Dear Parents,
We thank you for your generous donations for our “Shoeboxes of Love” appeal during the past two terms. It has been wonderful watching all the donations fill up our containers each month. Below we have outlined the time schedule for the last two months of our appeal.
AUGUST
During August we have been collecting items for – Personal Hygiene. Tooth brushes in holders, hair brush or comb, face washers, soap and soap holders or hand towels. Unfortunately we are unable to send any type of liquids so no toothpaste, bubble bath or shampoo.
SEPTEMBER
We will finish off our appeal asking for additional items of things we would like to place in every box! Please send along additional
*Pencil cases
*Lead pencils
*Sharpeners
*Small exercise books
*Small children’s books
*Tennis balls
*Marbles
*Hair brushes or combs
*Tennis balls
*Small soft toys
*Small toys cars
*Hats
During September we will also be asking for all children to cover a shoebox in brightly coloured paper at home and attach the shoe box label (from flyer). The attached flyer also needs to be filled out for each box. Please complete the donation section of the flyer and place in the box ready to return to the ELC.
The children are also asked to include a family photograph and a small message to the recipient of their Shoebox of Love! If possible it would be great to have these laminated back to back (approx. size 9x13cms This way the children can send a little bit of themselves in the parcel.
OCTOBER
The children will be selecting the items they wish to pack in their box early in October. We will be looking for some Parent helpers to assist with the packing days. Details will be posted on the blog closer to the date.
We thank you all for your help and generous donations and hope your children have enjoyed selecting the items each month to donate. A little of LOVE goes a long way!
Kind regards
ELC staff
Friday, August 20, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
A Few Health Reminders
Dear Parents,
We have a few reminders that we wanted to share with you about health related matters, and how you can keep us all healthy and safe. Please read through our information below.
Illness
It is the time of year when cough and colds are prevalent in our community. During the start of the term we have experienced a lot of absentees through illness, both students and staff. Thankyou to the parents that have kept their unwell children at home to help prevent the spread of coughs and colds to others. We would ask that everybody continue to be vigilant and keep children at home when they are unwell (even if the child insists on coming to Kindergarten!). Please note that if your child has any discharge from their ears or thick green mucus from their nose, they must stay at home to prevent infection…Spring is on it’s way!
Hats
As recommended by the Cancer Council children will need to begin wearing their hats again from 1st September. Please make sure you pack it each day and that it is clearly named. Hopefully this means that some sunshine is on its way !
Medication
Please check our Parent Handbook for information regarding medication for your child whilst at the ELC. All medication must be in its original container and have your child's name and prescribed dosage on the label. If it has not been prescribed by a doctor (eg cough medicine)it needs the manufactures label with the dose for the appropriate age clearly shown. We cannot administer any medication that does not comply with this. Asthma inhalers also need a label to ensure they belong to the correct child as many children have these.
Finger Nails
This may seem like an odd request but we would love it you could help us by keeping your child’s nails short. We have had a few incidents of accidental scratches that have occurred from overly long nails.
Free Asthma Seminar
Are you the parent or carer of a child with asthma. Would you like to know more about asthma and how to manage it? Free seminars are being held at the Marion Cultural Centre on Friday August 27th and the Women’s and Children’s Hospital on September the 8th. For more information or to make a booking call 81617777 or e-mail michelle.gordon@health.sa.gov.au
We have a few reminders that we wanted to share with you about health related matters, and how you can keep us all healthy and safe. Please read through our information below.
Illness
It is the time of year when cough and colds are prevalent in our community. During the start of the term we have experienced a lot of absentees through illness, both students and staff. Thankyou to the parents that have kept their unwell children at home to help prevent the spread of coughs and colds to others. We would ask that everybody continue to be vigilant and keep children at home when they are unwell (even if the child insists on coming to Kindergarten!). Please note that if your child has any discharge from their ears or thick green mucus from their nose, they must stay at home to prevent infection…Spring is on it’s way!
Hats
As recommended by the Cancer Council children will need to begin wearing their hats again from 1st September. Please make sure you pack it each day and that it is clearly named. Hopefully this means that some sunshine is on its way !
Medication
Please check our Parent Handbook for information regarding medication for your child whilst at the ELC. All medication must be in its original container and have your child's name and prescribed dosage on the label. If it has not been prescribed by a doctor (eg cough medicine)it needs the manufactures label with the dose for the appropriate age clearly shown. We cannot administer any medication that does not comply with this. Asthma inhalers also need a label to ensure they belong to the correct child as many children have these.
