Dear Chapple Parents and Friends,
Following our unit of inquiry, we have looked at what makes us special and different and unique. We then looked at what makes our friends special to us. Please come in to see the beautiful work up around the room. We have been working very hard!
Next week, we will begin our Christmas preparations. We can’t wait. We are practising for Nativity and it’s all coming together. Please practise your child’s lines at home if needed.
What Makes Your Friends Special?
‘Charlie and Harry White and Leon are special because they play with me a lot and they like me.’ Ryan‘Aston and Harry W because I play with them all the time’ Jack
‘Leon. I always think about him when I go to bed.’ Yi Bin
‘Harry H is special because I like him playing with me. I like what games he makes up in his head.’ Seth
‘Leon because when he plays with me he plays really good games.’ Zach H
‘Aston because he plays chasey and hid and seek.’ Dillon
‘Matt Matt because sometimes he goes on a aeroplane.’ Eric
‘Harry W always laughs at me.’ Lucas
‘I play with Charlie because he makes sand castles in the sandpit.’ Marios
‘Dillon plays in the sandpit with me.’ Jesse
‘Zach H because when I play something he always wants to play with me.’ Leon
‘Tommi because we like to run together.’ Zach F
‘Harry H and me like lots of games.’ Grace
‘Lucas plays games and we play Batman.’ Lucas
Thanks,
Chapple Room Team
Dear Edgerley Families,
In Edgerley we have been investigating the communities that we belong to. We have discussed and drawn our families and this week we spoke about our school community. Many children took this opportunity to draw their friends as well as the teachers. With Halloween this week we took the opportunity to discuss the traditions around this celebration. We discussed going 'Trick or Treating'. Angus thought you had to be at least 12 to go without your parents. We also discussed the tradition of making a Jack-O-Lantern. The children worked creatively on a small scale to make their very own scary balloon Jack-O-Lantern, we even made a GIANT pumpkin scone for afternoon tea.
Thank you for a great week,
Juliana and Coney
Dear Mead families and friends,
Over the past few weeks in preparation for our Nativity performance in Week 6, we have been sharing different versions of the Christmas story. We are creating our own Nativity scene and using props to act out our own stories. Today we even noticed that we had two Baby Jesus’ lying side by side! We are showing the children different crib scenes from around the world. The children have been sharing their reflections of the characters and events.
“The shepherds were happy to see the baby,” said Sebastian.
“The camels brought the kings to see Baby Jesus. They followed a big star,” shared Luca.
“There was a star to tell that Baby Jesus had been born in a stable, he was lying in a manger,” reflected Susannah.
“Baby Jesus was lying in the hay,” said Sebastian.
“An angel was singing to the shepherds,” told Gwen.
“Shepherds look after sheep,” shared Abhi.
As a class we are hoping that the children will share joy in the true story of Christmas. Our Nativity practices are coming along and the performance on November 15th is an occasion not to be missed!
Best wishes,
Emma, Pip, Cristina and Heidi
Dear Parents and Friends of the Cooper Room,
We have been talking about babies this week and sharing photos of ourselves when we were small. The children have started to create a Baby Book for the class. We have discussed how we have grown and changed, sharing everything we know about babies and what they need! We have keenly watched how our silkworms have grown and changed from tiny little creatures to some fat, heavy and large headed silkworms. On Friday Mrs Cooper gave us a container of worms to look
"Ahh a snake!" yelled Kristian
"No don't worry it a worm," corrected Zac
“You need be careful with worms. Not touch hard," added Kate
"This big one the Mummy and here the Daddy," said Kate
"This one is tiny - it can be the baby," agreed Florence
We are also still busy cut, cut, cutting away - making kites, collages and jigsaw faces of ourselves. It has been a real test to try and cut on the lines to make a jigsaw of our face and then try to put it back together.
"Hey look my face - it all gone," said Liam
"It looks all cracked now," laughed Henry
"There's no mouth, I have no mouth yet," said Hugo Sanders.
What fun we have had!
Kind wishes,
Susan and Coral
Dear Families and Friends,
This week the Langley children had a very special guest come to visit us, Ms Ange’s mum Mrs Maria. She came to show us how to make homemade pasta.
Ms Ange asked the children “what are we making?”
Josh - Jelly
Boasi - Peanut butter
Mrs Maria took a stainless steel machine out of her bag and placed it securely on the table.
“What do you think this machine makes?” Ms Ange asked the group.
Thomas- Spaghetti
Mrs Maria brought out the ingredients to make the pasta, some eggs and some plain flour.
Charlie A. - Eggs
Thomas- Tip them into oil
Thomas- That’s flour
Bernie- We watch
Mrs Maria started to put the ingredients into a mixing bowl.
Charlie M. - We put in flour
Bernie – That is flour
The children counted the eggs as they went into the flour “1, 2, and 3,4,5,6.”
Angus told Mrs Maria “your hands are getting messy,” as she mixed the dough with her hands.
Alexander R - Yummy, yummy good for my tummy
Once the dough was firm it was ready to roll through the pasta machine.
Thomas- “it’s going down, it looks like a sausage,” Thomas says while turning the handle to the machine.
Some of the children wanted to turn the pasta dough through the machine, they washed their hands and lined up to take turns.
Boasi- All yummy
Charlie M. - It’s changing, its spaghetti.
Angus- My Mummy and Daddy don’t make it.
After flattening the pasta dough Mrs Maria put it through the spaghetti shape cutter of the machine.
Charlie A. - Cutting cause you need to.
Charlie M. - More pasta
Miss Nicole asked “what do you put on the pasta?”
Charlie A. – Sauce.
We took the pasta over to Mr Rob’s kitchen and cooked it. Mrs Maria had made a delicious tomato sauce to drizzle over the top.
The children slurped up their scrummy homemade pasta with joy.
Dougal- I can suck it up.
Jack- I slurp it.
Millie- More please.
There were lots of very messy hands and faces afterwards but my, it was delicious.
Best wishes,
Kerry, Nicole, Ange and Hayley
