This week in shale we continued on our exploration of sounds, how we can make sounds using our bodies and how objects around us make different sounds in the way we use them. This week we enjoyed banging on the drums and the tambourine, exploring the ringing noise the triangles made hanging on the shelf…
What a week! We have been noticing over the past couple weeks that our new friends really enjoy emptying baskets, filling them up, and emptying them again. Therefore, we have began our exploration of dumping, filling and pouring. We have explored many ways to explore pouring in the water table with different coloured water and…
What a busy week it has been. We have been busy exploring our changing Jasper room and talking about where we all fit in. There has been a lot of discussions between new and old friends about likes and dislikes to try and find common ground to play and explore! We had fun finding out…
This week in Shale we have welcomed six new friends. It has been a very exiting week for all the children to meet so many new faces. This week we have noticed a new interest in the children, and that is sounds. We like anything that makes noise, which shakes, raddles and pops. If you…
Hello from Sandstone! We would like to welcome everyone back from summer holidays. We hope everyone had a great summer. This month we welcomed two new children, Owen and Tanner. We also have a new teacher in our room, welcome Erin. On Tuesday another new teacher will be joining the Sandstone team; we look forward…
We are happy to welcome new and returning families to Primrose! It is great to see all of the children and we are looking forward to this being an awesome year! Primrose is now full enrollment and we are loving our new building! Classrooms are reflected of each child’s age and interest. We are sad…
What did we do this week you ask? Well, we finished Narnia! After weeks of anticipation, we finally found out the ending and just in time too. It is a bitter sweet week because we have so many friends leaving us, but we are also taking the time to welcome our new friends joining us!…
This week in Shale we have been busy bees continuing to explore different sounds and movement of sound in our room, outdoors and all around us. The children have started to notice that we can make sound big and small, loud and quiet with our bodies by moving, speaking, and laughing in different ways. We…
We had a fun week in Quartz Room full of discovery! We painted with puck paints and paint brushes, made play dough, we made different shapes and cut the play dough with scissors. These experiences encourage us to strengthen our fine motor skills. We also played with soap foam and drove cars through it. Cassi taught us a new…
Greetings from Sandstone! We hope all our families have had a wonderful last week of summer. We have been busy inside the room the last few days as the hazy weather has not permitted us to spend as much time as we would like outdoors. You might have noticed our finished project over the water…