In the Classrooms

Langley
At last Langley have snails
After preparing a home whilst on their 'brown hunt' in the garden, the Langley room children were pleasantly surprised thanks to Ryan Percival. Ryan found two snails in his garden, a 'Daddy snail and a baby snail' according to the children. We welcomed them into their home and discussed the type of things snails might eat like spaghetti, watermelon and sticks. We even named them 'Larry' and 'Lola'. We are all taking very good care of them and making sure we spray them with water as they can get very thirsty.
The Langley room would like to congratulate Benn, Olivia and Harry Macdonald on the arrival of Charlie David. We cannot wait to meet him.

Mead
Dear Mead Room Parents,
We have had an exciting week exploring the colour purple and beginning to look at Christmas! The children have been cutting, painting, gluing, writing letters to Santa Claus and exploring the mixing of colours to create others. Our next weeks colour for 'Show and Tell' is silver!
Best wishes,
Emma, Susan and Amanda

Cooper
The Cooper Room children have had lots of messy fun with finger paint this week. As they played with the finger paint the children described how it felt and made shapes and patterns with their fingers, nails and palms. The children mixed different red, yellow and blue colour combinations to see what new colours they could make and made prints of their shapes and patterns on paper. Some children even loved this gooey experience so much that they tried to swim in it and found themselves up to their elbows in finger paint!
Welcome to Ayesha and her family who have joined us in the Cooper Room this week.
Kind regards,
Ali Blake and Rosalie Nacca

Edgerley
Christmas has arrived in Edgerley. We have been busy completing our Christmas presents for our mum’s and dad’s (it’s a surprise!!) and making angel decorations for our Christmas trees at home. We have particularly enjoyed the challenge of paper chain making and quite a dedicated group have joined a teacher each day in the shade on the lawn to add to our growing chains. It has been a wonderful fine motor strengthening activity but has also sparked some wonderful social discussions as we have negotiated around whose chains are attached to whose and how working together on a shared project works.
Kind Regards
Mel and Pip

Chapple
We have finally planted our veggies in the garden and we can’t wait to try them! Chapple Room have planted some basil and bush tomatoes. It was unfortunate that some younger children immediately pulled the small tomatoes off, but we will definitely be making something with the basil. It was great fun digging the holes. We have also made beautiful ‘bird scarers’ out of CDs to make sure that nothing eats our veggies. Each day, someone will be chosen to water the plants. We are all very excited!