Umbrellas!

Dear Parents,

As the rainy weather approaches and we are using umbrella's please make sure that you take YOUR OWN umbrella home. We have had several parents complain about missing umbrellas.
If you have accidently taken one home by mistake please bring it back as soon as possible and leave it behind Pamela's desk.

Thanks,
PAC ELC

Mattingley

Dear Mattingley families and friends,

 

What a fantastic time we have had for the last week of term. All the rain over the week had made some fantastic puddles which the children have loved jumping. If you your child has gumboots (or wellies as Miss Bowden calls them) we would love you to pack them. We try to encourage the children to only play in the puddles if they have gumboots on as they will wreck there other shoes, however children seem to be drawn to puddles.

 

To celebrate Red nose day on Friday some of the children and the staff wore red to school. In our classroom we made red cupcakes with Miss Tiarna. The children decided that not only was the icing going to be red but also the cakes themselves. We had a lovely afternoon tea sharing our cupcakes. There were so many left over that we were able to share them with our families as they came.

 

Thank you for all your support over the last term. We have loved teaching your children and watching them grow. We hope you have a lovely holiday and enjoy them holiday program.

 

From the Mattingley team.

Edgerley

Dear Parents and Friends,

Thank you so much for all your support! We have loved teaching your children and look forward to watching their progress with great expectations! Wishing you all a wonderful holiday!

Kind Regards,
Emma, Pip and Coney

Langley

 

Dear Langley families,

 

This week in the Langley room we have continued to observe our stick and spiny leaf insects. Children have been very responsible taking care of our pets by spraying them with water daily. They have also been very attentive and have noticed what the insects mostly do in their environment.
Ben – I think he's asleep
Austin – he's climbing
Toby – baby ones. They want to eat the leaves
Denver – he's climbing for the roof

 

Also this week, children have been practising their balancing, throwing and catching skills, as well as their hand-eye coordination. We have been using little bean bags to throw in the air and trying to catch them. We also tried putting them on our heads and walking around the room without them falling off. It was a bit tricky! Finally, on Friday we celebrated Red Nose Day by painting our noses red.

 

Have a great weekend.     

 

Sarah, Emily, Kerry and Renee

Cooper

Dear Parents and Friends of the Cooper Room,

 

What a journey it has been! The Cooper Room has shared their last day together! We have enjoyed a fun filled year together.

 

Let’s reflect on all our adventures:

Building a forest

Creating an ant hill

Going to the zoo

Making pancakes

Creating our own rainbow

Learning about how our bones grow

Welcoming new brothers and sisters

Exploring colours

Watching snails

Growing plants

Making a pizza bar

Opened our own shoe shop

Celebrating many birthdays

Watching Angus have a cast put on

Doing special exercises to help our bones

Build amazing towers

And…… grow the most beautiful sunflowers.

It’s all in a day’s play in the Cooper Room.

 

Thanks you for much to you all for the love, support and assistance throughout the year. We know the boys are all going to love moving to the Edgerley room. Good bye Cooper Room

 

Love Susan, Jain and Rosalie

Big Boys Breakfast

Please save the date!

Our Big Boys Breakfast is coming up next term.

When: Thursday the 4th of September

Time: 8am

Where: Piper pavilion

You will find an invite in your child's locker first week back next term. We are looking forward to seeing many of you for our special morning to celebrate our Fathers. 

Chapple

 

 

Dear Families,

 

This week we have looked at oral storytelling and the children had great fun re-enacting “The Three Billy Goats Gruff.” There was much giggling at our actors “clip clopping” over the bridge. This week also saw the arrival of our fish which has caused much excitement. The children decided on the names- “Fish” and “Chips”. Some of the children started making drawings to make the fish feel at home.

 

Toby: We can put food in here.

Alex F: This is a picture of seaweed so the fish think it is real.

Geordie: I will stick it on.

 

Have a great break and if you get chance can you restock the clothes bags as some of children seem to have grown and some have a habit of finding the winter mud.

Thanks

Chapple Team

Wilkins

Dear families,

We can't believe that term 2 is over already! What a wonderful term we have had with the children. This week, we have loved caring for and watching the hopping mice in our classroom. We have been observing them building shelter out of the straw, feeding and drinking from the water bottle.

