It’s already AUGUST! This week was very different and presented new relationship building! We welcomed some new friends to the classroom and some new teacher faces! Welcome everyone! Whitney, Sue, Morgan and I were so excited to learn more about the Quartz friends and families. We have learned that you can never go wrong with Ba, Ba…
This week in Shale room we have been busy bees exploring, playing and creating memories that leave lasting impressions! We have enjoyed continuing on exploring how we can move our bodies in small ways as well as big ways! This week we explored playing in the sand box dumping with our kitchen pots and pans,…
This week in Jasper Room, we noticed our friends were talking about many different topics. Sabine and Wyatt were playing house, being a mom and a dad and making different decisions for their children. Norah and Katrina were pretending to be princesses, fairies, and witches. Bennett, Harrison, Charlie, Henry, and Theo have been talking about…
Welcome back everyone! I hope you all had a fabulous long weekend! This week has been all about welcomes, we are all so excited to see lots of our friends return from their holidays. We are very interested to hear the stories they have to share about their adventures outside the daycare!! We also had…
Such a busy week we’ve had! In Quartz room, we have been continuing the exploration of construction through building with large MegaBloks, train tracks, Duplo, hollow blocks, and marble works. We also washed all our trucks and cars after we played with them in the outdoor play space. We also went on a walk to…
Boom, Crash, Bang! These were the words the sandstone children used to describe the big thunderstorm we had yesterday. We had so much fun watching the storm, we all pulled up chairs to the window and turned out the lights and listened to the thunder and watched the lightening flash! The excitement continued when the…
This week in shale we continued to explore how our bodies move and how our bodies work and how our bodies can explore in our natural setting. We have branched into a new interest with undefined and defined space with our bodies. The last few weeks we have explored painting in an undefined space on…
This week in Jasper it was very relaxed and laid back. Alix was with us for the beginning of the week but was away Thursday and Friday, teacher Morgan joined us the rest of the week! We enjoyed the weeks crazy weather and explored the medieval era a little; exploring castles, dragons, and role playing princesses…
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This week in Quartz room we have continued our big idea of construction. The children were able to dress up like a construction worker, we had a vest, safety glasses and hard hats for the children to wear. There was a miniature world created for the children to interact with, this miniature world was designed…