Princes ELC

PRINCE ALFRED COLLEGE EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

An environment designed to foster creativity, provoke questions, provide challenges and celebrate the achievements of young children. We foster the development of integrity, curiosity, confidence, compassion and Christian principles.We encourage relationships of shared responsibility and mutual respect. We believe in fun and the joy and importance of childhood. We ensure an environment filled with a sense of humour, love of play and exploration, and a sense of community.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Mead Room







We have had another fun week of holidays in the Mead room. On Monday we played tennis up at the gym. We practiced hitting the balls over the nets, bouncing and then hitting the balls, and also hitting the balls against the walls. We think there are some people on the pro tennis circuit who better be watching their backs…
On Tuesday we had a music day. Some of us brought instruments from home, and others borrowed some from school. First we practiced in small groups out in the town square, and then we did a whole group practice. Once we had perfected our instruments we took our music to the world! Well, to the rest of the school, as we walked around to each of the classes and shared our songs.
We have been enjoying reading the fairy tale The Gingerbread Man, so on Wednesday we baked our own. We followed the recipe and then rolled out the dough and cut out the gingerbread man shapes. We put them in the oven to cook. Luckily, none of our gingerbread men escaped from the oven and ran away, so when they were ready we were able to decorate them, and then eat them- yum!
On Friday we experimented with our senses. We had a smelling table, where we got to sniff lots of different scents and see if we could work them out. We also tasted some different fruits. The lemons and limes made us pull funny faces!
Olympia (sniffing the cocoa powder)- Chocolate!
Jock (eating pomegranate)- It tastes like strawberry, but it’s not.
Angus (eating lemons and limes)- Be very careful because it’s sour.
Henry (eating kohl rabi)- Mmmmmmmmm! More please!
The holidays sure have been fun!
Kind regards, Miss Amelia and Miss Sarah