We have also continued our art explorations this week. We have introduced boxes to our collage area and have been creating all different sorts of wonderful things. We also braved the weather and collected coloured autumn leaves which we have used to create leaf art paintings.

Try and stay warm over this very cold, wet and windy weekend!

Best wishes,

Karla, Amy and Jess

Holiday Information

Dear Three and four year old families,

 

As part of the holiday program, on Thursday the children are invited to come dressed as a prince, princess or knight as the children have been interested in castles during our recent  unit of inquiry. Can't wait to see your outfit.

 

The three and four year old team

Susan Lock - Long Service Leave

Dear Parents,

 

As the Term draws to a close we are saying farewell to Mrs Susan Lock as she goes on 6 months long service leave. Susan has taught at the school for 19 years and has offered the most dedicated and inspiring classroom environments for the children in her care. Although she will be greatly missed, we wish her a wonderful and well deserved holiday.

Thanks,
PAC ELC

Langley

Dear families and friends of the Langley room,

 This week we have continued to explore creatures that live underwater. We made a colourful school of fish mural using our hand prints, and turned them into fish by gluing googly eyes on them. We also had a rich discussion about how to care for our sea creatures by not polluting our water ways.
Anay – it goes in the garbage truck
Poppy – it belongs in the rubbish bin
Ryka – in the rubbish bin

Also this week, we have been investigating the stick and spiny leaf insects in the terrarium. Children have enjoyed finding and watching these fascinating insects, which were hanging from the branches and moving around on the leaves. Some children were extra brave and even had a little hold of a spiny leaf insect.  

A friendly reminder to please send in a photo of your house for children to share and discuss. Thank you.

Sarah, Emily, Kerry and Renee

Red Nose Day - Friday 27th June

Dear Parents,

We are looking forward to celebrating a great cause for SIDS for KIDS which is Red Nose Day! We are excited for the children to dress up in anything red - and even a red nose if you have one! Bring along with you a gold coin donation which will be located at the front desk.

Thanks,
Pamela

Edgerley

Dear Parents and Families,

We have had a wonderful week together, planning and preparing for our Graduation next week. Our classroom is starting to look a little bare and different as we get ready to farewell some friends to mid year Reception and others will be moving onto the Angwin Room.

Our Pizzeria has been a huge hit this week! The children have been so involved, taking orders, customers paying, chefs baking. Everyone has wanted a turn in this Pizza shop!

Amazing co-operative block building has continued to be such an important part of our inside learning time. 

Sand has continued to dominate our outside play. The children have worked together to create some amazing machines and kitchens.

We enjoyed seeing the fire engine come on Monday too.

We have farewelled our reading buddies and Year 3 buddies but it is good to know that there will be lots of big boys ready to help the Mid Year Receptions when it is play time!

Looking forward to our week of celebrations next week… the shared afternoon tea on Wednesday and our Graduation on Thursday at 11am.

Kind Regards,

Pip, Emma and Coney

Mattingley

Dear Mattingley Families and friends,​

 

This week we have been lucky enough to have Bella Green, a year 10 student from Glenunga International High School, doing her work experience. The children have loved having her in the classroom and she has been learning a lot from us, especially all about frogs. 

 

Speaking about frogs one of our little tadpoles has out grown his tail and has become frog. The children have been watching him swim closely and have begun to notice the differences in him now. 

 

"He likes to go on the rock, not so much the water"- Angus

"He swims lots. He rests on the rock"- Eva

"He eats the crickets we have to put in his tank"- Harrison

 

On Tuesday we started a friendship that Miss White from the Cooper room gave us. His name is Herman and he is a sourdough cake starter. He needs to sit on our bench top for 10 days without a lid, covered with a tea towel.  We will need to follow the instructions that he came with closely because if he stops bubbling then he is no good. We will be cooking our friendship cake next Thursday, and we will make sure that all the children get a piece. Please feel free to come and have a look at Herman. He is in the green bowl on the bench in the classroom. We are all very excited to watch him grow over the next week. Thank you Miss White for passing your friendship cake on to us, we will make sure we take good care of him. ​

 

Have a great weekend,

From the Mattingley team

Cooper

Dear Parents and Friends of the Cooper Room

 

