ELC Nativity Performance

Nativity Performance Running Schedule

Date: 30^th of November 2017

Times for day:

8:30am – ALL 4 year olds dropped to their classes to get changed for the performance

8:45am – ALL 2 and 3 year olds are to be dropped to their class by 8:45am

After you have dropped your children to their appropriate classes, please make your way to the ANZAC Hall for the performance  

9:10am - The children will walk up as a class with their educators

9:30am – Nativity performance commences

11:30am - Nativity performance finishes. Make your way to ELC to collect your child 

All children are to be collected back at the ELC not at ANZAC Hall.

If it is not your child’s regular day, they will need to be collected after the performance at the ELC.

ALL children must be signed in and signed out, even if Thursday is not their regular day. 

We are looking forward to this very special day on our ELC Calendar.

Regards

ELC Staff team

Christmas Charity Appeal

Dear Families,

This year, we are supporting the Women’s Safety Services SA Christmas Appeal and will be collecting presents for women and children in crisis. 

The Women’s Safety Services SA (WSSSA) is South Australia’s largest domestic and family violence service. WSSSA is a non government organisation and provides a range of services for women and their children who are experiencing, or affected by, domestic and family violence. Their programs support some in different contexts and include regional domestic and family violence services, a South Australian crisis line, a state wide service for migrant women and children, services for women whose partners or ex-partners are attending domestic violence prevention programs, a national trauma counselling served and a number of integrated approaches. Each year the WSSSA support over 5000 women and children.

We would love your donations of new toys for children and new presents appropriate for women in the shelter such as candles, hand creams and body lotions, perfume, jewellery, purses and handbags, skin care and make up items, photo frames and albums, note paper. Please place your items in the boxes near the Christmas tree by Tuesday 5th December.

This is a wonderful opportunity for our young children to begin to develop their understanding that there are many people in our community that are less fortunate for them.

Thank you in advance for your support.

The ELC Team

Miss Amelia has had her baby!

Craig, Jamison and I are thrilled to announce the arrival of Everly Grace Murdy. Arriving on Thursday the 9th of November at 4:11pm, weighing 3.6kg and 51cm long. We are slowly settling in to life as a family of four 😊

Kind regards  

Amelia

(Langley Teacher)  

Edgerley

Dear Parents,

What a strange week of weather. On Monday and Tuesday we survived the heat with lots of air-conditioning and water play, and then on Wednesday we dodged rain and thunderstorms! 

We have enjoyed investigating motion and movement with some brand new marble run to explore, and at the painting easels with spray paint. In our water play we further investigated  motion with small boats and running water at our giant water fountain play.

Aiden - Look it's moving  

Ed - That's 'cos the water's moving  

Aaron - It makes the boat's move 

As we are rehearsing for our Nativity, learning about the story of Christmas and with much talk about the Adelaide Christmas Pageant, we have begun making Christmas decorations this week. Using pop sticks and craft materials we have made reindeer to hang, and we have also begun creating clay Christmas surprises for our Mums and Dads. We can't give too much away! 

Our silkworms are continuing to change and grow, and  have been busy spinning many cocoons. We are now waiting to see which moth will emerge first with great anticipation. 

The Tuesday children enthusiastically participated in another social skills lesson about co-operation. In our lesson Archie had to co-operate with his friends and do a group project on the insect they chose (grasshoppers), rather than the insect he chose (stick insect). There were so many yellow and green reward cards received as the children voiced some thoughtful ideas and concentrated so well. It is encouraging to see so many Edgerley friends revealing an understanding that different situations evoke such a variety of emotions.

Aaron - His friends were disappointed because they wanted to do grasshoppers Will G -  He was cross because he wanted to do his insect right now

Lewis - He was angry 'cos he practiced doing his stick insect drawing and couldn't do it  

Despite Archie feeling such emotions of anger and frustration, the Edgerley children brainstormed some wonderful ideas to help Archie in this scenario.

Lotti - He could play with his friends. He could use his words and say "I don't like getting laughed at"  

Grace - He could talk to them about it  

Stirling - He could tell the teacher, or just move away from there and find a friend that doesn't do that  

Karl - He could ask another friend  

Brian - They could get another piece of paper and copy Archie's (idea) 

Aaron - He could take deep breaths (to calm down)  

Best wishes,

Emma M, Mel and Emma G

Chapple

This week, despite the change in weather,  we had a wonderful time with our picnic lunch. The children were so excited and many wanted to eat them at morning tea! They sat around in the new school groups which made it that extra bit special. The children learnt some important new skills in tackling those tricky lunch boxes and I am sure they will now be better prepared for school. Plus it really was fun! I am sure it is an activity which will become part of the starting school preparation at the ELC for many years to come.

