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FEATURED SERVICES
 Little Lane Early Learning Centre is a family owned early childhood education and care service. Little Lane ELC Manly is a purpose built, architecturally design facility.
With the design focused on the Reggio Emilia philosophy, the service features large open classrooms- filled with natural light, spacious outdoor natural environments – fostering children’s physical development as well as their connection to the natural environment, Multipurpose Atelier and Music Rooms to ensure children’s creativity is supported and state of the art commercial kitchens to promote healthy eating and nutrition. Contact us for more information.
 Bindook Cottage is a family owned and operated early childhood centre located in Terrey Hills. We are open Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm and 50 weeks per year. We assist in the education and development of children aged 12 months to 6 years in a caring and child-centred environment.
We welcome all enquiries so please contact us.
 Brookvale Early Learning Centre is located in the grounds of Brookvale Public School. We provide Long Day Care and Preschool for children aged 0-5 years and OOSHC & Vacation Care for school aged children.
At Brookvale Early Learning Centre we are committed to offering high quality care and education in an atmosphere that is welcoming and burturing. Our aim is to provide a stimulating, safe learning environment where all children are respected, valued and supported throughout their early years of development.
Our centre is open 7am to 6.30pm, 52 weeks per year – closed for all public holidays.
Throughout the week we offer extra-curricular activities for all classes on top of our programmed curriculums. These include; music classes, sports classes, yoga classes and dance classes – all at no extra cost to our families. We also run a school readiness and transition to school program for our preschoolers.
We have onsite parking to make pick ups and drop off’s much easier.
Please contact Bek on 9905 9564 or email For more information please visit https://www.brookvaleelc.com.au/
 Peacock Street Long Day Care has offered consistent quality care and education to the families on the Northern Beaches since 1996. We are open Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm and 50 weeks per year closing only for the Christmas and New Year period.
Our vision at Peacock Street Long Day Care is to create a ‘home like’ environment where the children are able to play, explore, investigate, create, learn, socialise, and most importantly feel safe and secure.
Through the ‘home like’ environment we provide an educational and developmentally appropriate Program within Long Day Care hours for children for 25 children from 2 to 6 years age. Contact us for more information.
 Peek-A-Boo Cottage is a small exclusive boutique service licensed to care for 20 children per day from birth to 2 years of age. The centre was established in August 2008 to meet the needs of the local community for families requiring long day care. We are opened Monday - Friday 8am to 6pm, 50 weeks.
Contact us for more information.
 Every week Paisley Park Early Learning Centre Brookvale hold a FREE Messy Play session for children. Messy Play encourages children to build, imagine, experience, investigate, explore, create and utilise their senses. It is essential for learning and development and is also a great way to socialise. Fun for ALL AGES UNDER FIVE. Refreshments are provided and you’ll need to bring a spare pair of clothes. Car parking available on site at 40 Chard Road Brookvale . Join their facebook page @PaisleyparkEarlyLearning for information about these great weekly free events.
 Frontrunner Learning Centres We now offer Robotics lessons at Frenchs Forest and Mona Vale Centre
Robotics and Coding Course. Let kids build their own robots and learn how to code them Al robots.
Start your term 3 enrolment now! Starts Tuesday 5 August 2019
Time: 4-5.30pm limited spots (max 10 per class) Cost: $280 per term/8 classes ($180 after applying creative kids voucher)
And enter a Worldwide Competition (WRC contest). Programming becomes a more and more important skill to have. Childhood is a great time to start learning programming and to develop logical thinking, creativity, and problem solving skills!
Frontrunner Frenches Forest, Shop 8/Level 2, Forestway Shopping Centre.
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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