Week 5 - Reddam House

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Amy’s Message
26 FEBRUARY 2016
By Amy Goodlace, Principal
Dear Families,
The provocations are well under way and it is
exciting to see the children enjoy the extended
learning that is taking place.
We have been looking at our activities and
would like to introduce more “real” life play into
the school. We request families to kindly assist if
possible in sourcing the following –
Our specialists have formed relationships with
the children and I was delighted to hear the 2
year olds ask “ Where is Coach Spencer?”
They had to be very patient as their teacher
explained that he was coming “tomorrow”.
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Old telephones

Old computer keyboards

Ties, hats, handbags, shoes (Children love
polishing shoes and it is a great fine motor
activity).
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Objects of beauty – shells, pine cones etc

Silverware that can be polished

Empty perfume bottles

Old vases of different shapes and colours
for our lunch tables

Pieces of material
We have been fortunate to be invited to
the Sydney Independent Schools Expo at
Luna Park this weekend. I will be attending with
Mr George Balios, who has flown in from South
Africa to assist as the Managing Director of
New Schools for Reddam. We of course will be
speaking about our Woollahra, St Leonards and
Lindfield Early Learning Schools and proudly
spreading the magic that is happening at
Reddam Early Learning Schools.
In our staff meetings we have been
collaborating about our Reddam Philosophy,
the way we implement the philosophy and
delving more deeply into our Grace and
Courtesy Programme. We will be explaining this
in more detail to families in upcoming
newsletters.
We have started the process of enrolling new
children for 2017. We first extend the invitation
to enrol siblings to our present families. Please
ensure that you submit an application form as
a matter of urgency should you wish to enrol
your child for next year.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend!
Kind regards
Amy
REDDAM EARLY LEARNING SCHOOL | WOOLLAHRA NEWSLETTER
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The Nest
Ocean Discoveries
By Tatiana Botrel, Lois Ma, Marie Claire Cronin
Since the beginning of the year the
children in The Nest were familiar with the
farm set up on the wooden frame in the
classroom. This week they were surprised
to find that the farm animals have now
been placed in a new environment, a
sensory box made of lentils and rice.
knowledge to the teachers and peers by
copying the animal‟s noise in a way to tell
us that they do understand what is
happening around them.
The children enjoyed touching this
interesting mix that we used as pretend
straw. Some children have also enjoyed
feeding the animals and rearranging the
farm in the box, but most of all they all
enjoyed feeling the mixture in between
their fingers, pouring it from one hand to
the other, or even having a little taste
discovering it wasn‟t “yummy”. The
children had lots of fun trying to find the
animals that the teachers hid at the
bottom of the box.
The surprise factor this week was
introducing the ocean animals to the
group. Everything started with our
outdoors sensory table that was filled in
with sand and precious shells. The children
enjoyed exploring the shells on the sand,
burying them deep in the tank and then
finding them again! We extended this
experience by introducing whales, sharks,
dolphins, octopuses, and more. We
added water to the same tank that once
was filled in with sand and shells. Just like
that, our little beach became an ocean
of possibilities. We wonder where this is
going to lead us next…
During this activity, the children are
exposed to lots of new words related to
naming animals, what animals like eating,
how they feel (textures) and more. In this
situation, the children are making new
connections
and
expressing
their
Outcome 4: Children are confident and
involved learners. Children develop a
range of skills and processes such as
problem solving inquiry, experimentation,
h y p o th e s i s in g ,
r e s e a rc hi n g
a nd
investigating. EYLF, 2009
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The Nest
Photo Gallery
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The Nest
Photo Gallery
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Fledglings
Belonging Being and Becoming.
By Hannah McCooey, Olivia Binions and Eva Loo
Learning Outcome 1: Children have a
strong sense of identity
The children have embraced and become
familiar with our daily routine. The children
are adapting to their environment and are
able to predict our routine throughout the
day. Our day begins with the children
arriving to their classroom and greeting their
friends and teachers. The children have a
great sense of belonging in our classroom
and engage in various activities. Different
activities are presented to the children on a
daily basis. Activities such as construction,
to promote fine motor skills, puzzles,
dramatic play and sensory play. We also
encourage the children to explore the
room and engage in individual interests.
When all our friends arrive we start to clean
up our classroom while singing our
„everybody pack away‟ song and we
gather together on the mat in the middle of
the classroom.
Learning Outcome 2: Children are
connected with and contribute to their
world
waving at their friends when they hear their
name.
After we sing our good morning
song we play a song from our Jamie CD.
This song sings good morning to us in
different languages from all over the world.
Including French, German, Japanese,
Italian and English.
strong sense of identity - Lavender Sensory
Rice
This week we are focusing on flowers and
the beautiful colours they come in and that
there are so many different types. We
came across a picture of a lavender plant
and we really liked the colour and how it
looked. Using rice and purple paint mixed
together with lavender scent, we got the
opportunity to feed our senses by delving
into this lavender sensory bin. We got to
feel the different textures within the sensory
bin and smell the fabulous scent.
We
played with the rice letting it run through
our fingers.
We also used some old
cardboard tubes and this allowed us to
