The booking sheets for the first 2 weeks of the holidays (Dec 13th - 22nd) are now in the classes. Please cross out any booked days that your child will be away for.
Please note that due to the Australia Day holiday falling on Thursday 26th January the centre will be CLOSED on Friday 27th January 2012 (you will not be charged for this day )
Jeanine
Friday, November 25, 2011
Nativity Photos
The photos taken by Festival Photos yesterday are now available to purchase on their website. There are some fabulous shots of the Nativity and well worth taking the time to check them out.
The address is www.festivalphoto.com.au
The address is www.festivalphoto.com.au
- click on "view your photos"
- enter user name "PAC" then
- password" ELC2011"then log in
- a membership message will come up but just click on "view your photos" again
- Select the ,school,year and event
Jeanine
Handyperson needed
We have a small table and 2 stools that need assembling if anyone has a drill and a spare hour or so ! Please see me
Jeanine
Jeanine
Farewell Mrs McGee
Mrs McGee's contract with us comes to an end at the end of this term (Dec 13th) and Ms Alex Marcus returns next year. Mrs McGee has been offered a permanent position at St Peters Girls School .We have loved having her with us and wish her all the best in her new position.
Jeanine
Jeanine
Chapple and Edgerley rooms
These classes will be leading the Prep School assembly next Wednesday 30th November at 2pm in the Anzac Hall. Parents are welcome to attend if they wish .
Mel and Suria
Mel and Suria
Out of the Classroom and Onto the Stage!
"Oh how wonderful, glorious a sight!"
Thankyou for coming to our Princes ELC Nativity yesterday. We hope it was as memorable for you as it was for us.
Thankyou
ELC Staff
Thankyou
ELC Staff
Friday, November 18, 2011
Miss Kerry's Leave
Miss Kerry is on leave from next Monday and will return on December 12th . She is heading off to the bright lights of Los Vegas to marry her partner Dion ! We wish them all the very best and hope they have a memorable wedding !
Miss Bethany will be working in the Langley room while Miss Kerry is away.
Nativity Play
Next Thursday 24th November is our annual Nativity play . This will be at 11.00 am in the Anzac Hall . The hall is the new glass building that is at the end of the bitumen if you go around the front of the main bluestone school building. Parking will be available on the oval to the right of the school driveway.
Parents, Grandparents and friends are all welcome as the hall has a large seating capacity.
Children who normally attend on a Thursday should arrive at their normal time in their uniform . Children who do not normally attend on a Thursday should arrive by 10.00am (in casual clothes) so that we can get them into their costumes and take their photos.
Please sign ALL children in when they are dropped off. At the conclusion of the play we will take all the children outside to the verandah area where they may be collected. Please sign them out and let a staff member know that you have taken your child (sign in books will be up at the hall).
Any children that need to stay for the afternoon will then return to the ELC for lunch and a rest !
Children who are wearing centre costumes will need to come back to get changed before leaving.
If your child is distressed at you leaving please walk back to the centre with us to help settle them.
If your child is upset during the performance (as it can be quite daunting on stage!) please come to the side of the stage to take them to sit with you.
Looking forward to seeing you all there !
ELC Team
Parents, Grandparents and friends are all welcome as the hall has a large seating capacity.
Children who normally attend on a Thursday should arrive at their normal time in their uniform . Children who do not normally attend on a Thursday should arrive by 10.00am (in casual clothes) so that we can get them into their costumes and take their photos.
Please sign ALL children in when they are dropped off. At the conclusion of the play we will take all the children outside to the verandah area where they may be collected. Please sign them out and let a staff member know that you have taken your child (sign in books will be up at the hall).
Any children that need to stay for the afternoon will then return to the ELC for lunch and a rest !
Children who are wearing centre costumes will need to come back to get changed before leaving.
If your child is distressed at you leaving please walk back to the centre with us to help settle them.
If your child is upset during the performance (as it can be quite daunting on stage!) please come to the side of the stage to take them to sit with you.
Looking forward to seeing you all there !
