Angwin

Dear Families,

We have had another action packed week with plenty of fun and games. As the Spring weather has been quite unpredictable we have taken our weather watching to the next level, creating a weather chart for September. Each morning different children have a turn to record the date, the weather and to create a picture of the weather on that day. At the end of the month we shall review the different weather and map how many days of each weather type we have experienced!

After the two recent storms, the following day the children were keen to share their experiences and together we recorded them, with Mrs Cooper scribing and the children drawing their reflections. We have created a story wall with all our experiences.

Robert: Last night I heard the thunder and there was lightning too.. it was white.

Denver: Last night I heard a thunderstorm too. It was windy it went “oooooooooooo” The garden was really wet this morning. I walked on the grass and made footprints on the verandah. My dog was scared too!

Regan: It was very wet. I saw some lightning and my mum and dad thought there would be a power cut. The lights turned out and the showers and baths get cold. You wake up and go to your mum and dad’s room. My cat and dog freak out ‘cos they think it’s me banging a drum!

Teddy: I helped Mummy get the candles on because the lightning cut the electricity.

Wolf: I kept trying to turn the lights on but there was no power. After we got back from the shops the lights turned on again! I heard a lot of thunder and a bit of lightning. There was lots of rain so I couldn’t go outside.

The children have loved being police officers, planting broad beans, making amazing block constructions and creating incredible mobile constructions.

Wishing you all a wonderful Spring holiday.. roll on the sunshine!

Welcome back to Miss Bowden who joins us again after her term of prac. teaching. Thank you to Wenting for assisting Mrs Cooper whilst Miss Bowden has been away. 

Kind regards,

Pip and Wenting

Mattingley

Dear Mattingley Families and Friends,

Firstly we would like to say a big thank you to Adam and Lucy, Alice’s mummy and daddy who came to run a footy clinic with us Monday morning. Adam, who is from the Glenelg Football club bought with him Tim, who was a very tall footy player to help out. After a quick warm up the children practiced their catching and kicking skills.

Last week our good friends Joshua S, Jed and Lochlann were trying to work out how to make their block constructions hold together better. Jed suggested that they use sticky tape. Together they began to attach sticky tape to their constructions to hold them. Unfortunately when it came to packing up it was very hard to pull the blocks apart. The sticky tape worked too well. We had a discussion about what builders might use to hold their bricks together.

Cement!- Lachlan exclaimed.

We didn’t think we could have real cement in the classroom so Monday morning this week we made a batch of play dough to experiment with, turning our block corner into a construction site.

Oh yeah cement- Sammy

It sticks it all together- Marcel

The cement helps us build- Felix

Put your ear plugs in coz I’m going to hammer. To put it all together- Oliver

We making a big tower. I put the bricks on when Jed puts the cement on- Josh S

The bricks stick together- Jed

It was so much fun watching the children work together, negotiating, problem solving and creating some wonderful constructions together.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend,

Kimberley Mason and Coney Rocca

Pre-School Health Checks

Women’s and Children’s Health Network, through Child and Family Health Service offers free child health checks at key ages between birth and 5 years.

As part of this service, Child and Family Health Nurses visit pre-schools throughout South Australia to offer health checks to all children between 4 and 5 years of age.

The health check includes a discussion with you about your child’s growth and development, immunisation status and will also assess your child’s:

·       * distance vision

·       * hearing

·       * height and weight

·       * oral health

Carol Foster, Child and Family Health Nurse will visit the Early Learning Centre on Tuesday 15^th November from 9.15am and you are encouraged to attend. 

If you are unable to attend but nominate another adult, you are required to complete a written consent which is on the back of the letter you receive when you make an appointment.

Please note; it is essential that an adult of your choice is present with your child at the ELC. If this is not possible, you may have the health check completed by your GP or at your local Child and Family Health Service clinic.

Please also note; the minimum age for Health Check is 4 years and 3 months

Just a reminder to book early as all places were fully booked last term.

Please make your booking with Mrs Mandy at the Front Desk.