Finger Nails
This may seem like an odd request but we would love it you could help us by keeping your child’s nails short. We have had a few incidents of accidental scratches that have occurred from overly long nails.
Free Asthma Seminar
Are you the parent or carer of a child with asthma. Would you like to know more about asthma and how to manage it? Free seminars are being held at the Marion Cultural Centre on Friday August 27th and the Women’s and Children’s Hospital on September the 8th. For more information or to make a booking call 81617777 or e-mail michelle.gordon@health.sa.gov.au
Princes E-News
Dear Parents,
Please find below the link to the College wide e-news. Please click on the link if you would like to see what the rest of the College is up to!
With compliments from the eNews team.
http://www.vision6.com.au/em/message/email/view.php?id=711887&u=28919
Please find below the link to the College wide e-news. Please click on the link if you would like to see what the rest of the College is up to!
With compliments from the eNews team.
http://www.vision6.com.au/em/message/email/view.php?id=711887&u=28919
In the Classrooms
Langley
We have done so much investigating and talking about shadows over the last couple of weeks and now the children are spontaneously spotting them in the yard as they play. We had some jumbo chalk outside during the week when some of the children decided to trace around their shadows that they found on the ground. We discovered it was a bit tricky because you had to try and keep really still otherwise your shadow moved as well.
“They’re black” Gabe told us as we spoke about the shadows
“They go big” added Hannah
We have furthered our interest into objects getting bigger when you put them on the overhead by tracing around our giant hands and painting and collaging them black just like they are on the wall.
Kind regards
Jess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer
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Mead
Dear Mead Room Parents,
The real interest of the week was in shadows. This began with the overhead projector and performers on the stage creating various shadows. We read some books and had some discussions about light, what makes light and shadows. On Wednesday we decided to grab the opportunity (with good weather) and head out for a shadow walk around the school.
'Look at the shadow of the pole' Ryan shouted excitedly as we headed out the ELC doors.
'I'm making my shadow dance' Charlie H told everyone.
'Excuse me Sam, you're stepping on my shadow' Jade told Sam.
'Here's the sun, it came up. Now I can see my shadow' Zac proudly told us.
'My shadow is looking at me' Daniel noticed.
'I can see my hair in my shadow' Clementine commented as she looked at her shadow.
As we returned to the ELC after our shadow walk a group of children were holding hands.
'Look how long our shadow is' Sam commented on the group shadow.
'Do you think it will fit through the door?' Jesse asked.
Best wishes,
Emma, Susan and Emma
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Cooper
Tuesday afternoon was lovely and sunny so the Cooper children got out into the ELC vegie patch with the Langley children, Miss Jess and Mrs Blake. We turned the soil, which is lovely and wet after the winter rain, and had lots of fun digging big holes. We planted some strawberries from Mr Rob's own garden, covered them with soil and watered them in. The children discussed how much they like to eat strawberries and Oliver said "I like them in jam". Maybe Mr Rob will turn our strawberries into something delicious for us to eat!
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
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Chapple
As part of the Chapple reading program, the students were exposed to the letter ‘p’ this week. We have been able to recognise it in many places around our school and we can all list numerous things that start with ‘p’. We’ve integrated our maths this week by making our own pizzas using various 2D shapes and describing the properties of those shapes. Not only this, but we decided that we would give reading a go and read a book together as a class.
‘Monster Party’ is a big book that all the Chapple students have loved reading. We love to incorporate the actions as the little monsters fly, sing, dance and jump like a kangaroo into jelly! The exciting part was when we all joined in reading the book together. We were all able to ‘read’ the words. At the end of the book, Mrs Baird said in a voice showing how impressed she was, “You actually read that book! You were all reading! Well done!”
To which Luke cleverly replied, “But we were only reading the words because you’re reading them with us.”
“Hmmmm…” said Mrs Baird, “All right then, how about you all read it again and I won’t say anything?”
“Yes!” shrieked all the Chapple students. “Let’s do it! We can do it!”
And so they did. The Chapple Room read the book ‘The Monster Party’ from beginning to end with no teacher help.
Chapple Parents, please come in and share this book with your child, along with ‘Tough Boris’. We can read ‘Tough Boris’ to you using our sequencing story cards and also our story prop box! Also, see our fabulous shadow paintings!
