Dear Mead Room families and friends,
This week we delved into the concept of
Love. It’s a tricky concept, but the
Mead Room friends articulated their feelings -
Isla
B – “Love is love
hearts, I love Mummy.”
Harry – “I feel good with Mummy.”
Elsie – “I love Mummy, I ticky (tickle) her!”
Poppy – “I make gingerbread with
grandma. I love grandma, Samuel, Mummy
& Daddy. I hug them.”
Quinn – “I love everyone in my house.”
Jimmy – “I love Daddy, we play.”
We read a book about Love and on further
discussion realised that for us Love and Kindness are similar concepts. Its about helping others, doing things
together and supporting eachother.
Cody – “I help Mum clean up.”
Zahli – “I help my Mum and Dad, I help do the
washing.”
Bill – “I help Mummy put stuff in the bin.”
Anwen – “I play with my friends.”
Scout – “No hitting.”
Isla
DG – “Being happy, give
people a smile!”
Ginger – “You can say, ‘Do you need a friend?’
when someone is sad.”
We will continue to discuss Love and
Kindness!
We thoroughly reveled in our Dancify
event on Tuesday! The children really
engaged with this music and movement experience so we continued in the Mead
Room when it was over!
Wednesday morning we were organising ourselves
for morning meeting when Miss Boler noticed a feathered visitor had strolled
into the Mead Room for a visit! We were
a little bit surprised, but not too much.. Chooks seem to like exploring the
ELC when they’re out of their chook house.
We had a chat about being kind (!) to the chooks when they’re out of their
own area – we will let them roam about looking for worms, we will try and stay
out of their way, we won’t chase them ‘because they’ll be too scared and sad’
(Teddy).
On Thursday we traversed the path up to
the Preparatory School for our first encounter with PE. We were able to make good use
of the Preparatory School Gym; ball skills, parachute experience and an obstacle
course that just seemed to go on forever!
Then we took a little detour on the way back to the ELC….. we meandered
off the path and wound our way through the Boarding House garden, down the
steps to the Health Centre – we popped in to see our amazing Health nurses but
both were away so we introduced ourselves to Mignon who was relieving in there instead! Then we negotiated the path near
the Headmaster's residence and ended up back on the path to the ELC.
There is more…. but we don’t want to be
greedy and take up the whole blog this week.
Spend some wonderful time with
each other.
Melissa and Georgia.
