Don’t forget our upcoming Chinese Curriculum Evening next week. Come and join us for a fun evening of experience and information. Wine and nibbles provided.
When: 17th August
Where: Princes ELC Art Room
Time: 7.00pm
RSVP: to Mrs Porter please via phone or e-mail at jporter@pac.edu.au
Friday, August 13, 2010
Free Moon Lantern Festival
Come to the beautiful Moon Lantern Festival at Elder Park on Wednesday the 22nd of September from 3.30pm – 8.30pm. A free family event as part of the OzAsia Festival, this would be a lovely culmination to our Shadowlands unit and an opportunity not to be missed.
Princes by Night
Don’t forget our night walk next week
When: Thursday 19th August at 6:30pm - 7:15pm
Where: Meet at the bottom oval to start our tour
Who: All Early Learning Centre students and parents (please note that your child must be accompanied by a parent). Teachers will be there to guide each class group on the tour
Please bring: a torch and warm clothing
Hope to see you there!
Early Learning Centre Staff
When: Thursday 19th August at 6:30pm - 7:15pm
Where: Meet at the bottom oval to start our tour
Who: All Early Learning Centre students and parents (please note that your child must be accompanied by a parent). Teachers will be there to guide each class group on the tour
Please bring: a torch and warm clothing
Hope to see you there!
Early Learning Centre Staff
Big Boys Breakfast
Hi Dads,
Hopefully you will have received your information (all three pages!!) regarding the Big Boys Breakfast. Please begin to return your RSVP’s and fathers surveys. Looking forward to seeing you then.
Kind Regards
Mel Bishop
Hopefully you will have received your information (all three pages!!) regarding the Big Boys Breakfast. Please begin to return your RSVP’s and fathers surveys. Looking forward to seeing you then.
Kind Regards
Mel Bishop
Toys From Home
Dear Parents,
In line with our Toys From Home policy, children are allowed to bring a comforting toy from home for sleep time only. Please help us by preventing your child from bringing in other toys from home to avoid tears or lost objects.
Thankyou
Mel Bishop
In line with our Toys From Home policy, children are allowed to bring a comforting toy from home for sleep time only. Please help us by preventing your child from bringing in other toys from home to avoid tears or lost objects.
Thankyou
Mel Bishop
Little Big Shots Film Festival
Dear Parents,
The annual Little Big Shots International Film Festival for Kids is on over the 7th to 9th of October. It is a great opportunity to take your children to see non-main stream presentations designed specifically for children. All tickets are $10 and more information is available at adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au. Tickets can be booked at 131246
Kind Regards
Mel
The annual Little Big Shots International Film Festival for Kids is on over the 7th to 9th of October. It is a great opportunity to take your children to see non-main stream presentations designed specifically for children. All tickets are $10 and more information is available at adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au. Tickets can be booked at 131246
Kind Regards
Mel
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Chinese Curriculum Evening
Come and join us at our upcoming Chinese Curriculum Evening on Tuesday the 17th of August. This gathering, that starts at 7.00pm, will not only be an opportunity for you to learn why the introduction of a second language is so important for Early Years students, but more particularly for you to hear from our wonderful Chinese teacher, Lao Shi House, about what children do during Chinese classes, how they learn and what they learn. It will be particularly beneficial for parents who do not speak Chinese to try their hand at some vocabulary and hear about some strategies to support what their children are currently learning in class.
Some come and join us for a fun evening of experience and information. Wine and nibbles provided.
When: 17th August
Where: Princes ELC Art Room
Time: 7.00pm
RSVP: to Mrs Porter please via phone or e-mail at jporter@pac.edu.au
We are aware that we have scheduled two evening events in the one week, with our Princes at Night walk occuring two days later, but this tight scheduling has been unavoidable and we hope that it wont be too inconvienient and that we will see you there.
An opportunity not to be missed
Kind Regards
Mel
Friday, August 6, 2010
Please Help Us
Dear Parents,
in the last two weeks we have experienced some issues with the usage of classrooms after Kindergarten class times have finished. Children, including older siblings, playing in classrooms after being collected from extended care have broken furniture, scribbled over furniture, destroyed children’s work and broken pots and baskets. Please help us by fully supervising your children when you collect them from extended care. We would be very appreciative if you could also ask your child to pack away any toys they take out while waiting to be signed out.
Thanks you for your help.
ELC Staff
in the last two weeks we have experienced some issues with the usage of classrooms after Kindergarten class times have finished. Children, including older siblings, playing in classrooms after being collected from extended care have broken furniture, scribbled over furniture, destroyed children’s work and broken pots and baskets. Please help us by fully supervising your children when you collect them from extended care. We would be very appreciative if you could also ask your child to pack away any toys they take out while waiting to be signed out.
Thanks you for your help.
