving up and down.... This was achieved by placing Soda water in a clear jar, drop in raisins and watch them dance with the bicarb of the soda bubbles. This was then extended with work sheets to continue with this science experiment.

13.01.2022 Good Afternoon Highlands Family & Friends please see our centre calendar of events for November

12.01.2022 Happy fathers day to you, from us here at Green Leaves Highlands.

12.01.2022 Wednesday the 2nd of September is Educators Day, although we may not be able to celebrate the way we would have wished, we will be sure that the educators feel the appreciation from our Children and Families.

12.01.2022 The key benefits of role-play for children are as follows: It allows children to act out scenarios and also to make sense of situations they come across in real life. Develops their awareness of their surroundings, as well as themselves and others around them Develops their communication skills and forms their use of language Gives them the chance to explore, experiment and even investigate... Collaboration with others Helps children to learn about important topics and different cultures It sparks creativity and imagination See more

12.01.2022 Dancing in the sunshine. Dancing is a great form of exercise, and a love of dance from an early age can help motivate kids to stay active as they grow into adults. It allows them to stay active in a fun and exciting way. All the while, children develops important social and emotional skills without even realizing it.

12.01.2022 Another amazing virtual tour of Melbourne Zoos

11.01.2022 Brave hearts/ white balloon day To raise awareness about child protection on this special day, the educators and the children Wore white. The children Participated in discussion about sharing their feelings with people who they trust the most. They were offered special activities for the day.

11.01.2022 Our Kinder and Junior Kinder children are learning about recycling, upcycling, and looking for different ways to use objects. They noticed our empty yoghurt containers and were able to balance them into a stack on our stage, and then sharing the bouncy balls tried bowling them to knock the containers over. In this one activity, children were able to use their sustainability/ up-cycling knowledge, mathematics and STEM skills to work out how to balance the containers, hand-eye coordination for aiming the ball, and social skills like sharing, taking turns and celebrating strikes.

10.01.2022 AUGUST CALENDAR OF EVENTS Hi Highlands families, please see our calendar of events for August. Looking forward to a month full of fun during lock down 2.0 Hope we are all staying safe.

10.01.2022 Sand play helps children use many muscles in their body to dig, scoop, sift and pour. Adding water helps children to explore changes in texture and consistency while also letting children use their judgement to determine how much water their bucket can hold and how much weight they can carry from one destination to another.

10.01.2022 Creating self-portraits!! Self-portraits are a fanatic way for children to explore their sense of self and build their self-identity. Here, At Green leaves our children are practising their fine motor skills, observation, focusing skills and self-recognition through drawing on their self-portraits using crayons. Creating their self-portrait and using their imagination, we are allowing and providing children a maximum amount of artistic freedom.

09.01.2022 Tomorrow we celebrate Educators Day dont forget to leave a message on a leaf thats on our centre front door or below to celebrate our amazing team at Highlands.

08.01.2022 SEPTEMBER CALENDAR OF EVENTS!

08.01.2022 SUNSHINE ON A RAINY DAY IN THE SANDPIT. Being in the sandpit allows children to play by themselves and with their peers. This helps children to develop fine motor skills e.g holding, picking, balancing, eye-hand coordination, strengthening muscles and; Helps children develop their social skills like problem-solving, sharing, and communicating.

07.01.2022 Our Tiny Tots children participating in easel painting using a variety of different colours children were able to explori different colours and mix them to see what colour they could create. This introduces young children to the first concepts of science and math. Painting helps children acquire hand-eye coordination, an important skill in their age. This is developed while they learn to paint the parts that they see; making sure their hand movement is at par with their vision. Painting allows children an educational opportunity that is also fun and exciting.

07.01.2022 SCIENCE WEEK! Today the kinder children made lava lamps. Ingredients required are:... Water Food Colour Oil Salt All these ingredients combined create a lava lamp. What You Do: Fill the jar most of the way with vegetable oil. Fill the rest of the jar with water. ... Add a few drops of food coloring; your choice of color. ... Add some salt, and drop them in the jar one at a time. Watch your lava lamp erupt into activity, enjoy!

07.01.2022 Emotional awareness helps us know what we need and feel. It helps us build better relationships. Being aware of our emotions can help us talk about feelings more clearly, see how one another may be feeling, avoid or resolve conflicts better, and move past difficult feelings more easily.

07.01.2022 Imaginative play is essential as it allows the children to use their cognitive skills to participate in dramatic play. The mud kitchen outdoors has been such a great way for the children to explore as well as take their current knowledge to ‘play in the kitchen that they have seen in their everyday lives. Learning outcome four, children are confident and involved learners and they develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflectivity.

07.01.2022 Our Nursery & Tiny Tots children are very intrigued in walking through the balance bridge using their physical abilities. Walking on a balance bridge above the surface level of the ground help children to develop balance and coordination. Balance bridge encourages children to build their core strength and to learn how to balance their bodies and direction changes.

07.01.2022 R U OK day is today see the video below to share with your children on how to be a good friend and ask are you ok?

05.01.2022 Our Nursery and Tiny Tots children are very intrigued and interested in the jumping hoop. Children showed their interest by jumping and walking through the hoop. Hopping with two feet together is a gross motor skill most children learn. It is an important skill because it helps children have control over their body movements. By setting up intentional gross motor activities children are able to control their movements and have control of their own personal space. With younger children we can encourage hopping with both feet together without any obstacles in place.

05.01.2022 Sensory play with the Tiny Tots Children use their senses to discover and explore when involved with sensory play. We provided opportunities for sensory play using sand, rocks and insects to investigate. Children will develop their cognitive, literacy and creativity skills. Sensory Play is fun, messy, creative and necessary.

04.01.2022 On Thursday the 10th of September at Green Leaves Highlands we will be wearing a splash of Yellow for "R U OK" day.

03.01.2022 Today as we ask if your okay, we also strive to be kind to one another and stay connected.

03.01.2022 Diwali Festival of lights At green leaves, we embed our Multicultural program into a variety of activities. As part of our program, we celebrated Diwali Festival of Lights which symbolizes the spiritual victory of light over darkness The children participated in a range of various activities including making Rangoli patterns, sari dress-ups, art & craft Diya making, Henna tattooing! This benefits children as it encourages respect for all cultures within our green leaves family

03.01.2022 We have set up a special area ‘ where from in the world’ in our kinder room. The children felt very proud to look at the map and pointing at the countries where they have come from. This helps each child be who they are and being respectful and accepting of diversity. We have set up a special area ‘were from in the world’ in our kinder room. The children felt very proud to look at the map and pointing at the countries where they have come from.

02.01.2022 Free live event starting tomorrow - watch Phillip Islands Penguin Parade streamed live! During the nightly parade, about 3000 little penguins emerge from the Bass Strait and waddle up the beach to their burrows after fishing

02.01.2022 DENTAL WEEK As this week was the dental week, we read I Can Brush My Teeth a story about brushing your teeth and posed the question to the children how do you brush your teeth? ... Do you brush up and down or side to side? The children were active participants in their learning about dental hygiene and they were all keen to tell what they have on their toothpaste-like frozen or pepper pig. We also discussed foods that support healthy teeth along with sometimes food.