Hey Dads!!!
Don't forget to go shopping for your hygiene product to bring as a donation for the Big Boys Breakfast. Soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, flannels, shampoo and conditioner etc... are all in short supply up there and would be very gratefully received. Your children have been observing the photos of children from the community of Freegon in the lands and your donation will help your child make a tangible community service link. So duck out this weekend with your big boy (or girl!) and take a spin down the soap isle of your supermarket. We look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday morning.
Happy Shopping
Friday, August 26, 2011
Book Week
We had a wonderful time in our costumes sharing our favourite stories today. Thanks to all the mums and dads who helped us create them and joined us in the gym this morning for the parade. It was wonderful to see lots of our older brothers on stage too. We finished off our great day with a play by the Langley teachers called "Where is the Green Sheep?" What fun!!!
New Wooden Benches
Thankyou to Martin Charlwood and his helpers from 4C in the Prep School who put together our new Bench seats. These were donated by the parents from the previous Edgerley class. They are now in both the Langley yard and the main outdoor area.
ELC Team
ELC Team
Chinese Curriculum Night
Please join us on Tuesday 27th September at 7.30 pm for our Chinese Curriculum night. This is an opportunity to learn why the introduction of a second language is so important in the Early Years. You will also hear from our Chinese teacher , Lao Shi House, about what and how the children learn in their Chinese lessons. This evening is for parents of children in all classes of the ELC.
Come and join us for a fun evening of experience and information !
Wine and Nibbles provided
RSVP to Mrs Porter by phone or email jporter@pac.edu.au
Come and join us for a fun evening of experience and information !
Wine and Nibbles provided
RSVP to Mrs Porter by phone or email jporter@pac.edu.au
Spare clothes
Please remember to pack a full set of spare clothes for your child each day including socks and shoes. There will be occasions when the children need to be changed after an accident or water activities (or sometimes mud!) and need a full change of clothes. If anyone has spare socks or girls knickers we are very short of these at the moment and would appreciate any donations.
ELC Team
ELC Team
Chapple Room Health Checks
Dear Chapple parents,
Carol, our local CAFS nurse, will be visiting the ELC on the 14th September and 26th October to perform pre-school health screenings. If you would like to take advantage of this please visit Mrs Porter and choose a convenient time for you from the schedule. You will be required to bring your child’s blue book to the visit and complete the form that has been placed in your child’s pigeon hole. If you have recently visited your CAFS nurse or have an upcoming appointment you do not need to also schedule one at Kindergarten, these are being offered purely for your convenience.
Kind regards
Jeanine
Carol, our local CAFS nurse, will be visiting the ELC on the 14th September and 26th October to perform pre-school health screenings. If you would like to take advantage of this please visit Mrs Porter and choose a convenient time for you from the schedule. You will be required to bring your child’s blue book to the visit and complete the form that has been placed in your child’s pigeon hole. If you have recently visited your CAFS nurse or have an upcoming appointment you do not need to also schedule one at Kindergarten, these are being offered purely for your convenience.
Kind regards
Jeanine
In the Classrooms
Langley
The children have been experimenting with different textures through finger painting this week. They have been describing their creations as they poke and squiggle and squish the paint with their fingers and their whole hands;
“I did a bee” explained Kristian
“I do line” described Pauline
“Blue, squishy, wet” said Gwen
“Cold, it yucky” said Harry with a smile
“I drawed a big dinosaur, it’s got its bones” Sebastian told us
“It says my name” said Raphael
We look forward to experiencing some different textures in our play next week.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
There was an unusual surprise waiting for the children on Thursday morning in the Mead Room. Following the discussions and interest in the room, the children had the opportunity to look at and explore a real heart (cows). The children looked amazed at what they saw! It was a very large one. They knew that a human heart was about the size of your fist. But this one was quite enormous!
"Wow" Ella exclaimed!
"There's the little tubes that the blood goes though" Henry said pointing.
Zach was interested in having a touch of the heart. "It feels like meat. I can see some blood" he said.
"But blood is inside your body" Sebastian commented, "You can't see it."
"I can see the openers" Jack J said pointing to some arteries and veins. "It looks like a cabbage" he continued.
"It pumps, and pumps and pumps" Jesse described.
"Look at the dark hole" Henry said, pointing to a hole disappearing into the hearts centre.
"It's just so the blood can pump in there and out of the hole. I can put my two fingers in there. It's very bendy for mine fingers to fit in" Sebastian added.
