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Green Leaves Horsham

Locality: Horsham, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5382 3059

Address: 44 Hillary St 3400 Horsham, VIC, Australia

Website: https://greenleaveselc.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Rainbow effect The children in our Junior Kinder and Toddler room had to opportunity to participate in creating a rainbow effect using warm water and coloured skittles. The children help the educators place the skittles on the plate, and as the educator added the warm water, the children watched on with amazement the colours from the skittles run down the plate, connecting with other colours to form a rainbow effect pattern. The children begin to learn basic cause and effect, colour mixture while developing their wonder and communication as they talk about what is occurring.

25.01.2022 Recycling This week the children have learnt about recycled materials and how we can recycle many products that we use instead of throwing them in the bin. The Pre-Kinder children developed their knowledge of recycled materials, and what materials belong in which waste bin. The children watched an Education clip about Recycling to give and show examples. The children through the centre had the opportunity to select recycled materials from our recycling station in the foyer to take back in the room and be creative with these. The children made towers, robots and cars out the materials.

24.01.2022 I wonder what happens..... With the use of transparent cups and a few drops of food colouring added to the vinegar, the children watched the vinegar change colour before their eyes. To extend on their curiosity, the children had the opportunity to add Bi-Carb Soda to the mixture. The children then watched the coloured mixture froth and bubble spilling over the edges of the cups. With excitement and curiosity, they yelled bubbles. Science experiments allow children to learn about basic chemistry. They began to determine cause and effect and chemical reactions.

24.01.2022 Lets look at whats happening through Green Leaves Early Learning Horsham for the month of August.

24.01.2022 Cultural Learning Space In the Pre-Kinder, we discuss the importance of Cultures around the world. We are extending the children awareness and knowledge around the Aboriginal culture and the importance of Cultural Diversity. We currently have a table set up with Aboriginal Resources, including Cave Art Pictures, Natural materials including feathers, gum nuts, pieces of wood, Aboriginal Art Designs. The children have also contributed to this with painting some small rocks / Pebbles in the colours of the Aboriginal Flag Red, Black and Yellow .

24.01.2022 The Junior Kinder room participated in Physical Day where we focused on encouraging physical activity with the children. The children completed an obstacle which involved jumping, running, spinning, sliding, hopping, and walking. They got to use the climbing frames, balance beams, trampolines, and balls. Physical activity assists with childrens coordination, strength, balance and muscle control while also helping them with their bones, muscles and joints. They enjoyed being able to follow each other in a line completing each stage of the course while laughing and smiling at each other.

23.01.2022 In the Pre-Kinder room, we offer Playdough each day. Playdough is a fantastic and fun way for children to learn a variety of learning outcomes. Children develop many skills, like mathematical concepts like measuring the ingredients eg: 1 cup, 2 tbls 1/4 cup. Verbal language, when asking questions and talking to their peers about the experience. The children chose red playdough today and I added a few drops of peppermint essential oils, for smell and calmness. This gets the senses going with touch, feel and sight.

23.01.2022 Through the month of August 2020, the children have been engaged in many experiences to help promote awareness for a range of organisations that support the community and families. These experience also provide the children with knowledge and understanding of the wider community while developing many of their skills. These have included: Jeans for Jeans Day: Children and educators had the opportunity to wear their jeans also the children also got to help decorate a pair of jeans with a range of paste materials. Red Nose Day: To help promote awareness the children had the opportunity to use a range of red through the centre, including paint, icy poles sticks and wearing the colour red.

23.01.2022 The younger children have been learning about the outside environment by caring for plants by helping to water them and learning to touch them gently. While caring for the worms this has promoted curiosity and the children wanting to learn more about them. The children asked many questions which included why do they eat bananas, why are they under the dirt and can we hold them. To follow on their interest we would like the children to have the opportunity to save their food scraps and feed them while continuing their learning about the environment.

23.01.2022 In toddlers, the children have been learning about their bodies, muscle movement and strength. Through Yoga we are leaning about calmness and balance, getting the children to learn to b calm through movement and learning how to breathe through it, it is a great way for the children to stay active whilst inside but through a controlled environment. It is about how our bodies and muscle can move, stand and stretch. The children enjoy following the pictures that we have set out as well as creating their own poses. Balance is a key element of yoga. The balancing poses promote mental and physical balance. Mental clarity and balance emerge from the effort of trying the poses. Even if a child never learns to stand on one foot, if they can learn to stay calm when they falland to get up and try againtheyve learned balance.