Kind regards,
Kate and Juliana
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Edgerley
Edgerley children continued their interest in all things alight this week by creating cellophane fires on the overhead projector and a rushy red fire engine to get them to the fire. There were lots of negotiations around how many firemen could fit in the engine at one time.
We harvested broccoli and beetroot with the children from Chapple from our vegetable garden. Mr Wagenfeller was thrilled to see our great heads of green broccoli and put them safely in the fridge for lunch next week. We carefully cut and peeled our beetroot for beetroot dip and watched our hands turn purple… “no, it’s maroon like our uniform!” clarified Louie. We are looking forward to enjoying our Princes ELC dip on biscuits!
Regards
Mel and Rosalie.JPG)
We have done so much investigating and talking about shadows over the last couple of weeks and now the children are spontaneously spotting them in the yard as they play. We had some jumbo chalk outside during the week when some of the children decided to trace around their shadows that they found on the ground. We discovered it was a bit tricky because you had to try and keep really still otherwise your shadow moved as well.
“They’re black” Gabe told us as we spoke about the shadows
“They go big” added Hannah
We have furthered our interest into objects getting bigger when you put them on the overhead by tracing around our giant hands and painting and collaging them black just like they are on the wall.
Kind regards
Jess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer
Mead
Dear Mead Room Parents,
The real interest of the week was in shadows. This began with the overhead projector and performers on the stage creating various shadows. We read some books and had some discussions about light, what makes light and shadows. On Wednesday we decided to grab the opportunity (with good weather) and head out for a shadow walk around the school.
'Look at the shadow of the pole' Ryan shouted excitedly as we headed out the ELC doors.
'I'm making my shadow dance' Charlie H told everyone.
'Excuse me Sam, you're stepping on my shadow' Jade told Sam.
'Here's the sun, it came up. Now I can see my shadow' Zac proudly told us.
'My shadow is looking at me' Daniel noticed.
'I can see my hair in my shadow' Clementine commented as she looked at her shadow.
As we returned to the ELC after our shadow walk a group of children were holding hands.
'Look how long our shadow is' Sam commented on the group shadow.
'Do you think it will fit through the door?' Jesse asked.
Best wishes,
Emma, Susan and Emma
Cooper
Tuesday afternoon was lovely and sunny so the Cooper children got out into the ELC vegie patch with the Langley children, Miss Jess and Mrs Blake. We turned the soil, which is lovely and wet after the winter rain, and had lots of fun digging big holes. We planted some strawberries from Mr Rob's own garden, covered them with soil and watered them in. The children discussed how much they like to eat strawberries and Oliver said "I like them in jam". Maybe Mr Rob will turn our strawberries into something delicious for us to eat!
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
Chapple
As part of the Chapple reading program, the students were exposed to the letter ‘p’ this week. We have been able to recognise it in many places around our school and we can all list numerous things that start with ‘p’. We’ve integrated our maths this week by making our own pizzas using various 2D shapes and describing the properties of those shapes. Not only this, but we decided that we would give reading a go and read a book together as a class.
‘Monster Party’ is a big book that all the Chapple students have loved reading. We love to incorporate the actions as the little monsters fly, sing, dance and jump like a kangaroo into jelly! The exciting part was when we all joined in reading the book together. We were all able to ‘read’ the words. At the end of the book, Mrs Baird said in a voice showing how impressed she was, “You actually read that book! You were all reading! Well done!”
To which Luke cleverly replied, “But we were only reading the words because you’re reading them with us.”
“Hmmmm…” said Mrs Baird, “All right then, how about you all read it again and I won’t say anything?”
“Yes!” shrieked all the Chapple students. “Let’s do it! We can do it!”
And so they did. The Chapple Room read the book ‘The Monster Party’ from beginning to end with no teacher help.
Chapple Parents, please come in and share this book with your child, along with ‘Tough Boris’. We can read ‘Tough Boris’ to you using our sequencing story cards and also our story prop box! Also, see our fabulous shadow paintings!
Kind regards,
Kate and Juliana
Edgerley
Edgerley children continued their interest in all things alight this week by creating cellophane fires on the overhead projector and a rushy red fire engine to get them to the fire. There were lots of negotiations around how many firemen could fit in the engine at one time.
