Daycare
Each class follows a consistent routine, though times may vary. After morning outdoor play, children always come in to wash hands and enjoy fruit. Daily activities include age-appropriate crafts, music, sensory play, group and reading time, early literacy and numeracy, science, and gross motor sports. At pick-up, teachers will update you on your child’s meals, sleep, drinks, and toileting. Please share any other concerns with us.
We love sparking a passion for reading and literacy. Stories can transport children anywhere, connect them to others, and inspire curiosity. Literacy here is woven into every part of the day through talking, listening, reading, and writing.
The reading component of our Literacy Rich Environment is supported through our connection with Australian Leader’s of Early Literacy Little Miracles Childcare, Our team are mentored and trained in their Teach Your Toddler to Read program. Little Miracles has a 90% success rate in sending children to Kindergarten reading. We will be introducing children to the basics of phonetic literacy in a fun and easy to learn way. We aim for every child to move from our care into formal schooling with established pre-reading skills.
Baby Daily Routines
Working in Partnership with YOU, the expert on your Child, we ensure that the routine your child follows at home, is followed at the centre. This can help your child settle well into care. For example, if your child has a bottle & solids before being rocked to sleep, we follow this routine according to your child’s needs that day. We believe that a child needs security in the rhythm of a routine, whether at home or in care. In our younger rooms, specifically, Educators integrate each child’s routine together to form the room routine that is special to that room, that day and that group of children.
Snacks & Nutrition
We offer the children fruit for morning snack, should your child prefer something else, we welcome families send a clearly labelled lunchbox of food your child can eat at this time. We ask Families to please support us in teaching your child about good Nutrition habits. We teach the children about ‘Everyday Food’ & ‘Sometimes Food’. Therefore we ask that children please do not bring candy/chocolate/lollies to Daycare. Occasionally we will celebrate Birthdays with Cake or other ‘sometimes food’. Children are always offered this after they have eaten their lunch. To respect all families and keep all children safe, children will not share lunchbox food.
Routine Communication
For our Radiant Rainbows & Shining Stars routine communication, like food, toileting & sleep, is vital at this stage of development. This is all conveniently documented on clipboards in your child’s room.
FAQ
What Should we bring?
- Water Bottle – labelled with their name.
- 2 spare sets of clothes
- Morning Snack if fruit is not appropriate
- A healthy Lunchbox of Food that your child enjoys or BaliLife Lunch Order.
- For bottle feeding; We ask that you send the number of bottles that your child has throughout the day as we do not have sterilizing facilities available. For example: if your child has 4 feeds, please send 4 empty bottles and our staff will prepare their milk according to the instructions you provide.
Where will my child sleep?
We will provide a quiet and restful environment for sleep and rest time that is within hearing and observation range for educators to closely monitor children. We will play calm and relaxing music whilst the children sleep, with curtains drawn. All sleep areas are under CCTV surveillance that can be monitored from the office.
What time should my Child be at BaliLife?
Our Daycare has several session times and attendance patterns to choose from to suit you. For the majority of our classes most of the exploration and experiences happen in the rooms (or gardens) before 11am. Be sure to get your child here as early as comfortable for them to enjoy the best part of the day.
What can my child eat ?
We offer the children fruit for morning snack, but you’re welcome to bring other food for your child as well. If bringing food from home, please label it clearly. We ask Families to please support us in teaching your child about good nutrition habits. We teach the children about ‘Everyday Food’ & ‘Sometimes Food’. Therefore we ask that children please do not bring candy/chocolate/lollies to BaliLife. Occasionally we will celebrate Birthdays with Cake. Children are always offered this after they have eaten their lunch. To respect all families and keep all children safe, children will not share lunchbox food.
What should my child wear?
To ensure that your child has the best possible experience here we ask that you send them in sensible play clothes. Clothes that are ok to get dirty, get paint on them and clothes suitable to play outdoors. If your child is toilet training, we ask that you send them in simple, easy to remove clothing, as well as lots of spare clothes when toileting accidents happen.