Dear Mead Room
families and friends
What a wonderful start to Term 1. As we mentioned in our Weekly Diary we have
strived to create a welcoming and sustaining environment in the Mead Room, an
environment to support the transition of new children and families into our ELC
community, and to also maintain the foundation of investigation and learning
already embedded. Mead Room friends have spent the past couple of weeks
exploring our space, both indoors and out, consolidating new routines and new
friendships!
It was a noisy start to Week 2 with our
Chinese New Year celebrations!
Isla
B – It’s a lion, it had
sparkly on it.
Iverson – Its not a real lion.
Elise – I know its not real – I saw people in
it!
Vivienne – The dragon did go away.
Zahli – We were loud!
Christian S
– It was a big, big lion… this big!
Max – We made lots of noise.
Leo – I saw some people aswell.
Jack – A big, BIG lion!
Jimmy – I shaked them (instruments)
Ming
Ming – Yellow lion.
We have made ourselves known to our
resident chooks and have collected the eggs on a few occasions. We also give them our lunch scraps (when
there is no chicken on the menu…..) and we make sure they have plenty of water
too.
Due to the extreme heat we have been
engaging in plenty of water play. Lots
of filling, pouring, floating and sinking, splashing, track making, and of
course evaporation! The children spent a
great deal of time exploring the properties of water as well as the concepts of
volume and capacity. It was also a
terrific way to practice social skills too—such as sharing and negotiating resources.
Mrs Prest and Miss Boler
