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Our Eager Emus outdoor area is shared with our Cuddly Koalas, 3–4-year-old children. This mixed play area allows children to take on leadership roles and assists our Emus in transitioning to the Koalas Room when the time comes, as they are already familiar with the Educators, children and outdoor spaces.
Different activities are set up daily, based on the curriculum plan that the Room Coordinators have written. The curriculum is an extension of the children’s development and interests, which includes family input and extending on the goals of each individual child.
This is our Cuddly Koalas Room, with children 3-4 years old. In this room, you can see there are many more smaller objects, manipulative resources and activities to suit the children’s age and development. Small objects and manipulative resources can include natural resources such as rocks and shells or objects that can be used for counting, sorting and art activities.
Compared to the Emus Room, pencils and crayons are always out and available for children as they have now learnt to put things back after themselves.
Our Eager Emus outdoor area is shared with our Cuddly Koalas, 3–4-year-old children. This mixed play area allows children to take on leadership roles and assists our Emus in transitioning to the Koalas Room when the time comes, as they are already familiar with the Educators, children and outdoor spaces.
Different activities are set up daily, based on the curriculum plan that the Room Coordinators have written. The curriculum is an extension of the children’s development and interests, which includes family input and extending on the goals of each individual child.
Koalas ‘Reaching for the Stars’ – In each of our rooms you will find a display related to the children’s goals. At our annual Coffee Night information evenings, parents share their goals for their child so that Educators can work with them towards the same goals!
Interest-Based Learning Example: This ‘Train Station Active Learning Environment’ was created when an interest sparked from a child showing a photo (delivered in the Kindalin Postbox) from their visit to the dinosaur exhibition. This discussion revealed the child caught a train to the exhibit and the interest escalated from there!
These pictures are of other examples of interest-based learning areas that have sparked in the Emus Room, including the Vet!
In this room, we begin to introduce additional activities and routines into the children’s day, such as toilet training and progressive morning tea. Toilet training is encouraged by the Educators, who work with families and assist from Kindalin to home. Progressive morning tea allows children to gain independence by deciding to eat when they are hungry whilst playing, with the guidance of their Educators!
Lockers are also introduced, where children are encouraged to find their name tag and place it on a locker for the day to keep their belongings. This helps with name recognition, sense of belonging, self-help skills and feeling safe and secure!
Here you can see our Family Holiday Wall on display. Each year, families share images and information on their Christmas holidays to share in the room. Family partnerships are an important part of our Kindalin philosophy, as we believe strong connections with home and Kindalin provide the best learning environment for the children.
The Holiday Wall provides children with something familiar in the room, welcomes new topics of discussion and fosters a connection with families which continues throughout the year.
Reading is an integral part of our growing and learning from Possums, right through to our Wombats! Here we have a free flow reading area available for Koalas and Wombats, in a quiet area, for them to go and recharge by reading a book quietly or with their friends.
As part of our Kindalin Preschool Program, our Wombats (ages 4-5) sign in themselves each morning by writing their name and put on their own sunscreen before finding their name tag and choosing a locker for the day! Our exclusive Preschool Program helps prepare final year preschoolers for that next step – primary school, developing their emotional intelligence by engaging and challenging four to five year old children while helping them become more confident and independent in a social learning environment!
Our Wonderful Wombats (ages 4-5) begin their transition to school with the Kindalin Preschool Program, though active exploration and interactive learning experiences children are provided with the skills for primary school! Our main focus is for them to be socially and emotionally ready for school, implemented through the curriculum plan.
Each year, we hold a very special graduation for our Wombats heading to primary school, where we celebrate all of their growing and learning as well as show mum and dad their independence and confidence as we perform our favourite songs.
Welcome to our Wonderful Wombats’ Home Corner, the first of our 3 level Wombats Room! Similar to our other rooms, here children can explore their identities and their own worlds through role play; dressing in outfits and taking on roles such as mum and dad. They may go shopping, set up the dinner table or even be an Educator at school, it is all up to their imagination!
Dramatic play allows them to learn social skills and develop their own understandings of their world and their identity.
This is our Cuddly Koalas Room, with children 3-4 years old. In this room, you can see there are many more smaller objects, manipulative resources and activities to suit the children’s age and development. Small objects and manipulative resources can include natural resources such as rocks and shells or objects that can be used for counting, sorting and art activities.
Compared to the Emus Room, pencils and crayons are always out and available for children as they have now learnt to put things back after themselves.
