Speld Kindy

We appreciate all the lovely feedback we receive from our wonderful Kindys and are so happy that they find value in our workshops.

If your Kindys are interested in attending one of our workshops, please visit our website: speld.org.au/speld-kindy/

You can also contact us via phone 07 3391 7900 or email [email protected]

We hope you had a magical Book Week 2025 and found yourself booking plenty of new adventures through stories! 📚

There’s nothing quite like a good book to make us smile, and our Kindy Team wanted to share a few of our favourites that never fail to bring joy, laughter, and imagination to our days.

Here are some of our top picks:
📖 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
📖 The Book With No Pictures
📖 The Monster at the End of This Book
📖 Room on the Broom
📖 Steven Seagull: Action Hero
📖 Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas
📖 The Very Cranky Bear
📖 Grug

What’s a book that always makes you smile? Let us know! 😊

✨ TALK TIP TUESDAYS ✨

🪞 Mirror, Mirror!

Let your child watch your mouth and theirs in a mirror. This builds visual awareness and self-monitoring.

➡️ Cue: “Let’s be mouth detectives! Where is your tongue?”

Try brushing teeth together and naming lips, tongue, teeth to get used to watching closely.

The bridge to literacy is an important journey that children walk, each in their own way. Educators in early childhood play a vital role in supporting children as they begin to explore language and literacy skills in authentic, play-based environments. This workshop will give an overview of six critical areas for literacy development, giving examples of practical application of these skills. It will also focus on what can impact literacy acquisition and help educators reflect on their current practice.

If your Kindy is interested in this or any of our other Professional Development workshops, please contact us via phone 07 3391 7900, email [email protected], or go to our website speld.org.au/speld-kindy

✨ TALK TIP TUESDAYS ✨

Repeat your child’s words back to them — clearly and naturally.
Child: “Tar go!”
You: “The car goes! Yes!”
💬 It’s called recasting — and it helps your child hear the correct model while keeping the conversation going.

To learn about more ways you can support your Kindy kids, please contact us via phone 07 3391 7900, email [email protected], or go to our website speld.org.au/speld-kindy

Speld Kindy is now offering a brand new workshop called 'Exploring Numeracy - more than just numbers'.

Being numerate is the capacity and confidence to use mathematics in daily life. This workshop is a hands-on session designed for Kindy educators to explore the Numeracy overview within QKLG. We discuss the importance of mathematical vocabulary and how we can support ALL children to access learning opportunities in every day routines.

We model opportunities for play based problem solving, ensuring mathematical ideas with which children interact are relevant and meaningful in the context of their current lives.

This workshop emphasises practical learning, empowering educators to create inclusive, language rich environments that support all children’s numeracy development.

If your Kindy is interested in this or any of our other Professional Development workshops, please contact us via phone 07 3391 7900, email [email protected], or go to our website speld.org.au/speld-kindy

✨ TALK TIP TUESDAYS ✨

🧠 Want to support speech at home?

Try this: 🦕 Dinosaur play!
“Let’s STOMP!”
“Big TEETH!”
“Run fast!”

✅ Use simple, strong words.
✅ Match your words to actions.
✅ Repeat and expand.
Speech support can be fun, everyday play.

To learn about more ways you can support your Kindy kids, please contact us via phone 07 3391 7900, email [email protected], or go to our website speld.org.au/speld-kindy

Register now using the QR Code if your Kindy would like to begin accessing Speld Qld Kindy's inclusion support services.

Access free professional development and specialist support from our Speech Pathologists and Education Advisors.

Enhance your educators' knowledge and skills with workshops, service visits, resource assistance, and collaborative planning.

If you have any further questions about the services we provide, please contact us via email at [email protected] or phone 07 3391 7900.

Last week, one of our education advisors and one of our speech pathologists took Douglas on an adventure to support many of the kindys in the Fraser Coast region. The Speld Kindy team members presented our 'Phonological and Phonemic Awareness' and 'Enhancing Communication Through Visual Supports' workshops to ten Kindy teams. They also enjoyed modelling some of these skills and strategies during targeted on the floor support at a number of Fraser Coast centres.

If you would like to connect with our service, please register at speld.org.au/speld-kindy or for more information, contact us via email [email protected] or phone 07 3391 7900.

What's new in the Kindy library at Speld Qld?

We have many new hands-on resources for our registered Kindys to borrow and enjoy including:

1. Goldilocks and the Three Bears Finger Puppets
2. The Gingerbread Man Finger Puppets
3. Little box of letters
4. Social and Emotional Learning
5. Phonics Bean Bags
6. 2-in-1 mirrors

For our Kindy borrowers, to find the hands-on resources in our Kindy library, type in “Hands-On Resources” in the Search bar and all the resources, other than books, will be listed. To reserve these resources, add them to your cart and press “Reserve”. We can then post those requested resources out to you. You can find out more about our library and access our library services here: https://speld.org.au/library/

Speld Qld welcomes and fully endorses the Queensland Reading Commitment recently announced by Education Minister Grace Grace. The focus on explicitly teaching reading through evidence-informed teaching practices means that students, especially those with learning difficulties, can successfully become readers. Positioning differentiated reading instruction as a key element of the Reading Commitment is important for all learners, but imperative for students with a Specific Learning Disorder with an Impairment in Reading.

Speld Qld supports many learners who find the process of reading challenging. We believe this Reading Position statement presents a clear, explicit approach to reading instruction that will build skills and confidence, and open all learners to the power of reading and the life-long, positive impact it provides.

SPELD Kindy in Cairns, Innisfail and Port Douglas for Service Visits and Professional Development 🌴☀️