Green Leaves Early Learning Albany Creek

💫💫 Happy International Friendship Day 💫💫

Children across the centre showed their understanding of friendship day by including each other in play, cuddles, making brackets and simply sitting together.
Days like this teaches children to be kind, include friends and to accept differences between each other.

🟦🟨 Building Bonds 🟨🟦

Pre-Kindy building tall towers while working together to build bonds through teamwork.

Supporting children with big dreams!

🏏 Having a Good Innings 🏏

Junior Kindy exploring the outdoors with a friendly game of cricket.

Cricket develops hand-eye coordination and builds social skills by requiring teamwork.

🪷🪷 Exploring Calm 🪷🪷

Today our Kindergarten children explored calmness. Providing children opportunities for calm significantly reduces stress and anxiety while enhancing emotional regulation and cognitive function.

By taking time to relax, children can process thoughts better, leading to improved memory, and stronger focus.

💕 Sounds of the Singing Bowl 💕

Pre-Kindy children explored the sounds of the Singing Bowl.

Singing bowls are excellent tools for helping children build focus, manage anxiety, and practice mindfulness. The gentle, sustained vibrations and soothing tones naturally calm the nervous system.

🏃‍♂️‍➡️🏃‍➡️ Under and Over 🏃‍♀️🏃

Kindergarten explored their gross motor development as they climbed and crawled through the obstacle course.

Developing these skills is essential for children, as it builds the physical strength, coordination, and spatial awareness required for healthy development and daily independence

⚫🟡🔴 Celebrating NAIDOC Week 🔴🟡⚫

NAIDOC stands for National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee.

Celebrated annually in the first week of July, it is a nationwide event that recognises and celebrates the history, rich cultures, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Kindergarten this week joined in the celebrations by engaging in some indigenous experiences with a variety of different Aboriginal symbols.

🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♀️ Gross Motor Development 🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♀️

Children in our Pre-Kindergarten room engaged in a gross motor activity where they used their hands and feet to keep the balloon up.

Children engaged in meaningful connections as they giggled together while kicking the balloons.