Lyndhurst Early Learning Centre in Clayfield, Queensland, Australia | Childcare service

Lyndhurst Early Learning Centre

Locality: Clayfield, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 3117 2222

Address: 3 London Road 4011 Clayfield, QLD, Australia

Website: www.childrenfirst.com.au/index.php/Lyndhurst

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25.01.2022 We end our celebration of Naidoc Week how we begin; in the garden having a great time with all the experiences Sara had on offer. Again, there was face paint, a variety of natural items to explore from different materials to sand and water. We had the bean bags out again, music, clapping sticks and let’s not forget a yummy tasting of damper. Thank you so much Sara for setting up these wonderful experiences for us all!

24.01.2022 Over the last year we have been looking at the Aboriginal Eight Ways of Learning. This is about the traditional ways that the Indigenous people of the land and islands have taught their children. There is a close connection to what we do here at Lyndhurst and the Eight Ways. Each Way is represented by a symbol and we thought that we would share the meaning of the symbols and the corresponding Eight Ways.

21.01.2022 The children in Gregory have been busy growing their small and large group muscles through outside play. We have been enjoying lots of water play, art on the veranda, constructing with the blocks, riding the bikes and cars, and balancing on the obstacle course, steppingstones, and wobble boards. During water play the children manipulate the water using buckets, shovels, pipes, sifters, and the sandpit kitchen utensils. While this is all happening their mathematical concepts of measurement and mass are also developing. As the children continue to challenge their current boundaries and take more risks, their interest, social and emotional development and play within the playground have grown. Great job friends!

21.01.2022 We have been continuing to talk about occupations recently and have been researching farmers. We learned and understood where our food comes from and how it is grown. We then made a chocolate and Smartie cake with Miss Susan. We identified the ingredients: flour comes from wheat which farmers grow, sugar comes from sugar cane, eggs come from chickens, and butter from cows which is processed. We also learned that the chocolate comes from a plant, the cocoa tree. After we ide...ntified all the ingredients of the cake, each of the children had a turn to mix our cake batter. The children really enjoyed the cooking experience, and they couldn’t wait to see the cake be baked. Before we ate the cake, Miss Susan taught us to thank our farmers for growing the foods and producing the animals that allow us to eat all foods. As last week was National Recycling Week, the Pre-Kindy children made beautiful art by using recycling materials. We used the supermarket catalogue paper to roll it into a tube, and we then used these tubes to make a photo frame. The children were all very happy and asked if they could take the photo frame home. See more

20.01.2022 Online pie drive orders are due Tuesday 17th November by 2.30pm. You can also order in paper form and cash by Wednesday 18th November 2020 by 10am. Please give any paper orders to Kate or Kirsty in the office

16.01.2022 Bonjour! The Pre-Kindy children love having their French lesson with Miss Gaëlle. We welcomed our mascot, Mr. Crocodile and sang the Bonjour song to start our lesson. We then learned how to count 1-20 and learned counting the numbers backwards. We then sang a number song called La comptine des chiffres to reinforce our counting. Miss Gaëlle then showed us a print which had different animals on it, which were: Rhino (rhinoceros), Giraffe (giraffe), Crocodile (crocodile),... Elephant (l'éléphant), Monkey (singe), Bird (oiseau), Lion (lion), Zebra (zèbre). Miss Gaëlle then cut the animals from the paper, and some of the children had to stick the animal to the alphabet card on the wall, to match the letters. After we learned the letter and the animals, we sang a song called Un elephant qui se balancait . This song is just like 5 little monkeys swinging in the tree, and the children learned the counting 1-5 in French by singing this song. Miss Gaëlle also read us a book called Tout en Haut. The book is about African animals trying to climb to the top of the mountain. To finish off our lesson, we made a big circle, and did the bird dance together. See more

14.01.2022 As the weather has been warming up and Summer is soon approaching the children have been loving to go outside in the morning and in the afternoon, as we are getting bigger and growing up we are loving to work our gross motor skills and use those leg and arm muscles. Water play is one activity the London children are absolutely loving at the moment, we are all loving to get wet, splash around in the water and play with all the toys that are placed in the water trough at the t...ime. We also love to mix the sand and water and get super messy. Yay! Sandpit play is another activity that the children are loving, we all enjoy playing with the cooking stove and the sandpit utensils as we do lots of cooking. Great Job! The London children are also busy reading books, drawing, building block towers, using the obstacle course and other fun equipment that are outside at the time. It is great to see the children as they become independent and excel in their outdoor experiences. Stay tuned for London’s next fun adventure London Team See more

11.01.2022 This week, our room leaders got together for our monthly room leader meeting. During these meetings we discuss and brainstorm ideas, share stories and readings and look at different ways to set up stimulating play areas for both inside and outside environments. The educators are able to bounce ideas from each age group and what has worked for them. Our educators have been assisting each other with our new programming platform and sharing what they have found within the program that has worked well. Great work everyone!

