In the Classrooms

Langley
The Langley children have been role playing in our Langley farm shop this week, purchasing a range of farm products; milk and eggs and all sorts of fruit and vegetables. To further consolidate our farm knowledge, the children have been searching through catalogues and magazines for foods that come from the farm. The children have been practicing their fine motor skills by cutting out the pictures and pasting them on to paper. The children have also been very excited about “writing” this week. They are beginning to learn that the marks that they make on the page can have meaning for others.
“Wat dat say? It say apple!” said Sebastian M
“Look I write my name” said Daisy
Kind regards,
Jess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer

Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
Our six legged visitors have caused a great deal of interest in the Mead Room this week. Here are some of the observations that we made:
They brown. Zachary
They got one, two, three, four, five, six legs. Jade
Them eat green leaves. Henry
Leaves from an insect tree. Ryan
It tickle my skin. Ollie
It soft. He walking (up my arm). I a little bit not scared. Ryuta
We got a big one and a little one. It wont eat us. Zachary
I don't like it any more. It hurt me. Sam
(I want to hold the....) Small one. Lihang
We look forward to a busy final week of Term 2 next week!
Best Wishes,
Emma, Susan and Emma

Cooper
In Cooper we have been growing little crops of oats, canola, barley and wheat in pots this term. We have been talking about the food that is produced from these grains. Recently, while we were reading a non-fiction book about wheat we found out that pasta is made with flour that comes from wheat, which lead Carmine to suggest that his Mum could come in and make pasta for us. On Wednesday Carmine's Mum and Yia Yia joined us in Cooper to make the pasta. We watched with great interest as they mixed eggs and then water into flour and this turned into dough, "There's eggs from a chicken" spotted Aggie. They kneaded and kneaded the dough and the boys all felt what it was like and then it was time for it to go through the pasta machine. Everyone was fascinated to see the dough becoming so long and flat, "You just rip the dough apart and you put it in and it turns into long" explained Carmine. The pasta was cut into long fettucine pieces which we cooked and ate with some parmesan cheese and a little parsely from the vegie patch. Yum! Thank you to our two fantastic pasta master chefs for the demonstration!
Kind regards,
Ali, Susan and Sue

Chapple
This week in Chapple we have set up the overhead projector with magnetic letters as a means of extending phonetic awareness. We have been practising writing our names, reading simple words and sounding out. Some Duplo letters have also been available to use with the construction projects. There has been a lot of interest and excitement about 'reading' words and making new words. On Wednesday, when Sam's grandparents came in to make 'Flopsy' the scarecrow with us, the word scarecrow was put on the overhead projector. The class sounded out the letters and then read the word together. These letters were then rearranged by one of the children to make a new word...He was very proud as he looked up on the wall at his new word! Come into our room and see his writing.
Thanks
Chapple Room Team

Edgerley
Dear Parents,
We have continued to be authors extraordinaire this week, creating more stories about the origins of foodstuffs. Our interest in autumn leaves has continued and we are now looking at the leaf veins by pressing them in clay…could they be the reason the leaves have changed colour? hmmmm!
Kind Regards
Mel and Rosalie