Kind regards 

Melanie

artsPACes

Last Wednesday the ELC children  show cased their talents in the Arts at the bi-annual artsPACes held at the Preparatory School. If you weren't able to attend on the night we have created a display on the tables just outside of the Edgerley and Cooper classes for you to enjoy. 

Please also see the photos below that were taken on the night. Many thanks to the creative staff team who put the display together and of course to the fabulous and creative children for allowing us to share their work.

Mead

Dear Mead Room families and friends,

Last week we were discussing camping and the resources we needed, the only thing lacking was an area to pitch our tent.  We have finally done it!

James – I went to the hills camping. A fire to keep warm.  I was helping Uncle Darren put the fire on. Used matches to light the fire and cooked sausages. We stabbed them with a special fire pin to hold them over the fire.

Connor – I’ve been with Daddy and Jakey and Connor, outdoors, in a tent, in a sleeping bag. It was orange.

Tom T – I slept in a caravan

Flynn – I had marshmallows. I cooked them with a fire. Using sticks. We used sticks to stick the fire.

Turn taking for ‘tent time’ has been ably negotiated.  A two person tent with 20 children eager to go camping could have had interesting outcomes, but we have been most impressed with the children’s developing awareness of what is fair and unfair in terms of utilising the tent! Great sharing and engagement in a fantastic shared play experience.

The latest ‘weather event’ has made a big impression on the Mead Room friends and they were keen to discuss, to make sense of the black out and find reassurance in their collective experiences.

Paige – we got a big torch. I was sleeping in Mummy and Daddy’s room

Alana – Mummy had to cook dinner in the dark

Mikayla – I did sleep in Mummy’s bed because I was so scared because I couldn’t see anything.

William R – I had a big torch and a little torch to see in the dark. The TV went off.

Haris – the rain was a little scary – it was falling onto my head and my clothes. Mummy didn’t have an umbrella.

Cooper – Our bath was cold. Mummy put on fire and got hot water. And then she tipped it in the bath, then another and another and then we get in it before it gets cold.

A power outage makes us resourceful, brings us together and it’s a little bit like camping!!

Enjoy your weekend!

From Melissa, Elodie and Sharon

Congratulations to Alex K... he is now a big brother!

Welcome to the world Benjamin , and congratulations to Shin Wei and John!

Happy Birthday to Mrs Prest who is celebrating a significant birthday tomorrow. Happy 21st Mrs Prest!

Create Confident Kids - Book Launch

Please click on the link below to find out more: 

Create Confident Kids - Book Launch

Article: Emotional Intelligence

When a child is anxious or depressed there is a good chance that one or both parents may be so too. Helping these children is much easier when parents are careful about what they are modelling. The problem is, when we react without thinking first, we give children the message that it’s okay to react without thinking too. If we want them to show restraint, we need to prove it can be done.

Emotional control is for everyone!

We all lose our cool from time to time but if ‘flying off the handle’ is a common response to stress or uncertainty, it can be a signal that something needs to change. Children alert us to the problem when we catch ourselves reprimanding them for behaviour that we see in ourselves.

If we don’t want them throwing tantrums, we need to make sure we aren’t!

Being a parent has never been easy!

It is so important that we show our children how we want them to behave.

No one has ever said it’s easy, but it is important. If we want them to be curious, we need to show curiosity and zest for learning. If we want them to control their emotions, we need to manage ours.

Counting to three can make all the difference!

According to Ron Siegel, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, just counting to three is enough. Practice catching your overreactions before they happen, by giving yourself a simple buffer - 1,2,3.

The next time you feel yourself ready to blow, try it under your

breath....”One, two, three”. You may be pleasantly surprised at how much better you’ll feel and you’ll be modelling emotional regulation for your children too.

“One, two, three”. Next - ask yourself, “Does this really matter?”, “Is this worth losing my cool over?” or maybe you’ll even have time to remember to say, “When you do or say that it makes me feel angry, sad, ______.”

Let’s model emotional intelligence. It’s a simple as 1, 2, 3!

