Langley Room

Dear parents and friends of the Langley room,

What an eventful first week of holidays we have had. We have especially enjoyed Silly science day

Our first experiment on science day was to Colour White Lilies.

Miss Kerry asked the children "what colour  could we change the flowers to ?”

David-Blue

Lachlan-Yellow

David –Pink

Lachlan- They are white and green.

“Has anyone got these lilies growing at home?” Miss Kerry asked.

Angelina- Me, pass it around.

The children all observed the lily very closely. We then filled small vases with coloured water and placed a lily in each one.

“How long do you think it will take to change colour?” miss Kerry questioned.

Lachlan- we could wait for them and clap.

Over the course of the day the children noticed the white lilies change from white to vibrant colours of the rainbow like magic.

Our second experiment was to make Fairies in a Jar. We made the room very dark and we used glow sticks, glitter and glass jars to capture our fairies.

Anay- It’s dark

Harrison R. It's a straw ( talking about the glow stick)

We snapped the glow stick and poured the contents into the glass jar along with the glitter then placed on the lid and shook the jar vigorously.

Then WOW we saw them blue fairies.

Jaanav- Blue.

We also opened up some glow sticks and splattered them over the floor and it looked like the floor was covered in fairy dust. It was very pretty.

Our third experiment was to make Moon Sand which consists of sand, cornflour, oil and glitter dust. It has a very strange texture. We also made Slime that was very messy and slippery between our fingers.

We are all excited for next week!

Have a great long weekend

Nicole, Kerry, Emily, Emma and Hayley

Monday 7^th October

Public Holiday- No school today.

Tuesday 8th October

Sports day

Today we will be having fun playing with balls, tunnels, hoops, the big parachute, rackets and balls over on the tennis court.

Please wear comfortable running shoes

Wednesday 9th October

Book and bear day

Please bring in your favourite book and teddy bear to share. Please name book and bear with child’s name.

Thursday 10th October

Circus Day

Today we will be creating juggling balls, having face painting and practising our balancing and juggling skills

Friday 11th October

Today we will be cooking nachos and guacamole. Yum!

If you have any spare pants, undies, jumpers or hats at home that belong to the ELC can you please return them as we are running short. We also have several children missing labelled jumpers and hats. Can you please check at home to see if you may have taken someone else's by mistake. Thank you. 

Chapple Room

Here are some photos from our exciting  Sports Day !

Edgerley Room

Dear Edgerley Families and Friends,

Thank you all for coming to our Annual Sports Day.

It was great to see you join us and have fun with our very active Edgerley boys and girls.

We are pretty sure this memory will last a lifetime in your children's lives. 

For those who are going away, we wish you the best holidays. We will be looking forward to hearing about your trips.

Meanwhile, we have also prepared a whole heap of fun and cool activities for the next two weeks.

Cheers!

Katherine, Coney, Renee and Carla

Mead Room

Dear Families and Friends,

We have had a wonderful last week of term. Highlights include Sports Day, a visit from Henry’s Grandpa Doug who played the bagpipes for us and making the beautiful canvas for Miss Amelia’s nursery. Thank you all for your involvement and continued support in all of our adventures.

Thank you too Miss Amelia for your work in the Mead Room this year. You will be missed!

Miss Sarah and Miss C will be looking forward to seeing the children in the holidays. For those taking a break, have a safe and family filled holiday.

Kind Regards,

Emma, Pip, Amelia, Sarah and Heidi 

Cooper Room

Dear Parents and Friends of Cooper Room,

What a busy last week of term it has been! We have managed to create the most explosive fireworks paintings, create a zoo in our classroom, explore the properties of some amazing slime on the light table, practise health hustles ready for sports day, learn more about the four house teams, create a beautiful farewell book for Mr Rob and enjoy a wonderful sports day with the Junior Primary classes on Thursday. Today we listened to amazing bagpipes and even managed to sneak a peek at the older boys compete in their sports day on Friday. What a colourful and noisy event it was. We loved seeing the way the four house teams worked together to decorate their tents!

We would like to say a very special thank you to all the parents and friends who have helped out on excursions and joined us for the Sports day yesterday. We have enjoyed a fantastic term with all the Cooper children and hope you all enjoy a restful break. We have included some beautiful family of you photos enjoying Sports.

Kind regards

Susan and Coral

Langley Room

Dear Langley family and friends,

We have had a wonderful last week of term this week! A small group of children spontaneously started playing doctors and patients with Miss Kerry early in the week. Building on this interest, we set up a hospital role play area with beds, patients and doctor's instruments to use. The interest has grown and expanded through the classroom and many children have been engaging in social role play in this area. We have had many sick patients with bumps and bruises, broken bones and even patients with babies in their tummies! Never fear though, there have been plenty of doctors and nurses on hand to tend to and care for our patients – all of them making very speedy recoveries.

Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who came and joined in our colourful (and noisy) Sports Day on Thursday. We excitedly joined the rest of the ELC children and Reception to Year 2 children in the gym where we cheered for our teams and warmed up with our health hustle lead by Mr Weatherald. Many of the parents and grandparents did a fantastic job joining in (even when their children were a little reluctant!) We then ventured out onto the oval to enjoy the sunshine for our running races. We watched and cheered the three and four year old children, before it was our turn to race. It was wonderful to see so many of the children eagerly racing down the track cheered on by their parents and peers. A wonderful day was had by all!