"Yeah. It pumps through the hole, down the tubes and into the meat" Henry continued. "And that's the tube and it joins to that. Those are big tubes and that's the hole the blood goes through. And that (he said pointing) used to join to something" he described.
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
In the beautiful warm weather this week we were all keen to get outside. On Wednesday the Cooper and Mead children dug a river in the sandpit and we trickled water down it. Later in the day the four year olds made the river deeper and wider. On Thursday we returned to our now enormous river and trickled and tipped water down it again...
“It’s getting a dirty river” said William as the water mixed with the sand.
“I put it down” said Rocco who was holding the hose and watching the water trickle out.
“Can I go over the bridge?” asked Toby.
“It will go wee, wee down there" said Angus who was digging out the river with Sebastian M.
“It’s going under” exclaimed Chanel, seeing that the water was trickling under the bridge.
“Oh, oh” called out Mahmoud.
“Aah, I’m scared of it” cried Sebastian R. taking a flying leap across the river!
All the children loved getting sandy and wet in the sunshine, crossing the bridge, digging with the long spades and sailing boats down the river.
Kind regards,
Ali and Rosalie
Chapple
This week we saw a brilliant play at the big boys school which covered various stories and many funny characters. The children really enjoyed the experience, especially when they had a chance to dance around with the actors from the show!
We have been busy cooking in our restaurant and on Thursday the children decided to cook up Wombat Stew. We went on a walk up to the big oval and collected ingredients for our wombat stew...sticks, dirt, leaves, feathers and more. Back at the kindy we made a big brown wombat, added water and boiled up the stew.
"mmm it smells really good and tasty" said Nicholas P
"We need some spices to make it yummy" suggested Tom
"Yes, we need feathers, here mix it up, mix it up" added Sam "Are you going to taste it now?" asked Nicholas P
"Yeah, we might have to trick someone to taste it like the book" said Ashraf "Wombat stew, wombat stew, ooey gooey crunchy munchy" sang Sam "I think we should eat this for Big Boys Breakfast" exclaimed Tom "What a good idea, I think all the Dads will love it!" said Mrs McGee
So watch out - we might be serving up Wombat Stew for breakfast next Wednesday!
Thank you to everyone who helped their child dress up for the Book Week parade, it was a lot of fun guessing who everyone's characters were!
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
Dear Edgerley Parents,
We have had a very busy and social week. There have been lots of excavators in the sandpit continuing on with Cooper Rooms river project. The boys worked hard to listen to the ideas and contributions of others and work towards a shared goal. The result was amazing, the river flowed so swiftly we had to find a flotilla of boats!
This social play was mirrored in the block corner with the creation of volcano island and jungle houses for dinosaurs. The children worked beside each other, making space for each other’s houses and discussing the attribute and roles their dinosaurs would take.
“My dinosaur is alone so he doesn’t need a road to his house because he is alone” said Christopher
“I got this house so I need a skinny dinosaur to fit in it.” Said Soren
“My dinosaur is a allosaurus and it’s red so it can go in the volcano without getting hot” said Elliot
We also continued to work on our exercising place and invited Chapple children to join us. We look forward to recording more exercises next week
Have a great weekend
Mel, Susan, Pip and Rachel
The children have been experimenting with different textures through finger painting this week. They have been describing their creations as they poke and squiggle and squish the paint with their fingers and their whole hands;
“I did a bee” explained Kristian
“I do line” described Pauline
“Blue, squishy, wet” said Gwen
“Cold, it yucky” said Harry with a smile
“I drawed a big dinosaur, it’s got its bones” Sebastian told us
“It says my name” said Raphael
We look forward to experiencing some different textures in our play next week.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
There was an unusual surprise waiting for the children on Thursday morning in the Mead Room. Following the discussions and interest in the room, the children had the opportunity to look at and explore a real heart (cows). The children looked amazed at what they saw! It was a very large one. They knew that a human heart was about the size of your fist. But this one was quite enormous!
"Wow" Ella exclaimed!
"There's the little tubes that the blood goes though" Henry said pointing.
Zach was interested in having a touch of the heart. "It feels like meat. I can see some blood" he said.
"But blood is inside your body" Sebastian commented, "You can't see it."
"I can see the openers" Jack J said pointing to some arteries and veins. "It looks like a cabbage" he continued.
"It pumps, and pumps and pumps" Jesse described.
"Look at the dark hole" Henry said, pointing to a hole disappearing into the hearts centre.
"It's just so the blood can pump in there and out of the hole. I can put my two fingers in there. It's very bendy for mine fingers to fit in" Sebastian added.
