Chapple

Hi everyone,

This has been a fun filled week. We have been constructing some amazing towers and have all contributed to the building with the small designer wooden blocks.

We have also started the work on two beautiful murals about our mothers which we will have finished for the Princesses Tea Party. 

Movie day was great fun we relaxed and watched "Despicable Me 2" - those Minions are just so funny. Ms. Kerry made Popcorn for everyone to munch on.

Friday saw us enjoying Wacky Games Day.

• we played balloon pass with our knees. 
•  pin the crown on the teacher.
• cotton ball challenge. 
• toss the pig and hippo.
• egg and spoon race.

Some of the games were quite challenging but a lot of fun. 

Have a great weekend

Miss Kerry and Miss Faye 

Edgerley

Dear Edgerley Families and Friends,

This week has been another welcome and fun break for the children from the rigours of term.

It was great to see the Edgerley Class wear their loud and colourful shirts on Tuesday. It made for a fun start to the week after the long weekend.

What is a week during the holidays without a visit to the ‘Rainbow Playground’? The Edgerley class were challenging each other to see how high and long they could go on the swings. The great thing to see was they each took turns to rise to the challenge. 

On our Movie Day every child had popcorn to munch on while sitting back to enjoy the movie. We set up the Edgerley room with the big screen, invited Angwin and Chapple over and watched Despicable Me 2. There was lots of laughter especially when there are ‘Minions’ involved.

Unfortunately the Thursday sports sessions was cancelled, so we enjoyed some free play activities.

Wacky Sports Day. What a wacky day that was. We started with ‘Pass the Balloon’ race. The children got the hang of it really quickly and were able to pass the balloon well between their knees. The next game they played was ‘Toss the Rubber Pig or Hippo’. The children had to try and land a rubber pig or hippo on top of a box. Some were very close but only Regan was successful, good throw Regan. We continued with other games like ‘Pick up the Cotton Ball with a Straw’ and ‘Put the Crown on the Teacher’. There were some dizzy efforts with that one.

We hope you all have a great weekend and we will see you next week.

Thanks, Mr Ty and Mrs Murdy

  

Mattingley

Dear Mattingley families and friends,

What a wonderful week we shared together. We have heard from Mrs Rocca letting us know that she has arrived safely at her first holiday destination. She promises to keep in touch with us, letting us know where she is and what she is doing. We hope to Skype with her over the next few weeks. We really miss her and are hoping that she is having a really good time away with her family.

This week we continued learning about Anzac Day, reading a beautiful story called,  Anzac Biscuits written by Phil Cummings and Owen Swan. It shows a little girl with her Mum cooking Anzac biscuits for Daddy who is away at war. It shows that contrast of life at home with what it might be like to be at war in an appropriate way for children of this age. We spoke about why these particular biscuits were sent away to the soldiers. We then read a recipe for these delicious treats together. Collecting all the ingredients that we needed we baked a yummy batch to share.

We make Anzac biscuits for soldiers- Samuel

They are for eating- Lochlann S

Do you know? I think Anzac biscuits are for remembering the brave soldiers from the war- Walter

I love them all- Lachlan B

They are for the dogs too- Marcel

Ummm, we bit them – Billy

They are like toasts- Lilah

Later in the week we were going to head out to the car park to wash some of the very dirty cars that were parked out there. Unfortunately due to bad weather and lots of maintenance work happening we decided that this might not be the best option. Together we decided to take our soap and sponges outside to wash the bikes and other 'cars' in our outdoor learning environment. Lots of fun was had working together to clean these toys. It was beautiful watching them take the time and effort to carefully clean the things that are very precious to them, especially  the bikes!

We clean them so much. The dirt is all gone- Felix

I clean the bike. I ride it now- Paxton

Wet bike. All clean now- Jason

Wow it shines now!- Samuel

Every thing all clean now- Ashton

We would like to say a big thank you to Miss Lucy for all her support over the last two weeks. We have had lots of fun getting to know her and wish her luck for her new position in the Chapple Room.

Kind regards,

Mrs Mason and Miss Lucy

Mead

Hello Mead families and friends,

As a follow on from Paige bringing in Autumn leaves, we went for a walk to the Prep school playground; for both a play and to look for Autumn leaves. What a delight to see so many beautifully coloured leaves that had fallen from the trees.

