Green Leaves Richmond in Burnley, Victoria | Childcare service

Green Leaves Richmond

Locality: Burnley, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9428 3113

Address: 556 Swan Street 3121 Burnley, VIC, Australia

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

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25.01.2022 We hope you all have a lovely Fathers Day/Special Persons Day celebrating with your family. Enjoy this beautiful sunshine!

25.01.2022 We cant wait to celebrate educator day tomorrow and let our team know just how much we appreciate them!

24.01.2022 Learning is for all ages, check out our Tiny Tot's giving this little activity a go! They were encouraged to try their hardest at matching the shapes to the right spot - they seemed to be intrigued at this but it looks like they enjoyed sticking the shapes down and pulling them back off more haha! Good work Tiny's!

24.01.2022 The children in the Kinder room practicing their creativity and imagination as well as their fine motor skills and co-ordination. This experience also supports the children's concentration and encourages independence and life skills. #independence #creativity

23.01.2022 Ni hao- children are enjoying their Mandarin program run by Chia and Sarah. Children enjoy singing the greeting soon "hello, goodbye and good evening". Enjoy our short video :)

23.01.2022 A fun, sensory experience set up by the Tiny Tot's team that is linked to their 'All about me' project. They encouraged the children to find and explore the human body parts, together they identified the names saying it out loud and even pointing to where we can see these body parts on ourselves! Good work Tiny Tot's!!

22.01.2022 Tomorrow we are celebrating 'Grand Final Day' - Come dressed in your team colours ready for a fun day!

21.01.2022 In preparation for Chinese New Year this week, a few of our educators have created a wonderful walkthrough display highlighting the culture. #multiculturalism #embracingallcultures

20.01.2022 This morning the educators and children participated in a lock down drill! Miss Sara thought she would help the Kinder children participate by making it into a little game - pretending that there are aliens trying to come in so that the Kinders would practice hiding really well! Afterwards, continuing on with their playful creativity - Miss Sara decided to take her class outside with some clipboards, paper and pencils. Together they drew their own types of aliens using thei...r wide imaginations! Sounds like a playful and thoughtful learning opportunity Kinders, good work!!

19.01.2022 Wowee! Christina, you have out done yourself for making these wonderful fabric Disney themed masks! Christina is a Kinder mum from our service, she has been super kind enough to design these playful masks for the educators to wear! We are so grateful, thank you again Christina - theyre amazing!!!

19.01.2022 There's nothing more rewarding than knowing you are appreciated and acknowledged in doing what you love. Here is Miss Priya with a beautiful gift from little Jarli and his gorgeous family. With the most pure and kindness of words, they expressed their feelings and gratitude towards Priya. Thank you Jarli, you will be missed!

19.01.2022 Dear Families, next week we invite children to bring along their favourite book and come dressed in their favourite book character! Cant wait to see you all dressed up and ready for a fun week!

19.01.2022 Check out our Project Masters - the Pre Kinder team, always inspiring everyone with their meaningful learning opportunities and projects! They are now sky rocketing onto a new theme - SPACE! Check out what they have created so far...

19.01.2022 And... IT'S UP! I repeat, the Christmas Tree is up!! Thank you to the families and children who have helped us decorate our beautiful tree - More photo's to come!

18.01.2022 Today, the Pre-Kinders experimented on what would happen if flowers drank coloured water? Here to explain what we did is Miss Margot from the Pre Kinder class!

18.01.2022 Leading up to Halloween the children have gotten into the halloween spirit and yesterday the Nursery children engaged in a 'spiderweb' experience. Educators placed pictures of spiders at the bottom of the basket and threaded string in different directions so it looked like a spiderweb. They encouraged the children to try and retrieve them. This encouraged their problem solving skills as well as their hand eye coordination.

