Princes ELC

PRINCE ALFRED COLLEGE EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

An environment designed to foster creativity, provoke questions, provide challenges and celebrate the achievements of young children. We foster the development of integrity, curiosity, confidence, compassion and Christian principles.We encourage relationships of shared responsibility and mutual respect. We believe in fun and the joy and importance of childhood. We ensure an environment filled with a sense of humour, love of play and exploration, and a sense of community.

Friday, March 26, 2010

In the Classrooms

Langley
The Langley children have been very excited about the ten baby chicks that have hatched out of our eggs. We have been visiting them in small groups this week where we have been doing observational drawings of them. Some children have even been brave enough to have a hold or a pat! We were also very lucky to have our Grandies come and visit us this week. It was lovely to be able to show them all the wonderful work we have been doing this year and sing them our special song that we have been practicing. Some of our children wore orange to kindergarten on Tuesday as we celebrated Harmony Day. We have been creating paper people chains using paint and collage materials and continue to talk to the children about the importance of caring for our friends and family.
Kind regards,
Jess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer

Mead
Dear Mead Room Parents,
We celebrated our Grandies and how much they mean to us this Wednesday. Our special Grandies came in to our centre and listened to us as we sang 'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes', a Chinese colour song, and a special surprise Grandies Song.
We then spent time together looking around our classrooms, outside areas and at our wonderful art exhibition. It was a very memorable day.
Best Wishes,
Emma, Susan and Penny

Cooper
On Tuesday the ELC children celebrated Harmony Day with the Junior Primary. Many came in orange and looked fantastic! The children made orange pinwheels as part of the celebration and we joined in the older children's chapel service where we heard about the meaning of harmony and the reason for the day. (However, we may need to further clarify this as one of the children was heard to ask, "When do we get to eat the honey for Honey Day?"!!) We also listened to the older boys singing, which received a round of applause from some of the Cooper children! Finally we all joined together for a photo of everyone in their orange. This was a lovely chance for the two parts of the school to get together and the Cooper boys enjoyed being a part of such a big event... even without the honey!
Kind regards,
Ali, Susan and Sue

Chapple
We have had another fun week with the chickens. Having them so close to us has enabled us to paint, draw and observe the chicks as they have grown and changed. It was great being able to hold them and touch them, even if some of us were a little scared. We have also had a busy week with Harmony Day and Grandies Day. It was lovely having our Grandies come to see our amazing art work, and the children valued being able to show these very important people proudly around the centre. The Grandies were very generous and all but two books were purchased to go into our library! We are looking forward to the Easter Bonnet parade and the egg hunt next week.
Thank you for a wonderful term.
Have a lovely Easter!
Alexandra and Juliana

Edgerley
Wow, what a wonderful week! We really enjoyed having the grandies in our Kindy.
“I really liked having the grandies yesterday” said Ethan the following day
“We could have them in our kindy again” said Henry
“Yeah, ‘cause they were fun” added William
We hope to see lots more of you, thankyou for coming to our special day.
Kind Regards
Mel and Rosalie