Thursday, August 31, 2017
Staying Healthy in Child Care
Please take some time to read some useful information from the website www.startingblocks.gov.au relating to illnesses in child care.
Article: Illness in child care services
Friday, August 25, 2017
Langley
To All Langley Friends and Families,
Book Week was a HIT!
The children enjoyed the mystery nursery rhyme baskets
each day. They loved touching and
discovering the hidden props during morning meeting. We also had a visit from
some PAC boys in Year 4 from Mrs Melbourne’s class (Amelia’s Mum). This was a big success as each child got a
buddy to read a story to them. We will
look forward to continuing this buddy experience with the big boys from the
school as the year goes on.
Our special guest for Book Week was Cara's mum, Paula. She works within the College
and thoroughly enjoyed reading a story to our Langley class during the morning.
We then had our Book Week Parade on Thursday.
It was great to see everyone dressed up and how much effort everyone
puts in to being creative (An important skill to have and teach our little ones
about).
Reminders
Sun Smart Policy is in effect from September 1st. This means everyone needs to wear a hat when
outside. Please send your child to
school with a clearly named PAC hat.
This can be left here at school in our hat basket. Or you are welcome to take it home each day. This also means we will start applying sunscreen to children after their nap for
extra precaution too.
Big Boys breakfast
Please see the staff if you have not received a blue
form about this event (Thursday 31 August).
Have a fantastic weekend everyone!
Miss Kathy, Miss Amelia, Miss Nicole, Miss Georgia
and Miss Tayla
Afternoon Program Team
Our Afternoon Care program is truly
on its way!
For Book Week we designed a nice
little hiding place in the Town Square to serve one single goal –
reading. Children enjoyed this space where they relaxed, read books and engaged in imaginary play.
Over
the past few weeks we are also having some visitors to the ELC as part
of the afternoon program. Squid the Blue Tongued Lizard and Joy the Rabbit
are our first animals to visit from the Nature Education Centre. This program
aims to allow children to interact with and learn about animals, their
environments and their needs. Children will be given opportunities to hold, pat
and feed the animals and to observe their behaviours. The children have really
enjoyed having the animals here.
A change in location of activities was required to
supervise children interacting with our new animal as well as some new ways of
expression during play. Our block mat encourages children to build and connect
actions to feelings and we have children sharing happy dancing and parties
as they build people from the coloured blocks and faces.
Our jigsaw tables constantly change as children
express triumph at completing puzzles ranging from simple to more advanced as
some complete them with friends or on their own.
Early
exposure to math and number activities promote children's comfort with these
skills. Also, additional opportunities to practice these skills will increase
children’s confidence when working with math and number concepts. Late
afternoons we have introduced Number Jacks on the TV. Many parents are asking about
the link to this Program, so you can just type number jacks in google or
YouTube.
OR
Afternoon
Program Team
Gastro Alert
Dear Parents,
We have had several cases of gastroenteritis in the ELC over the past two weeks.
If
your child has vomited or had a loose bowel motion they must be excluded from the
ELC until 24 hours after the last ‘event’.
This is a highly contagious illness and spreads rapidly in a group setting.
For further information please read
the notice in the front office or in your child's class.
Thank you for helping us to remain as healthy and as well as we can be.
ELC Team
Mead
Dear Mead Room families and friends,
What a week!
On Monday we welcomed our new Mead Room
friend, Zara. We welcome her, and her
family, to the ELC. Thankyou to all our
Mead Room friends who were so kind and inclusive of Zara straight away!
Our chicks, or pullets, are
transitioning to their new home outside…….. we are not quite ready to see them
leave the nest yet! They have had a few short runs outside in their chicken
run, which they are thoroughly enjoying.
The children have been creative in the
atelier with observational paintings of spring blossom. We had noticed the
‘clues of spring’ on our walks to PE and Library and asked one of our amazing
gardeners if we could ‘borrow’ some twigs.
The children have taken notice of the differences in blossom colour and
requested many different hues of pink!
We are still utilising the magnetic
letters to represent our names. Many
children return to this experience and are delighted and proud each time they
place the letters of their name on the board.
Book Week has been such a whirlwind of
experiences. We had an amazing Book Tent City set up
in the Town Square where we read to ourselves and to others. It was a beautiful setting to snuggle up with
a book and some friends.
Mr. Andary visited the Mead Room to share
a rollicking yarn of a bear and a flea, and on Thursday we paraded our costumes
and revelled in all things literary.
Take care of each other,
Melissa and Georgia
Cooper
Hi Cooper families,
Moon Festival, or Mid Autumn Festival, is fast approaching. In preparation for this
special time, the Cooper room have decorated a red lantern using our fingers
and painting with black paint. Leading up to the Moon Festival we will be
asking the children what their wish is for the New Year. We will record this
dialogue and display this next to our beautifully decorated lantern.
This week we have continued our investigation into rainbows. We
have specifically focused on communicating our knowledge of rainbows and
colours through a range of visual arts experiences. Through the visual arts
children can represent their impressions of events and objects. While the children engage in these experiences they are also building
their knowledge of colour.
Eddie
N – I have red and blue and yellow on my rainbow.
Poppy
– I did my rainbow. We need to hang it in the sky.
We have started to share our family photos in the Cooper room this
week. It is lovely to see the children’s faces light up as they talk about who
is in their family and show their peers their photo. We will be displaying the
children’s family photos and the dialogue taken from their special show and
tell. Show and tell is a wonderful opportunity for children in the Cooper room
to speak in front of their peers and share important information and events of
interest with their friends.
Mason –
Look what I’ve got. It’s my picture. It’s my mummy and daddy and me. That’s my
Jett and my Sylas. I got one Jett and one Sylas and one mummy and one daddy.
We have been very busy creating our special presents to give to
our Daddies at our Big Boys Breakfast. They are looking amazing and the
children are very proud of the finished product. We hope to see all the Daddies
on the 31st of August at 8:30am in the ELC.
We had a
fantastic day on Thursday for our Book Week parade. The costumes looked
fantastic and the children loved sharing their special books with their peers.
What a great morning!
We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
Love Miss Gilbert and Miss C
Edgerley
Dear Parents,
Book Week arrived
with gusto in the ELC this week and the Edgerley children have been
enjoying the activities on offer. We have been sharing our favourite stories in
class, and have been busy investigating a variety of 'story baskets' with
clues in them, where we have managed to guess which Fairy Tale they represent.
In our Town Square we have tents set up as special quiet reading nooks to
snuggle into with our favourite story books. On Wednesday we had
a special visit from our Headmaster, Mr Fenner, to read his favourite
story to us.
Our highlight is always our Book Week character
parade which was held on Thursday. You have no idea how many
various characters arrived in the Edgerley Room, such a variety of
personalities and costumes!
As Father's Day
is approaching we have begun busying ourselves with preparations for our
Big Boys Breakfast on 31st August. We have some wonderful surprises in store
for our dads who play such an important role in our lives. We just can't give
too many surprises away at this stage, but you are in store for a treat!
On our walk up to
PE last week the children noticed the beautiful blossom trees that are
blooming at the moment. They were very interested in painting it and so we
looked at some Japanese blossom paintings as our inspiration for creating our
own artworks. We used straws to blow black food dye to create our branches and
then used cotton buds to dab on our blossoms. The results were spectacular!
Come and have a look in our room at our gallery.
Best wishes,
Emma, Mel and
Chris
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