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Dear Edgerley Families and Friends,
We
thought this week was going to be a quiet one! Boy were we wrong! We have loved
making our new class member, ‘Nicey’ the Monarch Caterpillar, feel welcome. In
fact, after reading the book about Monarch caterpillars, it wasn’t long before
we noticed Nicey turning into the letter J in preparation for making it’s
cocoon. We look forward to sharing the book next week with the actual author,
Tracy Shmith!
We’ve
been beside ourselves exploring the world of pirates – in fact, some of us even
had to have eye patches after role playing in the sand pit digging treasure. We
found ‘X marks the spot’ everywhere!
After
our exciting visit from Zac’s dad last week (he’s a real musician and he even
has a recording studio), we decided that we’d like to create our own recording
studio complete with a cool sound board, head phones, microphones, speakers,
mixers, computers, a stage and real music. Our FAVOURITE song, based on our Noiseworks
unit, is ‘What Does the Fox Say?’ You may hear your child recalling lines from
the song and we hope the words don’t get too mixed up. We have loved playing
‘Guess the Animal’ – our noises are very animal like!
We
also visited Mr Sillett. We got to climb all the stairs, up and up and up, all
the way to the top of ANZAC Hall and sit in the sound and lights room – wow!!
He let us sing and talk into the microphone, play with the special buttons and
sliders, move the giant spot light, press buttons on his computer and he EVEN
took us backstage where we could look back up at his room. It was so cool! What
a great experience. Thank you Mr Sillet!
But
to top it off, we had a visit from Rob the Builder. He is in charge of the ‘New
PAC’. We got to ask him about the noises that we are hearing all day, the
machines he uses, why we can hear and feel shaking and are there any plans for
a swimming pool? He was great at explaining it all to us and he has left a
special place in our room so we can glimpse into the ‘New PAC’. It’s so
exciting (hey – if you can’t beat it, join it!)
So although we like to plan for some
downtime, the Edgerley children just keep on leading us into exciting
challenges and new learning experiences – what a great bunch of kids!
Coney, Renee, Carla and Katherine
