Lake Illawarra Pre-School & Kindergarten in Lake Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia | Nursery

Lake Illawarra Pre-School & Kindergarten

Locality: Lake Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 4244 4322

Address: 83 Addison Avenue 2528 Lake Illawarra, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 Today our little friends enjoyed time outside in the warm sunshine where we played ball games did lots of running and climbing and building. We also sat and read stories together Clayton really enjoyed investigating the books during outdoor play. Whilst indoors the children enjoyed using the corks to paint clouds and rainbows. Hannah asked to have the ice-cream game out where she needed to balance her scoops of ice-cream as high as she could before they fell down. Piper enjoyed working on her colour and fruit classification activity and being the shop keeper. Ari loved the guns outside and also spent a lot of time working on his ball catching and kicking.

24.01.2022 To my wonderful families, just letting all know contracts were signed last week so in about 1 month I will be heading off xxxxTo my wonderful families, just letting all know contracts were signed last week so in about 1 month I will be heading off xxxx

24.01.2022 After a cool start to the day we got out in the nice warm afternoon sunshine, did some climbing, barbie dolls, and Ari started the balancing trend, and everyone was soon practising their stilt walking. Have a great night all and I will see you tomorrow or next week xxx

23.01.2022 Wednesday continued........happy hump day to our fabulous families and children..... the rest of our day consisted of building working on our names and the letters in our names. However our major focus was on the sun, earth and moon and we finished the afternoon with magnetic force. Piper also worked on getting her shoes on independently.....

21.01.2022 Happy Birthday to our beautiful educator Kyla we hope you enjoyed your birthday love all of us at Pre-school xxxxHappy Birthday to our beautiful educator Kyla we hope you enjoyed your birthday love all of us at Pre-school xxxx

21.01.2022 What a Monday it was, Piper and Clayton had a great day investigating the Babushka dolls and looking at size difference. A lot of construction and building went on in the block corner mostly with our town planner Piper building and our demolition man Clayton knocking it down some role play in home corner and hiding in the streamers with Clayton, and we got some time to eat aswell. See you all tomorrow xxx

20.01.2022 Today we celebrated Jordan's birthday! Everyone loved the cupcakes that he brought in, thank you! We played dress ups, craft with shapes, car racing and lots more! We forgot to take photos today because we were having so much fun but here's a few pics Happy Tuesday!

19.01.2022 Our Tuesday post will come in 3 posts today, so much learning and investigation with our little group where we had JCB change to Tuesday’s to hang with the Emu crew and he loved it so did Ari having another big boy to play and learn with. We enjoyed learning about and investigating magnetic force with our trains and magnetic fishing, we enjoyed different small world play, collage using recycled loose parts and building and construction. Our Babushka dolls were a great success which allowed for us to discuss size differentiation small to largest, also cause and effect motion and movement with our car and ball roller coasters.

19.01.2022 Our morning started with checking on the babies, where Clayton decided to microwave his baby much to Piper’s disgust she yelled out oh no he’s burning the baby after which he turned up the temperature and laughed typical Clayton xxxx. We also enjoyed some wax resist painting Piper loved my magic the sun, earth and moon were again very popular with our twins.....Piper is so interested in the burning hot sun and Clayton can identify the planet earth. Piper constructed with the recycled loose parts where she experimented with height, length and dimension. We had some cucumber dip with morning tea and both Clayton and Piper really enjoyed it.

16.01.2022 Sorry for the late post my internet has been so slow but here we are better late than never....anotger day of Naidoc inspired learning experiences to encourage and acceptance of culture within our community. JCB brought his remote control shark in and showed us it works, his peers loved it we had a great morning of learning and exploration.

15.01.2022 Sorry for the late post lovely families I’ve had a busier week than normal but here is my catch up...... we had some new friends at Pre-School this week with my lovely babies Jaxx and Zahla. They had a great time and it was an interesting day having two sets of twins and they are so different. We made caterpillars, painted, dressed up, coloured and investigated books about caterpillars and butterfly’s, role-played in home corner and enjoyed time being creative on the light table. We also created little hot houses for the bean seeds we are trying to germinate within a clear lunch bag, we stuck them to window so we can watch their growth and changes as we are focusing on ‘change and growth’ and ‘where does our food come from’ and we will next week move onto the different steps in developing different foods.

