Princes ELC

PRINCE ALFRED COLLEGE EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

An environment designed to foster creativity, provoke questions, provide challenges and celebrate the achievements of young children. We foster the development of integrity, curiosity, confidence, compassion and Christian principles.We encourage relationships of shared responsibility and mutual respect. We believe in fun and the joy and importance of childhood. We ensure an environment filled with a sense of humour, love of play and exploration, and a sense of community.

Friday, November 17, 2017

Angwin

Dear Families,

We have had a wonderful week in Angwin exploring the Nativity story, working on our songs and sharing lots of versions of the First Christmas story in our show and tell program. The children have been working on their special gifts which are looking gorgeous!

Our transition to school program has continued with children attending PAC visiting Mrs O’Hara’s room for a play. We have had another lunchbox picnic which has been the provocation for the children to think about the types of foods in their lunchboxes.We have looked at whether their food is an always or sometimes food and whether they have had enough to eat or too much! Containers to open and how much plastic have also been topics of conversations.

The children have been working together beautifully to create such co-operative models, in the block corner, with the animals, with the train set… It has been a joy to see the way they are using the social skills that we have been working on all year - negotiating, sharing and taking turns.

We have continued our visits across to the Tech Studies Department, to catch up with the boys who are constructing our Bug Hotel. A big thank you to Sidney’s dad Brett for working so hard to help this come together. We are most grateful!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend and for those attending the Christmas Pageant, we hope the rain holds off and you have a special time making memories with your children.

Kind regards,

Pip and Coney