Sports Day

We hustled and hopped, tunnelled and wiggled, ran and jumped. But most of all we smiled. It was great to see so much fun being shared with children, parents, friends and grandparents. It has to be one of our best sports days.

Cooper

Dear Cooper families,

We have had a lovely and busy last week of term. We have been lucky enough to have beautiful weather all week and we made the most of it, by having picnics on the oval and practicing duck, duck goose in preparation for Sports Day.

The Cooper class have been particularly engaged in both the inside and outside kitchen areas this week. We have been making yummy soups, cakes, muffins and a range of other meals for our teachers and friends.

Thank you to all of the Cooper children and their families for such a great term together.

Love Miss Gilbert and Miss C 

Langley

Hi Langley families and friends,

This week children have been very interested in the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. We decided to journey around the classroom and hunt for the bear – we got very close but luckily made it home safe!

We have been doing some work with clocks and numbers. Children have enjoyed matching number rocks to the numbers on clocks - even making their own clocks with pop sticks.

We’ve also celebrated a couple of birthdays this week. A very big Happy 3^rd Birthday to Teddy and Samuel – thank you for sharing some yummy treats with us!

Have a great weekend

Renee, Emily, Brooke and Sarah  

Mattingley

All aboard the Mattingley express!

Our train project that we have been making this term is finally starting to take shape. The children have spent a lot of time carefully choosing the colours to paint the carriages. Using our classroom computers we researched what steam engines look like and with Harry BB's extensive knowledge we were able to choose what colour it should be. 

Next week in the Spring program the children will continue to use the computers to research the finer details of the steam engine so they can begin to add detail to their project. We look forward to watching it take shape. 

There will be no show and tell next week as it is the Spring program.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend,

Kimberley and Coral

Mead

Dear Mead Families

We have created something amazing together!

A Carocket!

Last week we gathered all of the machine parts we removed when disassembling machines that no longer functioned and talked about what we could do with them.

Lachlan – put them in the bin

Christopher – recycle

Banjo – make something

Louis – I like cars, make a car

Aston – I like rockets

Lucas – I like rockets too

Many Mead Room friends liked the idea of making something, and cars and rockets were favourably received by all.  Just one thing… we didn’t have enough parts to make a car and a rocket….. so the idea of the Carocket was imagined.

We worked together over many days to make our ideas a reality, using collaboration and teamwork, lots of trial and error, and then finally….. ta da!

Thankyou so much to all of the parents and caregivers who were able to attend Sports Day, we understand that many more would have liked to have come!  The children thoroughly revelled in the activities of the morning.

Leonardo – I ran in all the races and raced with my Daddy

Braxton – I liked running

Lola – I liked running with my Grandma

Hannah – I played a running game

Happy Birthday Lachlan!  And a Happy Birthday wish for Ned, who will be turning 4 in the school holidays!!

Have a great weekend, and enjoy some time in the sun!

Melissa and Jain

ELC Photos

Date for your diaries!!

This year's ELC Photos will be held on Wednesday 21 October from 9am.

More information to follow....

Enrolments for 2016 and beyond

Dear Families

We have limited vacancies available in 2016 and a number of internal families waiting for places in the ELC.  

Please advise myself or Mandy at your earliest convenience if you envisage any changes for your child's enrolled days for next year (and beyond) so that we can try and provide you with the days you require and assist those families waiting for places.

For those children leaving for school next year, please can you let us know their last day at the ELC so that we can adjust your bookings. 

A reminder about the Centre Closure over the Christmas holidays:

The ELC will close on Friday 18 December @ 6pm
Re-open on Monday 4 January, 2016 @ 7.30am. 
(No fees are charged during this closure.)  

Kind regards 

Melanie & Mandy

Wilkins

Wow what an eventful week we have had this week in the Wilkins room!

We have enjoyed spending lots of time outside in the spring sunshine!

The children have enjoyed using our new buckets and spades in the sandpit

and helping Miss Nicole and Miss Sarah sift all the rocks out of the sand.

We have all enjoyed the craft table and had fun creating beautiful masterpieces

using boxes, tape and glue as well as painting some lovely pictures.

As always the play dough has been a hit. We enjoy creating cakes and singing

happy birthday to our friends.

