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 13, 2016

Cooper

The weeks are flying by this term! It must mean that we are very busy. Our Princesses Tea Party was a fantastic morning. Thank you to the mums that made it on Monday, it was a very special event for the children, as I’m sure it was for you too.
On Tuesday we went for a walk the secret garden located in the senior school. The children had the opportunity to explore the very leafy new environment. We each chose a leaf to bring back to the ELC to have a closer look. We had a wide variety of coloured leaves, such as brown, red, yellow, pink, combination of red and green, orange and green. We placed the leaves in a table and according to their colour and counted how many leaves we had in each column.
Thank you to the families that brought in boxes for the Cooper room. Boxes are a versatile resource and the children have transformed them into some amazing and imaginative creations. It is great to see their vision of what they would like to make come to life and to talk about it with the children through the process of construction. The children have been sharing their constructions with the class and explaining what they had created and how it was used. There have been a range of items created such as a machine that goes in the water to find hurt animals when it’s foggy, to a beautifully and carefully decorated jewellery box for special treasures. It is lovely seeing the children’s vision of what they wanted to create and to see it take form.
We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Love,
Miss Gilbert and Miss C