In the Classrooms

Langley
We have some very keen cutters in the Langley room at the moment. We are learning how to handle and control scissors using our fine motor skills.
“Do cutting?” asks Jesse each day when he comes in.
This week we have been cutting shapes in squares of paper. We have then placed them on the overhead to see what patterns we have made.
“Look, it’s up there!” said Tommi enthusiastically when his pattern appeared on the wall.
“I made a diamond” Jack informed the other children.
Alec reached up to touch Grace’s pattern that she had created.
“He can reach it!” Grace said excitedly as she watched Alec.
We have also been getting prepared for our Father’s Day Big Boys Breakfast and we look forward to spending some special time with our Dads. Just a gentle reminder, please return your Father’s Day surveys to Mrs Porter as soon as possible so that we can get them ready for display.
Kind regards Jess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer

Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
We had no little children in our room today. Even the teachers weren't there! Instead we had an assortment of story book characters busying themselves in the general Friday doings. There was great excitement as they all headed to the Prep School for a Book Week Parade. We had many animals, the Cat in the Hat, Bob the Builder, a very UGLY Wicked Witch, Dorothy (from the Wizard of Oz), and Dragon Trainers to name just a few................ it made for great dramatic play in the outside play area!!
I wonder who will turn up to the Mead Room on Monday???
Best wishes,
Emma and Susan

Cooper
The Cooper children looked great for our Book Week Parade on Friday! We had lots of pirates, a visitor from the Wiggles, wombat, lady bird and James the red engine. The children were so excited to be characters from their favourite stories and very confidently showed off their outfits on the stage in the gym. We had lots of fun playing pirates at the ELC and walking the plank on the climbing equipment - we even learnt a new pirate song. Can't wait for Book Week next year!
Kind regards,
Ali and Julia
PS: A big thank you to Miss Julia who has done a fantastic job in Cooper this week while Miss Sandow has been on holidays!

Chapple
Did you know that there is a massive storm on Jupiter which has been going for over 300 years? Did you know that if you went to Jupiter you would be crushed by the force of its gravity? Chapple has taken a keen interest in all things ‘space’ as part of our ‘Shadowlands’ Unit of Inquiry. We went to the library to borrow books about specific planets, stars, the Earth’s moon, asteroids and comets. We would just love to experience what it’s like to ‘bounce’ and ‘float’ on the moon. We do wonder how long it will take to get to the moon and some of the planets and what we would need to take.
We were very excited on Monday morning to have a special visit from Farmer Ross, one of our Grade 12 boarding students. Farmer Ross brought in 3 baby goats (kids we found out!) and he introduced the 2 boys and the one girl to us. One of the boys was called Shivers and we are still deciding on names for the other two! They reminded us a little of Malcolm the Lamb. On Thursday we celebrated our learning of the letter ‘n’ by making ‘nests’ out of sultanas, gluten-free noodles, chocolate and desiccated coconut! The chocolate was a treat – we know it’s a ‘sometimes’ food, but we got lots of goodness from the other ingredients!
Kind regards,
Kate and Juliana

Edgerley
Our exploration about dark continued this week, it has certainly proved to be a subject that is quite engaging! After so much discussion about the planet Earth and how it works we have begun to talk about the other planets that surround us.
“The sun is shining on the moon and that makes it shiny” said Louie
“There’s holes in the moon” said Noah
“Craters!” exclaimed Julian
“I think spacemen had such strong boots they made the holes” said Noah
“How did the sun get fire on it?” asked Nickolos
“It has gas inside it, it’s like car gas that goes in your car” said Julian
“The hot from the sun is going onto the Earth” said Aadi
“Onto Bali, Bali is sooooo hot” said Hugo
“No! to India!” added Aadi
Regards
Mel and Rosalie