The children have been inspired by pictures of different buildings to create their own towers and structures. This week they have been building with wooden blocks, soft blocks, Duplo and waffle blocks outside. The children have created all sorts of different buildings but especially love to see how tall they can make their towers before they tumble down. This has required the children to problem solve how to create a structure that is stable.
“Tower, tall like a mountain” said Jack S, “ I make it bigger, big, big, build building” he added.
“I building a big house with a brick” said Eden
Thank you to Marcus who brought in a photo of his house to share with his peers. We would love photos of others children’s houses also to use as inspiration for our building next week.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
Last week we walked around the school and had a good look at the buildings and structures that are existing. The children found that there were lots of varied materials used, shapes, uses and designs. In particular, they found the stained glass windows in the school chapel very beautiful.
We decided to make our own stained glass windows in the Mead Room. The children have carefully designed their windows using black paper and coloured cellophane. They have created some varied designs and decided they wanted to display them on the Mead door - to create a stained glass door. Please come and have a look!
"I want to have a black cross so mine has four different parts" said Ella. "One purple, one orange, a blue and a red".
"Mine is going to be all different colours. It's really nice" Seth commented.
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G 
Cooper
As we continue to ‘Build It Up’ in Cooper the children have been thinking about all the different kinds of buildings in the community. They have built bridges and shops, rubbish dumps and car parks, stages and theatres (for The Wiggles). Angus suggested we could build a carwash and a small group of children used the blocks to construct walls, a roof, a driveway, signs and buttons.
“Wash car, wash car” said Jacob pushing a toy car through the tunnel.
“We have carwashes at home” Angus told us.
“You turn a ‘mote control on, it moves around and around, the car goes into the tunnel” explained Felix.
Later in the week another group of children built a car with waffle blocks to take through the carwash with the dolls. If anyone is looking for an outing this weekend, may we suggest the carwash?!
Kind regards,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine 
Chapple
As well as designing in our architect's corner and building with blocks and plasticine, the children have been interested in knitting and tom-boy stitching! If you have any wool or scraps of material you would like to donate to our classroom we would love to create a sewing corner for the children to continue to explore the world of needles and thread!
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
“It has to be a city, that’s the only thing I can build with this type of Lego” explained Michael “We are doing all the parts and there is a rubbish bin, the lid opens” added Tom “There is water here, we have done three bridges” said Michael “I wonder if we could do some more bridges coz there’s lots of ponds in the city” suggested Tom “This is Adelaide Oval, cricket and footy happens there” explained Tom further “The blue side is water, the green side is grass, and that bridge leads to another bridge – that’s really cool isn’t it!” exclaimed Michael excitedly “Yeah” agreed Tom “And here’s a fire station, they do have fire stations in Adelaide” added Tom
Edgerley
It was all go in Edgerley this week as students explored balance and symmetry through their constructions and observations. We walked through the school to look for shapes in buildings and discovered a few we weren’t sure of.
“Actually, that is called a arch” clarified Oliver as we looked at shapes on the main building
We headed towards the technology rooms and saw some more arches but they were pointy at the top like rockets.
“I think we call them diamond arches” shared Oliver again
We used Oliver’s knowledge to create arched constructions at the light table on our return.
We also enjoyed constructing with corks and pop sticks. We reflected on our constructions once they were dry and talked about which strategies helped successfully build taller towers. We will further explore the idea of foundations on our excursion to the building site next Monday.
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
