Cooper Room

Dear Cooper Parents,

Our learning this week has been all about challenges! The winter months prove to be a challenge in lots of ways – ducking in and out of the wind and rain, trying to avoid catching colds but our challenges were a little different.

We challenged ourselves

: to carefully make our way around the most amazing obstacle course in the town square climbing under rails, balancing on hay bales and stepping on wooden logs to make it to the very end. This tested our perseverance as well as our balance and co-ordination skills.

: sort and classify a wide selection of objects to see what floats and what sinks after playing in the puddles. We were amazed to see that some rocks do float and some pieces of bark sink – quickly!

: create a house that the Big Bad Wolf could not blow down, no matter how hard he huffed and puffed. The children used our dark tent as the house and re-created the story many times over. We will continue to work on construction the perfect house next week, using clay, play dough and a variety of natural resources.

: recognise our own names at group times and even search for our friends names. We began to practise writing them in the sand on the light table.

: putting on our own shoes and socks after rest time. This was probably one of our biggest challenges and sometimes we got them on the wrong feet but we were all very proud of our efforts.

I wonder what challenges next week will bring!

Best wishes

Susan and Coral