Pre School Health Checks

Women's and Children's Health Network, through Child and Family Health Services offer free health checks at key ages between birth and 5 years.

As part of this service, a Child and Family Health Nurse will be visiting the ELC on Tuesday 5 May from 9.15am to offer health checks to all children between 4 and 5 years of age.

The health check includes a discussion with you about your child's growth and development, immunisation status and will also assess your child's:
* distance vision
* hearing
* height and weight
* oral health

If you would like to make an appointment please see me for a time and to complete a 'Pre-school Health Check - Client Details' form.

Regards

Melanie

Angwin

Dear Families

 

The first week of term has been a busy one for the Anwinettes. And, although we have begun to discuss our new unit “Conversations in Colour” and continue on with our investigations around spices and Autumnal change from the Autumn program, the children have a new and dedicated focus! Flight! Our classroom has been taken over by a travel agency and aeroplane. This space has been so busy that at times it seems that every child in the classroom is somehow involved in the dramatic play, whether it be preparing tickets and answering phones or using the loud speaker to announce flights. Children have been busy preparing ipads, headphones and binoculars for their passengers. Passengers have been treated to guidebooks on their destinations as well as a lot of food for the flight! It would seem some of our children have had rich experiences on aeroplanes that have stimulated their creativity as well as their vocabulary. If you have any photos of your child aboard an aeroplane please feel free to e-mail it to Mel Bishop so that we may print it and add it to our dramatic play corner.

We have also begun to discuss Anzac Day. This can be a tricky and complex subject to discuss with young children and we have focussed on how important it is to help each other out in times of need and then to remember those who have been good helpers in the past. We read the book My Grandad Marches on Anzac Day  by Catriona Hoy and used some photos to simulate discussion and develop an understanding about what the children already know about the subject.  

“He’s a soldier” said Auggie

“I saw lots of soldiers on the telly and they were dead” said Aiden

“They got shot in the war” said Angus

“What is a war?” wondered the teacher

“There was a naughty man that wanted to take over the world and he kept doing it and they had a war” said Auggie

“They get lots of soldiers over here and lots of soldiers over there, like on Star Wars, goodies and baddies” said Aiden

“It’s armies” said Scarlett

We looked at some pictures from world war one and two. It didn’t look like the soldiers were having very much fun. The children thought it looked cold and muddy. We saw soldiers taking other soldiers to the hospital.

“We have a special day for remembering soldiers that got hurt and died as well as the soldiers who helped each other” said the teacher

“Anzac Day” said Angus

“Who is the good guys and who is the bad guys?” asked Angus

“Hmmm, that can be a very tricky question Angus” said the teacher

“I saw in Home and Away they remembered the army man that got shot” said Angelina

“I think that guy’s deaded” said Cameron

“You’re never reborned, that means you never get another heart” explained Harvey

“Yes Harvey, once people are dead they are never alive again. That’s why we try to remember them. Sometimes on Anzac Day we go to a ceremony and leave poppies to show that we remember” said the teacher

Look for our beautiful poppies and rosemary in our classroom next week.

We have also begun to make tracks in sand , inspired by Angus, Ashlyn and Caitlyn’s snail trails at the prep sandpit. Feel free to have a try yourself and see how it feels to make different trails and tracks.

Next week Mrs Rocca leaves us for four weeks to complete her teaching practicum. We wish her all the best and look forward to seeing Miss Emma Gray in her place.

Kind regards

Mel, Alex and Coney

 

Mattingley

Dear Mattingley families and friends,

On Friday, we had William Gerlach’s Mummy, Anna come in to teach us how to make her special brownies. Anna showed us all the ingredients that went into the brownies and let us explore them with our senses. She then showed us how to mix them together to make the perfect cake mixture.

I can’t wait to eat it!- Romesh

But we can’t eat it yet!- Dominic

To melt the butter and the chocolate we had to put them in the microwave together for a few minutes.

We will know when it is ready because it will go “ding, ding!” Poppy told us. 

We making chocolate to go in the oven! –Harry BB

I can smell chocolate- William G

Once we started eating there wasn’t much talking happening. It was the best tasting brownie that we have ever tried. Thank you Anna for coming in and teaching us to cook your amazing brownies. We all had a great time learning from you and eating them.

We hope you all have a fantastic weekend,

Kimberley and Coral

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Chapple

Dear Chapple Families

 

Back into the action in the Chapple room for Term 2. We have started our new inquiry topic of Conversation in Colour and it has certainly started the children talking. This week was the colour red and we have looked at poppies and sunsets and we have also started our Bower Bird weaving.

We have started a colour science experiment and we are hoping to see our colours run!

We have also begun an attempt to make our own musical composition called Peace.

 

Chapple Room

Wilkins

Dear Wilkins families,

This week we have been particularly interested in exploring light and shadow. We have been using the overhead projector with coloured shapes and puppets. We also recognised our own shadows outdoors making them bigger and smaller, by stretching out our arms. We also made our shadows disappear and re-appear by moving in and out of the light. Some of the discoveries we made were:

“Hiding shadows” - Samuel

“Big and Big” - Sienna

“I see Mr Shadow” – Zali

“I green now. That green shadow” – Charlie

We have also been busy putting out fires at our fire station. The children have been building their team work and communication skills between one another through their imaginative play.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Amy, Miss Sarah and Miss Carla.

Cooper

Hello Cooper friends and families,

Welcome to Term 2! We hope you all had a lovely Easter.

This week we have been busy at the making table creating works of art. The class have loved spending time at the table testing their imagination and fine motor skills. We would love any donations of small food boxes (nothing that has stored nuts) to help stock the making area because we're having trouble keeping up with the children!  