At the beginning of each year, families complete an ‘All About Me’ page for their child, that introduces the child and is often placed in the room. From here, a variety of activities take place that encourage children to learn more about each other as well as learn about similarities and differences between themselves and their friends in the room. They will do their own self portrait, looking in the mirror, discussing their own self identities through art, dramatic play, conversations and interactions!
Welcome to the Possums Yard! The Yard is always set up with a range of interactive activities children can choose to engage with. Throughout the day, Educators provide children the opportunity for ‘flow play’, where they can go inside and out in their own leisure and engage in activities which interest them. Activities can take place in small groups or others may prefer independent play.
This kind of interest-based play often leads to spontaneous group time activities and new questions/topics that can begin new projects and child-led learning!
Welcome to the Possums Yard! The Yard is always set up with a range of interactive activities children can choose to engage with. Throughout the day, Educators provide children the opportunity for ‘flow play’, where they can go inside and out in their own leisure and engage in activities which interest them. Activities can take place in small groups or others may prefer independent play.
This kind of interest-based play often leads to spontaneous group time activities and new questions/topics that can begin new projects and child-led learning!
Welcome to our Eager Emus Room! Our Emus are our children ages 2 – 3 years old. As we do in all of our rooms, this Emus room is set up to provide children with a variety of learning spaces for flow play – indoor and outdoor play. Learning spaces are always adapted according to children’s interests and family input.
We also incorporate a writing centre and exploratory sensory program to extend on their inquisitiveness!
Although the room has set learning areas, the children are able to mix and move resources throughout the room to explore their own curiosity and imaginations!
Our top Possums Room is another area for indoor play, with a range of learning areas set up for flow play! Learning areas provide opportunities for children to learn Kindalin’s 5 Key Learning Areas (Language & Literacy, Mathematical Thinking, The Arts, Scientific Thinking, Social Skills) through play and topics of interest. For example, here the Construction Zone has incorporated a truck transport area, based on children taking interest in seeing trucks on the road during their outdoor play. The Construction Zone encourages Mathematical and Scientific Thinking when constructing and counting blocks as well as experimenting with construction.
This is our Kindalin Post Box! We invite families to post letters and photos to their children in the postbox, which are then picked up and delivered to the children by the ‘Kindalin Postie’ at Calendar Time each day. This is a great way to build a connection between Kindalin and home, support children’s literacy understanding as well as introduce new topics for discussion!
Welcome to the lower Possums Room! Our entire Possums space consists of the lower and upper room as well as a beautiful outdoor area, where we accommodate to 20 children, 0 – 2 years, in the care of 5 Educators. Throughout our Centre, you will find that activity areas and learning spaces are set up based on the children’s interests as well as their age. This room is particularly set up with low furniture for those babies learning to walk, so they can easily pull themselves up, as well as soft cuddly resources and sensory items for the younger babies.
Behind this blue curtain is our rest time room, where we provide an opportunity for relaxing rest time for the children, based on their own needs for rest. This may depend on age and home routines, meaning Possums may have additional rest times in the morning as well as time to rest in the afternoon. The children absolutely love sleeping in the hammocks, whilst others are in cots.
Our Kindalin App for parents provides you with logged information on your child’s routine in the Possums Room, including nappy change, eating and rest time periods!
Family communication is crucial to achieving the best environment for your child. At Kindalin, we communicate with our families via face-to-face chats with your child’s Educators, emails, our Kindalin App and notices in our Foyer – including this Kindalin Calendar! You will find all upcoming events on this calendar in the foyer each month, as well as receive reminders via your app and emails.
The Kindalin App keeps you in touch with your child’s day - their upcoming events and notices, room adventures, photos of the action, their eating log, bi-monthly observations of your child specifically and communication with the Director!
Welcome to Kindalin Glenhaven. We are a 100 place centre, helping children grow and learn from babies through to 5 years old, ready for school! Alison Wharton founded Kindalin over 30 years ago upon the belief that children grow and learn holistically through creativity, curiosity and exploration.
1 Glenhaven Road
Glenhaven
NSW 2156
Open 7.00am to 6.30pm | Babies - 5yrs
This room in particular is used for project work, group times and researching topics they are doing through books, games and scientific/mathematic experiences!
The curriculum uses project work that reflects The Kindalin Five Key Learning Areas – Literacy and Language, The Arts, Social Awareness, Mathematics and Scientific Thinking.