ELC Staff
Buttons and Bottle Tops and Spangles
Dear Parents,
Langley children have been investigating buttons and are on the look out for more. If you have a collection of old buttons that you don’t need any more (or new ones like the single buttons that are attached to new tops when you buy them) the Langley children would be most appreciative of any button donations. Please leave them with Mrs Porter.
All students have been excited by the arrival of our weathered old carpentry table and have been enjoying working with hammers this week. We are looking for bottle tops to add to our creations. All bottle tops are welcome, metal or plastic.
In the coming weeks all children will be working on some reflective art installations for the upcoming artsPACes exhibition in the prep school. We will be asking children to collect reflective silver junk materials to bring to Kindy to add to the collage. Whilst the children do not yet know of this project we thought it might be wise to give parents some prior warning. Anything reflective would be great (our projects will be lit up at night). Old shiny wine cask bladders, bits of reflectors from old bikes, old bits of mirror, shiny paper and material, shiny lolly papers etc… would all be great.
Langley children have been investigating buttons and are on the look out for more. If you have a collection of old buttons that you don’t need any more (or new ones like the single buttons that are attached to new tops when you buy them) the Langley children would be most appreciative of any button donations. Please leave them with Mrs Porter.
All students have been excited by the arrival of our weathered old carpentry table and have been enjoying working with hammers this week. We are looking for bottle tops to add to our creations. All bottle tops are welcome, metal or plastic.
In the coming weeks all children will be working on some reflective art installations for the upcoming artsPACes exhibition in the prep school. We will be asking children to collect reflective silver junk materials to bring to Kindy to add to the collage. Whilst the children do not yet know of this project we thought it might be wise to give parents some prior warning. Anything reflective would be great (our projects will be lit up at night). Old shiny wine cask bladders, bits of reflectors from old bikes, old bits of mirror, shiny paper and material, shiny lolly papers etc… would all be great.
In the Classrooms
Langley
What a busy week of investigation and discovery we have had! Over the last couple of weeks the children have been investigating how light moves and how shadows are created on the overhead projector.
“It’s Tommi!” said Tommi excitedly as he found his shadow on the wall
“It’s Gabe!” added Gabe, as he showed Tommi
This week we made our first visit to the dark room to further explore light and shadows. The children have discovered that when you put something on top of the overhead it gets much, much bigger when it appears on the wall.
“Look Mid Jess my hands big!” said Oliver L
“Yeah, big hands!” agreed Jack O
I wonder what we can make big next week!
Kind regardsJess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer
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Mead
Dear Mead Room Parents,
We have had another busy week exploring and investigating. Building with transparent blocks in the dark room, creating patterns on the light table, seeing the world through coloured shapes, looking at shadows and images on the over head projector. The children loved exploring the dark room (art room).
“I liked the silver tubes best because I didn't know where I was going.” Jesse
“The dinosaurs glowed different colours.” Jade
“Wow, look at them coloured tubes.” Henry
“I don't know what I'm building till I'm finished.” Jesse
We have also drawn self portraits while looking at ourselves in mirrors. It will be interesting to compare these to our self portraits from earlier in the year.
Best wishes,
Emma, Susan and Emma
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Cooper
This week the Cooper children have been busy builders this week creating all sorts of big constructions. They have played with duplo and building blocks to make towers, zoos, airports and roads and have made 'princess castles' on the light box with small blocks and shiny materials. Outside, they used the big block set to build a large wall and a dinosaur mountain. It has been lovely to see the children beginning to work collaboratively on their projects, sharing ideas and adding to each other's work. Of course, when you're three it's also fun to see the effect of knocking things down and making a loud crash and everyone has enjoyed participating in that too!
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
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Chapple
The Chapple Room have been learning about how light can move through certain objects and how it can’t move through other objects. We have learnt to use to use the words ‘transparent, ‘opaque’ and many of us can also use and describe objects that are ‘translucent’. We created our own stained glass windows – you can see them on our classroom windows – they’re very beautiful. Ms Giorgio thought it would be a great idea to go and inspect the real glass ones in the Chapel. They also are very beautiful, but we like our designs just a fraction more!
On top of that, we began using mirrors to understand the idea of reflection. Some of us held them under our eyes and used the reflection from above to navigate our way from Chapple Room to the swing set and back. This proved to be a very exciting and scary experience with lots of giggling along the way. From this we also discovered that light can bounce from mirrors onto something else. As a class we tried to replicate torch light onto the walls of our room by pointing the torch light at the mirror and not directly at the wall!
“Everything’s moving. The roof is on the ground and it feels funny,” described Max experiencing the sensation of not being able to see his feet and use his eyes in the normal way to get from one point to the other.
Sebastian giggled, “I’m scared because I’m going to fall down on the roof. Now we’re going to fall on the tree! The sky! We’re going to fall on the sky!”