ELC Team
Holiday Dates
The school term ends on December 13th and this will be the Teachers last day in the classroom for this year.
The ElC will be open until December 22nd and then closed until January 9th 2012. If your child is finishing at the centre could you please let Mrs Dry or Mrs Porter know their final date here. If your child is going to be away on any dates, other than the closure period ,could you also let us know so that we can organise staff according to the centre's needs. We will put booking sheets in the classes again shortly,
ELC Team
The ElC will be open until December 22nd and then closed until January 9th 2012. If your child is finishing at the centre could you please let Mrs Dry or Mrs Porter know their final date here. If your child is going to be away on any dates, other than the closure period ,could you also let us know so that we can organise staff according to the centre's needs. We will put booking sheets in the classes again shortly,
ELC Team
Carols by the Tree
We warmly invite all Princes families to gather for a Christmas celebration and the lighting of the College's Christmas tree on the front oval near the Piper Pavilion, on Friday 25 November 2011.
The evening will commence at 6.00pm with the Junior Primary Nativity, followed by our Concert Bands and the Princes Choir. Come early for a twilight picnic with your family and friends, bring your blanket, deck chair, drinks and your own picnic hamper.
There will be a BBQ where you can purchase sausages, chicken shaslicks and steak.
The Pavilion Café will be open for coffee and Christmas treats.
Families are invited to bring a toy to place under the Tree to support the Uniting Care Wesley Bowden Gift of Christmas Appeal.
The evening will commence at 6.00pm with the Junior Primary Nativity, followed by our Concert Bands and the Princes Choir. Come early for a twilight picnic with your family and friends, bring your blanket, deck chair, drinks and your own picnic hamper.
There will be a BBQ where you can purchase sausages, chicken shaslicks and steak.
The Pavilion Café will be open for coffee and Christmas treats.
Families are invited to bring a toy to place under the Tree to support the Uniting Care Wesley Bowden Gift of Christmas Appeal.
Chapple School Visit
The Chapple boys will be doing an extra visit to the reception class on Thursday Dec 1st from 9.30-10.30 am . Could they please bring their drink bottles and a healthy snack to take with them .
Jeanine
Jeanine
In the Classrooms
Langley
Thank you to those children that have brought in photographs of their houses and have lead us in morning meeting discussions about features of houses and shapes that are evident in structures. We have continued our exploration of features and shapes in buildings at the easel as we have created representations of structures using paint and different shaped paper.
"Paulina paint house, more paint. Mummy come in house. A triangle "– Pauline
"It has orange bricks. It’s a triangle. That’s the roof "– Jacob
"Big house, the colours are windows. It’s got windows and a door" – Eden
"Because this is a ouse (house). My bedroom is ere. I do a window. That da bathroom "– Leonardo
"A door, a window, a house, a door "– Andre
"Windows, windows, one, two, square" - Kristian
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Jennifer and Hayley
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
We experienced a performance of a different kind this morning as the children watched a rendition of "Miss Lily's Fabulous Pink Feather Boa" by Margaret Wild. We watched our very own Mrs B (Music teacher) along with three others perform on string instruments while the story was enthusiastically told by another lady. The children did a great job listening and came back full of feedback on their favourite parts of the performance.
'I loved the viola' - Gabe
'I liked where the last potoroo cutted a bit off the featheres' - Henry
'I loved the violins because they are one of my favourite instruments' - Jack J
'I thought the pink father boa was beautiful' - Ella
'I liked that music' - Owen
'Miss Lily was a friendly crocodile' - Grace
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
Our Nativity play is fast approaching and this week we visited the big stage at Anzac Hall for the first time. The Cooper children have been eagerly 'playing Nativity' in anticipation. In our room we played with the Nativity figure toys and the children retold the story with all the little characters (although one child was heard to say that he was playing 'Wonky Donkey'!). Other children looked at the Nativity book with their friends...
"I don't know how to read it" said Lily.
"We can just look at the pages" suggested Sophie.
"Baby Jesus is there now" said Lily seeing that he had been born.
