Princesses Tea Party

What a wonderful morning we had celebrating Mother’s Day! The children were thrilled to have their Mum in the classroom! There was so much to do - engaging in all sorts of experiences – reading books, doing puzzles, building with blocks and creating tiaras. Oh! And don’t forget the Pamper Parlours…. there were some beautifully painted nails and luxurious moisturiser applied.  It was such an amazing time for the children to spend special moments with the most fabulous women in their lives!  

Sebastien H – “It was Mother’s Day, my favourite thing was putting nail polish on me and mum.”

Regan – “Mum drew a monster with me.  I was happy Mum was here.”

Teddy – “I paint Mummy’s nails, and mine too!”

Oliver W – “I maked her a crown. She feels sparkly with her crown.”

Charliese – “A crown with Mummy… put on my head.”

Parker – “I liked having food and playing and having biscuits and Mummy!”

Zoe G  - “I made a crown with Daddy for Mummy because she couldn’t come to school.”

Paxton – “I just eat some cakes. I feel happy with Mummy.”

Oscar – “We had pink milk. Mum came because it was Mother’s Day.”

Joshua B – “My favourite thing was playing with Mummy and eating snacks. I felt

really happy ‘cos I had Mum. I love Mummy.”

Freddy  - “My Mummy came.”

Abi F – “I liked to do Mummy’s crown.”

Riani – “I did some gluing.”

Poppy – “I made her a pen and pencil box for her work. I made a fancy crown for her!”

Saatvik – “I like making the crown with the glue with Mummy and Kartik.”

Vivienne – “Fixing Mummy’s little toe. Mummy had blood. I got bandaid for him.” (in the hospital dramatic play area!)

Wolf – “I made her a tiara, and she looked at my folder with me, and I painted her nails.”

Lotti – “I ate fruit and snacks.”

Jack W – “I did love the cakes, Mummy had her fingernails pink.”

Finally, thank you to all the Mums who made a donation to this years chosen charity, The National Breast Cancer Foundation. We have added the Term 1 birthday cake contributions making a grand total of $479 so far.   We will have a donations box in the foyer for another week, so please give generously.

Hoping all our ELC Mums had a very Happy Mother’s Day!

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Edgerley

This week the children have been very busy exploring the new learning experiences that have been offered within the Edgerley classroom. The children have been exploring their varied interests and helping the educators set up new play spaces as their play evolves.

You may have noticed that we have a jungle in our classroom, complete with trees, long wavy grass, animals and environments built from Duplo and blocks. This space has been very popular and will continue to evolve over the coming weeks as we work together to form deeper understandings.

The Edgerley restaurant has also been very busy. You would not believe it but our restaurant fridge broke down and required a number of ‘fix it men’ to make it work again. Now that the restaurant is back up and running the children have created their own menu and are working together to make the restaurant run as efficiently as possible.

On Thursday a large group of the Edgerley children enjoyed digging for treasure. They discovered a variety of different sized rocks (gems, gold) in the garden. Together we washed and cleaned the rocks in order to have a closer look.

We look forward to what next week brings. Have a lovely weekend Edgerley Families and Friends.

Kind Regards,

Amelia, Emma and Ty

Cooper

The weeks are flying by this term! It must mean that we are very busy. Our Princesses Tea Party was a fantastic morning. Thank you to the mums that made it on Monday, it was a very special event for the children, as I’m sure it was for you too.

On Tuesday we went for a walk the secret garden located in the senior school. The children had the opportunity to explore the very leafy new environment. We each chose a leaf to bring back to the ELC to have a closer look. We had a wide variety of coloured leaves, such as brown, red, yellow, pink, combination of red and green, orange and green. We placed the leaves in a table and according to their colour and counted how many leaves we had in each column.

Thank you to the families that brought in boxes for the Cooper room. Boxes are a versatile resource and the children have transformed them into some amazing and imaginative creations. It is great to see their vision of what they would like to make come to life and to talk about it with the children through the process of construction. The children have been sharing their constructions with the class and explaining what they had created and how it was used. There have been a range of items created such as a machine that goes in the water to find hurt animals when it’s foggy, to a beautifully and carefully decorated jewellery box for special treasures. It is lovely seeing the children’s vision of what they wanted to create and to see it take form.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Love,
Miss Gilbert and Miss C

Angwin

Dear Angwin families

At the beginning of the week we welcomed all the Mothers into our class to share morning tea and a play with their child, it was a special way to start our week. As the week progressed we had some exciting show and tell stories: 

>Will described his trip to Bali and now we all want to jump on a plane to a sunnier country, 

>Sidney shared his beehive that his dog Bill had eaten a corner of and

>Jack shared his paper doll story to which all the children are making their own paper doll cut outs in the classroom. 

We have continued playing games, building structures from mobilo (including Teddy’s pelican rescuer) and role playing Mums and Dads in the home corner.  We even expanded on the Greek egg cracking tradition from last week by each day completing one step (first hard boiling eggs, then dying eggs, then drying them) to be able to do some more Greek Easter egg cracking as the children enjoyed it so much.

Love Miss Bowden, Miss Cass and Wenting 

Wilkins

Dear Wilkins friends and family,

To all the beautiful mum's that were able to make it to this year's Princesses Tea Party we hope you had a wonderful time and thank you to those who kindly donated to the Breast Cancer Foundation. It was wonderful to see the children spoiling you all, and we are sure those who had their nails painted by our Wilkins friends have never had them look better!!!

This week the weather has limited us to utilising our classroom and other indoor areas, especially the workshop. We have been working on our fine and gross motor skills by using scissors, threading beads, stacking pegs and sorting different sized pompoms. The children have worked together to create 'castles' made from blocks (Isla and Billy), train lines for us to escape from 'monsters' (Xavier and Samuel) and 'getaway cars' (Tom and GiGi) using hoops. It has been wonderful watching the dramatic play scenarios this week as it shows signs of the children building strong relationships by interacting with one another to share their vivid imaginations.

Finally we also celebrated Stirling's 3rd birthday. We named our class pet geckos. We thought long and hard about what to name our special friends and came up with..... Gusto and Garry!!!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Jess, Mrs Nicole, Miss Georgia, Miss Ellen  and Miss Kim