Welcome

Welcome to all the new families that have joined us this term. We trust it will be the start of a happy journey for you and your child at PAC.

Staffing

Next week Nickarla Marggraff (Miss Karla) is commencing work here covering the 6pm closing shift. She will  be in with Edgerley and Chapple Rooms during the main part of the day. Please introduce yourself and make her welcome as she has a large group of parents and children to get to know !

Child Care Benefit

ALL families (regardless of income ) are eligible to receive the Government 50% rebate (CCR) providing both parents are working , studying or training (including part -time) To register call Centrelink then provide the centre with  your  reference number for both the parent and child. The rebate can be paid to the centre to offset your fees or directly to you.

Jeanine

Email Address'

The blog alert is sent each week to both parents (if address' have been provided). If you prefer to have it sent to one parent only then please let me know and I will remove one address,

regards
Jeanine

Immunisation Records

If you have not already done so could all families please supply a copy of their child's immunisation record . We are required to keep these for licensing purposes.

Thankyou

New Baby

Congratulations to Lisa and Andrew Lambourne on the birth of Edward James on June 14th .  A brother for Patrick (Langley Room)

Chapple Room

Dear Chapple Room Parents and Friends,

We’ve had a great Week 1 and slipped back into our routine very quickly and easily! Many of the children were amazed at how much bigger my stomach is and they are all very intrigued by my belly button. Eden spend most of the week trying to push it back in, but unfortunately it is still sticking out, a lot! The children are amazed that they can now feel and see the baby moving and have watched in astonishment and shock each time it wriggles. On Thursday we investigated how big my baby currently is and where each body part is positioned so we could better understand how it’s moving. I showed them a picture of what it would currently look like inside my tummy and the children were fascinated by the concept of the umbilical cord. They had lots of questions about how the baby gets food and what then happens to the cord after the baby is born. I explained that the chord is cut, then the stump falls off and that’s how they get their belly buttons. They were astounded and all checked their belly buttons to have a look. We then explored who had an innie and who had an outie. Outies were most popular! It was great fun and fascinating for the children.

We’ve had a number of children with colds and coughs so we’ve been doing our best to wash hands thoroughly and are encouraging the children to cough into their elbows, it’s that time of year! 

There will be a curriculum information session next Thursday (1st August) at 4pm for those of you who can make it. This will outline the slight changes to the curriculum that will be happening over the next semester as we begin to focus a little more on our literacy and numeracy programs. We also have a Freddo Frog for parents who can correctly identify the belly buttons on the blog this week! I would hate to have to eat them myself……

Thanks again,

Chapple Room Team

Edgerley Room

Dear Edgerley Parents and Friends,

We have enjoyed a really lovely first week together. All children have settled in beautifully and are enjoying all the activities, songs, games and discussions in Edgerley. We have begun to explore our new Unit of Inquiry ‘Noisemakers’ by experimenting with glass jars, plastic containers and various sized tins and partially filled them with different materials to make interesting sounds. During Chinese lessons we created our very own orchestra complete with jar rattlers, wooden block bangers, stompers, pencil tin shakers and clickers! What a fabulous noise we made!

We would love some parent participation and we invite you to come and share your expertise by making some noise for us! Do you play an instrument? Are you able to use your body to make some interesting noises? Do you have something from home that can make different sounds (e.g. a power tool or kitchen appliance)? It could be anything! Please let us know if you are able to come in! it doesn’t even have to sound nice!

Thank you all for stopping by, introducing yourselves and getting to know the classroom and our routines.

Looking forward to another fabulous week next week!

Coney, Juliana and Katherine

Cooper Room

Dear Parents,

It has been a lovely week in the Cooper Room settling into our new routines and meeting new families and friends. As a new group we have been learning how to be more independent unpacking our own bags, putting away drink bottles and looking after their belongings. The children have loved exploring the room and discovering new play spaces such as our “Noisy Table.”

“That a big loud  noise!” said Archie hitting the pans with his wooden stick

“Hey you can shake these. Shakey, shakey!” said Tommie

“Too loud!” said Harry putting his hands over his ears at a nearby table.

“Dese click, look click, click, click,” said Knox tapping the castinets.

During story time the children have loved sharing stories about counting. A favourite has been “Five in the bed!’ We have even been able to roll play the story on the couch with the Cooper Room bears. This will be an activity we will continue to explore next week and during our Chinese session on Thursday.

It has been a wonderful week getting to know all the children and we look forward to sharing the next 12 months with them.