hear the trickling sound of the rice as we
poured the rice through the tubes.
We sing our good morning song „tick-tock‟,
welcoming our friends individually.
The
children are joining in with the actions and
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Fledglings
Belonging Being and Becoming.
By Hannah McCooey, Olivia Binions and Eva Loo
Play Dough
The children were busy making many
things with their purple play dough this
week. We were rolling, squashing, cutting
and stencilling different things into our
play dough.
Play dough has many
benefits; it is a wonderful way to promote
social relationships and assist children‟s
fine motor development. The children
really love playing with the dough. We
talked about the play dough being the
same colour as the lavender plant and
our lavender rice.
Learning Outcome 2: Children are
connected with and contribute to their
world – Natural Paint Brushes
As the children continue to explore their
natural environment our findings are
getting more beautiful. The children have
collected beautiful things like leaves,
branches, stones and some colourful
flowers. We decided to do some painting
with our findings.
Remy, Regina,
Margarita, Otto, Oisin, Alice and Lilah
used the branches of trees to do their
painting.
Eloise, Allira, Dominic and
Abigail used leaves. Valentine, Ori and
Luke used beautiful flowers that they had
found outside and did some flower
printing. Marco found a big stone outside
and he decided to dunk the rock in paint
and do some stamping with his rock. He
also realised that he was able to roll the
rock and it would also make a beautiful
design on his page. The results from these
natural paintbrushes are amazing and will
be displayed in the Piatsa.
Caleb
decided to use a branch and a flower
and was so happy with what he had
made.
strong sense of wellbeing – Physical
Education Lessons.
We are really enjoying and making the
most of the different obstacles that we
are introduced to each week. This week
the obstacles allowed us to use all our
skills including, climbing and stability,
problem solving, changing directions and
strength.
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Fledglings
Photo Gallery
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Stage 2
Our Wonderful World
By Daniella Gosty, Karla Cabezas, Monika Ranjitkar, Helen Wilson and Raquel Rachnitz
We hope you have all had an opportunity
to read our provocation letter for Term 1“Our wonderful world. How things grow and
change.” It has been exciting to see the
children being engaged in our intentional
teaching moments and seeing this relate to
their spontaneous play as they water the
garden and find things of interest to share
with their friends.
We have displayed our mind map of
possibilities and would love for our families
to add to this working document. Our focus
is to listen to the children‟s voices and
create a program that is both stimulating
and of interest to the children.
Our daily diary is a wonderful opportunity
for families to read about what has been
happening throughout the day.
If you have not had the opportunity to read
the diary, the following is a summary of the
very busy week we had in the Tree Frog and
Kookaburra classes.
We were all introduced to the world of
seeds and growth through the Cocos Palm
cluster branch that Daniella brought in for
our natural explorations, along with the
cocos seed growing to show the roots of a
new plant. Monika also brought in a
germinating avocado seed and shared this
with the children.
The story of “Jack and the Beanstalk”
inspired us to grow our own seeds and we
are now waiting and watching as our
Alfalfa seeds sprout.
Please have a look at our new wall display
of flowers. These were inspired by the
constant chatter about gardens. We are
also having our sense of smell awakened by
the lavender we added to the play dough.
The children were very excited to see
Spencer our sports teacher return. They
loved all of the excises that he gave them.
Not realising of course that they were
getting fit, it was just fun!
PARENT HOMEWORK !
We will be sending home with your child a
leaf picture and instructions to add a family
photo for our Jack and the Beanstalk
inspired
BEING,
BELONGING
and
BECOMING family tree. We are looking
forward to seeing our trees grow.
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Stage 2
Photo Gallery
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Stage 3
All About Me
By Nina Bergel, Christina Mandalidis, Susan Casey and Deanne Jacobs
What a wonderful week we have had. The
children have adjusted wonderfully to their
new routine. We are steadily progressing
and developing. Taking our lead from our
provocation, “All about me” and with the
aid of labelled photographs the children
are now more confident and are able to
find their name mats on the floor for
morning group time. It is really special to see
them so happy to have made this
achievement.
This week we introduced two new activities
to our environment. They are from the
Montessori school of thought. The first of
these lessons is the pouring of dry goods
from one vessel to another. The second
activity is sponging. Through these activities
the children develop fine motor skills and
visual discrimination. We also develop the
ability to focus and concentrate. We have
all thoroughly enjoyed these new activities.
Another Montessori resource in our room is
the sand paper letters. We have been using
these this week to help us to learn the
shape of the sound of the week. This week
we are focusing on the letter S. S is for
Stelios, S is for Sophie, S is for Sebastian and
S is for Susan.
We have been busy also in the art room,
again using our name tags in order to
identify he sounds in our names, we have
been busy building name collages. It is
another challenging activity that requires
focus and concentration.
Please remember that you are always
welcome to come to our room during drop
off and pick up to see our beautiful art work
on display.
Once again a friendly reminder to bring in a
family photo to add to our growing family
tree.
Also if you could assist your child in taking
lunch boxes and hats out of school bags
and place them in their lockers it would
greatly aid the smooth running of our day.
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Stage 3
