musical bowls

The children seemed to have loved our Chinese New Year display with the chinese bowls and chopsticks. They took it upon themselves to start making music by tapping the chopsticks on the different sized bowls. We  thought we could run with that idea by filling jars with different levels of water and they could explore the sounds and music making with different utensils. We will start by making predictions about what will happen, and will take it from there! We are excited to see where this will go and looking forward to some new muscial accompaniment in the classroom!

Swimming

Swimming has now changed to Fridays until March Break. Please bring your child's swim stuff this Friday. We have 3 volunteers and are looking for one more. If you are interested, please let me know. If you are interested in purchasing a  bathing cap, the pool is selling them for 2.50. Please feel free to send that with your child in an envelope, and we can get one for them.

Happy Valentine's Day and Family Day

We hope everyone had a very Happy Valentine's Day and Family Day! We hope you loved the felted hearts that the children worked so hard on! It is a lovely craft to do at home - all you need is some wool roving, soap, hot water, a cookie cutter and your fingers! They also had a little taste of sewing as they pulled the needle and thread through their hearts so you can hang them up. We will be doing more felted projects and sewing as the year goes on! We also starting working on our Love Books - Each child is making a book about all the things they love. They are drawing and writing all of their favourite things in their own little books and they are very proud. We are sending them home as they get finished so please ask them to read you their books. They are so excited about them.

High Park Trip

We had yet again, a wonderful trip to High Park! We are so lucky to be able to participate in the activities at the Nature Centre. The staff provide such creative activities in a beautiful setting. The children learned many new things about chickadees and how birds that don't migrate, survive here in the winter. They had so much fine making pine cone feeders and hanging them up on trees during our hike. We saw so many things on our hike, such as  holes in trees where birds would find shelter, nests, and birds. Thank you to all who volunteered. I will be looking for volunteers for our next trip in May, particularly to help with the commute to and from the centre.

Mamma Mia Pizzeria

What a great pizza making day for Ash  Class! Thank you Fabio and Elizabeth (Lukas' parents) for coming in and making pizza with the children. Fabio brought in his top secret home made pizza dough and demonstrated how to roll it out and make pizza! The children did a great job patting and rolling their own personal dough. Elizabeth helped the children with the chopping, cutting and grating of the various toppings and the children went to work making their own personal pizzas - putting on homemade sauce, cheese and toppings of their choice. When they were all ready to go, Fabio and Elizabeth took them down to the oven and let them cook! The children waited in anticipation, and it was worth it. Huge smiles were on their faces when the pizzas came up to the room and their aroma filled the air.....and what satisfaction - they ate the lunch that they made by themselves! And it was delicious! Thank you again Fabio and Elizabeth for giving the children such a wonderful experience!