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Overview :: Junior Kinders' Room
Wyndarra’s Junior Kinder Room caters for up to 20 children between 3 to 4 years of age.
Our Junior Kinder Room has recently been renovated with more cupboard space and display areas for the children’s artwork. New carpet has also been laid in the room, creating a soft comfortable space for floor activities. The room also has a wet area for messy play and creative arts.
The play yard has a large bark area, with challenging climbing equipment and medium size trampoline, a large sandpit, decorative decked area for table activities, great size cubby house and large concrete area for bikes, scooters and wheelbarrows.
Room Ratio 1 staff per 15 children.
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Your Junior Kinder's Day
An approximate routine of how your Junior Kinder-age child spends their day at the centre:
| 6:30 am |
Centre opens. Staff heat/cool rooms. All children stay in the Junior Kinder Room for family grouping with other children and served breakfast. |
| 8:00 am |
Breakfast finishes. Other children will move to their own rooms. |
| 9:00 am |
Morning tea is served. |
| 10:00 am |
Developmentally appropriate indoor/outdoor programs begin. |
| 11:00 am |
Developmentally appropriate indoor/outdoor programs continue. |
| 12:00 pm |
Lunch is served. Other children are put down for a sleep or rest. |
| 2:00 pm |
Children awake from sleep, get changed and resume activities. |
| 3:00 pm |
Afternoon tea is served. |
| 4:00 pm |
Developmentally appropriate indoor/outdoor programs continue.
Between 4:00 and 5:00 pm, children will begin to family group the Junior Kinder and Kinder children together.
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| 5:30 pm |
Late snack for children still at centre. |
| 6:30 pm |
Centre closes. |
The centre routine is flexible and should only be seen as a general guide to your child's day. The center recognises that all children are individuals and their needs vary daily.
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Enjoying Play
Junior Kinder children: 3 to 4 years
This is a time of increasing social play, creativity, increasingly sophisticated language and connections with the world beyond home.
Preschoolers like:
- pretend play
- make up their own games
- books and stories
- music and singing
- playing with friends
- building
- painting, drawing and writing
- clay
- sand, water, mud
- creating artwork for family members
- making choices
- making cubbies
- puzzles
- cooking
- creating with boxes and junk
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