In The Classrooms

Mead
It has been a busy week at the Mead Medical Centre this week!"Jade's not feeling well" said Dr Zachary, "We're the doctor. Charlie's a doctor. Nicholas is a doctor and I'm a doctor". "Can you say aahh?" Dr Zachary asked the patient, leaning over her as she lay on the hospital bed."Aahh" said Jade, looking pale and unwell."Let me check your ear" Dr Nicholas said as he approached, "oh no, not better yet" he confirmed after taking a look.Dr Zac came back to Jade and asked "You feeling better Jade"?Jade shook her head and lay back down on the hospital bed."I'm going to check your ear" said Dr Ryan as he picked up the phone to make a call, "OK, she's all fixed. Yep, all done. That was my mum" he told everyone."Who's sick?" asked Dr Henry as he entered the Mead Medical Centre with a stethoscope around his neck."I'm not. I'm the doctor!" clarified Dr Charlie
Kind regards,
Emma, Susan, Penny and Kate


Cooper
Inspired by Matisse's painting The Goldfish Bowl this week, the Cooper boys have been creating all kinds of fishy things. They have used sponge brushes to create their own goldfish pictures, put together marine puzzles and played with sea creature finger puppets at the light box. A small group of boys also created a large boat harbour with the blocks and other construction materials, fabric, toy boats and sea creature figure toys. The harbour had a "storm catcher" and a lighthouse and there were even people fishing from the jetty. Louie told us about them, "These people are safe up here, they can't go in without bathers. You need bathers to go swimming." We were very impressed with the children's extensive marine knowledge and how keen they were to share this with us and their friends
Kind regards,
Ali, Susan and Sue

Edgerley
This week we were finally able to walk to the Botanic Gardens to explore three different lily ponds and compare them to the art work we have seen by Claude Monet about water gardens.
The boys were very enthusiastic and resilient as we waked towards the wine centre and into the back of the gardens. We first stopped at a small lily pond filled with lily pads. A few flowers were beginning to open up but we couldn’t see any frogs, no matter how hard we looked. Then we visited the waterlily glass house to see the huge lily pads from the Amazon. We noticed that these pads had big spikes underneath them and wondered what they might be for? We will have to find out when we get back to Kindy. Finally we visited the lotus pond. This pond had big tall lily pads that stretched up into the air and some funny seed pods pointing towards the sun. The children thought they looked like aliens or watering cans. Edgerley students will illustrate what they discovered using craypas and drawing ink in the coming week.
Kind regards
Mel and Rosalie