21.01.2022 National Pyjama Day To help promote awareness and support National Pyjama Day, we have given the opportunity for the children and educators to come to the centre in their PJS. National Pyjama Day promotes awareness and support for the Pyjama Foundation, which works with Australian children in foster care.

21.01.2022 Asher found an empty plastic bottle in our recycle box and was thrilled with her discovery. Outside in the sandpit, the children help fill the bottle up with some sand and pretended to make a volcano. With this, the children called out to our educator Maddy saying we could make a real volcano with bubbles. Maddy added blue colour to the vinegar and bicarb to the plastic bottle, while explaining that in a country called Indonesia is where can see blue lava. The children took it in turns to add the vinegar to the bottle and watch the volcano erupt. It was exciting to see them lead their curiosity and watch them explore the effects of mixing the ingredients together

21.01.2022 In the Tiny Tots room this week, we have been exploring the colours and sensory touch of rainbow spaghetti. Some of the Tiny Tots children would grasp large hand fills to pick up the spaghetti, while others preferred to use a pincer grip to pick up one piece of spaghetti at a time. The children also showed their interest in learning the colours of each stand of spaghetti by picking out one piece of rainbow spaghetti and saying the colours or asking their educators what the colour is of each piece. Some of the children chose to stand back and observe their peers playing with the rainbow spaghetti and chose not to touch or feel the spaghetti.

21.01.2022 TECHNOLOGY EXPLORATION Through play experiences, children explore technology as part of our STEAM program. Contextualising how devices are used in their outside world, and integrating that through play to learn. Collaborative conversations occurred during this experience as children hypothesised and explored collaboratively with their peers.

20.01.2022 Did you know: Spring is when you might spot one of Australia’s most iconic reptiles the blue-tongue lizard. This is when they start to come out of brumation to warm up their cold-blooded bodies, so it’s not uncommon to spot one out sunbaking on pavers and warm paths. The children had the opportunity to see firsthand as they saw a blue tongue lizard sunbaking out in the play environment: this promoted curiosity, questioning and wonder. Our Educators carefully caught the lizard in a large container in which the children had the opportunity to have a closer/safer look before educators rehomed the lizard in the front garden.

20.01.2022 The children have shown interest in the The Very Hungry Caterpillar story and the education show. From reading and watching these stories the children gain knowledge and interest in butterflies, their shapes, colours and what they look to eat. To follow the children’s interest educators added butterfly wings and costumes to the play environment and introduced butterfly painting for the children to explore and try.

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19.01.2022 The Junior Kinder room has enjoyed participating in a range of Christmas activities. Educators created a Christmas tree table for where the children can use a range of recycled materials to decorate if they wish. The children used their creativity and imagination to decorate their own tree. Each day through the month of December the children had the opportunity to choose a book from the Santa bag to unwrap and share with their peers at group time, as they do the count down to Christmas Day.

18.01.2022 Lets see what is happening through the month of September

18.01.2022 When children engage in pretend and dramatic play, they are actively experimenting with the social and emotional roles of life. They begin to mimic the play of what they have observed in real life or how they believe it should be occurring. Through pretend play and dramatic play experiences, the children begin to learn cooperative play, turn-taking, develop their problem-solving skills, and promote their language development. Some great ideas to use at home: - Large plastic ...crates, cardboard blocks, or large, empty boxes to create a with. - Old clothes, shoes, backpacks, hats to dress up - Old telephones, phone books, magazines - Cooking utensils, dishes, plastic food - Fabric pieces, blankets, or old sheets for making costumes or a fort See more

18.01.2022 Drawing Look at our little artist, all busy using their imagination and creativity to create their own individual masterpieces. Drawing experiences encourages a child’s imagination and creativity and allows a child to express their thoughts, ideas, and emotions. Drawing also enhances a child’s fine motor skills, developing the small muscles in their hands and fingers which is vital for gaining control and coordination necessary for future drawing and writing.

18.01.2022 Construction area: The children have engaged in many construction areas, throughout the centre. The constructions areas are open-ended experiences which all the children to grow and develop to their full potential. With open-ended experiences, the children will begin to ask the question 'What if' or 'I wonder what', challenging their thinking and creativity. Construction and building areas also help promote the children's problem-solving skills, fine motor development, and peers' ability to build and construct.

18.01.2022 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/

18.01.2022 Centre Closed: Public Holiday: Good Friday We would like to wish all families a Happy and safe Easter.

17.01.2022 As the weather is beginning to warm up the children have engaged in many water play experiences. Our Educator Mell became a bit creative and turned our steppingstones into little water tubs where she added different materials to each one. With the use of feathers, glitter and little cups for the children explored each water tub, talked about how the water felt and what they could feel and see in each tub, developing their language skills. Through water play, children develop skills including social development, sensory and fine motor.

