This week in sandstone we have started on a revistation of the big idea of movement; with a focus on body movement, liquid movement, and incline movement. To explore body movement we will be taking many trips to the different parks in the comunity to help build up our gross motor skills. The variety of…
This week in Quartz room, we did a few extensions on some budding interests that we have noticed over the past weeks. For example, last week and this Monday, we have been interested in cooking while in the water table; particularly waffles! This led to us having waffle Tuesday for afternoon snack along with our…
This past week in jasper room was filled with a whirlwind of emotions. We started the week off with a celebration at the Ottewell spray park, it was a lot of fun to play in the water and sand with all our friends. With the rain and storms we have been experiencing every afternoon, our…
The end of June! Half way through the year! Can you believe it? Today we said goodbye to Keegan, Declan and Aideen as they are off on wonderful adventures this summer and as they will be moving to Sandstone upon their return in September. We also say goodbye to Norah, who will be with mum…
What a wild week in Shale, and it was only FOUR DAYS! We were feeling a mixture of emotions this week including excitement, amazement, and sadness! We were very excited yesterday to go to the splash park and have fun in the water! The wonderful weather we’ve had this week was fascinating for our Shale…
This has been our final week for spring here in Sandstone. We had planned a big trip to the Ottwell spray park with our Quartz room friends. We had a small group from Quartz join us on our walk over to the park. We all walked very fast as we were so exited to start…
In sandstone we have continued on with our exportation of water play and mixing. We added on some new large down spouts to the water table to create two levels. Later we added in the stand with funnels. This created lots of ways to make the water move. With mixing we continued on the same…
This week in Quartz room, we have continued the exploration of movement through a multitude of experiences. We currently enjoy music and how different tempos and rhythms make our bodies move; sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes we follow directions, and other times we are silly and let ourselves move around in odd ways that are…
This week in shale we did a lot of exploring and sensory play. We explored water and cotton balls and added glitter. We also painted rocks and we started off using paint brushes and then it turned into finger painting! We colored on paper with crayons and chalk, we even added water and colored with wet…
Jasper room has been very busy this week preparing for the transitions that will be occurring in the upcoming weeks, for some of our friends their Primrose journey is coming to an end. Next week we will be saying our goodbyes to Charlie, Bennett, Henry, Taylor, Bella, and Sebastien. It has been wonderful having these…