We have had a very busy first week in the Langley room and have welcomed many new friends. The children have been helping settle their new chums into the daily routine and activities of the room.
When playing we have discussed being gentle with our hands and bodies and using our words.
We created a medical centre in which the children have been playing doctors. They have been caring for the dolls and each other and asking questions about the toy medical equipment and what it is used for.
Kind regards,
Jennifer, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
Welcome back to Term 3! The children have enjoyed getting back into the old routines and exploring the classroom which is focused on our inquiry into our 'Brilliant Brains and Bodies'. We have had some interesting discussions about what our amazing bodies can do and how they work.
"I can sink in water" said Seth.
"I can stand up and turn around" said Sebstian.
"I can walk down steps. I learned how to do it when I got three" said Jack O.
"I can ride a scooter and also I can run" said Milo.
Of particular interest has been our bones and looking at x-rays of bones. There have been some fantastic drawings and paintings of skeletons and bones.
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
We welcomed our new group of three year olds to Cooper this week and they have been excitedly exploring their new room and meeting new friends and teachers. We have started to collect family photos to help us get to know the children and their families better and this provoked some family role play, drawings and paintings. A small group of children built houses with the little wooden blocks and people figure toys at a table...
“I got a family… they’re at the house” explained Sebastian M.
“They’re at the football” said Bruno, placing the people figures between two goal posts.
“They’re at the football, kick, kick” said Finn.
“Who’s in the family?” asked Mrs Blake.
“There’s my Mummy, Daddy, Nickolas” answered Sebastian M.
“There’s a tiny baby” said Chloe.
“Mum and Dad and Annabel” said Angus pointing to his people.
“What is the family doing?” wondered Mrs Blake.
“They have tea and they have to go to bed, then they wake up and they go to ELC… oh, and they have breakfast!” said Angus.
We look forward to spending more time getting to know the new Cooper children and their families over the coming weeks.
Kind regards,
Ali and Rosalie
Chapple
Welcome back to term three and a warm welcome to the new families who have joined our class! We are straight back into the swing of things with learning about our Brilliant Brains and Bodies. We have a hospital corner where children, teachers, dolls and teddy bears have been great patients for the fabulous doctors who have been bandaging, giving out medicine and writing important doctor notes! You may have noticed our display about our amazing hands and
how we look after our bodies. There has been a lot of discussion around bones and organs and we have looked at and felt our way through a sensory Braille story.
We began learning the 's' sound this week and don't forget next Tuesday, August the 2nd there will be a short information session in the classroom from 4:00PM regarding the phonics program. The readers will also be available to borrow from next week.
We are looking forward to a fun filled fantastic term!
Warm wishes,
Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
We have warmly welcomed our wonderful new group of Edgerley children this week for their first week of four year old Kindergarten….and what a week we have had!!!
We have been busy exploring our skeletons, using old x-rays as our provocation. Jasmine and Tom discovered stripes around the chest of the skeletons they observed at the light table and then discovered that they could feel the same stripes through their skin.
We looked at an x-ray of a baby from the light table and held it up to the light.
“What’s on the other side” asked Ajeet, so Mrs Bishop turned the x-ray over
“There’s pictures on both sides, they are different on the same side” explained Deacon
“No, this one is the baby’s back and that one is the baby’s tummy” said Elliott as he flipped the x-ray back and forth and tried to explain why he could see a picture on both sides.
“Maybe one is a baby sister and one is a baby brother?” suggested Cooper
We will continue to explore skeletons in the coming weeks and see if we can add some muscles and organs to our understandings of how our bodies work.
It was a great week of firsts as the new Edgerley children discussed how they thought Edgerley children behave.
“They do not pick their nose!” suggested Joshua S
“They eat with their lips shut ‘cause it’s manners” said Cooper
“They go in the line so the line is not bumpy” said Ajeet
On Thursday we met Mrs Cooper who will spend Thursdays and Fridays with us. Welcome back Mrs Cooper, we are sure you are going to love your days spent with us!
And finally on Friday, to finish our week, we sang Happy Birthday to Miss Sandow and guessed how old she was turning (general consensus is somewhere between 6 and 14!) and then sadly farewelled our favourite friend, Charlie, and wished he and his family all the best at their new house. We hope Charlie’s new school welcome him with open arms.
Next week we will welcome Mrs Tiller as Miss Sandow heads towards the sun on two weeks annual leave.
See you next week
Mel, Susan, Pip and Rachel
