Friday, July 27, 2012
Change of Date
Our Centre assessment by the Education and Early Childhood Services Registration and Standards Board will now be held on Monday and Tuesday 6th and 7th August.
New Baby
Congratulations to Lara and Mark Paholski on the birth of their son, Charlie Laurence ,born on July 11th, a brother for Max and Harry to adore !
Chapple Room
As part of our unit of inquiry, Home Sweet Home, Miss Freer
has been reading the Faraway Tree with the Chapple Room children. It’s been
such a fun exploration so far, and a wonderful chance for the children to
develop their listening and comprehension skills. Here are the children’s
thoughts so far.
‘They went to the beanstalk.’ Seth
‘It was the Faraway Tree and there was a beanstalk in it.
One is called Jack.’ Charlie
‘It’s all about Connie not believing the Faraway Tree.’
Tommi
‘And she went down the slippery slide instead of using a
pillow so it wore her dress out.’ Jack
‘Some people live in the trunk.’ Tommi
‘Dame Washalot washes her things and water goes down the
Faraway Tree and soapy water goes on her dress.’ Jack
‘I know who else lives in the trunk- the Angry Pixie. She
was the one who threw ink.’ Tommi
‘Jack lives in the beanstalk and that’s how you get to marble
world.’ Charlie
‘I think it’s going to be a land of animals.’ Zach H
‘The land of Billy Goats Gruff.’ Ryan
‘I’d like it to turn into the land of lego with cars lego.’
Zach F
‘I think Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.’ Oliver
Over the coming weeks, we will be transforming the classroom
into our own Faraway Tree. It should be great fun!
Chapple Room Team
As part of our term's unit could all families please send in a photo of your house number asap. If email is easier, please send it to amarcus@staff.pac.edu.au. Shortly, we will be sending home the surveys for Father's Day and it would be great to have these back as soon as possible also. We are still collecting glass jars if anyone has some to spare at home.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Edgerley Room
Wow, what a busy second week in Edgerley. We have continued our investigations in to homes and houses and the children described similar themes about comfort, belonging and safety in their own words.
“A home is where you live and when it rains it has a roof so you don’t get wet. It has a water tank and you can drink the water. You can go in someone else’s home only if you know them” said Cooper
“We have a home for having dinner in” said Owen
“A kid can’t have a home without a adult ‘cos if they want to cross the road a motorbike will come speeding or a stranger will come” said Alyssa
We also took a great interest in light this week, observing our shadows and how they change through the day, manipulating mirrors to create reflections and representing rainbow at the painting easel.
We also engaged in some deep discussions about where babies come from and how they grow this week, observing a puzzle of a Mum with a baby in her tummy and pointing out the umbilical cord. We enjoyed looking at our own belly buttons (not Mrs Bishop or Mrs Rocca’s!!)…can you believe that’s how our Mummies used to feed us! We will continue to share our stories about being born next week.
Kind Regards
Mel, Coney and Pip
Mead Room
Dear Mead Parents,
Our investigations into homes have led us to discuss "Can a tree be a home?" We have talked about this at great length, read many books about tree dwelling creatures and made some creatures from craft materials to inhabit our large Mead tree which is growing in our classroom. Come and have a look!
Maybe bears live in trees. Eden
No, bears live in caves. Luc
I think they live in a forest, near trees. Leroy
Owl babies and owl mummies live in trees. Abhi
I don't live in a tree. I might live in a tree house. Leroy
Bees can live in trees. They live in a bee tree. Andre
They live in a bee hive. They can be in trees. Molly
Bananas grow in trees. Izabella
Birds live in nests which live in trees. Luc
Best wishes,
Emma, Susan and Cristina
Cooper Room
Last week Zac brought in a bird’s nest to show the class and we put it in a fish tank for everyone to look at. The children were excited to see the nest and this started us on a new investigation in our Home Sweet Home unit. We examined what the nest is made of, played with bird puppets and read a variety of books about birds and nests, the children also drew bird pictures and painted nests at the easel…
“Where is the birds?” wondered Liam, “they could be in the sky, they can fly as well.”
“It’s a nest” said Kristian. “Two nesties, on here, in here. There’s a big one and another big one” he pointed. “Little birds up and mummy and daddies. They fly to get food. Worms… dere no worms. Mummy and daddy birds get worms to eat… Straw and sticks, there are only twigs.”
“Where do you find a nest?” asked Miss Bowden.
“In a tree of course” answered Kristian.
“They’re no birds, they’re outside. Worms can eat worms” said Pauline.
“Eggy” said Hudson noticing the broken egg shell in the bottom of the nest. “What’s happened to eggy? It was that” he pointed to a puppet, “It’s ‘scaped.”
Kind regards,
Ali and Coral
Langley Room
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Dear Langley Family and Friends,
We have been building and developing our Langley jungle this week, creating and attaching much needed leaves to our trees and using the bamboo construction to build different houses for our jungle animals.
