Let's go shopping!

It's that time of the year again....Christmas shopping time :)

In the Front Office you will find some Christmas catalogues from Parent Direct and Chalk. Please feel free to take copies of each - they are all different. Once you have completed your order please give to Mrs Mandy and she will send off for you. Your purchases will then be delivered to the ELC for you to collect. The ELC will then receive discount vouchers that we can use towards resources for the children. 

Reminder: The Woolworths Earn & Learn program is soon coming to an end. Please bring in any stickers you may have as soon as possible. We will send these off and then start choosing resources for the children.

Thank you on behalf of the ELC children :) 

Book Week Parade

Dear Parents,

Book Week hit the ELC this week! The 4 year olds went to see two performances as part of the Prep School Book Week activities - 'Everything Emu' and 'Shine a Light'. The whole centre had a dress up day and parade on Tuesday. There were some wonderful costumes and the children loved sharing which story character they were and their favourite books. A huge thank you to the parents who helped with wonderful costumes!

We hope you share the wonder of stories and reading with your children. Reading stories to your child not only promotes early literacy and language, but provides the opportunity for quality time with your little ones.

Best wishes,

The ELC Staff

Mead Room Dinner

Mead Room Parents Dinner Reminder

Where: Giallo Wine Bar

39a Little Rundle Street, Kent Town SA (next to Australia Post)

When: Wednesday 2nd September, 2015 - 7pm

Cost: $40 pp (excluding drinks) Please pay upon arrival

RSVP: Cleo Cooper 0432 766 803

Big Boys Breakfast

Please let us know if you are coming!

Our Big Boys Breakfast is coming up next week.

When: Thursday the 3rd of September

Time: 8.30am-9.30am

Where: ELC classrooms

If you haven't already done so could you please fill in your RSVP slips and surveys, and return them to Miss Mandy at the front desk as soon as possible. We hope to see you all there. 

Thank you.

Cooper

Dear Cooper families,

We have had a busy and fun week in the Cooper room this week. As a part of our unit of inquiry on “Marvellous Machines” we are starting to deconstruct household machines in the classroom. This gives the children an opportunity to see inside different machines and unpack how the work. We currently have a computer hard-drive and a printer on our deconstructing table at the moment. It is great to see the children asking questions and discovering how different parts of the machine move and function.

On Wednesday while we were walking back from our fun filled PE session in the Prep School Gym, many of the children noticed the new blossoms that were blooming from the trees outside the gym. This promoted a discussion on the changes that are happening in our environment now that spring is approaching.  Our class decided to take a few sprigs from the tree to bring back into the classroom and continue these discussions. The blossoms have now been placed next to the painting easels to inspire the children while they are painting. Many beautiful pictures have come from this experience and the children have been very engaged with the process. 

The Cooper room will continue to look at the changes that occur during spring.

Reminder: Book Week Parade Tuesday the 25^th of August in the Town Square.

We hope that you had a lovely weekend.

Kind Regards,

Maddie and Cris

Angwin

Dear Angwin families,

We have enjoyed another jam packed week this week. We visited our buddies in the big school to make the pizzas that we ran a survey for last term. We enjoyed slopping ingredients all over 3Bi’s classroom. After the pizzas had all been cooked we were mysteriously two pizzas short, we think that they may have been gingerbread pizzas and ran out of the oven! 

Luckily Ms Wegener was on hand with her super pizza making skills to whip up two new ones! We also made milkshakes in the classroom. Again we used our maths skills to survey the children to find out our favourite ingredients. Banana and strawberries won hands down! We looked at the machine we used to make them and thought about what was making it work.

“It needs power, electricity” suggested Aiden

“It’s got cogs inside, cogs make things go round” said Arwyn

We looked at the end from a safe distance as Mrs Bishop pushed the button. Arwyn was right! The sharp bits at the end whizzed round and round!

We also went on a hunt for spring flowers in the college, we were surprised at how many we discovered. As we walked past the chapel we found a wall of beautiful flowers and had a great time scaling the rocks like mountain goats to pluck all of the various colours. We decided to press our flowers and created a giant flower press outside our room (we decorated it and added chairs around it to keep the little children away because it is very wobbly). We changed the paper on Friday and found that it was very damp.

“The water in the flowers gets squashed out and it’s the juice” said Joe R

“When it’s a little seed and the rain comes it all goes into the flower when it grows up and that is the water (that we can see)” said Oscar

We also began to make gifts for our fathers, we need to use a machine to make it, can you guess what it might be? No peeking!

Next week we are making a doctors surgery to use up all the medicine the children have been making in the sand pit.