"There the angels" said Sophie.
"They're singing a song for baby Jesus" said Lily.
On our outside stage we set up a Nativity scene with a stable and costumes and the children played their parts and sang our songs beautifully. We are very much looking forward to sharing our big production next week with all of our families and friends!
Best wishes,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
Lately the Chapple boys have been intrigued by famous paintings and artists. We have shared a few story books involving famous artists and the boys really liked the idea in one book of being able to step through the picture frame, into the painting and explore what they could see. The Mona Lisa has stood out as a favourite and the children have begun to paint their own portraits and each other's portraits on the small artist's easel. Below are some of the children's thoughts on the Mona Lisa.
“She’s got long hair” said Sam “She has a smile” observed Max C “How did she get in that picture?” asked Daniel B “It could be magic inside the painting” suggested Nathaniel “Someone just painted her” answered Ryan “Yeah, Leonardo did” said Blake excitedly “What is the special name for someone who paints pictures?” asked the teacher “A painter” said Sam “My mum’s an artist” added Charlie
Please take a look at our class art gallery on the wall above the computers. We look forward to seeing you next week at our Nativity performance! Warm wishes
Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
This week we continued to work on personal projects with friends in between our super busy schedule with performances and rehearsals. We began to look more closely at some famous buildings using the overhead projectors and found a new way to use our big blocks, creating 2D images up against the wall over the images of projected buildings. Late in the week we began to talk about the shapes we could see in castles and discovered that lots had arch and round shapes rather than the squares and rectangles that we find in our own houses. We shared a new story “King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub” and revisited an old favourite “The Things I Love About Me” and looked at castles in those. We will continue to investigate castles next week and also plan to learn more about knights and their princesses (in the boys words, not mine!)
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
Thank you to those children that have brought in photographs of their houses and have lead us in morning meeting discussions about features of houses and shapes that are evident in structures. We have continued our exploration of features and shapes in buildings at the easel as we have created representations of structures using paint and different shaped paper.
"Paulina paint house, more paint. Mummy come in house. A triangle "– Pauline
"It has orange bricks. It’s a triangle. That’s the roof "– Jacob
"Big house, the colours are windows. It’s got windows and a door" – Eden
"Because this is a ouse (house). My bedroom is ere. I do a window. That da bathroom "– Leonardo
"A door, a window, a house, a door "– Andre
"Windows, windows, one, two, square" - Kristian
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Jennifer and Hayley
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
We experienced a performance of a different kind this morning as the children watched a rendition of "Miss Lily's Fabulous Pink Feather Boa" by Margaret Wild. We watched our very own Mrs B (Music teacher) along with three others perform on string instruments while the story was enthusiastically told by another lady. The children did a great job listening and came back full of feedback on their favourite parts of the performance.
'I loved the viola' - Gabe
'I liked where the last potoroo cutted a bit off the featheres' - Henry
'I loved the violins because they are one of my favourite instruments' - Jack J
'I thought the pink father boa was beautiful' - Ella
'I liked that music' - Owen
'Miss Lily was a friendly crocodile' - Grace
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
Our Nativity play is fast approaching and this week we visited the big stage at Anzac Hall for the first time. The Cooper children have been eagerly 'playing Nativity' in anticipation. In our room we played with the Nativity figure toys and the children retold the story with all the little characters (although one child was heard to say that he was playing 'Wonky Donkey'!). Other children looked at the Nativity book with their friends...
"I don't know how to read it" said Lily.
"We can just look at the pages" suggested Sophie.
"Baby Jesus is there now" said Lily seeing that he had been born.
"There the angels" said Sophie.
"They're singing a song for baby Jesus" said Lily.
On our outside stage we set up a Nativity scene with a stable and costumes and the children played their parts and sang our songs beautifully. We are very much looking forward to sharing our big production next week with all of our families and friends!
