Uniforms

Dear Parents,

Previously children were expected to wear only maroon pants; however we have reviewed and now changed that policy due to the difficulties with purchasing. Please note that as of immediately we will support children wearing neutral (navy, grey, black, beige, maroon and denim) coloured pants with no stripes, brands or markings etc as part of the ELC uniform. All other aspects of uniform remain unchanged.

Kind Regards,

Sean Watt

(Deputy Head of Preparatory School)

Hand Foot and Mouth Disease

There has been a case of this virus within the centre this week . Symptoms are a mild temperature ,sore throat, runny nose or cough and blisters on the hands, feet and mouth (and nappy area) Please keep an eye out for this , children must remain at home until all blisters have dried.

Edgerley Room

Dear Edgerley Families and Friends,

Thanks Cleo (Emerson's mum) for coming in and making Apricot Balls with us! We loved getting our hands into the sticky mixture! A very sweet delight. We have LOVED bringing in something sweet for our Show and Tell. In fact, it has helped us wonder about good sugars, bad sugars, how sugar is made, brown sugar, white sugar and so on! We had a good look at how much sugar goes into a can of Coke. We started off imagining that we could eat 1 teaspoon of sugar, then 2, then 3 and before we knew it we were starting to feel very sick. We counted 13 teaspoons of sugar !

We've enjoyed Ms Fahey's visits. She is the PAC school boys' new teacher. She has really had a fabulous time getting to know all the children. We are looking forward to our special mornings with her.

Transition Visit next week: please refer to the note sent to you from Mr Neil Andary with all the details. However a reminder that ALL Edgerley boys (including Edgerley boys who don’t normally attend on Tuesdays) will assemble in Edgerley at 8:45am. Mrs Baird and Mrs Rocca will take the boys up to their new classrooms. Mrs Rocca will stay with the boys. Mrs Baird will return to Edgerley with the children who are not attending PAC Prep School. These children will have the very important job of helping the Cooper children enjoy their Transition Visit. Don’t forget to pack your son’s drink bottle and a small container of fruit or vegetables to eat with his new class.

Don't forget to come and try the local delicacies at the Edgerley Bakery! Thanks Annie (Bruno's mum) for donating many of our materials! We specialise in sprinkle donuts, cupcakes and croissants!

See you all next week!

Coney, Juliana and Katherine

Chapple Room

We had a great time during our Show and Share morning on Thursday . Showing off our work gave us all a sense of pride and it was lovely looking back at how far we’ve come so far this year. Some of the children have worked their way over from the Langley Room, which showed an amazing journey ! The children enjoyed sharing their food with the class, but the best part by far was slowly sampling all the delicious goodies that others had brought in. It was interesting hearing each child’s description of their food and how it got from paddock to plate.

Seb M - Sausages rolls, my mum made them with some this (points to pastry). I'm going to have a taste of one.

Markis – There is meat, there it is inside of the middle

Seb Mac – It comes from a cow. Cause (because) it’s a roll. Crust, it's crust on the outside. Sugar is the green stuff. It's green sugar.

Bayley – Cookies, chocolate chip cookies. We got flour from the wheat. Mayple syrup. Choplept (chocolate) from cocoa.

Liam – It has a hole in it and you push right into it. They are sprinkle cupcakes.  We do eat them but at bedtime we don’t eat them. Everyone all eat those cupcakes.

Sebastian v – Fairy bread. With milk. We had the milk then we put it in the butter. And 100 and 1000’s. I don’t know (where they come from). It's on bread.

James W – I got sugar in them and butter and milk. Oh and eggs from chickens. Milks from cows. And sugar, where does sugar come from? It comes from a sugar cane. This animals are dangerous. Like snakes and lions they do eat you. These are from the supermarket (points to patty pan and animals).

Izabella – Its hummos and bread. Its makes of chickpeas. So you put, well you mash it up. Its Zatiki, and cucumber and garlic and sour cream it in. there is celery and cucumber. And carrot.

Markis C – These are my new cupcakes they have tatanas (sultanas) in them. They come from the bakery. Just tatanas. No flour or meat. And eggs, we made the eggs into cupcakes. And if you love it you can eat it!