Photo Gallery
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Stage 4
Exploring
By Anita Martin, Kristina Rochi, Cheryl Freeman, Jane Pledger & Alissa Turinui
In our continuously busy world our adult
brains are always switched on, constantly
working, thinking of what needs to be done
or when you are going to do it. Sometimes
in the craziness of life itself we forget to take
a step back to see or to notice all the
wonderful, beautiful things around us at any
given moment. Thankfully children see the
world through different eyes and often see
things that we as adults might miss. This
week on
two separate occasions
something occurred that captured the
children‟s focus, which in turn also captured
the teachers attention to something that
they hadn‟t noticed. This also led to deep
interest
and
long
discussions
and
conversations amongst the children about
what they had witnessed.
the basketball court for Sport with Spencer
the teacher was busy ensuring that the
children were safe and respectfully moving
through the space. Unbeknownst to them,
and much to the awe of the children,
Nicholas spotted a big beautiful cockatoo
sitting on the balcony above. Everyone
stopped in their tracks as they admired its
beautiful yellow feathers. Suddenly it flew
off the balcony and swooped down
towards us before flying off into the
distance. The children were all laughing
and excitedly chatting amongst themselves
about how they thought it was going to
land on their heads. Many of the children
then enthusiastically shared what had
happened with their friends in other groups
when we got back to the ELS.
Whilst making the journey from Stage Four
through the school and across the road to
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Stage 4
Exploring
By Anita Martin, Kristina Rochi, Cheryl Freeman, Jane Pledger & Alissa Turinui
Later in the afternoon Cheryl‟s group were
making the same journey through the
school across the road to the basketball
court for Sport with Spencer. Cheryl was
busy ensuring that the children were safe
and respectfully moving through the space
when Robert called her name to show her
something that he had found, a feather.
Upon returning to the classroom Robert
excitedly ran to Anita to show her what he
had found. Saskia and Nicholas overheard
what was happening and made a
connection – the feather Robert found was
white and yellow, so it had to have
belonged to the cockatoo from this
morning! “It left us a surprise” shouted
Robert.
the mat for a discussion. Nicholas shared his
story and Robert passed the beautiful
feather around. The children then engaged
in conversation about various birds they
have spotted recently such as a rainbow
lorikeet, an ibis, a magpie, a kookaburra,
and an interesting story about a turkey…
As the week has progressed this interest has
been extended to the mini atelier where
the
children
have
been
studying
photographs of various birds and drawing
them. They have also been learning the
names of various birds particularly the ones
native to Australia, comparing them,
discussing their favourite ones, and sharing
their experiences.
Many children became interested in what
was going on so we gathered together on
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Stage 4
Photo Gallery
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Stage 4
Photo Gallery
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Dance
By Laura Hudson
Stage 3 Objectives:
Stage 4 Objectives:
Students will build trust and gain
confidence by learning to work with a
partner. Students will also realise that
theatre involves teamwork and everyone
has a role with something important to
contribute.
Students will learn to seamlessly work
together, support each other, and allow
space so every member of the ensemble
has an opportunity to contribute. Students
will demonstrate the ability to use their
whole bodies to convey action and
interaction with objects.
Skills learnt this week:
Controlling the body
Experimenting with their voice
Working with a partner
Learning
key
phrases
including:
Character, Ensemble and freeze
Activities include:
Pass the clap/emotion, Huggy Bear,
Creating a machine using their voice and
body, using their body to create letters
and shapes
Skills learnt this week:
Working as an Ensemble and with a
partner
Conveying a message using actions and
their body (Through mime)
Key Phrases: Action, Cut, Pantomime
Activities include:
Drama games: Give and Take, Bucket of
water, Sound ball
Trust exercises
Discussed what is Pantomime
One word Story
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Physical Eduacation
By Spencer Clifton
The stage 2 students had a great week of
sport.
The stage 4 and stage 3 students had a
great week of sport.
We started the lesson off with core
strengthening and dynamic movements
to get the muscles warmed up and
ready. This involved short sprints with a
quick change of direction, frog hops,
kangaroo jumps and lion crawls. The
exercises target keys areas for core
strengthening and stability.
We started the lesson off with core
strengthening and dynamic movements
to get the muscles warmed up and
ready. This involved short sprints with a
quick change of direction, frog hops,
kangaroo jumps and lion crawls. The
exercises target keys areas for core
strengthening and stability.
Our main exercise for the lesson focused
on body, space and directional
awareness, body co-ordination, timed
movements and balance. We played the
game called "statues", the children were
asked to move around the exercise area
after hearing the whistle blown once,
upon hearing a second whistle they were
encouraged to stop and freeze like a
statue. Our second game that we played
was called colour hoops, different
coloured hoops were placed in the
exercise area with the children trying to
find
the
c ol ou rs
c al l ed
ou t.
After a well deserved water break, we
jumped into our next activity of an
obstacle course. The course offered
various challenges that tested the
children's jumping, hoping, agility and
balancing skills. Crocodiles hurdles and a
manipulated hopscotch exercise was
used to measure the children's jumping
and hoping abilities, with zig zag running
and the tip toe step ladder used to
measure the children's agility and
balance.
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