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.

Thanksgiving Flower Arrangements

The children in the Junior Room made flower arrangsments for Thanksgiving using mostly dried wildflowers and assorted leaves from the hydro field and Echo Valley Park.

Didn't they turn out beautifully?

The Junior Room Studies Maps

Reading maps and finding the lines of longitude and latitude.

"A" is for Apple

Morning and afternoon Playschool visits an apple orchard. Throughout the week we learned about apples and how they grow.

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All aboard the tractor, we're off to the orchard!

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George the apple farmer tells us how to tip the apple up to the sun to remove the apple from the branch.

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Anodea looks for apples to put in Daddy's basket.-
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Mikaela finds her apple. It sure is big!

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Team work. Andreas and Lucas look for apples together.

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Melodie's apple is crunchy and juicy.

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Gabriela searches through the branches for just the right apple.

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Kyle wants to climb the ladder to reach the apples growing high in the tree.

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During the afternoon it rained, but Playschool still enjoyed the search for apples. Hudson is way up high in the apple tree!

Kindergarten Goes Apple Picking

The Kindergarten went apple picking and YUM was it fun!

See those Smiles?

The children LOVED the ride into the orchard on the tractor trailer!

The Junior Room's Full-Body Portraits

Our full-body portraits are coming along! You should be able to see the final product on the wall in the big hall by the end of the week, but in the meantime, here is a preview!

Here are the girls of grade three and four.

Can you guess who they are?

"Bb" Week in the Kindergarten Room

It's "Bb" week in the kindergarten room.

We are busy building ...

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and building ...

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and building more!

Painting with various shades of blue has also kept us busy.

Tomorrow we make banana bread - wish you could taste some!!!

Junior Room Autobiography Projects

The children of the Junior Room are working on their autobiography projects.

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In these photos they are painting themselves in life-size!

Stay tuned for the final product!

Grades 3 and 4 Try Toe Shoes

We have been reading a book called To Dance-a ballerina's graphic novel about the ballerina Siena Cherson Siegel. We wanted to try out some toe shoes so that we could better understand the story and what a ballerina has to wear.

We found out that these shoes are very uncomfortable and that it is very difficult to stand on toe. Kaylin and You-Jin were able to stand on toe, but only by holding on to something; they tried to stand on toe using only one foot, but couldn't do it for more than a few seconds.

See How They Grow!

In May, Playschool planted a selection of seeds during our unit on plants. The morning and afternoon group each planted pumpkin, carrot and bean seeds. We also rooted a sweet potato. Every few days Playschool watered, and checked the progress of the plants noting the changes. When school concluded in June, Ms. Todd transferred the young plants into her garden.

How many beans?

The beans from the tall bean stalks have been picked and they tasted crunchy!

The sweet potato has large leaves and when they turn black I will know that I can dig up the sweet potatoes.

The rabbit who visits my garden has been munching on some of the carrots, only a few carrot tops remain.

The pumpkin plants are amazing to watch grow as they spread their leafy vines out into the lawn. There are at least 6 pumpkins on each plant. Slowly with the rain and the sun they are growing larger and starting to turn orange.

The pumpkins will come to school in October for use during the letter Pp week for pumpkin. I can't wait to show you!