Kind regards

Susan and Coral

Mead Room

Dear Mead Families and Friends,

This week the children have settled quickly back into routine and are enjoying our new unit of inquiry “Noiseworks”. We are looking forward to the wonderful noises and sounds that the children will bring in for our show and tell this term! Please return your child’s portfolio as soon as possible. We are starting to document their learning already and want to add these snapshots to our portfolios.

This week David brought in some headphones for show and tell. He told us he uses them when his Dad makes loud noises with his tools. He also uses them when he is watching the Monster trucks and Speedway racing cars. Following on from this we had a class discussion about what things make a LOUD noise.

Charlie A: racing cars

Jacob: A lawnmower

Jock: Aeroplanes

Dougal: Jackhammer

Tom: A harvester

James S: A drum

Harry M: Monsters

Boasi: the red beast

Toby: Train toots

Geordie: Drills

Already our children have a wealth of information to share and discuss relating to our inquiry. We are looking forward to the discussions and projects that may come from their hypotheses and investigations!

We are also very excited that Miss Amelia’s tummy is growing bigger and bigger! Her baby is due early  next term. We can’t wait to meet her bundle of joy!

Warmest regards,

Emma, Pip, Amelia, Sarah and Heidi

Langley Room

Dear Langley families and friends,

A big warm welcome to all our new children who have joined the Langley class this week, we are looking forward to getting to know you and your families during the year. We have begun our investigations into our new unit of inquiry, Noiseworks, by identifying different noises in our environment. We have had to be very quiet to hear some noises. We have been excited to hear men working with hammers and drills, trucks, diggers, aeroplanes, helicopters and air conditioners. 

We have also be discussing and demonstrating different noises we can make with our bodies, as you can imagine, some of these have been very funny! We have been using the coloured water bottles and drum sticks to start experimenting with using tools to make noises. The children have been playing familiar tunes with the bottles and singing along.

Thank you to those families and friends who have offered to come in and share their hidden noise talents with us. If there is anyone else who has an amazing noise talent they would like to share with us, please let a staff member know.

Enjoy your weekend!

Best wishes,

Jess, Kerry, Nicole and Emily

Term 3 Begins

Term 3 starts next Tuesday 23rd July and the Teaching staff return from their break and our normal classes and routines commence again . Cooper children move up to Edgerley Room and some of the Langley children move up to Cooper room .  Langley children and staff will return to their normal room next Tuesday also . Thanks to these families for their patience over the last few weeks while we had building works commence.

New Baby

Congratulations to Danielle and Carmine Palmieri on the arrival of Colette Giuliani on June 27th.  An adored sister for Chanel and Domenic (Langley Room )

Chapple and Edgerley Rooms

Dear Chapple and Edgerley Families and Friends,

We have had a fantastic and busy week on the last leg of the holidays! Pirate day was a huge success with Miss Veltmeyer bringing in her talking parrot! We loved making treasure maps and walking around the school campus looking for special treasures like shiny objects, special sticks and pine cones, even unusual rocks and pebbles! The best part was collecting them and putting them in our own Pirate Treasure Chest! We also got all snug and comfy in our favourite pyjamas while munching on tiny teddies from Ms. C and watch Monsters Inc., just what one would like to do on a rainy and gloomy Wednesday!

We had a special visit from the firemen (and lady!) to talk to us about how to be safe when there is a fire around. We were lucky enough to hear the fire engine sound the siren and Fireman Craig show us what firemen wear before fighting fires. We learnt that it is important to know our name and address and also what number to c all if there is an emergency. Lucky we all know that one, and a few of us remembered it’s the same for the Police and Ambulance !  Sensory Play  has been a favourite as we manipulate resources that allow us to explore textures and develop our fine motor skills. Our sensory bin, making and construction table and gel colour mixing have been huge hits.

Dress up day was so much fun and a huge success as we had pirates, dragons, lions, koalas, spotty dogs, witches, zebras, race car drivers, policemen, firemen and a transformer !  Mrs. Rocca got to be the witch and read Room on a Broom by Julia Donaldson using her witch's voice. Lucky we didn't end up as "kids and chips" for her tea!

We also said our goodbye to some Edgerley children going to 'big school' as well as Miss. C. We made sure she has lots of hugs and kisses. We wish her the best of luck on her next adventure. We will sure miss you Miss C.

Monday  Reminders!

We would like you to bring wet weather gear for your children e.g. gumboots, umbrellas and raincoats so we can also enjoy the outddor play area despite the weather. Please ensure these items are labelled. Thank You.

