FEATURED SERVICES
Mission Australia Family day Care - Western Sydney
Are you looking for high quality, accredited child care? We have been rated as providing a service that Meets the National Quality Standard, under the Assessment and Rating System for children’s services. Care is offered throughout the Penrith Local Government area, and includes all areas from Ropes crossing to Emu Heights, Glenmore Park to Landillo.
Family Day Care offers childcare for children from 6 weeks to 12 years. Care is provided in the homes of registered Educators, who have, or are working towards, at least a Certificate III in Children’s Services, and who are trained, supported and monitored by the qualified staff in the Coordination Unit. Family Day Care offers small group care with a maximum of 4 preschool children. Before and After School and Vacation Care can also be provided.
We provide flexible hours, overnight and weekend care for preschool and school aged children. Child Care Benefit is available to assist with your child care fees, and parents are also eligible to receive the Child Care Rebate.
We are also, always looking for Educators who would like to provide a child care Service in their own home within the Penrith Local government area, and Ropes Crossing.
Please contact the coordination unit on 47243000
Kindi World Child Care & Educational Centre
We are privately owned long day care centre licensed for 38 children from 0 to 6 years. We provide government Childcare Benefit (CCB). We offer long Day care Monday through to Friday from 7.00am to 6.00pm, 52 weeks per year.
At Kindiworld Childcare & Educational Centre we believe that a child's first five years is a unique and valuable stage of life where immense learning and development is acquired through play and educational guidance. Our desire is that you and your child experience the happiness and enjoyment we will provide throughout our family-centre partnership.
We provide a variety of activities which is regularly added to or changed depending on the interest of the children. We allow the children to have a choice in play selection and we provide a number of different areas within the centre which encourages different types of play. Contact us for more information or to discuss enrolment.
Five Senses Childcare
A quality purpose built centre catering for all children ages 3 years to 6 years.
All meals provided open from 7.00am to 6.00pm Our daily fee is $ 65.00 a day with Childcare benefits and rebates available.
Educational and school readiness program based on the Early Years Learning Framework. Our centre has been rated as Exceeding. Contact us for 2020 & beyond enrolment enquiries.
Learning Links
If your child is showing signs that they struggle with learning, have social, emotional or behavioural issues, or are behind their peers with speech development or fine and gross motor skills, Learning Links is here to help.
We offer a range of assessments, including cognitive/IQ, academic skills, dyslexia, autism, ADHD, behavioural, speech and language, and occupational therapy. Our professionals can determine your child’s strengths, needs, preferred learning style and any appropriate interventions – an important first step in understanding how to best support them. Following each assessment, you’ll receive a comprehensive written report to outline results as well as recommendations for your child.
Bulk billing for psychological therapy is now available at our Bella Vista Learning Centre to help children struggling with anxiety and depression, social skills or making important transitions. There are no out-of-pocket expenses for weekday appointments 9.30am-2.30pm when referred by a GP under the Mental Health Care Plan - for up to 10 sessions per calendar year.
To find out more about assessments or psychological therapy, contact our friendly Customer Care team on 1300 003 900 or visit www.learninglinks.org.au. Our Bella Vista Learning Centre is located at 6a/7 Meridian Place Bella Vista NSW 2153.
PARENT INFORMATION
Wondering how you can help prepare your preschooler to learn how to read, spell and write?
Ensuring your child has good speech and language skills is important. Also of critical importance is laying down some foundations for learning literacy at school.
So – be inspired and get ready to have some fun with the following activities!
Syllable Counting is learning how to break words up into their smaller parts. For example; “birthday” has two syllables, “birth/day”. “caterpillar” has four syllables, “cat/er/pil/lar”. Don’t forget the one syllable words such as “chair”.
The possibilities are endless when it comes to activities to build skills in counting syllables; here are a few ideas… ensure to make it enjoyable!
Get physical – clap it out… or skip, jump, hop!
Get musical – toy drums, guitars, keyboards, maracas etc… Are great to tap, strum, play, shake to the beat of the syllables.
Name items you can see in the room of a house, or whilst in the car, and count out the syllables.
Build a tower- take turns counting syllables using blocks; and build a tower as you go; the tallest tower wins.
Syllable word lists can be found easily on the Internet – practice counting syllables in words with 1-4 syllables.
If you aren’t sure where to break words up, remember that every syllable has a vowel sound.
Rhyming is a great way to teach your child new words and get them to think about how words can relate to each other. It sets the foundation for your pre-schooler to learn about word families and the different sounds that letters can make. Rhyming words have a repetition of similar sounds e.g. rocket/ pocket; pie/ sky. Some activities include;
Sharing books that rhyme – the most obvious start! As your child gets to know the book; have them complete the sentence for you (fill in the missing word). You can make this fun, by substituting a nonsense rhyming word, and have your child give you the correct version.
On the go – point to items wherever you are, and take turns thinking of rhyming words. E.g. “tree… see!”
Place items on a table, have your child select the word that best completes your sentence E.g. If items include rock, hat, toy, ball; you then make up a sentence – “There was a large cat, who wore a large…???”
Roll a ball to each other, exchanging rhyming words with each turn.
Sing nursery rhymes!
Even if your pre-schooler comes up with a nonsense word, it’s okay, you just want them to get the idea behind how rhyming works.
Hearing the first and last sound in a word
Be sure to focus on the sounds heard (rather than letter names). For example; “Can hear a ‘ssss’ sound in ‘sun’? What else can we think of that starts with ‘sssss’“?
Use family names/ photos
Catalogues
Story books
Sound Scrapbook – create a collage of all things starting with a certain sound e.g. “m” page, “s” page etc…
Hearing the last sound can be trickier…
You may give a visual cue, and emphasise the final sound as you say it. E.g. “Room” (whilst pointing to your lips)
Remember to be clear when talking about sounds vs letters to your child. E.g. The letter ‘s’ makes a ‘sssss’ sound etc.
Sounding out words
This is not about the spelling of the words– it is about sounds!
Pre- Kindy; focus on words structures that have 2-3 sounds E.g. ‘go’ (‘g’ – ‘o’) and ‘cat’ (‘c’ – ‘a’ – ‘t’). With a word like ‘shoe’, there are 2 sounds, ‘sh’ – ‘oe’.
Use visual cues
Coloured counters
Fingers
Objects such as blocks
Use movement; steps, jumps, tapping, pointing, whilst saying each sound.
When ready, incorporate practice visually scanning LEFT to RIGHT with objects such as the counters, blocks.
I may as well say it again – HAVE FUN! – That is how kids (and adults) learn best!
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