18.01.2022 Junior Kinder's Daily Post: "During group time, we read one of our class favourites, ‘The cat in the hat’! The children are always very intrigued whenever we read this story! So in light of Book Week, we decided to create our very own (Cat in The Hat) hats!" "To begin we placed red paint, cardboard, paper plates, the book, and already made hat on the table for inspiration! We assisted the children in creating the hat by rolling the long piece of cardboard into a cylinder and using sticky tape to secure it in place. The children then stuck the cylinder onto the paper plate and began to paint the red stripes around the hat. They all look fantastic! Great work Junior Kinder’s!" - Miss Julia

18.01.2022 Here are our Solar Systems - created by our Kinders - Rose, Stella and Evie, Apolline and Angus We watched a short clip on the planets and as we were going through each one, we drew them with their special features to help us learn and remember them individually! For example, we drew Venus with some flames to remind us that its the hottest planet and we drew the raging storm on Jupiter to remind us that Jupiter is the biggest planet that holds the biggest storm!

18.01.2022 Our kinder team held a group time discussion today all about Halloween. They wanted to see if children celebrated Halloween at home and if they were interested in celebrating Halloween here at the centre. Most children were very excited that Halloween was approaching and talked about what costumes they were going to dress up in. A few children expressed that they thought Skelton dress ups were too scary. From this conversation, it sparked a bit of interest - children wanted to create skeletons using a range of art materials.

17.01.2022 Our Kinder children are continuing to extend on their numeracy skills by incorporating fun counting activities. Today children decided they would like to make beaded wristbands. Children decided on their favourite number, what colour beads they would like to use and whom this lovely gift would be given too.

17.01.2022 A big THANK YOU to Liz, grandma to one of our Pre-Kinder boys, Jenson! For making these bright and sweet Christmas face masks for the educators! We love them!! XO

15.01.2022 Learning to count through the English and Chinese language using song

15.01.2022 Our toddler children show compassion and empathy while taking care of the room dolls. Pretend play encourages children to take on the role to be responsible for feeding, rocking and putting dolls to sleep. Children model these skills and behaviours by observing mums, dads and other special people in their life. This play increases childrens language, creativity and imaginative skills.

14.01.2022 We welcome Ojas back into our kinder room after being away. Apolline showed Ojas just how much she has missed him. What a special moment between two friends! We look forward to seeing all our other friends join us again real soon.

14.01.2022 Happy Grand Final long weekend! The children enjoyed dressing up to show their support for their favourite footy team! Just a quick reminder to our families that the centre is closed tomorrow, the 23rd of October. We hope you all enjoy the long weekend and we will see you all again on Monday On behalf of our postcode, GO TIGES!!

14.01.2022 CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS!!! Look at all our Green Leaves children across our Centre, getting involved in the Christmas spirit - decorating, and creating and just simply enjoying themselves!!

14.01.2022 Happy Educators Day! We would love to wish all our Early Childhood Educators, a big Thank You!! Thank You for all your hard work and dedication, ... Thank You for your love and respect to our families, Thank You for caring and teaching our children, But most of all Thank You for being here and being YOU!

14.01.2022 "By knowing their interest in caring for dolls, we created an environment of bathing baby dolls. This Imaginative play is essential for children who enjoy role playing and acting out various experiences they may have had, seen or something that they are interested in. They are experimenting with decision making on how to behave around babies and are also practicing their social and emotional skills. ... Keeping this in mind, we set up an activity by taking two tubs, filling them up with water and bubbles and some cloths for the children to use. The children were curious to see a tub with water and bubbles, they seemed interested to see what we had planned - we then gave each child to hold their own baby dolls too. As soon as they saw the tub, they started placing the babies in the tub and pretended to give them a bath. Children were so excited to bath their own babies and provided small piece of cloth to wipe it either for cleaning or drying." - Vathsala, Tiny Tots Educator

14.01.2022 Continuing with Kinders project on planets- Miss Rachel showed the Kinders a little video from national geographic about the solar system specifically looking at the clip identifies what each planet is known for e.g. Jupiter the largest planet. The kinder children learnt that the sun lies at the heart of the solar system, where it is by far the largest object. The Sun is a yellow dwarf star, a hot ball of glowing gases.

14.01.2022 What a warm day for some water play!! "Creativity, is messy.. and we are VERY creative"

13.01.2022 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/

13.01.2022 Can you build a snowman? Today some of our kinder friends decided to make a snowman. There was plenty of research and discussions on what a snowman looks like, who has been to the snow and what art materials they felt they could use to make their very own snowman. Some children decided to use art materials and some preferred to draw their own creation. Children used their imagination and creative skills to create their perfect snowman!