Coney and Pamela

Cooper Room

Yet another fun filled and busy week in the Cooper room.

We had Potato Day where the children practiced peeling potatoes - with lots of skill and care! The teachers cut them up and we cooked them 3 different ways - chips, boiled potatoes and roast potato. It was very interesting to see how one food can taste so different by using different methods.

The highlight was the visit from a firetruck on Thursday. It was so big and had so many different hoses and fire fighting tools on board. Seeing the firefighter in all his firefighting clothes - gloves, head cover, boots and heavy coat was amazing to see.

A fabulously coloured dress up day was a beautiful end to the week, with princesses, firefighters and pirates.

Cheers Mrs Nacca and Miss Bowden

Mead Room

This week the Mead room has continued to explore their interest in volcanoes by making real erupting ones! We used our papier-mache volcano we made last week, put a bowl with bi-carb soda in the crater, and poured vinegar with red food colouring into the bowl to create the lava. As soon as the two ingredients mixed together, the red lava bubbled up and over the edge and poured all the way down our volcano. The children were delighted at the sight and we repeated the experiment several times throughout the week!

Children who attended Thursday were very lucky as we had a fire engine visit our ELC. We started the visit outside where fire fighter Frank explained all the different parts of the fire truck. We then moved inside where fire fighter Kelly spoke to the children about fire safety. Children described safe and unsafe fires:

Angus – They are very dangerous (talking about matches)

Tom – camp fire

Alexander- birthday candles

Tom – bush fire

Alexander- fire in a tree

All the children knew to ring 0-0-0 in an emergency. Kelly also taught us that if there was ever a fire in our house we need to “get down low and go, go, go” and if our clothes are on fire, we need to “stop, cover our face, drop and roll”.

Fire fighters Craig and Toby then showed us their uniform and explained how it protects them in a fire.

James – a helmet

Dougal- how do you turn the torch on?

Finally, on Friday the ELC had dress up day. We had lots of wonderful different characters in the Mead room. We had fire fighters, pirates, a pilot, a turtle, a fairy, a builder, a racing car driver and even a dragon! Everyone looked fabulous! 

Have a great weekend

Miss Amelia and Miss Sarah

Langley Room

The Langley children really started to get in touch with creative side during this past week.

Over the past few weeks the children have shown a lot of interest in their photos – looking through their folders observing their experiences and achievements. Miss Emily thought what a better way to admire their achievements than creating a beautiful frame and placing a picture of themselves inside.

Using some cardboard as their frames and sticking cut up pieces of feathers, crepe paper, wrapping paper, rice and silver dots – they got ‘stuck’ into it!

Cameron really understood the idea, once he had finished his piece of art he ran over to the lockers and placed his frame in front of some of the children's photos. Showing a big grin he was so pleased and proud with what he had done. Ellie held her frame up like a window and said “hello, I see you!”. Most of the Langley children got involved with this experience and are really loving seeing them up on the wall framing a beautiful picture of them creating it!

Any chance we could this week we really tried to get outside and enjoy some fresh air, on Tuesday we gathered some balls, houla hoops and our big parachute and went sports crazy on the tennis courts!    

Kicking and throwing the balls and chasing them, spinning around in the houla hoops, and playing some fun games with the parachute – we placed a ball on top and shook the parachute trying not to let the ball roll off, we started with it down low and the pulled it above our heads so we could see our friends on the other side, and then we even hid under it like a cubby house ! So much fun !

We also had fun making Chocolate Crackles with Miss Kerry. We learnt how to measure out the correct amount of ingredients and all took turns placing them in the bowl and stirring them.

Harry F – Crocelet  Cwackles

Angelina – Choclat Clackles

Jaanav – Chowat Wackles

We had to put them in the fridge after scooping all the mixture into patty pans so the ingredients would stick together. Then we ate them for afternoon tea. Delicious.

On Friday we had a fancy dress up day where we came dressed in costumes. It was funny to watch everyone walk through the door looking very different than they do in their school uniforms. Some of us even swapped and shared our costumes with our friends. We had a lot of fun role playing our different characters. Its been a very  busy week.

Miss Kerry , Miss Nicole , Miss Emily and Miss Emma

Staffing

Sadly this week we say goodbye to Miss C from the Chapple room . Cristina is off to commence a new career and  pursue a passion for interior design in a project management role . We have loved having her at the ELC and the staff and children will certainly miss her !  Her last day will be next Wednesday. Miss Pamela Veltmeyer, who most of you already know, will step into this position .

