In the Classrooms

Langley
We have had an opportunity to have a closer look at some of our feathered friends this week courtesy of The Nature Education Centre. The children have been fascinated with the features of the parrots; the claws and the beaks and the texture of the feathers. We have recorded the children’s thoughts and used paints to represent our discoveries.
“There’s his claws. He’s a sharp birdie. A birdie, it colour, the colour on it” Ryan observed.
“It feels like soft. He’s got big teeth. Does he want to talk? All the feet not working, they’re not working. Those ones are kind feathers” said Alec.
“It’s got claws and eyes and a beak. He’s tired. Its soft feathers, blue, blue and dreen (green)” Ruby told us.
“The bird not moving because they don’t have any batteries” Tommi suggested!
We look forward to further observing our live feathered friends around the center!
Kind regards,Jess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer

Mead
"I'm writing a letter to my Uncle Bob the Builder" Ollie said as he busily wrote at our writing table.
"I'm making my very own book", Henry told us.
Many letters, books and other literary forms have been written this week as the Mead children have really explored and practised their letter formation, and used their imagination in many different ways. The children are also loving signing in and out as they arrive and depart the room, in the 'Sign in book'.
"If I draw some lines I can write really neatly now," Charlie H proudly exclaimed!
"I can't forget to sign in every day, otherwise you wont know I am here!" Ryan reminded us.
Emma, Susan and Emma

Cooper
In Cooper we have been reading the story Witch Witch Please Come to My Party, a repetitive story with many fantasy characters. This started the children thinking about parties and invitations. Several children played at the writing table making invitations (in their three year old writing)...
"It’s for a picnic" explained Erin, "at eight thirty."
"For my Mum and Dad. A show" said Daisy deciding it would be at six o'clock.
"Show, show" exclaimed Fergus.
"It’s an invitation... for Maya when it’s her birthday" said Jasmine. "How do you say 'Love from Jasmine'?" she asked as she wrote.
The children drew pictures and decorated their invitations and stuck photos of themselves on. They folded the invitations and put them in envelopes and remembered to write the name of the guest on the front. We have displayed our writing work in the room - the children have proudly been showing their friends and have inspired even more invitation making!
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan

Chapple
This week in the Chapple Room we have been talking about what it means to be a good friend. A good friend is someone who lets you join in, is kind and thinks about you, isn’t bossy and when you decide on things together. We’ve also had a wonderful sharing our favourite storybooks with each other during Show and Tell time. One of the most surprising finds was that some books don’t have illustrations, but you can make your own pictures in your head while you read them! Chapple children have been learning to write numbers and also to recognise numbers in our environment and understand why they are there. This week we all thought about the numbers on our mail boxes and drew pictures and wrote the numbers.

Edgerley
This week in Edgerley we have been very thoughtful authors, writing story’s for books that are sad, happy and non-fiction. Here are some of our titles.

Sad
“Grandma and Grandpa Died” by Aadi
“Little Black Riding Hood Gets the Fox” by Lachlan F

Happy
“The DJ” by Jamison
“Little Thomas and Other Stories” by Lachlan Th
“My Daddy and My Family” by Nickolas
“The Night Garden Tom and Jerry” by Francesco
"Thomas the Tank Engine and the Eastern Rosella” by Aadi

Non-Fiction
“Dougal” by Eddie
“Tris and Brian’s Wedding” by Jamison

We also finally created our own real wedding cake with five layers. It was super yummy and just the thing for our afternoon wedding.
Kind regards
Mel and Rosalie