How can our environment provoke different styles of play? This is the question Quartz Room educators have been asking themselves the past few days. Recently we moved our kitchen area to allow for better large body play on our carpet. This subtle switch not only created the space for the large body play but also…
Have you been exploring different materials at home? This has been an especially exciting week in Shale of discovery and playfulness. We’ve continued our exploration of different materials and this week our interests have lead us to exploring materials and objects through sound. By moving objects and materials in all sorts of directions such as…
Storytelling and reading stories has continued to be an interest over the week here in Sandstone, the children continue to incorporate the fairy-tale stories in their play. Over in the block corner there was some construction of a building going on; it had small blocks around the perimeter and tall towers in the middle. The…
“Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count, childhood is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace which is right for each individual child.” This quote is central to our philosophy in Jasper room, we have been developing the ideals behind allowing…
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Last week our tables were our indoor slides, this week we expanded our sliding, but this time not with our bodies! We covered one of our tables with a large piece of paper, turned the table on an incline, brought out paint and some eye droppers to see what would happen! It was a bit…
This past week in Jasper, our inquisitive room full of creative thinkers and mighty learners have been busy all throughout the week on a number of different projects. First of all we have been exploring the connections between real-life scenarios and those that coincide in our room. We have been sectioning off into small groups…
Big. Small. Rough. Smooth. These are some ways we would describe the materials that we use in our programming for our young toddlers in Shale. Along with a multitude of others. Through the use of different materials, the children are encouraged to build on communication skills, both verbal and non-verbal, problem solving, and introduce them…
Hello Families Just a reminder that we are CLOSED tomorrow (Friday) Novemeber 11TH. December Closure days are as follows: Dec 26th Dec 27th January 2nd The end of November we will have a sheet in each classroom for you to fill out letting us know if your child will or will not be attending daycare over the…
Once apon a time in Sandstone the possibilities were endless! Over the past little while a favourite story for the children has been “Goldielocks and Three Bears” We have read many different versions of the story, reenacted the story with puppets, listened to the story on the stereo before nap, and taken turns in the house…