“Ta da! It’s a house” exclaimed Dougal,
“Dougal is building a house for the animals” observed Alec,
“My animal live in a stable, mine's a stable” commented Dougal.
Charlie A and Angus visited the building table also,
“It’s my house” Charlie A told Angus, “it’s a little house” he continued,
“I’ll try with these big ones” Angus said.
“It’s a circle pattern, look at dis one” cried Abby excitedly at she built with the bamboo blocks in the afternoon.
Thank you again to the families who have brought in family photos and photos of their houses, but we are still waiting for lots more! We will be using these next week in our program if you could please bring them in as soon as possible. We are happy to have them emailed to jcatt@staff.pac.edu.au if that is easier.
Best wishes,
Jess, Kerry, Amelia and Nicole
We would like the Langley children to participate in the first part of Sports Day on September 20th depending on the level of parent help that we have . Please let Mrs Dry know if you are able to come on that morning to assist us.
We would like the Langley children to participate in the first part of Sports Day on September 20th depending on the level of parent help that we have . Please let Mrs Dry know if you are able to come on that morning to assist us.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Martini Ball
As
ELC parents you may not know other parents but we would love you to join an ELC
table at this year's Prince Alfred ball which happens every two years.
Linda MacAuley from the Chapple Room is looking for other parents to
share a table. When you register below please note my name if you would
like to join my ELC table. Feel free to create your own with other class
parents. Hope to see you there. Lots of fun guaranteed.
Linda
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Sports Day
The annual Preparatory School Sports day will be held this year on 20th September and the ELC children in the 3 and 4 year old rooms take part in it. As we will be allocating any new children to Sports Houses could you please let us know if your child has an older brother at the school ,or a Father or Grandfather who previously attended, what colour House they were in (some of the House names have changed over the years)
Put this morning in your diary so that you can come and join in the fun !
Jeanine
Put this morning in your diary so that you can come and join in the fun !
Jeanine
Chinese Curriculum Information Night
Please note that this will now be held on August 21st , more information later !
A few reminders
Please make sure you sign your child in and out each day. This is extremely important as we use these records to verify our numbers and to account for children at all times. We would also like to remind parents that once you sign your child out at night they are your responsibility and not the staff's who are supervising other children , they would also not be counted in an emergency .
Could any families who took home their child's portfolio over the holidays bring them back now ready for us to start adding new items this term.
Please make sure you send your child's rugby top in each day as although it is warm in the classrooms the children do play outside each day and need warmer clothes on then . If you would like your child to wear a jacket at these times (or for walking up to PE or the library) then please make sure it is an ELC jacket that is available at the uniform shop.
Could any families who took home their child's portfolio over the holidays bring them back now ready for us to start adding new items this term.
Please make sure you send your child's rugby top in each day as although it is warm in the classrooms the children do play outside each day and need warmer clothes on then . If you would like your child to wear a jacket at these times (or for walking up to PE or the library) then please make sure it is an ELC jacket that is available at the uniform shop.
Health Checks
A reminder that these are available for children who are over 4 years 3 months next Wednesday 25th July. Please make an appointment through Mrs Porter.
Illness in the ELC
This week we had a couple of cases of conjunctivitis reported to us . This is extremely contagious so please keep your children at home until there is no more discharge from their eyes if your child develops this. We also had a child diagnosed with Scarlet Fever. This can come on quite suddenly so please pick up the information on the cupboard inside the double doors to familiarise yourself with the symptoms. You can also access information on the website www.health.sa.gov.au/PEHS/youve-got-what.htm (under streptococcal sore throat)
Edgerley Room
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What a wonderful first week in Edgerley Room. We welcomed
lots of new faces into four year old Kindergarten. It was great to meet and get
to know the new children and their families (thankyou to all the parents who
attended the information session on Tuesday, we hope it was informative). We
spent the week familiarising ourselves with our new environment and were excited
to discover that we could venture out into the breakout space outside our
classroom by ourselves. We talked about some rules for the breakout space to
keep us all safe and happy and were thrilled when we could remember them all.
We enjoyed dancing, exploring reflections, completing puzzles and creating a
house, all outside our classroom!! Inside our classroom we talked about
different types of houses and shared a book with houses from around the world.
We used our big map to board an aeroplane with Mrs Rocca to visit all the
countries we had read bout…it was very cold in Alaska because it’s right at the
top of the world! We can’t wait to begin to share our own houses with each
other next week… I wonder if any of them will look like the tee pee tent we saw
in Alaska??
Kind Regards
Mel, Coney and Pip
Chapple Room
Dear Chapple Room Parents and Friends,
It's been a fun filled week in Chapple Room this week. It's been great being back together! Many of the children made the most amazing books. Some chose to do lovely still life paintings of the jonquils that Jack brought in for us. The most fun has been in the shop, however. Many of the children have enjoyed experimenting with the till system, giving change and writing menus and lists of products for sale. It's been wonderful to watch. Thank you for a beautiful week one Chapple Room!
Chapple Room Team
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