Cooper

Hi Cooper families, 

We have had a very busy week in the Cooper room this week. We started off our week getting down and dirty in the garden. Following on from the children’s keen interest last week with the ginormous broad beans plants that have sprouted in our garden, we decided to pick some beans and use the seeds inside to replant in our classroom. The children decided that we needed the following things to best support our plants to thrive in our classroom.

Poppy- We put the seed in the dirt and then they grow.

Lucy – We need some water.

We have been eagerly observing our seeds each day to see if the seeds have started to sprout. We have had no such luck yet, but we are hopeful that we will see changes in the next week.

The children have absolutely loved observing our new class pets, our silkworms, over the week. It when they watch the silkworms, that they are using their senses to gather and form new knowledge about the lifecycle of these very interesting creepy crawlies.

Nash – They are called silkworms

Archie – Silkworms

Nash – One is eating a leaf

Archie – If they go out of our classroom then we will put them back in

Lucy – They eat the leaves

Poppy – We got the leaves from outside

Eddie S – They have a sleep sometimes

Lucy – They do poos

Oliver C – They eat all leaves

Toby – They slither.

George – They get bigger and bigger

Lucy – They are different sizes. Not the same

Angus – I picked up a big one

Nash – One is having a piggy back

Ollie F – Look at the tiny one just there

Angus – Look at the big one

Nash – We need to be gentle

Ollie F – They are very slow

Nash – They have a little home in there

The Cooper room have taken fantastic care over the last week to collect leaves from our Mulberry tree for the silkworms to eat and clean their enclosure so that they have a nice place to live. We are very proud of the way that they are looking after our pets. 

We hope that you have a fantastic weekend.

Love Miss Gilbert and Miss C 

  

Mead

Dear Mead Room families and friends,

Our recycling inquiry has moved on to our own paper waste.  The children have thoroughly revelled in utilising the collage experiences, which in turn revealed a keen interest in developing scissor skill proficiency!  To extend the two experiences the children have begun eagerly snipping our used paper, old magazines and newspaper so that we may create our own new paper from the old. 

We hope you have been hearing a lot of rhyming used at home lately! We have been investigating rhyme, talking explicitly about rhyme, letters and sounds.  We have been discovering rhyme in the books that we read, the songs that we sing, and we are creating our own rhyming verses for a song that we sing here in the Mead Room, The Pirate Song.

We read ‘Room on the Broom’ and found a plethora of rhyming words! We had to add to them!!

Elsie – cat and spat

Zahli – dog and frog

Houyi – frog and log

Harry – bird and blurred

Anwen – fire and wire

Grace-Marie – roam and bone

Jimmy – road and bode

Isla B – sky and my

Ginger – broom and moon

Each day the children take it in turns to hold a responsible position in the Mead Room. From  line leader to door holder, counting the friends at morning meeting or being our weather watcher.  These responsible roles enable each child to take on leadership roles in a safe and supportive environment, support the smooth running of our day and, and its lots of fun too!

Take care of each other,

Melissa and Georgia

Langley

Dear Langley parents and friends. 

Another busy week and the first in Langley for our new student Isabel who has enjoyed exploring the indoor and outdoor play areas and socialising with her peers and educators.

Recently you would have received information regarding our Nativity which will be held on Thursday 30^th of November. We would appreciate it if you could return your attendance slip as soon as possible so we can plan for further this event. We will soon begin rehearsing songs for this event and will let you know the songs so you can practice along with your children.

This week we continue to use various materials to create our collaged self portraits. The children have enjoyed exploring the tools and participating in this very tactile task.

We are lucky to have some special visitors in class this week as Miss Jess brought some silk worms into each classroom for the children to see. They are generating lots of questions from the children. We’ll continue to observe their behaviour and the children will collect leaves with Miss Georgia to feed them.

Please be aware that now the weather is warmer we will be refilling the children’s drink bottles throughout the day so they may be quite full when they are picked up.

Have a lovely weekend.

Nicole, Olly, Georgia and Tayla

Chapple

Amazingly the build up to the end of Term has started already! We are now discussing Graduation, Big School and even Christmas!

We have still managed to get in some letter making using blocks and train track. 

Ms Wegener and the children did a wonderful activity comparing and contrasting the size of flowers.

Photo day proved to be very exciting! We discussed why we have photos.

Sam: Because it’s a special day.

Seb: So we know whose locker it will be. We might put things in the wrong locker.

James: They take them so they can send them to people around the world, so they know who is moving class or going to big school.

Leonardo: If it is something you like and you aren’t going to see it again. You take a picture to look at it again.

Jonas: If you don’t have a picture on your locker. How will you know which is your locker?

Flynn: So we know what we look like.

Haris: You have to take a picture so your mummy and daddy are happy.

Liliana: Because they will be beautiful and you can give them to someone you don’t know.

Alana: When we go to a different big school, we need pictures for people who don’t see us again.

We then looked how we use photos on identity badges to help us keep us safe.

Please could you let us know where your child is going to school next year. This is to assist us in transition.

This Week’s Show and Tell- the sounds are g for goat and o for orange

The children have been asked to bring in some dress up clothes in a bag for some “secret graduation business.” This will be for a one off and they can come home after they have been filmed.

Graduation Tuesday 5^th December at 9.30am in the School Chapel. 

Chapple Room