Our Day
Our Yowie Bay centre opens at 7.30am where families and the children are greeted with a smile by our friendly welcoming educators.
Families will drop their children to their rooms and play outdoors with their peers until about 10am. Outdoors children are supported to participate in learning fundamental movements skills, sandpit play or joining in quieter more solitary activities. Children can revisit games and activities from their last day of care at kindy when the same experiences are set up.
Our day at Kid’n Around
We welcome children from 7:30 am in the morning and dive into small construction, craft and intentional teaching experiences throughout the morning until our 9:30am group time. The morning is where the children engage with our learning tables coinciding with the services Intentional teaching calendar. This focuses on teaching the children the letters in the Alphabet and numbers through a variety of experiences.
In our morning group time we sing our good morning song, Acknowledgement of country, Dharawal song and encourage the children to share their news or share something special with their friends allowing us educators to know more about the children.
We then head outside and get active by engaging in munch and move activity developing the children’s gross motor skills. Small fine motor construction activities are brought to our outdoor learning area for the children to challenge their skills as they construct their object.
Our Midday group time is where we implement our school readiness program as the children add an entry to their learning journals based off our intentional teaching calendar.
The children then have their lunch and engage in rest time where we offer children who need it a sleep and meditation time for those who do not need to sleep. We then engage in quiet activities keeping our bodies calm.
For our afternoon group time an educator will read a story or engage the children in a circle game before heading outdoors for afternoon tea.
The children then have a run around outdoors using big body movements before heading inside engaging with the learning tables for the rest of the afternoon until 5pm when we close.