This week in sandstone room we have been enjoying the last bit of warm weather before the cold sets in. We have been exploring our neighbourhood during our walks and playing at the park. At Ottewell park there are many big hills that the children enjoying running and rolling down. The extra mud added to…
Happy Friday to our Jasper families! We’ve had quite a busy week. We have been focusing a lot on our walking skills together as a group. We have taken a neighbourhood walk everyday this week!! We have really progressed and know all the rules of the road, what certain signs mean, and found out where…
Hello All! It’s that time of year where the leaves start to change, the colors become brighter and change and opportunity is in Primrose. We have had some teachers leave, and some new teachers come and we are so excited to continue building the Primrose family, with discovery and learning in mind. Good luck on your…
Exploring has been our motto and encouraged this week in Sandstone! With the exception of the rainy Monday we have been out every day finding new walking paths around the daycare. With that inquisitive mindset we have been exploring what family means to us in the room. In our play we are changing our roles…
This week we explored puff paint (made from shaving cream and paint). Most of us used large brushes, but some of us used our hands. The sensation of moving the puffy paint on aluminum foil made us giggle and smile. We had a very interesting experience when we opened up our sand box and had…
What an eventful week! We have explored many new sensory experiences, such as cornstarch and water, dinosaurs in the sand, murky “swamp” with animals, paint bags, and washing babies in the water table. We have also revisited building with hollow blocks, playing with trucks on the “road”, painting on tinfoil outside, and lots of gross…
This week in the Jasper room, we were all excited to welcome back our friend Theo from his holidays. All of our friends and teachers were excited to hear about all the places he explored. Theo told us about visiting Disneyland in Paris and explaining how tall and big the Eiffel tower was. As the…
Greeting from Sandstone! We hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend. This week we welcomed another new child, Lucas and our final Sandstone team member Julia. We were very busy in sandstone this week. We went on two long walks Wednesday and Friday, we even got to play at the Ottewell Park at the end…
This week in the Jasper room, our friends were excited to discuss our new scheduling as some of our friends made their journey into the world of kindergarten. All of our friends continued to explore the topic of our changing environment. We explored the community around us by taking a neighbourhood walk and handing out…
Such a sensory week we’ve had! We have explored different materials in the sand table, such as pots and pans, buckets, and animals! We have also explored conditioner with glitter and jewels, pouring and filling buckets with different coloured water and other materials and a new concept, buckets with holes! Why won’t the water stay…