Langley Room

The Langley children started the week with a cooking lesson from Miss Kerry. We made scrumptious Houmus dip. We first looked at all the utensils we needed to make the dip; one of them was a large stick blender. Then we looked at all the ingredients we would be using such as chick peas, lemon juice; oil and pita bread that make up our recipe. We placed the chick peas into a bowl and tried them before we blended them up.

We cut open the lemon and squeezed the juice into a bowl and added the oil. Then the fun part started, we all had a turn of using the stick blender to smoosh the ingredients together until it was a smooth paste

Alexander told everyone “cover your ears it’s loud.”

We spread it on some pita bread and it was yummy.

“It tastes like yum,”said Lachlan.

“It tastes like butter,” Alexander said with a smile.  

Miss Emily has been showing us how to make Rain Sticks. We have used cardboard rolls and decorated them with feathers and coloured collage paper then filled the rolls up with rice and covered the ends. When we tip them from side to side they sound like the rain falling.

“It sounds like music,” said Angus Rawes Ryan.

Connecting to our idea of rain Miss Emily also planted a Rain Gauge in the yard with the children on Monday; we will be keeping our eye on it to see how much rain our bottle can catch.

When Miss Emily asked the children what they thought it was Alexander was quick to answer saying “it’s a bottle.”

Miss Emily said “that’s right; our bottle is going to catch something that falls from the sky – what do you think it will be?”

 Lachlan looked at her and said “rain falls from the sky!”

Stirling said “I have an idea; the bottle is going to catch the rain that falls from the sky!”

We have also enjoyed having our faces painted. Some of us were transformed into butterflies, pirates, and various animals even dinosaurs. We chose from some pictures the faces we wanted and then sat very still in front of the mirror while our teachers changed our appearances.  We had a lot of fun afterwards role playing out characters.

We also had a Wacky Hair Day, we used coloured hair chalk , hair spray, hair glitter, and feathers to give ourselves an outrageous new look.

“I want blue spikes,” said Zander.

“I like lellow (Yellow) and a lellow feather please,” ask Domenic

The children were all having a giggle at their new styles. Even the teachers joined in the fun. 

Miss Kerry , Miss Nicole, Miss Emily and Miss Emma

Mead Room

This week the Mead classroom has been volcano and dinosaur mad! On Monday we started building our very own volcano. We made a wire volcano frame and then did papier-mache over the top.

Miss Amelia: What shape will it need to be?

Alex: A circle shape

Jacob: A big shape

Angus: It needs a bit for da lava to come out

Charlie Mac: Yeah, for the fire to come out

Jacob: It looks like a tent.

We made glue by mixing flour and water, and ripped up lots of newspaper. Then the fun began! It was messy work, but over two days our volcano took shape. Once it was dry we painted it. Dougal, Jock and Harry B chose the colours for the volcano: green, black, and blue. Angus and Dougal chose the colours for the lava: pink and orange. While our volcano dried we watched some YouTube videos of real volcanoes erupting!

Alex: It's smoke

Miss Amelia: Why is the smoke different colours?

Dougal: Maybe it changed its mind!

Toby: It looks like mud

Alex: Look, fire!

Angus: Look Miss Amelia- lava! There’s two lava volcanoes. It sounds like racing cars.

James S: It’s dribbling

James W and Jock were highly creative and started a popular new game- making volcanoes out of the cardboard tubes in the block corner! We added some red and orange cellophane, and soon the Mead room was littered with erupting volcanoes.

Jock: It’s coming out!

James W: It's erupting, watch out! Now my wood is burnt.

Angus: Cos d’lava is hot

James W: The ash is coming out

Toby: I’m taking my volcano to Dinoland

Angus: Watch out, it’s exploding!

Toby: I’ve got my protective gloves on

Harry M: Mine don’t burn my fingers

We have been having so much fun with volcanoes that they have taken over our holiday program- next week we are going to make some real erupting ones!

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

 Miss Sarah and Miss Amelia. 

Cooper Room

Dear Cooper families and friends,

The second week of the school holidays saw the Cooper children engage in arts and crafts week, starting with clay play on Monday. The children were given a piece of clay each and asked to "play, feel, roll and squeeze" which they did with great delight and sheer enthusiasm.

Henry - It's slippery.

Kristian - I am making a snake.

Harry L - look, pizza!

Hugo - Can I add water?

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday saw the children experimenting with corn flour and water to make gloop. As the children squelched their hands through it they described how it felt.

