Fairway Friends Family Day Care

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Why you should put your child to work…

You may be thinking we are suggesting chores and giving kids extra jobs to help around the house. But, we are getting kids involved in “heavy work” activities for another purpose.

We’re building the child’s proprioceptive input! Many kids who have ADHD-like symptoms or sensory seeking behavior often need play that requires “heavy work” to calm their body and the brain.

Activities or even certain types of “chores” can send messages to the proprioceptive system helping regulate the child’s behaviors and emotions.

Some “heavy work” activities may include the following:

💪Carry a backpack and fill it with books or collect rocks and branches while on a hike
💪Push a wheelbarrow
💪Shovel snow
💪Rearrange furniture
💪Sweep floors

You can use a variety of activities to help the child push, pull, jump or climb. For more “heavy work” ideas, leave a comment below and we’ll send you the link. 👇

Another amazing resource has been added to our indoor play space for imaginative play.
We currently have Australian Animals on the play mat, in conjunction with Australian Animals playing on our projector for further identification and learning.

*The play mat is actually a bath mat and was purchased through Amazon.

After a week of using the coloured lucite blocks on the table whilst exploring the reflections they made with the sun shining on them, this week we added them to the water table for a different perpective of light refraction.

This block set has become one of our favourites.

Fairway Friends has a Monday/Tuesday position becoming available very soon. Please message me for further information if genuinely interested.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

The children are fully emersing in this season of Autumn through projected images that play all day above our seasonal table, giving children a better understanding of a season we don't see much of here in South East Queensland.

Fairway Friends FDC has a Wednesday/Thursday position available. Hours are from 8am-5pm. We are looking for a friend 18mths and over to fit with the current group of children already enjoying their days here together.

Please messsge me to make a time for an interview.

Established 10 years in FDC

Welcome to 2026.

Everyone is rested and ready for another year of fun and learning.

Attached are some photo's of our learning spaces that we are starting the year off with. This year I have added a little projector to scaffold further learning opportunities and a digital microscope for viewing the small creatures we find in our garden.

We enjoy a slow pedagogy where children are allowed time to fully immerse in their environment before any changes are made.

Wishing everyone a happy and fulfilling year ahead.