"Yeah. It pumps through the hole, down the tubes and into the meat" Henry continued. "And that's the tube and it joins to that. Those are big tubes and that's the hole the blood goes through. And that (he said pointing) used to join to something" he described.
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
In the beautiful warm weather this week we were all keen to get outside. On Wednesday the Cooper and Mead children dug a river in the sandpit and we trickled water down it. Later in the day the four year olds made the river deeper and wider. On Thursday we returned to our now enormous river and trickled and tipped water down it again...
“It’s getting a dirty river” said William as the water mixed with the sand.
“I put it down” said Rocco who was holding the hose and watching the water trickle out.
“Can I go over the bridge?” asked Toby.
“It will go wee, wee down there" said Angus who was digging out the river with Sebastian M.
“It’s going under” exclaimed Chanel, seeing that the water was trickling under the bridge.
“Oh, oh” called out Mahmoud.
“Aah, I’m scared of it” cried Sebastian R. taking a flying leap across the river!
All the children loved getting sandy and wet in the sunshine, crossing the bridge, digging with the long spades and sailing boats down the river.
Kind regards,
Ali and Rosalie
Chapple
This week we saw a brilliant play at the big boys school which covered various stories and many funny characters. The children really enjoyed the experience, especially when they had a chance to dance around with the actors from the show!
We have been busy cooking in our restaurant and on Thursday the children decided to cook up Wombat Stew. We went on a walk up to the big oval and collected ingredients for our wombat stew...sticks, dirt, leaves, feathers and more. Back at the kindy we made a big brown wombat, added water and boiled up the stew.
"mmm it smells really good and tasty" said Nicholas P
"We need some spices to make it yummy" suggested Tom
"Yes, we need feathers, here mix it up, mix it up" added Sam "Are you going to taste it now?" asked Nicholas P
"Yeah, we might have to trick someone to taste it like the book" said Ashraf "Wombat stew, wombat stew, ooey gooey crunchy munchy" sang Sam "I think we should eat this for Big Boys Breakfast" exclaimed Tom "What a good idea, I think all the Dads will love it!" said Mrs McGee
So watch out - we might be serving up Wombat Stew for breakfast next Wednesday!
Thank you to everyone who helped their child dress up for the Book Week parade, it was a lot of fun guessing who everyone's characters were!
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
Dear Edgerley Parents,
We have had a very busy and social week. There have been lots of excavators in the sandpit continuing on with Cooper Rooms river project. The boys worked hard to listen to the ideas and contributions of others and work towards a shared goal. The result was amazing, the river flowed so swiftly we had to find a flotilla of boats!
This social play was mirrored in the block corner with the creation of volcano island and jungle houses for dinosaurs. The children worked beside each other, making space for each other’s houses and discussing the attribute and roles their dinosaurs would take.
“My dinosaur is alone so he doesn’t need a road to his house because he is alone” said Christopher
“I got this house so I need a skinny dinosaur to fit in it.” Said Soren
“My dinosaur is a allosaurus and it’s red so it can go in the volcano without getting hot” said Elliot
We also continued to work on our exercising place and invited Chapple children to join us. We look forward to recording more exercises next week
Have a great weekend
Mel, Susan, Pip and Rachel
Friday, August 19, 2011
Book Week Parade
Next week is book week and the ELC children will join in the Parade with the Prep School next Friday 26th Aug at 9 am (in the Gym) If your child attends on this day please send them dressed as their favourite book character (no Super Heros please). We would appreciate it if children could arrive by 8.45 am to give us time to take them up to the Gym. Parents are very welcome to come and watch this annual fun event and try to guess the characters !If you are attending please leave your child at the centre then head up to the Gym to watch the parade.
ELC staff
ELC staff
Show Day
The school allocates one day each year as a 'Show Day' and the school will be closed on Friday 2nd September this year. The ELC will remain open but the teaching staff will not be in attendance. If you are taking advantage of this day and your child will not be here please let Mrs Porter or myself know so that we can organise sufficient staff for the day ,
Jeanine
Jeanine
Big Boys Breakfast
Invites to this event on 31st August have been placed in all the children's pigeon holes . As many children share lockers please let us know if you have not received yours. We would like to have the replies and surveys back by the end of next week please,
ELC staff
ELC staff
Coles Vouchers
The school is collecting these Sports for Schools vouchers if you happen to shop at Coles. Please leave them in our "Reply" box on the front counter,
Thankyou
Thankyou
Missing Clothes
We are still missing a size 4 ELC jacket and a size 6 rugby top (named -Barrington -Case) Please check if you have these at home ,
Thankyou
Thankyou
Sign in Sheets
Please ensure you sign your child both in and out everyday as this is both a safety requirement and a record for the Childcare benefit/Rebate. If your child is absent then please initial these days when you return to the centre,
Jeanine
Jeanine
Food in the Centre
If you wish to bring a snack for your child to have after school please do not offer or open it until you leave the centre. We have several children who have severe food allergies and cannot come into contact with various foods. It is also difficult for our young children to understand why other children have food at times when they don't have any,
Thankyou
Thankyou
In the Classrooms
Langley
We have been examining our faces this week as we create our self-portraits and our special portraits for our dads! We have been talking about the features on our faces that we might need to add to our drawings. We have also created paintings of our faces at the easel using other artist’s portraiture as inspiration.