A sudden change in the weather brought about some minor flooding of the path and the children decided to be the CFS and prevent the “2’s” from being washed away.

Jonas: We are sweeping the water.

Flynn: To get rid of the water in case the Town Square gets flooded.

Leo: Yeah, stopping the 2’s flooding too!

James: The CFS are special people. When there is a flood, you call them and they sweep the flood.

We thought about all the other special people we had seen this year; who we can call to keep us safe.

Seb: Police.

Alana: Ambulance.

Liliana: Fire truck.

We discussed what was special about the CFS and that they were volunteers. We thought about the word “Volunteer” and why people help other people when they are not getting paid.

Sam: Because in some buildings there might be a fire and they are special.

Jack: Because it is nice.

We thought about what we could do to help people.

Isaac: Help someone with their building.

Leonardo: Charity- something where you put something in the lid. You help them if they are poor and don’t have any money.

Jonas: Play with someone.

What thoughtful and caring children we have in the Chapple Room.

Wilkins

Dear families and friends,

We had a very warm start to the week this week and enjoyed cooling down with a range of water play activities including exploring sinking and floating, boat play and running through the sprinkler! Children can get very wet and messy while they are here, so please make sure you are sending several changes of named clothes each day please. 

Our little scientists have continued to help care for and observe the changes in our classroom creatures. We have been monitoring the growth of our little frog and excitedly watched him swimming around in the water this week as well as documenting the changes in our silkworms by drawing our observations.

Lachlan - Egg 

Riley - Lot tocoons (cocoons)  

Sophie - Dat moff (moth)  

Alfie - Dis one silk. Dat egg worm

We have been developing our fine motor skills using scissors with play dough and will extend on this further in the coming weeks using different materials to cut. In addition to this fine motor experience, we have been threading large beads on to sticks, matching colours and creating patterns.

Our classroom also turned into a dance party on Thursday, inspired by Weston’s specky break dancing moves!

We have extended our exploration of healthy and sometimes foods in our shop play this week, role playing the familiar scene of the supermarket. This has also required children to extend and use their turn taking, sharing and negotiating skills.

Best wishes for the weekend, enjoy the Christmas Pageant if you are planning on going!

Ellen, Courtenay, Melissa and Jess

Mead

Dear Mead Room families and friends,

We have 2 little frogs in the Mead Room now!

One of the exciting discoveries we have made (apart from the whole metamorphosis experience!!), is that Vivienne told us the frogs would be camouflaged……….

We asked Vivienne what that meant and both she and Elsie exclaimed -

You can’t see it!

There are times when we are looking for our miniscule frogs when we really have to look hard to discern where they are.

Some of the children wondered why a creature would need to be camouflaged;

Zahli – He doesn’t want anyone to see him

Lucius & Charlotte – They’re hiding from us

But why?

Lucius – ‘Cos we’re big

Vivi – He’s shy

Charlotte – He’s only small

Zahli – The chickens might eat them!

So to protect them from someone eating them is a very good and rational reason for being camouflaged!  We loved the idea of camouflage and enthusiastically investigated our learning spaces to discover if we could glimpse creatures that were hiding in plain sight.

We still have one tadpole left and we are eagerly awaiting the process of metamorphosis to begin in earnest for the last time.

Jack – I see one tadpole! A long tail. They change into frogs and lay eggs, and tadpoles come out

Grace-Marie – Frogs lay eggs, then they turn into tadpoles.  And tadpoles turn into frogs!

Houyi – Its got water. They live in there. It turns into a frog

Leonardo – They’re turning into frogs, their legs come out

Millie – So they can actually swim at the top of the water

Hamish – They can swim with their tails at the back. They eat plants for their lunch

Poppy – I see tadpoles, they turn into frogs and they stay frogs forever

Rupert – They turn into frogs, they get no tail when they turn into a frog

Cody – Tadpoles get back legs, then front legs, their tail gets shorter and shorter and shorter and they they’re frogs

Tom – When they’re big they can eat crickets

If you get the chance to go online, have a look at Peter Combe singing ‘Tadpole Blues’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AgtocqTEnA

We have been singing this unique song A LOT!!!

Take care of each other,

Melissa and Georgia