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What's New!
With the school year beginning and as we settled into our school program, the children have had the opportunity to reacquaint themselves with their peers and educators and become comfortable with their daily routines.
Please note that our lunch hour has changed. Lunch will now take place from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., instead of 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Thank you for your continued support as we begin another school year together.
Highlights
As a challenge, the children worked together as a team to see if they could safely lift an educator. After successfully completing the challenge, the children were excited to take turns and see if they could safely lift one another. This activity encouraged teamwork, communication, cooperation, and problem-solving while reminding the children about the importance of working together and keeping one another safe.
While playing outside in our playground, we noticed that the children were very interested in the wet mud on the ground. To extend their outdoor play and build on their curiosity, we brought the water table outside and added some old pots, pans, and kitchen utensils.
The children were encouraged to use the water and mud to create their very own outdoor mud kitchen. Their imaginations quickly took over! They made cakes, pies, lava cakes, soup, and many other wonderful concoctions. The children experimented with different amounts of mud and water, mixed ingredients together, and shared their creative ideas with one another.
It was wonderful to see their imaginations, creativity, and cooperative play grow as they explored the possibilities of their mud kitchen. What a fun and messy way to extend our time outdoors!
Building forts has become an ongoing interest for children, who continue to explore new ways to design and transform their spaces. Using the foam couch to create walls and fabric to make roofs, the children worked together to build cozy forts and imaginative spaces.
One child took the idea a step further by turning their fort into a 7-Eleven store! This sparked a new direction for the group as the children began creating their own pretend products to stock the store. Using paper, tape, and fluff, they made slushies, chips, and other imaginative treats to hand out to their customers.
Through this open-ended dramatic play, the children explored creativity, problem-solving, communication, and cooperation. They developed their ideas together, assigned roles, created props, and used their imaginations to bring their pretend store to life. The experience also encouraged early literacy and numeracy skills as the children engaged in conversations, role-played as customers and store workers, and explored the concepts of buying, selling, and sharing within their play.
Card Games
The children have also been showing a growing interest in playing card games, particularly Speed. They have been challenging their peers and educators to friendly games, eagerly testing their skills and enjoying the excitement of playing together. What has been especially wonderful to observe is the leadership that has emerged among the older children. Some have taken the time to teach the younger children how to play, explaining the rules, demonstrating strategies, and patiently supporting them as they learn. The younger children have been eager to participate and are excited to take on the challenge.
Playing Speed provides opportunities to strengthen early mathematical thinking through quick number recognition, counting forwards and backwards, sequencing, and making connections between numbers. At the same time, the children are developing important social skills such as turn-taking, following rules, patience, sportsmanship, and managing the excitement of competition. As the older children step into teaching and mentoring roles, they are also building confidence, communication skills, responsibility, and leadership. Through this child-led interest, a simple card game has become a meaningful opportunity for children of different ages to learn from and support one another.
🍂 Autumn Weather & Outdoor Learning
With the Autumn Equinox fast approaching and cooler weather on the way, please ensure your child comes prepared with warmer outerwear and appropriate outdoor footwear. We also ask that children have a separate pair of indoor shoes to keep at the centre.
We are excited to embrace the changing season and the many learning opportunities that autumn brings! The children will be collecting and observing different leaves, using them for further exploration, investigation, and creative crafts. 🍁
🏫 Settling Into Our School Routines
We have been settling nicely into our school routines and adjusting to the changes in our lunch schedule. The Plains have been set up as our designated lunchtime space, and once lunch is finished, we take every opportunity to head back outside for some fresh air and outdoor play before the second afternoon school session begins.
🍲 Lunch & Heat-Ups
Heat-ups are welcomed back! Please ensure that all heat-up containers are clearly labelled with your child’s name and that they are placed in heat-up-friendly containers.
Lunch bags can be stored in the children’s lockers. Our refrigerator has space for heat-up containers, but unfortunately, we do not have enough room to accommodate entire lunch kits.
Thank you for your understanding and for helping us keep our lunch routines organized and running smoothly!
Educators in the environment
Madden
Madden
Aileen
Aileen
Gagan
Gagan
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