Dear Edgerley Parents,
We have had a wonderful week this week, continuing to
explore our jungle animals, this time through the work of Henri Rousseau and
his series of tiger paintings. If you thought our Ned Kelly and Starry Night
paintings were good, wait until you see the details we have included in our
Tiger, Surprised paintings.
The children
have worked with wonderful enthusiasm, persistence and attention to detail,
visiting the easel again and again to express their ideas.
This week we were
also visited by the students from 4B and 4M who will be our big school buddies
until the middle of the year. This week we enjoyed finding out each others
names and if there were any connections between us. Will P was thrilled to
discover that his cousin Charlie will be one of our buddies!
We also continued
to record our ideas about roles in families this week. We interviewed the
children and asked them to reflect on their family portrait that they had
illustrated. We were thrilled to discover not only what the children thought
defined a family but also how their families worked and what they perceived the
role of each family member to be. We will display our family records on the
wall in our room for Grandies day so be sure to pop in and have a look. Here
are some of our thoughts.
Mums do hugs and kisses - Nicholas Y
Daddy drives
us to see to see our Nannas - Will L
Family means being together, playing
together - Struan
Family means going places together, like on holidays. I
love everyone in my whole family - Sebastien
A family is about team work - Lewis
My Mum is Mum but she is Tali. She goes to my house. She’s not my Dad’s
Mum. She only cooks and cleans up and watches football and watches football and
watches football!-Aston
Mummy and Daddy married each other all by
themself-Will G
Airlie is the baby in my family, my little sister. She
does not much jobs, she messes around in our house- Sebastien
A family is
about hugging and kiss and eating and building, playing and putting sunscreen
on-Charlie O
Come in and find more out about our families.
We are hoping to construct jungle animals next week and
looking for recycle boxes and tubes (smaller boxes are preferred). If you have
any you would like to donate please place them in the white laundry basket
beside our making trolley.
We are taking a trip to the Art Gallery Thursday next
week and are hoping for some parent helpers. Please let us know on your consent
form if you would like to join us. We are hoping to get consent forms back by
the start of next week so it would be great if parents could sign them and get
them back to us as soon as possible.
Parent Teacher interviews begin next week and details
have been included on our weekly diary. Please e-mail Mel or Emma directly to
arrange an appointment.
Looking forward to a very busy week next week.
Have a
lovely weekend Mel, Emma and Cris
