Thankyou to all the wonderful families who have spoilt the staff with presents and treats over the last couple of weeks. We all appreciate your generosity and thoughtfulness.
We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and are able to enjoy some time off with your children !
We will be closed from tomorrow December 23rd and will return on January 9th 2012. We will also be closed for one further day on Friday January 27th due to the public holiday falling on Thursday 26th Jan .
Jeanine
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Account payments
If your Direct Debit payment is normally due between now and January 9th it will be deducted from your account late (9.1.12)due to the centre closure . The normal payment cycles will begin again from 9.1.12.
Jeanine
Jeanine
Langley Room
Dear Langley Families,
We have had a very merry week listening to Christmas carols, playing with sparkly Christmas play dough and having a relax leading up to Christmas. Thank you to Jack T who brought in the Six White Boomers story and CD to share with us; it was a big hit with the children!
We wish all our families a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you back in 2012.
Best wishes,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
We have had a very merry week listening to Christmas carols, playing with sparkly Christmas play dough and having a relax leading up to Christmas. Thank you to Jack T who brought in the Six White Boomers story and CD to share with us; it was a big hit with the children!
We wish all our families a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you back in 2012.
Best wishes,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
The Week before Christmas
We have been busy having lots of fun in the ELC, and enjoying each other’s company before we have an enjoyable break over Christmas. This week some of the children delighted in preparing some green jelly for afternoon tea for the whole centre which was well received at the end of the day…yum! They also enjoyed some face painting consisting of angels, a few Christmas trees, snowmen and Rudolph with his nose so bright was a real favourite amongst the children.
We wish Miss Mackay all the best with her new job and she will be sadly missed!
Wishing you all a very happy and safe Christmas!
See you in the new year..
Friday the 13th January is ‘Wheels Day’ ,bring a bike, scooter, pram or anything with wheels.
ELC Team
Friday, December 16, 2011
Christmas Activities
Next Tuesday the 3's and 4's will be having some Christmas themed activities and they are invited to add something "Christmassy" to their outfit for the day,
ELC Team
ELC Team
Staffing for 2012
Next year there will be a couple of changes to "who's who " in each room. At this stage our plan is as follows :
Langley
Miss Jess ,Miss Kerry ,Miss Hayley and Miss Pippa
Mead
Mrs Lock /Mrs Mckenzie , Ms Diotallevi
Cooper
Mrs Blake , Miss Caratozollo ,Miss Janine
Edgerley
Mrs Bishop/Mrs Cooper ,Mrs Nacca ,Miss Rachel
Chapple
Miss Marcus, Miss Gray
Miss Wendy Mackay will be leaving us at the end of her contract next week and taking up a Team Leader position at Il Nido Child Care Centre. She will be replaced by Miss Danielle Capes. We thank Miss Mackay for all her hard work during her stay at PAC.
Jeanine
Langley
Miss Jess ,Miss Kerry ,Miss Hayley and Miss Pippa
Mead
Mrs Lock /Mrs Mckenzie , Ms Diotallevi
Cooper
Mrs Blake , Miss Caratozollo ,Miss Janine
Edgerley
Mrs Bishop/Mrs Cooper ,Mrs Nacca ,Miss Rachel
Chapple
Miss Marcus, Miss Gray
Miss Wendy Mackay will be leaving us at the end of her contract next week and taking up a Team Leader position at Il Nido Child Care Centre. She will be replaced by Miss Danielle Capes. We thank Miss Mackay for all her hard work during her stay at PAC.
Jeanine
Visit from Santa
It's Christmas time!!
Santa made a very special trip to come visit us at the ELC, even though he was so busy at this time of year! We were all very surprised and happy to see him. It was very exciting for everyone and we all got a yummy Christmas ornament to keep. We have all spent time during the week singing Christmas songs and reading Christmas stories. We were all busy little elves making Christmas decorations and cards. Both the 3’s and 4’s decided to make delicious Christmas cupcakes. We all helped to put the mixture together, put the icing on top and then we got to eat them all up! The children explained how we made the cupcakes:
‘mix it a lot’ said Daniel B
‘use some oil’ said Aidan
‘and 2 eggs’ mentioned Max A
Santa made a very special trip to come visit us at the ELC, even though he was so busy at this time of year! We were all very surprised and happy to see him. It was very exciting for everyone and we all got a yummy Christmas ornament to keep. We have all spent time during the week singing Christmas songs and reading Christmas stories. We were all busy little elves making Christmas decorations and cards. Both the 3’s and 4’s decided to make delicious Christmas cupcakes. We all helped to put the mixture together, put the icing on top and then we got to eat them all up! The children explained how we made the cupcakes:
‘mix it a lot’ said Daniel B
‘use some oil’ said Aidan
‘and 2 eggs’ mentioned Max A
‘milk and chocolate’ added Deacon
Nathaniel suggested ‘it gets bigger and bigger in the oven’.
Nathaniel suggested ‘it gets bigger and bigger in the oven’.
ELC Team
Langley Room
The Langley children have been very keen on gardening this week and have been fascinated by the water disappearing into the soil of the lemon tree. I wonder what happens to the water once it has sunk into the soil……
The water sink and up, up, up to the leaves – Stella
Where has all the water gone? It’s gone up into the leaves now – Marcus
It’s all wet. It goes up the top quickly – Leonardo
It goes in the tree – Andre
Up the trees – Advaith
It gone, up in the tree. It up in tree – Eden
There’s no more water in there - Luc
Don’t forget we will be closed next Friday the 23rd December and will reopen on Monday 9th January.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
The water sink and up, up, up to the leaves – Stella
Where has all the water gone? It’s gone up into the leaves now – Marcus
It’s all wet. It goes up the top quickly – Leonardo
It goes in the tree – Andre
Up the trees – Advaith
It gone, up in the tree. It up in tree – Eden
There’s no more water in there - Luc
Don’t forget we will be closed next Friday the 23rd December and will reopen on Monday 9th January.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Friday, December 9, 2011
Visit from Santa
Next Tuesday (13th Dec) we are expecting a brief visit from Santa at around 12.30pm .We hope he has a little something in his sack for each of our children ! All children are welcome to come at this time but parents must stay if it is not your child's normal day
ELC Team
ELC Team
Holiday Dates
Next Tuesday,13th December is the last day of term and our Teaching staff will then be away until Tuesday Jan 31st 2012.
The ELC will be open as normal until 22nd December . We will return on January 9th but will be closed on Jan 26th (public holiday) and Jan 27th. Please let us know if your child will be away at any time over this period.
Thankyou
The ELC will be open as normal until 22nd December . We will return on January 9th but will be closed on Jan 26th (public holiday) and Jan 27th. Please let us know if your child will be away at any time over this period.
Thankyou
Roseola Virus
There was a confirmed case of this in one of the 3 year old rooms last week. It is a viral infection which begins with a high fever followed by a rash . Please watch your child for any symptoms in the next week or so. A printout about the virus is on the information cupboard outside Chapple room.
In the Classrooms
Langley
Wow what a busy week we have had this week! We have been enjoying creating and building with the big coloured bricks outside this week. We have created all sorts of structures; some have been so tall we’ve had to use the step from the bathroom to be able to reach the top to put more on!