Christian – It’s got raspberries in it. There is milk and eggs. I got it from the cow. They come from (rasberries) the bushes. No but there is eggs and milk.

Samuel – Chippies. They are just plain ones with a bit of salt. Well I got it from a big packets and there is still more. And the packet came from the petrol station. I think they I don’t know how they came in. They are like this kind of colour inside and when you eat them they stay in the same colour on the inside. It’s not healthy. I don’t think these chips have potatoes in them. I don’t know where they came from or how they got made.

Abhi – They have letters on them. I used milk and butter, my mum used that.

Asterios – They are jelly beans (smarties) oh no wait they are smarties. And the rice crackers have rice in them. And cheese comes from a cow.

Thank you to all the parents who took the time out of their busy schedules to provide some food, but also to come and share the morning with their child. It was very special!

Cooper Room

Dear Parents,

We have had a wonderful week testing  and strengthening many of our fine motor skills. From threading to writing our name, drawing pictures, making food in the Cooper Restaurant and creating our own pot of confetti. The children have also loved the opportunity to try out some new apps on our computers. These involve tracing , following instructions, dragging images and completing our personal jigsaws. We also tested our power of observation through creating some amazing self portraits  - wow, how we have changed and grown! We have created a display of the beautiful Cooper Room class. Please come and take a look. Many children also painted a still life of a flower arrangement from Miss Bowden. We asked the children to paint the flowers so when the flowers finally died we would all be able to remember them. The gorgeous paintings certainly will not let us forget them.

One of the favourite activities for the week was creating our favourite meal! The children have collaged their dish for all to see on our picnic rug. On Friday we made the most popular meal – pizza! The children wrote their shopping  list, visited the Cooper Room shop to purchase their ingredients and then set about making the pizza, base and all. What a delicious treat to end the week.

Kind regards

Susan and Coral

Mead Room

Dear Parents and Friends,

This week we have embraced our interest in fruit and vegetables by making some delicious fruit juice. A big thank you to Dougal for bringing in some juicy oranges for us to use! We used a hand juicer, an electric juicer and then today we used a juice fountain.

Here are some comments of our experiences...

Charlie M: This is very nice!

Angus: That's the bin... all the scraps go there.

Boasi: I want some more!

Charlie A: I can taste the orange.

Joshua: We put the fruit in it all chopped it up.

Charlie A: It made juice.

Charlie M: We had to crunch the fruit up to get he juice.

Angus: It tastes sour!

We have many more hands on cooking experiences to enjoy before the end of term! Next week we are looking forward to introducing another shop into our learning environment... do come and buy either an icecream or a fish!!

Kind Regards,

Emma , Pip and Amelia

Langley Room

Dear Langley family and friends,

We have had another busy week this week furthering our investigations into Paddock to Plate. We were lucky enough on Thursday to be able to go to Plant 13 restaurant on the bus – thanks Becki and Cole for having us!

The children were very excited to board the big bus at school. With seat belts on, we set off on our adventure. We were able to spot all sorts of things out the window – planes, trucks, buses, diggers and cranes! Upon arrival at Plant 13, Harrison’s daddy greeted us and showed us through to the community garden. There were all sorts of different fruits and vegetables growing and we even got a chance to plant some kale in one of the empty plots. We prepared the soil and divided out the seedlings before digging little holes to place them in, pressing down the soil around them and watering them carefully.

We then ventured into the restaurant where we got to taste some of the produce from the garden. We had sweet potato chips, kale, scones with jam and even some chocolate milk! We then moved to the big grown up area in the restaurant where Chef Alana showed us how to make fruit people with chopped up fruit and tooth picks. We all had a go at making our own fruit people before eating the delicious fruit. By the time we got back on the bus to go back to school, we were all very full of food and exhausted from our big adventure !