We harvested broccoli and beetroot with the children from Chapple from our vegetable garden. Mr Wagenfeller was thrilled to see our great heads of green broccoli and put them safely in the fridge for lunch next week. We carefully cut and peeled our beetroot for beetroot dip and watched our hands turn purple… “no, it’s maroon like our uniform!” clarified Louie. We are looking forward to enjoying our Princes ELC dip on biscuits!
Regards
Mel and Rosalie
Chinese Curriculum Evening
Don’t forget our upcoming Chinese Curriculum Evening next week. Come and join us for a fun evening of experience and information. Wine and nibbles provided.
When: 17th August
Where: Princes ELC Art Room
Time: 7.00pm
RSVP: to Mrs Porter please via phone or e-mail at jporter@pac.edu.au
When: 17th August
Where: Princes ELC Art Room
Time: 7.00pm
RSVP: to Mrs Porter please via phone or e-mail at jporter@pac.edu.au
Free Moon Lantern Festival
Come to the beautiful Moon Lantern Festival at Elder Park on Wednesday the 22nd of September from 3.30pm – 8.30pm. A free family event as part of the OzAsia Festival, this would be a lovely culmination to our Shadowlands unit and an opportunity not to be missed.
Princes by Night
Don’t forget our night walk next week
When: Thursday 19th August at 6:30pm - 7:15pm
Where: Meet at the bottom oval to start our tour
Who: All Early Learning Centre students and parents (please note that your child must be accompanied by a parent). Teachers will be there to guide each class group on the tour
Please bring: a torch and warm clothing
Hope to see you there!
Early Learning Centre Staff
When: Thursday 19th August at 6:30pm - 7:15pm
Where: Meet at the bottom oval to start our tour
Who: All Early Learning Centre students and parents (please note that your child must be accompanied by a parent). Teachers will be there to guide each class group on the tour
Please bring: a torch and warm clothing
Hope to see you there!
Early Learning Centre Staff
Big Boys Breakfast
Hi Dads,
Hopefully you will have received your information (all three pages!!) regarding the Big Boys Breakfast. Please begin to return your RSVP’s and fathers surveys. Looking forward to seeing you then.
Kind Regards
Mel Bishop
Hopefully you will have received your information (all three pages!!) regarding the Big Boys Breakfast. Please begin to return your RSVP’s and fathers surveys. Looking forward to seeing you then.
Kind Regards
Mel Bishop
Toys From Home
Dear Parents,
In line with our Toys From Home policy, children are allowed to bring a comforting toy from home for sleep time only. Please help us by preventing your child from bringing in other toys from home to avoid tears or lost objects.
Thankyou
Mel Bishop
In line with our Toys From Home policy, children are allowed to bring a comforting toy from home for sleep time only. Please help us by preventing your child from bringing in other toys from home to avoid tears or lost objects.
Thankyou
Mel Bishop
Little Big Shots Film Festival
Dear Parents,
The annual Little Big Shots International Film Festival for Kids is on over the 7th to 9th of October. It is a great opportunity to take your children to see non-main stream presentations designed specifically for children. All tickets are $10 and more information is available at adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au. Tickets can be booked at 131246
Kind Regards
Mel
The annual Little Big Shots International Film Festival for Kids is on over the 7th to 9th of October. It is a great opportunity to take your children to see non-main stream presentations designed specifically for children. All tickets are $10 and more information is available at adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au. Tickets can be booked at 131246
Kind Regards
Mel
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Chinese Curriculum Evening
Come and join us at our upcoming Chinese Curriculum Evening on Tuesday the 17th of August. This gathering, that starts at 7.00pm, will not only be an opportunity for you to learn why the introduction of a second language is so important for Early Years students, but more particularly for you to hear from our wonderful Chinese teacher, Lao Shi House, about what children do during Chinese classes, how they learn and what they learn. It will be particularly beneficial for parents who do not speak Chinese to try their hand at some vocabulary and hear about some strategies to support what their children are currently learning in class.
Some come and join us for a fun evening of experience and information. Wine and nibbles provided.
When: 17th August
Where: Princes ELC Art Room
Time: 7.00pm
RSVP: to Mrs Porter please via phone or e-mail at jporter@pac.edu.au
We are aware that we have scheduled two evening events in the one week, with our Princes at Night walk occuring two days later, but this tight scheduling has been unavoidable and we hope that it wont be too inconvienient and that we will see you there.
