Langley
Wow what a busy week we have had this week! We have been enjoying creating and building with the big coloured bricks outside this week. We have created all sorts of structures; some have been so tall we’ve had to use the step from the bathroom to be able to reach the top to put more on!
Our big three year old children had their moving up morning in the Mead room on Tuesday and we welcomed some new friends into the Langley room for a visit. On top of this, we have also been very busy creating a special surprise to take home to put under the Christmas tree for Mum and Dad, make sure you check your child’s pigeon hole next week!
We would like to thank Miss Bethany for all her help in our classroom over the last three weeks and look forward to welcoming back Miss Kerry on Monday.
Kind regards,
Jess, Hayley, Pippa and Bethany
Mead
Through out the term we have explored school buildings, houses and community facilities. The children have talked about their own homes and what they are made of. When we went on our excursion to Lightsview we were able to see houses and an apartment building in construction. The children have been busy creating a duplo town in the Mead Room full of fire stations, police stations, schools and hospital. In preparation for our class party we constructed an edible town.
"We are really going to need a skyscraper. Careful it doesn't fall down." said Tommi
"Ree..a fire station and fire engines too. A shed for the trucks." added Leon
"What about my house?" asked Jesse. "We can make it too."
Using carefully created edible cement we constructed our buildings, starting with the walls, then the ceiling. The fire station was completed with doors open for the trucks to drive straight in and the skyscraper was four levels high!!
Kind regards
Susan, Emma and Susan
Cooper
A small group of Cooper children helped to cook playdough this week. They added and measured the ingredients in the bowl and then stirred them...
“We mixed it all together” explained Chanel.
“We put some salt in there” said Angus.
“Some oil…flour” said Toby.
“Hot water” said Sebastian M.
We decided to make our playdough a little Christmassy..
“We used green water” added Toby.
“And glitter! Glitter!” exclaimed Chanel.
The children helped to knead the dough until it was smooth and had cooled down and then had great fun making Christmas trees and other festive shapes with their hands.
Kind regards and merry Christmas,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
Congratulations Chapple boys! The boys did a fantastic job with their beautiful singing voices - they really are proud Princes Men!
Thank you once again for attending our graduation ceremony, we hope you enjoyed it as much as the boys did.
We wish you a great Christmas and a happy New Year, thank you for a wonderful year.
All our best wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
This week we continued our investigations into castles and further explored the idea of day to day life inside them. We discovered that a castles town square is called the bailey and we also found out that places inside the bailey that used fire (like bakers, kitchens and blacksmiths) had to have stone roofs because hay ones would catch on fire! We still wondered about the role of arches and on the students request took another walk to our main building to check that this wasn’t a castle inside…it was just a building, how disappointing!
We also began a new inquiry this week as Zac shared all he knew about volcanoes in Hawaii and we looked through non-fiction books to see different types of volcanoes. Will we be able to squeeze this one in before the end of term??? We can always try!
Kind regards
Mel, Pip, Rachel and Renee
Wow what a busy week we have had this week! We have been enjoying creating and building with the big coloured bricks outside this week. We have created all sorts of structures; some have been so tall we’ve had to use the step from the bathroom to be able to reach the top to put more on!
Our big three year old children had their moving up morning in the Mead room on Tuesday and we welcomed some new friends into the Langley room for a visit. On top of this, we have also been very busy creating a special surprise to take home to put under the Christmas tree for Mum and Dad, make sure you check your child’s pigeon hole next week!
We would like to thank Miss Bethany for all her help in our classroom over the last three weeks and look forward to welcoming back Miss Kerry on Monday.
Kind regards,
Jess, Hayley, Pippa and Bethany
Mead
Through out the term we have explored school buildings, houses and community facilities. The children have talked about their own homes and what they are made of. When we went on our excursion to Lightsview we were able to see houses and an apartment building in construction. The children have been busy creating a duplo town in the Mead Room full of fire stations, police stations, schools and hospital. In preparation for our class party we constructed an edible town.
"We are really going to need a skyscraper. Careful it doesn't fall down." said Tommi
"Ree..a fire station and fire engines too. A shed for the trucks." added Leon
"What about my house?" asked Jesse. "We can make it too."
Using carefully created edible cement we constructed our buildings, starting with the walls, then the ceiling. The fire station was completed with doors open for the trucks to drive straight in and the skyscraper was four levels high!!
Kind regards
Susan, Emma and Susan
Cooper
A small group of Cooper children helped to cook playdough this week. They added and measured the ingredients in the bowl and then stirred them...
“We mixed it all together” explained Chanel.
“We put some salt in there” said Angus.
“Some oil…flour” said Toby.
“Hot water” said Sebastian M.
We decided to make our playdough a little Christmassy..
“We used green water” added Toby.
“And glitter! Glitter!” exclaimed Chanel.
The children helped to knead the dough until it was smooth and had cooled down and then had great fun making Christmas trees and other festive shapes with their hands.
Kind regards and merry Christmas,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
Congratulations Chapple boys! The boys did a fantastic job with their beautiful singing voices - they really are proud Princes Men!
Thank you once again for attending our graduation ceremony, we hope you enjoyed it as much as the boys did.
We wish you a great Christmas and a happy New Year, thank you for a wonderful year.
All our best wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
This week we continued our investigations into castles and further explored the idea of day to day life inside them. We discovered that a castles town square is called the bailey and we also found out that places inside the bailey that used fire (like bakers, kitchens and blacksmiths) had to have stone roofs because hay ones would catch on fire! We still wondered about the role of arches and on the students request took another walk to our main building to check that this wasn’t a castle inside…it was just a building, how disappointing!
We also began a new inquiry this week as Zac shared all he knew about volcanoes in Hawaii and we looked through non-fiction books to see different types of volcanoes. Will we be able to squeeze this one in before the end of term??? We can always try!
Kind regards
Mel, Pip, Rachel and Renee
