Dear Mattingley
Room families and friends,
What a wonderful start to Term 1. As we mentioned in our Weekly Diary we have
strived to create a welcoming and sustaining environment in the Mattingley
Room. Mattingley Room friends have spent the past couple of weeks exploring our
space, both indoors and out, consolidating new routines and new friendships!
We have made ourselves known to our
resident chooks and have collected the eggs on a few occasions. We also give them our lunch scraps (when
there is no chicken on the menu…..) and we make sure they have plenty of water
too.
Wenting, our Chinese teacher, has
introduced Chinese New Year in our lessons and we look forward to celebrating
the Year of the Dog!
Due to the extreme heat we have been
engaging in plenty of water play. Lots
of filling, pouring, floating and sinking, splashing, track making, and of
course evaporation! The children spent a
great deal of time exploring the properties of water as well as the concepts of
volume and capacity. It was also a
terrific way to practice social skills too—such as sharing and negotiating resources.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Prest and Miss Boler