Our big three year old children had their moving up morning in the Mead room on Tuesday and we welcomed some new friends into the Langley room for a visit. On top of this, we have also been very busy creating a special surprise to take home to put under the Christmas tree for Mum and Dad, make sure you check your child’s pigeon hole next week!
We would like to thank Miss Bethany for all her help in our classroom over the last three weeks and look forward to welcoming back Miss Kerry on Monday.
Kind regards,
Jess, Hayley, Pippa and Bethany
Mead
Through out the term we have explored school buildings, houses and community facilities. The children have talked about their own homes and what they are made of. When we went on our excursion to Lightsview we were able to see houses and an apartment building in construction. The children have been busy creating a duplo town in the Mead Room full of fire stations, police stations, schools and hospital. In preparation for our class party we constructed an edible town.
"We are really going to need a skyscraper. Careful it doesn't fall down." said Tommi
"Ree..a fire station and fire engines too. A shed for the trucks." added Leon
"What about my house?" asked Jesse. "We can make it too."
Using carefully created edible cement we constructed our buildings, starting with the walls, then the ceiling. The fire station was completed with doors open for the trucks to drive straight in and the skyscraper was four levels high!!
Kind regards
Susan, Emma and Susan
Cooper
A small group of Cooper children helped to cook playdough this week. They added and measured the ingredients in the bowl and then stirred them...
“We mixed it all together” explained Chanel.
“We put some salt in there” said Angus.
“Some oil…flour” said Toby.
“Hot water” said Sebastian M.
We decided to make our playdough a little Christmassy..
“We used green water” added Toby.
“And glitter! Glitter!” exclaimed Chanel.
The children helped to knead the dough until it was smooth and had cooled down and then had great fun making Christmas trees and other festive shapes with their hands.
Kind regards and merry Christmas,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
Congratulations Chapple boys! The boys did a fantastic job with their beautiful singing voices - they really are proud Princes Men!
Thank you once again for attending our graduation ceremony, we hope you enjoyed it as much as the boys did.
We wish you a great Christmas and a happy New Year, thank you for a wonderful year.
All our best wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
This week we continued our investigations into castles and further explored the idea of day to day life inside them. We discovered that a castles town square is called the bailey and we also found out that places inside the bailey that used fire (like bakers, kitchens and blacksmiths) had to have stone roofs because hay ones would catch on fire! We still wondered about the role of arches and on the students request took another walk to our main building to check that this wasn’t a castle inside…it was just a building, how disappointing!
We also began a new inquiry this week as Zac shared all he knew about volcanoes in Hawaii and we looked through non-fiction books to see different types of volcanoes. Will we be able to squeeze this one in before the end of term??? We can always try!
Kind regards
Mel, Pip, Rachel and Renee
Wow what a busy week we have had this week! We have been enjoying creating and building with the big coloured bricks outside this week. We have created all sorts of structures; some have been so tall we’ve had to use the step from the bathroom to be able to reach the top to put more on!
Our big three year old children had their moving up morning in the Mead room on Tuesday and we welcomed some new friends into the Langley room for a visit. On top of this, we have also been very busy creating a special surprise to take home to put under the Christmas tree for Mum and Dad, make sure you check your child’s pigeon hole next week!
We would like to thank Miss Bethany for all her help in our classroom over the last three weeks and look forward to welcoming back Miss Kerry on Monday.
Kind regards,
Jess, Hayley, Pippa and Bethany
Mead
Through out the term we have explored school buildings, houses and community facilities. The children have talked about their own homes and what they are made of. When we went on our excursion to Lightsview we were able to see houses and an apartment building in construction. The children have been busy creating a duplo town in the Mead Room full of fire stations, police stations, schools and hospital. In preparation for our class party we constructed an edible town.
"We are really going to need a skyscraper. Careful it doesn't fall down." said Tommi
"Ree..a fire station and fire engines too. A shed for the trucks." added Leon
"What about my house?" asked Jesse. "We can make it too."
Using carefully created edible cement we constructed our buildings, starting with the walls, then the ceiling. The fire station was completed with doors open for the trucks to drive straight in and the skyscraper was four levels high!!
Kind regards
Susan, Emma and Susan
Cooper
A small group of Cooper children helped to cook playdough this week. They added and measured the ingredients in the bowl and then stirred them...
“We mixed it all together” explained Chanel.
“We put some salt in there” said Angus.
“Some oil…flour” said Toby.
“Hot water” said Sebastian M.
We decided to make our playdough a little Christmassy..
“We used green water” added Toby.
“And glitter! Glitter!” exclaimed Chanel.
The children helped to knead the dough until it was smooth and had cooled down and then had great fun making Christmas trees and other festive shapes with their hands.
Kind regards and merry Christmas,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
Congratulations Chapple boys! The boys did a fantastic job with their beautiful singing voices - they really are proud Princes Men!
Thank you once again for attending our graduation ceremony, we hope you enjoyed it as much as the boys did.
We wish you a great Christmas and a happy New Year, thank you for a wonderful year.
All our best wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
This week we continued our investigations into castles and further explored the idea of day to day life inside them. We discovered that a castles town square is called the bailey and we also found out that places inside the bailey that used fire (like bakers, kitchens and blacksmiths) had to have stone roofs because hay ones would catch on fire! We still wondered about the role of arches and on the students request took another walk to our main building to check that this wasn’t a castle inside…it was just a building, how disappointing!
We also began a new inquiry this week as Zac shared all he knew about volcanoes in Hawaii and we looked through non-fiction books to see different types of volcanoes. Will we be able to squeeze this one in before the end of term??? We can always try!
Kind regards
Mel, Pip, Rachel and Renee
Friday, December 2, 2011
Chapple Graduation
Chapple Room will be having their Graduation Ceremony at 11.00am on Thursday Dec 8th . All Chapple boys and their parents (and Grandparents too) are invited to join us for this special occasion in the Town Square. (please dress your child in uniform even if it is not their day )
ELC Team
ELC Team
Staffing for 2012
There will only be one change to the Teaching staff in the ELC next year with the return of Miss Alexandra Marcus to Chapple room. All the other teachers will remain in their current classrooms.
Jeanine
Jeanine
Transition Sessions
There will be information sessions for all parents whose children are moving into Langley , Mead or Chapple rooms next year on Monday 5th December at 4pm ( parents only please). All current Mead and 3 year old Langley children will then move into their new rooms for a visit on Tuesday 6th December from 9-10.30 am . Children who do not normally attend on Tuesdays are welcome to come but parents must stay with them . Children new to Langley will also visit from 9-10 am.
The boys in Chapple room will be going up to the Prep School for their final visit on Tuesday also from 8.50 am to 10.55 am. Please send a healthy snack and drink with them. Chapple students who do not attend the ELC on Tuesdays may go straight to the Prep School Office.
ELC Team
The boys in Chapple room will be going up to the Prep School for their final visit on Tuesday also from 8.50 am to 10.55 am. Please send a healthy snack and drink with them. Chapple students who do not attend the ELC on Tuesdays may go straight to the Prep School Office.
