Lets Dig Deeper As you have read in the past few blogs, we are on a journey discovering movement. We’ve touched on the importance of movement with materials and big body movement with songs. This week we’ve continued both of those focuses as well as introducing sensory movement into the room. Most of you have…
Time, as adults it seems to be something that we are always so worried about, either we don’t have enough of it or it will not go fast enough. Looking into Jasper room time seems to stand still when the children are engaged in their play. At the sand table the children are huddled around…
Happy Mothers’ Day ❤ This week in Quartz Room, we have been discussing our ideas about Mother’s Day. We’ve decided to bake chocolate chip cookies with love. The children have explored the ingredients we need for baking. They stirred the batter, watched Kaitlin put the baking soda in the bowl. Of course, we tasted the…
“Wow, what is that?” many voices questioned us as we began our walk to the park on Tuesday morning. The children were pointing to the wheel chair lift that the bus driver was operating as he picked up seniors from their residence. We stopped and watched as the bus driver was putting the lift away…
Hello Families We have some new faces around Primrose. Please welcome Samantha and Michelle to the team. If you haven’t already said “Hello” be sure to give them a wave and introduce yourself. Sam will be joining Sue on the Enhancement team so she will get the chance to play with all the children in…
This past week in Jasper, we have been exploring the concept of miniature objects. We have focused on the ideals behind small worlds and the fine motor skills of pinching and grasping. The children have been immersed in handling and manipulating small intricate materials, this innate urge to deconstruct and once again construct these objects…
This week in Quartz Room we have moved from provocations to exploring our big idea of constructing, more specifically, we are exploring the question “What materials do we use to construct?” After discussing the results of all our provocations and how all the children responded to the experiences, we decided it was best to start…
It’s finally here, it’s finally here! Spring has finally sprung! Our Sandstone friends were so elated to go outside without their heavy winter jackets, and on Thursday it was so warm, we didn’t even wear our sweaters! FINALLY! We had been exploring our playspace and found many ladybugs, which kept the children very engaged as…
As we have been exploring movement by setting up safe environments that support gross motor development, we’ve noticed how much our Shale friends also enjoy learning and exploring their own body movement through song and dance. Big body movement has been a big interest for our friends these past weeks and by us adding a…
Thank you to all the parents that came out to our AGM this past Wednesday. We are looking forward to some new faces joining the board for the upcoming year. 50th tickets are still on sale. Get yours from the office today! Have a warm and wonderful weekend!