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, September 2, 2016

Mead

Dear Mead Room families and friends,

Our skills of observation have been working overtime this week….

We are noticing the ‘3 arrows’ in all sorts of unusual places, and excitingly the children are more determined than ever to sort our Mead Room recycling, and discuss the recycling process at home too.

We have agreed as a Mead Room community to find out the next step in the journey of our food scraps and paper recycling.  We met Joe, one of our fabulous Prince Alfred College staff members, who indicated that he might be able to help us! 

We have begun noticing shapes in our environment too. It all began with Yifan….
Yifan – my truck have rectangle and circle
Zed – I see a square

Then we were off and running! Danica, Connor, Sid, Flynn, Tom T and Sam eagerly joined the shape detective hunt.  Circles, circles and more circles.

Paper making went into overdrive – our paper pulp was very mushy and we all had the exhilarating experience of creating new paper from old brochures, newspaper, thin cardboard and discarded copier paper.  

And finally the Big Boys Breakfast festivities!  What a wonderful morning to share special moments together.
  
Enjoy your weekend!

From Melissa, Elodie and Rosalie