As we woke up from our sleeps we created art images of our morning and reflected on what we had done -

We tried to do our seat belt. We sit down and the bus was trying to drive. Chocolate milk and scones – Ansh

I flanted (planted) it. I flant some weeds. It’s a fruit man – Domenic

We went on the bus to the restaurant. We made men out of fruit. Dat was a bit funny – Patrick

We went around dis way, dis way and den dat way and around the round about we go to a westawant. We STOP! – Harrison R

On bu (bus) to Da-ee’s (Daddy’s) work – Harrison T

We went left, white. We met the man, the daddy. We went to the westaurant. We went for dwinks. We don’t eat the dirt, it’s yucky. We plant in the dirt. I had scones on my face – Sterling

Best wishes,

Jess, Kerry, Nicole and Emily

Kent Town Swim School

The school is excited to announce that Prince Alfred College’s newly completed RED Centre will be home to Kent Town Swim School, a commercial swim school that will be open to the public.
As part of the Princes Community, we would like to offer you a unique opportunity to book your children into prime time lessons.
Kent Town Swim School will cater for lessons ranging from 6 month old Aquababies right through the Squad Program for more advanced swimmers.
To ensure that all children are placed in the appropriate classes for their current skill level, our Kent Town Swim staff will be running complimentary assessments from Tuesday 11 June. Upon finishing your assessment, our staff will discuss enrolment options with you.
Classes will commence on Monday 1 July 2013.
Our website  www.kenttownswim.com.au   will be live from next Wednesday 12 June.
To book your assessment time or if you have any questions, please  email one of our friendly staff, or telephone (08) 8334 1285.

Signing In and Out

Please make sure you sign your child in and out each day as this is both a legal and safety requirement . If you happen to forget or are away then the staff will write the time your child arrived or left (or put A for absent )and highlight the signature space for you to sign it when you are in next.

Thankyou

CAFHS Checks

There are still a few appointment spaces if you would like your 4 year old to have a Health Check on 18/6. Please see Mrs Dry.

Langley Room

Dear Langley Families,

This week in the Langley room we have continued to discuss our unit of inquiry… Paddock to Plate. We have spent time making yummy fresh home-made bread and even made our own butter by shaking cream and marbles in a jar. Many of us were very surprised by the results and got a great workout. The children have also enjoyed exploring a freshly sheared fleece. We were able to touch and explore the fleece.

Miss Jess held up the fleece and asked the children what it was and what we might get from a sheep.

Bacon- Angus RR

Jumper- Lachlan

Broccoli- Angus RR

Beans- Clementine

It wool, it wool- Sterling

It gots jumper- Jaanav

A sheep- Angus RR

“What does it feel like?” asked Miss Jess

A sheep- Scarlett B

Soft- Clementine

A sheep- Jaanav

They peel the sheep- Clementine

Like a hair cut- Clementine

We can twist it- Angelina

I smelled it- Lachlan

Miss Jess then got a ball of wool to show the children

A string- Clementine

A sheep- Scarlett B

Wool- Lachlan

Miss Kerry then showed us how to finger knit with the ball of wool and made some beautiful bracelets for us to wear. Mr Rob noticed what we were doing and told us how his wife Hazel uses wool at home to knit hats He kindly brought them in to show us – how wonderful for us to see the whole journey of wool !

We hope you all enjoy your long weekend.

Jess, Nicole, Kerry and Emily

Can we please just remind everybody to make sure that their child is bringing a bag to the ELC each day. Their bag needs to contain two sets of spare clothes and a drink bottle of water – Thanks!

Mead Room

Dear Parents and Friends,

The highlight of our week exploring apples was making apple pie! We read our recipe and discovered the first thing we needed to do was to peel and core 8 green apples. Charlie was the first person to begin with the special machine that peels and cores apples at the same time.

I can see apple – Charlie A

That just opens it – Dougal

That’s the core – Jacob

Mine’s a long worm – David (describing the curled skin as it was peeled)

Peel, peel, it’s a peeler – Harry M

It’s a slinky – Josh

It looks like a spring – David

Jock began his turn. He turned the handle one way and the skin began to peel off. Then he turned it the opposite direction and the skin went back on!!

There goes the cement mixer – said Toby as the machine began again

I want to eat the noodles – Jock (describing the curled apple peel)

It’s like a snake – Harry M

We then began to cook the apple in an electric fry pan with lemon juice, butter, sugar and cinnamon………….

Mrs McKenzie explained that the lemon juice stops the apple from going brown.

