Langley
We have done so much investigating and talking about shadows over the last couple of weeks and now the children are spontaneously spotting them in the yard as they play. We had some jumbo chalk outside during the week when some of the children decided to trace around their shadows that they found on the ground. We discovered it was a bit tricky because you had to try and keep really still otherwise your shadow moved as well.
“They’re black” Gabe told us as we spoke about the shadows
“They go big” added Hannah
We have furthered our interest into objects getting bigger when you put them on the overhead by tracing around our giant hands and painting and collaging them black just like they are on the wall.
Kind regards
Jess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer
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Mead
Dear Mead Room Parents,
The real interest of the week was in shadows. This began with the overhead projector and performers on the stage creating various shadows. We read some books and had some discussions about light, what makes light and shadows. On Wednesday we decided to grab the opportunity (with good weather) and head out for a shadow walk around the school.
'Look at the shadow of the pole' Ryan shouted excitedly as we headed out the ELC doors.
'I'm making my shadow dance' Charlie H told everyone.
'Excuse me Sam, you're stepping on my shadow' Jade told Sam.
'Here's the sun, it came up. Now I can see my shadow' Zac proudly told us.
'My shadow is looking at me' Daniel noticed.
'I can see my hair in my shadow' Clementine commented as she looked at her shadow.
As we returned to the ELC after our shadow walk a group of children were holding hands.
'Look how long our shadow is' Sam commented on the group shadow.
'Do you think it will fit through the door?' Jesse asked.
Best wishes,
Emma, Susan and Emma
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Cooper
Tuesday afternoon was lovely and sunny so the Cooper children got out into the ELC vegie patch with the Langley children, Miss Jess and Mrs Blake. We turned the soil, which is lovely and wet after the winter rain, and had lots of fun digging big holes. We planted some strawberries from Mr Rob's own garden, covered them with soil and watered them in. The children discussed how much they like to eat strawberries and Oliver said "I like them in jam". Maybe Mr Rob will turn our strawberries into something delicious for us to eat!
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
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Chapple
As part of the Chapple reading program, the students were exposed to the letter ‘p’ this week. We have been able to recognise it in many places around our school and we can all list numerous things that start with ‘p’. We’ve integrated our maths this week by making our own pizzas using various 2D shapes and describing the properties of those shapes. Not only this, but we decided that we would give reading a go and read a book together as a class.
‘Monster Party’ is a big book that all the Chapple students have loved reading. We love to incorporate the actions as the little monsters fly, sing, dance and jump like a kangaroo into jelly! The exciting part was when we all joined in reading the book together. We were all able to ‘read’ the words. At the end of the book, Mrs Baird said in a voice showing how impressed she was, “You actually read that book! You were all reading! Well done!”
To which Luke cleverly replied, “But we were only reading the words because you’re reading them with us.”
“Hmmmm…” said Mrs Baird, “All right then, how about you all read it again and I won’t say anything?”
“Yes!” shrieked all the Chapple students. “Let’s do it! We can do it!”
And so they did. The Chapple Room read the book ‘The Monster Party’ from beginning to end with no teacher help.
Chapple Parents, please come in and share this book with your child, along with ‘Tough Boris’. We can read ‘Tough Boris’ to you using our sequencing story cards and also our story prop box! Also, see our fabulous shadow paintings!
Kind regards,
Kate and Juliana
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Edgerley
Edgerley children continued their interest in all things alight this week by creating cellophane fires on the overhead projector and a rushy red fire engine to get them to the fire. There were lots of negotiations around how many firemen could fit in the engine at one time.
We harvested broccoli and beetroot with the children from Chapple from our vegetable garden. Mr Wagenfeller was thrilled to see our great heads of green broccoli and put them safely in the fridge for lunch next week. We carefully cut and peeled our beetroot for beetroot dip and watched our hands turn purple… “no, it’s maroon like our uniform!” clarified Louie. We are looking forward to enjoying our Princes ELC dip on biscuits!
