Gymbaroo Subiaco

04/09/2024

❤️

Motherhood is a time of great shifts to your identity.

You’re not alone if you’re feeling wobbly in your new skin.

You’re not alone if you’re wondering who you are and if you’re grieving your past self.

But you can find yourself in motherhood too ♥️

By .van.den.molen

03/09/2024

A big happy birthday to one of our amazing teachers, Miss Joanna!
We love Miss Joanna’s bubbly personality which always puts a smile on her families' faces every week. We love all of her hard work and passion she puts into everything she does. She will be in Booragoon and Subiaco this week so make sure to wish her a happy birthday ❤️

[Written by Miss Amie]

03/09/2024

🫶 Our baby families are learning about BODY AWARENESS this week.
🫶 A variety of sensory-motor experiences like massage, exercises, and obstacle courses help build body awareness, which we need for coordination.

01/09/2024

Treasure Bag Week 8
Level 1-2: Brush 🪮
Level 3-8: Popcorn 🍿

🪮 Using different textured brushes is a great way to increase tactility for your babies' massage time. 🪮

29/08/2024

Term 4 priority enrolments are now open for our CURRENTLY ENROLLED FAMILIES only!
Get in quickly to secure your preferred spot. 💜

https://enrol.gymbaroo.com.au

27/08/2024

💜 TESTIMONAL TUESDAYS 💜
Thank you to all our families who recently shared beautiful words about what they love about GymbaROO.

26/08/2024

💪 Our babies are learning about MUSCLE TONE this week.
💪 Muscle tone is essential for balance and posture.
💪 Read more about muscle tone here: https://activebabiessmartkids.com.au/articles/terrifically-toned-muscle-tone-link-learning-development/?v=322b26af01d5

25/08/2024

Treasure Bag Week 7
Level 1-2: Cow 🐄
Level 3-8: Vegetables 🥕

🥦 Eating a rainbow isn't just fun and visually enticing, it's important for our healthy growth and development! 🌽 https://nutritionaustralia.org/fact-sheets/eat-a-rainbow/

21/08/2024

💟 Our Toddler and School-Readiness families are learning about EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT this week.
💟 At GymbaROO, we love to praise the child's specific action or effort when they're trying new skills: Good climbing; Great persistence; Nice problem solving; I like the way you worked out that obstacle course!

21/08/2024

🥳 I love what I do, and I love working with every family who walks through the door each week! 💜

21/08/2024

🥳 And the winner is ... 💜

21/08/2024

🥳 We've got a bit of an exciting announcement after last weekend's GymbaROO conference! 💜

20/08/2024

TESTIMONIAL TUESDAYS
💜 We love our families and our families love us! 💜
We may have meaningful activities, but most importantly, the classes are FUN!

19/08/2024

⛹️ This week, our Toddler and School-Readiness families are learning about TEMPORAL AWARENESS.
⛹️ This is the relationship between movement and time which we need for a sense of pace and rhythm.
⛹️ Engaging in activities involving rhythm and sequence are going to help build temporal awareness.

18/08/2024

Treasure Bag Week 6
Level 1-2: Doll 🪆
Level 3-8: Cheese 🧀

🪆 Dolls are a great toy for imaginative play, social skills, communication, and story telling, all which will enhance language, literacy and problem solving. 🪆

13/08/2024

🤸‍♀️ Our Toddler families are learning about SENSORY INTEGRATION this week.
🤸‍♀️ Activities which stimulate multiple inputs, such as the sensory, reflex, balance, visual, and auditory systems, are integral for successful brain development, as the brain sorts all these inputs into one strong message.
🤸‍♀️ GymbaROO is an all-encompassing program which integrates all these important elements into one fun and essential class for your child's development!

12/08/2024

👶 This week, our Level 1 and 2 families are learning about REFLEXES.
👶 All babies are born with primitive reflexes needed for survival and the beginning, basic movement patterns.
👶 One of the best ways to integrate these reflexes for more complex movements, is giving your baby adequate time and space to crawl.
👶 We share exercises and activities with our families every class to help integrate primitive reflexes and encourage your baby to crawl!

