Mead
We have had a busy week in the Mead Room. Since the children are getting so good at signing themselves in and out each day we have had fun writing our names on the light table using shaving foam! It has been fun using our finger as our pencil and exploring this sensory challenge.
Our focus for story books has turned from 'The Little Gingerbread Man' to 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. Supporting this interest we have porridge, beds and chairs in our home corners which are being used by the children with alot of entertaining dialogue.
We have also been practicing our Nativity songs and the children are doing an amazing job learning the words. Please make sure Thursday the 18th is booked in your diaries to come along and watch the performance.
Best wishes,
Emma, Emma and Susan
Cooper
At Morning Meeting on Wednesday we read the story of Elmer, the colourful patchwork elephant. The children enjoyed this story so much that some of them chose to create their own Elmers with paint and collage at the easel. They painted elephant bodies, legs, tails and long trunks and stuck on lots of bright coloured collage pieces then retold the story in their own words…
“An Elmo, he got a big tummy, he got spots, them there” said Daisy pointing, “and stripes.”
“Elmer changed the colours. He used the rain to do it. Not grey – green, blue, red, purple. Really, really colourful!” Jasmine told us.
“The other elephants put spots on him. The storm comes and washed it” said Erin.
We have been practising for our Nativity every day and it has been great to hear all the children reciting their line so well (thank you for your help at home!). If you have not done so already, please remember to send in your child’s named black top and bottoms ready for the dress rehearsal on Wednesday.
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
Chapple
We had 22 big boys and 1 very grown up schoolgirl from Chapple Room who ventured up to the Prep School to visit and use the big toilets, play in the Reception playground and meet the Reception teachers! We LOVED it! It was a really positive experience and we look forward to the coming weeks where we will get used to our future surroundings even more.
Our Monday Number Treasure Hunt was a real highlight! We very excitedly set off from the ELC and made our way up to Bunnings. Along the way we saw hundreds of numbers.
“I thought it was a little bit boring before we started but then it got really exciting!” Regan exclaimed.
“Saw number 2. It was fun. Saw number 21,” told Zac.
“It was exciting because we found a lot of numbers. We found the 1 a lot more than zero,” Katie perceptively explained.
“I liked it. I was hunting down the numbers,” Kalan said as he pretended to use a detective’s magnifying glass.
“It was good because daddy and Kalan found lots of numbers,” Connor was proud to say.
Back in class we counted up all the numbers and made a giant graph of how many of each number we saw! We saw the number 1, nineteen times! Thank you to Cheryl, Adam, Darryl and Marnie for accompanying us on this wonderful trip!
“It shows we found 5, 5 times. And 9, 9 times. That’s funny!” Olin shared.
Sebastian drew the fact, “We saw number 1, 19 times.”
“The 2nd winner was number 4,” piped in Max.
“And the 3rd was 0,” Tyler joined in on the conversation.
“I can see that 6 has the not maniest,” Philippe was quick to tell.
Kyle said, “Also 7, because 6 has got 1, 2, 3, 4. And 7 has got 1, 2, 3, 4.”
We’ve also found that we have 23 young authors in our class – it’s the Chapple students! We’ve been very busy illustrating our own books and telling our stories to the teachers while they write the words. Please come in and read our stories – they are quite special and it’s surprising at how original they are!
Edgerley
Edgerley students observe people in our community using numbers for purpose on our Number Hunt Excursion