Spencer - it's sticky milk.

Oliver - My hands get stuck, it's all wet.

Liam - It's gluey.

Harry A - It's all slimy!

The Cooper children also engaged in foam letter printing, gel filled sensory bags and snow play that they made by adding water to snow powder granules. It was absolutely incredible to watch it grow from a simple powder into 'real fluffy snow!' It was a messy week yet wonderfully fun filled and icky sticky!

For the final week of the holidays don't forget these important dates-

Thursday 18th July - The fire engine will be here to visit the three year olds.

Friday 19th July - Whole centre dress up ,children may wear a costume or home clothes of their choice. Please not no superheroes in accordance with centre polices.

Mrs Nacca and Miss Bowden

  

Chapple and Edgerley Rooms

Dear Chapple and Edgerley families and friends,

Week 2 has been loaded with fun and discoveries as we engaged in lots of indoor outdoor activities.

Our paper cubby house has been an ideal place for quiet reading, listening, singing and even playing with musical instruments. Great for hide and seek too!

Ms Veltmeyer has been sharing with us cool and fun activities from her recent PD called "Music Starts in Early Years" at Kodaly Music Institute of Australia.

These activities helped us with smooth transitions and just having fun with music and rhythm. She has more in store for us in the weeks to come. Thanks Ms V!

We also put a lot of effort into weaving around a bicycle wheel helping us with our fine motor, hand eye coordination and concentration. It's looking pretty colourful now hanging on one of our beams. This can be a great settling activity for your child in the morning, one that you can participate in too yourself. Please don't hesitate to join in !

Our campus tour is still a big hit as we get to explore all of PAC's wonders. We just make sure we don't wake the dragon sleeping in the dungeon!

Sandpit play was a great venue for relationship building and social skills, especially when you are making 'quick drying cement' where everyone gets a role to play.

"I'll make sure it's the right mix!" Sebastian V initiated.

"I'll get the water you need", Abhinav kindly offered.

"Just don't put too much water otherwise we will have to do it over and over again", William W explained.

"It's nice when it's a bit goeey!" Advaith added.

"Can I join?" Liam asked.

"Okay, here's the shovel for you", Seb Mc. offered.

All in all, if you need building and construction tradies, you sure know who to ask for help!

We also made our own bubble solution and just loved blowing them away and of course POP them!

Next Week's activities! Please Save the Dates!

Wednesday: Pyjama Party. Please send your child in their favourite pyjamas and uggboots/slippers. We would like you to pack their sneakers or shoes for outdoor play more suited for running and climbing outside. 

Thursday: Fire Engine Visit : Please drop your children off before 10 am if possible.

Friday: Centre Dress Up Day! Children and Teachers get to dress up with their favourite costumes. Please NO superhero costumes if possible. Thank you.

We are looking forward to the last leg of the school holidays with your children.

Coney, Pamela and Cristina

Save the Date

Our Father's Day breakfast will be held on Thursday August 29th.
More information later !

Hand Foot and Mouth Virus

We have had more cases of this so please keep an eye out for this virus with your children.

A child who has the infection may have a fever, be unwilling to eat or drink because of ulcers in the mouth, have a runny nose and sore throat, and not have much energy. The fever can be high, but often is mild. Blisters on the hands and feet, and ulcers or blisters in the mouth appear 1-2 days after the first symptoms and may last for 2 – 7 days.The blisters often appear in the nappy (genital) area and sometimes also on the upper arms, upper legs and bottoms of children. Children with hand foot and mouth disease should not attend school or child care until all the blisters have dried up.

Langley Room

This week the Langley class has been going for walks up to the Junior Primary school to play on the adventure playground. We practiced our climbing skills through participating in a range of physical activities whilst there. The children were curious and enthusiastic about discovering this new environment.

We had a special visit from the South Australian Police Department on Tuesday. They brought along one of their police cars and talked to us about the jobs of a police officer. Jane and John the police officers told us about all the other types of vehicles that the Police Force use. They also showed us pictures of the specially trained animals that they work with too. We learnt that if there is an emergency we need to call 000 and talked about what type of situations would be an emergency. Then Jane and John turned on the lights and sirens of the patrol car and we were all able to get inside and have a look.

On Thursday we made Vietnamese cold rolls. We all went out into the big yard to the herb garden and picked some mint. It smelt very sweet, some of us even tasted it. “It’s sweet,” said Harry J Hall.

