Jasper Room have been Knights of the round table this week! Early in the week we looked at pictures of how kings and queens dressed hundreds of years ago. We were surprised to see that Kings wore leggings and huge long cloaks. Or as most of the children revered to them, capes. We learned that back…
This week we have decided to conclude our exploration of opposites/in and out and move on to the discovery of cause and effect. The children have been very interested in watching the consequences of their actions. Some are quite positive, others, well…. We are all still learning! Our largest focus this week is what we…
This week in sandstone we have fully immersed ourselves in buildings! Tall buildings, long buildings, short buildings etc. We started out by exploring shapes such as circles, squares, triangles, rectangles and diamond shapes. We traced the shapes on paper, and discussed what the shapes were and where we see them on buildings. We than printed…
This week Jasper Room took a little detour away from buildings to enjoy this amazing fall weather! The leaves have really begun to change colors and fall off the trees so we spent a lot of time outdoors exploring leaves. Just on the other side of the bushes in front of the center we discovered…
This week in Quartz room we were continuing our focus on opposites. We compared different textures on the big texture box. Some were soft, hard, and rough. Little things like even describing the textures allow for children to explore new words and describing words! We are also enjoying the beautiful fall colours; some ways we…
Hey Parents, We would just like to thank Jon Jon from Qi creative for presenting an awesome workshop on potty training at Fulton Place ! And thank you to all the parents who attended. You are all awesome parents! At this time I would like to introduce our new Early Learning Facilitator for this year from Preschool…
This week has been very busy in Sandstone! We started off the week by saying a very happy 3rd birthday to Rory! We love watching our children grow up and develop! This week, we have been slowly ending our focus on transportation and things that move. Danyella set up a detailing shop in the room. …
This week in Quartz room, We have extended our study of in and out by also looking at opposites. We added a train track into our block centre and the train went over and under it. The children were able to explore over and under and velocity. We included our indoor sandbox a lot this…
Jasper Room has been very busy exploring all different types of buildings this week. We have used many different mediums to create buildings in the classroom. On the light table we built towers using letter blocks and then practiced spelling our names with the blocks. We used clay and play-doh to build castles in the…
Castles, and palaces ! The children in jasper are starting to dive into catagorizing ancient and modern buildings and really starting to seek out different shapes in their community. They were fascinated by the moon sand that had a very interesting texture kinda like play doh ! It was also easy to mold castles !…