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.

Friday, May 23, 2014

Langley


Dear Langley families and friends,

 

This week, following on from creating our spider webs, we have been 'spinning' spider webs as well. We used a salad spinner to spin blobs of paint onto paper. The children enjoyed having a try at turning the handle, but they loved seeing the end result even more! We have also been exploring animals that live on a farm at the farm barn table and have been building houses for the 3 little pigs with play dough and other materials.   

 

On Wednesday the Langley children participated in National Simultaneous Storytime. The annual event involves libraries, schools and centres all reading the same book and aims to encourage more young Australians to read and enjoy books. This year's book was 'Too Many Elephants in This House' written by Ursula Dubosarsky. Thanks to Mr Steer's drama class, we didn't just read the book, the children got to watch a special performance of it. The children absolutely loved watching the show; here is what a couple had to say after:

Denver – some elephants dey (they) were hiding at da (the) box. We did 'come out elephants' like that. Dey (they) hold hands and sit down.

Andrew – elephants make noise.

 

To extend on our Unit of Inquiry, Home Sweet Home, could you please send in a photo of your house for children to share and discuss. Thank you.

 

Have a great weekend

Sarah, Emily, Kerry and Renee