“There’s no body” observed Raphael as he examined the oval shape on his piece of paper,
“Eyes, nose…..I need my lips” he said as he added features to his painting.
“Blue paint, eyes and a mouth” James S said as he painted his face,
“Some eyes…..nose” commentated Stella.
As Leonardo painted his portrait, he told us what was on it,
“Hair, look Miss Kerry…nose….bumps” he said as he painted some rosy cheeks on his portrait.
Don’t forget next Friday is our storybook dress up day for book week! There is a parade in the Piper Pavilion up at the school at 9am so we would appreciate it if children who are attending on Friday could be here by 8.45am.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Mead
The Thursday Mead children were very excited to watch the 'Jump Rope for Heart' skipping display this week. Before the display we discussed exercise and its effect on your heart.
"Exercise helps your heart" - Jack O
"Do blood fix your body?" - Jesse
"Yes, if we didn't have blood we die" - Jack O
"When we exercised my heart went quicker" - Jack O
"Your heart helps you get bigger" - Sebastian
"You have to exercise to get fit and healthy" - Tommi
"I swim under the water" - Grace
"You can pump your body" - Ella
"You shouldn't eat too much chips. They are really salty" - Henry
"You need to eat bread, milk" - Eric
"And mandarin too" - Jack J
The children are developing a wonderful understanding of healthy living!
Best wishes,
Emma, Emma and Susan
Cooper
Some of the Cooper children can pull very funny faces! They looked in the mirror at their funny faces and showed their friends, then using paper plates, collage materials and glue they were able to create their funny faces. The children selected the parts of their faces, such as eyes, nose and hair and experimented with turning mouth shapes up and down to make them happy and sad...
“It’s sad ‘cause it want mummy. There’s my nose” explained Rocco.
“This face is smiley ‘cause he got his mum” said Alyssa.
Other children found ways to change their faces by adding feathers or strips of paper for limbs.
“See I made something different – it looks like a bird” said Alec.
"Ooh, my person's got arms" said Cooper.
“I have eyes. I have cheeks here – next to my nose. Sometimes Daddy calls me his daughter I say I’m not your daughter - I’m just Lily” Lily told us.
We have had lots of fun recording the children's funny faces in photos and making each other laugh!
Kind regards,
Ali and Rosalie
Chapple
This week we have been discussing recipes....and if your child has come home with soggy shoes and muddy clothes this is why......
"We need sand and water to make our chocolate mousse" said Blake "RYAN, we need more mud" shouted Nathaniel "I've got some rocks too" added Ryan "Yep, stir and mix it all up" explained Oliver "Here, I found a big bit" said Daniel Black as he came up with a big lump of mud "Oh thank you" replied Nathaniel "How do you make chocolate?" asked the teacher "Well plain water, milk and oil, that's how you make it" explained Nicholas P "I don't know, maybe some sugar" added Ryan "You made it with yoghurt" said Blake "You wanna try some....it's sooooo yummy" exclaimed Nathaniel excitedly.
The children have enjoyed making up some of their own recipes during role-play scenarios so I think we may have a master chef kitchen in our classroom next week!
Don't forget next week we have the Book Week Parade on Friday at 9:15AM - so come dressed as your favourite book character!
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
We were busy exploring our bodies this week. After recording our ideas about what is on the outside of the body we began to think about what is on the inside. We shared a favourite story about poo called “The Little Mole Who Knew it was None of His Business”. How poo is made became of topic of interest and discussion.
You eat the fruit and it might change into yucky, it’s not the same as when you eated it – Lucy
I wonder if it’s the grease that comes and makes it yucky? – Jasmine
No, I think that sometimes… if you eat fruit and you eat meat and then the colours mix and then you eat chocolate and the colours mix to yucky– Alex
We experimented with paints and discovered Alex was right, if you mix the colours of the foods together, they made a poo colour. "I told ya!" said Alex
A small group of children created an “exercise place” this week and we have begun to think of exercises to share. We have been videoing them, look out for our exercise video soon!!!