We started this week with a very special visit from the Beulah Park fire station. The boys had a wonderful time looking at all the interesting pieces of equipment that the fire fighters use to help them. The boys also got to climb into the big truck and take a seat in the back ready to head off! Even though the weather was not very clear we didn’t miss the opportunity to also all have a chance to squirt the fire hose and clean one of the school fences. The children took this role very confidently and enjoyed spraying the water through the high powered hose. We also had an opportunity to look at all the fire safety clothing the fire fighters wear to keep themselves safe while putting out fires and checking buildings. Finally we talked about  the importance of children knowing to ring 000 in an emergency and having a family fire plan. We practised “stop, drop and roll” to put out a flame and “get down low and go, go ,go” to crawl out of a smoke filled room. Although discussed in a fun way it is a very important message and we encourage all families to reinforce these protective behaviours at home. Most importantly to make sure all children can reach the phone or get out of their house in an emergency. The fire-fighters asked that all children know their address and house number in the case of an emergency.

Stay safe this winter!

Kind regards

Susan, Jain and Rosalie

Mead

Dear Mead families and friends,

We have had such a busy week! 

We explored 2D shapes.
We investigated minibeasts and their habitats.
We made cloud dough.
We sorted, categorised and compared.
We talked about our families and celebrated our family heritage with our peers.
We stretched lycra.
We prepared food.
We shared, took turns, climbed, balanced and used our imaginations.
We created patterns, made butterflies and built amazing structures in the block corner….. all before lunch!!!

 

Have a fantastic weekend and we will see you on Monday.

Melissa and Renee

 

Chapple

 

Dear Chapple Families,

Our busy week started off with a visit from the Fire Brigade. They taught us all about what to do if we saw a fire and what we could do to get out safely. We also had chance to use the hose from the fire engine and squirt water in the car park.

We also started our maths investigation into our favourite pet and made a great graph on the carpet.

 

Jess from The Hutt St Centre came to the Centre this week to collect the cheque for $143. The children had a cupcake sale to help the homeless of Adelaide following a discussion on homes in class. They hoped to raise $70 to buy a swag and sleeping bag. Amazingly they doubled their target. Thanks again to all the parents for their support.

Don’t forget the Literacy Program Meeting this Wednesday 25^th June at 4pm.

 

Thanks

Chapple Team

Wilkins

 

Dear families,

We have loved creating collages this week in the Wilkins room. We have been using a range of different recycled and art materials, scissors, glue and markers to create our masterpieces. The children have been working individually on small projects and collaboratively on larger pieces of work. This has been a wonderful way to explore our creativity as well as develop our fine motor control, concentration and social skills as we share resources and create joint pieces of artwork.

We have also had some keen football players during our outside time. We have been kicking and handballing the football to each other in pairs and small groups. We are looking forward to exploring some more ball skills next week.

Best wishes for a great weekend.

Karla, Amy and Jess

Impetigo (school sores)

Dear families,

Please be aware that we have had one confirmed case of School Sores in the ELC. Please keep an eye out for any fluid filled sores on your child's skin. School sores need to be treated with antibiotics for 24 hours and covered with waterproof dressing before children can return to the centre.

Please see Staying Healthy in Childcare information on the main door to the ELC for further information.

Thank you.

Term break absences

Dear families,

For catering and staffing purposes during the three week term break, can you please mark on the sheet attached to your classes roll book whether your child will be attending during the break.

Thanks

Langley

 

Dear Langley families and friends,

 

This week has been all about camping! Some very eager Langley friends helped set up our indoor camp site. They brought in a tent, a lush lawn area and even made a camp fire with rocks, pieces of bark and cellophane. We added a billy can, pots, cups and saucers to complete this outdoor experience. The children have loved this area and it has facilitated some fantastic dramatic play, wonderful sharing and great conversations!      

 

We've been very caring this week in the home corner; looking after our babies, changing their nappies, feeding them and putting them to sleep in their cots. Children have also been busy constructing complex structures at the light table with coloured Perspex blocks. Over the last few weeks children have been fascinated by insects, so next week we will be welcoming live stick insects from the Nature Education Centre.

 

Finally, just a reminder to please send in a photo of your house for children to share and discuss. Thank you.