Excitedly the children ran to collect them to take back to the Mead room.

Mikayla – “Look up here (pointing and looking up at one of the trees) – the leaves have fallen, the wind has blown them down.” Mikayla then looked at another tree: “Look, this tree has no leaves; the wind has taken them all”.

Patrick – “Look! Red, yellow leaves”.

Alexander - “I got an orange one”.

Mikayla – “I can count them; 1,2,3,4,5”.

Patrick – “I will help you; 1,2,3..”.

Danica – “I did find a big red one”. 

Jack – “Maybe we can put them on the big tree”. (Outside Mead classroom in Town square)

Paige – “I want to do painting with them”.

Mikayla – “Let’s look at them – just look”.

Mrs Nacca – “Shall we sort them into colours?”

Children exclaimed with lots of enthusiasm – “Yes!”

The children tipped the leaves onto the floor and independently lined up all the red leaves together.

Patrick – “Orange ones here”.

Parker – “Here go the green ones”.

On Thursday Miss Elodie brought in Sunflower seeds for the children to plant, this was a great experience to extend and discover a new intriguing life cycle to follow on from the butterflies. Each child scooped up some soil using a spoon into the tray, they planted their seeds and then watered them.

We are very excited to watch them grow!

To finish off the week we had a lovely movie day on Friday.

We hope you have a lovely weekend, see you next week to commence Term 2.

Miss Elodie and Mrs Nacca

Langley

Dear Langley Families and Friends,

This week we have continued learning about the weather, we have incorporated a weather chart into our morning meetings. The children look out of the window and discuss what they think the weather looks like.

The Langley children are still very interested in experimenting with light by viewing the lava lamps and the bits and pieces at the light table. Miss Renee introduced a sensory art experience on a clear piece of perspex, some children created collaborative paintings on each side of the perspex using their fingers to wipe the paint away and create light.

Pheobe – ”Painting, bit here. Pink hand.”

Alannah  - “I did a circle. Messy hands!”

While outside this week the children have noticed the loud planes flying over the ELC. We have watched, discussed and admired the planes – climbing on top of the playground, laying on our back and peering through windows. The children have enjoyed mimicking the planes with their bodies while Miss Emily sang aeroplane songs.

We have also been talking about how to respect our environment. The children have shown an understanding after discussions, we don’t draw on furniture, rip books or pull out plants. It was nice to see some of the children cleaning the crayon on the furniture.

Have a lovely weekend,

See you next week!

Miss Emily, Miss Renee, Miss Brooke and Miss Jen.

Angwin

Dear families and friends,

This week the children have extended on their learning from last week. They continued with discussions about Anzac Day recalling how they had celebrated the special day and Oliver brought in a special story which he shared with the class. We made Anzac cookies by following a recipe and using team work, they were delicious. We also made fish, shark and eagles in a bottle having been inspired by the jellyfish in a bottle experiment from last week.

Perhaps the most heart-warming moment of the week was the release of two Monarch butterflies which we had nurtured since caterpillars. The children watched the butterflies come from the vase and fly through the ELC jungle area and over the fence. Be sure to keep an eye out for them.

A big thank you to Wenting for all her support these holidays, we have even been learning the days of the week in Chinese. We welcome Mrs Cooper back next week and Teddy’s Daddy, Perry who will be making eagle wings with the children on Tuesday.

Love Miss Bowden and Wenting

Cooper

Dear Cooper Room Families and Friends,

We have had a lovely time in the Cooper room over the last few days. We have had our movie day and enjoyed watching Madagascar . We also had a great time up at the Rainbow Playground with two other classes.

On Wednesday we explored primary colours and thought about and experimented what could happen if we mixed these colours together. To do this we used coloured water, paint palletes and pippettes . Here is some of the conversation that happened during this experiment...

Miss Cass: 'What could we do with this coloured water?'

Charlie P - 'If I put blue in it, it will mix to green. Like your earrings. It turned! If we put red in it, it will change to pink.'

Miss Cass- 'What other colours could we mix?'

Charlie P- 'Maybe red and maybe blue.'

Rory- 'Now I'm going to mix some. I need a bit of green.'