Regards
Mel and Rosalie.JPG)
We have done so much investigating and talking about shadows over the last couple of weeks and now the children are spontaneously spotting them in the yard as they play. We had some jumbo chalk outside during the week when some of the children decided to trace around their shadows that they found on the ground. We discovered it was a bit tricky because you had to try and keep really still otherwise your shadow moved as well.
“They’re black” Gabe told us as we spoke about the shadows
“They go big” added Hannah
We have furthered our interest into objects getting bigger when you put them on the overhead by tracing around our giant hands and painting and collaging them black just like they are on the wall.
Kind regards
Jess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer
Mead
Dear Mead Room Parents,
The real interest of the week was in shadows. This began with the overhead projector and performers on the stage creating various shadows. We read some books and had some discussions about light, what makes light and shadows. On Wednesday we decided to grab the opportunity (with good weather) and head out for a shadow walk around the school.
'Look at the shadow of the pole' Ryan shouted excitedly as we headed out the ELC doors.
'I'm making my shadow dance' Charlie H told everyone.
'Excuse me Sam, you're stepping on my shadow' Jade told Sam.
'Here's the sun, it came up. Now I can see my shadow' Zac proudly told us.
'My shadow is looking at me' Daniel noticed.
'I can see my hair in my shadow' Clementine commented as she looked at her shadow.
As we returned to the ELC after our shadow walk a group of children were holding hands.
'Look how long our shadow is' Sam commented on the group shadow.
'Do you think it will fit through the door?' Jesse asked.
Best wishes,
Emma, Susan and Emma
Cooper
Tuesday afternoon was lovely and sunny so the Cooper children got out into the ELC vegie patch with the Langley children, Miss Jess and Mrs Blake. We turned the soil, which is lovely and wet after the winter rain, and had lots of fun digging big holes. We planted some strawberries from Mr Rob's own garden, covered them with soil and watered them in. The children discussed how much they like to eat strawberries and Oliver said "I like them in jam". Maybe Mr Rob will turn our strawberries into something delicious for us to eat!
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
Chapple
As part of the Chapple reading program, the students were exposed to the letter ‘p’ this week. We have been able to recognise it in many places around our school and we can all list numerous things that start with ‘p’. We’ve integrated our maths this week by making our own pizzas using various 2D shapes and describing the properties of those shapes. Not only this, but we decided that we would give reading a go and read a book together as a class.
‘Monster Party’ is a big book that all the Chapple students have loved reading. We love to incorporate the actions as the little monsters fly, sing, dance and jump like a kangaroo into jelly! The exciting part was when we all joined in reading the book together. We were all able to ‘read’ the words. At the end of the book, Mrs Baird said in a voice showing how impressed she was, “You actually read that book! You were all reading! Well done!”
To which Luke cleverly replied, “But we were only reading the words because you’re reading them with us.”
“Hmmmm…” said Mrs Baird, “All right then, how about you all read it again and I won’t say anything?”
“Yes!” shrieked all the Chapple students. “Let’s do it! We can do it!”
And so they did. The Chapple Room read the book ‘The Monster Party’ from beginning to end with no teacher help.
Chapple Parents, please come in and share this book with your child, along with ‘Tough Boris’. We can read ‘Tough Boris’ to you using our sequencing story cards and also our story prop box! Also, see our fabulous shadow paintings!
Kind regards,
Kate and Juliana
Edgerley
Edgerley children continued their interest in all things alight this week by creating cellophane fires on the overhead projector and a rushy red fire engine to get them to the fire. There were lots of negotiations around how many firemen could fit in the engine at one time.
We harvested broccoli and beetroot with the children from Chapple from our vegetable garden. Mr Wagenfeller was thrilled to see our great heads of green broccoli and put them safely in the fridge for lunch next week. We carefully cut and peeled our beetroot for beetroot dip and watched our hands turn purple… “no, it’s maroon like our uniform!” clarified Louie. We are looking forward to enjoying our Princes ELC dip on biscuits!
Regards
Mel and Rosalie
