Dear Cooper
families,
Our rocket ship in
the classroom continues to be a popular place for the children to explore and
engage in imaginative play scenarios with their peers. As we continue to learn
more about our Solar System, the children’s conversations and adventures in the
Cooper space ship become more elaborate and reflect the children’s developing
knowledge of Space.
This week, many
children have been keen to test their skills to find out how tall they can
build a wooden block tower. This curiosity and determination to build the
tallest tower was provoked by an experience set up in the outside area that had
laminated pictures of tall buildings which the children could use to guide
their own designs. From here we started
to use mathematical language such as tall, taller, tallest and short, shorter
and shortest to describe the towers. During the week the children had
competitions to see who could build the tallest tower. The children used
dispositions such as problem solving, persistence and trial and error. We
incorporated mathematical concepts into the experience by comparing and
ordering our towers and counting how many blocks each person had used.
We will be having a
transition visit on Wednesday the 22nd of June from
9:00am – 11:00am. This visit is only for the children who attend ELC on a
Wednesday.
We are also going
to have a Class Party to celebrate our time together in the Cooper room. This will be
held at 2:00pm – 3:00pm on the 30th of June in the Cooper
room. All children and parents are
welcome to attend the party, even if it is not their regular day. Afternoon tea
will be provided.
On the 1st of July we will be having our Dancify Concert, which will be held in the Town Square at 9:30am. Everyone is welcome to participate in the concert even if
it is not their regular day.
We hope you have a
lovely weekend. Try and stay warm!
Love Miss Gilbert
and Miss C