ELC Team
Holiday Dates
Please remember to fill in the holiday booking sheets to let us know if your child will be away over the school holiday period,
Thankyou
ELC Team
Thankyou
ELC Team
New Baby
Congratulations to Amy and Steve Gavin and big brothers Elliott and Marcus on the birth of Benjamin Daniel last week !
Nativity Video
If any parent or grandparent happened to video our Nativity play last week we would love a copy so that the children could watch themselves and each other !
Jeanine
Jeanine
In the Classrooms
Langley
Ahoy me hearties! In response to Harry’s spontaneous boat role play in the sandpit last week, we have added props to the sandpit to further extend the children’s play scenarios. We have added a steering wheel, sea creatures and a sail to our boat. The children have also created, imagined and suggested some of their own props;
“Get paddles” commented Jack S retrieving the spades from the sandpit to use as paddles,
“Put sea weed” suggested Eden,
“Lobster” observed Hugo M
“I do a sail” said Jacob as he helped to create the sail for the boat,
“I’m dotting all around” commented Harry as he drew dots on the sail.
Kind regards,
Jess, Hayley, Pippa and Bethany
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
Following the Nativity, and in preparation for the festive season, the Mead children have been busying themselves in many related activities. They are printing, wrapping, drawing, painting and decorating. The children were joined by their ELC friends from other classes in a joint Christmas Tree decorating venture. Have a look as you enter the ELC foyer at our wonderful tree!
We have had discussions about what Christmas means to us.
"I love circling things in magazines that I would like from santa" -Tommi
"I like buying the Christmas turkey. I cook it!" - Jack O
"I like when I put my Christmas tree up. I already put my lights on my tree" - Milo
"I love the Christmas ham. Mmmmm!" - Sebastian
"If I am good I will get a skateboard and a guitar!" - Gabe
Best wishes and ho, ho, ho!,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
Last week we went for a walk around the Prep School and looked at the different sorts of buildings and structures there and on the way. The children were most interested in ways of going up, such as ramps, stairs and a lift that we found near the library. We also looked at shapes and patterns and the different materials that buildings are made of. This week we revisited the photos that we took on our walk and the children remembered and discussed what they had seen, then used black pen and wash paint to make pictures of the places...
“Another tennis court and I saw a gate… AND a roof – a stripy one” said Alyssa.
“The stairs, they’re brick” said Sophie.
“There’s five stairs. Up the stairs I saw some children down there” recalled Bailey.
“This is Charlie’s school. It’s where they have a lift” Finn told us.
Kind regards,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
This week in the Chapple Class we have been busy with Christmas craft and counting activities. The children have enjoyed making Santa beards and decorating Christmas trees. On Wednesday we were involved in the school assembly in the Anzac Hall where we showed a short slide show of the children's work from our Build It Up unit as well as a movie about a Building Alphabet that the children made. They did a fantastic job of singing, building and knocking the blocks down at the end to give everyone a big surprise!
We have a busy week ahead of us, please refer to the weekly diary for all the details.
Warm wishes, Suria, Sinead and Sue
Ahoy me hearties! In response to Harry’s spontaneous boat role play in the sandpit last week, we have added props to the sandpit to further extend the children’s play scenarios. We have added a steering wheel, sea creatures and a sail to our boat. The children have also created, imagined and suggested some of their own props;
“Get paddles” commented Jack S retrieving the spades from the sandpit to use as paddles,
“Put sea weed” suggested Eden,
“Lobster” observed Hugo M
“I do a sail” said Jacob as he helped to create the sail for the boat,
“I’m dotting all around” commented Harry as he drew dots on the sail.
Kind regards,
Jess, Hayley, Pippa and Bethany
MeadDear Mead Parents,
Following the Nativity, and in preparation for the festive season, the Mead children have been busying themselves in many related activities. They are printing, wrapping, drawing, painting and decorating. The children were joined by their ELC friends from other classes in a joint Christmas Tree decorating venture. Have a look as you enter the ELC foyer at our wonderful tree!
We have had discussions about what Christmas means to us.
"I love circling things in magazines that I would like from santa" -Tommi
"I like buying the Christmas turkey. I cook it!" - Jack O
"I like when I put my Christmas tree up. I already put my lights on my tree" - Milo
"I love the Christmas ham. Mmmmm!" - Sebastian
"If I am good I will get a skateboard and a guitar!" - Gabe
Best wishes and ho, ho, ho!,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
CooperLast week we went for a walk around the Prep School and looked at the different sorts of buildings and structures there and on the way. The children were most interested in ways of going up, such as ramps, stairs and a lift that we found near the library. We also looked at shapes and patterns and the different materials that buildings are made of. This week we revisited the photos that we took on our walk and the children remembered and discussed what they had seen, then used black pen and wash paint to make pictures of the places...
“Another tennis court and I saw a gate… AND a roof – a stripy one” said Alyssa.
“The stairs, they’re brick” said Sophie.
“There’s five stairs. Up the stairs I saw some children down there” recalled Bailey.
“This is Charlie’s school. It’s where they have a lift” Finn told us.
Kind regards,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
ChappleThis week in the Chapple Class we have been busy with Christmas craft and counting activities. The children have enjoyed making Santa beards and decorating Christmas trees. On Wednesday we were involved in the school assembly in the Anzac Hall where we showed a short slide show of the children's work from our Build It Up unit as well as a movie about a Building Alphabet that the children made. They did a fantastic job of singing, building and knocking the blocks down at the end to give everyone a big surprise!
We have a busy week ahead of us, please refer to the weekly diary for all the details.
Warm wishes, Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
This week in Edgerley Room we explored all things knightly. We spent a lot of time exploring non-fiction books about castles and knights and made some interesting discoveries. We discovered that the Lord or Lady’s family in a castle lived in the keep and that knight’s and soldiers lived on the top floor of the keep to protect the family. We also discovered that people didn’t keep their clothes in cupboards in castles, instead they kept them in chests (just like treasure chests). We were very interested in knights and learned that knights were very good men who served the king, country and God. Girls couldn’t be knights in the olden days but our Edgerley girls were happy to play the role of princesses (pink ones!). We have had lots of fun playing knights this week and there may be some interest in knight play at home. Our Edgerley boys understand that knights were helpful and helped others and don’t run around chopping peoples heads off. We hope that you have good helpful knights at home too!!
To follow up on Oliver’s herb show and tell and the links Alex made between the herbs and lasagne, next week we plan to make fresh pasta with herbs in it. If there are any Mum’s and Dad’s who know how to make fresh pasta from scratch who would like to come in and assist (the very inept and unculinary!) Mrs Bishop we sure could use some help! Please e-mail Mrs Bishop at mbishop@staff.pac.edu.au
Have a lovely weekend
Kind Regards
Mel, Rachel, Pip and Renee
Friday, November 25, 2011
Holiday Dates
The booking sheets for the first 2 weeks of the holidays (Dec 13th - 22nd) are now in the classes. Please cross out any booked days that your child will be away for.
Please note that due to the Australia Day holiday falling on Thursday 26th January the centre will be CLOSED on Friday 27th January 2012 (you will not be charged for this day )
Jeanine
Please note that due to the Australia Day holiday falling on Thursday 26th January the centre will be CLOSED on Friday 27th January 2012 (you will not be charged for this day )
Jeanine
Nativity Photos
The photos taken by Festival Photos yesterday are now available to purchase on their website. There are some fabulous shots of the Nativity and well worth taking the time to check them out.
