Dear Cooper Room families,
It has been a wonderful and busy first week in the Cooper room
this week. We have been lucky enough to have Miss Renee from the Langley room
in our class to help settle the children into the new classroom. I am so proud
of how all of the children have embraced the move up to the “big Cooper class”
and have been happy to embark on their next learning journey in the 3 year old
room.
The children have particularly enjoyed engaging in imaginative
play with the small machines in the sandbox in the classroom. We have had to
negotiate with our peers and share these popular resources, which we have done
very well this week. This experience led us to build a large wooden road for
our trucks and machines to move along after we had collected sand.
We had a very exciting day with the chickens on
Thursday. After our morning we went outside as usual to the Town Square and
noticed that the chickens were not in their chicken coop, they had been let out
by a teacher to roam around and explore the big yard! The children were
extremely excited that they were able to get up close and pat the chickens.
After lunch we collected all of our left over salad scraps and fed them to
the chickens. We noticed that the chickens particularly liked the cucumber.
While we were reading the story “Hattie and the Fox” we had a chat about our
chickens in the ELC.
What did we feed the chickens?
Cody – We feeded the chickens the salad.
Royce – and bread.
How did the chickens eat the food?
Royce – with it’s beak.
Ed – that’s the beak (pointing to his nose).
What colour are our chickens?
Brian – Brown
Royce – Yellow
Larissa – Orange.
Ed – Its all of the chick chicks
Over the next few weeks we will be collecting and
counting the eggs with the Chapple room and recording our information in the
classroom.
It has been lovely to see the children interact and develop new
friendships with each other, especially children who are new to the Early
Learning Centre. Each day we are discovering more about each of the children’s
individual personalities, their strengths and interests. I am looking forward
to where this will take us in our emergent curriculum this year.
Happy Birthday to Lotti and Yash who both turned 3 this week!
We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
Love,
Miss Gilbert and Miss Renee
Miss Gilbert and Miss Renee
