Warm Clothes

As winter seems to have struck this week could all parents please make sure they send their child's ELC rugby top each day . It has been quite cold in the outside play area and we do take the children out each day .Even if your child chooses not to put it on in the morning we will ensure that they put it on for outside play. There is also a wet weather jacket available at the Uniform Shop

Thankyou

Edgerley Room

Dear Edgerley Parents,

We have enjoyed another packed week, full of investigations into familiar machines. Alex shared his corn popping machine with us and we enjoyed it so much that Mrs Cooper brought her clear panned lid to school so that we could repeat the experience and see how the kernels heat, spin and pop. Mrs Bishop set us a challenge to work out what two machines we could use to make jelly (a kettle and a fridge of course!) and then we discussed how kettles and fridges must have different machine parts inside them to do different jobs.

Led by Tom, Daisy and Fergus we used a sewing machine to create an ocean for our light table. We practiced a tricky fine motor skill to create hundreds of fish with pipe cleaners for the ocean. We used another machine to attach them, can you guess what it was? We will continue with this project next week and share the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister to inspire us to add other parts to our fish.

We are starting to create a Reception gallery so please feel free to send in or e-mail any photos of your child (or children) in their new school uniform

Kind Regards

Mel, Pip, Amelia and Coney

eduKART visit

Dear Mead, Cooper and Chapple Room Parents and Friends,
We visited the Yr 8 eduKART workshop on Tuesday as part of our unit, Mighty Machines. It was a wonderful hands on, exciting learning experience for the all the children. Paul and Anthony spoke to the children about the go-karts, their mechanical components and let us touch, look and explore their workshop. It was a quick, but valuable excursion for the children. Thank you to all the parents who joined us on the day!

"They look like little racing cars.The numbers tell the boys which place to park their cars." Oscar

"The peddles are for stop and go." Stella

"We saw the wheels go round when the man turned the key." Abhi

“Making a go-kart” said Rocco, “why de battery at de back?”

“A helmet” said Cooper.

“Stop hurting your head” added Jacob.

‘We learnded to use the brakes and steering wheels. You put your foot on the brake. If you’re going fast on the slippery roads you might crash.’ Ryan

‘We seed a strange car that had a seat at the front.’ Grace

‘Anthony said if it goes on slippery roads it will go around and around and be dangerous.’ Owen

 Thank you to all the parents who joined us on the day!

Chapple , Cooper and Mead Staff

Langley Room

The children have been eagerly investigating our unit of inquiry ‘Mighty Machines’ this week. We have been looking at cogs and how they move and work,

“It’s a wheel, it has a engine. It is a magnet. There’s batteries in it, just one. It’s a machine” Hugo Sen explained,

“It goes round and round” said Joshua,

“A clock” observed Hugo Sanders.

Hugo was right! The cogs turned around just like the inside of a clock. To investigate this further we looked at the inside of Miss Kerry’s watch, we examined photos of cogs inside clocks and we even pulled apart a real clock to have a look inside!

We’ve also been creating our own machines using box construction. We’ve had trucks, tractors, bikes, cars and aeroplanes being created with much imagination. On top of all of this, we have begun to explore real machines and what they are used for. On Friday, we explored the coffee machine and shared baby cinos!

We are on the hunt for more clocks that we can pull apart as well as more recycled boxes and containers for construction. All donations would be much appreciated.

Best wishes,

Jess, Kerry, Pippa and Ange

Centre Quality Improvement Plan

Our self review process and the resulting improvement plan has now been completed and sent to the new regulatory body for all Early Childhood facilities : Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority.
We will undergo a review  by them in a few weeks and will keep you informed about the process.

Jeanine

Excursion to EduKart

Just a reminder that if your child is going on this excursion next Tuesday to return your permission slip. All parents who are going as volunteers must complete a Stat Dec with Mrs Dry before going .

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Spare Clothes

We are missing quite a few of our spare pants and underpants. If anyone has some at home that they could donate we would be grateful

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" Pringle Cannisters"

If any one has empty "Pringle" cannisters (or similar) could you please save them for us for the children to make shakers to use in their music sessions

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Thankyou

We would like to thank the Babyzka family for the donation of a wonderful selection of tools for children to deconstruct simple machines with. The allen keys were a huge hit. With this many tools at our disposal the teachers will have to start watching the machines in our classroom not meant for deconstruction!!!

