Shale Classroom This Week

This week in Shale Room, we began to discover the words “in” and “out”.  Sue used her creativity to create a peek-a-boo box with different sizes of holes in it.  Then we found materials in the room to see what we could fit inside of the holes!  We learned that some of the balls fit…

Quartz Classroom This Week

This week in Quartz room we have explored lots of sand play. We dug for bugs in the sand table, as well as used different types of shovels and pails, some with holes and some without. We have also been enjoying the spring like weather when we go outside by rolling in the grass and…

Jasper Classroom This Week

This week Jasper Room has been wrapping up our exploration of blocks. As one last hurrah we decided to build something that would help us to tear it all down, a wrecking ball!! We used a coat rack, a stick, a rubber ball and some string and we made a great big wrecking ball. Over…

Sandstone Classroom This Week

This week in Sandstone we explored ” what can we use for rolling” This brought many fun and exciting experiences for us to explore. We made a big tube structure which used both our water table and sand table. Tubes were coming from everywhere!! We were able to “roll” cars, balls, marbles and much more. Some…

Books for Babies – dont forget to sign up and come!

Starts on May. 26 for four weeks from 10:00 to 11:00! The Program: A four-week program delivered either through one-on-one contacts or in a group setting facilitated by various community partners. Registration is required for this program – see schedule for contact information. Each family is provided with a sturdy book bag, books and easy-to-read information…

Jasper Room This Week

For the past couple of weeks the Jasper Room children have been building like crazy! We have used blocks, lego, duplo, clay, cups and many other materials to build as many structures as we could. We love to see how high we can stack cups and during morning meeting we collectively built a bunch of…

Shale Room This Week

This week in Shale Room has been a very busy week!  We have continued our focus on building but decided to look at construction and how buildings are made.  We have all become constructors in the room as we use all of the different materials to build towers and castles and bridges!  It is exciting…

Sandstone Room This Week

This week has been very interesting and full of discovery. We  have started to see a lot of interests emerge from our play with flashlights and glow sticks. The children became very interested in the dark, shadows and various ways to explore this. This also brought lots of conversations of monsters and aliens. I wonder…