The address is www.festivalphoto.com.au
The address is www.festivalphoto.com.au
- click on "view your photos"
- enter user name "PAC" then
- password" ELC2011"then log in
- a membership message will come up but just click on "view your photos" again
- Select the ,school,year and event
Jeanine
Handyperson needed
We have a small table and 2 stools that need assembling if anyone has a drill and a spare hour or so ! Please see me
Jeanine
Jeanine
Farewell Mrs McGee
Mrs McGee's contract with us comes to an end at the end of this term (Dec 13th) and Ms Alex Marcus returns next year. Mrs McGee has been offered a permanent position at St Peters Girls School .We have loved having her with us and wish her all the best in her new position.
Jeanine
Jeanine
Chapple and Edgerley rooms
These classes will be leading the Prep School assembly next Wednesday 30th November at 2pm in the Anzac Hall. Parents are welcome to attend if they wish .
Mel and Suria
Mel and Suria
Out of the Classroom and Onto the Stage!
"Oh how wonderful, glorious a sight!"
Thankyou for coming to our Princes ELC Nativity yesterday. We hope it was as memorable for you as it was for us.
Thankyou
ELC Staff
Thankyou
ELC Staff
Friday, November 18, 2011
Miss Kerry's Leave
Miss Kerry is on leave from next Monday and will return on December 12th . She is heading off to the bright lights of Los Vegas to marry her partner Dion ! We wish them all the very best and hope they have a memorable wedding !
Miss Bethany will be working in the Langley room while Miss Kerry is away.
Nativity Play
Next Thursday 24th November is our annual Nativity play . This will be at 11.00 am in the Anzac Hall . The hall is the new glass building that is at the end of the bitumen if you go around the front of the main bluestone school building. Parking will be available on the oval to the right of the school driveway.
Parents, Grandparents and friends are all welcome as the hall has a large seating capacity.
Children who normally attend on a Thursday should arrive at their normal time in their uniform . Children who do not normally attend on a Thursday should arrive by 10.00am (in casual clothes) so that we can get them into their costumes and take their photos.
Please sign ALL children in when they are dropped off. At the conclusion of the play we will take all the children outside to the verandah area where they may be collected. Please sign them out and let a staff member know that you have taken your child (sign in books will be up at the hall).
Any children that need to stay for the afternoon will then return to the ELC for lunch and a rest !
Children who are wearing centre costumes will need to come back to get changed before leaving.
If your child is distressed at you leaving please walk back to the centre with us to help settle them.
If your child is upset during the performance (as it can be quite daunting on stage!) please come to the side of the stage to take them to sit with you.
Looking forward to seeing you all there !
ELC Team
Parents, Grandparents and friends are all welcome as the hall has a large seating capacity.
Children who normally attend on a Thursday should arrive at their normal time in their uniform . Children who do not normally attend on a Thursday should arrive by 10.00am (in casual clothes) so that we can get them into their costumes and take their photos.
Please sign ALL children in when they are dropped off. At the conclusion of the play we will take all the children outside to the verandah area where they may be collected. Please sign them out and let a staff member know that you have taken your child (sign in books will be up at the hall).
Any children that need to stay for the afternoon will then return to the ELC for lunch and a rest !
Children who are wearing centre costumes will need to come back to get changed before leaving.
If your child is distressed at you leaving please walk back to the centre with us to help settle them.
If your child is upset during the performance (as it can be quite daunting on stage!) please come to the side of the stage to take them to sit with you.
Looking forward to seeing you all there !
ELC Team
Holiday Dates
The school term ends on December 13th and this will be the Teachers last day in the classroom for this year.
The ElC will be open until December 22nd and then closed until January 9th 2012. If your child is finishing at the centre could you please let Mrs Dry or Mrs Porter know their final date here. If your child is going to be away on any dates, other than the closure period ,could you also let us know so that we can organise staff according to the centre's needs. We will put booking sheets in the classes again shortly,
ELC Team
The ElC will be open until December 22nd and then closed until January 9th 2012. If your child is finishing at the centre could you please let Mrs Dry or Mrs Porter know their final date here. If your child is going to be away on any dates, other than the closure period ,could you also let us know so that we can organise staff according to the centre's needs. We will put booking sheets in the classes again shortly,
ELC Team
Carols by the Tree
We warmly invite all Princes families to gather for a Christmas celebration and the lighting of the College's Christmas tree on the front oval near the Piper Pavilion, on Friday 25 November 2011.
The evening will commence at 6.00pm with the Junior Primary Nativity, followed by our Concert Bands and the Princes Choir. Come early for a twilight picnic with your family and friends, bring your blanket, deck chair, drinks and your own picnic hamper.
There will be a BBQ where you can purchase sausages, chicken shaslicks and steak.
The Pavilion Café will be open for coffee and Christmas treats.
Families are invited to bring a toy to place under the Tree to support the Uniting Care Wesley Bowden Gift of Christmas Appeal.
The evening will commence at 6.00pm with the Junior Primary Nativity, followed by our Concert Bands and the Princes Choir. Come early for a twilight picnic with your family and friends, bring your blanket, deck chair, drinks and your own picnic hamper.
There will be a BBQ where you can purchase sausages, chicken shaslicks and steak.
The Pavilion Café will be open for coffee and Christmas treats.
Families are invited to bring a toy to place under the Tree to support the Uniting Care Wesley Bowden Gift of Christmas Appeal.
Chapple School Visit
The Chapple boys will be doing an extra visit to the reception class on Thursday Dec 1st from 9.30-10.30 am . Could they please bring their drink bottles and a healthy snack to take with them .
Jeanine
Jeanine
In the Classrooms
Langley
Thank you to those children that have brought in photographs of their houses and have lead us in morning meeting discussions about features of houses and shapes that are evident in structures. We have continued our exploration of features and shapes in buildings at the easel as we have created representations of structures using paint and different shaped paper.
"Paulina paint house, more paint. Mummy come in house. A triangle "– Pauline
"It has orange bricks. It’s a triangle. That’s the roof "– Jacob
"Big house, the colours are windows. It’s got windows and a door" – Eden
"Because this is a ouse (house). My bedroom is ere. I do a window. That da bathroom "– Leonardo
"A door, a window, a house, a door "– Andre
"Windows, windows, one, two, square" - Kristian
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Jennifer and Hayley
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
We experienced a performance of a different kind this morning as the children watched a rendition of "Miss Lily's Fabulous Pink Feather Boa" by Margaret Wild. We watched our very own Mrs B (Music teacher) along with three others perform on string instruments while the story was enthusiastically told by another lady. The children did a great job listening and came back full of feedback on their favourite parts of the performance.
