In the classrooms

Langley

Dear Langley family and friends,

We have had another busy week welcoming new friends into our classroom and further exploring sounds and noises. The children have been keen to listen to and identify the different sounds that they can hear in their environment. We have been identifying lots of familiar sounds such as aeroplanes and ambulances but we have also been identifying different sounds and trying to work out what they might be.

During their outdoor exploration, Sterling and Lachlan heard a noise coming from the garden behind the water tank. They decided to go and investigate.

It’s coming from behind here – Lachlan

To their amazement, they discovered a big cage with something inside.

It’s a ‘chine (machine) and it has big things inside – Sterling

Where does the noise come from? – Miss Jess

It comes from inside the hose – Sterling

Can you make the noise? – Miss Jess

It’s coming from in there, not from me. I can make ppwwwhhh noise (blows a raspberry) – Sterling

We will extend this environmental noise exploration further next week by creating a noise chart where the children can display pictures of the sounds they can hear during the day.

We have also been exploring music and musical instruments in the afternoons using the sleep room as a dance floor. It has been a hive of activity as we play musical statues and explore how much noise we can make with our instruments!

To further explore our concept of families can we please ask parents to bring in a family photo for your child to share if we do not already have one.

Best wishes,

Jess, Kerry, Nicole and Emily

Cooper

Dear Cooper Room families,

It has been a wonderful week in the Cooper Room exploring sounds, building, creating and sharing stories about our families.

The children have been using our Noisy table to experiment with creating NOISY sounds and soft sounds. We have noticed that most of us like LOUD sounds but only for a little while! Children have brought along tins and jars to add to our Noisy table and Tommie even thought of a pair of earmuffs!

As the children further explore their new environment they have discovered the blocks. We have added images of the children to the block corner so they can continue to include their friends in their play even when they are not at the ELC. Harry, Knox and Sze-Yong experimented with creating towers and discovered that very high towers make a LOUD sound when they crash to the ground – even on carpet.

We have also started to share the amazing Family pages created in the holidays. The children have been excited to discover their new friends like the same things as them! A special thank you for your wonderful efforts in helping the children prepare posters about their special family. We invite you all to take a closer look at our Family Wall soon.

We wish you all a wonderful weekend.

Kind regards

Susan and Coral

Mead

Dear Parents and Friends,

This week our show and tell theme has been day and night noises. What a lot of creative families we have! We thought it would be fun to share a snapshot of some of the inspirational ideas the children have shared.

Dougal: It’s my alarm clock…. to wake us up. It doesn’t belong to me. It belongs to my Mum’s mum. She needs it to wake up because she’s a bit stiff… When you switch it over to here it alarms! Beep beep beep. My Mummy and Daddy’s alarm clock is me. I just say “Wakey wakey time!”

Toby: We hear birds in the morning and they tweet so loud. Mummy heard an owl last night and they hoot hoot. I didn’t hear it as I was fast asleep. I hear the birds tweeting all morning.

Alexander: We have an owl in our garden who hoot every night. I didn’t hear owl hooting. Owls make ‘dis(this) noise twit- two. He flew away from his nest s I didn’t see him.

Jada: It’s a Barbie computer! We first press ‘dis (this) Chloe shows me what to do with it. (Jada chose the button that played music. It was her favourite!)

James S: It’s called a bobcat. It goes “bwoom bwoom” in d’ daytime. A bobcat is a special toy because someone bought it for me. It goes stretching, slow…

Alec: There’s Hoot, a elephant and a mouse. A mouse goes “squeak, squeak” at night time. Hoot from Giggle and Hoot Show. He’s an owl… he goes “woo hoo” at night time. An elephant goes “brrrr” at d’zoo in d’daytime.

It is fabulous to see the way children are making connections between their knowledge and learning so much from each other. The shared time it takes for you to choose an idea together to share and the discussions you are having with your child are such rich and meaningful learning opportunities. We are seeing the fruit of your work and you should feel proud of the depth of oral language and understanding your children are sharing with each other.

Thank you so much for your efforts! We do appreciate it!

Kind Regards,

Emma, Pip, Amelia and Heidi

Edgerley

Dear Edgerley Families and Friends,

 As we were busy playing, we all heard a really loud noise! We all reacted with confused looks as we’d never heard this noise in the ELC. We rushed over to the corner of the room near the making table. The noise stopped and we froze, waiting for it again.

“Do it again,” said Sebastian. He was looking very hopeful.

“Brrrrrrrrrrrr,” went the noise. “Brrrrrrrrrrr.”

“It’s coming out of the ear!” Henry exclaimed! Mrs Baird had made a big ear so we could remember to concentrate on using our own ears to listen.

“Yes, it’s the ear!” added Archie quite excitedly.

“No, it’s coming from the ground, under the making table,” Oliver shared his thoughts with his friends.

The group of boys all crouched down and put their ears to the ground waiting for the sound again.

“Brrrrrrrr. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr,” went the sound.

“That was a long one,” Henry shared.

“I think it’s a school driver and it goes brrrr brr eewwww,” said Oliver.

The boys all nodded. We waited and waited and waited for it to happen again, but no more sounds.

 We’ve had a really fabulous week exploring sounds in the Big Boys Music Room. We were able to see Mr Newhouse conducting the orchestra. We saw and heard trumpets, trombones, saxaphones, drums, xylophones, clarinets and guitars. It was wonderfully noisey!

Harrison shared with us, “It’s the Batman song!”

Thanks to those of you who are bringing in your recycling! We would love to make our own noise makers and music makers for our very own orchestra! Even if you can just bring in one day’s worth of (clean) recycling, we would REALLY appreciate it

Have a lovely weekend,

Edgerley Team

Chapple

Dear Chapple Room Parents and Friends,

We have kicked off our Noiseworks unit with a bang! We have been exploring all things that make sounds and noises. Each day we listen to the construction sounds from next door and try to predict what machine is making each sound. We are continuing to learn songs and play instruments to further develop our understanding that noises have different meanings and purposes. Several children have brought in guitars and ukuleles from home. They have performed various songs for us, explained how their instrument works and helped us to further understand that notes can be combined to make nice noise- music.

‘Well I actually can’t play this. It’s my Dad’s guitar, but you put your fingers on the chords to make notes.’ Asterios told us.

We all enjoyed hearing Bayley’s version of Old MacDonald on his pretty lady, (ukulele) and many other children have performed for us. It’s been great!

We had a lovely day at high tea on Saturday. It was so nice for all the mums to catch up and have a chat over some beautiful food. Thank you to Di and Grace for organizing it. I hope the next class function is as much of a success. Miss Gorgio has been getting to know the group and Miss Veltmeiyer is now settled. Amaia joined us this week and has settled in well to Chapple Room. A lot of children have coughs and colds and we are trying to stay on top of it! Please help us by looking out for any signs of illness and letting us know.

Have a great weekend!

Chapple Room Team