Monday parents...don't forget that we now have library at 11am on Monday so don't forget to pack a named library bag for your child.

Have a lovely weekend

Jain & Cris

Langley

Dear Families

 

This week the children got back into the school routine after a lovely 2 week holiday. During our morning meetings we discussed what the children did during their holidays.

We have welcomed some new friends to the Langley room who started with us this week. Roy, Josh, Jed and James have settled in quite well already.

We have been talking about colours this week and will have a focus colour each week. Black is the colour this week and the children have engaged in fun activities such as painting, drawing and gluing with different black objects. Next week we will be discussing the colour white.

The children have also had lots of fun with clay in the classroom. They have made sculptures but sticking small natural objects into the clay and displaying them in our room. The children have thoroughly enjoyed this experience as they are able to squish and mold the clay to which ever shape they like and feeling the hard texture once it has set.

Again we would like to welcome our new families to the centre and we look forward to the term ahead.

Miss Brooke, Miss Emily, Miss Renee and Miss Sarah.

Mead

Dear Mead Room families,

This week we have been looking at books about Anzac Day and discovered that whilst it is the anniversary of Australian and New Zealand soldiers arriving in Gallipoli, it is also a day for remembering how lucky we are to live in a country like Australia, and we remember the brave men and women who have served and defended our country. 

On Friday we made Anzac biscuits  and found out that the biscuits they ate in Gallipoli were a little bit different from the ones we make today!  They were so hard people used to write messages on them and even made them into Christmas cards!  Ours were much nicer!

We welcome new friends, William and Maxime and their families.

We have explored colour and the creation of new colours whilst making playdough.

Kartik – Blue and Red…. We made purple!

Zoe – We squashed them together

We have had sick animals tended by amazing medical practitioners

Lola – we’re doctors for animals and this is the hospital.

Lucy – I was checking their hearts

We have soaked up some Autumn sunshine and tried our hand at new ball skills in PE.

Have a lovely weekend.

From Mrs Prest and Miss Gilbert

Mead

Dear Families

With the change of seasons from summer to autumn the children have been noticing the changes that are occurring. They have spoken about the changes in the weather and that it is “getting colder”. The Mead children have also become aware of the changes to our plants in the outside area of the ELC. During a walk in the yard of the ELC I directed the children’s attention to the trees that were changing colours. When they were asked what colours they could see on the leaves the children replied:

                                         “Brown, yellow, orange, red and brown”

After collecting our leaves we brought them into the classroom and sorted them into colours. We then counted how many leaves we had in each group. The children were really engaged and each member of the class contributed to the sorting and counting.

Our class has also been using the leaves and natural materials that we have collected to create beautiful artwork which the children have been very proud of.

Have a nice weekend!

Miss Gilbert and Miss Tiarna

 

 

 

Langley

Dear Langley Families and Friends,

For the first week of the holidays we took it easy, after an exhausting weekend of Easter Celebrations. We transformed our sleep room into a ‘home’ with a kitchen, lounge room and babies to care for. The children really loved this room and relaxing in this quiet space.

We took advantage of the ‘Big Boys’ being on holiday and decided to go on a nature walk, taking along our toilet roll binoculars - watching, listening and chatting about the birds in the trees.

Here are some of the observations that where shared by some of the children.

Lexie – “The things to look in the eyes.”

Andrew – “Birdy eyes”

Charlie – “I can see birdy.”

Andrew – “look where the bird.”

Sebastian – “I can see rain.”

Theodore – “I see the moon.”

Week two was just as exciting as week one. There have been some fun and exciting additions added into the room, such as our new market stall fully stocked with the freshest fruit and veg, and the best coffee on offer! This week we continued our quest to find wildlife around the school grounds, and happened to stumble across a construction site along the way. The children were hugely excited about the trucks and diggers and reflected on what was taking place.

Ryan- “A rerry big digger”

Henry- “Digger, digger,digger.”

Paxton-“Digger pull.”

Marcel-“WOW, da house.”

Nyanwell-“He’s fixing it.”

Zara-“Bashing.”

Henry-“I fink the truck is pulling down that.”

Have a great weekend everyone, and we will see you next week for the start of Term Two.

Miss Emily, Miss Brooke and Miss Renee.

Edgerley

Dear Edgerley families and friends,

Last term the Edgerley boys explored the world of a Bakery in the role play corner using a till, play dough, baking tins, and bottle tops for money to serve and bake for each other. Week 1 of the holidays we walked to the local bakery to experience a ‘real life’ one to enhance their understanding of the food we buy at a bakery. Before heading off we compiled a list of the things the children thought we may see there and when we returned we wrote a list of the goodies we DID see and compared lists.

“Donuts- chocolate and sprinkle ones”, suggested Nathan.

“Cupcakes”, added Jack Mc.

“Sausage rolls”, was Jack A’s idea.

“AND don’t forget birthday cakes”, said Archie.

Wow! The boys had many suggestions about the food we buy at bakeries. Once there, we had a close look at all the goodies on display. We then purchased some and tasted them on our return to the ELC. Yummy! What a treat!

Comparing our food lists it was amazing to see the similarities. Lamingtons, pies, pasties, biscuits and finger buns were foods the boys also thought we might see and yes we did! It was wonderful to see how much knowledge the children had about bakeries through their own experiences.

During the first week we also participated in baking bread from scratch with Mr Ty, walks around the college grounds-extending our gross motor skills on the prep school playgrounds, playing football and cricket and small group construction using different materials.

Week 2 was highlighted by pyjama and movie day on Wednesday, crazy hair day and Anzac cookie making on Friday and taking care of the vegetables in our garden that we planted last week.

See you in the Winter holidays 

Mrs Nacca, Mr Ty and Ms Kendall