Journey Early Learning Centre Riverhills in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | Childcare service

Journey Early Learning Centre Riverhills

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 3102 1303

Address: 20 Bogong Street, Riverhills 4074 Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website: http://journey.edu.au/centre/riverhills/

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22.01.2022 We’ve all heard of therapy dogs visiting children in hospitals and elderly people in aged care, but what about a therapy dog in Kindy? Meet Brittney! Brittney will be visiting the Kindy each Tuesday morning to spend some time interacting with our Kindy children. Brittney is a trained therapy dog who received her accreditation in Canada, and has previously worked in aged care homes and schools there, before moving to Australia with her family. Research shows therapy dogs can ...reduce stress and increase attachment responses that trigger oxytocin a hormone that increases trust in humans. Therapy dogs have been shown to teach empathy and social skills, reduce anxiety in children, be soothing and increase motivation for learning. The children have been eagerly awaiting Brittney's visits and this week the wait was over. Brittney wandered around the room while the children finished up morning tea, before she settled on our group time mat to receive lots of love and attention from some very excited children.

18.01.2022 Is it a car? Or is it a rocket? It could be a very tall building, or even a robot. The Toddler children are always busy at work with their little hands and creative imaginations. They love exploring the shelves in their construction corner and self-selecting their own recourses from the baskets. As the children choose their own interests and resources from the shelves it gives them a sense of independence and belonging to the room as they begin to make their own choices to support their learning. We are constantly amazed at the wonderful constructions the children create and bring to life.

16.01.2022 Sensory bottles are fun to play with and a great way to recycle and reuse plastic! After exploring different sensory bottles, the children discovered that some of them rattle, some bubble, some are heavy, some sound like rain and some even have hidden treasures inside! We prepared an activity, where the children worked together to create their very own sensory bottles! It was a great experience that got them using their fine motor skills and exploring with their senses.

16.01.2022 The subject of Egyptian mummies has come up a few times this year in our Kinder group time. When it does, we discuss that mummification is the way that the ancient Egyptian people buried their family and friends that had died. We talk about the fact that mummies are real, but they don't get up and walk around like in the movies. The mummies topic came up again when we started talking about "spooky" Halloween creatures and we took the opportunity to explore mummies a little further with this fun activity!

16.01.2022 Who doesn’t love solving a challenging puzzle and having that rewarding feeling of accomplishment at the end? In the Nursery, as the babies begin to discover their cognitive, gross and fine motor skills, many things can be seen as a challenging puzzle. This includes running without a tumble, holding a spoon and feeding themselves, and even matching pictures and colours. Using our varieties of stimulating puzzles, our Nursery children are able to explore and expand their ski...lls in a fun and exciting way! Now enrolling for Nursery in 2021. Contact our enrolments team on 3102 1303 to start your journey with us today.

15.01.2022 Recently, one of our Tuesday morning walks ended with a very special treat! We visited our favourite local coffee shop and the lovely manager at All Things Tasmanian made us all baby chinos! We are so thankful to have such fantastic places in our community for us to create memories! Thank you All Things Tasmanian! I wonder where we will visit next?

14.01.2022 This week, for Naidoc Week, our children have been exploring Indigenous Australian Dreamtime stories! Aboriginal Dreamtime stories are an ideal way to build our knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal Australia. Creation or Dreamtime stories often explain how the country, animals and people came to be as they are. ... These stories have inspired our Kindergarten children to create some amazing art! They've been drawing in sand, painting birds and frogs and even copying the patterns and colours depicted in the stories.

12.01.2022 We are always learning self-help skills by using food! These consist of fine motor activities that will build up our children's small hand and finger muscles to help them learn how to hold a spoon, fork, knife, and even pencils. The goal of this fun food activity was to pluck the small kernels of corn from the cob... Although, our nursery children just couldn’t resist taking a chomp out of the yummy corn! Now enrolling for Nursery in 2021. Contact our enrolments team on 3102 1303 to start your journey with us today.

12.01.2022 When playing in the kitchen, it’s often fun to cut up pretend food and serve it up on a plate. In our Nursery, we let the children use plastic knives to cut up their fruit and grow their fine motor skills. By cutting grapes into halves and the ends off of strawberries, we were able to explore that curiosity of preparing our own food, while also taking ownership for our eating and enjoying a healthy, delicious snack! Now enrolling for Nursery in 2021. Contact our enrolments team on 3102 1303 to start your journey with us today.

09.01.2022 Recently we celebrated NAIDOC week. NAIDOC Week is held across Australia each year to celebrate the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This year ran from the 8th of November to the 15th of November. The week provided a great opportunity for us to learn together and participate in a range of activities and experiences to support our local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. The Toddler children engaged in activities... and experiences to support awareness and education of the Indigenous Australian culture. Through these experiences, our children formed a strong interest in learning about the Australian animals. To support and extend this interest we have recently been exploring some of the animals we read about in a book called ‘Koo Koo Kookabrurra’. We have enjoyed learning about some of our wonderful Australian animals together. See more

08.01.2022 Recognition of numbers supports the development of other number skills, such as counting. The last counting word tells how many. Many children will count three objects, but then, when asked how many, will re-count. But if they recognize groups of one, two, and three, then when they count out one, they see they have one, when they count out two, they see they have two, and when they finish and count three they see three. They relate it to what they already know, and so the counting is more meaningful. Our Kinder children have lots of opportunity to develop this important number skill through their everyday play, with number puzzles, games and through song.

06.01.2022 Through engaging with natural materials, the children get to develop their connection to the world around them while also learning to become socially responsible and show a respect for the environment. This open-ended nature experience encouraged the children to explore the different sights, feels, textures, and even smells, of some of the interesting things they discovered and collected on our weekly walks around the community and parks.

01.01.2022 Math includes noticing numbers, shapes, patterns, size, time and measurement. Incorporating math into everyday experiences is easy and fun. Math is everywhere in the playground, at the shops and at home. Developing numeracy skills early gives our Kinder children a foundation for their learning and development. It prepares them not only for the next stages of formal learning but also for daily life. Here at Journey Riverhills our Kinder children are exposed to lots of experiences in making, counting, drawing and talking about numbers through their everyday play.