This week in sandstone has been filled with sensory exploration. We brought back in a couple favourite activities of the children’s. In water we had our stand and funnels. For sand we made it two levels and added ramps for the children to pour the sand down. These activities engage the children immediately and lots…
Another great week in Jasper room with lots happening! We continued our journey discovering the concepts of trajectory and looked closely into displacement using water. First, we used bodies of water to visually move the children’s images across the table while holding them in place. Our friends were fascinated by this “magic trick” but became…
Sandstone has been busy exploring sensory play this week and working on our gross motor. In our sand table we used funnels to direct the sand onto our shovels, into pails, or into tubing. We would pile the sand up on the top of the stand and then push it over the side, watching as…
Although it has been a short week, it has been a very active week in Quartz! Kerry’s group and a small group from Jasper have started to fill in their birds nest, making it more inviting for the birds to come and enjoy. Michelle’s group and a small group from Sandstone continued their collaborative grouping…
What a wet week we’ve had! We hope your long weekend was enjoyable and hopefully relaxing! This week in Shale we had two new friends join us for portions of the day as they will be starting in our room sometime in the next couple of weeks! We can’t wait to have you! This week…
This week in Jasper Room, we have been very busy learning the concepts of displacement, direction, velocity, and distance in terms of trajectorial properties. We started off the week by allowing the children to construct their own paper airplanes and built a target area for them to throw the planes at, this allowed us to…
Don’t miss out on our 2016 Primrose and Community FREE Family BBQ. Thursday June 16th 5pm-8pm. 6311 92 Ave in the Outdoor Playspace RSVP to Marisa 780-469-0663
Hello Families We would like to introduce our new Educator Emily. She graduate from Grant MacEwan from the Early Learning and Childcare Program this past spring. Emily joins us as an enhancement staff which will allow her to get to know all the children and their families. If you see her, say Hi! Reminder, it is…
Our week has been filled with adventure here in Sandstone. We went for a walk in our community and found a big green park to play at. This park had big spruce trees that we collected pine cones under and tested our strength at climbing the low branches. A big hedge ran across the field…
This has been a week of collaboration in Quartz room! A group of children from both Quartz and Sandstone went with Michelle and Jessica(Sandstone room) on a group walk in our community, it was wonderful to see the relationship blooming between the older and younger children, this will become a weekly/biweekly experience as both groups…