Miss Cass- 'We don't have any green Rory. That's blue'

Rory - ' Oh we can make some green? With lots of yellow.

Miss Cass- 'What do you notice about the coloured water?

Ryan - ' Rory added some more colour and it change because it has different colours.'

Nyanwell - 'It's turning blue and green because we added more water.'

Zara - 'Yeah it makes different colours.'

After we had done some experimenting and discovered what happens when we mixed primary colours, we used the pipettes and put some drops of the coloured water onto small cotton pads . The children enjoyed watching the colours mix on their cotton pads and many children commented on how the cotton pads looked like rainbows.

This week the Cooper children have also enjoyed playing in the mud kitchen and on the windy Wednesday afternoon we spent some time chasing bubbles outside.

We hope your children have enjoyed our Autumn Program as much as we have and we are looking forward to an exciting term two.

Miss C and Miss Cass

Wilkins

Dear Wilkins friends and family,

We hope you all had a lovely long weekend! We have been hearing lots of wonderful stories about family trips away, special excursions and the exciting adventures the children got up to.

Throughout the second week of our holiday period, Wilkins and Langley have been busily trying to re arrange our outdoor spaces. The Langley girls had a wonderful idea about creating a cubby house which would be utilised as a quieter space for the children to sit and read or play together in smaller groups. This has already seen to be a wonderful addition to our yard as we have been watching friendships flourish and children applying their skills to caring for their home.

Gradually the Wilkins and Langley girls have been adding greenery, specifically herbs in order to further develop the children's senses (sight, taste and touch recognition). Miss Em has brought in some lovely planter boxes which have been placed around our cubby house, the children thoroughly enjoyed helping Em. The children have been showing such enthusiasm in helping their teachers and peers care for our environment. This week the children have also been engaging in outdoor large block play. They have been constructing all kinds of shapes and spaces and sharing their thoughts ideas and imaginations.

We would like to remind you all about our Princess Tea Party on the 9th of May. This is a great experience for the children to show all of our special Wilkins mums how much they mean to them. Please return your RSVP's as soon as possible and we look forward to seeing you then!

From, Mrs Jess, Mrs Nicole, Miss Ellen, Miss Georgia and Miss Kim  

Chapple Room BBQ

You are invited to the Chapple Room Family BBQ. 

Please click on the link for your invitation: Chapple Room Invitation

New Door Code

The front door code will be changing on Wednesday 11 May at 7.30am with the door plate being re-vamped as well as it is looking a little tired and well worn. 

Please make sure that you collect the new code from Mandy before this time.

A reminder to please only share this code to people who are authorised to collect your child. 

Regards 

Melanie

SA Health: Public Health Warning media release

SA Health has issued a public health warning to South Australians not to eat raw bean sprouts following a significant increase in the number of Salmonella Saintpaul cases. Food businesses have been alerted not to serve raw bean sprouts until further notice.

Please find attached the media release regarding this public health warning and frequently asked questions.

If you have any queries please speak to an Environmental Health Officer on 8132 3600.

Kind regards

Environmental Health Team

T / 8132 3600

 Please click here Public Health Warning

Edgerley

Dear Edgerley Families,

We had a great start to week 1 of the holidays starting off with some science experiments. We changed milk into different colours, made volcanoes in the sandpit and made a bit of a fizz with Mentos in the coke bottle.

As always there is a visit to the Rainbow Playground.  The children always like playing at this popular destination. 

There were some great dance moves at the Disco on Wednesday where the room had disco lights set up over the dance floor. Stickers were awarded for some of the best ‘movers and shakers’ on the dance floor.

On Thursday we joined in for some sports fun on the Back oval with Chapple and Angwin. Stewart and some of his helpers took the fitness session. There was a tug of war, some relay races and an all in soccer match.

Felix’s grandparents visited the class on Friday talk to us about ANZAC Day as well as to show us his Grandfather’s medals. Thankyou to Morris and Suzanne for your time to talk to us.

We celebrated Friday with a sausage sizzle. This is a popular event with to end the week on with the children loving the smell of the BBQ cooking while they play and wondering when it will be ready.

Remember, Loud Shirt Day which is on 26th of April for the children attending on Tuesday back.

I hope you all have a nice ANZAC Day weekend and come back refreshed next week.

Mr Ty and Mrs Murdy