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.

Friday, June 5, 2015

Mead


Dear Mead Room families,

It has been a festival of colour this week in the Mead Room.
Sorting colours, identifying colours, experimenting with creating new colours and a collaborative art experience. We also found time for a Dancify lesson with Heidi too!

On Thursday we placed a variety of coloured paints and a huge sheet of paper out on the big table for the children to explore.  Music was playing in the background, however we turned it up loud as a provocation to investigate if music influences the collaborative art process. When the music was subdued the children painted, shared resources and experimented with mixing colours.  Then the didgeridoo, whistles, and drums erupted from the CD player ……….The children began to paint intensely and a rich exchange of ideas emerged—

Kian—lots of swirls
Hannah—Spots!
Ned—X marks the spot
William—There’s a snake
Kian—big, giant spots
Ned—a lizard, and not too many snakes—not at my house
William—They’re poison
Hannah—All the colours of the rainbow
Abi—(singing) Red and orange and blue and red
Hannah—(singing) purple and orange and blue
Abi—It’s a rainbow

HELLO TO KARTIK AND JACK!!
Kartik Gupta and Jack Woodrow are not attending the ELC at the moment…… they are having adventures in other countries! Their families are accessing the blog from overseas and love seeing what the Mead Room friends are experiencing.
Kartik, his little brother and Mum and Dad are visiting family in India.
Jack and his family have just left Australia to live in Japan for 3 months.  Jack’s Mum told us that he will be going to kindy in Japan! They will be visiting family too.
 
Have a wonderful weekend.




Melissa and Maddie