Hello Families! Next Wednesday is our Free Brain Development Workshop (October 14th) There are still a few spots left, so register soon! We also just confirmed our Sleeptime Struggles workshop for October 27th evening. This presentation will be by Qi Creative ft Jon Jon. There are still spots available for this workshop as well. Please…
Viewpoint Photography will be here on Thursdays October 15th to capture your child’s professional photo. Pictures will start at 8am, if you arrive later, that is okay, we will ensure all the children get done that morning. Feel free to bring a change of clothes for your child that the teachers can change them into right…
This week in shale we have had a very exciting and busy week with lots of new exciting changes. This week we welcomed three new friends to our room! WELCOME PAULETTE AND YOUNG! We are so excited to see all of the qualities and personalities that they will bring to our shale family. We also…
Hey Families, Just wanted to let you know that we have some new educators starting, and Grant MacEwan students coming to observe for a week. Please give them a warm welcome and introduce yourself! We also want to let you know how we appreciated all our families coming to the pancake breakfast and the Grand Opening…
WOW! We did our first day of programming with the seniors involved and it was great! It was good to finally have some collaboration and for them to visit our site! They had the luxury of joining in for music with Dawn! We also enjoyed exploring and sorting out all our lego. This really allowed the…
Quartz room friends have welcomed fall in our classroom this week! Outside has been the place to be for our quartz room class we; have explored leaves, by making piles, throwing and jumping in them. Watching a truck lift shingles right up on the roof of a building This past Friday we went on a…
Leaves & Fall! Oh My! This week we have continued our journey outside and really discovered true nature and beauty. This being the leaves. The leaves made us so excited, and we really started to gather them with our hands and throw them in the air. This motion allowed us to learn more about gravity! They come down so fast…
This week in sandstone we explored the changing leaves. We brought them into our room and painted them, put them in the water table, and found many new and exciting ways to play with them. We also went to the hill at the park again but this time we brought balls. The children had fun…
Hey Parents, Families, and Friends! Music with Dawn is back and I wanted to share one of my new favorite songs! Feel free to sing it with your child and ask us educators how to sing it! There is even a sign for cookie to promote language development in our youngest of children! Cookie, Cookie…
Such busy friends we are in Quartz room! We have many new interests in the room, therefore we have been doing many experiences in order to narrow down what the next big idea is going to be. We have done lots of “food” play in the house centre, such as grocery shopping, cooking dinner, and…