08.01.2022 After such fun celebrating NAIDOC week, we decided we should have a look at recycling with Liverpool, Junction, Bayview, and Gregory for National Recycling Week. We discussed the different things that we could recycle, compost or rethink. Such as using a water bottle that can be reused rather than buying a water from the shop. The children sorted different recyclable products into different piles to put in our magnetic rubbish bin. We also had fun dancing to some of our favou...rite songs like Wiggly Woo, The Caterpillar Song and Making the Garden Grow. Don’t forget to drop off your plastic bottle caps, bread tags and can tabs to the centre in our blue buckets next door to Junction. Also, if you have any boxes, bottles, or other recyclables (please no egg cartons or cartons that contain nut products) that children and educators can use for craft experiences or spontaneous activities. You will find rubbish bins in the hallway towards Bayview in centre 1 and the hallway towards London in centre 2. Thank You Again. See more

06.01.2022 With another year down, we will continue to embed the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and cultures to the best of our abilities; Educate ourselves in the ways that the Indigenous Peoples cared for the lands, waterways and skies and implement those ways here at Lyndhurst in an attempt to continue to care for country as the Turrbal People cared for the Yuggera Nation that we are situated on. A little history about how NAIDOC started. In 1991, with a growing ...awareness of the distinct cultural histories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, NADOC was expanded to recognise Torres Strait Islander people and culture. The committee then became known as the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC). This new name has become the title for the whole week, not just the day. Each year, a theme is chosen to reflect the important issues and events for NAIDOC Week. Our second big day with Pre-Kindy, Liverpool, Gregory and Bayview celebrating NAIDOC Week together. We had similar activities from the beginning of the week, with traditional Indigenous games that were played to help children develop skills to use later in life when they are older and start hunting and gathering for their tribes. We played with some ochre coloured sand, that the children added natural resources to create different patterns. There was also water that the children could use with the natural resources too, which they challenged themselves with balancing several rocks on top of each other. We did some handprints, dancing and face painting. It was so much fun. We used clapsticks in time to the music that we were all dancing to and some of us also enjoyed some quiet time with a book. Each room had either a Rainbow Serpent to paint or some boomerangs to decorate so they could bring them back to their rooms and display them. See more

05.01.2022 Recently in Sandgate we have been starting our days playing outdoors early in the morning before it gets too hot. The children have been exploring everything that our outdoor environment has to offer, jumping off planks into sand, making sandcastles and digging holes, riding bikes, climbing on the web bridge, and climbing on the fort. Home corner is our most favorite place for everyone in the room at the moment. The children use the equipment to do cooking and baking. Some o...f our clever Sandgate children were feeding the babies and patting them off to sleep. Role play helps to develop the children’s social interaction and fine motor skills. The younger Sandgate children enjoy tummy time, we put some toys around them, which they tried to grab. This helps improve their fine and gross motor skills and helps to make their muscles strong. Some of our younger clever babies are now crawling and trying to stand up. Playdough has also been a big it in Sandgate. The children to explore the different textures, smells and shapes of the playdough. The children have gotten to know Gaëlle very well and love sitting on the mat and singing French songs with her. Some of our clever children are starting to repeat some of the French words. Well done Sandgate!

05.01.2022 Recently, the Junction children have had a strong interest in learning about under the sea. Everyone has enjoyed lots of sensory experiences while we explore sea life. Our favourite has been putting sea animals in jelly. We all gathered around the table to see a big container of blue jelly. When we looked closer, we discovered sea animals stuck in the jelly. We used our hands to help free the sea animals. We all loved the feeling of the jelly in between our fingers, however, we loved tasting the jelly more!

03.01.2022 The weather maybe unpredictable at times but having fun in Gregory is always a predictable factor! We have been spending some time inside over the past few weeks, and the children have been working on their fine motor, gross motor, cognitive and social skill development. The big interests in the room have been reading books, the dinosaur environment, Mr Potato head, trains, and train tracks, the self-select art trolley and construction. With the variety of blocks and Legos in the room, the children have been working in small groups to build towers, castles, cars, and tracks. It is always wonderful to see such great teamwork between friends. Well done Gregory!