Little Flinders Street - Important Safety Message

        Little Flinders St. is not a designated thoroughfare, and 

shouldn’t be used at drop-off and pick-up times.

           The laneway cannot cope with the increased traffic flow in such a 

narrow space.

      Parent use is causing issues with traffic flow on Parade West, 

due to congestion at the Parade West intersection.

        Turning onto Parade West from this location is difficult as there is reduced visibility with cars, buses etc. This is why we haven’t been able to formally consider it as an option to improve traffic flow.

        We have been informed parents using this access are 

inconveniencing residents who need access.

      The extra traffic is putting pedestrians at risk with people having to walk around cars, both in Little Flinders St and at the intersection.

         Cars are speeding down the laneway. A number of properties/gates open directly onto this road without the buffer of a sidewalk. 

There have been a couple of near misses.

Thank you in anticipation for your support of this request.

Ross Scrymgeour

Director of Advancement

Thankyou!

A big thank you to all who bought cupcakes and donated to the

ELC’s Biggest Morning Tea !

It was a great result raising $250.00 which will help towards a 

cancer-free future!

Also thank you to our Chef Miss Kim and Miss Silvia in the kitchen who baked the ‘delicious’ cupcakes!

We couldn’t have done it without all your help!

Kind regards

The ELC Team

Chapple

Dear Chapple Families

Autumn has brought its own crazy weather. We were lucky enough to have library outside in the sunshine and the trees put on a beautiful display of yellow for the colour of the week. We went outside and explored our outdoor environment. 

It was Miss Kim’s birthday and we made her a card. She is a great chef and makes us lots of wonderful food. 

We looked at the aboriginal artwork outside and made out own yellow dot painting.

We also discovered that some of out children have very special talents and they were able to pass on these skills to other children in our "kids teaching kids" session. It was a great way for the children to lead, develop their language skills and confidence. 

Chapple Room

Wilkins

Dear families and friends,

We have continued our Autumn exploration this week, crunching coloured leaves, creating art works at the easel and exploring Autumn pictures. 

Thank you to the children who brought in some Autumn leaves to share with us - keep them coming if you find them around your house. 

We have also explored number this week as we hunt for numbers 1 to 10 at the light table. 

We have some footy super stars in the making in the Wilkins room! We have enjoyed the sunshine and developed our eye foot coordination with a range of different shaped balls. 

Our office corner has been a hub of activity this week with the children role playing individually and in small groups. This has been a wonderful way for the children to develop their social skills as they divide roles, share resources and negotiate with each other.

Best wishes for a wonderful weekend,

Ellen, Courtenay, Melissa, Chelsea and Jess

Langley

Dear Langley family and friends,

This week the children have been exploring the changes in weather. On Monday, Cara was laying on the grass outside looking at the rain clouds. She noticed that they were dark and thought that rain might be coming soon!

Cara -   Dey (they) rain clouds! A torm (storm) coming.

Ethan - I need my rain jacket

Lucy -   I need my jacket and gum boots.

Rupert was kind enough to bring in a humongous sunflower from his garden to share with his friends. The children were all very intrigued. We placed the sunflower on a table outside for the children to use as provocation as they did observational paintings.

A big thank you to everyone who has brought in their beautiful Autumn leaves for us, we have loved painting with them and looking at all of the different shapes, sizes and colours they come in.

We hope you have a lovely weekend, 

The Langley Team

Cooper

Hello Cooper Friends and Families!

This week has provided many opportunities for the children to build their knowledge and continually develop their understandings of the world in which they live.

The bean stalks have continued to thrive over the past week, with many of the seeds having germinated. The children have loved observing the growth of their bean stalks, as well as ensuring they are been sufficiently watered. This has been a great opportunity for the children to learn the importance of caring for our environment. 

  >  Look! Mine has grown into the biggest! - stated Isaac S, as he proudly observed his bean stalk. 