We then prepared the cold rolls using lots of vegetables, our mint, different ingredients we hadn’t seen before, such as mung bean noodles and big flat round rice paper noodles which we had to soak to get them soft. We placed all the ingredients onto the round rice paper with a little kejap manis soy sauce and wrapped them up. Then they were ready for us to try.

Mmmmmmm they were delicious.

Have a good weekend

Nicole, Kerry, Emily and Emma

Mead Room

The Mead room this week has been a hive of activity. We have done balls skills up at the gym, had a visit from the Police, painted our windows, jumped in muddy puddles, and played with goop and silly putty. We also have been doing some impromptu singing and dancing, brought about thorough our new book ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ which was donated by Dougal’s Nanny for Garandies Day.  Not only is it a great story, but it has a CD to go with it! We listened to the song and boogied for a bit, then we looked up the song on YouTube. There is a wonderful video clip of an animated hippo and dog singing and dancing to The Lion Sleeps Tonight’. We tried to copy the dogs funky dance moves and that was fun- watch out, So You Think You Can Dance! Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8xMcXmI9E

We’d be happy to show you our moves!  

We also finally got some rain on Thursday, which meant we could get in our gumboots and go puddle jumping! This proved very popular, as was evidenced by James Warwick who said to Miss Amelia “I really enjoyed doing that”. Heavy rains over Thursday night meant that there were even bigger puddles for Friday’s puddle jumping. Tom and Angus were busy making wombat stew, while Olympia and Jock had races through the puddles. We were pretty wet by the end, but it was very enjoyable!

Please remember your named gumboots/jackets/spare clothes for next week’s Mud Pie Kitchen (which may happen on any day, depending on the weather!), and also your named Teddy Bear for Friday’s Teddy Bears’ Picnic.

Cooper Room

Dear Cooper Room Families,

Car Craziness!

Watch out the police are coming! We had police officer John and Jane at school on Tuesday. We got to see the flashing lights and the screeching siren! We even got to sit in the car and say hello in the microphone, it was very loud! John talked to us about how police help to keep the community safe and they weren’t so scary after all! We learnt how we shouldn’t talk to strangers and cross the road holding hands.  Throughout the rest of the week we used cars on the giant car mat and created out own road with pens and giant white paper. We even went counting the cars in the car park. The winner was… Holden! We also enjoyed sharing books from home with our friends and loved the story about the red house with no doors, no windows and a star inside. Ask your child if they can find you a red house with no doors, no windows and a star inside.

Dont forget your smock every day this coming week and your teddy bear on Friday.

Chapple and Edgerley Rooms

Dear Chapple and Edgerley families and friends,

Our Holiday program kicked off with lots of exciting experiences. Our sensory table filled up with various herbs and spices tickling the senses as we run our fingers through them, make our own spice recipes and just explore various scents and textures. Parsley, mint and rosemary have been the favourite so far but you just should see how the children crinkle their noses at the smell of curry herb!

We have also had a go at building our own scarecrow and we have decided that he will be a project we will keep on working on. So far he's got a head, a pair of eyes, a shirt, a full tummy and a pair of cool pants . We are yet to finish him and of course, give him a name!

Sorting buttons in colours, sizes and textures has been a fun experience too. It helped us concentrate longer, work as a team, take on individual jobs and learn various colour shades and tints!

We have built a cubby too and we will try and extend it with various rooms including a garage.  We have discussed how we can use the space and lots of clever ideas came out !

"We can listen to stories in there"! Lily said !

"I'd like to take a nap in it. Maybe for an hour!" Christian added.

"Children can hide in there if they want to!" Marcus offered .

"Lots of playing in and out!" Markis reiterated.

"But we have to be careful cause it's fragile!" Angus explained.

"Yep! Cause it's only made out of paper!" Seb agreed .

Our afternoon adventure walk around the campus has been a favourite. We get to do ball games in the gym, races on the oval and play in the rainbow playground. Collecting berries and cooking them with sand is definitely a hit! We got to talk to Police Officers John and Jane too ,they talked to us about what policemen and women do and of course we got to sit in the car, talk on the phone and check out all the buttons and switches inside it. Cool indeed!

Please save these dates for something special.

16th Tuesday is Wacky Hair Day! You’re welcome to send your child with the wackiest hair do of all using cool hair styles with gel, hair glitter etc. We will have a great time doing plaits, wearing wigs and much more.

17th Wednesday. It’s Teddy Bears Picnic! We will take our lovely teddies for a walk and morning tea picnic.

We will also do some cooking, dress ups and lots more fun activities in store.

Cheers

Chapple and Edgerley Teams