13.01.2022 Check out our new Dinosaur space in our foyer. This was created based on children's interests. The excitement from children when they first set on eyes on this space was priceless! Thanks to our Pre-Kinder children for creating dens and rock mountains for our dinosaurs.

12.01.2022 Our Pre- Kinder children are taking such great care of their mung beans that were planted a few weeks ago. The group is learning about indoor plant care and can see the sprouts getting taller and taller each day. Children take turns in watering them every day, promoting a sense of responsibility, cooperation and love of nature! M said The beans are going to grow and be pretty if I give him water.

12.01.2022 Hello all, please meet our new Chef and the wonderful new Spring Menu! "Hi my name is Kris and Im excited to join the Green Leaves Richmond team and prepare nutritious meals for the children. I am a qualified chef with over 20 years... experience in the hospitality industry. Ive cooked in cafes, restaurants, fine dining, at major events and private catering and have a passion for good food. I have two young children, who attend Green Leaves, so I know how to cater to even the fussiest of eaters. My role is to provide a selection of nutritious food so that the children can make healthy choices and decide how much they want to eat at each meal. I look forward to cooking for the children, showing them new and different foods and teaching them some cooking skills."

12.01.2022 Please see our calendar of events for October, an enjoyable month ahead! We hope you all have a great weekend and see you next week :)

12.01.2022 Have a look at our Tiny Tot children learning about Primary colors and what happens to them when we mix certain colors together. This was a great little experience for the children to engage in, it involved colorful paint that was locked safely in little plastic lunch bags, we all know paint can be messy play but in this case, it wasnt! (thats a first) Good Work Tinys

11.01.2022 Calendar of events for August, we have a fun month ahead!

11.01.2022 Our Nursery children preparing some playful activities for Halloween Week! Here they are making Orange playdough with added materials to give it a theme! Never to young to mix, make and create!

10.01.2022 Kinder continued their project on Planets, today at group time children played a matching game. Rachel held up a picture of each planet in order and asked the children to name each one. We then talked a little bit about each planet such as Venus has lots of volcanoes, Jupiter has a raging storm, Uranus and Neptune as the ice giants etc. The children then had to find the matching picture to go with each planet. This enhanced childrens memory and problem-solving skills.

09.01.2022 Today our Toddler children made colour sand using sand and food colouring. First, the children transferred the sand into tiny bowls. They added their favourite food colouring. Asher said, blue and Olivia and Gabe said red. They mixed the sand with the food colour and got different coloured sand. The children even touched the sand and observed its texture. They played with the sand for some time. We kept the sand for drying. Later it will be stored in ziplock bags for future sensory play.

09.01.2022 Here is Miss Stella from our Kinder class, she would like to tell you all about a little experience they did today as part of their program.

08.01.2022 Our Tiny Tots children are learning about colours, children enjoyed the pasting experience that was set up using PVA glue and pasting materials. During this learning experience, educators talked to children about the colours they were using and what their favourite colour was. Children assisted each other with their colourful creation.

08.01.2022 Children strive for fun, happiness and love - they grow when nurtured. However, if you don't share that same drive, you risk losing precious moments like this. Relationship is key...

08.01.2022 Our Tiny Tots children are focusing on shapes and sorting this month. We decided to laminate large shapes to the window, children then used their thinking and concentration skills to work out where the smaller cut out shapes went. Children worked together during this activity, there was lots of pointing and chattering..... What a great experience!

08.01.2022 HAPPY DIWALI DAY!! This is what a couple of our Educators put together at our main entrance - it was so beautiful to see and even some of our Toddlers came out to have a look and enjoy some Bollywood music too!

