Princes ELC

PRINCE ALFRED COLLEGE EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

An environment designed to foster creativity, provoke questions, provide challenges and celebrate the achievements of young children. We foster the development of integrity, curiosity, confidence, compassion and Christian principles.We encourage relationships of shared responsibility and mutual respect. We believe in fun and the joy and importance of childhood. We ensure an environment filled with a sense of humour, love of play and exploration, and a sense of community.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Edgerley Room




Dear Edgerley parents,
We have had another busy week in Edgerley, continuing to explore shadows and rainbows. We would like to create our own rainbows with prisms so if any families have prisms that they would like to share with us we would love to experiment with them. We also continued our discussions around spring and winter flowers.
“Blossoms are weak and daffodils are strong so daffodils can come out in winter” said Priyanka
“Uh oh! There maybe won’t be enough blossoms for the other days in spring!” suggested Lily, thinking ahead about possible consequences
“Daffodils are so strong so the wind can’t blow the petals away . Actually blossoms have to grow out of a tree but daffodils can grow one by one out of the ground” said Fletcher
We covered our windows in our beautiful blossom pictures and then set to work observing some bright yellow and orange daffodils. We felt them, they did have stronger petals!
We said goodbye to our crabs this week and sent them back to the nature Education Centre and next week we are looking forward to further exploring another round home for an animal. Can you guess what it is? We are also looking forward to welcoming Mr Wagenfellars brother-in-law who is coming to speak to us about bee’s homes. Maybe he can explain to us why the bees in our garden won’t make any honey in the hive we built for them using blocks?
Kind Regards
Mel, Pip and Coney