Thankyou again

From the Edgerley Children

Turning COGS

The Mead room have a small group of children very interested in COGS. We would love to borrow a Spiralgraph drawing toy if anyone has one.  We are also keen to find a clock where the mechanics can be seen so the children can watch the cogs interlocking and turning. If you are able to help us please speak to Susan, Emma or Cristina in the Mead Room.



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Edgerley Room

Dear Edgerley Parents,

As we have begun to more deeply explore machines in our lives in the past two weeks we have been using real machines for a purpose. We have used a blender to make vegetable soup after a lot of interest in veggies in our home corner play. We experimented with a bread maker after cooking bread by hand to compare the two. We also began to sew some reflective strips for our dancing place with big fat needles and then created the same strips using a real sewing machine! That was exciting!

Below are some of our thoughts about making soup with a blender

We made soup. The machine went round and round. Daisy

The machine chops the vegetables to pieces. Apollon

When the machine went on it did so much blending that I couldn’t even see the chopper. Joshua

The soup tasted good. The machine went fast. Fergus

It went so fast the vegies got cutted up. Luke

This week we also invited in another grandma to help us cook delicious Polish Pierogi. Jacob's Babcia helped us knead lovely soft dough, cut it into circles and fill it with spinach, potato or strawberries then we all used a pierogi cutter (or a crocodile, as the children labelled it)to crimp the pierogi closed. In the afternoon the children created an outdoor pierogi restaurant (much like our gnocchi restaurant) and Miss Kasauskas served them steaming yummy bowl fulls. Thankyou Babcia for visiting us.

Kind Regards

Edgerley Team

Chapple Room

Dear Chapple Room Parents and Friends,

We have had a resident DJ in the Chapple Room lately- DJ Owen. He has selected some great music for us all to dance to. The most popular songs have been Peter Combe’s ‘Mr Clickety Cane’ and ‘Juicey, juicey green grass’. Some children furthered the experience by making instruments to play along to each song with. A day doesn’t go by when Owen is asked to be DJ. All the children are enjoying learning the words and movements and having a dance at the daily disco!

Chapple Room Team

Cooper Room

The Cooper children have used familiar machines for cooking this week. Early in the week we made toast and practised spreading skills with butter and vegemite.

“It smells nice” said Archie.

“Hot” said Priyanka.

“My mum does this” Alyssa told us.

“It’s still toasting!” said Alec while we waited. “That’s a very long time.”

“It got holes in the top of the toaster and then it goes down. When it goes down it cooks the toast and then it goes up again” described Toby.

On Thursday we used a kettle to boil water for our playdough. We talked about being safe in the kitchen and watched the water bubble and the steam come out. In our machine investigations the children have also been thinking about how we could do things without the machines. You might like to try boiling water the old fashioned way in a saucepan this weekend!

Kind regards,

Ali, Rachel and Renee

Mead Room

As part of our exploration into machines, the children went on a machine walk this week to see what machines we could find. As luck would have it, we ventured to the site where the new school Health Centre is being built and struck gold!
There's a red cement truck. It's rolling the cement and water - Luc
Look, a highscraper! It lifts the man up in the air to fix the houses - William
You know cement has water. That mixer has water that sprays out - Raphael
Look at that. It's orange. Wait a minute, it's rolling up the hill! - Leonardo
It's a tonka truck. It pulls the trucks off the mud - Oscar
There's a blue crane. It lifts up people and it's driving backwards - Sebastian
That's a digger. Hey, it's moving. He's dumping rubbish. He's trying to break the dirt - Marcus
Best wishes

Emma, Susan, Cristina and Janine

Langley Room

The children have been eagerly identifying and sorting colours this week as they match the coloured blocks to matching coloured card. This experience has led to the children engaging in some rich social discussions as they negotiate which colours go where;

“Same, blue” commented James as he matched the blue blocks,

“Where’s all the colours?” questioned Harrison, “I got dis one, orange and yellow” he continued.

“I got hong, its red” said Dougal as he used his knowledge of Chinese,

“Where’s the lan?” asked Miss Kerry as Dougal searched through the basket to find the blue blocks,

“Blue matches here” Angus suggested to Dougal as together they continued to sort the blocks.

Best wishes,

Jess, Kerry, Pippa and Amy

We would like to say farewell to Miss Amy who is off to start her Teaching career and thank her for her time here.