07.01.2022 The Pre and Junior Kinders were focusing on the imagination and sensory play with making a magic potion: We began with demonstrated a story of Alice in the wonderland, children were amazed when Alice was shrinking after she drank the magic potion, then we started to prepare the ingredients to create our potion! This form of invitation to play allows children to develop their inventiveness and creativity. When given the opportunity to explore different materials without limits a child is given the freedom to take risks and discover how different materials reacted to each other in the world. The opportunities like this they can starting to develop a sense of innovation that will impact their further thought. - Miss Chia

07.01.2022 Please see attached our calendar of events for September..... a fun-packed month ahead :)

07.01.2022 We like to encourage our children to be involved in all aspects of our centre and so the kinder children have created a sign for our plant hospital. Just adding the final touches before we hang it up! #planthospital #creativeminds

06.01.2022 Our Kinder children start their day off by participating in a variety of exercises. Physical activity is helping children to build strong bones and muscles as well as strengthening their hearts and lungs. Exercise also helps young children to improve their gross motor skills.

06.01.2022 As part of the Toddler's Transportation focus, Miss Priya set up a playful little activity that helps exercise the children's knowledge on different motor machines. She encouraged the children to hide the images underneath the white sand and to then use a brush to search and explore the pictures whilst identifying the names too!

06.01.2022 Today we received our new resource order.... wow, thanks so much Green Leaves! We are having so much fun exploring our new resources, our train sets appear to be the favourite! Cant wait for our next delivery :)

05.01.2022 "We like to Monday Move It" This morning, the children began their day with some body rushing, blood pumping and music jumping, dance moves!! We noticed that after some free morning indoor-outdoor play, the Pre Kinders were still so active and had heaps of energy to burn! So we decided to hold an awesome dance class before morning tea time, this included heaps of high internsity movements and cardio excercises!

05.01.2022 Our Tiny tot's project for this month is "All about me". Educators have set up experiences to extend on children learning about themself and their family. Today children were encouraged to look at themself in a mirror and to draw what they could see. Educators talked to children about their image- 'where are your eyes, can you point to your nose?' Children were very engaged in this experience, some of our older children even pointed out other children's features.

04.01.2022 Tiny Tots & Toddlers planned a science experience where children had the chance to learn about different types of insects and natural resources. We took a muffin tray and encouraged the children to place insect cubes and natural resources inside the tray and we then poured water into each cube. Later we placed the muffin tray inside the freezer to create iced insects, and in doing so the children were able to experience the different forms of water. When it was ready children were curious to touch the ice cubes and sense the cold and melting water from the ice cube, they also showed interest in trying to take out the insects from the ice cubes.

03.01.2022 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!! Here are the Junior Kinders getting together to make and bake some lovely Christmas ornaments! Cant wait to see the final results!

03.01.2022 "A child isnt thinking about whether their painting is good enough. Theyre just enjoying painting" - Annie Kagan

02.01.2022 Our Mandarin program is continuing to be a favourite for children, they are learning so many new words, songs and sayings. We just had to post this video of Miss Margot singing 1 to 10, what beautiful singing! Shz gq

02.01.2022 Join us for red nose day on Friday 14th August- come dressed in the colour red! If you would like to donate a dollar coin it would be appreciated, thanks in advance for your support.

01.01.2022 Todays lunch- lamb stew with somalian rice- Thanks to Anat who is supporting us from Green Leaves Forest Hill and our chef Muna for creating this delicious dish! It was loved by all, the flavours were unbelievable :)

01.01.2022 Today Miss Abira asked a few of the Pre-kinder children to help her make something special for Early Childhood Educators Day (ECE)! Together they broke up some recycled boxes and flattened them so that they could paint them brown. It was a quick and easy task but the Pre - Kinders wanted to paint some more, so they decided to do something a little spontaneous and paint on the windows!! At first, the children were sceptical, but with Miss Abiras reassurance, the children excitedly began painting. They enjoyed this so much, they even wanted to help clean up the paint afterwards! Good job Pre-Kinders, always surprising us!

01.01.2022 Check out our talented little Kinder children - drawing their favourite fruit and veggies! It was a bit of a exciting topic last week so they decided to continue this interest - but instead of discussing this, they were able to draw their answers out instead!! Cool drawings Kinders, keep it up!

01.01.2022 Sunsmart has started everyone! Please watch as our Kinder children explain how we are sunsmart here at Green Leaves Richmond!