14.01.2022 Piper and Clayton enjoyed everything today especially the butterfly collage where they gave their butterflies many eyes, next week we will be focusing on geometric shapes as Piper and Clayton have shown a lot of interest in shapes so we will work with their interests.

12.01.2022 This week's set up

12.01.2022 Today we investigated space and Piper was especially interested in the moon, we looked at volcanic rock because it’s the texture and colour of the moon. Piper enjoyed looking through the books and finding the moon and placing the rocks onto the pictures and said look the same. Clayton and Piper also enjoyed learning to put nappies on their babies and we’re very proud of their achievements. The light table with our stars and coloured discs were also a success where Piper mad...e a caterpillar and used stars as its eye. At the gluing table we looked at different textures and also dull and shiny. Clayton helped me to set up the car and also the train tracks. They both enjoyed using the stubby brushes to paint, where they mixed colours and we were able to also discuss the new colours they had made.....have a great night everyone and I will see you all tomorrow xxx See more

12.01.2022 Just a little snippet of our hump day, we enjoyed a variety of building and fine-motor activities where we worked together and alone and had the opportunity to discuss personal space and using our words not our actions we investigated the lifecycle of the butterfly and looked at cocoons using the magnifying glass. We practiced our tracing skills as we traced our apple that the caterpillar had eaten through. We will be reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar during our caterpill...ar and butterfly investigations. We are also investigating where our food comes from and how it grows or is made, to assist in our learning we will be reading the big book Where does our food come from the children enjoyed the pictures as they depict photos and the children could relate easily to them. Piper said my mummy milks the cows and this gave us the opportunity to discuss dairy products and how they are made. See more

12.01.2022 Terrific Tuesday.....we all enjoyed time at home corner feeding and changing our babies or pretending to be babies. Cutting and sticking was a great success with all of my friends practicing their grasp and cutting skills. Ari spent time counting with me and killed it at the numeral and symbol puzzle while Piper built with the rainbows, Ari also did some amazing balancing with the rainbow arches. We all worked on our nappy change skills and all enjoyed some painting aswell.

11.01.2022 Some of our artwork from this week and we did a little bit of camping outside today, JCB and HR both work on their Torres Strait Islander flag during rest time...

09.01.2022 A little picnic with friends on the mat for morning tea, were we discussed some current events in our lives, a lovely afternoon outside after lunch and a short rest on the mat. During outdoor free play we had the opportunity to ride, run and climb. We built with mega blocks, mobilo and played at the dolls house. We practised our hoop skills as well as our ability to balance. We built together and alone and we all enjoyed being out in the sun together having fun. See you tomorrow for hump day xxx

09.01.2022 BOOK WEEK 2019 will run from Mon 19th - Wed 21st August for our service we are asking you to dress your children as their ‘favourite book character’ please if you can send the book that depicts that character as we will be reading those books with the children through the day. Thank you for your support we appreciate it

08.01.2022 So outside today being Monday 12th Aug we did some planting to follow on with our focus on ‘where does our food come from and how do things grow and change’. Piper and Zahla both enjoyed helping me prepare for, planting and watering the seeds we planted. We planted strawberries, spinach, parsley and some sunflowers, the boys got involved with the watering....where we recycled the water from water play to water in the seeds. We climbed, rode balance bikes, Clayton enjoyed hiding in the barbie box and we’ve worked with our gross-motor kills with our parachute balls. We also worked on our hand eye co-ordination with our throw and catch game......what a lovely twin day it was.

08.01.2022 Another great day of learning with our little friends, a variety of Naidoc inspired experiences. And some time outside in our outdoor learning environment, where we burnt of some energy see you all tomorrow xx

08.01.2022 NAIDOC WEEK 2019 A few of the experiences set up this week for the children

07.01.2022 Our morning started with some play dough cutting and discussing shapes, Piper made a birthday cake and used the roller as a candle, so to scaffold her learning I provided her with some birthday candles. She arranged the candles and started singing ‘happy birthday‘ Clayton was also given some candles and he went about arranging them in his dough (Clayton will very often watch and imitate Pipers actions/activities etc). Butterfly prints and shape collage were enjoyed by Piper a...nd Clayton and later on by Ari when he arrived. We worked on our cutting and snipping and I worked on grasp and technique with my little friends, Ari was very excited when he found mr crab at the food table and sat and pointed out on the seafood puzzle all of the sea life he could see at the table. During outdoor play we enjoyed time playing with the parachute, climbing and checking the growth of our seeds. We also created a new LEGO house during our afternoon free play......have a wonderful Wednesday evening and I will see you all next week xxxx See more

07.01.2022 Just letting our families know that contracts are due for settlement on Aug 28th please finalise fees for this period asap so last receipts can be sent home. Thank You for your support

06.01.2022 A very big sorry to our dads and pops that missed out on their gifts on Father’s Day I thought it was this weekend so I hope you enjoy your gifts this week when you get them.....