“It feels like I’m standing on top of the roof. It’s like we’re trapped there. The mirror makes everything look like we’re all upside-down and I think it’s because of the mirror,” said Kyle in a quiet but excited voice.
Kind regards,
Kate and Juliana
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Edgerley
We were very busy boys this week in Edgerley with lots of independent investigations occurring around the room. Aadi, Jamison and Hugo were using lamps and globes to investigate how the sun shines onto our earth to create day on one side whilst it is night time on the other side.
After Louie and Noah’s discovery that some of the things that give us light also give us heat we tested the theory with a birthday candle. They were right, candles give us light and heat at the same time too. We are on the look out for other things that give us light and heat.
After our observations of candles we watched a video about fire safety and this encouraged lots of dramatic fire man play in the block corner. We learned how to dial 000 (and will continue to practice this next week) but we are still learning the numbers and street and suburb names of our houses (our Mum’s and Dad’s can help us with that) and how to STOP COVER DROP and ROLL to put out fire on our clothes.
Meanwhile in the dark room as the children experimented with translucent paddles Roshan decided to create a rainbow. He worked, mixing the paddles to create orange, green and violet to finish the rainbow.
Wow, we wonder what next week will bring!
Regards
Mel and Rosalie.JPG)
What a busy week of investigation and discovery we have had! Over the last couple of weeks the children have been investigating how light moves and how shadows are created on the overhead projector.
“It’s Tommi!” said Tommi excitedly as he found his shadow on the wall
“It’s Gabe!” added Gabe, as he showed Tommi
This week we made our first visit to the dark room to further explore light and shadows. The children have discovered that when you put something on top of the overhead it gets much, much bigger when it appears on the wall.
“Look Mid Jess my hands big!” said Oliver L
“Yeah, big hands!” agreed Jack O
I wonder what we can make big next week!
Kind regardsJess, Adele, Kerry and Jennifer
Mead
Dear Mead Room Parents,
We have had another busy week exploring and investigating. Building with transparent blocks in the dark room, creating patterns on the light table, seeing the world through coloured shapes, looking at shadows and images on the over head projector. The children loved exploring the dark room (art room).
“I liked the silver tubes best because I didn't know where I was going.” Jesse
“The dinosaurs glowed different colours.” Jade
“Wow, look at them coloured tubes.” Henry
“I don't know what I'm building till I'm finished.” Jesse
We have also drawn self portraits while looking at ourselves in mirrors. It will be interesting to compare these to our self portraits from earlier in the year.
Best wishes,
Emma, Susan and Emma
Cooper
This week the Cooper children have been busy builders this week creating all sorts of big constructions. They have played with duplo and building blocks to make towers, zoos, airports and roads and have made 'princess castles' on the light box with small blocks and shiny materials. Outside, they used the big block set to build a large wall and a dinosaur mountain. It has been lovely to see the children beginning to work collaboratively on their projects, sharing ideas and adding to each other's work. Of course, when you're three it's also fun to see the effect of knocking things down and making a loud crash and everyone has enjoyed participating in that too!
Kind regards,
Ali and Susan
Chapple
The Chapple Room have been learning about how light can move through certain objects and how it can’t move through other objects. We have learnt to use to use the words ‘transparent, ‘opaque’ and many of us can also use and describe objects that are ‘translucent’. We created our own stained glass windows – you can see them on our classroom windows – they’re very beautiful. Ms Giorgio thought it would be a great idea to go and inspect the real glass ones in the Chapel. They also are very beautiful, but we like our designs just a fraction more!
On top of that, we began using mirrors to understand the idea of reflection. Some of us held them under our eyes and used the reflection from above to navigate our way from Chapple Room to the swing set and back. This proved to be a very exciting and scary experience with lots of giggling along the way. From this we also discovered that light can bounce from mirrors onto something else. As a class we tried to replicate torch light onto the walls of our room by pointing the torch light at the mirror and not directly at the wall!
“Everything’s moving. The roof is on the ground and it feels funny,” described Max experiencing the sensation of not being able to see his feet and use his eyes in the normal way to get from one point to the other.
Sebastian giggled, “I’m scared because I’m going to fall down on the roof. Now we’re going to fall on the tree! The sky! We’re going to fall on the sky!”
“It feels like I’m standing on top of the roof. It’s like we’re trapped there. The mirror makes everything look like we’re all upside-down and I think it’s because of the mirror,” said Kyle in a quiet but excited voice.
Kind regards,
Kate and Juliana
Edgerley
We were very busy boys this week in Edgerley with lots of independent investigations occurring around the room. Aadi, Jamison and Hugo were using lamps and globes to investigate how the sun shines onto our earth to create day on one side whilst it is night time on the other side.
