We’re going on a feather hunt! First thing each morning a group of Langley children can be found carefully searching the yard for feathers. There is much excitement when someone actually finds one! We have been talking about which animals we know that have feathers.
“A peacock!” said Alec excitedly.
“Do I have feathers?” wondered Toby as he looked at his arms. “No” he answered his own question with a giggle.
We discovered some peacock feathers in the art room to have a closer look at and used black markers and paints to represent them.
“Dat en feathers” said Izabella as she pointed at the peacock feathers.
“A giant one, a big giant feaver, a peacock feaver” Marcus added excitedly, “a giant, giant, giant, ginormous feaver” he continued.
“It’s blue” observed Sebastian R.
I wonder what feathers the children might be able to find at home?
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Jennifer and Hayley
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
Following a visit from a Cooper Room Father who came in to show us his power tools and what noises they make, the Mead children have expressed a real interest in building and building tools. In response to this interest, we have set up a woodworking area in our room which has generated much investigation and noise making!
"I have a measuring tape at home. I measure people with it.
"I making a table" Jesse told us, wearing ear muffs to block out the loud noise from his hammering.
"You need nuts and bolts for that". Jack O
"That really hard" Gabe commented, trying to hammer a nail into some extra hard wood!
"I making two tables and a chair" Jesse shared with everyone.
Eric used the measuring tape to measure some wood. "I making a table" he told us as he measured.
"They pliers" Jack told Jesse pointing to what Jesse was holding, "They snip".
"This is hard work. Hard work is called danger! My poppa has a whole lot of tools in his little tiny shed. He only got one hammer, and a screwdriver and a drill. I bang the nails in with him.' Jack O
"When you turn tools on you need to put your ear muffs on! And the power tools." Oliver W warned his friends.
"And power tools hurt your muscles" Jack O shared!
We are looking forward to seeing what our little builders are going to create over the next weeks!
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
This week we have been reading the Eric Carle story, Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do You Hear? and this led to a discussion about ears and hearing. We found some information in non-fiction texts about how ears work and the children shared their ideas about hearing through conversation and drawings.
"It goes around here, around here to your ear" said Sami.
"It's going in my ear, then it will hear" said Ajeet.
"If it's too loud we can cover our ears... That's where your ear goes through and it goes to your brain" explained Zac.
"When it comes through your ear you can't hear sound 'cause it could be too quiet" said Erin. Erin drew this picture of two people and then added the dots for the sound coming out of one person's mouth and going into the other's ear. The children showed great interest in this topic and we hope to continue our research next week!
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
Chapple
The fantastic beats of bucket drumming have filled our classroom this week, the children have enjoyed drumming solo or in groups. We are still right into the bear hunt story and a few children have made a sound story to go along with the bear hunt, so please come and try it out! We have explored more instruments through drawing and construction and some children chose to make pan pipes using straws and tape. The children cut the straws to various lengths, stuck them together and they sound beautiful! Outside we have been riding bikes, balancing on the climbing frame and some of the children have begun to make a fairy garden. Hopefully grandparents received their invites to Grandies Day, we have been practising our songs and working on a special project to display.
A big thank you and goodluck to Ms Ciara, we will all miss her a lot!
Warm wishes, Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
Dear Edgerley Parents,
This week we intended to write to you about the wonderful explorations of music we enthusiastically participated in this week, Louis’ electric guitar!, our rock and roll art work, Nickoloas’ mandolin show and tell BUT today Edgerley boys worked together to create a concert that needed some sort of record. No strangers to big events (I’m sure you all remember our wedding in term four!) the boys set to work creating a stage in the block corner. They included stands for their musical instruments and microphones. Next they began to prepare the auditorium for the audience. They collected all the chairs they could find and worked together to cut and mark individual tickets for the seats. After the tickets were in place they added the floor lighting that apparently lit your way as you walked along your row.
The audience was invited to sit and all the performers rushed behind the block shelf to “back stage” whilst Roshan introduced the show and welcomed the audience.
Then they began to play, Jack on the drums, Roshan on the piano, Eddie, Lachlan, Charlie, Alex and Henry on assorted guitars and Jamison knee sliding and hip hopping. Halfway through the performance some audience members felt compelled to get up and dance so Dougal, James and Miss Bellperio boogied on the dance floor. Roshan and Alex were concerned that the audience needed a drinks break and so they were all ordered to sit back in their chairs whilst the drink bottles were bought to them! Finally they spotted Lee, our cleaner, heading to the café, so the boys raced out into the hall way and dragged her back to the room, found her a seat and continued to play. She thought the music was wonderful! At long last the show was over and the boys took a bow! What a wonderful high to end the week on!
Mel and Rosalie