An opportunity not to be missed
Kind Regards
Mel
Friday, August 6, 2010
Please Help Us
Dear Parents,
in the last two weeks we have experienced some issues with the usage of classrooms after Kindergarten class times have finished. Children, including older siblings, playing in classrooms after being collected from extended care have broken furniture, scribbled over furniture, destroyed children’s work and broken pots and baskets. Please help us by fully supervising your children when you collect them from extended care. We would be very appreciative if you could also ask your child to pack away any toys they take out while waiting to be signed out.
Thanks you for your help.
ELC Staff
in the last two weeks we have experienced some issues with the usage of classrooms after Kindergarten class times have finished. Children, including older siblings, playing in classrooms after being collected from extended care have broken furniture, scribbled over furniture, destroyed children’s work and broken pots and baskets. Please help us by fully supervising your children when you collect them from extended care. We would be very appreciative if you could also ask your child to pack away any toys they take out while waiting to be signed out.
Thanks you for your help.
ELC Staff
Buttons and Bottle Tops and Spangles
Dear Parents,
Langley children have been investigating buttons and are on the look out for more. If you have a collection of old buttons that you don’t need any more (or new ones like the single buttons that are attached to new tops when you buy them) the Langley children would be most appreciative of any button donations. Please leave them with Mrs Porter.
All students have been excited by the arrival of our weathered old carpentry table and have been enjoying working with hammers this week. We are looking for bottle tops to add to our creations. All bottle tops are welcome, metal or plastic.
In the coming weeks all children will be working on some reflective art installations for the upcoming artsPACes exhibition in the prep school. We will be asking children to collect reflective silver junk materials to bring to Kindy to add to the collage. Whilst the children do not yet know of this project we thought it might be wise to give parents some prior warning. Anything reflective would be great (our projects will be lit up at night). Old shiny wine cask bladders, bits of reflectors from old bikes, old bits of mirror, shiny paper and material, shiny lolly papers etc… would all be great.
Langley children have been investigating buttons and are on the look out for more. If you have a collection of old buttons that you don’t need any more (or new ones like the single buttons that are attached to new tops when you buy them) the Langley children would be most appreciative of any button donations. Please leave them with Mrs Porter.
All students have been excited by the arrival of our weathered old carpentry table and have been enjoying working with hammers this week. We are looking for bottle tops to add to our creations. All bottle tops are welcome, metal or plastic.
In the coming weeks all children will be working on some reflective art installations for the upcoming artsPACes exhibition in the prep school. We will be asking children to collect reflective silver junk materials to bring to Kindy to add to the collage. Whilst the children do not yet know of this project we thought it might be wise to give parents some prior warning. Anything reflective would be great (our projects will be lit up at night). Old shiny wine cask bladders, bits of reflectors from old bikes, old bits of mirror, shiny paper and material, shiny lolly papers etc… would all be great.
In the Classrooms
Langley
What a busy week of investigation and discovery we have had! Over the last couple of weeks the children have been investigating how light moves and how shadows are created on the overhead projector.
“It’s Tommi!” said Tommi excitedly as he found his shadow on the wall
“It’s Gabe!” added Gabe, as he showed Tommi
This week we made our first visit to the dark room to further explore light and shadows. The children have discovered that when you put something on top of the overhead it gets much, much bigger when it appears on the wall.
“Look Mid Jess my hands big!” said Oliver L
“Yeah, big hands!” agreed Jack O
I wonder what we can make big next week!
Kind regardsJess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer
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Mead
Dear Mead Room Parents,
We have had another busy week exploring and investigating. Building with transparent blocks in the dark room, creating patterns on the light table, seeing the world through coloured shapes, looking at shadows and images on the over head projector. The children loved exploring the dark room (art room).
“I liked the silver tubes best because I didn't know where I was going.” Jesse
“The dinosaurs glowed different colours.” Jade
“Wow, look at them coloured tubes.” Henry
“I don't know what I'm building till I'm finished.” Jesse
We have also drawn self portraits while looking at ourselves in mirrors. It will be interesting to compare these to our self portraits from earlier in the year.
Best wishes,
Emma, Susan and Emma
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Cooper
This week the Cooper children have been busy builders this week creating all sorts of big constructions. They have played with duplo and building blocks to make towers, zoos, airports and roads and have made 'princess castles' on the light box with small blocks and shiny materials. Outside, they used the big block set to build a large wall and a dinosaur mountain. It has been lovely to see the children beginning to work collaboratively on their projects, sharing ideas and adding to each other's work. Of course, when you're three it's also fun to see the effect of knocking things down and making a loud crash and everyone has enjoyed participating in that too!
