What a wet week we’ve had! Our Jasper Room friends have been enjoying the mucky, damp weather playing outside in mud and puddles in their rain gear! They have helped to transform our playspace, arranging tires and stumps into an obstacle course which allows our friends to practice their gross motor skills! We have also…
This week in shale was busy, fun, and full of new faces and changes! We started our week off with transitioning 6 of our Shale friends to Quartz Room, we are doing this by having three friends visit in the morning and then other three friends visit in the afternoon. Our six little friends are Kinley,…
Movement! This week in Jasper was filled with movement. Our friends have really come to love our song jar and all of the songs in it. It has inspired quite a bit this past week. The children have brought it outside to share our best singing voices with all the different classrooms at Primrose which has…
Last week we had been inquiring about “Why?” and this week has been no different! But this week have been putting our questions in to our weekly curriculum. Why do the lights need to be on? So that we can see! (We tried leaving them off, but it was a tad bit too dark to…
This week in Shale Room, we seemed to be feeling the chill of the change of season because we were very interested in putting on clothes and the different ways we secure our clothing! We practiced putting on our shoes and socks and looked at the differences between Ava and Kinley’s Velcro sandals, June’s rubber…
Sandstone room has been filled with adventure this week. We started off Monday with water balloon bowling with the seniors at Ottewell Lodge. What a fun activity this was! They had a huge bucket of water balloons and a ramp with pins set up and ready to go for us. We took turns throwing the…
Jasper has never been so quiet! This past week has been a record breaker for summer holiday attendance – having only a few child each day. This has given us the opportunity to spend a lot of time individually with the children that are here and helped us understand what their interests are. We have…
We have been as busy as ever in Sandstone! This week we have moved away from our exploration of liquid movement on an incline and started looking at how other objects move down inclines. In the sand table we put in ramps with small cups, the thought was to see if a more solid substance moves…
“WHY???” Quartz rooms new favourite question. Sometimes its an easy one to answer, sometimes, not so much. What is the definition of why? According to the Websters dictionary, why is to find the answer for a reason or purpose of something. As toddlers, through persistence and perseverance, they are constantly trying to find answers. So to…
It feels like fall..! This week in Shale was very exciting! On Monday, we mixed glue with shaving cream and paint to create beautiful puffy paintings! They look like fluffy green clouds! On Tuesday, we had a rainstorm the night before, and there was a special surprise waiting for us in our playspace… A big…