 

Have a lovely weekend

 

Sarah, Kerry, Emily and Renee

Wilkins

Dear families,

We have had another busy week, exploring bugs and insects. We spent time creating glittery spider webs, which have been a highlight. We have also been discussing where we can find these types of bugs and insects and drawing these on the chalk board easels.

The children have continued to show interest in their music experiences with the instruments and dressing up in a variety of costumes from the dress up box. We have had many tea parties and picnics with the dolls in the home corner.

It has been our last week with Miss Nicole in the Wilkins room, we wish her all the best and look forward to meeting her baby.

Have a great weekend, see you all next week.

From the Wilkins team.

Mattingley

 

Dear Mattingley Families and Friends,

Over the last few weeks the children in the Mattingley classroom have been interested in castles. On Tuesday afternoon the children and the teachers worked together to construct a castle using recycled materials boxes that Miss Bowden and Augustin had found in the Angwin room. Once the castle was complete the children started to think about what else they needed to do to finish the castle off. There were many meaningful conversations about who might call a castle home, what they would need in their home to live comfortably, as well as how we were going to look after our castle. 

You need to go under it or it might fall down and we want to keep it in our class- Isabella
I could live in a castle- Sam
We can make lunch in the castle or sleep with pretend soup- Patrick
But only go to the bed if your sleep- Katia

Over the week they have made two beautiful horses for knights to ride as well as painting the outside of their castle. We will continue to add to our castle over the next few weeks. Please feel free to come in and have a look. 

We hope that you have a lovely weekend, 

Kimberley, Coral and Tiarna

Mead

 

Dear Families,

 

This term we have been exploring musical instruments as a means of expressing ourselves and sharing stories.  We have predominantly utilised percussion instruments such as cymbals, maracas, drums, cowbell, triangles, rhythm sticks and sleigh bells.  The children have investigated rhythm, pitch and timbre aswell as turn-taking and creating our own musical compositions.

 

We have explored sounds of the environment, creating sound scapes of a rain storm including thunder, lightning, rain and assigning sounds to the sun appearing and umbrellas popping up.

Harrison T – I like the lightning (cymbals)

 

We have shared familiar and well-loved stories such as  The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Three Bears too!  We made sure we chose instruments in keeping with the characters and actions.

Sage – they really do sound like footsteps (clapping sticks)
Lily – the baby bear sound is so little (sleigh bells)
 

Have a great weekend,

from the Mead team. 

Cooper

 

Dear Parents  and Friends of the Cooper Room,

 

This week the children have really enjoyed observing Blue Bell and Sunshine the two budgies who came to visit this week. The children have delighted in watching them move about in their small home and watching the way they eat, drink, move and interact with each other. Pets are a delight for all ages and it has been interesting to see how excited some children have become at the thought of looking after the birds for the week.

They don’t have hands!   Harry B

Oh they are fighting!  Jack Mc

No, they are chatting!   Louis

They’re called birdies. They have food and water to drink. They have pointy tails, black eyes and beaks.   Knox

He’s getting all the dirt of him. They always do that!  Knox

They have mouths. Them have feathers.  Max

Yeah feathers to fly. Knox

He’s having a play. (bird on the swing)   Jack Mc

They’re nibbling themselves to get the salt out if the water. They go in the water – water has salt in it, birds don’t like salt so they nibble it out. Jack A

B for bird. That’s how you spell bird.  Jack Mc

Hello darling friends, are you hungry? They are my friends.  Archie

They eat bird seed so they can fly.  Nathan

They are soft and sweet.    Sze-Yong

They are SO cute!   Zander

They all have colour feathers – yellow, blue and green.  Knox

 

Though our observations and conversations the children have been some interesting discoveries about birds. Next week we will use these ideas to create a new home for the birds, maybe even a playground!  I wonder what other interesting creatures may visit us with their homes next week!

Enjoy your weekend

Susan, Jain and Rosalie

Chapple

 

We have continued our Homes theme this week and moved under the sea. We have looked at the “Rainbow Fish” and looked at how he became caring. We made our own Rainbow Fish to fill our empty sea. We also had great fun with our buddies using the Prep School green screen as we became actors for the morning. Hopefully in the next few weeks you will have chance to view our under the sea adventure movie.

 

In Chinese we have looked at insects and beginning to learn the Chinese words for them. We have also a visit from a fire engine to look forward to on Monday.

 

The Chapple Room