In the Classrooms

Langley
Thank you to Dion who came and built our new outdoor table for us. The children were fascinated to see the tools in action as we have been doing lots of building with tools in our own block corner.
“What is Dion making?” asked Miss Kerry
“A table, from puzzles” replied Sebastian M as he examined the instruction sheet
“It’s for us to sit down” added Sophie
“It go pat, pat, pat and hammer” observed Stella as she watched Dion with the hammer
“The drill makes a drrrrrr noise, drrrrrr” said Felix
“Dion is putting a table together for us. He’s a man” said Bruno
“You can’t sit on it yet, it’s not ready” Sebastian M warned the other children
“Are you still building?” Bruno checked with Dion
“Yes, it’s nearly finished” answered Dion
“It not finished yet, you can’t sit on it yet” said Stella.
The children were so excited when it was finally finished, they all wanted to sit at it even before there were any toys on it!!
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Jennifer and Hayley

Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
The Mead children have shown great interest in the changes in the weather this week, especially mentioning the storm that hit on Tuesday night! Many parents commented that the children had not slept well, many had shared their parents beds and others needed the lights left on all night! As a result, many wonderful paintings and drawings of weather have been created in the classroom. We recorded the comments made by some children."I heard big lightning. It goes little then.... BANG real big!" Jesse
"My mum carried things outside. We saw a half moon. It looked like the moon was following you. I ran to my Mum!" Jack J
"The half of the moon went in the daytime. It was only half at night time." Zach
"I heard raining. There was a bucket outside to catch the rain. Do you know how many mls of rain? We had 5 mls. It was alot of rain. The rain came from the clouds onto our house and into our bucket." Henry
"When it was raining we heard sunder (thunder) inside - we heard roaring." Sebastian
"There was a bit of thunder, the rain comes before thunder! It was big rain. There was a bit of sun." Joshua
"Puddles come from rain too. 'Cause when the sun comes out it dries up the muddy puddles." Tommi
"There was raining. I saw a storm outside. The wind was blowing hard! Seth
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G

Cooper
Nearly a year ago the Cooper and Langley children planted some strawberry runners from Mr Rob in the ELC vegie patch. A year on and our strawberry patch has tripled in size! To stop the strawberries taking over the whole vegie patch, the children this week potted up some runners. Continuing with our recycling learning we used old yoghurt tubs for pots and filled them with potting mix. We snipped off strawberries and the children planted and watered them. We hope they will take off so that our little gardeners can take their plants home. There is still an excess of strawberry runners in the vegie patch - any families who would like to have some for their own gardens are very welcome to snip some off too!

Chapple
As well as our lemonade shop, our super flying machines...parachutes and magic flying rings, we had a special visitor who helped us make ooey gooey slime! Jesse's dad, James gave us safety glasses and gloves, cups and pop sticks. Next he measured out the two special chemicals and we chose our favourite colour to mix into the mixture. Then we stirred and stirred and stirred until it became all sticky and gooey. We stretched it, rolled it, mashed it and enjoyed the slimy feeling! A big thank you to James for helping us make the slime, it was fantastic!
Next week is the last week of term 2 and sadly we are saying goodbye to a few children who are moving onto new schools. We will miss them very much and wish them lots of fun and all the best at their new schools! We will be holding a class farewell party on Friday, please check for further details in the weekly diary.
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead, Rachel and Sue

Edgerley
Dear Edgerley Parents,
We are currently preparing for our Graduation and move to the big school. As part of this preparation we have been visiting the big school, including going to one or two assemblies. At every assembly students stand to sing the school song called Princes Men Forever. This week Mrs Nacca was signing with the children in the classroom when they asked if they could sing the Princes Song. Aware that we had never sung it in class she expected that they may remember a little of the tune and fill in the rest with lots of hmmmm hmmm hmmmms. Watch our video and you will learn that even when you think children appear not to be listening they are taking it all in!!!




For those of you who are interested in the real words :

We are Princes men forever
We never will say never
To challenges we meet along the way
We will face the world with might
Uphold the Red and White
And march right on into another day

Mel and Rosalie