Beach Day!

Sorry for the delay...Friday was a huge success! The backyard was set up with lots of fun water activities: a kid size pool, sprinkler, slip n' slide. There was also a little tent set up for kids to take a break from the water and read a book. For a special treat we had popsicles. It was set up like a little ice-cream stand, where the kids took turns waiting in line and ordering a popsicle. It was a very motivating way to work on requesting. The kids has a great time playing in the water!

 

 

Ocean Week

This week we have been doing all things beachy in preparation for Beach Day today! In learning group, we have been reading and singing about things that live in the ocean. Our craft this week was paper bag jelly fish. The kids had an opportunity to cut, paint and glue. During our gym portion of learning group, we played fun games like "What time is it Mr. Shark?" and Feed the Shark (throwing bean bags into the sharks mouth)!

 

Check back Monday to see all the fun that we had at our beach party in the backyard! I'm sure we will be getting wet. 

Friday Funday!

Sadly the weather did not corporate with us on Friday and we had to cancel our Zoo outing. We tried to make the day extra fun. We set up the bouncy castle, watched a movie in the afternoon and ate popcorn. We also made s'mores in the microwave which was a lot of fun both staff and kids :)

 

 

 

Staff also put together a super fun painting activity in the Rainbow room!

Zoo Week

The weather hasn't really cooperated with us so far this week. We all got quite wet at Riley park on Monday and not because we were in the water. It looked liked the rain was going to hold off for us but unfortunately it did not. Hopefully, we will have better weather for the Calgary Zoo on Friday. Fingers crossed!

The theme of learning groups this week is the Zoo! During group times, we have been reading and singing about zoo animals.

 

"Let's Go to the Zoo" is an interactive book that gives children the opportunity to name various zoo animals and make animal sounds, identify the different colours of animals, count animals, find action words and match baby animals to their moms.  

 

For craft this week we are making elephants. This craft requires cutting, gluing and getting yours hands a bit dirty with painting the clothes pins grey.

 



 

Check out this fun video we found about going to the Zoo and dancing with the animals:

 



Stampede Week

 

In honor of the Calgary Stampede, we talked about cowboys and horses during group yesterday. We read a simple story about a rodeo called "Cowboy Up" By: Larry Dane Brimner. While reading the story we used small figurines and got the kids to imitate various actions. Then we made paper bag cowboys during craft and for our gym portion of group we rolled the big dice and did various horse actions (i.e. horse eating, horse galloping, horse jumping, etc.) and played I had a little pony! 

 

 

 

 

Summer Time!

Summer is here and we couldn't be happier! Our classrooms are all switched off to the new themes (camping, backyard and ocean/lake), outings have started - the first one was last Friday at Sikome lake. We had great weather and everyone had a fantastic time playing in the water. Today, we went Dragon Boating and all the kids successfully coped with getting in the boat and they all stayed in the boat. Also our Annual Stampede Breakfast is on Thursday which is always a blast, hopefully we will see lots of you there!

Here are some of the new activities you can find in the classrooms:

In the "backyard" (Tree Room) you can BBQ, water your plants, wash and hang your clothes to dry as well as mow the lawn and paint the fence.

 

 

 You can go camping in the sunroom. You can sleep in the tent, build a fire and roast marshmellows. There are also fun camping games, like lawn bowling to play.

 

In the Rainbow room you can catch some waves in the pool and then afterwards go to the ice cream/popsicle stand for a tasty treat.