Best wishes,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
Lately the Chapple boys have been intrigued by famous paintings and artists. We have shared a few story books involving famous artists and the boys really liked the idea in one book of being able to step through the picture frame, into the painting and explore what they could see. The Mona Lisa has stood out as a favourite and the children have begun to paint their own portraits and each other's portraits on the small artist's easel. Below are some of the children's thoughts on the Mona Lisa.
“She’s got long hair” said Sam “She has a smile” observed Max C “How did she get in that picture?” asked Daniel B “It could be magic inside the painting” suggested Nathaniel “Someone just painted her” answered Ryan “Yeah, Leonardo did” said Blake excitedly “What is the special name for someone who paints pictures?” asked the teacher “A painter” said Sam “My mum’s an artist” added Charlie
Please take a look at our class art gallery on the wall above the computers. We look forward to seeing you next week at our Nativity performance! Warm wishes
Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
This week we continued to work on personal projects with friends in between our super busy schedule with performances and rehearsals. We began to look more closely at some famous buildings using the overhead projectors and found a new way to use our big blocks, creating 2D images up against the wall over the images of projected buildings. Late in the week we began to talk about the shapes we could see in castles and discovered that lots had arch and round shapes rather than the squares and rectangles that we find in our own houses. We shared a new story “King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub” and revisited an old favourite “The Things I Love About Me” and looked at castles in those. We will continue to investigate castles next week and also plan to learn more about knights and their princesses (in the boys words, not mine!)
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
Friday, November 11, 2011
Farewell Miss Sue
Today was Sue's last day cooking for us as she covered Mr Rob's leave . We would like to thank her for filling in so capably and spoiling us all with her yummy food and friendly smile ! We hope to have her here again some time ! Mr Rob returns on Monday after his hip surgery and is fighting fit and anxious to be back ! (he can even do a little jig now!)
Jeanine
Jeanine
Music Performance
We will be attending a music performance this Thursday 17th Nov in the school chapel. As it starts at 8.50 am please have your child here by 8.30am on that day,
Thankyou
ELC Staff
Thankyou
ELC Staff
Nativity Costumes
Please send in your (named) Nativity Costumes asap as it is not long to go now and we need to be as organised as possible,
Thanks
ELC Staff
Thanks
ELC Staff
New Baby
Congratulations to Cindy , Nick and proud big brother Jacob (Cooper Room) on the birth of Erin Liau on 28th September !
A Great View at Lightsview
On Monday students from all five classes travelled on the bus to visit building sites at Lightsview. We walked in groups and observed construction in process, observing materials and different stages of development as well as observing and listening to various tools and construction vehicles. Lightsview offered us a large range of different types of buildings to look at and we even saw an apartment building going up…oh and we really loved the Lightsview playgrounds!!!!This trip gave the children great food for thought.
We would like to thank Olivia’s Daddy, Duncan for helping us organise this wonderful trip (oh, and for the ice blocks at the end, what a wonderful surprise on a warm day!)
Kind Regards
ELC Staff
In the Classrooms
Langley
Inspired by building plans, pictures of buildings and photographs of our own houses we have been creating our own structures using boxes and recycled materials. The children have been developing their fine motor skills as they use the sticky tape and glue to join their boxes together and attach small details.
“I make a crocodile, I sticka, sticka” said Kristian,
“It’s my new house with two toilets” commented James S
“Dat’s Daddy” said Luca
“A boat” Susannah told us
“A bird” said Gwen
To continue our building and construction next week, we would love donations of any recycled boxes and containers and are still eager to have more photos of children’s own houses to share with their peers.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Jennifer and Hayley
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
Wow! What a day the children had on the Lightsview excursion. The bus trip there was the start of the excitement, followed by seeing diggers, buildings in all stages of development, playgrounds and icypoles at the end. Here's some observations by the children.
