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, August 25, 2017

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