Angwin

Dear Angwin families and families,

I hope you all stayed cool this week and did some fun indoor stuff in lieu of hitting the pool or the beach. 

This week has been yet another fun one for our small group of boys who spent their time relishing on creating, building and playing indoors and outdoors. 

We went to the rainbow playground earlier in the week. The children enjoyed such uninterrupted outdoor play, trying to catch the monster with their ‘wet power’ throwing buckets of water over them. It was great to see them working with each other collaboratively, fusing their ideas and delegating work such as pumping the water out, taking it up the playground equipment and then splashing the 'monster' down below. Mrs Rocca had the mind to not get too close :) Seeing the children confidently do this just shows their readiness for new school adventures. 

We did not let the heat bring us down this week. Instead, we counteracted it with a great play under the sprinklers, getting cool and soggy, jumping into the puddles and getting  splashed by others. Indoors, more cooperative play took place, with children planning their buildings to create stories or ‘shows’. Mrs Rocca had to watch each one and  wasn’t allowed to bring her iPad but only use the one provided by the ‘show people’  but apparently it's better for adults to “not take pictures at all but just watch so you can see everything” according to the children. I had to take permission to snap some for the blog. Amazing how spot on children can be sometimes. We really do need to listen to them more :)

Next week, the Angwin children will be spending most of their remaining days with the Edgerley children  due to our low numbers. This will give the children the opportunity to engage with other peers outside their class and start to initiate friendships with new children as a little practice for when Term 1 starts. The children will still be dropped off as normal and Mrs Rocca will transition them every morning. Thank you and stay cool over the weekend

Coney

Mead

Dear Mead Room Families and Friends,

We started off the week venturing up to the Rainbow playground with our Mattingley friends, we had a wonderful time and on the way back to the ELC - we explored the boarding house vegetable garden! We picked some lemon grass, handfuls of bright red cherry tomatoes and found 2 giant green zucchinis!

Teddy: I went down the fireman pole, really fast!

Iverson: I played hide and seek with Teddy

Zara: The tomato was yummy!!

Zahli: I liked helping to pick the zucchini

Poppy: I like tomatoes!

As the week went on, the mornings were getting hotter and hotter- so we spent our time outside running through the sprinkler, splashing in puddles and keeping cool!

Zara: I liked splashing in the water! Muddy puddles!

Cody: I liked running through the sprinkler

We created a dinosaur nature table using clay, sticks we collected from the yard, spiky pods, wooden rounds and of course, dinosaurs! We enjoyed getting our hands messy, squishing and squelching the clay, moulding all sorts of different creations!

Next week we will spend full days visiting the Chapple Room, please drop off as per normal and from 9am the Mead children will spend their day in Chapple with Miss Elodie and Miss Beth.

We hope you enjoy your weekend!

Miss Boler and Miss Beth

Wilkins

Dear Wilkins families and friends 

What a wonderful weekend we have had!

We have been lucky enough to have some beautiful weather the last few days!

Our Wilkins friends bought their bathers and swimmers to school and ran under the spinning sprinkler. What great fun this was! We enjoyed racing though the water and cooling down!

We have been enjoying some sensory play within the classroom. We have set up some bubbles in water and let the children explore the animals in the water. What great fun this has been!

We have also been enjoying painting fire works on black paper in the classroom. The children were able to tell us their experience with watching fireworks and the colours they saw.

As our children are transitioning to the Mead room, all of next week we will be having full day visits with Mrs Rocca. Miss Courtenay and Miss Ellen will be helping in the Mead room for these transitions. We ask that your child/children are here no later than 9.15am please. If you have an questions, do not hesitate to ask.

We hope you all have a cool and relaxing weekend.

Ellen, Courtenay, Melissa and Rosalie

Edgerley

Hello Edgerley friends and family!

This week has been sensational. We have had many children returning home from their holidays, and it’s been great to hear about their exciting adventures throughout places like Kangaroo Island, Malaysia, Brisbane, New Zealand, and Western Australia.

As we are sure many of you are aware, it has been a seriously warm week as we have passed the half-way point of summer. None the less, the children have been busily engaged in a variety of awesome experiences, including constructing water-ways in the sandpit, experimenting with galaxy themed playdough, going out on treasure hunts, and running wild under the sprinkler.

Here are some samples of the children’s voices while decorating biscuits on Thursday this week…

We are going to take them home - Karl

I really wanted to eat mine straight away! – Isaac S

I like the lolly that I put on, it was red – Brian

The icing felt good and cold– Ned

My lolly was red and white, and it had the biggest smell – Will A

I liked the icing, it smelt nice – James

I picked some lolly teeth. I chose them because they were the biggest lolly – Hamish

I used the red icing – Olivia

I am saving mine for my home. It will be really good - Isaac B

I like the biscuit – Alexander

Lollies! - Lucas Z

The biscuit makes me feel a little bit hungry – Samuel

The icing looks like slime – Yash

I put the lollies on, it will taste good, and the icing too - Ed

We look forward to seeing you all next week, as we wrap up our final week of the school holidays program.

Much love,

Mr Richards and Miss Jana

Mattingley

Dear Mattingley families and friends,

This week we went for a play on the Rainbow Playground. On our way back to the ELC, we explored the Boarding House vegetable garden where the children searched for the juicy, ripe, red cherry tomatoes. Those who tried the tomatoes said they were delicious. We also smelt some of the herbs growing such as the lemongrass and the mint.

In the classroom, we created a wonderfully, messy, clay animal kingdom. We placed clay and water together in a large tray and added sticks and seed pods collected from the garden. The children used their fine motor skills to mould the clay to create mountains and used water to smoothen the clay out making rivers for the animals. The children enjoyed this experience and used their imagination through role play.

The children had water play early Thursday morning. They had so much fun running through the sprinkler with their friends.

Hope you have a great weekend,

Kerry and Liana