Look at the big one, they had to use lots of material to cover it - Ella
It's an apartment - Dillon
It's a building site - Joshua
Look, a skyscraper - Tommi
It will go fiveteen high - Zach
Ten high - Charlie
They have got lots of balconies. One up really high (scaffolding) - Ella
He's using wires in the house to do the electricity - Molly
This is ready for a house to build here -Jack O
This is a slab - Charlie
They will build a house on top - Jack O
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
On our excursion to Lightsview we saw many different building materials including large pallets of bricks. Over the last couple of weeks the Cooper children have shown a great interest in this building material and its ability to be Big Bad Wolf proof! Back in our classroom we used blocks and paint to stamp brick shapes and create pictures of very strong houses…
“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, it’s this tall” said Toby. “Two storeys, now it’s three storeys” he said as he stamped another row of block prints. “That’s how many I use, ten storeys.”
“I have big one” said Cooper.
“It’s nearly done – it’s gonna be like bricks” thought Bailey.
Now we are seeing bricks everywhere and will be looking for more on our walks around the school next week.
Kind regards,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
"We went inside a building and saw nails, pipes and wood" observed Ryan "Buildings have skeletons made out of metal, wood and other types of stuff" suggested Ethan "I liked going inside the building to see the pipes" added Jesse "I liked going to the parks best" said Max A "Inside the house I saw dirt and rubbish, hammers and I like the really tall building too" stated Oliver
We had a fabulous time on our trip to the building site!
Edgerley
Another week filled with construction! We loved our trip to Lightsview on Monday and saw all sorts of houses under construction. We were thrilled to observe a little digger creating a front yard. We stopped to see it scrape up the dirt and then open the bottom of its scoop to dump the soil. Thankyou to Olivia’s Dad for organising this wonderful trip for us. It encouraged lots of discussion about what our own homes were made from.
We continued to work on our cork and pop stick creations and began to add things like floors and walls. Come and have a look, some are over seven storeys high! We also began our brick house this week. Deacon, Erin, Lucy and Apollon and observed the patterns in the pictures of bricks and began to stack our tissue boxes in a similar way. We discovered we need lots more tissue boxes to make it into a real house!...so keep those tissue boxes coming in!
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
Inspired by building plans, pictures of buildings and photographs of our own houses we have been creating our own structures using boxes and recycled materials. The children have been developing their fine motor skills as they use the sticky tape and glue to join their boxes together and attach small details.
“I make a crocodile, I sticka, sticka” said Kristian,
“It’s my new house with two toilets” commented James S
“Dat’s Daddy” said Luca
“A boat” Susannah told us
“A bird” said Gwen
To continue our building and construction next week, we would love donations of any recycled boxes and containers and are still eager to have more photos of children’s own houses to share with their peers.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Jennifer and Hayley
MeadDear Mead Parents,
Wow! What a day the children had on the Lightsview excursion. The bus trip there was the start of the excitement, followed by seeing diggers, buildings in all stages of development, playgrounds and icypoles at the end. Here's some observations by the children.
Look at the big one, they had to use lots of material to cover it - Ella
It's an apartment - Dillon
It's a building site - Joshua
Look, a skyscraper - Tommi
It will go fiveteen high - Zach
Ten high - Charlie
They have got lots of balconies. One up really high (scaffolding) - Ella
He's using wires in the house to do the electricity - Molly
This is ready for a house to build here -Jack O
This is a slab - Charlie
They will build a house on top - Jack O
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
CooperOn our excursion to Lightsview we saw many different building materials including large pallets of bricks. Over the last couple of weeks the Cooper children have shown a great interest in this building material and its ability to be Big Bad Wolf proof! Back in our classroom we used blocks and paint to stamp brick shapes and create pictures of very strong houses…
“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, it’s this tall” said Toby. “Two storeys, now it’s three storeys” he said as he stamped another row of block prints. “That’s how many I use, ten storeys.”
“I have big one” said Cooper.
“It’s nearly done – it’s gonna be like bricks” thought Bailey.
Now we are seeing bricks everywhere and will be looking for more on our walks around the school next week.
Kind regards,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple"We went inside a building and saw nails, pipes and wood" observed Ryan "Buildings have skeletons made out of metal, wood and other types of stuff" suggested Ethan "I liked going inside the building to see the pipes" added Jesse "I liked going to the parks best" said Max A "Inside the house I saw dirt and rubbish, hammers and I like the really tall building too" stated Oliver
We had a fabulous time on our trip to the building site!
