Langley
Wow, what a busy week we have had in the Langley Room! We have continued our investigation into fruit trees by buying three citrus trees at Bunning’s. Ty, our gardener came and helped the Wednesday children plant them and we look forward to all of the children helping us water and care for them and watch them grow. We also juiced apples and got to taste the delicious fresh apple juice. We have enjoyed riding on our hobby horse outside; there have been many trips to the farm and to the shops. We have watched some videos of farmers shearing sheep to try and determine whether they just pull the wool off the sheep or not. “It’s just like getting a haircut!” cried out Henry excitedly. We have had some visits with Malcolm the lamb this week and are looking forward to having him in the Langley room on Monday.
Kind regards,
Jess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer
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Mead
Dear Mead Room Parents,
This week in the Mead Room we have really enjoyed exploring the outside farm environment. We have a large papier mache sheep and cow from the Prep school on loan, so the children have milked the cow and used the milk in their 'sandpit cooking'.
Dress ups have been a major feature in the farm - we have had frogs, chicks and bears running around our garden and popping out of unexpected places. We have seen a lot of dramatic play taking place.
In the classroom we have painted apple trees and practiced counting by numbering apples as we put them on our apple trees. We have made anzac biscuits and started making our own grass seed heads. It will be exciting to watch their hair grow over the next few weeks. We may give hair dressing a go once their hair grows longer!
Best wishes,
Emma and Susan
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Cooper
Malcolm the lamb visited Cooper Room this week and was welcomed by some very excited little boys! We built a corral in the room and talked with the boys about how to be gentle and quiet around Malcolm as he is only one week old. The boys were very keen to look after the lamb well and were so gentle and quiet that they even read Malcolm bed time stories, sang him to sleep and showed him their Learning Portfolios! Malcolm is a very hungry lamb and at the moment he only drinks milk, so the boys all had a turn at giving him his bottle. We took him outside for a play and soon he was running around like one of the boys. What a wonderful time we had with Malcolm and the fantastic Cooper Room shepherds!
Regards
Ali and Susan
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Chapple
We have had a great week in Chapple Room! It has been frantically busy, but full of fun and excitement. We loved making our own bread and butter on Tuesday. Mr Tutt was very pleased when we took him his own plate of buttered bread for afternoon tea. Malcolm, the lamb, was also a huge success. We are looking forward to our excursion on Monday with great gusto!
Thanks
Chapple Room Team
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Edgerley
Dear Parents,
We have enjoyed all things football this week (as well as our special visit from Malcolm the sheep…thankyou Mrs Blake!). We have been investigating playing as members of teams in the playground using footballs. We played football and soccer on the back oval with Mr Bubner’s Year Ten PE class. As part of this interest in belonging to teams children have been illustrating footballers using AFL and SANFL logos. From this we decided to create our own football oval in the classroom and spent a great deal of the week working out what shape ground we play football on and what other things an oval would need.
“A footy field is a oval shape” said Ethan
“Ooh, ooh oval, it has the same sounds as ooh ooh October!” exclaimed Hector
“An oval is the shape of a rectangle” said Henry N
“No, it’s a big circle” said Cameron
“Ovals are long and then a curve and straight and then a curve,. Like this, straight, curve, straight, curve” explained Hector
“And there is a little circle right in the middle of the oval” added Henry G
“You have to put on the number 50” said Hector
“We need a fence so the ball can’t go onto the road” suggested Cameron
“We need the bit where we put when the people get their goals” added Jake
“And a place where people sit!” exclaimed Tristen
Come into our classroom to see our wonderful oval…next we get to add the players!
Kind Regards
Mel and Rosalie.JPG)
Wow, what a busy week we have had in the Langley Room! We have continued our investigation into fruit trees by buying three citrus trees at Bunning’s. Ty, our gardener came and helped the Wednesday children plant them and we look forward to all of the children helping us water and care for them and watch them grow. We also juiced apples and got to taste the delicious fresh apple juice. We have enjoyed riding on our hobby horse outside; there have been many trips to the farm and to the shops. We have watched some videos of farmers shearing sheep to try and determine whether they just pull the wool off the sheep or not. “It’s just like getting a haircut!” cried out Henry excitedly. We have had some visits with Malcolm the lamb this week and are looking forward to having him in the Langley room on Monday.
Kind regards,
Jess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer
Mead
Dear Mead Room Parents,
This week in the Mead Room we have really enjoyed exploring the outside farm environment. We have a large papier mache sheep and cow from the Prep school on loan, so the children have milked the cow and used the milk in their 'sandpit cooking'.
Dress ups have been a major feature in the farm - we have had frogs, chicks and bears running around our garden and popping out of unexpected places. We have seen a lot of dramatic play taking place.
In the classroom we have painted apple trees and practiced counting by numbering apples as we put them on our apple trees. We have made anzac biscuits and started making our own grass seed heads. It will be exciting to watch their hair grow over the next few weeks. We may give hair dressing a go once their hair grows longer!
Best wishes,
Emma and Susan
Cooper
Malcolm the lamb visited Cooper Room this week and was welcomed by some very excited little boys! We built a corral in the room and talked with the boys about how to be gentle and quiet around Malcolm as he is only one week old. The boys were very keen to look after the lamb well and were so gentle and quiet that they even read Malcolm bed time stories, sang him to sleep and showed him their Learning Portfolios! Malcolm is a very hungry lamb and at the moment he only drinks milk, so the boys all had a turn at giving him his bottle. We took him outside for a play and soon he was running around like one of the boys. What a wonderful time we had with Malcolm and the fantastic Cooper Room shepherds!
Regards
Ali and Susan
Chapple
We have had a great week in Chapple Room! It has been frantically busy, but full of fun and excitement. We loved making our own bread and butter on Tuesday. Mr Tutt was very pleased when we took him his own plate of buttered bread for afternoon tea. Malcolm, the lamb, was also a huge success. We are looking forward to our excursion on Monday with great gusto!
Thanks
Chapple Room Team
Edgerley
Dear Parents,
We have enjoyed all things football this week (as well as our special visit from Malcolm the sheep…thankyou Mrs Blake!). We have been investigating playing as members of teams in the playground using footballs. We played football and soccer on the back oval with Mr Bubner’s Year Ten PE class. As part of this interest in belonging to teams children have been illustrating footballers using AFL and SANFL logos. From this we decided to create our own football oval in the classroom and spent a great deal of the week working out what shape ground we play football on and what other things an oval would need.
“A footy field is a oval shape” said Ethan
“Ooh, ooh oval, it has the same sounds as ooh ooh October!” exclaimed Hector
“An oval is the shape of a rectangle” said Henry N
“No, it’s a big circle” said Cameron
“Ovals are long and then a curve and straight and then a curve,. Like this, straight, curve, straight, curve” explained Hector
“And there is a little circle right in the middle of the oval” added Henry G
“You have to put on the number 50” said Hector
“We need a fence so the ball can’t go onto the road” suggested Cameron
“We need the bit where we put when the people get their goals” added Jake
“And a place where people sit!” exclaimed Tristen
Come into our classroom to see our wonderful oval…next we get to add the players!
Kind Regards
Mel and Rosalie