After Louie and Noah’s discovery that some of the things that give us light also give us heat we tested the theory with a birthday candle. They were right, candles give us light and heat at the same time too. We are on the look out for other things that give us light and heat.
After our observations of candles we watched a video about fire safety and this encouraged lots of dramatic fire man play in the block corner. We learned how to dial 000 (and will continue to practice this next week) but we are still learning the numbers and street and suburb names of our houses (our Mum’s and Dad’s can help us with that) and how to STOP COVER DROP and ROLL to put out fire on our clothes.
Meanwhile in the dark room as the children experimented with translucent paddles Roshan decided to create a rainbow. He worked, mixing the paddles to create orange, green and violet to finish the rainbow.
Wow, we wonder what next week will bring!
Regards
Mel and Rosalie
Princes by Night
Have you ever wondered what our school looks like at night? Does it look and feel different? Who is at our school at night? What happens at PAC when we are at home?
As part of our ‘Shadowlands’ Unit of Inquiry, the ELC Staff would like to invite you and your ELC child to a tour of our school by night! We hope this experience will be an exciting opportunity for your child to further their understanding of some of the concepts we have been learning about and in many instances expose our students to seeing our school in a new ‘light’.
When: Thursday 19th August at 6:30pm - 7:15pm
Where: Meet at the bottom oval to start our tour
Who: All Early Learning Centre students and parents (please note that your child must be accompanied by a parent). Teachers will be there to guide each class group on the tour
Please bring: a torch and warm clothing
Throughout the tour we hope to walk through the grounds, listen to Mr Tutt talk with us about what happens at PAC by night, visit the Boarding House, enter the Library and the Gym and watch some of the football on the fields under lights. We will finish with a delicious hot chocolate in the Prince Philip Theatre.
Hope to see you there!
Early Learning Centre Staff
As part of our ‘Shadowlands’ Unit of Inquiry, the ELC Staff would like to invite you and your ELC child to a tour of our school by night! We hope this experience will be an exciting opportunity for your child to further their understanding of some of the concepts we have been learning about and in many instances expose our students to seeing our school in a new ‘light’.
When: Thursday 19th August at 6:30pm - 7:15pm
Where: Meet at the bottom oval to start our tour
Who: All Early Learning Centre students and parents (please note that your child must be accompanied by a parent). Teachers will be there to guide each class group on the tour
Please bring: a torch and warm clothing
Throughout the tour we hope to walk through the grounds, listen to Mr Tutt talk with us about what happens at PAC by night, visit the Boarding House, enter the Library and the Gym and watch some of the football on the fields under lights. We will finish with a delicious hot chocolate in the Prince Philip Theatre.
Hope to see you there!
Early Learning Centre Staff
A New Arrival
Congratulations to Zach in the Mead Room and his family, on the arrival of their new addition, Isabella Sophia born on July 27th 2010, 1.44pm weighing 6lb. 2 oz. and 47 cm long. Zach has been a very excited big brother to his new sister, sharing news of her with all his friends. Best wishes to Zach, Mum Elena and all the family
Love from the ELC
Love from the ELC
Edgerley Room Coffee Morning
Please join us on: Tuesday 10th August
At: McDonalds on Glen Osmond Road 219-211 Glen Osmond Road, Frewville,
When: After school drop off.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Amalia, Belinda and Adriana
At: McDonalds on Glen Osmond Road 219-211 Glen Osmond Road, Frewville,
When: After school drop off.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Amalia, Belinda and Adriana
New Cold Weather Jackets
We have organised with our uniform shop the puchase of waterproof jackets for the ELC for cold or wet weather. These jackets are waterproof nylon and are fleecy lined. These will be ideal for the children as extra warmth for outside play or for when we go on excursions so that they are still recognisable in school uniform.(it makes it much easier to spot our children !) They will also be great for arriving or leaving the centre in wet weather. The uniform shop has samples in sizes 2, 4 and 6 .They will order them for you and they will be available quite quickly. They will cost approximately $38. The sizing is quite generous so they should last your child a while. These are not compulsory uniform but are our preference if you wish your child to wear a jacket for outside play or excursions.
Jeanine
Jeanine
ELC Carpark
With the recent wet weather local traffic has slowed and it seems that everyone is arriving at once in the mornings and having trouble with parking! The school is aware of the parking problem and is working on a solution . A carpark for ELC staff is currently being worked on behind the centre and should be ready in 3-4 weeks. Staff from other sections of the school have also been asked not to park in the ELC carpark.
Please be patient in the mornings and do not double park as other parents can then not get out and may be hurrying to get to work. Remember also to watch out for our young children who are still getting used to road safety rules !
ELC staff
Please be patient in the mornings and do not double park as other parents can then not get out and may be hurrying to get to work. Remember also to watch out for our young children who are still getting used to road safety rules !
ELC staff
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