Our Wonderful Wombats (ages 4-5) begin their transition to school with the Kindalin Preschool Program, though active exploration and interactive learning experiences children are provided with the skills for primary school! Our main focus is for them to be socially and emotionally ready for school, implemented through the curriculum plan.
Each year, we hold a very special graduation for our Wombats heading to primary school, where we celebrate all of their growing and learning as well as show mum and dad their independence and confidence as we perform our favourite songs.
Welcome to Kindalin Glenhaven. We are a 100 place centre, helping children grow and learn from babies through to 5 years old, ready for school! Alison Wharton founded Kindalin over 30 years ago upon the belief that children grow and learn holistically through creativity, curiosity and exploration.
1 Glenhaven Road
Glenhaven
NSW 2156
Open 7.00am to 6.30pm | Babies - 5yrs
Welcome to Kindalin Glenhaven. We are a 100 place centre, helping children grow and learn from babies through to 5 years old, ready for school! Alison Wharton founded Kindalin over 30 years ago upon the belief that children grow and learn holistically through creativity, curiosity and exploration.
1 Glenhaven Road
Glenhaven
NSW 2156
Open 7.00am to 6.30pm | Babies - 5yrs
Welcome to Kindalin Glenhaven. We are a 100 place centre, helping children grow and learn from babies through to 5 years old, ready for school! Alison Wharton founded Kindalin over 30 years ago upon the belief that children grow and learn holistically through creativity, curiosity and exploration.
Our heart and soul is a tightly-knit community of 180 passionate Educators across eight centres within the Hills District and Frenchs Forest, who share their insights, friendship and trust. We are deeply embedded within our local communities and collaborate with specialists in the field of early childhood, who share our vision of excellence.
This is our Cuddly Koalas Room, with children 3-4 years old. In this room, you can see there are many more smaller objects, manipulative resources and activities to suit the children’s age and development. Small objects and manipulative resources can include natural resources such as rocks and shells or objects that can be used for counting, sorting and art activities.
Compared to the Emus Room, pencils and crayons are always out and available for children as they have now learnt to put things back after themselves.
Children are often immersed in art activities throughout the day that may be based on topics they have been discussing, observational art based on a project/artist study, an interest from home or spontaneous art where children choose to explore themselves.
At Kindalin, we believe in child-led learning and allowing children to make their own interpretations of the world around them through exploring and investigating. For this reason, you won’t find a print-out picture for children to colour in. It’s not about colouring in the lines, it’s about the own interpretation of the lines!
This is our Cuddly Koalas Room, with children 3-4 years old. In this room, you can see there are many more smaller objects, manipulative resources and activities to suit the children’s age and development. Small objects and manipulative resources can include natural resources such as rocks and shells or objects that can be used for counting, sorting and art activities.
Compared to the Emus Room, pencils and crayons are always out and available for children as they have now learnt to put things back after themselves.
The Centre Director is there to facilitate and maintain strong and special relationships between Kindalin families, staff and children. Her office is located close by your sign-in area and she is available for you to meet with or chat via email or phone for any questions or needs!
Educator profiles always on display in our hallway as well as available on our Kindalin app. This way our families can be aware of who is looking after their children, learn a bit about them and build a stronger relationship.
Upon arrival drop-off and pick-up, our families sign in their children on our iPads, where they use a unique pin code. Each parent/guardian has their own separate pin code, so that we have an exact record who is picking up and dropping off! This also records data for the government Child Care Subsidy.
This is an area for the whole centre to enjoy and explore! Children are always involved in phsycial activity and explorations in the natural environment, engaging with different resources such as the sand pit, developing gross motor skills through obstacles, using the boat and fire engine for dramatic play or retreating to the tipi for quiet time and reading.
The expansive area and variety of resources offers the opportunity for children to learn in their own ways, through hands on and verbal activities.
The layout and obstacals are always changed up to keep it exciting and interesting!
The yard is always prepared with fun and challenging obstacles and sports to help develop children’s gross motor skills. We ensure to change it up to keep it exciting and provide new challenges!
This is an area for the whole centre to enjoy and explore! Children are always involved in phsycial activity and explorations in the natural environment, engaging with different resources such as the sand pit, developing gross motor skills through obstacles, using the boat and fire engine for dramatic play or retreating to the tipi for quiet time and reading.
