We made a very exciting discovery in the big yard this week! We discovered a perfect bird’s nest sitting on the ground under the big gum tree. The children were very excited and wanted to find out some more information about the nest. We gathered a range of resources to explore; some other nests, eggs, magnetic birds and nonfiction books about birds.
“Egg, egg, egg, egg, egg!” said Eden excitedly as she peered into the nest,
“What’s in that?” Susannah asked.
“Eggies” explained Olivia, “they crack, that one crack and that one crack. Somebody got the flea out of those” she added as she pointed at the egg.
“No, bird came out” argued Raphael,
“Yeah, birdie came out, it cracked out of eggie” agreed Olivia.
Raphael went on a mission to find some pictures of eggs. He gathered all of the bird books and began to leaf through them, carefully looking for pictures of eggs. He was soon joined by some of the other children as they searched for the eggs together.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Jennifer and Hayley
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
Following on from our Clipsal visit last week, the Mead children have been making some interesting tyre prints with matchbox cars and paint. There has been a lot of mirroring and repetition of what they saw and the sounds that they heard at the Clipsal. They have certainly made some connections between their real life experiences and have used this play to reflect on the excursion!
"Brum, brum, brum................ I've done two laps around the big racing and skidding track" - Jack O
"Crash! Don't crash into me" - Grace
"I'll race your track. Mine is slippery with all this paint" - Ella
"Here it goes" Sebastian
"Mine is so fast. It's a blue one. They are the fast ones. Look at me go!" Jack J
The results have been very effective and the prints represent alot of action and loud noises!
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan L and Emma G
Cooper
On Wednesday morning Cooper chose the Eric Carle story, The Tiny Seed for us to read. At the end of the story the flower dies and its seeds fly off in the wind. This made us think of the sunflowers in the ELC garden which have died. Miss Sandow collected the heads of the sunflowers and when we looked at them closely we could see that they were full of seeds too. The children set about collecting the seeds...
“Look, all the seeds have come out. Keep going guys” said Tom.
“There’s twenty” said Jasmine, “No, more than that… I think we could plant them but we have to water them.”
“These are good seeds” said Noah.
“They’re big” said Joshua S., “If you want to get them just do a little twist. Can you tell my Mum and Dad to plant those and then you can come to my house and look at them and they will be bigger than you.”
We collected a big jar full of seeds but we will have to wait until spring to plant them and see if we can grow more beautiful sunflowers.
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
Chapple
This week we have been making fabulous collages of our favourite musical instruments using different coloured materials. We have been experimenting with making mono-prints using our fingers to paint a pattern or picture in white paint and then placing a sheet of black paper on top....then surprise, we have an awesome mono-print! Elliott brought in a HUGE zucchini from his garden and we decided to use some of it to make a zucchini pie yum yum! We have been really enjoying role-play in the cooking corner with master chefs cooking up a storm!
If you haven't already done so, please return your child's portfolio so we can add in their learning stories and work samples for you to share together. We are looking forward to seeing all the Grandies next Wednesday!
Warm wishes,
Suria, Sinead and Rachael
Edgerley
Dear Edgerley Parents,
This week we have been enjoying a special treat. It is very unusual in the Edgerley room for the boys to be able to watch anything on the television (Mrs Bishop doesn’t like the television much!!!!) but this week Jack brought an interesting DVD from his grandparents house related to our investigation into sound. We enjoyed watching animated robots create music with drum machines, silver balls, mutant guitars, pogo sticks and florescent liquid. The children were entranced with the animated interpretation of the music, it encouraged them to begin to listen more closely to the instruments to work out which sounds triggered which robots. Eddie, Alex and Lachlan decided they would like to be a drumming robot and created drumming shirts at the making table with boxes to keep time with music. We have had many parents ask us for details about this DVD. Go to animusic.com where you will find a preview, there is also an online store.
We have also continued our interest in information. We have been collecting information from non-fiction books, the internet and each other about insects. The boys have decided that they would like to visit the museum and so we have tentatively booked at trip to the museum for Wednesday the 6th of April (pending confirmation). More information will be available on a permission slip next week. Please ensure that you get permission slips back to us as soon as possible. Find out what we know about information below.
What is information?
Stuff – Hugo
About all sorts of things where you find things you don’t know – Aadi
Stuff that is real – Luca
Things that are true – Alex
Where can we find information?
Museum – Noah
You can see in a museum anything you can dream of! - Jamison
The library – Hugo
i phone – Noah
On a computer – Roshan
The computer room – Nickolas
You can go to a shop and buy a book about it – Louie
A i pad – Alex
From someone nice – Alexi
Have a great weekend
Mel and Rosalie