Have a great weekend
Mel, Susan, Pip and Rachel
We have been examining our faces this week as we create our self-portraits and our special portraits for our dads! We have been talking about the features on our faces that we might need to add to our drawings. We have also created paintings of our faces at the easel using other artist’s portraiture as inspiration.
“There’s no body” observed Raphael as he examined the oval shape on his piece of paper,
“Eyes, nose…..I need my lips” he said as he added features to his painting.
“Blue paint, eyes and a mouth” James S said as he painted his face,
“Some eyes…..nose” commentated Stella.
As Leonardo painted his portrait, he told us what was on it,
“Hair, look Miss Kerry…nose….bumps” he said as he painted some rosy cheeks on his portrait.
Don’t forget next Friday is our storybook dress up day for book week! There is a parade in the Piper Pavilion up at the school at 9am so we would appreciate it if children who are attending on Friday could be here by 8.45am.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Mead
The Thursday Mead children were very excited to watch the 'Jump Rope for Heart' skipping display this week. Before the display we discussed exercise and its effect on your heart.
"Exercise helps your heart" - Jack O
"Do blood fix your body?" - Jesse
"Yes, if we didn't have blood we die" - Jack O
"When we exercised my heart went quicker" - Jack O
"Your heart helps you get bigger" - Sebastian
"You have to exercise to get fit and healthy" - Tommi
"I swim under the water" - Grace
"You can pump your body" - Ella
"You shouldn't eat too much chips. They are really salty" - Henry
"You need to eat bread, milk" - Eric
"And mandarin too" - Jack J
The children are developing a wonderful understanding of healthy living!
Best wishes,
Emma, Emma and Susan
Cooper
Some of the Cooper children can pull very funny faces! They looked in the mirror at their funny faces and showed their friends, then using paper plates, collage materials and glue they were able to create their funny faces. The children selected the parts of their faces, such as eyes, nose and hair and experimented with turning mouth shapes up and down to make them happy and sad...
“It’s sad ‘cause it want mummy. There’s my nose” explained Rocco.
“This face is smiley ‘cause he got his mum” said Alyssa.
Other children found ways to change their faces by adding feathers or strips of paper for limbs.
“See I made something different – it looks like a bird” said Alec.
"Ooh, my person's got arms" said Cooper.
“I have eyes. I have cheeks here – next to my nose. Sometimes Daddy calls me his daughter I say I’m not your daughter - I’m just Lily” Lily told us.
We have had lots of fun recording the children's funny faces in photos and making each other laugh!
Kind regards,
Ali and Rosalie
Chapple
This week we have been discussing recipes....and if your child has come home with soggy shoes and muddy clothes this is why......
"We need sand and water to make our chocolate mousse" said Blake "RYAN, we need more mud" shouted Nathaniel "I've got some rocks too" added Ryan "Yep, stir and mix it all up" explained Oliver "Here, I found a big bit" said Daniel Black as he came up with a big lump of mud "Oh thank you" replied Nathaniel "How do you make chocolate?" asked the teacher "Well plain water, milk and oil, that's how you make it" explained Nicholas P "I don't know, maybe some sugar" added Ryan "You made it with yoghurt" said Blake "You wanna try some....it's sooooo yummy" exclaimed Nathaniel excitedly.
The children have enjoyed making up some of their own recipes during role-play scenarios so I think we may have a master chef kitchen in our classroom next week!
Don't forget next week we have the Book Week Parade on Friday at 9:15AM - so come dressed as your favourite book character!
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
Edgerley
We were busy exploring our bodies this week. After recording our ideas about what is on the outside of the body we began to think about what is on the inside. We shared a favourite story about poo called “The Little Mole Who Knew it was None of His Business”. How poo is made became of topic of interest and discussion.
You eat the fruit and it might change into yucky, it’s not the same as when you eated it – Lucy
I wonder if it’s the grease that comes and makes it yucky? – Jasmine
No, I think that sometimes… if you eat fruit and you eat meat and then the colours mix and then you eat chocolate and the colours mix to yucky– Alex
We experimented with paints and discovered Alex was right, if you mix the colours of the foods together, they made a poo colour. "I told ya!" said Alex
A small group of children created an “exercise place” this week and we have begun to think of exercises to share. We have been videoing them, look out for our exercise video soon!!!
Have a great weekend
Mel, Susan, Pip and Rachel
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