Camberwell Preschool Centre & Kindergarten Tiggers Provides High quality, affordable care for children aged 0 to 5 years Qualified, Professional, Experienced and Energetic staff Computers for advanced learning in the Pre-School rooms Extra Curricular Activities include Jitterbugs Music & Movement Program (at no extra cost) Fully Air-conditioned & ducted heating throughout Qualified Chef preparing multicultural and nutritionally balanced meals Specialised Kinder Programming the Gumnut Room and Early Learning Centre HUGE, natural outdoor play areas with lots of room to discover, explorer and develop their curiosity Seperate outdoor play areas for the babies, toddlers & Early Learning Centre Excursions offered in the Early learning Centre including excursions to the local school to help children with their transition to school

Extra Activities

AlphaTykes Italian Program

Right now, your child is in the inside of their Golden Age of Learning. The window for your child to acquire a foreign language as quickly as they can now, begins to close at 6 years of age. Native-speaking teachers from AlphaTykes visit Tiggers Childcare and Kindergarten every week. They run lessons with each group, 30 minutes for Toddlers and Junior Kindy and 55 minutes for Senior Kindy and PrePrep.

To reinforce and consolidate the children’s learning, Tiggers staff  have the centre children learn some Italian everyday. Mainly this is through the songs and games learnt during the lessons, to make sure it’s all fun and ‘play-based’. This means that every child that attends Tiggers Childcare and Kindergarten is exposed to the Italian language.

The program runs like a school year with four blocks of 10 week terms. During the lessons the children learn Italian in a fun environment through games, songs and craft.

Jitterbugs

Jitterbugs is a program which enables children to develop their creative abilities, use their imagination, gain an understanding of rhythm, increase co –ordination and improve self confidence.

Using age appropriate music, movement songs, games and props, Jitterbugs sessions emphasis the fun of movement and Music.

Through movement children are able to tune their fine and gross motor skills and further develop such skills as concentration, listening to directions, working together in a group and waiting their turn, whilst they are simply having fun!

“Jitterbugs introduces the young beginner to the world of creative movement, music and dance”

Letterland - Successfully teaching your child to read and write

Letterland is a unique, phonics based approach to teaching, reading, writing and spelling for 3-8 year olds. Letterland provides a link between letter sounds and letter shapes.

At Tiggers Childcare and Kindergarten we believe it is essential that our preschool children are given a solid foundation in phonics before moving to primary school. Letterland helps to build this foundation in a unique play based way.

Your preschool child has free access to computers at Tiggers Childcare and Kindergarten. This well established and successful system will help teach your child
• to listen and use spoken language
• explore and experiment with language
• sustain attentive listening and respond to what they have heard
• extend their vocabulary and explore the meaning of sounds and new words
• hear and say initial sounds and words
• link sounds to letters, name sounds and letters of the alphabet
• know that print carries meaning and is read from left to right