'I loved the viola' - Gabe
'I liked where the last potoroo cutted a bit off the featheres' - Henry
'I loved the violins because they are one of my favourite instruments' - Jack J
'I thought the pink father boa was beautiful' - Ella
'I liked that music' - Owen
'Miss Lily was a friendly crocodile' - Grace
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
Our Nativity play is fast approaching and this week we visited the big stage at Anzac Hall for the first time. The Cooper children have been eagerly 'playing Nativity' in anticipation. In our room we played with the Nativity figure toys and the children retold the story with all the little characters (although one child was heard to say that he was playing 'Wonky Donkey'!). Other children looked at the Nativity book with their friends...
"I don't know how to read it" said Lily.
"We can just look at the pages" suggested Sophie.
"Baby Jesus is there now" said Lily seeing that he had been born.
"There the angels" said Sophie.
"They're singing a song for baby Jesus" said Lily.
On our outside stage we set up a Nativity scene with a stable and costumes and the children played their parts and sang our songs beautifully. We are very much looking forward to sharing our big production next week with all of our families and friends!
Best wishes,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
Lately the Chapple boys have been intrigued by famous paintings and artists. We have shared a few story books involving famous artists and the boys really liked the idea in one book of being able to step through the picture frame, into the painting and explore what they could see. The Mona Lisa has stood out as a favourite and the children have begun to paint their own portraits and each other's portraits on the small artist's easel. Below are some of the children's thoughts on the Mona Lisa.
“She’s got long hair” said Sam “She has a smile” observed Max C “How did she get in that picture?” asked Daniel B “It could be magic inside the painting” suggested Nathaniel “Someone just painted her” answered Ryan “Yeah, Leonardo did” said Blake excitedly “What is the special name for someone who paints pictures?” asked the teacher “A painter” said Sam “My mum’s an artist” added Charlie
Please take a look at our class art gallery on the wall above the computers. We look forward to seeing you next week at our Nativity performance! Warm wishes
Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
This week we continued to work on personal projects with friends in between our super busy schedule with performances and rehearsals. We began to look more closely at some famous buildings using the overhead projectors and found a new way to use our big blocks, creating 2D images up against the wall over the images of projected buildings. Late in the week we began to talk about the shapes we could see in castles and discovered that lots had arch and round shapes rather than the squares and rectangles that we find in our own houses. We shared a new story “King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub” and revisited an old favourite “The Things I Love About Me” and looked at castles in those. We will continue to investigate castles next week and also plan to learn more about knights and their princesses (in the boys words, not mine!)
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
Thank you to those children that have brought in photographs of their houses and have lead us in morning meeting discussions about features of houses and shapes that are evident in structures. We have continued our exploration of features and shapes in buildings at the easel as we have created representations of structures using paint and different shaped paper.
"Paulina paint house, more paint. Mummy come in house. A triangle "– Pauline
"It has orange bricks. It’s a triangle. That’s the roof "– Jacob
"Big house, the colours are windows. It’s got windows and a door" – Eden
"Because this is a ouse (house). My bedroom is ere. I do a window. That da bathroom "– Leonardo
"A door, a window, a house, a door "– Andre
"Windows, windows, one, two, square" - Kristian
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Jennifer and Hayley
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
We experienced a performance of a different kind this morning as the children watched a rendition of "Miss Lily's Fabulous Pink Feather Boa" by Margaret Wild. We watched our very own Mrs B (Music teacher) along with three others perform on string instruments while the story was enthusiastically told by another lady. The children did a great job listening and came back full of feedback on their favourite parts of the performance.
'I loved the viola' - Gabe
'I liked where the last potoroo cutted a bit off the featheres' - Henry
'I loved the violins because they are one of my favourite instruments' - Jack J
'I thought the pink father boa was beautiful' - Ella
'I liked that music' - Owen
'Miss Lily was a friendly crocodile' - Grace
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
Our Nativity play is fast approaching and this week we visited the big stage at Anzac Hall for the first time. The Cooper children have been eagerly 'playing Nativity' in anticipation. In our room we played with the Nativity figure toys and the children retold the story with all the little characters (although one child was heard to say that he was playing 'Wonky Donkey'!). Other children looked at the Nativity book with their friends...
"I don't know how to read it" said Lily.
"We can just look at the pages" suggested Sophie.
"Baby Jesus is there now" said Lily seeing that he had been born.
"There the angels" said Sophie.
"They're singing a song for baby Jesus" said Lily.
On our outside stage we set up a Nativity scene with a stable and costumes and the children played their parts and sang our songs beautifully. We are very much looking forward to sharing our big production next week with all of our families and friends!
Best wishes,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
Lately the Chapple boys have been intrigued by famous paintings and artists. We have shared a few story books involving famous artists and the boys really liked the idea in one book of being able to step through the picture frame, into the painting and explore what they could see. The Mona Lisa has stood out as a favourite and the children have begun to paint their own portraits and each other's portraits on the small artist's easel. Below are some of the children's thoughts on the Mona Lisa.
“She’s got long hair” said Sam “She has a smile” observed Max C “How did she get in that picture?” asked Daniel B “It could be magic inside the painting” suggested Nathaniel “Someone just painted her” answered Ryan “Yeah, Leonardo did” said Blake excitedly “What is the special name for someone who paints pictures?” asked the teacher “A painter” said Sam “My mum’s an artist” added Charlie
Please take a look at our class art gallery on the wall above the computers. We look forward to seeing you next week at our Nativity performance! Warm wishes
Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
This week we continued to work on personal projects with friends in between our super busy schedule with performances and rehearsals. We began to look more closely at some famous buildings using the overhead projectors and found a new way to use our big blocks, creating 2D images up against the wall over the images of projected buildings. Late in the week we began to talk about the shapes we could see in castles and discovered that lots had arch and round shapes rather than the squares and rectangles that we find in our own houses. We shared a new story “King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub” and revisited an old favourite “The Things I Love About Me” and looked at castles in those. We will continue to investigate castles next week and also plan to learn more about knights and their princesses (in the boys words, not mine!)
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
Friday, November 11, 2011
Farewell Miss Sue
Today was Sue's last day cooking for us as she covered Mr Rob's leave . We would like to thank her for filling in so capably and spoiling us all with her yummy food and friendly smile ! We hope to have her here again some time ! Mr Rob returns on Monday after his hip surgery and is fighting fit and anxious to be back ! (he can even do a little jig now!)
Jeanine
Jeanine
Music Performance
We will be attending a music performance this Thursday 17th Nov in the school chapel. As it starts at 8.50 am please have your child here by 8.30am on that day,
Thankyou
ELC Staff
Thankyou
ELC Staff
Nativity Costumes
Please send in your (named) Nativity Costumes asap as it is not long to go now and we need to be as organised as possible,
Thanks
ELC Staff
Thanks
ELC Staff
New Baby
Congratulations to Cindy , Nick and proud big brother Jacob (Cooper Room) on the birth of Erin Liau on 28th September !
A Great View at Lightsview
On Monday students from all five classes travelled on the bus to visit building sites at Lightsview. We walked in groups and observed construction in process, observing materials and different stages of development as well as observing and listening to various tools and construction vehicles. Lightsview offered us a large range of different types of buildings to look at and we even saw an apartment building going up…oh and we really loved the Lightsview playgrounds!!!!This trip gave the children great food for thought.
We would like to thank Olivia’s Daddy, Duncan for helping us organise this wonderful trip (oh, and for the ice blocks at the end, what a wonderful surprise on a warm day!)