EdgerleyAnother week filled with construction! We loved our trip to Lightsview on Monday and saw all sorts of houses under construction. We were thrilled to observe a little digger creating a front yard. We stopped to see it scrape up the dirt and then open the bottom of its scoop to dump the soil. Thankyou to Olivia’s Dad for organising this wonderful trip for us. It encouraged lots of discussion about what our own homes were made from.
We continued to work on our cork and pop stick creations and began to add things like floors and walls. Come and have a look, some are over seven storeys high! We also began our brick house this week. Deacon, Erin, Lucy and Apollon and observed the patterns in the pictures of bricks and began to stack our tissue boxes in a similar way. We discovered we need lots more tissue boxes to make it into a real house!...so keep those tissue boxes coming in!
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
Friday, November 4, 2011
Monday's Excursion
The children who normally attend next Monday are going on an excursion to see building sites at Northgate as part of our unit of enquiry.
All children (and parents who are accompanying us) will need to be here by 9.00 am ready for our bus trip . Please make sure your children have sunscreen applied and have their hats and drink bottles with them. We will return to the centre by 11.30 am in time for lunch.
Please make sure you have returned their permission slips so that they can attend the excursion. All parents who are accompanying us need to fill in a Statutory Declaration prior to leaving (only once per year) Please see me if you need to complete one.
Jeanine
Parent Helpers :
Anthony Lindop
Kirsty Roberts
Bonnie Fleer
Julie Von Doussa
Larry Roccisano
John Leask
Corrina Jeffries
Amanda Sheldon
Duncan Tippins
Vicki Rositano
Lucrezia Ranieri
David Cook
Katie Ratanatray
Thankyou !
All children (and parents who are accompanying us) will need to be here by 9.00 am ready for our bus trip . Please make sure your children have sunscreen applied and have their hats and drink bottles with them. We will return to the centre by 11.30 am in time for lunch.
Please make sure you have returned their permission slips so that they can attend the excursion. All parents who are accompanying us need to fill in a Statutory Declaration prior to leaving (only once per year) Please see me if you need to complete one.
Jeanine
Parent Helpers :
Anthony Lindop
Kirsty Roberts
Bonnie Fleer
Julie Von Doussa
Larry Roccisano
John Leask
Corrina Jeffries
Amanda Sheldon
Duncan Tippins
Vicki Rositano
Lucrezia Ranieri
David Cook
Katie Ratanatray
Thankyou !
Nativity Play
It is now only a couple of weeks until our Nativity play and the children are very busy rehearsing ! Please send their named costumes in as soon as possible (in a named bag) so that we can make sure we have accounted for every child who will be in the play (all 130 of them !!)
Thankyou
Thankyou
Childcare Regulation Changes
You may have read or heard that from 2012 there will be some changes to regulations across Australia. Mel Bishop and I will be attending a day conference next Tuesday to learn more about some of these and we will keep you posted as to any changes that will affect our centre.
Jeanine
Jeanine
Possum Proofing
Recently we planted new vegetables but within days they were all eaten off at the roots ! We think we have had some possums as visitors and are wondering if any handy parent or grandparent could make some frames with wire netting to help us protect our veggie patch ?
Thankyou
ELC staff
Thankyou
ELC staff
Music Performance
On Thursday 17th November we are planning to take all the children to a music performance by the Symphony Orchestra entitled "Lily" in our school chapel. This begins at 8.50 am sharp so all children will need to be here by 8.30am please. As we will be sitting at the front we cannot disturb the orchestra with children arriving during the performance. We should be back around 9.30am if you are unable to get here by 8.30 that day,
Jeanine
Jeanine
Naming Clothes
As today was warm many of our children participated in water play . As this always involves clothes getting wet please remember to name all your children's clothes to help us get the right articles back on your child or into their bag .