   > They will get bigger, and bigger, and bigger! said Seb A, as he compared the sizes of the different plants. 

The children have also continued to demonstrate a keen interest in the beautiful autumn leaves around our Early Learning Centre. There were a number of children who instigated an independent leaf hunt throughout the week. It was great to see them displaying curiosity and persistence as they collected a whole bucket of leaves from the garden. 

   > Wow! There’s so many leaves! exclaimed Brian W, as he ran underneath the tree. 

  > Yeah! I’ve got the leaves and the cranberries, replied Samuel T, as he collected bits and pieces off of the ground. 

We have also had a large number of children experiment with clay over the past week. It has proven to be one of the most popular activities for students throughout our indoor play time. This experience has allowed the children to explore new textures and express their creativity, while continuing to develop their fine motor skills.

  

  > It feels like play dough… But hard and slippery!’ explained Ned, as he pressed his fingers into the clay 

  > I made a sandwich!’ boasted Giuliana, as she layered pieces of clay together. 

We also had a number of birthdays in a classroom this week, and so we would like to take the time to wish a happy birthday to Larissa N and Seb A! We hope that you both had a wonderful time of celebrations with your friends and families. 

Thanks for another great week! 

Miss Gilbert and Mr Richards

Mead

Dear Mead families and friends, 

This week we have continued to investigate the skeletal system and introduced a Doctors Surgery into the room. The children have extremely enjoyed dressing up as doctors, checking temperatures, administering medication and making appointments at the desk. 

Tom - Let me take your temperature, oh no - you're too hot!

Cody - I need to get you an injection. 

Ronnie - That's for your blood pressure. 

Vivienne -  Let me check your ear okay, I'm just going to look. 

Scout -  I can hear your heart, boom, boom, boom.

We have also been looking at x-ray's on the light table. On Wednesday, Zahli, Grace-Marie and Owen looked at each x-ray, identifying which part of the body it was. 

Zahli - It's a head, it has teeth. 

Grace-Marie - Look, it's skeleton toes, it's a foot!

Owen - A mouth, it has a mouth too (pointing to the x-ray and his own mouth too) 

Stuart the Skeleton has been very useful in helping us to see where all of the bones are in our body, the children have also enjoyed looking through our body books. Did you know, we have 206 bones in the human body?

On Tuesday, Brooke and Riley from UniSA came in to explore colours in the Mead Room. Grace-Marie, Cody, Tom, Isla B and Harry enjoyed sorting coloured feathers into the correct groups. We also went on a colour hunt, collecting items from each colour of the rainbow and sorting them into groups. 

Continuing on from our pet investigation last week, we have begun to make a graph to show how many children have dogs, cats, fish, frogs or no pets at home. We would love for you to bring in a photo of your pet, to add to our graph. 

Have a lovely weekend, 

Georgia and Melissa

Mattingley

Dear Mattingley families and friends,

All our friends could talk about Monday morning was the Secret Garden, sharing their worry that they might not be able to find it again if we went looking. Mrs Mason suggested that maybe the children could make a map to help them work out where they needed to go. 

I can make a map!- Lachlan exclaimed as he excitedly went to work at the writing table. Riani and Kaeshav quickly joined him and began talking about the about what their maps needed. After morning tea we set off to find the Secret Garden again, using the children's maps to lead the way. It took a little while, and we did find some tricky obstacles in our way, but eventually we were able to find the Secret Garden again. 

Lachlan - See I told you it was here. My map showed it! 

Tuesday morning Lachlan decided he would like to make a big map to show were the Secret Garden was so others might be able to use it to find it. As soon as they saw him working on his very big map many of his friends began to join in. It was wonderful to see the children working together, negotiating spaces and sharing their thoughts and ideas as they added details to this joint project. 