Kind Regards
ELC Staff
In the Classrooms
Langley
Inspired by building plans, pictures of buildings and photographs of our own houses we have been creating our own structures using boxes and recycled materials. The children have been developing their fine motor skills as they use the sticky tape and glue to join their boxes together and attach small details.
“I make a crocodile, I sticka, sticka” said Kristian,
“It’s my new house with two toilets” commented James S
“Dat’s Daddy” said Luca
“A boat” Susannah told us
“A bird” said Gwen
To continue our building and construction next week, we would love donations of any recycled boxes and containers and are still eager to have more photos of children’s own houses to share with their peers.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Jennifer and Hayley
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
Wow! What a day the children had on the Lightsview excursion. The bus trip there was the start of the excitement, followed by seeing diggers, buildings in all stages of development, playgrounds and icypoles at the end. Here's some observations by the children.
Look at the big one, they had to use lots of material to cover it - Ella
It's an apartment - Dillon
It's a building site - Joshua
Look, a skyscraper - Tommi
It will go fiveteen high - Zach
Ten high - Charlie
They have got lots of balconies. One up really high (scaffolding) - Ella
He's using wires in the house to do the electricity - Molly
This is ready for a house to build here -Jack O
This is a slab - Charlie
They will build a house on top - Jack O
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
On our excursion to Lightsview we saw many different building materials including large pallets of bricks. Over the last couple of weeks the Cooper children have shown a great interest in this building material and its ability to be Big Bad Wolf proof! Back in our classroom we used blocks and paint to stamp brick shapes and create pictures of very strong houses…
“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, it’s this tall” said Toby. “Two storeys, now it’s three storeys” he said as he stamped another row of block prints. “That’s how many I use, ten storeys.”
“I have big one” said Cooper.
“It’s nearly done – it’s gonna be like bricks” thought Bailey.
Now we are seeing bricks everywhere and will be looking for more on our walks around the school next week.
Kind regards,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
"We went inside a building and saw nails, pipes and wood" observed Ryan "Buildings have skeletons made out of metal, wood and other types of stuff" suggested Ethan "I liked going inside the building to see the pipes" added Jesse "I liked going to the parks best" said Max A "Inside the house I saw dirt and rubbish, hammers and I like the really tall building too" stated Oliver
We had a fabulous time on our trip to the building site!
Edgerley
Another week filled with construction! We loved our trip to Lightsview on Monday and saw all sorts of houses under construction. We were thrilled to observe a little digger creating a front yard. We stopped to see it scrape up the dirt and then open the bottom of its scoop to dump the soil. Thankyou to Olivia’s Dad for organising this wonderful trip for us. It encouraged lots of discussion about what our own homes were made from.
We continued to work on our cork and pop stick creations and began to add things like floors and walls. Come and have a look, some are over seven storeys high! We also began our brick house this week. Deacon, Erin, Lucy and Apollon and observed the patterns in the pictures of bricks and began to stack our tissue boxes in a similar way. We discovered we need lots more tissue boxes to make it into a real house!...so keep those tissue boxes coming in!
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
Inspired by building plans, pictures of buildings and photographs of our own houses we have been creating our own structures using boxes and recycled materials. The children have been developing their fine motor skills as they use the sticky tape and glue to join their boxes together and attach small details.
“I make a crocodile, I sticka, sticka” said Kristian,
“It’s my new house with two toilets” commented James S
“Dat’s Daddy” said Luca
“A boat” Susannah told us
“A bird” said Gwen
To continue our building and construction next week, we would love donations of any recycled boxes and containers and are still eager to have more photos of children’s own houses to share with their peers.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Jennifer and Hayley
MeadDear Mead Parents,
Wow! What a day the children had on the Lightsview excursion. The bus trip there was the start of the excitement, followed by seeing diggers, buildings in all stages of development, playgrounds and icypoles at the end. Here's some observations by the children.
Look at the big one, they had to use lots of material to cover it - Ella
It's an apartment - Dillon
It's a building site - Joshua
Look, a skyscraper - Tommi
It will go fiveteen high - Zach
Ten high - Charlie
They have got lots of balconies. One up really high (scaffolding) - Ella
He's using wires in the house to do the electricity - Molly
This is ready for a house to build here -Jack O
This is a slab - Charlie
They will build a house on top - Jack O
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
CooperOn our excursion to Lightsview we saw many different building materials including large pallets of bricks. Over the last couple of weeks the Cooper children have shown a great interest in this building material and its ability to be Big Bad Wolf proof! Back in our classroom we used blocks and paint to stamp brick shapes and create pictures of very strong houses…
“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, it’s this tall” said Toby. “Two storeys, now it’s three storeys” he said as he stamped another row of block prints. “That’s how many I use, ten storeys.”
“I have big one” said Cooper.
“It’s nearly done – it’s gonna be like bricks” thought Bailey.
Now we are seeing bricks everywhere and will be looking for more on our walks around the school next week.
Kind regards,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple"We went inside a building and saw nails, pipes and wood" observed Ryan "Buildings have skeletons made out of metal, wood and other types of stuff" suggested Ethan "I liked going inside the building to see the pipes" added Jesse "I liked going to the parks best" said Max A "Inside the house I saw dirt and rubbish, hammers and I like the really tall building too" stated Oliver
We had a fabulous time on our trip to the building site!
EdgerleyAnother week filled with construction! We loved our trip to Lightsview on Monday and saw all sorts of houses under construction. We were thrilled to observe a little digger creating a front yard. We stopped to see it scrape up the dirt and then open the bottom of its scoop to dump the soil. Thankyou to Olivia’s Dad for organising this wonderful trip for us. It encouraged lots of discussion about what our own homes were made from.
We continued to work on our cork and pop stick creations and began to add things like floors and walls. Come and have a look, some are over seven storeys high! We also began our brick house this week. Deacon, Erin, Lucy and Apollon and observed the patterns in the pictures of bricks and began to stack our tissue boxes in a similar way. We discovered we need lots more tissue boxes to make it into a real house!...so keep those tissue boxes coming in!
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
Friday, November 4, 2011
Monday's Excursion
The children who normally attend next Monday are going on an excursion to see building sites at Northgate as part of our unit of enquiry.
All children (and parents who are accompanying us) will need to be here by 9.00 am ready for our bus trip . Please make sure your children have sunscreen applied and have their hats and drink bottles with them. We will return to the centre by 11.30 am in time for lunch.
Please make sure you have returned their permission slips so that they can attend the excursion. All parents who are accompanying us need to fill in a Statutory Declaration prior to leaving (only once per year) Please see me if you need to complete one.
Jeanine
Parent Helpers :
Anthony Lindop
Kirsty Roberts
Bonnie Fleer
Julie Von Doussa
Larry Roccisano
John Leask
Corrina Jeffries
Amanda Sheldon
Duncan Tippins
Vicki Rositano
Lucrezia Ranieri
David Cook
Katie Ratanatray
Thankyou !
All children (and parents who are accompanying us) will need to be here by 9.00 am ready for our bus trip . Please make sure your children have sunscreen applied and have their hats and drink bottles with them. We will return to the centre by 11.30 am in time for lunch.