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
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Chapple
The Chapple Room have been learning about how light can move through certain objects and how it can’t move through other objects. We have learnt to use to use the words ‘transparent, ‘opaque’ and many of us can also use and describe objects that are ‘translucent’. We created our own stained glass windows – you can see them on our classroom windows – they’re very beautiful. Ms Giorgio thought it would be a great idea to go and inspect the real glass ones in the Chapel. They also are very beautiful, but we like our designs just a fraction more!
On top of that, we began using mirrors to understand the idea of reflection. Some of us held them under our eyes and used the reflection from above to navigate our way from Chapple Room to the swing set and back. This proved to be a very exciting and scary experience with lots of giggling along the way. From this we also discovered that light can bounce from mirrors onto something else. As a class we tried to replicate torch light onto the walls of our room by pointing the torch light at the mirror and not directly at the wall!
“Everything’s moving. The roof is on the ground and it feels funny,” described Max experiencing the sensation of not being able to see his feet and use his eyes in the normal way to get from one point to the other.
Sebastian giggled, “I’m scared because I’m going to fall down on the roof. Now we’re going to fall on the tree! The sky! We’re going to fall on the sky!”
“It feels like I’m standing on top of the roof. It’s like we’re trapped there. The mirror makes everything look like we’re all upside-down and I think it’s because of the mirror,” said Kyle in a quiet but excited voice.
Kind regards,
Kate and Juliana
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Edgerley
We were very busy boys this week in Edgerley with lots of independent investigations occurring around the room. Aadi, Jamison and Hugo were using lamps and globes to investigate how the sun shines onto our earth to create day on one side whilst it is night time on the other side.
After Louie and Noah’s discovery that some of the things that give us light also give us heat we tested the theory with a birthday candle. They were right, candles give us light and heat at the same time too. We are on the look out for other things that give us light and heat.
After our observations of candles we watched a video about fire safety and this encouraged lots of dramatic fire man play in the block corner. We learned how to dial 000 (and will continue to practice this next week) but we are still learning the numbers and street and suburb names of our houses (our Mum’s and Dad’s can help us with that) and how to STOP COVER DROP and ROLL to put out fire on our clothes.
Meanwhile in the dark room as the children experimented with translucent paddles Roshan decided to create a rainbow. He worked, mixing the paddles to create orange, green and violet to finish the rainbow.
Wow, we wonder what next week will bring!
Regards
Mel and Rosalie.JPG)
What a busy week of investigation and discovery we have had! Over the last couple of weeks the children have been investigating how light moves and how shadows are created on the overhead projector.
“It’s Tommi!” said Tommi excitedly as he found his shadow on the wall
“It’s Gabe!” added Gabe, as he showed Tommi
This week we made our first visit to the dark room to further explore light and shadows. The children have discovered that when you put something on top of the overhead it gets much, much bigger when it appears on the wall.
“Look Mid Jess my hands big!” said Oliver L
“Yeah, big hands!” agreed Jack O
I wonder what we can make big next week!
Kind regardsJess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer
Mead
Dear Mead Room Parents,
We have had another busy week exploring and investigating. Building with transparent blocks in the dark room, creating patterns on the light table, seeing the world through coloured shapes, looking at shadows and images on the over head projector. The children loved exploring the dark room (art room).
“I liked the silver tubes best because I didn't know where I was going.” Jesse
“The dinosaurs glowed different colours.” Jade
“Wow, look at them coloured tubes.” Henry
“I don't know what I'm building till I'm finished.” Jesse
We have also drawn self portraits while looking at ourselves in mirrors. It will be interesting to compare these to our self portraits from earlier in the year.
Best wishes,
Emma, Susan and Emma
Cooper
This week the Cooper children have been busy builders this week creating all sorts of big constructions. They have played with duplo and building blocks to make towers, zoos, airports and roads and have made 'princess castles' on the light box with small blocks and shiny materials. Outside, they used the big block set to build a large wall and a dinosaur mountain. It has been lovely to see the children beginning to work collaboratively on their projects, sharing ideas and adding to each other's work. Of course, when you're three it's also fun to see the effect of knocking things down and making a loud crash and everyone has enjoyed participating in that too!
