In the classroom

Langley

Happy, sad or angry? These are the emotions we have been exploring this week in the Langley Room. We have used a variety of games, activities and songs to further look at different feelings and what makes us feel this way.

When someone steps on my toe I am sad - Sylas

When I cry I sad - Aliya

Rocco is sad - Rosie

My mummy is happy - Anay

Smiling, happy - Phoenix

We experimented with our own faces in the mirror, and how they look when we feel different ways. We had pouty lips, scowly faces and big, happy smiles. We also worked on our sorting skills, with range of pictures of people displaying different emotions and sorting them into 3 different groups.

Last Friday, March 7th, the Langley children went for a lovely walk around the school. They stopped by the Chapel and had a look at all the beautiful stained glass windows that really showed their colours through the light of the sunshine. We can't wait to make our own stained glass windows!

Next week we will be celebrating the Holi festival on Monday, March 17th. Please remember to bring a white t-shirt in for your child which is able to get a nice spraying of colour on it. We have lots of fun colour games and activities planned for the week.

Also, if you could please bring in a family picture, that would be greatly appreciated. We would love to make a display in which the children feel a real sense of pride and belonging. If you are unable to get a hard copy, please feel free to email them through to me at swybrew@pac.edu.

Until next week, have a wonderful weekend.

Stacey, Kerry, Emily and Nickarla

 

Wilkins

Dear families,

While we were outside on Tuesday, Miss Karla got some scissors and paper out for us to explore. We had such a wonderful time practicing this skill and pasting on to paper that we decided to do cutting and pasting in the classroom as well. We prepared our scissors and cellophane and set to work snipping little pieces and then pasting them on the window to create a stained glass window. We have used a range of different strategies to operate the scissors and discovered that it can be very tricky to control the scissors and hold the paper at the same time! This would be a great experience to have some more practice with at home.

We have also been exploring our faces in the mirror using pictures of all different types of facial features. Next week, we will begin our explorations of emotions and how these are reflected in our facial expressions.
For Monday children, don’t forget that we will be engaging in some Holi colour festival celebrations so we will need you to wear or bring an old or cheap white t-shirt that we can celebrate and decorate in!
Best wishes

Nicole, Kelly, Karla and Jess

Mead

 

Dear Mead Room families,
 

Another fun and busy week in the Mead Room – this week we have been investigating our sense of touch. The children explored the sensorial qualities of shaving foam and had many words to describe the texture and consistency they encountered.

Scarlett – Its very greasy.. and creamy too
Christian – It feels like bubbles
Sage – It feels cold
Olive – It feels sticky, like vanilla icecream that's melted!

Lots of discussion and sharing observations in small groups lead to many newfound discoveries!

Congratulations to Sterling who has a new baby brother, Harvey! We can't wait to see a photo!

 

Take care,

from Melissa and Sarah

Mattingley

Dear Mattingley families,

 

We have been talking about foods that we eat at celebrations. Some foods are 'sometimes' food and some foods are 'every day' foods. In our party corner we have been making lots of pancakes and cupcakes. Can you guess if these are a sometimes food or an every day food? We have been finding this very tricky. After exploring cakes with playdough we decided to ice some biscuits and add sultanas to make a face. Next week we may try cakes from scratch so lets getting thinking about what ingrediants will need to go inside them.

 

We have also started to play lots of new and exciting games at group time: bug in the rug, doggy doggy who's got your bone and what's the time Mr Wolf. We have become very good at sharing and taking turns because 'if you don't get a turn today, you can have a turn, another day.'

 

Next week we have got a visit from Katia's mum who is a dentist. So make sure you have all brushed your teeth and continue to eat them 'sometimes' foods!

 

Love Miss Mason and Miss Bowden

 

Cooper

 

 

Dear Parents and Friends of the Cooper Room,

This week we had a wonderful visit from Luca’s Mum. She told us all about bones. Did you know we have over 300 bones when we are born and some of them are very small and when we grow they join together to make the 206 bones! We talked about all the things we can do to keep our bones healthy, exercise, getting sunshine, eating lots of healthy foods, sleeping and keeping good posture. We even practising walking around with books on our heads to make sure we used good posture.

We have been using all our salt dough bones to create a skeleton. It is really hard to make sure the bones are all in the right place. Outside we have been showing each other how we can do special movements with our bodies…

“I can do a somersault,” said Jasper

“Look I can balance on one leg. I can balance on one leg on the wood too!” said Alexander

“I can go down the fireman pole now,” added Zander

“I can run really fast in my new fast running shoes,” yelled Harry F

“I can make the letters in my name. T O M . My sister Lily showed me,” shared Tommy

We have also had fun searching for Rainbow. Sadly we have not found any pots of gold at the end but we will certainly keep looking. We have made rainbows outside using the reflection of the sun and also used bowls of water and water colours markers to create rainbows in the class. We discovered that rainbow have two purples in them, but one is called violet and no pink! As we have been investigating rainbows the children have shared their thoughts…

“Rainbow come out after the rain. It has to rain a lot then the sun and the rainbow comes, “ shared Jack A

“The water went of them, they got all wet and the colours spread out (showing us with his arms wide apart)” discovered Domenic

“It’s a rainbow see it got red, yellow, orange, green, then blue and purple and another purple!”exclaimed Ansh

We are all looking forward to making lots of colours in the Holi Festival colour run on Monday. Don’t forget your white t-shirts!

 

Have a great weekend.

Susan and Jain

Chapple

 

The Chapple room has had great fun in our new vets- Doctor Tom will deal with all your animal needs. The children have also have spent some time exploring maps and have made a sand map of Australia- Please check it out in the class. It is nearly finished and very impressive. Show and tell continues to entertain with the weird and wonderful- Skulls, snakes and hospital visits seem to producing some very talkative children. We have begun to learn a bit more about our buddies. The photos are up in the classroom- test the children if they can remember their buddies name!

Don't forget the Holi Festival on Monday - The children will need an old t shirt preferably white as we be playing with coloured powder paint.

Chapple Team

Edgerley

 

 

Dear Parents and Friends,

The Edgerley children have been immersed in amazing play this week. We have discussed and created what it means to feel angry, creating some very pink angry faces with playdough. Our LOVE tree is complete so please check it out just outside our classroom. There are some beautiful messages and reflections from the children. The children have been showing such an interest in writing words, letters and numbers this week. We visited the JP Chapel on Thursday morning and have seen our Year 3 buddies and the Year 2 T reading buddies. We have a budding project opening up to create our own map of PAC which includes photos, diagrams and dialogue.

Thank you for your ongoing support. We are really excited by much wonderful play!

Kind Regards,

Pip, Emma and Coney