Office News!
Hey There! Just wanted to remind parents to ensure the door is closed on your way out of the classroom. Also, that we will be closed December.24, 25, 28 and January.1! Thank you! Have a great weekend!
This week in Sandstone…
This week we finished our family project. Thanks again to all of the families who where able to participate! The children had a great time playing with the glitter, more like creating a glitter explosion! Our new big idea and interest in our room is cause and effect. Cause and effect is a huge theory which…
This week in Quartz…
Hope you all enjoyed your long weekends! This week in Quartz room we have continued the exploration of transportation through washing our trucks and cars, train tracks on ramps( which is faster;straight or curvy?). These types of experiences allow for young children to start gaining a sense of motion and gravity. We expanded our understanding of fire…
This week in Jasper…
This has been a great week! We’ve been busy exploring all sorts of things to get our creative juices flowing! Albert Einstein once said “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” The children in Jasper have complex interests – We’ve been talking a lot about the fall, Halloween, science…
This week in Shale…
We have decided to provoke the big idea and interest of color as we started noticing the colors in nature. Orange, Yellow, Red and Brown have surrounded us. The first experience we did in the classroom with the children is make shakers with red, yellow, and blue which are all the primary colors. We will continue to investigate primary colors by reading…
REMINDER! REMINDER!
Tomorrow, October.15 is picture day! Photographers arrive early around 8:00 and start taking individual pictures! Can’t wait to see how they turn out! 🙂
This Week in Quartz Room
What a week! We have continued our exploration of transportation through tape car tracks, ramps, and a box tunnel. As well, we introduced traffic signs and some books about signs and driving. We have also done lots of sensory experiences with goo bags, mud, finger painting on sand paper, and mixing shaving cream with food…
This week in Sandstone Classroom
This week we welcomed Caylen, our practicum student, into our room. She set up an interesting building provocation outside that the children enjoyed exploring. She will be back again for 5 weeks in November. We also welcomed Haddie and Cohen into our room. Next week Clara will start too! This week the children were exploring…
This week in Jasper Classroom
This past week in Jasper Room, our friends welcomed our new friend Margarita, a student teacher from Grant MacEwan. We are all excited to have her join us for 5 weeks and learn along with us. As the weather changed we noticed that all the leaves had fallen from the big tree in our play…
Resource Center NEWS!
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…