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Pizza Pizza!

Pizza Pizza!

Dramatic play develops children’s imagination and creativity. It supports children’s literacy skills and teaches them self-regulation as well as conflict resolution. This type of play allows us to see how children understand the world. In our dramatic play area, we

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Imagine

Imagine

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” ~ Albert Einstein When we facilitate children’s creativity

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Collaborative Process Art

Collaborative Process Art

Sparkling Sensations – The children in the Club Room have been exploring with different sensory activities using objects and materials that provide light, sounds, and motion. Following their lead, we provided them with various art material to explore. The children

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Music Makers

Music Makers

It all started with our metal pots and pans in our housekeeping corner in the Mon/Wed/Fri 9:00 class, which gradually turned into some interest in playing them and hearing what different sounds they made. We have just begun to explore

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“Everybody’s Birthday”

birthday cake

Outside Sand Play During outside free play, the four-hour class has been experimenting with sand, as well as all the new “mud kitchen” materials our new playground has to offer.  We noticed something particular about the children’s sand play. When

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Our “Outside First” Experience

Recently a professional suggested to start our busy preschool class outside. As educators, we know how important outdoor play is for children.  Outdoor play promotes development of gross motor skills, creativity, social skills and independence, among of many other benefits.

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Colour Exploration

Wet Chalk Exploration

Our four hour class has recently been investigating colour. We believe this exploration could have started with the children’s increasing interest in art activities, or it could have just been the children’s intrinsic motivation to explore. We provided the children

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A Party With Friends

A Party With Friends

This year our class made special friendships with the Club Room class children. They would come visit us at our back door in the mornings.  It was very special to hear their interactions with each other. In the beginning, all

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Play Exploration for Educators

miniatures

A couple weeks ago, our staff team had the privilege to spend the afternoon with a Registered Play Therapist in a workshop titled, “What’s Our Relationship to Play: An Exploration for Play Educators.” In working with children, I often find

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Mmmm…Muffins!

It all started with a picnic in our dramatic play space with a few of the children. This is what we overheard: “Who wants a muffin?” “I had a blueberry muffin before.” “Do you have real muffins?” Together we posed

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