05.01.2022 Today started with some playdough constructions, Clayton was very excited that he was able to manipulate the playdough syringe to make his worms. Zahla enjoyed sometime at the shape collage with Piper.Ari enjoyed time at the playdough table also investigating the playdough syringe. Jaxx and Clayton role-played with the dinosaurs, our play then took on a new path with more and more dinosaur experiences. We included some dinosaurs at the playdough table, created a small world play featuring dinosaurs. I also worked with the children to create a ball roller coarse which was very popular with all of my friends.

05.01.2022 Today we investigated geometric shapes, Piper made a house with a square and triangle, Clayton constructed with the large geo shapes. We worked with the play dough using geo shape cutters and discussed the shapes we were cutting. Zahla enjoyed some time at the shape collage and the dough, Jordan created some shape collages for his mum and nan. The car roller coasters were also popular with all the boys. Zahla and Piper enjoyed the butterfly prints and then Clayton and Jaxx got involved.

04.01.2022 Outdoor play.....we watered our seeds that we planted last week, we’ve planted some sunflowers, spinach, strawberries, and some herbs. Please take the time to look at the window next to the fish tank to see our bean seeds that we are watching grow, the children have been very excited each day to check their progress.

04.01.2022 We are moving away from our focus on space and the solar system and are now focusing on change and growth in animals and our natural world and also where does our food come from. We will be investigating these topics this week and into next week where we will start some new gardens in our outdoor environment and also attempt to grow some beans in clear lunch bags so the children can watch the way things can change and how they grow and what they look like at different stages of growth.

03.01.2022 With all the wet weather and Jordan pretending to be a pirate I decided to let the children have a treasure hunt, Zahla and I hid the treasure and our little friends searched high and low and we’re very excited when they found their treasure....

03.01.2022 Tuesday 13th Aug we inspected our seeds for growth and Piper gave Clayton a lesson on who was who she has a great memory and name recognition skills. We sorted mixed and messed with our assorted sorting materials, we looked at ourselves and sorted by colour and number. Hannah planted her seeds, we enjoyed dress-ups, bike racing and a lovely day together.

03.01.2022 Sorry for the late post but I’ve had no internet...... today was a great day to engage in creative experiences with our friends. Ari wore his costume and bought his book to celebrate book week, we enjoyed some play dough. Hannah showed her mum her seeds and how much they’ve grown I need a week. We collaged butterflies, painted butterflies with an image as inspiration, Hannah spent time with me learning about time, then made her own clock. Ari used the tesalation shapes to decorate his butterfl.

02.01.2022 Ok not completed as I need a trip to the shop however Ari has requested green play dough for our insects and butterfly play dough table and hopefully our butterfly mumma that was at the table will return to join her butterfly babies at the play dough or caterpillar and butterfly inspiration painting table next week sometime. BTW if anyone knows where to find plastic caterpillars or butterfly’s plz msg me xx have a great night

02.01.2022 Today being 14th of Aug we enjoyed some time building with foam blocks where Piper was able to replicate the tower she had seen on our picture with ease and we then moved on to some caterpillar creations, we checked for growth on our pea seeds.....nothing yet. The light table was enjoyed by Piper where she stacked and moved around the stacking glasses. Piper also enjoyed the mix and sort table, Ari arrived and was a little sad but very quickly got into some activities, mornin...g tea and some fun play with his friends. He painted some pictures for his mum after morning tea and then planted his snow pea seeds into his cotton wool for germination. He spent time placing the shapes under the glasses at the light table while Piper constructed with the long blocks, then Ari and Clayton joined with a lot of direction from Piper. Outside we worked on our gross-motor skills as we threw our parachute balls and bean balls to see how far we could throw them. See more

02.01.2022 With such amazing weather today we were able to get outside and do some water play, they really enjoyed it. Both Clayton and Piper were able to practice and master their twisting and turning when they were using the spray and squirt bottles and they were pretty proud of their new skills too.

02.01.2022 Happy Wednesday guys