Emma McKenzie

Teacher - Edgerley Room

Wellbeing Facilitator

Langley

Dear Langley families and friends,

What a wet and wild end we have had to term 3! With the extreme weather and rainfall on Thursday, Nicholas was very eager to go out in the rain and play in the puddles. We had a small problem though - No gumboots! We put our thinking caps on and came up with the next best thing - plastic bags and tape! The children were very impressed with their makeshift boots and excitedly ventured outside to explore all the puddles. There was lots of jumping and slashing involved which lead to lots of wet clothes and shoes but we had so much fun!

Also this week we had some special visitors in our yard! On Tuesday morning the chickens made their way through the fence and were scratching at the bark. The children loved seeing the animals up close and wondered what they were doing.

Leopold - "What they doing here?"

Abigail - "They're kicking the dirt!"

Angus - "Why they do that?"

Miss Sarah thought they might be looking for some food to eat.

Mack - "They eating that"

William A - "Yeah, they eating that mud"

As you all know, Miss Brooke has been busy growing a baby boy in her tummy over the last few months. Her last day in the Langley room will be next Friday the 7th of October. We will miss her immensely but wish her and her husband Jake all the best as they excitedly await for their beautiful baby boy to arrive.

Miss Amy will be coming in to join us from Monday 10 October to replace Miss Brooke. Please say hello and introduce yourself when you see her. 

Have a happy and fun long weekend 

Brooke, Emily, Georgia and Sarah  

   

Edgerley

Dear Families,

Sadly due to the wild weather we had to cancel our Sports Day on Thursday however this did not deter practice in our PE lessons, so we will be ready and raring to go next term when it is rescheduled.

There were some fine displays of gross and fine motor development, with the 'egg and spoon races' proving a favourite, with very few eggs falling from spoons! We have all established which sporting house we are in, what colour it is and the symbol that represents our houses.

We revisited our protective behaviour topic for those children who missed the initial discussions and focused on which parts of our body are private and what to do if we do not feel safe.

We have had some clever puzzle constructors in Isla, Lexie, Sophie and Elyssa who have worked cohesively to complete various puzzles together.

In our home corner there have been attentive and hard working family members who have taken on the responsibilities of various family members. There have been babies to feed, put to sleep and change, cleaning and cooking to be done and various jobs to be filled. Sebastian, Ollie and Henry have shown particular patience and a strong understanding of the domestic duties needed to run a family home!

In the outdoors, Rory and Zara accomplished the challenge of sliding down the fireman's pole. Despite their friends telling them it was easy they both were a little daunted at first, but both overcame their fears and proudly conquered the challenge.

Friday is the last day of Term 3. We look forward to another busy and exciting term starting after the 2 weeks break.

Best wishes,

Emma, Mel, Cris and Satin

Chapple & Save the Date Invitation

This was “R” week. We had great fun with our runway.

The children were making planes and decided they needed a runway.

Lachlan: Runway starts with a R.

Spencer: They have to be really good planes.

Kian: We need a light to land.

Spencer: We need more lights.

Zoe: Don’t go on the runway yet. It not finished.

Kian: It needs to land on the runway to be safe.

The children sent down their planes.

Noah: Straight down the runway.

Spencer: It lands with its wheels.

Hugo: Oh no! I have to stop– No more marks.

Abi: Mine flies really high.

We have also worked on our sharing and teamwork with the marble run challenge. Puzzles and beads have helped our fine motor skills.

We currently have a lot of unsigned attendance sheets. Please could you check through and complete them. (Mrs Mandy and Ms Garland will be very grateful!!)

Thank you.

The Chapple, Mead and Wilkins classes will be  looking at a cross age inquiry in Term 4 into Water, the idea being to investigate the science in our everyday lives. We would love the children to bring in a picture, for the start of Term 4 ,of themselves with water or any interesting picture of water. The aim is  to look at the many ways we use water, how it affects us and some of the exciting science behind it.

We are also collecting small 600ml (ish) clear disposable water bottles for an experiment for Term 4.

Chapple Room

You are invited to the Chapple Christmas Picnic! 

Please click on the link below to reveal the details!!

Save the Date - Chapple Christmas Picnic