Earth Day 2018

Sunday April 22, 2018 was Earth Day so we decided to use our most recent Inservice Day as an opportunity to talk the the children about caring for our planet and teaching them how they can help.

The Kinders were sent on a nature scavenger hunt to bring back all of the beautiful things that they could find in nature.  Without harming any living things, the children came back with bags filled with pinecones, leaves, grass, feathers and all kind of other wonderful treasures.  They imprinted their findings into clay as a keepsake. 

The older children had a discussion about all of the different things that are impacting the health of our planet right now.  Afterwards they each created their own mini Earth.  

 Finally the Kinders ended their day with a clean water experiment.  Taking polluted water from the lake, we demonstrated for the kinders the long process that goes into cleaning water to make it drinkable.  (Don't worry, we didn't drink it) 

We wil continue to work with the children to find ways that we can help in our community to keep our planet healthy. 

Luck of the Irish

Thanks to Mr. David and his "Winnipeg Rocks" rocks, our kids have been scouring the playground for the last few weeks hunting for painted rocks.  

Because St. Patty's Day was right around the corner, we planned for a fun filled St. Patrick's Day themed Inservice Day this past Friday consisting of rainbows, shamrocks and even a visit from a little green leprechaun which sent our Kinders running around the Theatre in search of gold coins. 

Hunting for Gold!

  

Salt Art Shamrocks

Science Experiment! 

Water, Clear Nail Polish and Black Construction Paper = Rainbow Paper

Making Snack

Rainbow Fruit Pizza

YUM!

 

Literacy and Play

At about the same time every year, our Kinders start to become more interested in letters, words and reading and this year is no exception.  

Some children are beginning their literacy journey with the basics of letter and sound recognition while some have worked their way up to reading and writing words. 

 Either way we have encouraged our children's interest with a variety of literacy based activities.  

Write your own story

"I made a cell phone"

 Name rockets

Letter Stamping with Legos and Playdoh 

Invisible Words

Letter Search and Spell

There will be lots more to come, stay tuned!

Post Office

Ms. Heather noticed that a few children in the Theatre were playing mail man, so in the spirit of emergent curriculum we decided to enhance their play.  We've been storing an old mailbox in the office waiting for the perfect time to put it out...and we found it!

After the children showed interest in writing letters, we supplied them with envelopes and stamps and addressed their envelopes to wherever they wanted to send them. 

(Most of them chose their house.)

Since we happen to have a mailbox right outside the school, we went one step further and actually mailed the letters.  The children speculated about the amount of time it would take.  Tarik said, "30 days."

Since it was such a beautiful day, Ms. Kym decided to keep the kids out for a bit of extra fun on the hills outside.  

Robots

Today Sylvan Learning came to visit the Mini Gym and Street groups to teach them about robots.  The children were each given a lego kit and a computer and through instruction and inputting code, the children were able to bring their lego robots to life!

The children were so excited to share their stories of how they made their robots wave and alligators chomp.  

Very cool!