17.01.2022 We welcome SeeMore into our Kinder program. The SeeMore Safety education program is an internationally recognised early year’s safety education program that focuses on learning through literature and real-life experiences. The program is aimed at 4 to 6-year-old children and nurtures a ‘think safe, play safe’ attitude in kindergarten and preschool-aged children. It encourages students to assess their environment, identify safe and unsafe behaviours so that they can take responsibility for their own safety.

16.01.2022 The children have been showing an interest in painting and to allow them to become more involved in these experiences we have been talking about colour mixing. They have been choosing their own paint colours and then they have experimented with mixing these together on their pages. We have had conversations about the colour mixing the children have been doing as it allows them to explore cause and effect along with problem-solving by trying to work out what the new colour will be.

16.01.2022 Science Colour Mixing Colour Mixing experiences gives the children the opportunity to explore Science in a fun way. As the children engage in these types of experiments, they learn about colours and understand that different colours can be blended to form other colours. Science experiments enhance the children’s scientific thinking, encourages them to ask questions and make predictions. It develops their observation skills, their reasoning abilities and encourages them to experiment.

15.01.2022 The kinder room was engaged in a game of "bed bugs" The children cover their eyes and trying to guess who is the "bed bug" hiding under the cover. The children sing the song "bed bugs bed bugs come and see," the children are then given clues as to who is under the covers and the children attempt to work through the clues to answer who indeed is under the covers. This activity is a beautiful way for the children to work on turn-taking, problem-solving and working collaboratively to complete a joint goal.

15.01.2022 Anzac Day is the national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand which is dedicated to all those who served and died all wars and the contribution and suffering of all those who have served. Through poppy making, books and documentaries it was our way to honour and share knowledge with others.

15.01.2022 National Buddy Day Nursery and the Pre-kinder children joined to help celebrate National Buddy Day. Some of the Pre- kinder children came to the Nursery and took Nursery children by the hand and help walked to them to our parent hub area. With the younger children smiling and showing interest in the older children and the older children caring and being gentle and kind with the younger children. At the parent hub the children shared a book together.

14.01.2022 Following the childrens interest with sensory play, The Kinder children had the opportunity to help make and experiment with cloud dough. The children were fascinated by the tactile feel and the nice smell of the sensory play while using their imagination and creativity to create many sculptures out of the dough.

13.01.2022 Its R U OK?Day, a reminder that every day is a day to start a conversation that could change a life. Today were calling on Australians to learn what to say af...ter R U OK? so they can keep the conversation going when someone says theyre not OK. Theres more to say after R U OK? Learn what to say when listening with an open mind Learn what to say when encouraging action Learn what to say when checking in Learn how to continue a conversation that could change a life. When we know what to say next we can help someone open up and find pathways to support long before theyre in crisis. Learn what to say next and help us move closer to our vision of a world where were all connected and are protected from suicide. Head to www.ruok.org.au/how-to-ask

13.01.2022 Yesterday we celebrated "Read a book day." This helps celebrate and promotes literacy in the early years. The children had the opportunity to bring in a book to read and share with their friends. The children enjoyed sharing the book, looking at the pictures and talking about what was happening through the story.

13.01.2022 The children have been engaged in sensory play over the past few weeks, enjoying a range of different sensory play including finger painting, play dough, water play and sand play. The sensory play combines a range of different emotions and outlets for children to explore and develop their interest, ideas and concepts. We have been encouraging the children to learn about sensory items, how the playdough feels in their hands and in-between their fingers, what they play dough smells like. For the children to use their imagination, make new discoveries; exchange ideas between one another, respond to what they can see, touch and smell.

12.01.2022 The colour Yellow This week the children have been learning about the colour yellow through a range of sensory play, including the use of natural materials of yellow flowers and leaves through to yellow coloured rice. The colour yellow helps promote awareness and recognition for Daffodil day, which is celebrated on the 28th August 2020. ... Daffodil day symbolise the hope and support for those who affected by cancer while the daffodil is one of the first flowers in spring which symbolise rebirth and a new beginning.

12.01.2022 Friendly reminder It is mandatory to wear a face mask or covering to help reduce the spread of COVID. We ask all families to ensure they are following this rule with departure and collection of children and while you are in the service. We thank you for your ongoing support. Let all be safe together.

