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Overview :: Kinders' Room
Wyndarra’s Kinder Room caters for up to 30 children between 3 ½ to 5 years of age.
Our Kinder Room has recently been renovated with more cupboard space for educational and teaching equipment.
The Kinder children has a large space to explore and develop there skills.
The Kinder Room carers provide experiences for the children to prepare them for primary school. Their play becomes more structured and self-help skills are encouraged and supported during their play.
Room Ratio 1 staff per 15 children.
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Your Kinder's Day
An approximate routine of how your Kinder-age child spends the 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. |
| 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
Kinder children: 3 ½ to 5 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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