Joybelle Childcare Centre and Kindergarten

Come and join us for Father's Day Afternoon Tea on Tuesday 9th September at 2pm! We hope to see you all there!

Children’s Book Week 2025: “Book an Adventure!”—explores the magic of storytelling through bold journeys, imaginative quests, and meaningful connections.

SCIENCE WEEK at 3YO Kinder 11-15th August
- Mini volcano eruption experiment
- Volcanic paint blowing activity
- Name Rocket art activity
- Space interest table
- Dinosaur small world experience
-Space Galaxy play-dough

BOOK WEEK DRESS UP
Monday 18 - Friday 22 August 2025
Come dressed in your favourite book character and join in the fun for Book Week next week!

We visited the Werribee Zoo!!! 🚌🚌🚌 (29/07/2025)

The 3YO and 4YO Kinder group had a wonderful time exploring Werribee Zoo on Tuesday! The children had a great day exploring and seeing lots of different zoo animals as well as participating in a "Nature’s Calling" education program. The children were excited and looking forward to going on the Safari bus tour, where they could see animals like camels, bison, ostrich, antelopes, zebra, rhinoceros and giraffe.

We had so much fun exploring the zoo, and we hoped the children enjoyed the excursion as much as we did!

PYJAMA WEEK: 30 June - 4 July!
Wear your PJS and join the fun!

Snapshot of our learning:
- Exploring art through Kandinsky
- Great fine motor precision and focus as the children practiced their cutting skills on paper and play dough, constructing with magnetic tiles to represent their own interpretation and voice of their building.
- Building on their turn taking and sharing with peers
- Body movement through music and dance
- Sorting colours and object activity

- Exploring the season of Winter
- Book of the week: The Rainbow Fish
- Ocean themed sensory play
- Role playing and imaginative play in the home corner and construction area
- Continuing to explore with our fine motor skills

On Wednesday, children in the kinder room had the wonderful chance to set free a butterfly. They were overjoyed for this opportunity. 🦋🦋

Each child took turns carefully handling the butterfly in their small hands. They said their goodbyes to the butterfly one by one, knowing it was time to set it free. ❤️❤️

Snapshot of our learning.

Such lovely collaborative and co-constructive learnings happening with all the children as they explored the sandpit together in groups. So lovely watching the kinder children support the younger children from the multi-age room as they build beautiful connections with their peers.

Snapshot of our learning at 3YO Kinder!
- Exploring colours: What are the primary and secondary colours? Experimenting with our magic test tubes to turn water into colour. Investigating the science behind the experience of colour mixing.
- Enhancing our fine motor skills and concentration through threading small beads onto a string to create a special necklace/bracelet as well as peeling small dot stickers and tracing their name to help with the children's letter and name recognition
- Learning math concepts through cooking: measuring the ingredients into measuring cups and spoons, counting how many eggs to crack into the bowl etc...