12.01.2022 Through this week, we have been focusing on Keeping Australia beautiful and caring for our oceans. The children had the opportunity to help create their own oceans using a range of sea life, sand and water. The children learnt about pollution, where we put our rubbish and a variety of ways we can care for the environment living and no living. This activity signifies the importance of looking after our environment and our wildlife. Theres a popular saying that children are our future and our planets; thus, we hope that children will continue looking after our nature as they start from an early age.

12.01.2022 Through the week the children have been engaged in block play with a variety of blocks to choose from to create and construct their structures and towers. The younger children have begun to learn how to connect the blocks and stack them on top of each other. Blocks are a great learning opportunity for the children to develop their fine motor skills and imagination as it requires precision and creativity. While also developing their social skills it promotes verbal and non-verbal communication.

11.01.2022 Big thank you to all educators for your ongoing hard work and commitment. You all do an amazing job. Happy educators Day

11.01.2022 Through group times and role modelling the educators have been educating the children on the Corona Virus (COVID-19) to help them better understand the pandemic. They talked about why the virus and how to reduce the spreading of germs. They talked about the correct hand washing procedures and sang songs to help make it a little more interesting whilst washing their hands. The children were also made aware about why people are wearing the masks with most children expressing that people are wearing them to protect themselves from the yucky germs. The children also got to each have a turn at wearing their own masks (separate individual ones for hygiene reasons) and were shown how to correctly wear them.

10.01.2022 The children in the kinder room have been working together to create a river in the sandpit. With the children assisting each other and educators, they began to dig a long hole in the sand. With the children talking about what else they needed for the river, they add water to the long hole to create the riverusing their imagination, they built bridges out of shovels and fishing lines with string and pipe cleaners. Great teamwork.

10.01.2022 Yard Renovations This week we have begun our yard renovations, which is very exciting. Our educators have created construction play spaces for the children to explore and use their imagination to go along with the theme "Wonder what is happening in our yard." With sand, diggers, vest, hard hats and tools box the imagination is endless. As the children are unable to see what is happening in the yard at this time it has promoted the question with "I wonder what is happening." With this we have been taken photos of the work being conducted and printed them for the children to see what is happening and the opportunity to create a yard construction book.

08.01.2022 Visiting the Nursery This week some of our Kinder Children went for a visit to the Nursery to see the babies. Through this experience, the older children had the opportunity to interact with the younger children, talk to them, hold them, and play with them. This experience gave the children the opportunity to learn about caring for babies, and it helped them build their sense of responsibility and empathy toward other children.

08.01.2022 World Music Day is celebrated around the world on June 21st. The main theme of the celebration is to honour and support different types of music and musicians. We have celebrated World Music Day in the Nursery on June 22nd. We have created a music station in the outside yard using different recycled materials and children had a chance to enjoy the music by using the materials. We extended our celebration in the room as well by using different musical toys.

07.01.2022 Nursery children are busy doing different activities related to Christmas. Children showed interest in putting up the Christmas tree in the room and decorating it with the help of educators. We have extended children’s interest by adding a felt Christmas tree and let children decorate it in their own way. Children liked to take the felt decorations and stick it back wherever they want it on the tree. Educators offered a painting experience for children to decorate the Christmas tree following their interest. Children liked to use different coloured paint to decorate their own Christmas trees. All these activities helped children to learn more about the world around them by supporting fine motor skills as well as cognitive skills.

07.01.2022 Teddy Bear Day The teddy bear is one of the most popular toys for children, and holds a special place in many adults hearts, too. This lovable stuffed animal has a day all of its own, Teddy Bear Day. The children had the opportunity to bring in their teddy bears today to play and share with their friends. The children enjoyed having a teddy bear picnic, movement and music and having their teddys join in play with them. What a great experience they had today.

07.01.2022 Social development is a process by which a child learns to interact with others around them. This can begin at a young age and with our educators supporting the children’s social development to help promote and support their skills. As the children develop and perceive their own individuality within their community, they also gain skills to communicate with other people and process their actions. Through small interactions and imitating others, the children will begin to develop essential social skills. As they grow older, they start to interact with other children, show empathy, learn turn-taking and problem solving and participate in imaginary play with their peers.

07.01.2022 The kinder room children have been interested in a range of sensory activities, to follow their interest the educators provided a water experience for the children using sponges which have been cut into different shapes. This experience allows the children to learn about different shapes, cause and effect and also provides a calming relaxing activity for the children.

06.01.2022 Sand play Through sand play the children have been engaging in a range of experiences which included building sandcastles, making their own food, and using the trucks and diggers to build and create with. Sand play is a great way for children to develop and build several different skills, both physical and socially. The children begin to use their imagination to build and create their own masterpieces. Sand play is very tactile and helps children to learn about different textures while developing their fine motor and hand-eye co-ordination.