Please make sure you have returned their permission slips so that they can attend the excursion. All parents who are accompanying us need to fill in a Statutory Declaration prior to leaving (only once per year) Please see me if you need to complete one.
Jeanine
Parent Helpers :
Anthony Lindop
Kirsty Roberts
Bonnie Fleer
Julie Von Doussa
Larry Roccisano
John Leask
Corrina Jeffries
Amanda Sheldon
Duncan Tippins
Vicki Rositano
Lucrezia Ranieri
David Cook
Katie Ratanatray
Thankyou !
Nativity Play
It is now only a couple of weeks until our Nativity play and the children are very busy rehearsing ! Please send their named costumes in as soon as possible (in a named bag) so that we can make sure we have accounted for every child who will be in the play (all 130 of them !!)
Thankyou
Thankyou
Childcare Regulation Changes
You may have read or heard that from 2012 there will be some changes to regulations across Australia. Mel Bishop and I will be attending a day conference next Tuesday to learn more about some of these and we will keep you posted as to any changes that will affect our centre.
Jeanine
Jeanine
Possum Proofing
Recently we planted new vegetables but within days they were all eaten off at the roots ! We think we have had some possums as visitors and are wondering if any handy parent or grandparent could make some frames with wire netting to help us protect our veggie patch ?
Thankyou
ELC staff
Thankyou
ELC staff
Music Performance
On Thursday 17th November we are planning to take all the children to a music performance by the Symphony Orchestra entitled "Lily" in our school chapel. This begins at 8.50 am sharp so all children will need to be here by 8.30am please. As we will be sitting at the front we cannot disturb the orchestra with children arriving during the performance. We should be back around 9.30am if you are unable to get here by 8.30 that day,
Jeanine
Jeanine
Naming Clothes
As today was warm many of our children participated in water play . As this always involves clothes getting wet please remember to name all your children's clothes to help us get the right articles back on your child or into their bag .
Thankyou
ELC Team
Thankyou
ELC Team
In the Classrooms
Langley
The children have been inspired by pictures of different buildings to create their own towers and structures. This week they have been building with wooden blocks, soft blocks, Duplo and waffle blocks outside. The children have created all sorts of different buildings but especially love to see how tall they can make their towers before they tumble down. This has required the children to problem solve how to create a structure that is stable.
“Tower, tall like a mountain” said Jack S, “ I make it bigger, big, big, build building” he added.
“I building a big house with a brick” said Eden
Thank you to Marcus who brought in a photo of his house to share with his peers. We would love photos of others children’s houses also to use as inspiration for our building next week.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
The children have been inspired by pictures of different buildings to create their own towers and structures. This week they have been building with wooden blocks, soft blocks, Duplo and waffle blocks outside. The children have created all sorts of different buildings but especially love to see how tall they can make their towers before they tumble down. This has required the children to problem solve how to create a structure that is stable.
“Tower, tall like a mountain” said Jack S, “ I make it bigger, big, big, build building” he added.
“I building a big house with a brick” said Eden
Thank you to Marcus who brought in a photo of his house to share with his peers. We would love photos of others children’s houses also to use as inspiration for our building next week.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
Last week we walked around the school and had a good look at the buildings and structures that are existing. The children found that there were lots of varied materials used, shapes, uses and designs. In particular, they found the stained glass windows in the school chapel very beautiful.
We decided to make our own stained glass windows in the Mead Room. The children have carefully designed their windows using black paper and coloured cellophane. They have created some varied designs and decided they wanted to display them on the Mead door - to create a stained glass door. Please come and have a look!
"I want to have a black cross so mine has four different parts" said Ella. "One purple, one orange, a blue and a red".
"Mine is going to be all different colours. It's really nice" Seth commented.
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G 
Cooper
As we continue to ‘Build It Up’ in Cooper the children have been thinking about all the different kinds of buildings in the community. They have built bridges and shops, rubbish dumps and car parks, stages and theatres (for The Wiggles). Angus suggested we could build a carwash and a small group of children used the blocks to construct walls, a roof, a driveway, signs and buttons.
“Wash car, wash car” said Jacob pushing a toy car through the tunnel.
“We have carwashes at home” Angus told us.
“You turn a ‘mote control on, it moves around and around, the car goes into the tunnel” explained Felix.
Later in the week another group of children built a car with waffle blocks to take through the carwash with the dolls. If anyone is looking for an outing this weekend, may we suggest the carwash?!
Kind regards,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine 
Chapple
As well as designing in our architect's corner and building with blocks and plasticine, the children have been interested in knitting and tom-boy stitching! If you have any wool or scraps of material you would like to donate to our classroom we would love to create a sewing corner for the children to continue to explore the world of needles and thread!
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
“It has to be a city, that’s the only thing I can build with this type of Lego” explained Michael “We are doing all the parts and there is a rubbish bin, the lid opens” added Tom “There is water here, we have done three bridges” said Michael “I wonder if we could do some more bridges coz there’s lots of ponds in the city” suggested Tom “This is Adelaide Oval, cricket and footy happens there” explained Tom further “The blue side is water, the green side is grass, and that bridge leads to another bridge – that’s really cool isn’t it!” exclaimed Michael excitedly “Yeah” agreed Tom “And here’s a fire station, they do have fire stations in Adelaide” added Tom
Edgerley
It was all go in Edgerley this week as students explored balance and symmetry through their constructions and observations. We walked through the school to look for shapes in buildings and discovered a few we weren’t sure of.
“Actually, that is called a arch” clarified Oliver as we looked at shapes on the main building
We headed towards the technology rooms and saw some more arches but they were pointy at the top like rockets.
“I think we call them diamond arches” shared Oliver again
We used Oliver’s knowledge to create arched constructions at the light table on our return.
We also enjoyed constructing with corks and pop sticks. We reflected on our constructions once they were dry and talked about which strategies helped successfully build taller towers. We will further explore the idea of foundations on our excursion to the building site next Monday.
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
Friday, October 28, 2011
Sign in Sheets
From next week we will be moving all the sign in sheets to Langley room until 8.15 am and then into the Town Square after 3.30pm. (Langley's will remain in their room until 5pm) They will be in their usual places in the classes during the day. This is following a fire drill last week at 4.30pm when we found it was difficult to collect the sheets from classes when everyone was outside and the staff could not leave the children. (We use these to check that we have accounted for all the children during an emergency evacuation) We are also going to put a highlight tab on your child's name if you need to sign an accident form. This may take a little while to get used to but hopefully the system will benefit the safety of all children.
Jeanine
Jeanine
Class Photos
Next week we will be having our class photos taken by Festival Photos . These will be on Wednesday 2nd Nov for 3's and 4's and Thursday 3rd Nov for Langley room. We have decided to "attempt" a class photo of the 2 year olds at 9.30 am on Thurs. If Wednesday or Thursday is not your child's day but you would like to bring them in for the photo (in uniform) please be here at the allocated time. (Times for the other classes were published in last weeks blog). Please remember to bring your order envelope with you .
