Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
The Wonderful Smells of Christmas!
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Playschool takes ECO ACTION!
Our class is befriending the Earth through activities relating to the 3 R's of reduce waste, reuse products and recycle packaging.
Our Wednesday Word Wall bulletin board is covered with the children's ideas of how they would incorporate the 3 R's at home and school. This provided an opportunity for parents and students having a conservation talk about the 3 R's at home.
Students have been busy reusing recycled products. Fun stamping with toilet and paper towel rolls on cereal packaging to building a variety of creations with items we would place in our recycling bins.
Castles, boats, factories, animals; we all used our imaginations and saw different things created by our friends. What do you see?
Our Wednesday Word Wall bulletin board is covered with the children's ideas of how they would incorporate the 3 R's at home and school. This provided an opportunity for parents and students having a conservation talk about the 3 R's at home.
Students have been busy reusing recycled products. Fun stamping with toilet and paper towel rolls on cereal packaging to building a variety of creations with items we would place in our recycling bins.
Castles, boats, factories, animals; we all used our imaginations and saw different things created by our friends. What do you see?
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Ancient Egypt
The grade 5 class has been learning about Ancient Egypt this term. We learned important historical things like how important the Nile River was to their culture and agriculture. We learned about the pharaohs and their fascinating burial rituals, mummification and pyramids.
One of the things that we enjoyed most was learning what the Ancient Egyptians believed happened once they died: They thought that their hearts would be weighed on a scale against “Maat’s feather of truth.” If the heart was lighter than this feather, it meant that they had lived a good life, and would be allowed to live in the afterlife. They did however have to provide their own body and materials for the afterlife, which is why they carefully preserved the corpses and buried them with many of their belongings.
We also learned how the Ancient Egyptian culture is most likely evidence of an Ancient Church culture: they started out making statues to help them to remember different attributes of the Lord. Eventually though, they forgot that they represented the Lord and began to worship the images, or individual gods, themselves.
We went on a field trip to the ROM which has an excellent display of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, including a mummy or two. Each student also made a small model of an Egyptian tomb or burial chamber, the photos of which are shown here
One of the things that we enjoyed most was learning what the Ancient Egyptians believed happened once they died: They thought that their hearts would be weighed on a scale against “Maat’s feather of truth.” If the heart was lighter than this feather, it meant that they had lived a good life, and would be allowed to live in the afterlife. They did however have to provide their own body and materials for the afterlife, which is why they carefully preserved the corpses and buried them with many of their belongings.
We also learned how the Ancient Egyptian culture is most likely evidence of an Ancient Church culture: they started out making statues to help them to remember different attributes of the Lord. Eventually though, they forgot that they represented the Lord and began to worship the images, or individual gods, themselves.
We went on a field trip to the ROM which has an excellent display of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, including a mummy or two. Each student also made a small model of an Egyptian tomb or burial chamber, the photos of which are shown here
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Kindergarten Busy at Work part II
The Kindergarten class is always busy...
Sorting and playing
Building 
Crafting
Learning letters
Building CraftingLearning letters
... There is just so much to do!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Mt. Sinai
Monday, January 10, 2011
Splatter-Painting
Kaylin and Jasmine are splatter-painting to create beautiful Christmas
wrapping paper.
Kaylin and Jasmine have wrapped up some very special Christmas gifts using
their own spatter-painted paper.
wrapping paper.
Kaylin and Jasmine have wrapped up some very special Christmas gifts usingtheir own spatter-painted paper.
Friday, December 17, 2010
The Letter of the Week is Mm
Playschool merrily made marvellous Christmas cones crafts.
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Welcome to Monday Morning Tots' Time!
Toddlers explore classroom activities on their own or with their parent/caregiver. Adults have an opportunity to socialize while children play.
William and Grandma work together on a fall wreath.
Natalie is focused matching puzzle pieces.
Laura creates her very first painting!
Tommy concentrates hammering the peg into the workbench.
William and Grandma work together on a fall wreath. 
Natalie is focused matching puzzle pieces.
Laura creates her very first painting!
Tommy concentrates hammering the peg into the workbench.
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