Best wishes,

Jess, Kerry, Nicole and Emily

Sports Day

ELC and Junior Primary

Sports Day

Thursday September 26^th September 2013

	Reception-year 2	ELC
8:40am-9:00am	Tea/coffee and cake stall available for parents to enjoy in the Gym foyer area.
9:00am-9:15am	All children ready to start the day in the gym. Welcome by Mr. Andary Health hustle for all(parents and teachers are encouraged to participate)
9:15am-10.15am	Tabloid sports circuit on the oval. Each class will form 2 groups and will go from station to station on the oval. Parents are invited to follow their son.	Running Races  with Mr Weatherald) 10.00-Parent/Child Races (bring your running shoes!!)
10.15am – 11.00am		Fruit Time /Circle games (Cooper and Mead) Circle Games / Fruit Time (Edgerley/ Chapple)
11.00am-11:15am	Short break and move to running track	Parent Tug of war in House Groups – Bring your running shoes!!!
11:15am-11:45am	Running Races for each year level and distribution of participation ribbons.	Tabloid sports circuit  on the oval.
11:45-12:00pm	Parlouffe Relay 1 runner selected from each house and each year level
12:00pm-12:30pm	End of sports events. Children back to Courtyard Café for lunch	End of sports events. Children back to the ELC

Remember that all parents and children are welcome to come to this event . Please make sure your child is here before 9.00 am as we need to be in the Gym ready to start by then .  Dress  your child (and yourself!) in their house colours and join us for a morning of fun !

New Baby

Congratulations to Mrs Schmidt from Chappel Room and her husband Piers on the arrival of  Alfred Preston Bennett Schmidt on Wednesday 18.9.13 weighing 3.27kg. The staff and children are looking forward to meeting the new arrival !

Staffing

Next Friday (27th) is Miss Amelia's last day before going on Maternity leave. We wish her well as she prepares for her baby's birth later in November. Miss Sarah Marotti will fill the position in Mead Room and Miss C (Cristina Caratozzolo) will assist in both Cooper and Mead Rooms.  Sadly we said farewell to Mr Rob this week. Rob is waiting to have a knee replacement and has decided not to continue working as a chef following his recuperation period. We would like to thank him sincerely for all his time here and especially for his extra efforts and hours of preparation for all our major events. He will be missed by both the staff and the children. Mrs Sue Kouflidis is currently filling the position in our kitchen.

Fundraiser Catalogues

Please return any orders you have from these by the 30th  September,

Thankyou

Sunscreen

Please remember to apply Sunscreen to your child at the start of each day. We will reapply it before outside play after lunch.

School Holidays

Next Friday is the last day of Term 3 and the Teachers will be away from 30/9 until 13/10.  Please let us know if your child will be absent for any of their booked days over this period.

Festival Photos

The school uses Festival Photo to do professional shots of all major events.  You can view and purchase these by going to their site at www.festivalphoto.com.au  and go to " log in to your photos ".  The username  is PAC and the client ID is ELC2013

Chapple Room

Dear Families,

This week has been a busy one. We have spent a lot of time getting ready for sports day next week. We have been talking about what teams we are in, the name, colour and emblem. We have also been doing lots of practise for the big day during PE with Mr. Weatherald. There are two main themes of interest in the Chapple classroom at moment, The Ninja Turtles and Pamela Allen. The children have been building houses for The Ninja Turtles with the little wooden blocks. The buildings have been very intricate with many different levels, shapes and materials. It has also been a theme of the children's play outside and in. They have been making Ninja Turtles from the K-nex as well, using their creativity and imagination to create the characters and play scenarios.

Pamela Allen continues to be a focus in our classroom. We have read all the Pamela Allen books in our classroom and we are hoping to share any Pamela Allen books you might have at home. If you could please have a hunt and bring in your Pamela Allen book (named) for us to share we would really appreciate it. We are so desperate for a new Mr. McGee story that we have begun to write our own , "Mr. McGee goes to school". The children have also thought that perhaps we could write to Pamela Allen and ask her to write more books. As a group we discussed the other things we could write to her;

"We have to write our names" Sebastian V

"Make new books of Pamela Allen" James S

"Pamela Allen can you come to kindy?" William

"Can we have another book of your writing and we can read it?" Andre

"Pamela Allen could write more books and then we could write our names" Leroy

"We could ask her is she could make more Pamela Allen Mr. McGee" Marcus

"She hasn't written a book I wouldn't like to watch. She could make a movie" William

We have a postal address from Penguin publishing and we will send her our letters, so fingers crossed for a reply after the holidays.

Have a lovely week end.

Juliana & Pamela

Edgerley Room

Dear Edgerley Families and Friends,

Our week started off with making Gingerbread Men with Mrs Rocca after we read the Gingerbread Pirates story. We also started creating our Treasure Island – watch out, we have some terrifying pirates, but also some friendly ones who will share their treasure with you! We’re very excited about writing our story about ‘Nicey the Caterpillar’ – David Grice (Zac’s dad) is going to come in and help us create some sound effects to go with it! The author Tracy Shmith came in and shared her Monarch book with us and she gave us even more really interesting facts about the Monarch Caterpillar and the lifecycle of a Monarch. Next week we look forward to visiting the PAC Sound Recording Studio and also Sports Day. Mrs Rocca and the team of Edgerley and Chapple Co-Educators have got a marvellous Holiday Program all ready to launch in just over a week.

Looking forward to seeing you all at Sports Day!

Coney, Renee, Nickarla and Katherine