In the Classrooms

Langley
The Langley children have had a wonderful time investigating the colours of autumn this week. We have collected autumn leaves from the yard and looked at all the different colours. We then moved them to the light table to examine them more closely. We also placed them under tracing paper and used crayons to create some leaf rubbings. Our easels and paints went on an adventure outside as we stood under the autumn trees and used them as inspiration for our artwork. The children described their paintings;
“I’ve got lellow on dere, me make a tree” said Joshua W
“Branch and lellow leaves” said Henry
“It’s got lots of red ones up there” said Zac looking up at the tree
“Dat wed” said Oliver W
Kind regards,
Jess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer

Mead
We have had juicers and squeezers in the Mead kitchen this week. We bought some oranges and lemons on our excursion to the Adelaide Central Market. The children have had fun exploring how to make juice and how to peel an orange ............

'I'm making some more. It was nummy' Ollie said licking his lips.
'It tastes like orange' Ryan commented.
'We like dose' Ollie said.
'Mine tastes sour' Ryan added.

The excursion to the Central Markets was a wonderful experience. Thank you to all the parent helpers. We will be dining out on the memories for quite some time and it has inspired a lot of action in the Mead Bakery/Kitchen and the Mead Market in our classroom!
Cheers,
Emma, Susan and Emma

Cooper
The Cooper children really enjoyed their trip to the Central Market on Tuesday. Before we left, the group wrote a shopping list of fruit to buy so that we could make a fruit salad for afternoon tea. At the market we looked around at all the different kinds of food for sale, smelled all the different aromas, and tasted many different fruits (thank you to the Fred McMahon stall!). The boys noticed many things and commented on the many different products available. "Some fruit” said Jack, “the man was mixing it making apple juice" and Aggie said, “I liked the tomatoes and strawberry cake.” We purchased grapes, watermelon and pears and brought them back to the ELC where we cut them and put them in our fruit salad. It was delicious! A big thank you to all the Mums and Dads who joined us and helped us on this excursion.
Kind regards,
Ali, Susan and Sue

Chapple
Hairdressing has been very popular in Chapple Room this week. Almost everyone was involved- as a customer, cutter or stylist! There were some very interesting styles! It was a very busy, but calming way to end the days as we approach the end of term. It also created a wonderful opportunity for some creative imaginative play. 'Let me show you the back.', 'Do you like the clips?', and 'I just need to spray it now.' were some of the things being said. We also had a fantastic trip to the Central Markets. After returning, children were involved in making a large fruit salad, which they later enjoyed for afternoon tea. Thank you to the parents who came with us, you were greatly appreciated!
We will be making juice next week. If you would like your child to participate, please send a piece of citrus fruit to school with them.
Thanks
Chapple Room Team

Edgerley
Dear Parents,
After weeks of playing in our own market we finally got to visit the Adelaide Central Market and see a real market in action. We were amazed at the things we saw and smelt. We met Tom the fruiterer and listened to him shouting out banana prices to his customers. He let us taste lots of different fruit including nashi and persimmon. We saw mouldy old mushrooms, soap that smelt like ice-cream and sausages with chilli that burn your bottom!... what next!
We also watched a big yellow bulldozer knock down a shed behind our kindy this week. It was really exciting! We illustrated pictures of the diggers and then enlarged them to make them into posters. We decided to write questions on them and let our teachers stick them to the outside of the fence in the laneway for the digger driver to see.
Kind Regards
Mel and Rosalie