Wilkins

Dear Wilkins families and friends!

We have been very busy week outside in the sun with water play! Splashing around with some sea creatures! 

We have also been exploring the Workshop and the new activities that have been put out for us to engage in.

What an amazing year we have had. We thank you all for creating such a great 2017 in the Wilkins Room! 

We hope that you all have a fun and safe Christmas and New Year and enjoy this very special time with very special people. 

Jess, Ellen, Courtenay and Melissa

Langley

Dear Langley Parents and Friends,

Its hard to believe but the end of 2017 is here.

We have celebrated with some Christmas craft using stickers, turning ourselves into little elves and painting and decorating pine cones that Miss Chelsea collected for us.

We have also been enjoying the warmer weather and spending time outside watering our garden, tasting the tomatoes that have been growing and having lots of water play. We have also been caring for our new garden bed that has been planted against the fence.

This week we also spent some time playing in the Workshop where we enjoyed building with the large foam blocks, cooking in the pretend kitchen and climbing around the obstacle course. We are all becoming confident climbers.

Inside we enjoyed Christmas playdough, making paper aeroplanes and building big train tracks.

We are in the process of sending home your child’s portfolio’s. We will no longer be using these as we will be moving across to the new seesaw program in the new year.

We would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and we look forward to seeing you in the new year.

 Love Nicole, Georgia, Chelsea and Tayla

Angwin

Dear Angwin families and friends,

What an incredible 2017 has been for our Angwin friends. 

The year is drawing to a close and the children had the opportunity to wrap it up with their peers doing so many exciting activities this week. 

They thoroughly enjoyed harvesting our grown garlic on Monday. Lots of pulling and digging was involved in the process and we are so glad that they were just ready before we take our Christmas break. 

The children also enjoyed exploring a form of art called 'paint marbling' using a dirty cup flow paint strategy with Ms Kerry on Tuesday, which led to the creation of amazing masterpieces. 

If you have seen the presence of lego in the room you know that means loads of fun for our little people well engaged in their creativity and imagination. 

On Friday, we made some refreshing lemonade using some mint from our garden. It was indeed tricky to work the lemon squeezers but a little bit of body twisting did the trick. It gave us a fresh taste of summer. 

The garlic we harvested was put to great use. We pounded them using a mortar and pestle, mixed in some basil and oregano from Mrs Rocca’s home garden, a dash of salt and a good splash of olive oil and we had ourselves some pesto for our garlic mini pizzas. You can’t go more organic than home grown food. The garden work we’ve done with Mrs Cooper this year has been an effective way for children to connect to their natural world, impacting their lives as future stewards of our planet. And that’s the year wrapped up!

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you all for this wonderful year. I’ve been blessed to see the growth in your children the last two years, and that has been strengthened  even more with the trust and confidence you have shown.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and an epic 2018!

Mrs Rocca

Congratulations to Mrs Rocca - 

she has successfully graduated with a Bachelor of Education - Early Childhood 

We are very proud of you!

Merry Christmas

To all of our families

On behalf of the ELC team I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Thank you for sharing your child/ren with us this year. We have had a lot of fun travelling along their learning journey with them. Each and every day is new and exciting and it is one of the many joys of working in an early childhood setting. 

We thank you for your most generous gifts and words of appreciation for all that we do. We feel very spoiled. 

Enjoy the next few weeks with your family and loved ones, whilst we do the same and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2018. 

Stay safe 

Christmas Blessings

Melanie and ELC Team 

Mead

Dear Mead Room families and friends,

Today concludes the end of the 2017 school year in the ELC, we have had a wonderful week continuing to make Christmas decorations, explore the rainbow playground and experiment playing a new musical instrument!

Miss Beth brought in her ukulele! We enjoyed singing along to several different songs as well as getting to have a turn playing it ourselves! Everyone extremely enjoyed the different sounds it made when we held our fingers over the coloured dots.

On Wednesday we had a great time at the rainbow playground with our Cooper ad Mattingley friends! We enjoyed the water play, the sandpit and climbing! 

On our last day we enjoyed decorating and creating our very own reindeer biscuit to take home! We combined classes and watched the Mickey Mouse Christmas movie with some tasty popcorn!

3 more sleeps until Christmas! We hope everyone has a safe and relaxing Christmas and New Year, spent with family and friends! We look forward to seeing everyone in the new year.

We re-open on Monday the 8th of January 2018! 

Miss Boler and Miss Beth 

Mattingley

Dear Mattingley families and friends,

This week in the Mattingley Room, the children have been singing and dancing to Christmas songs, being creative at the craft table, enjoying the sunshine in our outdoor environments and have continued their interests in threading beads, playdough and painting.

On Thursday, the children decorated biscuits with icing sugar, jelly beans and sprinkles. They all looked delicious and couldn’t wait to eat them for afternoon tea.

We also went up to the Rainbow Playground with the Cooper and Mead Room. The children had fun playing with the water pump, creating new friendships and climbing on the equipment.

Throughout the week, the children have been visiting the Angwin Room, exploring their new classroom for 2018. They were very engaged in new activities and enjoyed being in a new environment.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Enjoy your holidays and we will see you in 2018!

Liana and Kerry

Cooper

Dear Cooper room Families and Friends,

During the final week of the year we have had the opportunity to wind down and enjoy the festive season. We have been creating Christmas crafts and singing and dancing along to Christmas music.

We joined the Mead/Mattingley class and went for a walk to explore the school grounds making our way to the Preparatory school Rainbow Playground. The children got to explore the sensory urge to play with water, develop their social skills to play cooperatively with other children and negotiating and sharing the hand pump.

I like the rainbow playground, I like going down the slippery dip. It was an orange slippery dip and the ladder was blue – Nicholas

I like the slide and climbing – Lucy

I like the playground and rainbow for legs and arms – George

It has been a wonderful 6 months in the Cooper Room. We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. See you all in 2018!

Miss C will be on leave until January 22^nd.

Cris and Sharon

Edgerley

Hello Edgerley Families and Friends.

The children and staff alike have had a fun-filled time as we have wrapped up our final week of the holiday program for 2017. We have enjoyed engaging in activities such as moulding reindeer with chocolate scented playdough, building rivers and dams at the Rainbow Playground, participating in Christmas Kareoke, and challenging ourselves with different cup-stacking challenges.

It was great to see a large portion of the children express a particularly keen interest in the fake snow that we created on Tuesday morning. This activity was supposed to take place during our Tuesday morning session, but the sustained interest and appreciation demonstrated by the children caused the activity to continue throughout the entire week! Here are a few samples of the children engaging with this activity…

This is like the North Pole – Oliver

Dig, dig, dig at the snow – Samuel

The person is getting buried by the snow… It looks like a big, bubbly washing machine – Karl

Look at my big pile of snow – Aaron

Push the digger, just like the real snow – Yash

The penguins and the birds are playing in the snow – Ed

It feels fluffy, like a fox – Sebastian A

The car has big wheels so it can drive in the snow – Stirling

If you would like to create some fake snow of your own throughout the holiday period, the recipe can be found by clicking on the following link: https://playtivities.com/how-to-make-snow/

How To Make Snow Using 2 Ingredients - PLAYTIVITIES playtivities.com How to make snow with just 2 ingredients. It's a fun sensory play and activity for kids during winter days at home.

We would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our children, friends, and families for an incredible 2017. It has been an absolute pleasure working with all of you, and we would like to wish you all a joyful Christmas and a safe and prosperous new year. We look forward to seeing you when the early learning centre re-opens on the week of Monday the 8th of January 2018.

Much love,

Mr Richards and Miss Gray