Winter is here in full force! What do you do with a room full preschoolers who have unlimited amounts of energy and restricted to being indoors? Why races down the hallway of course! With our racing pony song or pom pom patch hiding game we have spent some of that boxed up energy indoors. We…
We have been asking the question of what types of sequences and patterns there are in Sandstone room. The repetitive patterns of our fairy tale stories have continued to captivate our attention. We read the story of the Gingerbread Man, then outside we had races pretending to chase the Gingerbread Man around the yard, over…
FEE FI FO FUM…this week in Sandstone there were giants stomping around, climbing up beanstalks, and knocking over towers as we are further exploring our favourite fairy tales, “Jack and the Beanstalk”. We noticed one morning that our very own beanstalk was growing in our classroom up, up in the clouds! I wonder what surprises…
Storytelling and reading stories has continued to be an interest over the week here in Sandstone, the children continue to incorporate the fairy-tale stories in their play. Over in the block corner there was some construction of a building going on; it had small blocks around the perimeter and tall towers in the middle. The…
Once apon a time in Sandstone the possibilities were endless! Over the past little while a favourite story for the children has been “Goldielocks and Three Bears” We have read many different versions of the story, reenacted the story with puppets, listened to the story on the stereo before nap, and taken turns in the house…
Boo! Dress up is something many Sandstones friends love to do, so Halloween was a perfect opportunity to do dress up as our favourite characters or animals or even super heros! We went on a parade to show off our awesome costumes to our senior friends at Ottewell Manor, Ottewell Terrace and Ottewell Lodge. We…
This week in Sandstone classroom we continued to explore the concept of building through our active play in the block corner. We have been exploring the idea of transportation though building by using the big blocks to make all types of vehicles such as fire trucks, pick up trucks, race cars, and even buses. We…
We don’t need to tell you that two and a half year olds have a ton of energy, as Sandstone parents I’m sure you already know that! This week we have been exploring different ways to expand those bursts of energy that we get through the day. In the mornings we have revisited some of…
Welcome back to Sandstone after the long weekend, we hope everyone enjoyed their time with friends and family! This week we started on a building project. We have observed over the past few weeks the interests of constructing, miniature world play, and cars. We took this interests and decided to put it all together and make…
We have welcomed October with open arms here in Sandstone. Our play yard has been a place of wonderment over the week as we explored many ways to play with the leaves that have fallen. Earlier in the week there weren’t a ton of leaves on the ground, but every time the wind blew, the…