11/08/2024

Treasure Bag Week 5
Level 1-2: Clock ⏰
Level 3-8: Milk 🥛

🎼 Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse ran up the clock ... ⏰
Include daily nursery rhymes with your baby or child for language and literacy development.

07/08/2024

"When we move, we stimulate both sides of the brain differently, this enables the brain to constantly update what it knows and for us to develop into a knowing being."

👶 This week, our Level 1 and 2 families are learning about the importance of movement in the first year of life.

👶 Read more here: https://www.gymbaroo.com.au/articles/why-movement-in-infancy-is-crucial-to-development/

👶 We provide new ideas on how to motivate your baby to move in new and different ways at every class!

05/08/2024

Our Toddler and School-Readiness classes are learning about Hearing and Speech this week.

👂 Good connections to the motor and sensory parts of the brain are necessary for speech development.

👂 Talking requires complex motor planning.

👂 Some children's speech may be delayed as they are working on developing their motor skills and sensory integration.

04/08/2024

Treasure Bag Week 4
Level 1-2: Apple 🍏
Level 3-8: Eggs 🥚

🥚 Activities for this week? Balancing eggs on spoons and using egg shakers at music time! We integrate the theme into as much of our class as we can to strengthen the child's visualisation and comprehension skills. 🥚

29/07/2024

This week, our baby families are learning about Tummy Time.
Just a few reasons why tummy time is so important:

👶 Strengthens the neck, back, shoulders, and arms.
👶 Stimulates vision and hand development.
👶 Leads to tummy crawling.

Our Platypus classes include a different tummy time activity every week!

Read more about tummy time here: https://www.gymbaroo.com.au/articles/tummy-time-babies/

28/07/2024

🎁 Happy Birthday, Miss Elena! 🎁
Miss Elena is teaching today, so make sure to say Happy Birthday if you see her!
We love Miss Elena's passion for the GymbaROO program and the dedication she shows with the children she works with.
We hope you have a great day!

28/07/2024

Treasure Bag Week 3
Level 1-2: Bird 🐦
Level 3-8: Bread 🍞

🎼 "Two Little Dickie Birds" is a great fingerplay and nursery rhyme to sing with your babies. They'll love watching your fingers "talk" and "fly". 🐦

27/07/2024

🐊 This week, our toddler and school-readiness families have been learning about our crocodile massages.
🐊 There are SO many benefits to this type of massage, one of which is the strengthening of the neural pathways in the brain.
🐊 This massage has been designed by experts just for our GymbaROO children. ❤

22/07/2024

👶 This week our Level 1 and 2 families are learning about The Importance of Being an Infant.
👶 Our babies only have this time ONCE in their lives and it goes by so fast, so there's no need to rush each stage of their development.
👶 Instead, savour each moment and give your babies the time and experiences that are going to give them the best overall development.
👶 Our Platypus and Wombat classes give you the skillset to embrace your child's natural stages of development and allow them to thrive!

21/07/2024

Treasure Bag Week 2
Level 1-2: Necklace 💍
Level 3-8: Apple 🍎

🎼I like to eat, eat, eat, apples and bananas... You just know this is going to be stuck in your head this week! 🍏

17/07/2024

🥳We're having a great first week of Term 3 at GymbaROO!
🤸 Our new children may take a couple of weeks to get into the rhythm of the class, and then you'll see them flourish!
❤️ We're excited to have an amazing term with you all, learning through movement!

14/07/2024

Week 1 Treasure Bag
Level 1-2: Cat 🐱
Level 3-8: Spaghetti 🍝

This term, our toddler and school-readiness classes will be finding a different food in the treasure bag each week, created by our very own "Cookie the Chef." 👨‍🍳
We'll be using our fine motor skills and colour recognition to explore our colourful spaghetti!