  

Kaeshav - And this is a track. You go down the track 

William - A big cave 

Angus - I making a footpath that you walk on 

Hudson - I'm making a footpath too 

Lachlan - Now you go around the round about. The Secret Garden is next to the round about 

Hridhaan - Here the secret garden. Here the trees

As part of this our Chinese lessons with Wenting the children have been exploring the story of the Three Little Pigs. To further explore this well loved story the children have been re-telling the story to each other using felt pieces and puppets. We have also been using our iPad and literature to explore different versions of the story.  This has lead the children to begin making up their own stories of the Three Little Pigs, acting them out together using the puppets. A common thought has been that maybe the Big Bad Wolf is just looking for a friend to play with, and our Mattingley children are very kind and caring when it comes to new friends. 

Kaeshav - Come into my house. Come into my house made of bricks wolf

Teddy - You want to come in and play Mind Craft?

Sofia - We play with you wolf 

Next week we will begin to record our own stories of the Three Little Pigs to share with our families and friends. If you have any stories of the Three Little Pigs at home we would love for you to bring them in so we can add them to our collection of stories. 

Kimberley and Liana

Angwin

Dear Families and Friends,

We have had a very productive week in the Angwin room. It has been a busy time reflecting on our trip to the zoo, making many maps and reflecting on the different animals we saw to create a book about our experiences. We had a big discussion reflecting upon why we use maps.

·  Sammy - To see where you have to go  

·  Walter - To find pirate treasure  

·  Lachlan - To show us where to go 

·  Walter - I showed everyone all around the zoo  

·  Paxton - I had a holiday to Queensland. We went to Movie World and I used a map to see where to go 

·   Roy - On the aeroplane I looked at the plane on the screen to show me the map of the way to China - 

·   Jed - First take a picture and give it to the others so they know what to look for 

·   Laila - We need to know the path to follow 

·   Edward - It can help people who don’t know how to find the rainbow birds  

We have continued our journey to map and share how we find the rainbow birds at PAC, creating our own class pamphlet. Next week we are going to be tour guides and take the Cooper room to find the rainbow birds using our map.

Our show and tell this week has been about the signs we have seen around us that Autumn is here!

Mrs Cooper - What are some of the signs that Autumn is here?

Alice - The leaves were going red, yellow and orange. They weren’t feeling well. The green ones are feeling happy.

Edie - The trees were naked.. all the branches were bare.

Sammy -All the trees’ clothes had come off!

Fred - The leaves were falling off the trees

Sammy - It’s freezing cold every night and every morning.

Sophia - The sky is grey and there’s rain.

Sammy - The ground is starting to turn green.

Edward - On the way to school I can’t see so many leaves on the trees.

Mrs Cooper - Why do you think the leaves fall off in Autumn?

Roy - Because it’s Autumn and the leaves always fall down then

Walter - The leaves die but the trees stay alive

Edward - I like collecting leaves too

Oscar - Sometimes I go to the playground near the footy shop and there are lots of leaves on the ground

Walter - Some trees are evergreen.. their leaves always stay green and never fall off

Other reflections and shared experiences were…

Chloe - I went for a walk when it was nearly dark. Mummy and I found lots of leaves… we have sorted them into colours… pink, purple, yellow, black and orange… not red though ‘cos they were poisonous!

Fred - We went to Kuitpo forest and I found a really long stick. Then I found a poisonous toadstool. It is beige. It was growing on a bridge.

Roy - My Dad helped me to pick up the leaves. Their colours are different – yellow, red, green and brown. The leaves were falling down.

Jason - My house is always getting leaves… we sweep up the leaves.

Oscar - These are flowers from my garden. The flowers are from plants. I like this one best (smelling a beautiful white rose)

Daniel B - I got these leaves from my Grandma’s house

Thomas - I went to a restaurant and there was an Autumn tree there. I saw a big leaf fall from the tree

Edie - My family went for a walk and we collected all these leaves

We are looking forward to working with our leaves to create some beautiful works of art next week.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Kind regards

Pip and Cass