It looks like soup – said Olympia as the butter melted into the sugar

It’s very bubbly and kind of water – Dougal

What happened to the sugar? – asked Mrs McKenzie

It gets all mixed up to bubbly – Tom

It smells like yummy – Olympia

What will happen to the apples when you cook them? Asked Mrs McKenzie

Dey will go soft – Tom

It so yummy – Harry B

Look at all the steam because its berry hot – Dougal

Next week we are looking forward to making both orange juice and vegetable soup.

Kind Regards,

Emma, Pip and Amelia

Cooper Room

Dear Parents,

The Cooper Room is a cooking master class. Jarrah bought in a beautiful pumpkin he had grown in his garden. Together we decided to use it to make yummy  Pumpkin soup. Kristian and Henry looked online with Mrs Lock to find out what we would need. The children washed, peeled and chopped all the vegetables and placed them into the pot ready to cook. The smell moved through the ELC quickly! A delicious warm cup of soup for a cold winters day.

“It tastes like pumpkins and potatoes,” Ammar

“I use this peeler machine at my Yia Yia and Papou,” Oliver

“Keep your fingers back!” said Edward using the knife

“I love pumpkin soup!” Jarrah

“Where’s the mashed potato?” asked Kristian

“It’s in the soup,” said Ammar

“The onion has an itchy skin, it makes your eyes water,” said Pauline

Our show and tell focus this week was Dairy. The children loved bringing in photo’s and item to share and taste. We all tried yoghurt, pink milk and a variety of cheeses – even smelly blue vein cheese. The children all noticed that some cheese were yellow and that one was white! Some tasted creamy and the blue vein was bitey and sour! We are so proud of the children for trying these new foods.

Kind regards

Susan and Coral

Chapple Room

Dear Chapple Room Parents and Friends,

After reading a book about farm animals, we did a quiz from the back of the book. It was lots of fun!

Why do farmers keep chickens?

James W- so sheep can lay lamb. So they can lay chicken and have chicken chicken.

Izabella – to grow up

Susannah - so they can lay their eggs

Eden – I saw a little kangaroo, a blue bird and a rat. The rat climbed onto a rock and the bird flew away and kangaroo hopped away.

Luc – it’s swinging its tail because it’s happy

How do cats make themselves useful on the farm?

Oscar – farmers don’t like rats because they poo everywhere and eat the food the cats chase them away

What a baby goats called?

Luc – a quid

Oscar- a kid

What do sheep eat in winter?

Christian- grass

Eden – something yummy

Oscar – hay

During cold weather they eat grain and hay

 What can dogs be trained to do?

Samuel- run around to put the sheep in one place

Oscar – they chase them in the ute to put them on the paddock

What do pigs do if they get an itch?

Markis – they scratch their back on the tree

Have you ever watched ducks on the pond get their food?

Max – they fish with their beaks

Luc – they dive down

We made pasta last week and discussed what components make such a yummy meal! We revisited the story of The Little Red Hen and learned about milling grains and the process of making flour. It was great fun!

Next week we will be exploring fruits and vegetables, rice and grains. We will be making pancakes and having a pancake kitchen in the classroom.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Chapple Room Team

Edgerley Room

Dear Edgerley families and friends,

Week 6 wrapped up just like that! We have had a very busy day which started off with Archie's mum Miranda sharing with us her recipe for Savoury Muffins. We discussed which ingredients were in it , where they come from and of course indulged in sharing them. Thank you Miranda!

As we have been so keen on crystals, we have started making our own! Check out our Crystal Experiment table but remember the children know that it's "FOR YOUR EYES ONLY!" We cant wait to check them out after the long weekend and see how much crystal we've made. Oh we are going to be so rich!

Ms. Veltmeyer had a really cool project with us too! We were able to make our own Sensory Hair Gel pack and we got to have stickers at the end of it too!

We have been so keen on working on our number counting and recognition and even measured how many bottle tops we need to use to see how tall we are!

Please check your pigeon hole for information regarding our upcoming Number Excursion and invites for our Edgerley Graduation.

Next week's show and tell item is something sweet so start checking out your fridge and pantry for a cool item to bring.

Have a wonderful long weekend.

Katherine, Coney and Juliana