“We really need to make more medicine so we can give it to people, well, the people that don’t have money or homes or food”, said Arwyn

“They have to pay twenty million thousand for this medicine”, Samuel answered

“ No, we don’t have to do that. They can have it for free”, said Arwyn

“But why?”, asked Samuel

“Well, they don’t have money to buy food so they don’t have money for medicine too”, Leon answered and Arwyn agreed

“Okay, we make more medicine then, and maybe we will deliver this to sick people in the whole wide world”, Samuel agreed

If you have any props we can use in our doctors surgery such as old masks, stethoscopes etc… we would love to use them.

We have also changed where we keep our portfolios. They are now on the shelf outside our room. Feel free to take a seat in the black and white chair and have a look at your child’s investigations before heading off to work. Feel free to leave a comment for them if you want to J

Happy reading

Love from the Angwin team

Mead

Dear Mead Room families,

Another busy week of investigation!  We were inspired to plant broad bean seeds after Lucas and Christopher excitedly shared they had planted some in the outdoor environment and that they would grow, “On Monday”, later that afternoon they called Miss White over, doubling over with laughter, saying; “We tricked you!”  So we were intrigued to see what might happen if we did indeed plant some broad bean seeds.

Aston – A seed, it will be a plant

Kian – We were making seeds. We put them in the cup, it will grow big and strong

Wilbur – the seed, water it and it will grow

Lucas – we put a seed in the cup, some balls of cotton and water. Its on the table so it has light.  Its going to grow and grow into a…… BEANSTALK!

We will be observing our seeds intently to see if there will be any changes.  We will keep you posted!

We welcome back Jack from his hiatus in Japan.  It is so lovely to have almost everyone back in the Mead Room!

Our construction table has been a hive of activity!  Many amazing machines have emerged from this creative space, some from our imagination and some a personalised version of machines we know;

Banjo – this is a helicopter boat. It can land on water. It flies. It saves people from the sky and the water.

Louis – A breaking machine.  Breaks up walls, breaks up roofas. It breaks up the break! The things on the top do the breaking.

Lucy – It’s a lolly making machine.  There’s a flicky bit and the lollies come out of the hole.  Just press that button

Please remember to RSVP to Cleo Cooper re the Mead Room Parents Dinner next week at Giallo Wine Bar

39a Little Rundle Street Kent Town SA, (next to Australia Post).

When: Wednesday 2nd September 2015 at 7pm

Cost: $40 pp (excluding drinks). Please pay upon arrival

RSVP: Cleo Cooper 0432 766 803 by Friday 21st August 2015

   

Have a wonderful weekend

Melissa and Jain

Langley

Dear Langley families,

This week we watched an Aboriginal dreamtime story on YouTube. The story was about “Tiddalick the Frog” who drank all the water in the river. The animals tried to make Tiddalick laugh so the water would come out of his stomach. We all loved watching this dreamtime story and hope to investigate Aboriginal culture further with traditional dot paintings on natural materials.

Also this week we helped Miss Emily dye some sand red for our Australian outback area. The children helped sift the clean sand into a tub then poured red water into it. We mixed it together and let the sand dry. Marcel, Chloe, Daniel and Samuel took a particular interest in cleaning the sandpit after this experience, and loved watching the clean sand fall form the sieve.   

On Tuesday, we found some snails in our garden. Miss Renee and the children thought it would be nice to make a habitat for the snails in our classroom so we can observe them throughout the day. 

Here is what the children thought would make the snail’s habitat feel lovely and homey…

Marcel – “Grass”

Roy – “Grass, rock”

Larissa – “Rice”

Paxton – “Flower”

Marcel – “Snail sand”

Some reminders for next week:

Our ELC Book Week Parade, Tuesday at 9:30am in the Town Square.

Please return your RSVPs and surveys for our Big Boys Breakfast ASAP.

Have a great weekend

Brooke, Renee, Emily and Sarah

Mattingley

Dear Mattingley families and friends,

Over the last few weeks we have been practicing some of the events that we will be participating in as part of sports day. We all really love playing with the parachute, taking it in turns to run under. We have to go down very, very low and then jump up high to make the parachute go up, up, up! We are also getting very good at maneuvering our bodies through Mr Barton's obstacle course. Sometimes we get a bit wobbly over the balance beams, however when we persist we can usually make it all the way over. We look forward to showing you all that we learn in our PE lessons with Mr Barton on Sports Day. 

Sports Day in on the 24th of September in week 10. If you are unsure what house team your child is in please ask either Miss Mason or Miss Bowden and we will do some research for you. 

Next week's show and tell topic is: A machine that is used in the garden. (This can either be a picture drawn by the child, a photo or the real machine if it is safe to bring in.)

We hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Kimberley Mason & Coral Bowden