The children have been experimenting with different textures through finger painting this week. They have been describing their creations as they poke and squiggle and squish the paint with their fingers and their whole hands;
“I did a bee” explained Kristian
“I do line” described Pauline
“Blue, squishy, wet” said Gwen
“Cold, it yucky” said Harry with a smile
“I drawed a big dinosaur, it’s got its bones” Sebastian told us
“It says my name” said Raphael
We look forward to experiencing some different textures in our play next week.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
There was an unusual surprise waiting for the children on Thursday morning in the Mead Room. Following the discussions and interest in the room, the children had the opportunity to look at and explore a real heart (cows). The children looked amazed at what they saw! It was a very large one. They knew that a human heart was about the size of your fist. But this one was quite enormous!
"Wow" Ella exclaimed!
"There's the little tubes that the blood goes though" Henry said pointing.
Zach was interested in having a touch of the heart. "It feels like meat. I can see some blood" he said.
"But blood is inside your body" Sebastian commented, "You can't see it."
"I can see the openers" Jack J said pointing to some arteries and veins. "It looks like a cabbage" he continued.
"It pumps, and pumps and pumps" Jesse described.
"Look at the dark hole" Henry said, pointing to a hole disappearing into the hearts centre.
"It's just so the blood can pump in there and out of the hole. I can put my two fingers in there. It's very bendy for mine fingers to fit in" Sebastian added.
"Yeah. It pumps through the hole, down the tubes and into the meat" Henry continued. "And that's the tube and it joins to that. Those are big tubes and that's the hole the blood goes through. And that (he said pointing) used to join to something" he described.
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
In the beautiful warm weather this week we were all keen to get outside. On Wednesday the Cooper and Mead children dug a river in the sandpit and we trickled water down it. Later in the day the four year olds made the river deeper and wider. On Thursday we returned to our now enormous river and trickled and tipped water down it again...
“It’s getting a dirty river” said William as the water mixed with the sand.
“I put it down” said Rocco who was holding the hose and watching the water trickle out.
“Can I go over the bridge?” asked Toby.
“It will go wee, wee down there" said Angus who was digging out the river with Sebastian M.
“It’s going under” exclaimed Chanel, seeing that the water was trickling under the bridge.
“Oh, oh” called out Mahmoud.
“Aah, I’m scared of it” cried Sebastian R. taking a flying leap across the river!
All the children loved getting sandy and wet in the sunshine, crossing the bridge, digging with the long spades and sailing boats down the river.
Kind regards,
Ali and Rosalie
Chapple
This week we saw a brilliant play at the big boys school which covered various stories and many funny characters. The children really enjoyed the experience, especially when they had a chance to dance around with the actors from the show!
We have been busy cooking in our restaurant and on Thursday the children decided to cook up Wombat Stew. We went on a walk up to the big oval and collected ingredients for our wombat stew...sticks, dirt, leaves, feathers and more. Back at the kindy we made a big brown wombat, added water and boiled up the stew.
"mmm it smells really good and tasty" said Nicholas P
"We need some spices to make it yummy" suggested Tom
"Yes, we need feathers, here mix it up, mix it up" added Sam "Are you going to taste it now?" asked Nicholas P
"Yeah, we might have to trick someone to taste it like the book" said Ashraf "Wombat stew, wombat stew, ooey gooey crunchy munchy" sang Sam "I think we should eat this for Big Boys Breakfast" exclaimed Tom "What a good idea, I think all the Dads will love it!" said Mrs McGee
So watch out - we might be serving up Wombat Stew for breakfast next Wednesday!
Thank you to everyone who helped their child dress up for the Book Week parade, it was a lot of fun guessing who everyone's characters were!
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
Dear Edgerley Parents,
We have had a very busy and social week. There have been lots of excavators in the sandpit continuing on with Cooper Rooms river project. The boys worked hard to listen to the ideas and contributions of others and work towards a shared goal. The result was amazing, the river flowed so swiftly we had to find a flotilla of boats!
This social play was mirrored in the block corner with the creation of volcano island and jungle houses for dinosaurs. The children worked beside each other, making space for each other’s houses and discussing the attribute and roles their dinosaurs would take.
“My dinosaur is alone so he doesn’t need a road to his house because he is alone” said Christopher
“I got this house so I need a skinny dinosaur to fit in it.” Said Soren
“My dinosaur is a allosaurus and it’s red so it can go in the volcano without getting hot” said Elliot
We also continued to work on our exercising place and invited Chapple children to join us. We look forward to recording more exercises next week
Have a great weekend
Mel, Susan, Pip and Rachel