The expansive area and variety of resources offers the opportunity for children to learn in their own ways, through hands on and verbal activities.
The layout and obstacals are always changed up to keep it exciting and interesting!
Every child has their own portfolio that is worked on throughout the year. It documents your child’s learning journey at Kindalin and includes their artworks, photos of their learning and achievements, project work, family contribution from throughout the year and the observations written by your child’s Educator about their growing and learning. They are kept in the hallway, available for families to check out whenever they like and is something special to take home at the end of the year!
Our hallway is a central place for all of your information and communication in the centre! This area is the go-to for all of your important information and forms on procedures, allergy and medication.
Welcome to Kindalin Glenhaven! Our doors are open to our Kindalin families from 7am through to 6.30pm, Monday – Friday. Families are able to access the centre with their very own ‘fob’ key, which they swipe at the door to open. The centre otherwise remains locked and secure for the day and only accessed by paging our doorbell and being welcomed in by staff.
Our creek and boardwalk is one of the children’s favourite areas of the top yard! The luscious green area welcomes children to walk along the boardwalk and explore the creek which flows with water trickling throughout. Children can explore the water and the natural environment, conduct science experiments, create wet and dry chalk drawings and often go ‘fishing’ in their dramatic play. It is also a great sensory activity walking through the water!
Our creek and boardwalk is one of the children’s favourite areas of the top yard! The luscious green area welcomes children to walk along the boardwalk and explore the creek which flows with water trickling throughout. Children can explore the water and the natural environment, conduct science experiments, create wet and dry chalk drawings and often go ‘fishing’ in their dramatic play. It is also a great sensory activity walking through the water!
Our creek and boardwalk is one of the children’s favourite areas of the top yard! The luscious green area welcomes children to walk along the boardwalk and explore the creek which flows with water trickling throughout. Children can explore the water and the natural environment, conduct science experiments, create wet and dry chalk drawings and often go ‘fishing’ in their dramatic play. It is also a great sensory activity walking through the water!
As you can see, our Wombats Room spans over 3 split levels, providing them a space for dramatic play (Home Corner), a space for project work and group times (middle level) and here – a space for art, writing and mathematical activities!
During flow play, Wombats are free to explore the manipulative activity area with small resources for counting, matching and sorting. They may choose to write letters to their family or friends (using led pencils), create ANY artwork they may imagine using the many different mediums, engage in mathematical activities set up and much more!
Here is where we have Calendar Time, every day! Calendar Time takes place of a morning, where our Koalas and Wombats gather to look at the Kindalin calendar for the month, discuss days/weeks and the day’s weather as well as celebrate children’s birthdays, talk about upcoming events, receive the delivery from the Kindalin Postie (see Kindalin Post Box in Foyer) and of course sing lots of songs with a range of cultural music and movement!
This room in particular is used for project work, group times and researching topics they are doing through books, games and scientific/mathematic experiences!
The curriculum uses project work that reflects The Kindalin Five Key Learning Areas – Literacy and Language, The Arts, Social Awareness, Mathematics and Scientific Thinking.
This is an area for the whole centre to enjoy and explore! Children are always involved in phsycial activity and explorations in the natural environment, engaging with different resources such as the sand pit, developing gross motor skills through obstacles, using the boat and fire engine for dramatic play or retreating to the tipi for quiet time and reading.
The expansive area and variety of resources offers the opportunity for children to learn in their own ways, through hands on and verbal activities.
The layout and obstacles are always changed up to keep it exciting and interesting!
As you can see, our Wombats Room spans over 3 split levels, providing them a space for dramatic play (Home Corner), a space for project work and group times (middle level) and here – a space for art, writing and mathematical activities!
During flow play, Wombats are free to explore the manipulative activity area with small resources for counting, matching and sorting. They may choose to write letters to their family or friends (using lead pencils), create ANY artwork they may imagine using the many different mediums, engage in mathematical activities set up and much more!
The yard is always prepared with fun and challenging obstacles and sports to help develop children’s gross motor skills. We ensure to change it up to keep it exciting and provide new challenges!
Here is where we have Calendar Time, every day! Calendar Time takes place of a morning, where our Koalas and Wombats gather to look at the Kindalin calendar for the month, discuss days/weeks and the day’s weather as well as celebrate children’s birthdays, talk about upcoming events, receive the delivery from the Kindalin Postie (see Kindalin Post Box in Foyer) and of course sing lots of songs with a range of cultural music and movement!