Thankyou
ELC Team
Thankyou
ELC Team
In the Classrooms
Langley
The children have been inspired by pictures of different buildings to create their own towers and structures. This week they have been building with wooden blocks, soft blocks, Duplo and waffle blocks outside. The children have created all sorts of different buildings but especially love to see how tall they can make their towers before they tumble down. This has required the children to problem solve how to create a structure that is stable.
“Tower, tall like a mountain” said Jack S, “ I make it bigger, big, big, build building” he added.
“I building a big house with a brick” said Eden
Thank you to Marcus who brought in a photo of his house to share with his peers. We would love photos of others children’s houses also to use as inspiration for our building next week.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
The children have been inspired by pictures of different buildings to create their own towers and structures. This week they have been building with wooden blocks, soft blocks, Duplo and waffle blocks outside. The children have created all sorts of different buildings but especially love to see how tall they can make their towers before they tumble down. This has required the children to problem solve how to create a structure that is stable.
“Tower, tall like a mountain” said Jack S, “ I make it bigger, big, big, build building” he added.
“I building a big house with a brick” said Eden
Thank you to Marcus who brought in a photo of his house to share with his peers. We would love photos of others children’s houses also to use as inspiration for our building next week.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
Last week we walked around the school and had a good look at the buildings and structures that are existing. The children found that there were lots of varied materials used, shapes, uses and designs. In particular, they found the stained glass windows in the school chapel very beautiful.
We decided to make our own stained glass windows in the Mead Room. The children have carefully designed their windows using black paper and coloured cellophane. They have created some varied designs and decided they wanted to display them on the Mead door - to create a stained glass door. Please come and have a look!
"I want to have a black cross so mine has four different parts" said Ella. "One purple, one orange, a blue and a red".
"Mine is going to be all different colours. It's really nice" Seth commented.
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G 
Cooper
As we continue to ‘Build It Up’ in Cooper the children have been thinking about all the different kinds of buildings in the community. They have built bridges and shops, rubbish dumps and car parks, stages and theatres (for The Wiggles). Angus suggested we could build a carwash and a small group of children used the blocks to construct walls, a roof, a driveway, signs and buttons.
“Wash car, wash car” said Jacob pushing a toy car through the tunnel.
“We have carwashes at home” Angus told us.
“You turn a ‘mote control on, it moves around and around, the car goes into the tunnel” explained Felix.
Later in the week another group of children built a car with waffle blocks to take through the carwash with the dolls. If anyone is looking for an outing this weekend, may we suggest the carwash?!
Kind regards,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine 
Chapple
As well as designing in our architect's corner and building with blocks and plasticine, the children have been interested in knitting and tom-boy stitching! If you have any wool or scraps of material you would like to donate to our classroom we would love to create a sewing corner for the children to continue to explore the world of needles and thread!
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
“It has to be a city, that’s the only thing I can build with this type of Lego” explained Michael “We are doing all the parts and there is a rubbish bin, the lid opens” added Tom “There is water here, we have done three bridges” said Michael “I wonder if we could do some more bridges coz there’s lots of ponds in the city” suggested Tom “This is Adelaide Oval, cricket and footy happens there” explained Tom further “The blue side is water, the green side is grass, and that bridge leads to another bridge – that’s really cool isn’t it!” exclaimed Michael excitedly “Yeah” agreed Tom “And here’s a fire station, they do have fire stations in Adelaide” added Tom
Edgerley
It was all go in Edgerley this week as students explored balance and symmetry through their constructions and observations. We walked through the school to look for shapes in buildings and discovered a few we weren’t sure of.
“Actually, that is called a arch” clarified Oliver as we looked at shapes on the main building
We headed towards the technology rooms and saw some more arches but they were pointy at the top like rockets.
“I think we call them diamond arches” shared Oliver again
We used Oliver’s knowledge to create arched constructions at the light table on our return.
We also enjoyed constructing with corks and pop sticks. We reflected on our constructions once they were dry and talked about which strategies helped successfully build taller towers. We will further explore the idea of foundations on our excursion to the building site next Monday.
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
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