From Santa Claus and presents, to Christmas trees, Christmas stockings, mistletoes and snowmen; the start of the winter season is full of a lot of exciting things that we learned about in the Ladybugs class. To start off the season, we decorated our classroom Christmas tree with ornaments we colored, and with some that we […]
First, we traced the shapes for the tree. Then, we cut out all the shapes and glued them together. We made some Christmas trees! (Sylvette and Justin)
At the beginning of the month we planted the canola for next year with the eagles. Everyday during outside play the Foxes help take care of the canola and some of the other plants by watering them. They love to help out and have a lot of fun doing it. Good job Foxes! During Circle […]
We have been using the Handwriting Without Tears program to practice writing the alphabet and numbers. In this picture, we are writing the capital letter L in our My First School Book workbooks. The children are doing a great job of gripping their crayons correctly, sitting properly, and following the stroke order for each letter […]
It is now December and the weather is getting colder and colder as each day passes by. The children are often talking about the weather being colder, but nothing stops them from running around and having and with their friends. The children are growing up so quickly and learning more and more every day. We […]
Children are excited about the winter season and all the joyful things it brings. This time we decided to write letters to Santa. Children thought about what they wanted to ask him for. We wrote draft letters where the children could play with their ideas for what to write, and feel free to make mistakes […]
Here the children are playing a classic game of othello. They learn about strategy but also how to see patterns from different perspectives The game here is Quirkle. The children learn how to build various patterns, trying to make an unbroken chain of shapes and colours. It’s a competitive game and the children have […]
This day during circle time, it was raining so hard! We always talk about the weather but experience is an important part of life too. The ducks enjoyed sticking their hand out of the window and feeling the cold wet rain! We played a Christmas themed game called Santa limbo for the birthday party […]
Winter is here! Koalas always make seasonal crafts to decorate the wall and this time was no exception. First, everyone took a photo with a big smile. “Cheese~!” Then we cut out some shapes like two circles, two long twigs, a fancy hat and a fluffy scarf. We sat on the carpet to […]
For craft and pre-writing, we decorated a large Christmas poster by sticking ornaments and Santas. The Turtles are getting quite handy with their fingers as they are able to stick on even the smallest stickers we have with ease. The children were proud of the big Christmas decoration, and we all stood up and gazed […]