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
Chapple
The Chapple Room have been learning about how light can move through certain objects and how it can’t move through other objects. We have learnt to use to use the words ‘transparent, ‘opaque’ and many of us can also use and describe objects that are ‘translucent’. We created our own stained glass windows – you can see them on our classroom windows – they’re very beautiful. Ms Giorgio thought it would be a great idea to go and inspect the real glass ones in the Chapel. They also are very beautiful, but we like our designs just a fraction more!
On top of that, we began using mirrors to understand the idea of reflection. Some of us held them under our eyes and used the reflection from above to navigate our way from Chapple Room to the swing set and back. This proved to be a very exciting and scary experience with lots of giggling along the way. From this we also discovered that light can bounce from mirrors onto something else. As a class we tried to replicate torch light onto the walls of our room by pointing the torch light at the mirror and not directly at the wall!
“Everything’s moving. The roof is on the ground and it feels funny,” described Max experiencing the sensation of not being able to see his feet and use his eyes in the normal way to get from one point to the other.
Sebastian giggled, “I’m scared because I’m going to fall down on the roof. Now we’re going to fall on the tree! The sky! We’re going to fall on the sky!”
“It feels like I’m standing on top of the roof. It’s like we’re trapped there. The mirror makes everything look like we’re all upside-down and I think it’s because of the mirror,” said Kyle in a quiet but excited voice.
Kind regards,
Kate and Juliana
Edgerley
We were very busy boys this week in Edgerley with lots of independent investigations occurring around the room. Aadi, Jamison and Hugo were using lamps and globes to investigate how the sun shines onto our earth to create day on one side whilst it is night time on the other side.
After Louie and Noah’s discovery that some of the things that give us light also give us heat we tested the theory with a birthday candle. They were right, candles give us light and heat at the same time too. We are on the look out for other things that give us light and heat.
After our observations of candles we watched a video about fire safety and this encouraged lots of dramatic fire man play in the block corner. We learned how to dial 000 (and will continue to practice this next week) but we are still learning the numbers and street and suburb names of our houses (our Mum’s and Dad’s can help us with that) and how to STOP COVER DROP and ROLL to put out fire on our clothes.
Meanwhile in the dark room as the children experimented with translucent paddles Roshan decided to create a rainbow. He worked, mixing the paddles to create orange, green and violet to finish the rainbow.
Wow, we wonder what next week will bring!
Regards
Mel and Rosalie
Princes by Night
Have you ever wondered what our school looks like at night? Does it look and feel different? Who is at our school at night? What happens at PAC when we are at home?
As part of our ‘Shadowlands’ Unit of Inquiry, the ELC Staff would like to invite you and your ELC child to a tour of our school by night! We hope this experience will be an exciting opportunity for your child to further their understanding of some of the concepts we have been learning about and in many instances expose our students to seeing our school in a new ‘light’.
When: Thursday 19th August at 6:30pm - 7:15pm
Where: Meet at the bottom oval to start our tour
Who: All Early Learning Centre students and parents (please note that your child must be accompanied by a parent). Teachers will be there to guide each class group on the tour
Please bring: a torch and warm clothing
Throughout the tour we hope to walk through the grounds, listen to Mr Tutt talk with us about what happens at PAC by night, visit the Boarding House, enter the Library and the Gym and watch some of the football on the fields under lights. We will finish with a delicious hot chocolate in the Prince Philip Theatre.
Hope to see you there!
Early Learning Centre Staff
As part of our ‘Shadowlands’ Unit of Inquiry, the ELC Staff would like to invite you and your ELC child to a tour of our school by night! We hope this experience will be an exciting opportunity for your child to further their understanding of some of the concepts we have been learning about and in many instances expose our students to seeing our school in a new ‘light’.
When: Thursday 19th August at 6:30pm - 7:15pm
Where: Meet at the bottom oval to start our tour
Who: All Early Learning Centre students and parents (please note that your child must be accompanied by a parent). Teachers will be there to guide each class group on the tour
Please bring: a torch and warm clothing
Throughout the tour we hope to walk through the grounds, listen to Mr Tutt talk with us about what happens at PAC by night, visit the Boarding House, enter the Library and the Gym and watch some of the football on the fields under lights. We will finish with a delicious hot chocolate in the Prince Philip Theatre.
Hope to see you there!
Early Learning Centre Staff
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