Peanut has written lots of stories lately....we have printed them and put them in a book. The younger children love to have her read her stories to them.

Princess is working on the Bee Hive Craft tray...

The tea ceremony tray is still very popular.....

Pictures of real things hold the children's interest better than illustrations.

Merlin loved the way Canada felt in his hands.....when I told him the puzzle knob was where Ottawa was he said "that's where my friend lives"

Some of our favourite work this week......

Flowerpot made a drawing of a bee hive...

Three of the children have just recently mastered the binomial cube....they still love to work with it and they also love to watch their friends working with it....

Merlin cared for all our plants this morning....

Tank is fascinated by the pink tower.

Princess intently cleaning one of our mirrors.

Sparkle made some insets....this is a pre-writing work, it promotes the hand control needed to form letters. For Sparkle it is just plain fun to make different coloured shapes.

Outdoor time today.....we have some new bowls and large spoons for our mud kitchen...

We have some Henri Matisse prints on our wall and a poster of flags of the world. Peanut was inspired by the flag poster to make a flag booklet.

The children just love Flossy the toad.....great interest is taken outside each day finding just the right insects to feed to Flossy.

In a mixed age classroom the children learn so much by watching an older child work.

A little free play at the end of our final MYC music class of the year..... Thank you Mrs. Becca for your great classes all year, the children have so enjoyed your visits each week.

Dressing frames provide the opportunity to work with buttons, zippers and snaps. These are great for developing fine motor skills, concentration and for learning very important self-help skills.

We've been learning a little about the artist Henri Mattise. When Mattise was ill and couldn't stand to paint he began creating art using cutout painted paper. Tiger is making an artwork like Matisse.

Tank is pretty little for the pink tower but he really enjoys it and gets so much joy out of building it. He stood up just after this threw his arms wide with a huge smile and just admired his work.

Painting work....

After setting up his work space to make a continent book, Tiger chose a continent, then fetched the correct colour pencil and then traced Europe....lots of movement is so important for young children.

Busy children this morning....Tiger was cleaning a mirror, Princess was practicing her letters on the chalkboard, Merlin was watching Peanut wash the floor and Tank was enjoying the miniture cylinder blocks.

Sparkle busy with a cylinder block and knobless cylinders.

Introducing "Flossy" if you look closely you will see a little toad. Peanut made the habitat up for us and provided Flossy with a few worms to eat.

Preparing snack, serving snack and cleaning up after snack.

The children enjoy caring for their classroom.

Scrubbing the floor

Near the wetland we found a bone just lying on the ground....the children were convinced it was a dinosaur bone.

Dip-netting at a wetland near our preschool

I know these are not frog spawn.....I think they are salamander eggs. We will bring them back to our classroom to raise.