Charnwood ELC News
Celebrating a fabulous BCC Twighlight Fete
A big thank you to all those people, P&F members, staff and parents, who put in so much time and effort to make Friday’s Twilight Fete such a huge success. Special thanks and appreciation to Suzie Fowler who gave up so much of her time to coordinate the entire event. This was my first Brindabella Fete and the sense of community and spirit that I witnessed on Friday was another highlight to what has been a very big year for Brindabella. Bruce Handley Principal Brindabella Christian College
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Celebrating Mother's Day
Charnwood KB families joined with ELC families this morning to celebrate Mothers Day. It was wonderful to see so many happy families together.
Charnwood T2 and P3 friendships
Lovely to see relationships across rooms being built and children sharing in play. Such joy and happiness.
Cianah in T2 Charnwood
Such enthusiasm as she works on crossing the stepping logs successfully
Kenny Koala visited Charnwood PK/P3 today.
Kenny told us that Police are our friends and he spoke to us about road safety. Kenny took us to his car and showed us the siren!
Last few days of 2015
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Let Them Run Wild
As the days are getting shorter and the weather is colder it is a good reminder that children still need to get outside and do exercise and activities. This is not only good for their health but also good for their mental health. Click here for recent research in this area.
Rhonda Malouf School Psychologist
Maths & Science at ELC
Today we did a combined maths/science lesson. We discussed volume and measurement. We also used the observe (notice), predict (guess) explain (why did it happen) formula for exploring how and why the food dyes were diluted and spread throughout the water. Finally, we discussed the rainbow they formed and reminded P.K. what kind of behaviour is “Rainbow Behaviour”, linking to our behaviour reward system. It was fun
Mr Andy and Edward the Emu
Today Mr Andy visited Charnwood campus and read us a story about Edward the Emu.
PK Literacy Information Session and family BBQ
Last night’s Literacy for Little Learners (LLL) information evening was well attended by PK families. We enjoyed a BBQ dinner together in the new Charnwood Junior School yard. We then heard a presentation by Rose, who wrote the Literacy for Little Learners program.
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100 Days of Kindergarten
On Tuesday, Kindergarten celebrated 100 days of being at school. The entire day focused on the number 100:
To start the day, children brought in 100 things and told the class about them during news time; they used an app to see what they would look like when they are old and drew portraits of themselves.
They wrote about what they want to do before they turned 100. Some of the children’s responses included wanting to be a police man or woman, a teacher, a doctor, a scientist, artist, vet, a soldier and an inventor.
With $100.00 children identified what they would like to buy from lollies and dolls to a house or a car….if only.
In Math, students raced to see who could use a dice and count on to the number 100 first, they built a pyramid using 100 plastic cups, made a graph using 100 cars and sorting them into colours and making ten groups of 10 to make 100.
Kindergarten even stood in the formation of the number 100, to have their photo taken.
Lastly, everyone had a party, and what a feast it was, with all sorts of multicultural delicacies from samosas to dumplings, spring rolls, noodles, rice, lamingtons and fairy bread of course, and all sorts of sweet treats too. Children were all given a bubble wand to take home to remember their 100 Day Celebration.
The day was a huge success.
A special thank you to all the mums and dads who helped out on the day, sent in treats, and collected 100s of things at home. A very BIG thank you to the P&F for organising the bubble wands.
Tennis, Walk, and Fresh Tastes
Article written by Tennis ACT
https://www.tennis.com.au/act/news/2017/07/27/tennis-walk-and-fresh-tastes
Brindabella Christian College (Charnwood Campus) hosted their Tennis, Walk, and Fresh Tastes Celebration Day at the end of Term 2. As a proud Partner School since 2016, Brindabella celebrated the important role health and fitness plays in schools by inviting Tennis ACT School Development Coordinator, Geoff Bartlett to attend, as well as representative from the Fresh Tastes, an initiative of the ACT Government.
A Good relationship with your child builds resiliency
Having a good relationship with our children not only feels great for parents and children, but it also helps children to develop positive friendships at school, it can help them to build resiliency and it can also help with their behaviour at home and at school. This week I am sharing with you an article from the Raising Children website about Good Family Relationships. In it, you'll find some great suggestions on how to make sure you're spending quality time with your children as well as ways to communicate positively with your children. It might be possible to make a few simple changes to your family's routine in order to increase connection and strengthen the relationship that you have with your children. http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/building_a_good_relationship_with_your_family.html If you have questions or want to learn more about this then please come and have a chat with me and together we can work on some ideas that suit your family. With blessings, Carrie Coghlan Student and Family Counsellor Charnwood Junior School Campus