February Highlights

February was a fun and busy month. We covered a few different themes this month and we managed to get some outdoor playtime despite all the snow and cold weather. We finished talking about shapes, then moved on to love with Valentine's Day, we moved and grooved to a learning unit on Music & Movement and we are ending our month talking about pets. Please see below for some random candid moments with the kids throughout February as well as some photos related to the above mentioned themes.

    One of Anneka’s favourite activities is the puzzles

 Cameron checking out how many snowballs tall he is

 

Conner doing a great job star jumping during shapes week

Myles stretching tall with the pylon “I’m as tall as you Ms. Amy!”

Sadie making a snow angel

 

Brynn concentrating hard on her playdoh creation

 

Valentine’s Day: The kids were all dressed in red or pink from head to toe! We had a fun day but I think the kids’ favourite activity was the rose petals on the parachute.

Music & Movement: What a wonderfully musical week! The kids loved show & tell with their instruments from home…then we used them to create a marching band!!

Rowan rocking it out with a guitar

Eva showing us her maracas

 

Caleb enjoyed showing us the loud music his flute could make

Vinnie enjoyed sharing his triangle with the class

 

Pets: We had a special visitor, Princess the guinea pig! The kids loved watching her move around, getting to feed her treats, pet her soft fur and even get to hold her!! Thanks Liam J

 

 

Conan loved holding PRINCESS

 

PRINCESS!

Dhiren had some yummy treats to feed our special visitor

Liam was so excited to share his pet guinea pig with the class

Oliver thought Princess was pretty soft

 

Circle Time

Every morning we start the day together with a circle time. One of the activities that we do is to put our “people” on the wall to show who’s here that day. Their people are ones that each child coloured during our very first class and we have put their names on them and laminated them for durability. When handing them out, we always say the first letter of each child’s name – for example: A is for…Amy. This is a great way for the kids to learn each other’s names, start to recognize the names as well as letters in the alphabet and the sounds they make. The kids then stick their person on the wall. The kids have started to put their person on the wall under their picture in the class caterpillar – great job guys!!

 

January Highlights

January was a cold month! We did have some special snow to play with – thanks Erin! It was a great science experiment; we added water to a special powder (“snow to go”) and it expanded and turned cold…just like snow!

 

We did manage to get outside to play on at least one occasion – we worked together to build a snowman!!