We also had a fabulous time at our sports day. We had running races, played ball and

learnt some new yoga moves. Thanks to all the parents who came to watch us!

Have a great weekend and we will see you next week

Nicole, Sarah, Karla and Ellen

Just a reminder that we need to wear hats when outside. Please ensure your child

has a named hat provided. You're welcome to leave them here in the hat basket.

  

Edgerley

Dear Edgerley families,

We have had another wonderful week – including the Sports Day on Thursday where we had many energetic and excited Edgerley children participate. We welcomed back William who returned from his trip to China, and shared many snippets and answered lots of the children’s questions about the food and animals there. 

On Tuesday we gave a Yoga performance for Mr Andary and Mrs Garland where we all performed the yoga poses we have learnt to a story. These poses included butterfly, cat, dog, eagle, mountain and helicopter to name a few. Ask your children to show you these at home!

(We do yoga) “because it makes you get big and strong” – Sylas

(We do yoga) “because it makes you feel good” - Oscar

We are particularly enjoying the writing table, where many children are making their own books, and the play dough table with letter cut outs. We have all confirmed what sporting house we are in for sports day, and who these sporting houses are named after and what colour they are.

We had another visit from Lenny the Lamb to support our social skills. This week we talked about entering play and how we can do this. As the children move from ‘parallel play’ to more reciprocal play they need to step up to a new set of skills – such as waiting, taking turns, empathising, sharing ideas etc. Joining into a group can be quite a challenge for some, so this discussion was helpful in suggesting ways they can use their words, make eye contact and use a friendly voice to name a few ideas.

“Maybe you can say …if you let me play I’ll be your friend forever” offered Stefan.

“You could ask the teacher to tell them” suggested Regan.

“You could use your words first and then tell them” David recommended.

For Show and Tell we shared our favourite sport and many children brought in sporting equipment which made its way to the outdoors and was played with throughout the day. We have lots of budding AFL players in the Edgerley Room!

The next two weeks is school holidays and the holiday program will be running. Mrs Nacca and Miss Kendall will be in the Edgerley Room for the two weeks and have an exciting program prepared. Happy holidays to those of you taking them.

Best wishes,

Emma, Emma and Ty

Chapple

Dear Chapple families

We read a very funny and strange book called The Paper Bag Princess.

We thought about what does a princess look like?

Annie: Looks like she is wearing a wedding dress but she is not.

Oliver: They look beautiful.

Carter: They have a crown.

Ned; A beautiful dress.

Finny: Wear a tu-tu and pink shoes.

Olive: High heels.

Scarlett: Beautiful jewels.

Carter: Sparkles on the dress.

Harrison T: Beautiful crowns.

Loukas- Blonde hair.

Isaac: Wear a tiara

Carter: Sit a special chair.

Lachlan: A throne.

This book proved to be a little bit different and challenged the way we think.

We had great fun making our own paper bag princesses and turning them into puppet shows.

Bernie was the very first recipient of the Chapple Champion. I sure it will spur on many more to get one.

Just a reminder a school hat is now required for outside play.

It amazing to think this is nearly our last term together.

Thanks

Chapple Room

Edgerley

Dear Edgerley Families and Friends,

This week the Edgerley children have been exploring a variety of machines in our School community. On Tuesday the children visited the big year 8 boys at EduKart which is a unique Year 8 hands-on, made for boys program, which connects curriculum to a real life context through the building, testing and racing of an electric powered go-kart.

“I liked seeing they have batteries and a motor” Oliver shared.

“There was electricity in them” Andrei explained.

“I liked tooting the horn” David said.

“I liked seeing the wheels turn” Oscar shared.

On Friday the children visited the maintenance workshop. They enjoyed watching machines in action, and were particularly interested in the grinder.

“I saw the grinder and it twisted round and round and it spins faster and faster” Regan explained

“I learnt that you can’t touch the fire from the grinder ‘coz it’s really hot” warned Johnny.

“I had to put my ear plugs in my ear because there was so much noise” Ollie said.

“I loved the drill, it drills holes and rollie stuff came out” Varish described.

Enjoy your weekend!

Emma, Emma and Ty