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, April 8, 2016

Mead

Hello Mead families and friends,

As we continue the journey of observing the caterpillars, we have continued to discuss the life cycles of the Monarch Butterfly. We have two beautiful chrysalis and four new little yellow, green and black caterpillars. Each morning when Jaden and Ethan come into the Mead room they are so curious and eager to discover if there are any new caterpillars.  The children are now starting to predict what will happen to the caterpillars next.
Liliana “He is going to come out of that and be a butterfly”
Patrick “It might be 2 weeks”
Miss Elodie made some green play doh for the children, they have really enjoyed manipulating the play doh and a majority of them have been creating caterpillars and butterflies.

Tuesday was very exciting as it was Grandies day. The Mead children were thrilled and proud to be able to show their grandparents their classroom. The children used their loud voices as we sang 3 different songs to them! After our amazing performance, we went over and engaged in play in the Workshop. This is a great opportunity for the children to explore a new environment while furthering their learning development.

In Chinese this week we learnt about an array of fruits and how to pronounce the words in Chinese. We also pretended we were different animals, the children really liked being frogs and jumped around the room! It was lots of fun!!!

The children have demonstrated strong interest this week with painting and fine motor activities, we will extend on these interest in the next week.

Friday we had P.E, this is always a great hit as we played with the balls, participated in running activities and an obstacle course.
Mikayla “ I like the tunnel”
Cooper “Balls”
William P “I like balancing”

We hope you have a lovely weekend! 
Mrs Prest, Miss Elodie and Mrs Nacca