06.01.2022 National Reconciliation Week(May 27- June 3). National Reconciliation Week is a great time to learn more about our shared histories, cultures and achievements. The Nursery children had the opportunity to explore a special baby quilt made with different Aboriginal artworks. The children liked to look through the different pictures and saying the colours. It offered exposure to the community and culture in the world around us.

06.01.2022 World Environment Day which is celebrated on the 5 June every year and aims to encourage awareness and action for the protection of our environment. To help celebrated and show recognising of the event, educators and the children were engaged in many learning opportunities to help promote the children knowledge and thinking process when caring for the environment. Some activities were: -The children were able to help water our veggie garden and take care of the plants and v...egetables recently grown. The children learnt about how to care for our plants, how we can use these in cooking while learning about different types of vegetables - Caring for our worm farm promoted group discussions about the foods that worms can eat while explaining to the children that we can put our food scraps in here instead of putting them in the bin because the worms will then be able to eat them and they wont go to waste. - During our group time, we watched a short video that spoke about our world and showed some cartoon characters that visited a park which had a lot of rubbish on the ground and they went around picking it up to protect the environment. See more

06.01.2022 Curiosity Outside, the children saw something moving near the sandpit. This promoted wonder and curiosity as the children and educator move closer to see what was moving. As they got closer, they noticed that it was a frog moving through the yard. As the children gathered around it was hard to see to frog, with this an educator put a frog into a container, with all children taking it in turns to look at the frog before releasing back into the environment. The children were so excited to tell each other about what they have just discovered. From this, educators will continue with the children interest around nature and the life cycle of the frog.

04.01.2022 Look what has just arrived. We are very excited about our centre bus which arrived today. This allows the opportunity to be more involved in the community while developing the childrens knowledge and understanding of the wider community. The opportunities are endless and we cant wait to plan for this exciting excursion with the children.

04.01.2022 NAIDOC WEEK As a centre, we have been celebrating NAIDOC week from 8-15 November. NAIDOC Week celebrations are held each year across Australia to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It gives an opportunity to all Australians to acknowledge and celebrate the rich history, diverse culture and achievements. This year’s theme is ‘Always was, Always will be’. It acknowledges that hundreds of nations and our cultures covered this continent.

04.01.2022 This week we have begun our centre Easter Celebrations. With Hot Cross Buns and Chocolate Eggs for the families, the children engaged in many Easter experiences. The children have developed their learning about Easter more through books, Easter documentaries, arts and crafts and Easter egg hunts.

03.01.2022 The children have been engaged in many arts and crafts activities throughout the week. Through these experiences, the children begin to learn and extend their development through: Understanding different textures, like wet, slimy or sticky Learn how to paint and paper move, use their imagination to create and design Develop all kinds of fine motor skills like the ability to hold pencils and range of art utensils ... Express their thoughts, experiences or ideas. Toddlers are learning about shapes and lines, so their drawing might look like spaghetti to us but to the child, its a tree!

03.01.2022 Natural Pasting The children help the educators collect a range of natural materials from outside to add to their pasting area. The children collected leaves from the ground, bark, sand, and grass. The children then help took the materials into the room and help set up the table ready for pasting. The children learnt about the different types of materials they were using while developing their fine motor skills as they pasted a variety of materials on their paper.

02.01.2022 Dental Health Week is to help raise awareness of how to best look after our teeth. So during our group times, we took the opportunity to teach children about the importance of brushing their teeth. With the use of some large pretend teeth and a toothbrush, the children had the opportunity to engage in pretend tooth brushing. As the children took it in turns to brush the teeth, we talked about the importance of brushing our teeth, how to brush our teeth and when to brush our teeth. The children also had the opportunity to watch and listen to the songs Super Silly Songs: Brush your teeth and The Wiggles: Brush your teeth. The children also learnt about healthy eating and what foods are good for our teeth.

01.01.2022 Let play some music Today the children enjoyed participating in a group music session with our new musical instruments. With a little bit of demonstration from educators on how to play the musical instruments, the children were very eager to have a turn. The children used their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination to use the drumstick to bang the drums and the xylophone to product loud and soft sounds. They experimented with shaking the shakers and the maracas. The chi...ldren every danced and moved their bodies to the music they were making. As the children experimented with the different musical instruments the children were learning the names of the different musical instrument and were hearing the differences in sound and pitch each musical instrument made. The children even enjoyed dancing and moving their bodies to the music they were creating. See more