Bethany ELC Newsletter

Term 2 Week 929th June 2018

Welcome to our Term 2 Week 9 Newsletter. This term we have exploredmany different topics including how our body works, our families, safety,shapes, patterns, the fruits of the spirit and nursery rhymes just to name afew. Next term we look forward to continue to explore our families, bodysafety, road safety, being safe everywhere we go, the 10 commandmentsand many more things. If you have any ideas or books about safety wewould love to hear about them so please bring them in.

Thank you to those families who were able to join us last week at ourcome and play morning/afternoons we had a fantastic time showing youwhat we know about our bodies.

A reminder that next week is nude food week so please remember to tryand pack rubbish free lunch boxes. Any rubbish in your child's lunchboxwill be sent home.

Congratulations to our ELC children who came third in our loose coinchallenge. We celebrated coming 3rd and filling our kindness Jar withbubbles and stickers. Our kindness Jar is a jar that we fill with buttonsevery time we see someone being kind. It took us a few weeks to fill upand the children were so excited to celebrate.

Blessings, Emily Bondarenko- ELC Director.

OUR LEARNING

We are learning about the sound

Oo in week 9 and Uu in week 10 for

Jolly Phonics. The name of the

letter is pronounced O/You and the

sound that it makes is oo/uu.

Can you find things that startwith Oo/Uu ?

In our Pre-Lit program we are

learning about segmenting. For

example the word butterfly can

you stretch it out b-u-tt-er-f-l-y

What sounds make up theword caterpillar and holiday?

During the school holidays we

will be exploring some STEM

activities.

What can you make out ofrecycled materials at your

house?

OUR LEARNING

We are exploring the human body

and how it works.

We are learning about our

muscles, bones, organs and our 5

senses.

Taking turns is a very tricky but

important thing to understand.

We are learning to say 'can I

please have a turn with that?'

and to respond with either

giving them a turn or saying

'when I'm finished you can

have a turn.'

This year we will be focusing on

teaching the children independence.

This week we would like you to helpteach the children how to set the

table for eating.

Steps towards Independence

Communication Pockets and Books: Each child has their own pocket in the foyer where you will

find notices and communication book. Please remember to

check this each day your child is in ELC. We understand you

may need to contact the ELC during other times which you

are welcome to do via email emccann@bethany.sa.edu.au,

or phone 8283 0000.

Other Information

Important Dates in Term 2

Nude Food Week Week 10 School Holiday Dates Monday 9th July - Monday 23rd July School Pupil Free Day Week 1 Term 3 Monday 23rd July Term 3 Tuesday 24th July

Please feel free to email some photos of your children attempting these activities.

We would love to see them and discuss their experiences.

emccann@bethany.sa.edu.au

23. Dig holes and trenches in your backyard.

24. Listen to birds and imitate their song.

25. Catch some bugs and then release them.