Jeanine
Jeanine
Craft Supplies
Thankyou for the boxes etc for our building projects, we would also appreciate a supply of corks if you have any new or used ones,
Thankyou
Thankyou
Nativity Reply Slips
Please return these asap as we need to assign roles to the children who will be attending and organise sufficient costumes. For those of you who have not been a part of our Nativity production before it takes quite a lot of organising and is an event not to be missed !
Jeanine
Jeanine
In the Classrooms
Langley
Our display of house plans has inspired children to create sketches of their own houses. This has sparked some interesting conversations about what rooms make up their houses and what shapes can be seen in the plans;
My bed is upstairs, two bedrooms, one for Mummy and Daddy and one for the girls. Study and playroom – James S
Downstairs. A door and a gate, lock and shut door. Bathroom, a bath in the bathroom. And I have a roof like this (holds up the triangle) – Gwen
Triangle, me draw a circle – Hugo M
Draw my house and a kitchen. Big house. That’s bathroom – Jackson
A room, a blue bin. Mum room, my room, dad room and dat’s Sienna’s room. Titchen (kitchen) dere – Luca
To further extend on children’s interests in their own houses, we would love it if children could bring in some photographs of their houses.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
We have been observing, designing and constructing buildings and structures busily this week inside and outside the classroom. One of our highlights has been our walks around the school looking at the various buildings, shapes and materials used.
Look It's got chimneys. Five chimneys, and I can see a balcony! - Jack O
So the smoke can come out - Zach H
Wow. It's got a ramp - Gabe
For going down - Erin
I think this building is very, very old - Tommi
That building looks brand new. It looks new and shiney. It must have been made after the war - Jack O
It's made from metal - Jesse
And glass. It's a rectangle - Henry
That place (the uniform shop) is made for getting uniforms. It's made from cement - Oliver
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
Building on the children's interest in emergency services, this week a small group of children played with the Woody Click fire station construction set. As we pieced the various walls, doors and windows together we talked about the parts a building needs...
“A floor” said Toby.
“Roof” said Cooper.
“The walls” added Toby.
“A door, a roof, a big roof over it” suggested Fletcher.
“A big roof” agreed Toby.
“Glass” said Angus.
The children had been interested in multi-storey buildings so we added another floor to our fire station but wondered how the firefighters would get up to the second floor...
“A lift” thought William.
“A ladder” said Toby.
“And some steps” said William.
The finished firestation looked great with trucks parked downstairs and beds for the firefighters upstairs - it even had a fireman's pole!
Kind regards,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
This week we have discovered how buildings are planned, designed and built from the ground up. The children have been very interested in the plans or 'instructions' that the builders use to build houses and sky-scrapers and have tried to draw some of their own. We have had a lot of construction happening both inside and outside with a range of materials.
Thank you for sending in the photos of your homes, the children have enjoyed discussing the different kinds of houses we live in.
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
“We have to build the foundations first” said Oliver “What’s that?” asked Daniel B “That bit underneath here – that’s the foundations” replied Oliver “Ok, we’re building the foundations first” agreed Daniel B “Yeah, if we don’t have the foundations it won’t work, it won’t hold” exclaimed Oliver
Our display of house plans has inspired children to create sketches of their own houses. This has sparked some interesting conversations about what rooms make up their houses and what shapes can be seen in the plans;
My bed is upstairs, two bedrooms, one for Mummy and Daddy and one for the girls. Study and playroom – James S
Downstairs. A door and a gate, lock and shut door. Bathroom, a bath in the bathroom. And I have a roof like this (holds up the triangle) – Gwen
Triangle, me draw a circle – Hugo M
Draw my house and a kitchen. Big house. That’s bathroom – Jackson
A room, a blue bin. Mum room, my room, dad room and dat’s Sienna’s room. Titchen (kitchen) dere – Luca
To further extend on children’s interests in their own houses, we would love it if children could bring in some photographs of their houses.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
We have been observing, designing and constructing buildings and structures busily this week inside and outside the classroom. One of our highlights has been our walks around the school looking at the various buildings, shapes and materials used.
Look It's got chimneys. Five chimneys, and I can see a balcony! - Jack O
So the smoke can come out - Zach H
Wow. It's got a ramp - Gabe
For going down - Erin
I think this building is very, very old - Tommi
That building looks brand new. It looks new and shiney. It must have been made after the war - Jack O
It's made from metal - Jesse
And glass. It's a rectangle - Henry
That place (the uniform shop) is made for getting uniforms. It's made from cement - Oliver
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
Building on the children's interest in emergency services, this week a small group of children played with the Woody Click fire station construction set. As we pieced the various walls, doors and windows together we talked about the parts a building needs...
“A floor” said Toby.
“Roof” said Cooper.
“The walls” added Toby.
“A door, a roof, a big roof over it” suggested Fletcher.
“A big roof” agreed Toby.
“Glass” said Angus.
The children had been interested in multi-storey buildings so we added another floor to our fire station but wondered how the firefighters would get up to the second floor...
“A lift” thought William.
“A ladder” said Toby.
“And some steps” said William.
The finished firestation looked great with trucks parked downstairs and beds for the firefighters upstairs - it even had a fireman's pole!
Kind regards,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
This week we have discovered how buildings are planned, designed and built from the ground up. The children have been very interested in the plans or 'instructions' that the builders use to build houses and sky-scrapers and have tried to draw some of their own. We have had a lot of construction happening both inside and outside with a range of materials.
Thank you for sending in the photos of your homes, the children have enjoyed discussing the different kinds of houses we live in.
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
“We have to build the foundations first” said Oliver “What’s that?” asked Daniel B “That bit underneath here – that’s the foundations” replied Oliver “Ok, we’re building the foundations first” agreed Daniel B “Yeah, if we don’t have the foundations it won’t work, it won’t hold” exclaimed Oliver
Edgerley
Edgerley students were busy looking at, creating, designing and buildings. We began to think about why we build buildings and how they are constructed.
We continued to investigate how clocks work this week
“A clock shows us what time it is” said Ajeet
“Big hand up the top says o’clock” said Sami
“We have afternoon tea at free o’clock” said Cooper
“Time is when you go to school” said Ajeet
“Then we know what the number is, then we know which time it is” said Lucy
“To show you what time it is to go somewhere” added Cooper
We were also thrilled to see our little chickens again this week. After they hatched at Kindergarten Apollon took home a yellow and black one. With the help of Grandpa Apollons chickens have grown very big. We were surprised to discover that the yellow one is now white. We were even more surprised when they tried to fly away in the classroom! Ahhhhhh!
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
Edgerley students were busy looking at, creating, designing and buildings. We began to think about why we build buildings and how they are constructed.
We continued to investigate how clocks work this week
“A clock shows us what time it is” said Ajeet
“Big hand up the top says o’clock” said Sami
“We have afternoon tea at free o’clock” said Cooper
“Time is when you go to school” said Ajeet
“Then we know what the number is, then we know which time it is” said Lucy
“To show you what time it is to go somewhere” added Cooper
We were also thrilled to see our little chickens again this week. After they hatched at Kindergarten Apollon took home a yellow and black one. With the help of Grandpa Apollons chickens have grown very big. We were surprised to discover that the yellow one is now white. We were even more surprised when they tried to fly away in the classroom! Ahhhhhh!
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
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